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EDITORIAL NOTES.
The Hon. J. B. Grinnell, for whom
the town of Grinnell, la., was named,
recently said: “In Grinnell there are no
saloons, and no one has been sent to
jail, to the poorhonse or to the peniten
tentiary for twenty-five years. We can
stand a cyclone occasionally if you will
k ep whisky away from us. ”
About twenty-five firms in this coun¬
try make a business oi publishing school
books. They do a business of perhaps
#8,000,000 a year. Only three of the
school book publishing houses are south
or west of Philadelphia or Baltimore.
Two-thirds of the business is done by
five firms. It costs each of the larger
firms something like $200,000 a year for
agents and other expenses under the
^'introduction account. ”
Thebe are only four nations in the
world to-day that are paying their way.
^England general y manages to make
both ends meet and show a trifling sur¬
plus of $2,000,000 or $3,000,000 to be
j applied to the reduction of its enormous
national debt; the United States, in
spite of congressional extravagance, puts
;i by nearly fifty times as much, and Hoi
i land and Belgium keep about even
I -|the With these exceptions every nation in
civilized world shows an annual de¬
ficit of more or less millions.
The London Times says that compe¬
tition between the United States and In¬
dia in the wheat trade has already be¬
come so close, that the preference fre¬
quently depends upon the difference in
the rates of exchange. India furnishes
a third of the imports and the States
about forty per cent., but India is gain¬
ing and the United States is falling back.
The situation described by the Times,
however, depends upon a very variable
factor, as the jrops of India are exceed¬
ingly uncertain, with the chances rather
in favor of drought as an average condi¬
tion.
The Department of State .publishes a
1st of six prominent groin-producing na¬
tions of Europe, which in 1871 to 1872
produced 448,756,000 bushels of wheat,
and in 1878 to 1881 produced 810,380,000
bushels. Between tho two periods the
production of the United Kingdom de¬
creased by 10,Of 0,000 bushels, but in all
other countries there wore important
gains. r J he European crop of 1882,
which is this side of the dates of the De
' partment report, greatly in
was excess
of any yield on record, and that of 1883,
while considerably smaller, was still
above the average.
Spain now has an annual yield o.
about 40,500,000 gallons of wine, which
; ’aces her iu the fourth rank among
ne-growing countries, being surpassed
I only by France and. Laly, and Austria
Lungary. She has a large export trade
'with France, but it is not true that she
has developed this whol y or chiefly by
the prevalence of phylloxera in the
French vineyards, for in 1875, when the
phylloxera had done comparatively liit'e
harm, she exported wines to the amount
of 151,000 OOOf. or one-third of her total
exports, a proportion which was scarcely
exceeded in 1879.
Senator Plumb has introduced a bill
to break up the system of favoritism by
which army officers get and i eep easy
places by means of social and political
influence It merely provides that no
officer shall be detached from his regi¬
ment or company for more than thr e
years consecutively, and that after his
return from such detached duty he shall
’ not again be sent upon such service un¬
til he has seen three years’ active service
with his regiment wherever it may be
stationed. Exceptions wil be made in
the case of instructors in West Point,
officers of the signal corps and aides.
Some idea of the magnitude of the
business of raising sweet scented flowers
for their perfume alone may be gath¬
ered from the fact that Europe and
British India consume about 150,000
gallons of handkerchief perfumes yearly;
that the English revenue from can de co¬
logne is $4 ‘,000 annually aud that the
total revenu° of other perfume is esti¬
mated at $200,000 annuav.s. There is
one great perfume distillery at Cannes,
in France, which uses yearly 100,000
pounds of acacia flowers, 140,000 pounds
of rare flower leaves, 32,000 pounds j as¬
inine blossoms, 10,000 of tuberose blos¬
soms, and an immense qnantity of other
The manufacture of rope from asbes¬
tos is likely to become an industry of
considerable importance in England, the
strength of the article being estimated at
about one-fourth that of ordinary hemp
rope of the same diameter. Rope of this
' ’erial. e of stated one and to a half have inches in di
** a breaking
en ®th of one ton and *•«$ %/t
tt »ro ooUvAn ou io repr sent & weight of
13} pounds. Some of the purposes, aa
enumerated, to which this kind of rope
is especially adapted are theaters, fire
brigade i, and means of escape from dwel¬
lings and public buildings, its advanta¬
ges being that it will not break and drop
its burden if the flame bears upon it.
it is made like ordinary rope, and if
spun from Italian asbestos thread.
The market is full of adulterated
ter and chemists are still at work on
problem of making butter without
cow and the churn. The adulterated
article, however, has come to stay, and
the question to be considered is how to
make the best and cheapest article at
. It e 1 ™.SZreJ use of neutral lard 1 ” is ““Sf.’T- probably the
argest of all adulterants. It is tasteless,
Irith cream. Cotton seed oil is also
(largely used. It has the natural advan-
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VOL. XII. NO. 10.
tages of flavor and color and gives the
butter a good grain. Oleo oil, a fluid
obtained from tallow, figures largely in
the manufacture of butter. Pure cow
butter is difficult to find in any market
at the present time.
A n English paper says that penal ser¬
vitude is, as now carried out iu England,
a very dreadful punishment ind ed.
From the dock the prisoner is carried
away in the prison van, and on his arri¬
val at the jail the heavy gates are shut
to with a horrible sound behind him.
He is thrust into a narrow cell, there to
remain wiihout companionship for nine
months. Scarce y ever hearing a human
voice, save the warden's, fed on con se
food, his fate is sealed for thirty six
weeks and after that he will probably
be sent to another establishment
where the discipline is somewhat less se¬
vere. The nine months’ solitary confine¬
ment of a five years’ convict is hard to
bear. About five feet from the floor is
a peep hole. The warder can look in at
any moment, and the dread of this con¬
stant supervision induces in sensitive
prisoners nervous anxiety, in such cases
the most severe part of the punishment
inflicted upon them. The period of sol¬
itary confinement at an end, they are
allowed to work m gangs, under a strict
and purposely vexatious discipline.
In France pork is a power, especially
when it is sa ted. The law against the
importation of salt pork from the Uni¬
ted States is regarded by Johnny Chapau
as an unmitigated nuisance. It is main
iained that the fear of the introduction
of trichinosis has been intensely exagger¬
ated, and it is suspected that the crusade
against American salted pork arises from
the intrigues in France and Germany of
people who are interested, that is to say,
butchers and sausage manufacturers, in
ridding themselves of the fierce compe¬
tition which comes from the article so
abundantly produced in the states The
effect of this prohibitory legislation was
kedhly felt in the states, and a measure
o' reprisal is now agitated. It is pro¬
posed whenever a foreign government
restricts the introduction of cured pro¬
ducts made from ihe flesh of American
cattle nr swine, the President shall pro¬
hibit t> • importation into the United
States ol the wines, liquors and mer¬
chandise of the offending country, the
prohibition continuing until the obnox¬
ious restrictions are removed. Such a
retaliatory measure would fall heavily on
France, and would be the making of the
wine growers of California.
ITEMS OF NEWS.
Seven varieties of coal are being
found in Alabama.
Salmon are being caught in Missis¬
sippi out of the Yazoo river.
A large cotton seed oil mill will soon
be erected in Tampa, Florida.
The Memphis Board of Underwriters
are reported as having disbanded.
The population of Jacksonville and
suburbs, is now estimated at 18,740.
Alabama is now building quite a num
ber of flourishing young towns and cities.
Tennessee has thirty-three, cotton
mills with 1,461 looms and 78,877
spindles.
A Quincy, Florida, farmer has sold
$100 worth of syrup from one acre of
sugarcane.
Oil wells have besn discovered near
Bladon Springs, Alabama, which promise
great results.
Roanoke, Virginia, is to have a cotton
factory which will give employment to
at least 350 hands.
The whole number of convicts in tbe
Tennessee penitentiary foots up 1,312,418
white and 942 colored.
Orangeburg. South Carolina, is to
have an artesian well to s upply the town
and factory with water.
Pearl buttons are turned out by the
bushel daily at the button factory in
Rhea county, Tennessee.
Two hundred buildings, ranging in
value lrom-Sl,200 to $50,000 were erected
in Chattanooga last year.
Jefferson Davis has erected a flye
monument to his benefact Mr
A. Dorsey, at IVatche
Nashville is orgai.
with a capital stock of 81C
manufacture of sorghum sug_.
The Lee monument fund in f
for building a monument in the e
Richmond to General Lee now a
$49,000.
Ihe towns and cities that have
gone for the “dry” ticket in South
line, ^
represent 16,762 votes, and ti
for the “wet” 10 366.
Last Tuesday was said to be *
^Meet day Key Westers have felt fo.
51 In years. 1870 The thermometer stood al
- it fell as ow as 45
Tm te-o.i.p»,,„ deo , Fb , ltelI
increasing .
very much The out^er
Jefferson county will pn t two
h r? "“■» *“•
iggn U Z tweDt T-s« t^nmts were
° f
v-narieston, and seventeen permits for
wil, tro
the great cbai.
srsassfttsv* until late in the This~mire
season. ‘
Jte
sax ”- 1 *
SSE?£ regard to value of product tt. ^
delpma, CmcteL.t^d R^. hlca6 °’ Fh ^'
HAMILTON, GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1884.
the improvement of buildings already
'
erected.
The Supreme Court of Florida decides
that railroad owners in that state who
want the lands of individuals for their
tracks and depots, must buy and pay for
it like private parties.
Imports of merchandise at New York
have largely fallen off this year as com
pared with last. Last week the imports
were only $6,656,823. Since January 1,
imports aggregate $32,872,565 compared
with $35,676,241 for the same period last
year.
The annual report of the operations
of the patent office for the calendar year
shows an increase of 17 per cent in the
number of patents, trade marks, and
labels issued over the pieceding year.
The cash receipts increased $137,000.
The excess of receipts over expenditures
was $300,000. Cash on hand, $2,676,476.
Seven members of the bouse who
were elected to the forty-eighth congress
have died since their election. They are
Herndon, Alabama; Cutt, Indiana;
Haskell, Kansas; Herron, Louisiana;
Pool, North Carolina ; Updegraff, Ohio;
and Mackey, of South Carolina. Mr.
Mackey was the only one of the seven
who lived long enough to occupy his
seat.
Among the new applications of cotton
is its use, in part, in the construction of
houses, the material employed for this
purpose being the refuse, which, when
ground up with about an eaual amount
of straw and asbestos, is converte 1 into
a paste, and this is formed into large
slabs or bricks, which acquire, it is said,
the hardness of stone, and furnish a really
valuable building stock.
Foreign,
Several mountain tribes in Albania have
revolted and seized the reins of government.
They entered Montenegrin territory, but
were repulsed with the loss of fifty men.
The king and queen of Italy are al out to
visit the German court.
P. W. Thomas, Sons <fc Co., prominent
London stock brokers, have proven default¬
ers. They owe $4,U00,(HX) to customers.
A supposed plot to murder the emperor of
Austria in his box at the Court Opera-house discovered
has been unearthed. A man was
concealed near the box with a number of in¬
struments and wires.
Thirteen school teachers have been dis¬
missed iu Servia for promoting the recent
revolt.
Lord Castleton is tlie author of a scheme
which proposes tlie establishment of a land
hank for the relief of Irish landlords and for
the assistance of tenants.
Placards have been posted policemen throughout ami
Paris inciting the disaffected
starving workmen to arms.
A Corunna (Spain! dispatch says that a
Spanish vessel was capsized during a heavy
gale, and her crew of nineteen persons were
drowned.
The remains of Commander De Long and
bis companions of the lost steamer Jean¬
nette were received, upon their arrival iu
Berlin from the long journey through Rus¬ The
sia, by United Stales Minister Sargent.
coffins, which filled the floor of one car,
were hidden by beautiful wreaths nnd
flowers presented by various corporations en
route.
El Mahdi’s insurgents are reported to be
falling back from Khartoum. 'Tlie False
Prophet’s forces have made an unsuccessful
attack upon the fortified camp of tka
Egyptians.
At a Nationalist meeting in Ballymote, Na¬
Ireland, a fight occurred between the
tionalists and a body of Orangemen. Throe
Nationalists and two Orangemen were
wounded.
A portion or the bdoasp.ered Egyptian
garrison at Sinkat, becoming desperate at
tbeir starving situation, made an attempt but lo
cot tbeir wav through to Suakim, rebels were
surrounded by a large body of and all
were massacred.
An immense number of visitors, chiefly
from the United States, were present at the
opening of the annual winter carnival in
Montreal. Upon their arrival in the city
the Marquis of Landsdown", governor-gen¬ escorted
eral of 1 anada, and his wife, are re
to their hotel by a procession. Triumphal
arches, gay decorations, illuminations, bad torch¬
light processions and a brilliant were,
features of the first day’s festivities. The
carnival lasted a week.
The editor of a newspaper at Posen, Po
land, Jankovski hy name, liai been sentenced
to two years’ imprisonment b cause ho pub
fished a i address congratulat ing Cardinal
Iredochowski, primate of Poland, on his
birthday.
Bakf.r Pasha’s Suakim, force of Egyptians, attacked while by
advancing from were routed
the Fulse Drophet’s troops and with a
Ions of 2,00 i men in killed and wounded.
At tho opening of the British parliament
" aS dl!l ‘ VBrCd ^ fOVai
official advices rrom Cairo announces
that the total numberof Baker Pasha’s troopa
killed near Tokar was 2,950. This includes
staff ninety-six officers. officers, rebels sixteen lost of whom were
The 600 men.
Resolutions condemning the govern¬
ment’s opposition policy in Egypt in were Britis’ in trey’ ->d by
the party the -f
jords and the house of commons.
In a discussio- •~x
commons on tk
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Eastern and Middle States
Dr. Elisha Harris, honorary secretary
of the New York State board of health, dis¬
tinguished for his sanitary services during
the war and for his many valuable contri¬
butions t > medical science, died the other
day in Albany, aged sixty years.
Edward N. Rowell charge was acquitted of murdering at Ba¬
tavia, N. Y., of the b und his
Johnson L. Lynch, whom he at
house with his wife three months ago, and
shot dead. The jury shooting acquitted of Lynch him had on been the
ground that the
done in self-defense. The verdict was re¬
ceived with £reafc cheers, the building of
bonfires and the exploding of fireworks by
1 he excited citizens. Rowell’s former part
i er, Palmer, against whom much feeling hail
keen engendered by his testimony in on the
witness stand, was hanged effigy.
A jury returned a verdict of $38,927
against the Boston and Albany David, Railroad
company in favor of James B. of Boa
ton, as damages for personal injuries sus¬
tained train at Springfield, owing to the neglect of
men.
Judge Harry E. Packer, president of
the Lehigh Railroad company, died a few
days since at his homo in Mauch Chunk,
Penn., in his thirty-third year. He was the
youngest and the' last surviving son of the
Tate Judge Asa Packer, the famous projector
and builder of the Lehigh Valley railroad.
At a meeting of mills, cotton Fall operatives, River, Mass., repre¬
senting fifty-one in
it was resolved to strike in ten of the mills
against a proposed reduction in wages. Eight
thousaud persons were thus thrown out of
employment. It was decided to pay single
men of the strikers $4 per week, married
men $4.50, and twenty-five cents for each
child while tho strike continues, and also to
osk for assistance from the cotton operatives
throughout New England.
While members of various Masonic
lodges were assembled in a hall at Guilford,
N. Y., preparing to attend a funeral, the
floor of tho hall suddenly gave wav, below. precipi¬
tating seventy men to the floor A
number of men were severely in jured.
Mrs. Catherine Dix, widow of Governor
Dix, died in New York a few days since.
The Queen of Tahiti, the largest of the
Society islands, has been traveling across the
continent, and recently arrived in New
York.
A great crowd witnessed the funeral of
Judge Packer, late president of the Lehigh
Valley railroad, at Mauch Chunk. Penn,
Business was entirely susi^flded and special
trains brought hundreds of people from New
York, Philadelphia and other points. The
pall bearers numbered thirty-two, including
Congressman Bamuel J. Randall.
At Homer, N J., James E. Linas, a car¬
riage trimmer, became involved in a quarrel
with his wife, from whom he had lived apart
for several years, and shot her twice, in¬
flicting fatal wounds; then he killed him-
6elf. and his Lines wie was had a refused man of to violent go with disposi biin tion, to
Denver, Col., where he had been living
Fire broke out at night in the factory of
A Ivluentner, I AHcuUJjru, number Penn., to «n
tally destroying attached." it flu Ak a the firemen ur !*>" who
standing n » tin liidier* aud in the
were doing their utmi A t>* subdue
flames, the north ’and south walls sud¬
foil i u* war \ and " e fifteen men
were covered with the debris, rttnanis of
water were immediately directed upon the
ruins covering the men, which prevented
some of them from b ‘ing burned to death.
Fijve men were kille 1, and eleven seriously
injure! by tho fa’leti walls.
Bet Wien 5,(110 ami building* wore
submerged by tho rising walrrs buildings in Pittsburg
ami Allegheny City. Thuso in¬
cluded 1 ho residences of 35,u00 jioople, hi,060 tlioir
of whom wore not aide to occupy
homes. Fifteen thousand | orsons wore tem¬
porarily tin-own out of employment by the
stoppage of mills and factories. A number
of persons wore drowned, and the estimated
pecuniary damage is $3,0011,000.
Henry 8. Church, oily chamberlain of
Troy, N. Y., disappeared suddenly, and an
examination of his acco Ill’s showed that ho
was a defaulter to the extent of $8i),0iHJ.
An immense ice gorge, thirty miles long
and in some pta os twenty feet high, form d
in the Sus iiiehamia river. At VVilkesbarre, loud
Penn, the gorge sudd snlv broke with a
report, and in less than three hours the river
rose seventeen feet, (loo ling miloi of terri¬
tory. Immense ice am also formed on the
Schuylkill and Delaware rivers.
An entire Si poire in the central part of
Hazeitou, Penn., a town of 8,000 inhabitants,
suddenly caved in, causing great consterna¬
tion. Tie drop timber was caus'd underneath by the giving the
way of the in a mine
town. Three or four houses, including a
hotel, were wrecked, and many other build¬
ings were more or less damaged.
PriiKKSHOR A. H. Guvot, the celebrated
Swiss geographer, a professor in Princeton
college, died a few days since at his home in
Princeton, aged seventy-seven j ears.
An explosion of oi! in a tank at Hunter’s
Point, N. Y., resulted in a (ire which do
stroyed property valued at about $100,000.
South ___. ana West,
The great ( aidornia land Buit of Lmerio
against the heirs of x-Governor Alva, ado
has been d' coin 1 by the supreme court al
Ban Francisco ... favor of tlie tlelenoante.
The case lias occupied the courts ror seven
teen years, and involves 18 lioli acres ot lana
in Contra Costa county, including the Ued vil
F " b1 "’ t!l ® whole b< " n;i Ta a
f^jwu.uuu.
John C. P. Collins, who robbed a
and killed W. F. Cummings, a banker,
£££«:;? aTrScro^ City C “ 7 ’ CaT^ln C ’
Tiif, boiler n Twicitells shingle mill near
Blanch Turd. Mich., exploded *’e -
ing, killing Henry Roop a
fatally te’ vu
wound '
E
ir
f ! New “ Billy” McGlorv, the most notorious been of
l York dance house keepers, has
sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for
violation of the excise law.
Governor Robinson, Mayor Martin, and
many other prominent pro] >le attended
Wendell Phillips' funeral in I loston. The
remains Jay in state in thousands. Faneuil hall, where
they were viewed by
Fifty farmers from all over the country
were present at the annual convention of
the American Agricultural association in
Few York. A j a|s>r by United States Sena¬
tor Vance, of North Farmers Carolina, for Political on “The Pro¬ Or¬
ganization anil of other of interest
tection,” papers to
farmers were read
Thrkb Irish laborers were Bailen, struck Penn., by a
night express killed. train near
and instantly
The Ohio legislature passed „ bill appro¬
priating by the Hoods. $50,000 for the relief of the sufferers
Vigilantes have recently hung a large
number of horse thieves iu Northern Ne¬
braska. As many ns eleven are said (o have
been strung up within a fortnight.
Tames Graham, a Now Orleans lawyer,
formerly all with n large practice, hut deprived
of it through iiis drinking habits, lived
very fortune unhappily he had with his wife, whose large
also squandered. A few days
since Graham, in one of his many quarrels
with his wife, shot her dead and then com¬
mitted suicide. .
A strange case is report's! from Canton,
Ohio. On a small farm near that, city live
William Deweesnnd lrs wife. For nearly
twenty-five years the couple, us the result of
a trilling quarrel, have not spoken a word
to each other. The other day the wife,
while ill, suddenly ejaeu'ated: “AVilliain, 1
believe 1 am dying.” *Sho recovered, how¬
ever, nnd to r nko up for lost time iho two
hove l oon talking to ea h other ever since.
Washington.
Senator Blair’s revised educational hill,
repot ted by him to the Senate, provides that
for the purpose school of securing the the benefl's children of
common education to all
living in Iho United .Stales, there slia'I be
appropriated annually for leu $15,01)0,000 years a sum and
of money beaimiinr witli
diminished by $1,000,000 in each Hue
ceediiig year, which sum shall be
paid out to each of the several States and
Territories and the District of Columbia in
that proportion which tho whole number of
persons of ton year- anil ever ill Midi State
or Territory, or in the District, who cannot
reed anil write", brer tit ‘i\v whole number of
such persons in the United States, aceoriui.g
to the census of 1880. It provides that no part
of tlie money shall be shall paid out dur to
any Slate or Territory which not,
ing the first five years of the operation of
the ac-.t, annually expend for the mainte¬
nance of the common schools at least one
third of the sum which ‘-hail lie allotted to it
of this propose I educational fund, and dur -
ing the second five years, a sum at lea-t
equal to the whole amount of the allotment
mode to it.
The last national debt statement issued
shows tlie following;
D«o»«‘aso Decrease of debt during January $11,958,001
or ueot mugo Ju«« ho, 66,007,488
18811...........................
Cash in the treasury............. 893,415,Slid
Gold certificates on Intending.... 110,137,051 101,960,690
Silver certificates outstanding...
Certificates of deposit outstand¬
ing ............................ 16,880,000
Refunding certificates outstand
InK 84(5,081,010 807,050
Feyal tenders outstanding....... iudud
Lractional currency (not
ing amount estimated um lost or
destroyed) destiny tkl)...... " •• 8,987,250 '
A DKLKUATION of Indians belonging to the
Bix Nations, of New York, have been In
Wa-hington asking for an indemnity of about
$1,5(10,0110 lor lands surrendered to the gov
eminent many years ago.
A DELBOATION of six men, representing the
Amalgamated Association of Iron Workers,
the Miners’association of the Pittsburg dia
trict and the Glass Workers’ association, of
Pittsburg, have been testifying hoi ore tlie
House committee on obor, and endeavoring
to secure legislation to prevent the iuqiorta
tum of foreign laborers under contract,.
houvsos a day h wt*i U ioi laborer* ana
clianics in government employ.
Durino January the various United Htates
mints coined S3,1-*> gold piw.es, worth $ ,
061,245; 9,350,( 00 standard stiver dollars; L
050,000 dimes, worth $105,010, and J, 873,800
lninor jiiwes. worth $101,178, making a total
of 6,356,OK) pieore, worth $4,211,093.
Mk. Butt*' ha no, the director of tlie United
Btat' s mint, told n sub-committee of the
House committ-s) on weights and measures,
i.l,at he thought between five and seven mil
i.on trade dollars were out, and be lielieved
In tlie hands of traders. 'The sub-committee
has bee,, considering tho subject of Ihe with
draw ] of the trade dollar from circntat'on by
congies tonal enai tmonk
The President sent the following noniina
Mom to the .Seriate: Henry D. I.yrriii", of
Ohio, to be second assistant [gj tmaster-gen
eral; William II. DWcwm, of Utah, to be at
toruey of the United Htates for the Territory
of Utah.
The Senate confirmed Ibe nomination of J.
A. Leonard, to Iw consul-general of
United States at Calcutta; Oscar Malrnroe, of
Minnesota, to bo United Htetes oonmi
Ire.tb; Joseph H. Du. key, as United Ktates
marshal for the nortnern district of I‘ lo. id
and RinimniH. Tuthill, United Sts'
toroey for the northern district of
Mr. Richard A. Ki’—
postmaster-general, te" to take
f
$1.00 A YEAR.
SUMMARY OF CONGRESS
Kdlialfe
Bills were fntroduc'Mt to relieve commercial
travelers from license taxes; to authorize lie
retirement of naval officers a i.l to regain to
promotions in the navy... .The Senate in¬
structed the committee on posfo'llo subject of an I
post roads to investigate the ilu*
cost of telegraphic correspondence... .The
Senate rejected the conference report on tho
(lively Relief bill an 1 voted to a k a now
conference.... Mr. Mair report d favorably
a revised Educational bill.
Resolutions from the legislature of Ohio
favoring a tariff for revenue, anti so ed foivl lusted as
to encourage home indii>tries a pro?
toolion to lab; r, Iml not to create nion *| o
lies, were laid on the table... .The select
committee on library accommodations re¬
lauds ported a bill providing for the* purchase of
east of library the eapitol building, grounds and appropria- tor a con
gressional with. Tlie
tiiiy: $’i()i>,000 to begin work com
niifctee on judhdary reported favorably Oil t.llii
fjowell bankruptcy bill. Tin* committee on
edueatioii bills establishing: ami labor reportod bureau of favorably labor on
the a sta¬
tistics, ami limit ing a day's work in the gov¬
ernment authorized workshops to eight, hours. The
Senate tho committee that hail
fied! instructed Virginia to investigate and Mississippi alleged elec
tion outrages in to
rend sub-commit' »es to.various places. Mr.
Sherman offered a bill to regulate banking.
amis Tho in bill severalty providing Indians, fo- the and allotment to extend of
to
the laws of the States ami 'I'e? l itorie.-. over
Mie Indians, win favoiablv reported.... period
I'i.o bill suspending for a further
of live years the seefi mi of the Revised
Statutes’ which prohibits the landing of
guano except for use in the United
States from guano islands under the
protection of the United States was passed.
... .Mr. Hawley intro hired again pension his bill of
the last Congress prohibiting for agents
from receiving claim any beyond r m»j the ensation amount allowed prose¬
cuting a and
by the commissioner of pensions, regu¬
lating fees.. ..Senator Morrill introduced a
bill which is praoticaMy a sub stitute for
Senator McPherson’s financial bill.
Mr. Miller, of New York, reported favora¬
bly the bill providing means for the suppres¬
sion and extirpation of pleuro-pfieumonia
and other contagious disea- s<*h among domes¬
tic. animals... .The Equate, af.er completion debate,
1 a sed the bill “to provide and for he the stairways
of nected the eapitol therewith.” ten a os The t bill appropriates con¬
$777,5K0.9H....Mr. Miller, of (California, from
the committee on foreign relations, reported
bill amending the anti Chinese act.
The Senate jibs ed the Mexican I and Grant
bill. tr. Fry reported a bill fertile
t of Ai nerii iui sh/iy ing. Mr. Vest., for
minority of Mie tjuio eormuittee, said
reported, although they they by a- ceil the
no means agreed
the bill touched the main difllouitjr
had struck down our commerce....
Ixtgan intrixluced a bill creating acorn- the
to inquire Into aiul report upon
industrial, and intellectual progri ■s 1
by the Colored people of the United
since and Riddleberger making appropriation offered
for the same.....Mr. a
resolution for the appointment of to
three Senators and five RepiefOiitatives
inquire into the cause of all removals of sub¬
ordinate officers ol‘ the Eenato aud House,
lion***
The House pawed the bill declaring n for
failure of lands granted U> tlie Texas Uaeiflo
Railroad company under the aet of Congrwn
approved Mar* h T 1871, nnd ante supi»®
mental thereto by a vote of :.W> tol. Tbre.
other land giants to Mississippi, two to Ala
buma and one to Arkaiisas, woreatoodro'nred
forfeited. The amount ol laud atlecUd by
tlie " I I a -ago “ of tlie lulls taking away these
, , (K|[ , O' Ti'8.
a vp. lajuting ',i t.iio’removal Misnouri, introduced of a hill the
3 employ, the h violation
n 0l|g( , i f,,r can o dol ing
of Congress. Reform I. Aire u resolution
amending the roles -re as t > make a similar
provision. Referred .On motion of Mr.
.
Randall, of I’ennsylvan n. the further core
ference aske I fiy the Henute on the (freely
r „lief bill wa ogre d to, and Mr. Randall
um i Mr. Calkin . were appointed as conferees,
j M committc on ihe -wlm'e the da¬
i,„t e on Ihe Fit' Joint Porter bill
?sk~"SSSS| PicuLl jfc A Her mjv nil amtmilmente bad
been made and reacted M r. ( ui tin made a
i,,„g speech in Inver ol the bill. This closed
t i 1B t j, |iate and tho H it " then, by a vote «f
veas to 78 nays, passed Iho lull which re
Kit.-A -lohu 'Porter to tie army-aml au
(.horizon the President to place him on the ro¬
tired list. lntr*slueed lie; . , illiTfor the re
\ 1 Morrison Katun introdneed.
<luct,Ion of tlie tariff Mr.
B |,m making it a felony for any officer or the
government to |«<rmit Iiis snliordinal.es to he
assessed ror nolith-a! pnrp es. and making nn
official whoeonti dmos money liable, tolmtict
. ...... Mr. (!ox. of New . rk, introduced a
liili for the free imp u Ution of coal, Iron
, ( , k(j HMll t i lB |, ri ,ilm't . of Canada.
i,p| s jntio.luc 1 by Mr. Ling to
( ^ ( up.-saviu ; slati n at ( J "" "'*'*:
Mterin : n r ewar l
silver doll..'
owner and cl ew of "
UeutenaMt Ur'
hy Mr.
m]e
the"
a concert tour under Mar BtrOKuscu.
The recent performance, in Brussels, o
Ernest Heyer’x o| .era, “Sigurd,”is pronounced
tlio greut musical event of tlie season. •
dle Remenyi is jobbed at Havana, around and he and his fid¬
are Being He the houses of the
swell Cubans. will give public concerts
later.
Bonanza. Mackey has guaranteed Patti
$05,000 Manager for Mapleaon a season accepted in Ran Francisco, proposition and
the
tor her.
Morris Barrymore, Modjaslra’s leading
man, has written for her a play called “Mact*
before ierda,” and sho will produce it at Baltimore
long.
Mr. Irving's engagement in Chicago was
the largest dramatic engagement over played
in that city. The receipts for the fortnight
were $30, Hid.
P. 8. On .more, the well known mustoa
director, wilt go to Europe next summer.
The management at Manhattan Beach desira
to re engage him.
A apjieariiiK Jewish operatic nightly in company Hebrew is advertised’ operetta
as a
at the International England.” theatre, London, "lor
the first time in 1
Joe Jefferson had a regular ovation in,
turned Wilmington, with N. tho C. 'The entire and town
out, head. Tho mayor "house common sold In.
ooutieil at. its was
udvance a week ahead.
CARL Rosa has found and engaged for tho
Covent Garden a new soprano, named Kata
Bensberg. of wholesale The is liquor a St. Louis dealer, girl, and the daugh¬ been
ter a lias
studying iu Europe for tho jiast four years.
Mu. Beecher, according to a correspond¬
ent, is not overload of firsts class opera. Ah
a recent performance, which is said to have
been very good, he read a book through tho
first two acts, and then went home looking
bored. ■
McCaull is to bring outa now comic opera,
called “Desiree,” of J. before long,at Philadelphia leader olj
It is tho work 1*. Sousa, once
the one-time famous Philadelphia Murine church band
choir conqiaiiy, and now ot the
at Woshiugiiton.
The twenty-first triennial musical festival
at Norwich. ling., will take place on October
famous 14,15, ill and 17 “ Tito this Hose year. of Among Sharon,” other
oratorio pieces, composed expressly for tho occasion an
by A. C. Mackenzie, will lie given. A new
cantata vai. has also boou composed for the testi¬
In the absence of one of the actors in the
burlesque of “ Prospero," the blind lately daughter performed of at
a London theatre, one
directing of tho property-keepers her action entirely took the by part sound. of Ariel, More
role than of this, atone heroine performance Miranda, and, she played although the
the
of necessity often prompted nnd occasionally
even “ Hjtoken for” by another actress, she
wont through the play without causing the
audience the least suspicion that she was
blind.
A queer occurrence Christiana, took plooe recently The first at
a representation theatre in iu Danish Norway. of Bchonthnn’s
“ Iter Sehwabenstroich” was about to begin,
when a patriotic Norwegian excitedly arose
aud exclaimed that it was a shame to allows
the production of foreign pieces while those
of the best native Tlie writers speech woracooly created assigned! great
to oblivion. a
sensation, and most of the audience left the
theatre and wont to another theatre whore a
play by a native was being enacted. Th-sn
patriots returned, however, before Scbon
uian’s play wua concluded aud vigoroe-'r
hissed it oil’ the stage.
PROMINENT PEOPLE!
Arthur. -Tim hundred I’re-iffimt in ffity-four thirty jioiiuda, years
woi li • ».w * and
il iMflix foot la I.
MuitiiiY. Prauciis Murphy, the great tem
| M l lUK’H worU.-i*. h rt T ju t, lxmu paving hw
V'Hii ».4r iJOStOH.
Con*. Hei m outfit v ,k H. H. Cox is to bo
Iiaid viO.0 U by f! ' < ru i-’l! (Conn.) publishing
house for hU roudui. reno-s.
Oi i, i i\entile t. ( hawU . ()fiut, the »'»w speaker i»
of tho y iionvo of representatives,
only tweiity-suvoii years ot a ;e.
JaukHoN. Dr. Imi* O. JaekKOU tills the
po ition of l usah lit physician in a hospital
for children in I'hihidelphia. of Hhe is a pretty and
blonde, twenty-three year* ag;v is
giving entire .-a'' i.-Jooli >n in h r po itio i.
Huoukh LicUt* mint Rhodes, tlie hero of'
the (.ay Head d a-ler. has been in the rev¬
enue marine nerviro f*»r eleven years. His
ape is thirty three, bo is a native of Uu
ilectiout and has tho record of a first-class
man.
Armour. P. D. Armour, leading man in
tlie Chicago pig packiu ; business, is eertam
that Franco ami Germany delay ought for to excluding Iw pun
Llied without an instants
American pone, aud rejoices that rrencn-i
men are easily frightened.”
Mason. Colonel Macomb Mason, a nativa
of Virginia, and graduate of tins vf 1 ***!*
mates Nnvul academy, who went with his
BLUO ill tlie rival war, amt hiiioc titan has
Imkii iu Urn I'k'Vptiau service, to the Mr.
Mason” whom linker Massowah. ITishu has appointed
military governor of
KttAW.— Mrs. Quincy Nhaw, of Boston,
spends * .0,000 annually out of h er pr ivate
income in support of thirty kindergartens
and twenty nur cries which « *•’’
o' > .
linked in there parts
rout'best and most sq
in addition to tlda kIi»
in other ch '' ’
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