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The prize offered by 1-l.e New South
Wales Government for the extermination
of the rabbit pest lias been withdrawn.
Mo new modes of extermination had been
suggested. The rabbits arc also a ter
rible nuisance in New Zealand, but are
there kept under by the hawks.
Kansas claims to have the finest col¬
lection of North American birds on
exhibition in this country. In a room at
the State e.apitol building are 1523 birds
handsomely mounted and placed in glass
show cases, The collection is due to the
labors of Colonel N. S. Goss.
Now, that wars among civilized people
are so few, and that scjence has reduced
the death rate below any before recorded,
while it is even hinted that elixirs, germi
cides and microbe killers will yet anni¬
hilate disease, the Detroit Fret Prest
would like to know what is to prevent
that rapid and unchecked increase of
population which led Mai thus to fear that
this little earth would soon he too small
to give elbow room to its population.
Maay farmers of Northern Dakota
are suffering severely from drought and
frost. The railway officers of the
Northern Pacific and Manitoba roads
have offered to t ransfer all assistance free
of expense. While there arc plenty of
cattle, horses and hogs, there is appa¬
rently no market for them. Grain and
cattle are high, but pro risking are low.
The trouble seems to be that the
people have been living beyond their
means and anticipating profits. Help
will, undoubtedly be forthcoming, and
the mistakes of the past are not likely to
occur again.
Michael J. Kelley, of Shelton, Conn.,
was a worthless, drunken man, who failed
lo support his wife and family. Some
years ago lie ran away and enlisted. Then
he came back again for a little while and
then vqint away for so long a time that
his wife obtained a divorce on the ground
of abandonment. Recently she received
a letter, which she remarked was from
“that daisy lnisbin’ of mine.” To her
surprise the letter announced that lvclley
bad made $10,000 in the West and would
be glad to come bark to her once more,
{•flic wrote to him to say that she did not
want him again, but at the same lime she
consulted a lawyer with a view of getting
part of the 810,000. Mr. Kelley laid
better not have spoken, (
An important stop has recently been
taken by Li Hung Chang, Grand Secre¬
tary of State of China. He bus decided
to establish ii medical .service for I lie
Chinese army and navy on the. basis ol
the best Western models, and lias asked
the co-operation of our State Department
in carrying out bis purpose. The pro¬
posed service is to be under a foreign
Surgeon-General with an adequute stall
of assistants. It will include hospitals
and dispensaries at various places, a
medical school, and native surgeons for
the fleet and the military stations of North
China. A start will be made with n
number of young men educated in the
United States several years ago under the
Ghinese Educational Mission, ami who
have studied medicine under foreign
teachers since their return to China.
One of the strangest facts of its kind
is the almost total extinction of the
American buffalo. Only twenty years ago,
it. is estimated, nearly 8,000,000 of these
animals roamed the fields and mountains
of the Wirt, The Smithsonian Institu
t ion at Washington has lately been collect¬
ing statistics regarding the survivors.
Its figures show that, the buffaloes have
almost entirely disappeared. Less than 500
now exist. Most of these arc in captivity,
nearly 200 being under the protection of
the Government in Yellowstone Park,
and eighty-five are known to be wild.
Indians and hunters have decimated the
species with fearful rapidity, and many
have probably perished from the pressure
of civilization upon their natural haunts.
With the opening of western lands they
were pushed farther west into the deserts
and mountain wastes, where many died
from want of food. Doubtless their
1 nines in countless heaps are bleaching m
regions not yet penetrated by the pioneer.
Attention has been directed to the
banana stalk and leaf us sources of fibre
suppl y. It is said that fibres of the
stalk of a silky fineness can five bo obtained
of a len gth varying from to nine
feet. “We remember.” says the Manu¬
facturers’ Record, “seeing masses of
this fibre in the Florida exhibit at the
Atlanta Cotton Exposition in 1881. The
cultivation of the banana is increasing
in that State, and its consequent oppor¬
tunity for producing a long the fibre must
be in the same ratio. If banana
fibre has all the qualities its advocates
ascribe to it, it would be well for men
engaged in textile industries, iu twine
and in small rope manufactures to get
samples of it and submit it to such tests
as will determine its practical value.
•Should it prove to be all that is claimed
for it, then our Central American and
West Ind an neighbors, would as well as our
Florida friends, have a new article
added to products,” their nlready valuable lis* of
native
TIIF. OOLETHORPE ECHO, MEXDffiRW,' GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20. 1889.
CURRENT NEWS.
CONDENSED EDOM THE TELE¬
GRAPH AND CABLE.
THINGS THAT HAPPEN FROM DAY TODAY
THROUGHOUT THE WOULD, CULLED
PROM VARIOUS SOURCES.
Marquis de Caux, formerly husband of
Adelina Patti, is dead.
A pay car was wrecked near Covington,
Ind., Monday, and two railroad officials
were killed.
C. L. J. Myer, Sons A Co., dealers in
mantels,g made rates, etc., in Chicago, Ill.,
have an assignment.
Three thousand miners employed in
eolleries at Oldbury, England, have given
notice that they will strike unless they
are granted an increase of ten per cent in
their wages. *.
Patrick Sullivan, employed by the
Manhattan Electric Light Company, was
instantly killed Saturday morning by an
electric shock, while at work in the com¬
pany’s building.
W. F. Camp, the most extensive mer¬
chant in Polkton, N. Y., made an assign¬
ment, Saturday. Ui.s liabilities and assets
are not yet known, but both are said to
lie heavy, and near the same.
A passenger train on the Missouri
Pacific railroad collided with a freight
train near Pleasant Hill, Missouri, Friday
night, and two tramps stealing a ride be
tween the tender and mail cars were
crushed to pulp.
One hundred and thirty printers from
Berlin have been engaged to take the
places of the strikers in Berne. The
Bund, mid three other journals issued under have con¬ the
solidated and will be
title of the Normal Gazette.
Warren Leland, Jr., hotel proprietor at
Long Branch, N. J., on Friday made an
assignment of all his property, including
the Ocean hotel, Ocean theater, Ocean his
club house, etc., for the benefit of
creditors. His liabilities are $225,000.
At. a mass meeting of Knights of La¬
bor held at Wiikesbarre, Pa., on Satur¬
day, a resolution was passed to the effect
that a demand of 20 per cent, advance
in wages be made February 1st. The
meeting was largely attended and com¬
posed of miners and laborers only.
John R. Bauch, Jr., who has for some¬
time past conducted a savings bank at
Baltimore, was on Saturday reported depositors’ to
have.disappeared with all his
money. The depositors in the bank were
composed mainly of poor persons, and
the average amounts were from $2 to $20.
Warehouse 14, at Baltimore, Md.,
owned by the Sadtlcr estate, was dam¬
aged by fire Saturday Martinez morning Co., to the cigar ex
ient-of #15,000. Korlt &
manufacturers,, John R. W Co.,
jewellers, and George R. Willig occupied »fc Co.,
dealers in musical instruments,
the building.
Monday afternoon at Mew York, two
hundred and fifty white men, employed
as ’longshoremen at flic National Line
pier stopped work suddenly because ne
groes were being employed by the hands same
company. A week ago three negro
and one white man were burned to death
The Port Dispatch of St. Louis on
Monday morning, printed, under flaming alleged
headlines, a live-column expose of
legislative corruption at Jefferson City,
Mo. Jt claims that the live stock inspec¬ Louis
tion bill, introduced by the St.
Butchers’ union the in the last legislature, of was
defeated by absolute purelmse state
senators.
In a blinding snow storm at Little
Ferry, N. J., Saturday, a heavy coal train
plunged into the Hackensack river,
through an open drawbridge. The en¬ it
gine went out of sight, carrying with
the engineer, fireman and one brake man.
The snow prevented the engineer from
seeing tin 1 danger signals, and nothing
could lie done to stop him.
At New York Saturday morning the.
commissioner of public of works, Gilroy, down
sent out four gangs men to cut
the poles and wires of the electric light
companies. Inspectors of the board of
out electric the poles coni rot accompanied which the them dangerous to point
on
wires were strung. The injunction. companies are
actively seeking another
The Exchange elevators at Buffalo, X.
Y., with a storage capacity of 350,000
bushels, the property of Greene A Bloom¬
er, together with 250,000 bushels of bar
lev. were totally destroyed by fire Monday
morning. The i levator was most elligibly
located and the best equipped of any in
Buffalo. The barley was valued at $125,
000 and the elevator at $100,000.
Delegates representing and the the mule England spin¬
ners of New Jersey New
states held a convention at Fall River,
Mass., uii Sunday, mid formed a confed¬
eration to be called the National Mule
Spinners’ Association of America, An
endeavor is to be made to obtain uniform
standard wages throughout the United
States, as the organization believe, that to
be the fairest plan for both manufactur¬
ers and operators.
Three separate glycerine magazines
blew up Monday morning at North Clar¬
endon. Pa. The amount of glycerine The ex¬
ploded was owned over by ten the tons. Rock Glycerine maga¬
zines were
company, John Kami and a Mr. McKay.
No one, so far as can be learned, was in¬
jured. Nearly every window in Claren¬
don was broken, and much damage done
to surrounding property. The loss is
estimated at $100,01)0. Oil men claim it
to be the largest explosion of the kind in
the history of the oil regions.
THE LABOR FEDERATION.
MEET IN BOSTON. MASS., AND Fl.FCT OFFI¬
CERS FOR THE ENSUING TEAR.
The National Federation of Labor, at
Boston. Mass.. <>u Saturday, elected the
following officers: President, Samuel
Gompers, of New York; IV. II. Martin,
of the Amalgamated Association of Iron
ami Steel Workers, United first vice-president; Brother¬
P. Maguire, of the States
hood of V'arpcnters and Joiners, second
vice-president: Christopher Evans, of
Miners and Mine Laborers, Secretary;
Henry Einrich, of Furniture Makers un¬
ion, treasurer. After selecting Detroit as
the place for the uoxt year's meeting, the
federation adjourned.
THE JURY'S VERDICT.
THE riiONIN CASE BROUGHT TO A CLOSE
THE VEROICT 4 ‘GUILTY. *'
One of the most memorable trials in the
criminal history of America, closed at
impanelled Chicago Monday afternoon, when the jury
three months ago rendered its
verdict in the Cronin case. That the re¬
turn of this jury is a verdict, and not a
disagreement, is a source of much con¬
gratulation in the public mind, and,
although there is naturally much division
of sentiment on the question of approval
of the verdict, the sense of relief which is
experienced is unanimous. at the final eolmination of the
case
On jury last Friday the case was given tc
the and up to Monday morning no
verdict had been agreed upon. Rumors of
all kinds had been afloat Monday. How¬
ever erroneous it may be, the public ap¬
peared to have hastily arrived at the
conclusion that there was to be a disa¬
greement. the convened
As court at 2 p. m. to re¬
ceive the verdict of the jury, there was a
momentary silence as the vast audience
breathlessly awaited the first words of
Judge McConnell as he mounted the ros¬
trum. The verdict was as follows :
“We, the jury, find the defendant,
John F. Beggs, not guilty. NVe, the
jury, find the defendant, John Kunze,
guilty of manslaughter, as charged in the
indictment, and fix his punishment at im¬
prisonment of three in the penitentiary We, the jury, for find the
term years.
the defendants, Daniel Coughlin, guilty Patrick
O’Sullivan and Martin Burke, of
murder in the manner and form as charged
in the indictment, and fix the penalty at
imprisonment in the penitentiary for the
term of their natural lives.” Simulta¬
neous with the announcement of the ver¬
dict, Coughlin, O’Sullivan and Burke
turned deathly pale, while Kunze started
suddenly from his seat, and a moment
later dropped his head upon his breast and
burst into tears.
OVATION TO COL- POLK.
HE IS GIVEN A GRAND RECEPTION BY THE
FARMERS OK NORTH CAROLINA.
The Farmer’s Alliance had a demonstra¬
tion at Raleigh, N. C., on Friday, upon
the arrival of the president of the Na¬
tional Farmers and Laborers’ Union, Col.
Polk, from St. Louis. Colonel Polk was
escorted to the city hall by a procession
in which were many public men and offi¬
cers of the State and county Alliances,
and a mounted escort of members of Oak
ridge member. Alliance, of Green, which president he is a charter
A. C. of the
Wake County Alliance,presided, and Col.
Polk was entered, greeted accompanied with great applause
wlion he by Acting
Governor Holt. President Green wel¬
comed him, as did also Governor Holt and
Mayor Thompson. Addresses were made by
State Labor Commissioner Scarboro, Pres¬
bor, ident Trustees Toimoffskie, Broughton of the Knights and W. of La¬
II, S.
Burgwyn, of the State Agricultural and
Mechanical college, and other prominent
men. In response Col. Polk delivered a
forcible and eloquent address, among
other things saying, this demonstration
of approval by his neighbors was more
gratifying to him than his election to the
high position.
ANOTHER DEATH TRAP.
A PANIC IN THE THEATRE BUILDING IN 1
UNFORTUNATE JOHNSTOWN.
During the performance of “Uncle
Tom’s Cabin” at the Park opera house at
Johnstown, Pa., Tuesday night the cry
of fire was raised, resulting in a terrible
rush down the narrow stairs. About a
score of persons were instantly killed and
many terribly injured. People ru ed
from tho outside up the narrow stairs
and were crushed by tho crowd
forcing Its way to the _stie .
Seventy-five person wero injured.
When the crowd was driven away, the
following persons were found dead upon
the stairs: Miss Clara Burns, .Mrs. Nes
fer, George Ilerner, Charles Fiant, John
Catv, Mrs. Lestev, John Miller, A. \\ eiss,
John Wayman, Richard Worthington,
Isaac Tolar, an unknown woman.
Among the seriously injured were Charlei
Vaugh, Albert Owens, and a man named
Wieiner. There are about thirty other* |
injured, but their names cannot be ascer- ,
tuined. The alarm was false and there j
are many threats against the unknowu
man who started it'
PHOSPHATE BEDS.
A SCHEME ON FOOT TO SELL THEM TO A
SYNDICATE OR TRUST.
The news of the development of a pro¬
ject in Columbia, S. C., looking to the
outright, sale by tho State of all its right,
title and interest in the phosphate, beds,
for a sum not less than seven million dol¬
lars, lias caused a stir in the phosphate . . j
exchange at Charleston. The first inti- !
motion of the project was. the introduc- t
tiou of the, bill in the legislature by the .
ways and means committee on Friday.
The phosphate industry is the principal del- ^
industry of Charleston. Millions of 1
lars arc invested in it by natives, north- j
erners and foreigners. Most of the fer
tilizer w orks of Europe and America get
their supplies there. The deposits on the
streams are moved bv companies who pay
the State a royalty of about one dollar a
ton. the revenue to the State amounting
to about #200,000 a year. Should the
State dispose of its interest, the pur
chasers would be at liberty to increase
this royalty to any figure, as there is no
restriction in the proposed bill.
THE INFLUENZA.
THE DREADED DISEASE HAS ArFEARKD IN
THIS COUNTRY.
-
Tlie influenza stated has appeared disease in _ New _ is
York city. It is that, the
the same as that which has spread have been over
Europe. Thus far eight department, cases and
reported to the health
they are all in one family. In all eases
the"symptoms are said to be identical.
Health officers say liere. they are not surprised danger
at its appearance It is not
ous. but if it tends to become epidemic
all cases will be quarantined The treat
ment is the sprayiug of the affected mem
brane freely and frequently with a solu
tion of quinine and internal administra
tion of quinine, belladonna and camphor.
J
AT THE CAPITAL.
WEAT THE FIFTY-FIRST roN
GRESS IS DOING.
APPOINTMENTS BY PRESIDENT HARRISON
MEASUP.ES OP NATIONAL IMPORTANCE
AND ITEMS OP GENERAL INTEREST.
All of Monday’s nominations, several
hundred in number, were of persons ap¬
pointed to office during the recess of con¬
gress.
The House joint resolution for print¬
ing agricultural report for 1889 was
passed in the Senate Monday with amend¬
ments fixing the number of copie, at
400,000, and appropriating #200,000 for
expenses.
The deficiencies sub-committee of the
appropriations committee began to work
Friday by preparing an urgent deficiency
bill to meet a dificienev of about $150,000 of
in the government printing office, and
$350,000 for the printing needed by the
census office.
The Pan-American conference, on Fri¬
day, completed the work of formulating
rules and appointing committees, and ad¬
journed until January 2. Meantime the
delegates will visit New York and other
points. It is said that several or the com¬
mittees expect to report upon the subjects of
assigned to them at the re-assembling
the conference January 2.
The house committee on elections
held its first meeting and effected
organization Friday morning. A sub¬
committee on rules was selected, consist¬
ing of the chairman, Messrs. Honk, Coop¬
er, Chrisp and O’Ferrall. This sub¬
committee will be charged with the ar¬
rangement of the seventeen contested
election cases now awaiting settlement.
The committee will meet again subject to
call, when the sub-committee is ready to
report.
Mr. Platt offered resolutions making
changes and additions in the personnel of
committees, agreed to in caucus, and
which, have been published. All (which agreed
to. Mr. Call offered a resolution
was referred to the judiciary committee)
as to the constitutional right of Charles
Swayne, appointed district Florida, judge of the
northern district of to
exercise the duties of that office, with¬
out confirmatory action by the Senate.
The senate then proceeded to the eonsid
eration of executive business. The con¬
current resolution offered by Mr. Ingalls
last week for a holiday recess from Thurs¬
day, December 19, to Monday, Edmunds January
6, was taken up for action. Mr.
demanded the yeas and nays upon it, ex¬
pressing his own opposition to it. The
resolution was agreed to—veas, 47; nays,
12 .
The annual report of the commissioner
of internal revenue shows that the num¬
ber of saloon-keepers in the country is
much less than it was three years ago.
More than that, it shows that exports of
liquor are also reduced fully twenty per
cent as compared with five or six years
ago. The number of persons dealing in
malt liquors exclusively has also fallen off
within tlic past two or three, years, the
reduction of these being fully forty per
cent. The reduction in the number of
dealers in liquors has been especially of the
marked in the south. In every one
southern states excepting in Maryland, there
has been a decrease, Georgia there
has been a reduction of nearly forty per
cent, and in Tennessee about twenty-five
per cent. The number of liquor dealers
in the United Stares, wholesale and retail,
is about 180,000. Three years ago they
numbered about 205,000.
- Secret Ao A gents , ents of ot Paris Pans.
police in Paris are
provided I cards which, in case of
f ’ insure them They the protection frequent
<>f he regular police . the wine-shops
c i u bg and other meetings,
exterior boulevards, and also at
tend at tho Senato and chamber of Dep
uties during the Parliamentary.session, their
j n (jie morning they prepare re¬
portSj g enen illy speaking, at the prefec
ture, iu the archives of which are to be
found detailed accounts of the career and
c ] lavac ter of hundreds of thousands of
individuals in France. These records
f orm colossal pyramids in the lumber
rooms, ami are alphabetically arranged
according to the names of the person
whose history they chronicle, so that
when any is one comes suddenly criminal to the
front, or compromised in any
affair, the libarians can have no difficulty
in laying their hands on the official sum¬
mary of his or her antecedents.
So complete is the collection that the
name of the most obscure rag-picker of
Paris has its chronicle as well as that of
the President of the Republic. Paris
detectives are divided into two classes.
The agents de la Surete are a very
plucky, respectable and self-sacrificing
body of chosen policemen in plain Secrete, cloth¬
ing: and the agents de la police
a mean and contemptible, but fearful
( q ever ] 0 f. The Parisian nick-name for the
class is Moncliard, than which
phere is no more odious epithet in the
French language. Themouchardmay be
n po or beggar with not more than $300 a
y i- ear , or be a man or woman of high
an k, frequenting and receiving the best
society. The business of the monchard,
high or low, is to listen to conversations
C n the Government’s doings and sayings
and report them tottie prefect of police,
who communicates them to the Minister
of the Interior. They are, in fact, polit
ieal spies, and frdquently great impos
ters and liars,
CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE.
A RAILROAD WATCHMAN CAUSES FOUR
MEN TO LOSE THEIR LIVES.
When one of the fast New York and
Washington express trains on the Balti
more and Potomoc arrived at Wnshing
ton Saturday night, the dead body of a
man was found on the cow-catcher of the
engine. It was subsequently learned that
the train had run into a wagon filled with
countrymen on the outskirts of the city,
Four men were killed—two white and
two colored—and one colored man was
badly injured. The men were in a eov
ered wagon and drove across the track
without concern, as the guard gates were
open. The watchman at the crossing,
whose duty it was to close the gate at the
approach of a train, was arrested on the
charge of manslaughter.
household affairs,
EATING VEGETABLES.
In a substantially vegetable diet, eggs,
cream and cheese should occasionaUy be
used, all of which contain much solid
nutriment. About one-third of the egg
is nutrition, and good cheese contains a
still larger proportion. Butter is also
food. An eminent chemist declares
there is ' -more strength stored up in an
ounce of butter than in two ounces of
meat/’ although butter will not furnish
material to build up the tissues of the
body like bread and meat. Yet butter,
with eggs and cream or cheese in a
moderate amount, will generate all the
animal heat and force needed, just as
coal and wood generate heat under the
boiler of an engine. It has been de¬
monstrated by experiment that one pound
of boiled beans contains eighty-seven
per cent, of nutrition, while beef contains
only twenty-six per cent., boiled peas
give ninety-three per cent, against
poultry,which yields twenty-sis per cent.,
and veal, which gives only twenty-four.
—Good Housekeeping. aA
.
CARE OP THE STOVE.
There is nothing, says an exchange,
that induces toward the comfort of the
kitchen more than a clean, well-kept
stove. Regular attendance to the flues is
essential to the maintenance of a steady
heat. At least once a month this clean¬
ing of the flues and inside of the stove
should he part of the work. This insures
perfect working of the oven, which will
become slow or hot in response to dralts,
in a way that is magical to an inexperi¬
enced cook, providing the stove flues are
thus cared for, and the chimney is in or¬
der. There are a great many excellent
stoves in market. All first-class manu¬
facturers make several varieties of cook
stoves which arc marvels of construction,
to such perfection has the stove-maker’s
skill been brought. There is no surer in¬
dication of an ignorant worker than the
common habit of complaining of the
stove. It is no uncommon thing for peo¬
ple otherwise intelligent to know nothing
about the mechanical working of the
kitchen stove. They direct the girl of all
work to manage it in a certain way,'with¬
out looking into the matter, or know¬
ing, or apparently caring, whether such
management gave the best result. There
is a front damper below the fire, usually
a door, a damper that opens directly over
the oven, leading into the stovepipe, and
a damper in the stovepipe, and some¬
times others, in every first-class stove.
The most important are the dam
per below the fire and the
damper over the oven, leading into the
stovepipe. As .loon as the fire burns up
well, the upper damper should be closed,
and the dampers below as soon as the
stove is hot enough to be in working
order. The damper in the stovepipe
should not be opened unless a very hot
oven is needed. Alter using the fire at
breakfast, cleaning the stove off with a
heavy cloth, which should be kept for
the purpose, close off all the dampers,
and the fire will last until it is needed
for the noontide meal, when* by a bttle
raking down and reinvigorating with
fuel, it becomes as strong as the original
lire. No stove needs blackening oftner
than once a month, provided it is cleaned
off with a heavy doth after each meal.
If grease has been spilt on the stove, it
should be cleaned off at once. A flannel
cloth on which a little kerosene has been
poured, will do this more effectually than
anything else, but must be used rapidly
on a warm stove, or the rag will be
ignited. The ovens should be brushed
out every morning with a coarse brush of
hair, which costs about twenty-live cents.
The tin lining of the oven door should
be kept bright by the use of a little sal
soda, water and soap. All nickel work
about the stove may be kept bright by
kerosene, or soap and water and a chamois
skin. The edges of all the best stoves
are how ground off and polished. These
edges should not be blakened, but cleaned
off with Bath brick or sand soap of some
kind. *
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RECIPES.
Soft Gingerbread—One cup of molas¬
ses, one enp of sugar, three-fourths cup
of shortening, one cup of sour milk, two
feaspoonfuls of soda, two teacupfuls of
flour (a little more may be required).
Delicious Muffins—One quart of flour,
one pint of milk, one-half pint rich
sour cream, one teaspoonful of salt, one
level teaspoonful of soda, butter the size
of an egg, seven eggs well beaten and
added last. Bake iu muffin pans.
Cream Biscuit—Three pints of flour,
one teaspoonful of soda, one teaspoonfui
of salt, butter the size of an egg, one
half pint of sour cream, sweet miik suf¬
ficient to finish mixing it into rather a
soft dough. Mould or cut with a ring.
Bake quickly.
Breakfast Bacon—Slice very thin, cut
off the rind, or cut it at half inch inter¬
vals, put on the fire in plenty of cold
water, boil gently for ten minutes, then
dry it on a clean cloth, put it in a frviDg
pan and quickly brown on both sides;
season with pepper.
Cottage Cheese—Cottage cheese is
made of buttermilk. If ioppered milk
is used, heat and drain thoroughly
through a flannel bag, and mix with
sweet cream and salt to taste. Made the
right way, it is not a sour, clayey mass,
but sweet and inviting.
Minced Veal—Take an earthen dish
and put in it a layer of bread crumbs;
over this place pieces of butter, then a
layer of minced cold veal, with salt and
pepper: then more crumbs, butter, veal,
salt and pepper. AVken the dish is full,
with a layer of crumbs for the top, pour
over it an egg, beaten well, and mixed in
half a cup of miik. Bake until brown.
Codfish a la Mode—Pick up a teacup
of salt codfish very fine, and freshen—
the desiccated is nice to use—tv:o cups
mashed potatoes, one pint cream or milk,
two well beaten eggs, Half a cup of but
ter, salt and pepper, mix; bake in an
earthen baking dish from twenty to
twenty-five minutes; serve in same dish,
placed on a small platter, covered with a
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SOUTHERN NOTES.
INTERESTING NEWS FROM AID
POINTS IN THE SOUTH.
GENERAL PROGRESS AND OCCURRENCES
WHICH ABE HAPPESIXG BELOW MA
sob's asi) dixon’s line.
The Virginia senate, on Friday, passed In¬
a bill repealing the law opening Hog
land Flats for planting oysters.
The jurv in the Kilrain case, at, Purvis,
Miss., on “Saturday, returnad a verdict of
not guilty of prize fighting, but guilty ot
assault and battery. They were out ine
hours.
Hon. Thomas F. Bayard, invitation ex-secretary of the
of state, has accepted an South Carolina, u>
Huguenot society, of
deliver the anniversary oration of the so¬
ciety at Charleston, April 13.
A large tubular boiler at, Randall &
Bro.’s sftw mill, Covington, Tenn., ex¬
ploded Saturday, completely demolishing
the building and killing Fireman Jones
and Mr. Stuart, one of the firm. Two
other employes were seriously hurt.
Western nail manufacturers to the num¬
ber of fourteen mills met in Wheeling,
W. Va., Friday morning and after a long
discussion over the condition of trade,
advances in raw material, etc., concluded
to advance the price of nails to $2.25
net.
A strike occurred eighty-five at Chattanooga, brick¬
Tenn., on Saturday, of
layers in the employ of D. J. Chandler,
arid sixty-three stonecutters in the employ
of the Chattanooga stone and marble
cutting company. A difference of five
cents an hour on Saturday was the cause.
Half a dozen farmers, who were return¬
ing to their home from Dallas, Texas,
after selling their cotton, were robbed by
highwaymen on the road near White
' Bloodhounds put their
Rock. were on
track, and a report, has reached Dallas
that two of the robbers were captured and
hanged by the enraged farmers.
General Manager Bond, of the Tennes
see Coal, Iron and Railroad company,
returned from New York Friday morning,
and, after conferring with a committee
of Pratt Mines miners, nil differences
were arranged, and the miners agreed prices. to
return to work at the raised present the price
Their wages are to be as
of iron advances.
Advices Saturday from Key West indi¬
cate that the cigar strike is further from
settlement than ever. The men are better
organized and are receiving daily large
sums from other labor organizations. while
They lose nothing but their wages,
the manufacturers are losing their profits,
having their trade broken up and being
subjected to monthly expenses of over
$1,000 each. The strikers now laugh at
at every attempt at a compromise.
A successful test of a new- fibre decorf i
cator, invented by Mr. J. .T. Green, ol
Jackson, Miss., was made Saturday. Its
principle is to split the stalk ol' ramie ot
hemp, and then strip the fibre the length
of the stalk without loss'. The machine,
in crude form, was tested in Paris, in
1888, and was awarded four hundred
francs prize money. It decorticates green
or dry ramie, separates fibre from herbs,
and with two men will w-ork about 100,
000 stalks in ten hours, or half an acre a
day.
Racing Bound the Globe.
At least one, and, according to York re¬
port, two representatives of New
newspapers and one writer for a maga¬
zine, started recently on a trip around
the world, determined to beat the The eighty first
day record of Phineas Fogg. of New York
to start was Nellie Bly, the
World, who left on the steamer Augns
tus Victoria at 9.40 o’clock a. m. She
expects to go Her round the globe consisted in seventy
five days. baggage in shoul¬ of a
change satchel of clothing and small done valise. up a
der a
At 6 o’clock p. m. Miss Elizabeth Bis
land was sent on a secular journey by
the Cosmopolitan Magazine at fifteen
minutes’ notice. She took the 6 o’clock
train from the Grand Central Depot take for
San Francisco, where she will tho
Oceanic on her trip around the earth
from west to east. The two girls are
goingin different directions,and there is
considerable discussion ns to which
took tho better route. Miss Bisland
lias done work for several New York
newspapers and she is a strong and in¬
trepid young woman. From China she
will goto London and thence to New
York, where she hopes to arrive two days
earlier than Miss Bly, although she
started out more than eight is hours said later. be
The third globe-trotter It reported to a
New York He: aid man. is
that he started on his journey take on tho
Augustus Victoria and will the
same route as Miss Bly. All the travel¬
ers calculate on beating Phineas Fogg’s
record by several days. It is not un¬
likely that the east-bound and west¬
bound racers will meet somewhere in
Asia.—[Commercial Advertiser.
The islands of the Pacific have been
the sphere of some of the greatest trans¬
formations in history. Among these
the story of New Zealand is by no
means least exciting. It is a land 1,500
miles long from north to south, full of
great resources, agriculture, 1 and the other¬
wise, enriched with some of most
romantic scenery on the face of the
globe, clad southern lofty waterfalls, Alps rising towering 12,000 snow- feet,
and beautiful stretches of coast. The
change Zealand has been most wonderful. New
inhabitants, has 606,000 is happy, little prosperous
poverty known, the
cities are full of comfort and taste, and
the whole people are worthy mid intelli¬
gent, Business is thriving, improve
ments are of vast extent, and a solid
basis for the life of the colony is as¬
sured. There is room for ten times as
many inhabitants, _ and the next fifty
years will find a great increase in the
population.
MOVEMENT OF SPECIE.
Exports last of specie from the port of New
York week amounted to $299,035,
of which $49,235 was gold, and $247,800
silver. Of the total export $1,200 in gold
and $225,850 in silver went to Europe
and $49,035 in gold and $22,220 in silver
to South America. Imports of specie
amounted to $29,028. of which $11,861
was in gold and #17,167 silver.