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jg. a. W. Hayvkes— Dear Sir: The
itiscopic glasses you furnished
IV time since, give excellent satisfac
B . I have tested them by use,
8 t say they are unequaled in clearness
1 brilliancy by any that I liayc
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Respectfully,
John B. Gordon,
Governor of State of Georgia.
j linsims Man's Clear Vision.
New York City, April 4, 1888.
1r. A. K. Hawices— Dear Sir : Your
ent eye glasses received some time
ce and am very much gratified at the
Jerful change that has come over
r eyesight since I have discarded my
I glasses and am now wearing yours.
Alexander Agar.
cretary Stationers Board of Trade of
w York City.
HI eyes fitted by J. M. lsavy, Coving-
1 , Ga.
[jiese glasses are not supplied to ped
irs at any price.
A. W. HAWKES.
Wholesale Depots, Atlanta, Ga.
ranklin 8. Wright,
COVINGTON, GA.
bsident Physician & Surgeon.
(Gynecology, lildreii, Obstetrics, diseases of women ami
and ail Chrome
peases of a private nature, a special
I. I have a horse at my oommand,
pith | the will surrounding enable me country, to attend we) calls las
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FRANKLIN B. WRIGHT. U. 11
A Remarkable Potato.
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bv by American growers, and now we
lire au English contribution to sw ell the
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A CURIOUS POTATO.
The remarkable sample, a genuine one,
hat cannot be matched, and shown in
in: cut hero presented, was dug by an
widish gardener and originally photo
rraphed by the Mark Lane Repress. This
- unlike most potatoes in that it is a per
ect likcm raan’s head. In most
loratoes the eyes arc well represented—
loo much so fo the thrifty hot eeper;
but in this vc have the nose, mouth and
i'Mu /double) Tho illustration is a eor
o i reproduction of this sample of the
kcn.is sol■.‘mi:;! tuberosum, reduced about
(■ne-third in size.
Ah Eigiit-Ytar-Ol;! Bride.
T picture pnolished herewith is that
’> the daughter o i an American consular
igent at Fez, Morocco. She is only
-'-fit years old, but is already engaged
■ K ' Married and will soon be n bride.
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la all warm climates the marriageable
epoch is exceedingly advanced, and a
' • em of ehiiu-uiarriagcs has prevailed
during brides many generations. Infantine
the are simply bought and sold to suit
; convenience of the interest of their
i'arciifs.
HAI L FROM CUPID'S DARTS.
' fritor (at studio)—I do not tee how
an artist could paint such a beautiful
;"man without falling iu lore with
Her.
Great Artist—1 a.- ure yon, madam,
‘bat while paint; IV that ietuve 1 never
wire '‘Is (bought it of Io\ .
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The Covington Star.
COVINGTON. GEORGIA. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1890.
POSTAGE STAMPS.
A Few of the Most Famous Col¬
lections in Existence.
Enormous Prices Paid for the
Rare Specimens.
S x years ajo a business man in this
city, says the P-iiladelphu News, who
had p;cn y of money, determined to
collect a magnificent assortment of for¬
eign postage stamps, For six years he
has done little else than pursue this oc
cupatiou. lie became connecte 1 with
all the leading dialers in the world and
left with them orders to secure rare va
riuties at any price, lie ha, already ex
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pended $2o, 033, and has now a collec.
tion of about 14,00) stamp), This may
include all the “adhesivea,” as there
are but 8030 of thorn in existence. 0>
casioaaily you r/ai, and so do I, of
postage-stamp collections containing
millions of d ffjront stamps, Such
things are myth), uaici? they consist of
innumerable duplicates.
Perhaps dealers and advanced collect¬
ors consider the collection of M. Fer¬
rari, son of the Djchos of Galatea, the
finest collection of postage stamps in
the world. It is said to outrank even
the famous Rithschild collection. The
Ferrari collection is worth $250,000,
and its happy owner employs a well
educated secretary who does nothing
whatever but attend to it. This secre¬
tary classifies and paste? the stamps,
and corresponds with all the lea ling
dealers of the world, endeavoring to
obtain what collectors call ‘'unattaina¬
ble?.”
The stamp dealer? frequently obtain
specimens of rare stamp; in queer ways.
Not long ago a bookkeeper employe!
by a Philadelphia merchant entered the
firm of which Mr. Hanes is a member,
and throwing a stamp on the counter
asked whether it was worth anything.
Thi) ivas one of the first stamp? issued
by the city of Baltimore many years
ago, and (he bookkeeper said ho had
found it on a letter of an old eorre
spoudent of the firm for which he
worked. Apparently tho min did not
t.hiok the stamp would bring mire than
53 cents or a dollar. You can judge
of his aimzimeat, therefor, when he
was offered a sum very far beyond (his,
and which seemed (o him fabulous.
lie parted with the stamp gladly, and
hurried out of the oflica as if he were
afraid the money would be asked back.
Several days liter this stamp was sold
jor $260.
One of tlie most famout collectors of
the world is Mr. Tapling, an English
member of Parliament. He lives at
Dulwich, not far from London. His
collection, which is valued at $200, 00),
is mounted on cardboard and includes
a long list of what connoisseurs call the
“unattainablcs.” Dozens and dozins of
Mr. Tap’ing’s stamps are worth from
$100 to $150 apiece.
Several weeks ago a very small boy
who has bsen selling stamps at inter
vuls to a local dealer called upon him
with a United Slates stamp—I think it
ivas one of the old “eighty cents I I
—
aud asked how much it was worth.
This was a slamp which sells readily
for $10. Butthe lad had never
eeived more than five or six cents
apieee for his stamps before, and the
denier ivas afraid of frightening him at
first by mentioning a high value, so he
told tlie boy “it was a mighty goo l
stamp. II Then offering $5 for it, he
asked the lad avhether he would sell it
at that figure, Tiie boy became scared,
picked up the stamp, ran away aud has
nei’er returned. 1 to probably has au
idea that it is worth a fabulou? sum.
Utilizing the Air.
The atmosphere is employed to a
eonsiderablo extent, but not to the one
mdlionih part that it should be. It is
u?cd for respiratory purposes, for the
driving of sailing ships, for the throw¬
ing of dynamite projectiles in the Zalin
ski gun, for the turning of some wind¬
mills and a few other purposes, but
with respect to its quantity, its
sircugth, it? pliability, its ea?e of har¬
nessing and handling, it is doing abso¬
lutely nothing. c
It is time that something be done
with this pervading and potent energy.
Until within a few year? lightning,
from the very creation, was permitted
to roam in a savage stale. It was a
brutish creature, frightening human be
lng; and rending rocks anil forests
from pure excess of vigor and lack of
something useful to do. Modern set
ence gave some attention to this cavort
tug, brilliant, rending, roaring, blind
iog phenomenon, and speedily discov
ered that it was no howling, angry
demon, as was supposed by earlier ages,
but an available, powerful energy which
could bo haltered, brokea to harness
and made to work with the steadiness
of a plough hor?e.
Far thou«ands of centuries electricity
was simply a member of an untamed
family of wild beasts; and much the
same is true of the atmosphere. It has
been untamed, destructive. It Ivy
gamboled idly among the flowers as t
zephyr. It lias scurried across the
prairies and uplands as a breeze, ecuI
ded over the waters as a gale, wrecked
ships as a tempest, and corkscrewed
over the pi ains, uprooting forests and
prostrating houses as a cyclone. Here
are motors, powers, eneig.es, forces,
absolutely without limitation.
Ia some cities in the old world a lim¬
ited use is made of tho air. It carries
parcels from point to point; it takes
the letter dropped into the street postal
box, and in a jiff/ delivers it to a cen¬
tral station. But these are nothing.
Why, arc there not in Chicago score) of
pneumatic dynamos from which is dis¬
tributed condensed air for tho running
of sewing machines, lathes and other
machines now worked by hand and
treadle? Why cannot detachable mag¬
azines of condensed air be provided by
whose agency street cits can be pro¬
pelled, and a light, iucomluitible mi
tor be provided for b;c/cle3, road
wagons and a thousand similar pur
poses}
A Nose Upside Dow n.
The presence of mind shown by an
Ohio physician saved a man a nose.
That useful member was severed by a
fall upon a sharp corner, and tho at¬
tendant M. D., by promptly placing the
sundered piece where it belonged, se¬
cured a healing “by first intention” and
the subsequent restoration of the organ,
plus an ugly scar.
Less successful was the replacing of a
nose by a young min of Pittsburg many
years ago. While engaged in playfully
i i fencing” with a companion a reckless
pass cleanly cut off tho young fellow ’3
nose. He had not studied physiology
for nothing and, acting upon this knowl
edge, grabbed the, severed orgau and
clapped it on the bleeding surface it had
just quitted. Then his nose was bound
firmly on and nature was left to take
her course. She did this admirably.
When the bandages were removed the
two parts were found to be grown to¬
gether beautifully. Nothing could bo
nicer, except that the unfortunate young
man had put his nose on upsids down 1
The nostrib stool as opm lo heaven as
tho flues at the apex of a chimney.
The memories that come down
through a vista of thirty years, sinco
this sad affair took place, are a trifle
misty and unreliable as to tho subse¬
quent career of the man with the in¬
verted nose. He is believed to be dead.
During his life, however, he was known
lo declare that, for purpose? ofonuff
taking, he had the very finest nose in
the world, but that to be caught in a
heavy shower, without au umbrella, wai
tantamount to drowning. Those that
are suddenly deprived of a nose should
be careful to replace it with the perforu-
1 tions down. Human lifo is made up of
i trifles, and some of these have power to
engender discomfort when it comes to
; an upside down nose .—Pittsburg Press.
, WJbl Elephants at Home.
\ correspondent on a four through
India says:
Tho mysterious sound? of night give
place to the voices of the awakening
birds, the crow of the jungle-cock, the
shrill screams of flocks of parrots flaih
j in ? like meteors thiough the air, and
; the varied notes of inauy others hidden
from our sight. As the sunrises the
i full beauty of the forest becomes re
j vealed. On every side are huge trees,
; SO rne hung with festoons of thin,
snake- like creepers; others destitute o f
leaves, but covered with beautiful tulip¬
like scarlet flowers; others, again, a
blaze of crimson foliage.
Wild pig. deer aud peacock run
across our path; and on the road iu
j front I see what is apparently the fa
\ miliar barndoor cock scraping a? vigor
ously as if he were in the faimyard at
home, although he is in his native
avilds. Toe most startling spectacle is,
however, Yvhen, after much crashing of
branches has been heard, a herd of a
dozen wild elephant? cro3sos tho path
about fifty yards ahead, deigning to
notice their captivo brother only by a
disdainful glance and flourish of their
trunks.
! A Mother-in Law’s Paradise.
it Among the Piutes,” says the Vir.
j gini» father-in-law City Enterprise, that makes “it is tho always trouble, the
Every married Piuie is always glad of a
j visit from his mother-in-law, He wel
j comes her with his broadest grin. The
i arrival of tin mother-i#-law gives bun a
double team, whirr before he had only
j one animal. He hails her appearance with
j delight and piling a jackass-load of
wood upon her willing ol ! hack, send?
J her into town with his wife (similarly
packed) to pedd e o.it iho fuel and
j bring back to him a supply of nio’iiey
for his favorite game oi poker. The
Piute father-in-law is of no use as a
wood-packer, nor will ho gather gras 3
seeds or pineauts.
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Faste mi and Middle States.
Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, the noted
Brooklyn divine, Holy lias Land. returned from his pil¬
grimage to the
Hon. Seth Low ex-Mavor of Brooklyn,
was installed eleventh President of Columbia
New College at tho Metropolitan Opera House iu
York, with impressive ceremonies.
The Gloucester fishing schooner Alice M.
of Stouple was reported lost at ..oa with a crew
fourteen souls.
93 The New York Presbytery, by by a vote of
to 43, accepted the report the special
committee in favor of revision of the Con¬
fession of Faith.
The New Boston. England Agricultural Society
met at
General John D. Anderson, of Augusta,
Me., has been elected Commander G. A. R.,
Department of Maine.
The advance sheets of the Controller’s re¬
port in New Jersey showed a serious defici¬
ency in the finances of the State.
The Grand Army of the Republic in Mas¬
sachusetts began its convention in Boston.
The Justices of the Supreme Court were
entertained the City of by New the York. Association of the Bar of
The British ship Thanemere reached Bos¬
ton, with one-half of the crew of tho Nor¬
wegian The ship other Josephine, who were rescued at
sea. seven Scandinavians were
lost during the prevailing hurricanes.
Mrs. Wong Ah Tuck, the young wife of a
Chinese merchant in San Francisco, arrived
at New York city disguised as a. hoy, iu com¬
pany York with Lo the Bug. The Wongs in New
took runaway woman in charge
until structions they can get an explanation Tuck. and in
from Wong Ah
Two workmen employed in a wire mill at
Trenton, N. J., were pierced by red hot
wires and suffered shocking and fatal in¬
juries.
Two which Brooklyn factories 143 were Spencer destroyed by
a fire started at street.
Two firemen were injured and about $100,000
damage done.
Sarah Rice and Amelia 1 allancourt were
fatally burned in the one-story waste house
of the Tremont and Suffolk Company’s mill,
at Lowell, Mass.
A fire which broke out at Rochester,
N. Y., caused a los3 of naariy $10 ),0,)). J.
K. Hunt’s large box factory and two adjoin¬
ing building were entirely destroyed.
South and West.
land The Township, three sons Ind..were of James Bright, of Kirk
found dead in theii
beds. They had neen suffering from influ
enza, but when they retired tho previous
night their condition was not considered dan¬
gerous.
vision The Chicago the Presbytery Faith. declared for a re¬
of Confession of
Meningitis has become epidemic in many
parts The Belcher of Texas, and people are dying rapidly.
district has already lost thirty,
and many attacked more by were disease dying. has Not a single
person the recovered.
The house of William D. Ellis, of Chicago,
was burned in the absence of Mr. aud Mrs.
Ellis, who returne I just iu time to save a
nine months’ old baby from death. A ser¬
vant burned and death. a two-year-old dauguter were
to
Rev 8. R. .Frazier, pas'er of the 8,-rijnd
Presbyterian Churcn of Youngstown, Ohio,
and well known as an eloquent orator and
successful lecturer on Japan, has suddenly
become insane.
Cora and Annie Bpdck ate a poisoned
cake intended for rats in the Schietz bakery
at St. Louis, and both died.
John Kelly, of Marianna, Ark., mur¬
dered his wife, from whom he had been sep¬
arated, and a young man with whom she was
living. He then forced a neighbor named
Owens to accompany him to the woods.
Neither was seen again.
A freight train crashed through a bridge
at Peoria, 111., and the cars were precipitated
into the Illinois River. The engineer, fire¬
man and brakeman w ere killed,
A great sensation has been caused in Cin¬
cinnati Hayman, by a public announcement that Theo¬
dore Superintendent of the crema¬
tory, has been for months stealing and sell¬
ing the coffins of those brought for crema¬
tion.
A north bound passenger train struck s
hand car near Clear Lake. Minn Three sec¬
tion men on the hand car were killed.
An important vacancy in the Ohio Senate
has been filled by the election of a Democrat.
Had the Republican candidate been success¬
ful the Senate would have been a tie, with a
Republican Lieutenant-Governor to give «
casting vote.
An oil still belonging to the Standard Oil
Company Patrick exploded at Lima, five O other do, killing
Ryan and injuring men.
Aurora, 111., has been quarantined owing
to a smallpox scourge.
Bury Frank Chapman, Fred while Young and James
were drowued attempting tc
cross the St. Clair River at Marine City,
Mich., in a skiff.
F. A. Walton, a trusted employe of the
Pacific Express Company at Dallas, Texas,
absconded with a package containing *35,990.
A writ of error has bean granted to the
Chicago Anarchists in Joliet Penitential. brought , so
that their case may again bo before
the United States Supreme Court.
Five Chinese on their way to Dutch Flat,
Cal., were overwhelmed bv an avalanche and
killed.
The Navajo Indians in San Juan County,
New Mexico, have been harrassiug the set¬
tlers Indian. on account of the hundred recent killing of au
About five warriors left
their reservation, and the settlers were great¬
ly alarmed.
After the adjournment, of tho Montana
Senate, eight Democratic Lieutenant-Governor Senators, incensed
ftt the ruling of Rick¬
ards in counting them pre-ent when they re¬
fused to vote, took trains going in different
directions. They said they were of going beyond
the State line to get out reach of the
Sergeant-at-Arms. Their absence blocked
ill legislation.
Washington.
Owing to the calamity which befell Secre
tary Tracy's family President Harrison and
the other Cabinet members abandoned their
intended visit to New York to participate in
the exercises in celebration of the Centennial
of the United States Supreme * Court.
^ The Senate ^ Committed ,, . on Agriculture $ • ia de- j
cided to refer tue blU traus erring the
M eather Bureau to the D^artm.mt of Agri
culture to Chief Signal Officer Greely for his
views on the subject.
The report of Adjutant-General the United Skelton Statoa
upon the militia force of
has been sent to the Senate. It shows the
strength of the militia to consist of 8053
officers. 103,393 men, and 7,353,171 men not
organized but available for duty. >
Rear-Admiral Stephen F. his Quacken
bush. U. S. N. (retired), died at residence
it Washington, aged sixty-seven.
Senator Sherman and Murat Halstead.
the Cincinnati editor, succeeded Governor
Campbell, of Ohio, as witnesses before the
House Committee on the Ballot Box Forgery.
Nominations by the President: James s tv. .
Remick to be United States Attorney for the
Districtof New Hampshire; Paris Kilbourne.
to be Survevor of Customs at San Francisco;
Collectors of Customs—Alansou n . Beard,
district of Boston and Charlestown, Mass.:
George B. Edmonds, at Fairfield, Va.; Conn.;
Louis McKenzie Bell, at Alexandria. J.
H, Pinkerton, at St. Marks, Fla., F.ank A,
Vaughan, at Saluria, Tex.
The Colored Convention elected P B S.
Pinchback President of the new organ,xa
tion and adjourned after issuing an address
to the cou nt''”
^
It is claimed that we unport over
$1,500,000 worth of egg* annually.
Foreign.
John Rruo & Co., one of the oldest ship
building with firms on the Clyde, Scotland, hav<
failed, heavy liabilities.
On the steamer J.a Plata during her voy¬
age from Buenos Ayres to Antwerp $170,OW
iu specie and bonds were stolen.
Hf.rr Schmitz, editor of the Cologne
Gazette, has been sentenced to one month’s
imprisonment in a fortress for publishing
calumnies against the Empress Frederick,
mother of Emperor William.
Portugal has been notified that England
will agree to a conference to settlo the dis¬
pute between the two nations.
Ax American officer lias arrived at Mo
Leod, in Northwest Canada, to try and re¬
cover tho white girl held captive there by the
Blackfeet Indians.
Emperor William, of Germany, Bismarck sent and a
sensational rescript to Prince
an order to Minister Berlepsch regarding
measures for workingmen.
The Pope has issued a decree empowering
the Bishops in all countries recently visited
by the influenza to absolve the faithful from
fasting until further notice.
The municipal authorities of Lisbon have
given 100 contos to the Portuguese national
defence fund. The Archbishop collect convened
the clergy and directed them to funds
for this purpose in every parish.
The Colonial Federation Conference was
opened at Melbourne, Australia. James
Service, Prime Minister of Victoria, was
elected manifested. to preside. Much enthusiasm was
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
The edged-tool manufacturers have formed
a trust.
A severe edit against the practice of duel¬
ing has been issued in Japan.
The total revenue of France for 1889 was
*614,300,000, and the total expenditures
*631,400,000,
Prolonged droughts and frequent fires
made Cuba’s sugar crop a very small one
this season.
A tunnel will be constructed under the
Chicago River forty feet below the surface
of the water.
The Supreme Court has affirmed the con¬
stitutionality quired Morman of the oath proposed to be re¬
of voters in Idaho.
A census of the Americans residing in
Berlin shows the number to be now 4900.
Five years ago there were only 3000.
A bill was introduced in the Canadian
Parliament to abolish French as tho official
language in the northwest territories.
The national flower campaign is finally
over, and of all the votes sent in seventy
percent, were in favor of the golden rod.
The fashionable exodus to Europe is open¬
ing early this year, there already bein^ a
large sailed. number of New Yorkers who have
Corn lias beau adjudged a fuel by a
Wic lira (Kan.) Justice, in a case of attach¬
ment for debt, and it was then declared ex
empt.
The now passport regulations that recently
came into force in Russia oblige travelers to
carry their photographs annexed to their
passes.
Five warships for the Turkish Navy hav<
been launched a, Constantinople. One ol
these was a oovette, three were gunboats, and
one was a torpedo boat.
The Italian East African Company will
organize extensive factories and whatever
establishments may be necessary to work
great plantations in Africa.
Governor Lowry, of Mississippi, in hit
recent Legislature message forcibly recommends t,h«
to take steps to put an end tc
the carrying of concealed weapons.
The exhibit of American Indian corn, that
was to have been given at the Paris Ex¬
Exoibition, position, will which take place in at May the next. Edinburgh
opens
The Bulgarian Government, displeased at
Senna for declining to conclude a treaty of
commerce, has decided to fortify the Bul¬
garian frontier along the valley of the Timok,
and is to commence works immediately at
IViddin and Coula.
The committee of the African Anti-Slavery
Conference of Brussels, to which the subject
was referred, has agreed upou the establish
neut of measures of surveillance over the
caravan routes in order to prevent the over¬
land transport of slaves.
France produces annually 20,000,000 tons
of 165,000,000. coal; Germany, The 70,000,000, and England,
annual consumption of
-'Vane* amounts to 1560 pounds for every in
iabitant: iu Germany, 8000 pounds; iu Bel
;ium. 4300 pounds: and in England, 740C
pouu.U.
In tlie room of the United States Senate
Committee on Naval Affaire hang the antier 5
of two deers, mounted to serve as wall orna¬
ment!'. They were by sent to Senators Gray
ind McPherson Senator VVade Hampton,
of South C-rolina. who killed the animals ou
a recent hunt in his native State.
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GREAT MINE DISASTER.
A Hundred and Fifty Men Entombed
in an English Colliery.
A cable dispatch from London says: An
explosion occurred in a colliery at Aoersy
ehan, in Monmouthshire. Three hundred min¬
ers were imprisoned and for several hours no
communication couid be had with them.
An opening was finally effected, and at noon
many of them had been rescued. Rescuing
parties are still searching for tnose remain¬
ing in the mine. It is feared that it will be
impossible to rescue the miners who are still
imprisoned. Up to 4 o’clock in the afternoon
forty bodies have been taken from the mine.
The cause of the explosion was the flooding
of pits adjacent to that in which the explo¬
sion occurred. By the flooding of these pits pit,
gas was dislodged and forced into the
where work was in progress, and there it ig¬
nited and exploded. There must have been
a great quantity of gas, as the explosion had
tremendous force. It was heard at a distance
of a mile. All the gearing in the shaft was
thrown into the air as if from the mouth of
a volcano, and simultaneous^ a vast bright
volume ot flame stiot upward, followed bv
dense heavy column of smoke,
'lhe first party of rescuers organized en
leavored to penerate the pit through Jie
^ workings. They got far enough to be
able to see groups |. of the dead, out
cou , d each th and w „ re
. 0 „- ^ Ued to retreat by suffocating
volu es of smoke tfmt rose ln that
d(rectiion Upon the first appearance of a
diminution iu the volume of smoke rescuers
went down the main shaft and reached the
scene of the catastrophe. They rescued a
targe number of miners yet alivj, but all
very badly burned, and they brought multilated out
sixty dead bodies, nearly all so
that the recognition of their identity is im
possible. The latest estimate of the dead is
150.
Kot Well Acquainted.
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The Camel—‘ Herd keep ycur tail out
( j of my fodder!”
| The Elephant—“'Well, you aecdn t get
I your back up!”— Puck,
VOL. XVI. NO. IB.
FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
In the Senate.
31 ST Day.— Immediately after the reading
of the Senate journal, Mr. Cameron an¬
nounced the recent afflictions in the families
of two members of the Cabinet, Secretaries
Blaine and Tracy, and moved unanimously. an adjourn
ment, which was agreed to
83d Day.— Mr. Westcott introduced a bill
providing for the admission of the Territory
of New Mexico. Referred____In executive
session Mr. Sherman called up the Samoan
treaty, and for over three hours it was under
discussion. Senator Eustis led tho attack
upon the treaty, asserting that by its terms
the United States was placed at a disadvan¬
tage compared with the other treaty powers
—Germany and England. The discussion
continued until 3 o’clock, when the roll was
called upon the question of ratifying the
treaty. The motion to ratify was adopteu
with only 13 negative votes____Confirmation
was announced of the nomination of John M.
Clark to be Collector of the Port of Chicago;
Augustine Heard, of Massachusetts, '
to be
Consul General and Minister Resident t«
Corea, and William H. Taft, of Ohio, to be
Solicitor General.
33d Day.—A debate took place on the sub¬
ject of .The providing bill additional committee
rooms .. to aid in the establish¬
ment and temporary support of common
schools was taken up as the unfinished busi¬
ness, and Mr. Blair addressed the Senate in
advocacy of it____Mr. .Sherman, from tfic
Committee on Foreign Relations reported
the following joint resolution, which was
placed on the calendar: Resolved, That the
United States of America congratulates the
people of Brazil on their just anrl peaceful
assumption of the powers, duties and respon¬
sibilities of self government, based upon the
frea consent of the governed, and in their
recent adoption of a republican form of gov¬
ernment.
34th Day".— The Senate took up the bill to
provide a temporary Government for the
Territory of Oklahoma, which and the Clerk finished
tho the reading previous. of the Various bill, had amendments been begun
day offered agreed to____Mr. formal Blair
were and re¬
sumed his speech on his National Educational
bill____Mr. Gibson introduced a joint resolu¬
tion providing for an appropriation of $4,000,
900 for the improvement of the Mississippi
River and the harbors of New Orleans, Nat
ihez, session, Vicksburg and Memphis____In Mr. Edmunds execu¬
tive a motion of to re¬
consider the vote by which the Samoan treaty
was ratified, was called up and laid on the
tabL by a vote of 39 to 13.
In tlie House.
33d Day.—T he heated debate over tht
Speaker’s action in certifying disorderly a quorum taking was
continued, the same scenes Finally
place as in the two previous days.
Mr. Dalzell began his argument on the West
Virginia Jacks contested election case of Smith
against Day. —The on. election of
34th contested case
Smith against Jackson wasagain considered,
but the day’s session was only a faint reflec¬
tion of the boisterous scenes of the previous
(lays. Day.— The election of
35th contested case
Smith against Jackson, which wa* the cause
of the big row in the House of Representa¬
tives. has ended. After a long debate it was
voted to award the scat iu the IVth Wost
Virginia contested election caso to Mr.
Smith, Dayl—I the Republican mmediately contestant. House
36th upon the
being called to order the Democrats < if
raanded the reading of the Mr. journal in full,
and when it was completed Springer de¬
clared that a part had been omitted and de¬
manded the reading of the omitted portion.
The Speaker paid So attention to Mr.
Springer, but recognized Mr. McKinley, who
moved the approval of tho journal and de¬
manded the previous none....The question, Speaker which then was
ordered, 105 to
laid before the House various Senate bills
... .Without accomplishing anything the
House, at 4:15, —There adjourned. under¬
37th Day. being a tacit
standing between the Republicans and Demo
(Tats that no effort would lie made for the
t ransaction of business (a large number hav¬
ing gone to attend the funeral of Mrs. and
Miss Tracy), the Clerk was permitted to reau
the journal in its abridged form. The Demo¬
crats did not wisn to go on record as approv¬
ing the journal, and consequently demanded
the yeas and nays on that motion. The jour¬
nal was approved—yeas —The Democrats 150, nays 0.
38th Day. carried out
their policy of silent protest against the rul¬
ings of the Speaker bv declining to vote upon
the question of approving the journal. It
was, however, 0—the approved constitutional by a vote of yeas. be¬
153: nays. nuorura
ing counted by the Speaker... .Mr. Cannon,
from the Committee on Rules, reported the
new recommitted____Mr. code of rules, and it was Tursney ordered printed
snd offered n
resolution reciting that it is charged that
many hundred individuals entered Oklaho¬
ma m violation of the act of Congress, and
directing the Speaker to appoint a committee
to investigate the Rules matter. Referred to the
Committee on ...A bill for (lie relief
of the survivors of the Samoan disaster wa 1 !
passed.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC,
William S. Gilbert, the librettist, says
that he never reads criticisms of his own
works.
London’s theatres are said to have had a
‘•flat, stale and altogether nupiofitabla”
winter.
Karl Merz, known throughout the United
State* as an eminent musician, recently died
at Worcester, Ohio.
“The Gondoliers,” Gilbert and Sullivan’s
latest comic Munich. opera, will shortly be sung in
German in
William Craxe in his new play, “The
Senator, is said to make up so as to re
of Kansas. _
semble Senator Fiumb,
M r^s Adelb aus der Ohe, the eminent
pianist, has been playing and a Providence. number of suc¬
cessful recitals in Boston
The production of “As You Like It” at
the St. James’s Theatre in London was jxist
i ioned in consequence of the illness of Mrs.
jangtry.
Henrik Ibsen, the Norwegian critics playwright,
is thought by some good of the to be the
most original dramatist nineteenth
century.
A play at one of the Engiish because theatres has
just had to be modified the actors
had a superstition feathers against the appearance
of a peacock or its ou the stage.
Sims Reeve, the once famous tenor, is liv¬
ing in London, at the ago of seventy. It is
said that while his voice is apparently unim¬
paired, lie docs not wish to sing in public any
more.
Wilson Barrett was offered $1000 to give
a performance of “The Silver King” in Chi¬
cago on a Sunday it would night, be but refused affront on the
ground that an to his
Sabbath observing friends.
The most note i colored actress of tho day
is Henrietta Vinton Davis, of Baltimore.
She made her debut received in Washington, in such in 18S3,
and ha= been well roles as
Juliet, Desdewona, Quean Elizabet i aal
Leah.
It has been determined to give a concert iu
London during the ensuing season, which Dr.
Joachim will he asked to conduct. The pro¬
ceeds wiil be devoted to the general fund for
the establishment,in the house of his birth, ot
a Beethoven museum.
Mr.*. Erving Winslow, the Boston ac¬
tress .uni elocutionist, has been giving read¬
ings of Ibsen s pays, “A Doll’s Homs, "Pil¬
lars ot Society,” “The Lady of the Sea,” etc.,
which have been received with much pleas¬
ure by the admirers of tho Norwegian dra¬
matist.
In four vests about 14,000 new manu¬
facturing and mining enterprises hare
been organized iu the South, aud thou
?auds of old plants greatly enlarged.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
General W. T. Sherman is just seventy
years old.
Senator Hawley practices on the violin
every day.
Mr. Gladstone keeps six private secre¬
taries at work.
Spain s little King has an income of on*
million dollars a year.
The White House will soon contain a por¬
trait of Grover Cleveland.
Chief Justice Corliss, of North Dakota,
is only thirty-one years of age.
Senator Gorman is an expert on baseball,
and was formerly a noted amateur player.
In June next King celebrated Leopolds jubilee will
be appropriately at Liege, Be!
giurn.
Cardinal clear-headed Newman is and eighty-eight physically years
old, but still spry
active.
Postmaster-General Wanamaker never
permits wine to be served at any of his en¬
tertainments.
James Whistler, London’s eccentric
American painter, is confining over for avisit
in the spring.
Calvin S. Brice, Ohio's new Senator, New¬ will
James Gordon Bennett’s villa at
port next season.
Prince Bismarck’s friends are
ag.j/i about his health, which is said to
much impaired.
Senator Ingalls's daily luncheon at the
restaurant consists of nine oysters
from the shells.
Dr. McCosh, ex-President of Prineetou.
stop teaching until he had educated
college Presidents
Robert J. Burdette, the humorist, is a
man who talks in a writing. sharp, quick wav.
is tired of humorous
Among the Secretary many messages Tracy of cablegrams sympathy
by Victoria and the were King Italy.
Queen of
Prince Ferdinand, of Bulgaria, will, ac¬
to a London journal, shortly wed
“an immensely wealthy American Catho
lie.
The richest man in Alabama is H. F. De
Bordeieben, a Birmingham iron manufac¬
who is supposed to be worth aoout
Oliver Wendell Holmes always retires
the same hour, eats dinner in the middle
the day and walks at least two miles every
twenty-four hours.
Money is being raised for the erection of
a monumental statue of Commodore Vander¬
bilt on the campus of Vanderbilt University,
at Nashville, Tenn.
Charles Dudley Warner has a full
beard, dresses better than most authors aud
lives at Hart, ord, between Mark Twain aud
Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Prince Arthur, Duke of Connauzht. and
his wife will have receptions in every Cana¬
dian city and town they visit during tnair
tour through the Dominion.
Buffalo Bill is quote 1 as saying that he
does not wonder that Christopher Oolumous
wanted to get away from Spain, as he felt
much that way himself.
Senator Wade Hampton comes from at
and formerly wealtny Southern family.
the outbreak of the war he had from
to 3000 slaves on his plantations.
The Khan of Khiva and tho Emin of -Bok¬
are to make a torn- through Europ, stipu¬
year, but tho Russian Government
that they are not to visit England.
The Emperor of Russia has been in a state
of insane panic, tue resuit being taut Ua has
sunk into the deepest despondency, and con¬
stantly insists that nis end is approaching.
ple Astonishment is expressed Mr. Blaine by many and peo¬ Mr.
Randall upon learning studied that law. began hii
never One
career as a merchant, and the other as a jour
lialist.
The first cash John D. Rockefeller, of
Standard Oil Company fame, ever had was
twenty-five cents, wific no earned by work¬
ing for a farmer so that he might go to the
circus.
John Jacob Astor, the millionaire New
Yorker, is a burly-iooking man of weighty
moustache and well- seasoned countenance,
and walks up Broadway every fine afternoon
three inches shorter than his sou, who is six
foot-three.
Emperor William, of Germany, has is¬
sued au order that in future no paintings or
statues or busts of himself or of any mem
bers of the royal family either alive or dead,
are to be purchased with any public Lauds
for galleries or public institutions.
THE LABOR WORLD
The South’s manufacturers employed 48$,-
360 persons last, year, aud 315,438 in I860.
Michigan lias seventy-eight furniture fac¬
tories, half of which are iu G rand Rapids.
On the Hudson River aiono 10,009 men
usually employed on the ice harvest have
been idle.
The postal They clerks of Chicago have orgy
uized. sa.aries. want eight hours a day anil
graded
Pennsylvania’s master painters a»J
de-orators have declared th :ir opposition to
the eight-hour movement.
The Massachusetts Federation of Labor
will hold a convention in Boston on March
13 to boom the eight-hour movement
English mine owners are preparing to
form a federation to protect their interests
against tno organizations of employes.
AN eight-hour badge lias been adopted by
the American Federation of Labor. It is
simply a figure eight made of nickel plated
metal.
Christopher Union Woods, No. Treasurer of of the
Switchuieu's 4, Kansas City,
Mo., has disappeared with $1000 of the
union’s money.
The New York State branch of the Amen
an Federation of Labor seems to be in a
prosperous condition, as the per capita tax
could be reduced one-fourth of ono cent.
The journeymen Allegheny plumbers County, and steam and
gas fitters of Penn.,
numbering 3000, are Federation arranging of to Labor. affiliate
with the American
The cigar making industry of San Fran
CISCO is almost dead, because of Chinese com
petition, and goods from they Pennsylvania are
sold cheaper there than can be made at
home.
There are at Sheffield, Ala., enterprises
now under construction or contract to be com¬
pleted there within six montus to the extent
of $ti60,000. inciudiug a $300,000 robing mill,
$200,000 railroad shops, etc
The London owners of docks, wharves and
warehouses have formed a union to combat
the demand of labor unions. Lockouts on
one hand and new strixes on the other will
probably follow in quick succession.
Women employed on the Volga River in
Russia work from four o'c.ock iu the inoru
inv till sunset. Thev carry 140 pounds of
freight up high ladders. Men get twent-y
two cents per day. women eighteen cents.
Moses Boyd, of Dedham, Mass., has been
a Boston and Providence Railroad conductor
for forty-six years, and he is said to be the
oldest conductor in active service ou any
road running out of Boston. He is seventy
four years old.
Dti Island, which which contains the the granite granite for
uuarries from came
the New York and Philadelphia rostoffices,
the Treasury Building at Washington sold and the
Brooklyn Bridge has been to an English
syndicate, which is to reopen the quarries.
Miss Frances E.Williard, who has lived!
for many vears in a Chicago suburb, says
there are women in that city who make a
do: i skirt* for seventv-ffve cants, and find
their own thread. Also that there are chil¬
dren who work twelve hours a day for a del
tar a week.