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The Covington Star.
J. W. ANDERSON, Editor and Proprietor.
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I Voice from the txeciitive Mansion,
Hr. A. W. Hawkes— Dear Sir: The
jitiscopic giasses you furnished me
he tune since, give excellent satisfac
I havo tested them by use, and
1st say they are unequaled in clearness
I brilliancy by any that I haye ever
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Respectfully,
John B. Gordon,
Governor of State of Georgia.
Business Man’s Clear Vision.
New York City, April 4, 1888.
r. A. K. Hawkes— Dear Sir : Your
int eye glasses received some time
e, and am very much gratified at the
hderful change that has come over
[eyesight [glasses and since I have discarded my
am now wearing yours.
Alexander Aoar.
betary L- Stationers Board of Trade of
York City.
til eyes fitted by J. M. Levy. Coving
Ga.
Ihese glasses are not supplied to ped
ra at any price.
A. W. HAWKES.
Whelesale Depots, Atlanta, Ga.
anklinB. Wright,
COVINGTON, GA.
lident Physician & Surgeon.
ynecologv, ilren, bstetrics, diseases of women and
and all Chronit*
laees of a private nature, a Special-
1 have a horse at my command,
ch will enable mo to attend calls
he surrounding country, as weJ las
city practice.
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jer Scenes at a Wedding in Algeria.
marriage celebration in Algeria is an
Si egroom esting relic goes of to ancient bring the customs. bride, The and
J guests assembled outside the house
j )ipes await is heard his coming. coming Soon the sound
from the summit
lome neighboring hill, and tho raar
c procession approaches the hride
am’s house.
ffio pipers always come first in the
ression, then the bride muffled up in
hi, riding r Dtule led by her lover.
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THE BRIDAL PROCESSION.
en comes a bevy of gorgeously dressed
nsels, sparkling with silver ornaments,
er which the friends of the bride fol
i’he procession stops in front of the
degroem’s house, and the girl’s friend*
e both sides of tbe pathway, ’The
rer* march off on one side, while the
'■kgroom lifts the girl from the mule
S holds her in his arms. The girl’s
Ends thereupon throw earth at the
Id egroom when he hurries forward aud
fries her over the threshold of his
pst. Those about the door beat him
th olive branches, aid much laughter.
In the evening, on such occasions, the
bers and drummers are called in, and
I women dance, two at a time, facing
!h other; nor does a couple desist until,
pting pu.ike and exhausted, for another. they The step dance aside
room
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p steps are small and changes of posi
pi slight, the dancers only ciFcling
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they swiug their bodies about with
[astonishing flutter energy and suppleness. As
Ives before the gale, so do they
prate [ver to the music; they shake; they
and tremble; they extend quiver
E arms, wave veils, and their minds
pri lost in the abandon and frenzy of
E dance, while the other women, look
I on, encourage by their high, piercing,
tilling I cries, which add to the noise of
pipes and drums.
■die wealthy women of Algeria are
|y Itrattoa fond shows of embroidering, how the and is our done. il
work
p>' the last ten years fourteen sea cap
ps and mates have been lined or im
poned yard their at San Francisco and the for brutality is
I for men, six present rate
every weeks. In most cases,
L the indicted ones are American born.
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED,
Eastern and Middle States.
THB willows Of the victims of the mint
JisAstor at Nottingham, Peun., by which
eight men were killed by an exDlosion of sas
haveentered suits against the Lehigh and
W llkesbarre Coal Company for damages
gregating $100,000,
of Public W orks, ^ A but , nTIS formerly '' Deputy Under Commissionet Sheriff
•
Custodian of the Register’s Office Wal'nh an
four ex-deputy sheriff, Deputy Sheriff Voting a tic
dieted others, by all Of New York city, were in
the Grand Jury for bribery. They
were arrested and held in $10,000 bail.
ST. Patrick’s Day was more widely ob
seijed ana Irish-American , in . „ New York city civic by and the military many Irish
ganizations than or¬
it has been in many years.
W. Johnson Brown, of Bromfleld, Mass.,
while at work in a sawmill, was liaiight by
the carriage and drawn rtpdft the saw, which
cut him completely through lengthwise.
A cave iff took place at Packer colliery
death near Shenandoah, of Penn., resulting in the
two miners.
Advices from Porto Rico, West Indies,
report the loss of the brig L. Staples, of Bos¬
ton, together with her cargo.
A fire broke out in a meat store at Mil¬
ford, Mass., which destroyed prooertv valued
at *120,000.
Tun United States steamer Newark has
been launched at Philadelphia.
John F. Plummer & Co„ of New York
oity, the one of the largest commission houses in
woolen trade, have assigned. Liabilities
over $1,000,000; assets about the SAnie.
Half a foot of snow-, more than in anv
storm of the winter, fell in New York city.
The storm Vi as from the southwest, travel¬
ing tt the remarkable rate of eighty-three
miles au hour. Railroad travel was delayed,
the streets were almost impassable, and
several steamships were overdue.
The Legislative Committee in the Massa¬
chusetts the Legislature reported a bill giving
women tions. right to vote in municipal elec
A Hungarian woman told the police of
Harrison, N. J., that a house that had been
burned two years ago, and in which two lives
were lost, had been deliberately set on fire.
Six arrests were made.
Lucius Tuttle, Trunk Line Commission¬
er, has resigned to become general manager
of the New York, New Haven and Hartford
Railroad.
The house of Benjamin Downey, Stony
Hill, Penn., was burned, aud when the ruins
were examined the charre.l body of Downey
was found.
South and West.
The twelve-year-old sou of S. D. Cham¬
bers of Hot Springs, N, C., accidentally sho
and killed his mother.
Three desperadoes who had escaped from
jail in Del Norte, Col., were pursued to the
mountains and shot by a deputy sheriff.
Mr. and Mrs. F, August Carll, of Aus¬
tin, Minn,, were burned to death in their
residence, which took Are.
The large dry goods house of Pardee, Mills
fire. A' Co., at Peoria, 111., has been destroyed by
The loss is about $200,000.
The old State capitol of Georgia at Atlan¬
$125,509. ta was sold at public auction to Joel Hart for
Ex-StAtE Treasurer Noland, of Mis¬
souri, was arrested, and gave bail to answer
a charge of embezzlement
M. J. Cheatham (white) was hanged at
Grenada, Miss., for the murder of John
Tilman (colored), Cheatham is the first
white man to suffer the death penalty for
the killing of ri colored man in Mississippi.
Da. M. A. Rust, one of the oldest and
niost prominent Va German ladder physicians his residence in Rich¬
mond, , fell from a at
and was instantly killed.
E. B. McCURDY. a train conductor, was
shot and seriously wounded by a colored mac
named Jake Daniels, and in turn the conduc¬
tor shot and killed the colored man. It hap¬
pened while the train was near Bay Minetts,
Ala.
C. A. Se arles and W. C. Paine were ar¬
rested in Missoula. Moat,, for robbing the
Northern Pacific Express office at Brainerd,
Minn., of $15,000 about a year ago.
THE steamboat-owners in Baltimore, Hd.,
appointed bers of Congress a committee ask to for confer immediate with mem¬
to an re¬
peal United of the objectionable features of the
States inspection and census laws.
A warehouse, bath establishment aucl
eightOottages at Jacksonville, Fia., have been
destroyed by fire, causing a loss of about
$125,000.
Dan Gruelle, farmer at Kelat, Ky., was
taken from his home and hanged. Several
years ago he dealt iu cattle aud gave bad
checks, aud fled to the mountains.
Washington.
Nominations of United States Consuls bi
the President: William S. Preston, of Nee
York, at Cognac; James S. Kellogg, o
Louisiana, York, at Stettin; Alfred WStreet, _ o!
New at Coaticook; Samuel B. Zeigler.
of Iowa, at Aix-ia-Chapelle; James S. D
Dauforth, of Pennsylvania, at Verifiers aud
Liege. Daniel Lake, of Brooklyn, has beer
nominated for Marshal for the Eastern Dis¬
trict of New York.
The President announced that a numbei
of official receptions and State dinners would
be given during April, to take by the place of of
those omitted early in the year reason
the bereavements in the families of Secre¬
taries Blaine and Tracy.
The bill adopted by the House World’s
Fair Committee authorizes the President to
issue his proclamation and invitation to for¬
eign nations only after Chicago shall have
raised a guarantee fund of $10,000,000 in suet
form as to be satisfactory to the President.
The Grand Jury of the District of Colum¬
bia has brought in an indictment again-t
Charles E. Kincaid for the murder of Will¬
iam P. Taulbee.
Secretary Proctor authorized an addi¬
tional expenditure of $50,000 for the protec¬
tion of theleveeion the Mississippi making River the in
the third and fourth districts,
total allotment for this purpose $170,000.
G eneral Schofield has been designated to
represent the War Department in the matter
of the selection of a landing place for imm.
grants at New York.
The House Committee on Agriculture bill or¬
dered a favorable report on the Conger
defining and taxing compound lard.
Vice-President Morton, having occupied re
turned after two weeks’ absence, of
the chair in the Senate at the opening the
session.
The President sent to the Senate the fol¬
lowing nominations: James F. Ellis, o- 5v >
eonsin. Consul at Brockvilie, Canada; Fran¬
cis Maomitt. of District of Columbia, Secre¬
tary of the United States Legation _ E. K. at
Constantinople; Commodore Andrew
Ben ham, to be Rear Admiral.
The President, accompanied by ex-Sena
tor Sewell left Washington on a ducking
expedition to the preserves of the Maryland
Du -king Club, with headquarters at Bengies.
Md.
Foreign.
A fire broke out in the village of Gampel,
Switzerland, and before the flames could be
dS^. th MmypS)ffiw done. injured S
great damage was
The German Government has given au
enormous order for smokeless powder, to be
immediately executed at the Rothwell fac
tory.
Two artillery officers were arrested in St.
Petersburg, Russia, accused of being
Nihilists.
Consul at ,, Mozambique raised ,
The British district of
the British flag over the Shire
Africa and saluted it. The Portuguese Gov
eramenthas protested.
COVINGTON, GEOKG1A, TUESDAY, A?RIL 1, 1890,
In A rollistert between two trains on tn,
Marianao Railway, Cuba, nine persons were
injured.
About fifty delegates from German-Ameri¬
can societies in various parts of the country
met in conference at Washington to agro
upon some form of protest against the var'
ous bills for restricting immigration.
Yellow fever is raging at Campinas, B» >
*11, with tt large and increasing deatH rate
Aft earthquake shock Was espetfiericed at
Bonh'. GPIffifthy.
THE NATIONAL GAME.
Pitcher Stivettz, of the St. Louis Club,
weighs 200 pounds.
The New York State League' nqi) geek thi
protection of the National Agreement.
CATcheR Earle, of the Chicago League
team, is studying to become a veterinary
surgeon.
It seems to be_ a foregone conclusion that
two ot the ten National League clubs will b*
dropped from that organization.
There will be two colored players in the In¬
terstate burg, III,, League this year—Fowler, of of Gales¬
and Johnson, Peoria, III.
Manager Kennedy has secured the
veteran, Jack Lynch, to train the young
players in the new Brooklyn Association
team.
League Pitches Murphy, has sijVriprj; whom thu New for YHrit
lean! K-olked about
$10 a wft'ek, N'dw he receives $2000 f. or the
season.
It is said that the salary list of the Balti¬
more Club is larger by seven or eight thou¬
sand dollars than that of any other Atlantic
Association Club.
If a club in the American Association fails
to if begin or to is resume playing «rte minute
ter the game CiUled hereafter the umpire
will forfeit the game to the other club.
The New York and Boston Clubs of the
Players’ League played their first game un¬
der the new flag at Savannah. The New
Yorks won a finely-plaved game by a score
of 4 to 3.
Five of the deserters have made applica¬
tion for readmission to the Players’ League,
One of the mou offered to play the season foi
nothing the and another was willing to put $504
m treasury.
The refusal of Judge Thayer td grant the
Philadelphia strairiing Hallman IRaglie Clrib ah injunction re
from playing with any
other organization was the second notable
League victory wort in the courts by the Flayers’
It has made the members of that
organization jiibiliiit.
The following is said to be an absolutely
correct list of the salaries paid last season to
the members of the St. Louis Club who left
that organization and joined the Players’
Boy.e, League: Comiskey, Milligan, $5000; O’Neill, $2600;
King, $2800; $3000; Latham, $3200;
$3000; Robinson, $2700.
Philadelphia will have its share of base¬
ball this season. Ii is represented in the Na¬
tional League, Players’ League and American
their Association, each of which have adopted
of 203 schedules, and they call for the playing
three clubs championship conflict games in that city. All
on twenty dates.
The Brotherhood-League war hasn’t af¬
fected the formation of the leagues and clubs
a bit. They are more numerous than ever.
There are now eleven leagues under the Na¬
tional Agreement and more to come. There
tions, never were so many is professional in organiza¬ cob
and the game booming the
leges as never before,
The deserters who ate to be taken back to
the classified. Players’ In League the first new organization will be those will who be
have been taken back unanimously. In the
second class will be those who will be ad¬
mitted if none of the players of his club ob¬
ject. The names in a third list contain those
of the men who can never re-enter tbf
organization.
THE LABOR WORLD.
A LAROR bureau will soon be established
at the Brooklyn Labor Lyceum.
The New England granite manufacturers after
will pay their men by the hour May 1.
These are many silk ribbon weavers out
of employment at present in New York and
vicinity.
The 5000 girls who work in the stores and
factories of Detroit average between $4 and
$5 a week.
The Indianapolis Builders’ Exchange that has
notified tbe Building Trades’ Union it
will oppose the eight hour movement.
Eight thousand employes of the Arm¬
strong gun works at Elswick, hours. England,
struck for a working day of eight
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company Fund pail
last year to their Employes’ Relief $70,-
160, and the employes contributed $377,461.
The committee of the Berlin Labor Con¬
ference,presided over by Jules Simon, agreed
to the exclusion ot children under twelve
from factories.
The lumbormen in the Adirondack region
of New York are said to have cut twice as
many logs during the last season as they did
in the winter of 1888*9.
Out of 10.413 members of the Brotherhood
of Carpenters who have voted on the eight
hour proposition, 9095 recorded themselves
in favor of it and 24 against it.
Bernard David, a well-known union
cigar-maker of New York city, says that any
member of his craft who averages $7 a week
the year round is a lucky man.
There is a movement on foot in San Fran¬
cisco to bring into a federation all the union
men engaged there as sailors, firemen, dock
laborers, stevedores and ’longshoremen.
TnE Journeyman Bakers’ Union is about
to organize the men working in the cracker
oakeries whose wages are very low, while
their hours of labor are more than in bread
and cake bakeries.
A brass founder in Montreal died recently
leaving $500,000 to his workingmen. Five
hundred received $400 apiece, while three
foremen are left to manage the business and
are provided with capital to carry it on.
A number of European manufacturers are
trying the profit-sharing manufacturer system as an who exper¬ paid
iment, A Norwegian recently
his men $158 per year for wages gave
each of them $105 as their share of the an¬
nual dividend.
Attorney-General Michener, of_ In¬
diana, has declared officially that the State
Eight-Hour law is constitutional. He says
that the State has power to limit the hours of
labor, just as it lias the power to send chil¬
dren to school or to enact sanitary measures.
John Devlin, of Detroit, who is a menr
bar of the General Executive Board of the
Knights of Labor, is also United States Con¬
sul at Windsor. Canada. He was one o*
President Cleveland’s appointments. His
friends sav that he has i assured that
President Harrison will not attempt to dis¬
turb him.
A WILD GIRL’S FREAK,
Disguised as a Boy She Steals a
Horse and Runs Away.
Agnes Rankin, an attractive young girl,
livino J . a3ar Trenton, Ky., was put in jail at
, u„ j with hor.s» stealing.
! One night she ’dressed up in boy’s clothing,
j we nt to the farm of Thomas Spiiler and sto,e
i the finest horse he had in the stable, rocs the
, animal to Fulton and sold u to Emmat Reed,
a livery stable keeper, for *80; then sho fltvi
(from the State into Tennessee lanoing in
1 Greenfield, where she was arrested on tele
1 , i am; announcing the theft of the horse by
boy. She proved she was not a boy and
i was released, but was real-rested at Crock* th
, g g tat j OEi Tenn.. and transferred to
co(1 nt v i a il at Hickman. She is a
^^ter. but of s wild disposition, and
inspired to her escapade by .iirue novels
A TOWER HOUSE.
A Dwelling of Moderate Cost, With
Full Explanations.
(Copyright by the Author.)
For the information of boys who ate con¬
sidering the choice bf h profession it hiay bo
said that the profession bf architecture is
hoi crowded. The number of architects in
the United States does not exceed 3ix thou¬
sand, all told. There is a rapidly developing
appreciation of architectural services among
the people that promises a vast deal of work
for the future.
A significant fact i* that architects' sous
often follow their they fathers’ profession. The
priites ale few, as are iu every hailing
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perspective view.
hut the routine of work is varied and inter¬
esting. A “taste for drawing," which in
young of hahu people iii copying, usually means of no particular a simple facility Value.
The architect must design, invent, construct,
.Drawings are essential to express his ideas,
but they are ouly the shadows of his work,
not the substance.
A good test of a boy’s taste and of his fit¬
ness for the profession is to require him to
indicate what he considers the best designed
and planned houses of a neighborhood or of
a published Below volume found of designs. brief description of
will be rt
the design illustrating this article!
Size of Structure: Width (front) 30 ft.:
side (depth) 49 ft.
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Height of Stories: Cellar, 7 ft,; first story
Oft, 6 in.: second story, 9 ft., attic storv,
8 ft.
Materials for Exterior Walls: Founda¬
tions, brick; first story, clapboards; second
story, Interior shingles; Fiiijgh: roof, Hard shingles. white plaster and
soft wood triiisXhardwood oiled staircase; finished porch in
floor aud ceiling and
natural colors: quaint leaded panes in hall
windows.
Exterior Colors: AU clapboards, gray
stone color; shingles of second story and
tower (up to roof) and of gables, stained
light gray; underside of gable over
bang, corner boards, window and
door casings, water table. aU cornices
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and belts, medium dark drab; sashes, white;
doors and blinds, medium dark drab, with a
lighter shade of drab for panels and slats;
roofs and roof ridges, stained light green;
foundation walls and chimneys, red.
Accommodations: The principal shown rooms by the
and their sizes, closets, etc., are is cellar under
plans given herewith. There a
the whole house. Two Two rooms rooms and and a a hall hall fin- tin- _
ished in the attic. The The balcony balcony is is arranged arranged Slid
to be enclosed with glass wh$»n whendesired. desired. blid
iiW doors between the parlor and dining¬
room. H preferred, the stairway may start
up from the rear of the hall instead of from
the front. No fireplaces are included but
they may be introduced iu all rooms^ of ^the
first anil second stories at an average cost
..._. $50 each.
(including mantels) of
Cost: For localities where prices for ma¬
terials and labor arc about, tho same as the
prices in in the vicinity of New York city,
12500. R. W. S H or cell, Architect.
Jefferson Davis Memorial Volume.
BY DR. j. WM. JONES.
We learn from the publishers Messrs.
I. O. Hudgins & Co., of Atlanta, Ga.,
:hat the Davis Memorial volume being
...pared •IV by the popular author, Dr. J.
vVrn. Jones, is rapidly nearing completion.
Since the death of flic greatest leader of
'he “Lost Cause,” there has been an un
prec. :edeuted demand for such a . work
g is an assured fact that it will have
ia cnormo us sale. they
Messrs Hudgins & Co., say ex
pect to have canvassers mtlhe field m^o
few days so the public will not b
j t0 wait. love and , admtra- ,
i Ag ; d(J from the great Southern people for
, on or line the part pari of o, our r lented
the dead hero, the iact xuai iu t
I iut h 0r is so well and favorably bo u
^ doubtless cause the volume to be re
ceived-with unusual favor
Those wishing an agency should wnte
at once to J Messrs. H. C. Hudgins & Co.,
of Atlanta.
FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS,
In the Senate.
69th Day.—M r. Fuller discussed the Blalt
bill, and race and political problems in the
South.,,,Mr. Evarts introduced a bill tc
amend the Alien Contract Labor la w, so as not
to prevent any citiiien ot any foreign coun¬
try temporarily lirider residing in this country from resi¬
engaging dents of the United , edrijrart Istatei td persons dot not private
as
secretaries, servants or domestics.
60th Day —Mr. Hawley introduced a bill
to provide that hereafter jirexmotions to every
grade in the army belov. tV« rank of
seniority Brigadier-General in the shall lower be made grade according of that to
next
corps..,,Mr Blair Bill, arid Daniel Mr Morgan spoke in against favor it. of the ,A
,.
number df nominations were received from
the President,. ,
61st Day.—M r. Hawley spoke against Chandler the
Blair bill, ppd Messrs Urgent Moody and Deficiency bill
in favor oi it.. Tfie
was passed, as were also a nunfPer of public
Buildings Day.—A appropriation unusually bills. large number of
62d n
petitions was presented and referred, com¬
prising some for and some against the Sun¬
day rest law, sdnle Against for the the free coinage of
silver, Govcrnuient rind several works Of employment but Unite,
on citizens,.;:MdsSrS. Rvrirtsarid .arty fierce
States V
spoke on the Blair bill.... Mr. obfheCs ad
tural v oca ted dSpttasidn: his resolution concerning agricul¬
AuTfle McKinley Adminis¬
trative Customs bill was reported: in
63d Day.—T he amendments adopted
the Committee of the Whole oa the Blair
bill were reported to the Senate and accepted,
and the decisive question wa3 put on the
engrossment and third reading of the bill.
It was found that on a call of the yeas and
nays thirty-six Senators had voted against a
third reading, Mr Blair, and only satisfying thirty-two himself in favor that
of it. after
there was an actual majority against moving the bill,
changed his vote, for the purpose of
a reconsideration at some future date: aud
the final official announcement made the vote
against the bill thirty-seven to thirty-one.
In the House.
67th Day.—M r. Perkins stated that an er¬
roneous impression bad gone orit, that accord¬
ing to the provisions of the Oklahoma bill,
uassed the previous day, the Cherokee Outlet
had been declared opened to settlement under
the homestead laws. The statement should
have been that the public land strip—not the
Cherokee Outlet—had been opened to settle¬
ment____In Committee 6f the Whole, a bill
to retire General J. C. Fremont, with the
rank of major-general, was formally recom¬
mended. ,,
68th Day.— Mr. Lodge, a* Chairman of
the House Committee on the election of Pres¬
ident and Vice-President and Representatives bill regulate
in election Congress, Representatives introduced a in Congress.... to
of
Eulogies were pronounced in memory of
Judge Kelley, “the Father of the House."
69th Day.— Among the bills introduced
was one by Mr, Kelley to the provide House. for It the de¬
election of members of
clares that no State law or Constitution
shall deprive a citizen once duly authorized
to vote for a member of the Legislature of
his right to vote, except upon conviction of
felony... .Under a suspension of the rules the
House passed the bill transferring the reve¬
nue marine from the Treasury Department
to the under Navy instructions Department____Mr. from
McKenna, V Census
the Committee suspend on. the the rules , 1 ii.'.-nt’- and nil!
moved to of pass a
authorizing the Superintendent thecensus
to enumerate the Chinese population in such
manner as to enable him to list make of rill a complete Chinese
and accurate descriptive United States at the
persons who are in the
time of taking the census. Tim bill was
passed without division.
70th Day.—T he Pension Appropriation \Vhole,and
bill came up in Committee of the
Mr. Morrow, who had charge of it, made a
speech on the subject, explaining ill detail
tile provisions of the bill, which appropriates
«93‘427.461. the
71st Day —Mr. Candler presented the World’s re
rort of the Special Committee on
Fair. The city of Chicago was selected as
rue place for holding the Fair. The repre¬
sentation of the Territories and the District
o, Columbia has been increased from one to
two Commissioners from each, and provis¬ eight
ion s also made for the appointment of
Commissiouers-at-Large. The Commission
•s called “The World’s Columbian Commis¬
sion"____The M udd-Coni otou contested elec¬
tion case, from Marvland. the House insisted ..
Oa motion of Mr siruole
on its amendments to the Senate bill provid
iafra Territorial Government for Oklahoma,
aud Messrs. Struble, Perkins ana Spvinger
were appointed a conference committee.
72D Day. —The House resumed the con¬
sideration of the Mudd-Compton contested
election case, and was addressed by Mr. Comp¬
ton, the sitt ng member, in his own behalf.
A debate followed, and at the close Com¬ Mr.
Moore, on behalf of the minority of the de¬
mittee on Elections offered a resolution
claring Compton entitled to the seat. This
was defeated—yeas 145, nays 155. The ma¬
jority resolution declaring Mudd entitled to
the seat was adopted—yeas 159, nays 145---
Mr. Mudd then appeared and took tbe oath
if office.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
Rose Eytingb has opened a school for
dramatic instruction in Neff York city.
Tschalkowsky, the composer, is described
as a tall, handsome man with a gray beard.
Lilly Post has been singing in “The Pi¬
rates of Penzance” at the Auditorium, Chi¬
cago.
Sims Reeves, the public famous English and tenor, is al¬
will soon close nis career,
ready arranging for his farewells.
Olga Brandon has an emotional Hoyt, play
called "Corisande,"’ written by Henry
in which she proposes to act in London at a
matinee.
Bill Nye, the humorous lecturer, has in¬
vested *10,000 in real estate in Salt Lake,and
the papers of that oity say William’s bald
cea (i is level.
“The Flood of Johnstown" is in prepara¬
tion and will shortly ba produced br the
Hebrew Actors' Company at the Thalia
Theatre, New York.
The German baritone, Knaschmann. was
recently hissed during an operatic perform¬
ance at Parma on account of his nationality,
and obliged to leave the town precipitately.
Miss Abej.i., a young society girl of De¬
troit, Mich., has made her debut with Rhea
as Marie Louise in “Josephine." The young
woman is said to possess considerable talent.
For the first time in some years New York
is having a season of Italian opera. The
first day’s sales of seats amounted to $20,000.
Madame Patti made her first appearance as
Semiramide.
Miss Minnie Maddern, the well-known
actress, has been married to Harrison Grey
Kiske, editor of a New York musical and
dramatic journal. She will retire perma¬
nently from the stage.
Edwaf.d H. House, the invalid suit journalist enjoin
has been ruccessful in his to
Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain), Mrs. Ab¬
bey Sage Richardson and Daniel Frohman
from producing the “Prince and the Pauper.”
One class of business affected by the un¬
certainty of the World's Fair location is the
theatrical business. Managers waut to book
the best attractions in advance for 1892, and
the attractions themselves are hesitating
- . bat to do, because a change or postpone¬ cisad
ment would work greatly to their
vantage and result in serious loss.
Ozark County, Mo., has a population of
12 090, of whom 9000 are not taxpayers. In
Gainesville, the county town, is the countv
jail, a structure of logs, eight by tea feet aud
twenty feet high.
It is officially stated iu Paris that a tele
grain has been received from the 1 ,’ougt
country, in West Africa, stating that t
French post, consisting of ten natives undei
a European agent, nils been massacred- ai
I- Ounvus
VOL, XVI, NO. 19.
PROMINENT PEOPLE,
The Emperor of China has eWtered upon a
of energetic reform.
JclIA Ward Howk is the best Greet
of hef *** in this country.
It is stated that Enin! Pasha will shortly
from the service of Egypt.
Lord Salisbury, the British Premier, is
so fleshy that his friends are worried
him.
PRESIDENT Carnot, of France, considers
the most fitteresting foreigners
visit Paris.
William W. Story, white of the sculptor, and i*
of ftetm-e, moustache
of voice.
The Empress of Germany idris inherited
seventeen row; of pearls from the Irite esc
Empress Augusta.
Lord Titv-vVartN recently wrotAto a Lou¬
friend that he doWM never again write
poem for publication.
W. J Arkell, the New York newspaper
ncte*; interiof oraanizing ft au expedition to ex
the Alaska
Senator Dixon, the United of Rhode States telriod, Senrifo says is
like socially large private club.
a
Ex-SkORfiTARY Bayard is said not to
entered the Senate Chamber since he
it to become a Cabinet Oftloer.
George FnAffdi'ri Train ha* left Tacoma,
on his trip arouud the world to beat
records of all previous globe girdlers,
Ex-EmpeU(jI! Do'm Pedro is said to have
idea of the value of rdoWey, He con
to live in the most extravagdiW style.
Secretary Tracy has already grown
of hotel life and has about concluded
for leasing a house on C street,
Washington.
The Shah of Persia has consented to gi v ft
the world, through the columns of a Pari*
hit impressions of his recent tour
Europe.
Senator Vance, of North Carolina, say*
his State produced more California gold prior all to
discovery of mines in than
States put together.
It is reported that ex-Empress Eugenie,
France, in her lonely and sorrowful age,
taken to Writing versa, and that some of
is pretty good Veihe, too.
Representative GirtsoN, of Maryland, the is
the handsomest member of
House of Congress. He Is also the best
cook in Washington.
Field Marshal Moltkk still dons the
uniform, but has laid aside his
which he tfiriy wears 6n formal occa¬
and when he calls on tb8 Bntperor.
Senator Brown, of Georgia, has had a
public service. State He Senator, is seventy Presidential years
and has been
Governor for four terms, Chief
of the Supreme Court of Georgia,
United States Senator.
The new Duke of Aosta, who would be¬
heir to the Italian throne In the event
the death of the weakly and delicate
Prince, is a tall, handsome young
with perfectly cut features. He is ex¬
wealthy, having inherit*! from
mother a fortune of $6,000,000.
Paralysis is stealing a march ou M. Pas
the distinguished French scientist. Ha
one attack some years ago, which left him
h i ,fert‘and 1 “€he '{tmbfe“o^ne’V(aoe'hai
for the worse, aud the speech is thick
u d embarrassed. There are wild twitchet
in the face. But the mind is as keen as
ever.
NEWSY GLEANINGS,
In Tacoma, Wash., they have an electric
railway.
The prospects are that California will have
a big wheat crop.
It is announced that all Russian import
will be raised in June.
The National House of calendar. Representatives
about. 1100 bills on tbe
The North Dakota Senate rejected all th j
appointments made by the Governor.
The cold weather killed at least one-third
of the tobacco plants iu North Carolina.
A MOVEMENT in favor of a MofWHsc sister¬
hood is uiucn progress in Loudon.
The new French ministry announces a pol¬
of active work and political conciliation.
The Bulgarian Government is about to ex¬
pend *15,000,000 upon the construction of
railroads.
Over 1000 men have been cutting ice on
the lakes around Pittsfield, Mass., for a New
York company.
Recent returns to the Department of
Agricultural show a revival of interest in
sheep husbandry.
Heavy purchases of bonds by the Treasury
Department have reduced the available sur¬
plus to about $20,000,000.
Thomas Hope, of New York, bequeathed Langholm,
$400,000 to found a hospital at
Scotland, where he was born.
The dock strikes in Liverpool had a serious
effect upon transatlantic traffic, both as re¬
gards passengers and freight.
It has been finally determined to put Gene¬
ral Lafayette’s statue in the upper part of
Lafayette Square in Washington.
A bill reducing the legal rate of interest
from ten to eight per cent, has been passed
by both Houses of the Iowa Legislature.
The President has been authorized bv act
of Congress to confer brevet rank on army
Officers for gallantry in campaign* against
the Indians.
Efforts are being made in Toronto to en¬
courage the exportation of Canadian cattle
to Ireland, where, it is said, there is considei
able demand for them.
Guards were placed on the endangered rifles
levees at New Orleans with Winchester
with instructions to shoot any one approach¬
ing the levees at night,
Tiie City of Minneapolis has appropriated its
the sum of $15,000 for tbe enrichment of
public library through the purchase of rare
books and manuscripts.
After forty years of Mormon rule, all the
city of Salt Lake has to show is some sets of
books that the most expert bookkeeper in the
universe cannot balance.
IIE NltffDED TUX SLEET 15.
i * Brush off vour coat sleeve, my dear,
said Mrs. Larkin to her husband; “there
is dust on it.
“That is no reason why I should brush
of? the sleeve, love,” he replied. ‘TU
simply brush of? tho dust.”—[Bazar.
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A MONKEY.
Brown—I see William is monkeying
with the Etvjlish styles. them. —The Jury.
Green—No, he apes
The Russian Government will try to rais«
two English steamer One i rank of them at Baiaklaya is said to in
the Crimean war *290,000.
have oa board a chest containing
HAD I MY WIStT,
I my wish, the world should hold
nook entranced in fancy’s mold;
One littlo spot where bud and vine
Made nature drunk with beauty’3 wiuq
happy love could ne’er grow old.
here in simple ways grown bold
laugh at fame, sigh for gold; '
nor
Our lives should be a song divine.
Had I my wi3h. i
And when each day’s delights were told
And twilight came across the wold
l ! d look into your face benign
And feel your lips pressed soft oa minri,
While oa and on the big earth rolled,
Had I my wish.
—Chicago Mail.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
The o£ilu» is a scentury plant.
If the peacock could sec his feet ha
never bra g of his tail.
There I? unite a difference triween
wrapped iff <ni«t,ee and rapped into
.—Dansville Breeiti
A man never knows he is a fool, l»
when he learns that much he is ne
a fool.— Washington Star.
ii I think we ought to have the fuschia
mir national flower. “Why so?”
have a great fuschia before us. 17
A sign 0tt Trentont street, Boston,
11 Fresh Eggs, 28 cents;” “Strictly
Eggs, 30 cents .”—American
The gentleman who discovered that
wife was puttiSg her pin money in
bank against a rainy day now calls it
safety-pin money .—New Turk Newt.
A household paper tells how ti to get
out of white marble.” Petroleum
prefer to get H out of the
.—Pittsburg Chnniclc Telegraph.
Perhaps the biggest bore of ah', ■
Who most our temper sours, I
Is he who says “he has no time,” «,
But talks for three long hours.
—Terre Haute Repress.
First Physician—“Any unusual symp¬
about that last case of yours?” Sec¬
Physician—“Yes, he paid me fifty
on account yesterday."— Manser/c
Hitherto Patient Boarder—"Mrs. Star
, I can stand having hash every day
the week, but when on Sunday yo:
raisins in it and call it mince-pie, I
thd line.”
De Jinks—“It's *ad that Goodfcllotv
throws his money away, Do
believe it?” Swipesoff—‘.‘17^11, T
hs ioutjou^somo last nigh- ,
“It is really astonishing what immense
the art of photography has made
last years, Why, you really don’t
your friends’ pictures when you sec
.”—Fliegende Blaelter.
It is estimated that 110,000,000 Euro¬
eggs weA eaten in the United State
year. Out people are good Republi¬
but they do have a lingering affec¬
foi 1 tbe monarchical yolk,
“Do you waut the earth?" inquired the
hotel clerk cf a meekly com¬
guest.” “No,” was the reply,
■. you can keep it a whiie longer ,i-l 1 as
fou for it .”—Washington Post. \
gbe—"T afraid, George dear, that
you speak to papa, he may be very
mgry ” He—“I think not when I show
him this bankbook.” She-“Oh,George’.
Let me look at it first.”— Time.
“Maria,” said Mr. Bronson at mid*
night. “Go in to Willie and make him
stop blowing that tin horn. This is no
time for that!” “That’s not Willie. It’s
the new nurse snoring.”— Epoch.
He stole a kiss from an artless miss:
“You’re a heartless thief,” quoth tho she. thtel ■
“I’m a ‘heartless thief/ but you’re he.
That stole my heart,” saith
— Puck. '
Merchant (after refusing an applicant,
for work)— “I’d like to employ you, but
you see how it is. I hope you appreciate
the situation. Applicant— “I could ap
preciate it better if I had it. V — Munss/*
Weekly.
Stewardess—“Madam, I ve attended to
you the best I knew how, unsatisfied. supplied
every want, but you are still
IVhat do you want now?” Sea-sick
Lady Passenger—“I want tho earth.’
Boston Courier.
Miss Trirnount—“And to think that,
after all these thousand of years, there
ihould be so much water in the sea!
Due would suppose it would have dried
4 p long ago.” Miss Kornpakir “les,
ihat’s so. But then, you know,^ it has
leans ;_ - of salt in it, papa says the way
_ £ wonderful.”
salt preserves things is
The Bill Was I’ald.
Dr. McLane, of the College of Physi¬
cians and Surgeons, carries beneath his
professional dignity an inexhautible store
o' wit, humor and anecdote. In a par¬
lor, one evening this week, the conver¬
sation chanced to fall upon Dr. Williard
Parker, and he told the following story:
“When Dr. Parker was just beginning
his famous career he was sent for by a
rich but avaricious man, who had dislo
;ated his jaw. The young surgeon
aromptly put the member in place.
‘What is yo.’.r bill, doctor?’ asked
the patient. dollars, sir.’
* l i Fifty heavens!’ And the
u ‘Great man
opened his mouth so wide as to dislocate
his jaw a second time. Dr. Parker again
put things to rights. bill was?’
“ ‘What did you say your
again asked the patient. dollars; it _
i . ‘I said it was fifty now is
one hundred.’
“The mau grumble!, but paid it.
New York Star.
In the New Hebrides there is a babel
of tongues, but the Presbyterian mission
aries have reduced twelve of them to
writing. The seventeen missionaries la
all busy with .
boring on the group are
the work of translation.
The King of Siam is about to send five
Siamese I boys to the United States to be
educated at his own expense, The boys
are to be placed in charge of an Ameri¬
ca,! missionary, and will probably bs
sti ( to school in Pennsylvania.