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EDITORIAL NOTES.
A few years ago a measure was
adopted providing for the gradual manu¬
mission of slaves in Cuba. This worked
exceedingly well indeed, and under it
285,000 slaves have already been peace¬
fully liberated, with entire satisfaction to
the owners. There are now hardly more
than 100,000 slaves on the island, and
most of them will be set free during the
year.
General John Newton, who has
made a study of modern ^explosives, says
that no agent can supplant gunpowder
for the principal requirements of war¬
fare. In blasting rock the higher ex¬
plosives may be employed, except where
the rock is weak in cohesion, when gun¬
powder is preferable. In coal mines the
higher explosives are too destructive in
their action. Dynamite as a destructive
agent for unlawful purposes can only be
applied on a limited sca'e, and with
nearly fruitless results, as time, money
and elaborate preparations are required
for effective work.
The World’s exposition at New Or¬
leans, will devote 247 acres to lakes and
gardens, showing the rarest trees and
plants of Mexico, Central America,
Florida and foreign countries. Horti¬
cultural hall will be 600 by] 84 feet.
Mr. P. J. Berckmaus, of Augusta, Ga.,
has been appointed a special commis¬
sioner to confer with various European
societies in reference to the fruit and
plant display. The collectiye Mexican
exhibit will be an immense thing, occu
pying a building 1,400x900 feet. Ac¬
companying this exhibit will be a Mexi¬
can band and a battalion of Mexican
troops. Tne exposition will receive lib¬
eral encouragement from the leading
countries of the world.
Beer as an article of diet has been
discontinued in atleast 27 pauper lunatic
asylums in England, with the result that
in no instance hai the apparently impor¬
tant change led to any sort of physiologi¬
cal inconvenience. Many of the super¬
intendents, in whose asylums the modi¬
fication was made, and through them
many of the patients testify cordially to
the benefits derived from the change.
The question, says the Journal of Mental
Science, is not one of teetotalism, or even
primarily of a financial order, but one of
pure expediency and good management.
In all probability the disuse of beer as
an element of the diet of pauper lunatics
in English asylums will be more ex¬
tended and will be watched with in¬
terest.
The latest estimates place the popula¬
tion of the globe at 1,433,800,000, indi¬
cating a decrease in the last three years
of some 22,000,000, though, as a matter
of fact, there has been an actual increase
of some 33,000,000. I his apparent dis¬
crepancy is accounted for by the fact that
the population of China has heretofore
been largely over e timated. In reference
to our own country the statistics show
that no country in the history of the
world ever had such a composi te popu¬
lation, leaving but four cent from othei
countries, and from white races of othei
types, and thirteen per cent for those oi
African descent. Probably no other
country on the face of the globe can show
such a diversity and at the same time
such a substantial unity of race and
descent.
The recent discovery of tin ore at
King’s Mountain, North Carolina, is at¬
tracting considerable attention. Several
scientists visited King’s Mountain a few
days ago, and found quantities of tin ore
scattered over the ground all through
the town. Striking a hill-side several
ditches were dug, but without runniiig
across a vein of ore. The discovery was
made in a singular manner. Several
specimens of black looking ore were sent
to the Boston exposition, and marked
“unknown.” An examination showed it
t r bo tin ore of the richest quality, yield¬
ing 75 per cent of tin. There are only
three tin-bearing mines in the world and
there is a standing reward of $50,000
offered for the discovery of one in the
United States. Following the announce¬
ment of the North t arolina discovery
comes the report of the finding of vast
tin deposits within three miles of Santa
Fe, New Mexico.
Soudan is the name given to the vast
extent of territory in upper Egypt that
stretches from Nubia to the confines of
Abyssinia and from the Bed Sea to the
Lybian desert This vast and dreary
territory is inhabited by some thirty or
forty millions ef Arabs of various tribes.
The proposed control which England is
preparing to exercise over the Soudan is
not in the nature of the recovery of a re¬
volted state nor the chastisement of a
refractory people, nor even the suppres¬
sion of the slave trade, but it renews the
old conflict between Christian civiliza¬
tion and Mohammedan barbarism. The
triumph of Tel el Kebir did not conquer
Moslem fanaticism. The hatred of the
Mahommedan against the Christian and
against civilization is innate and irre¬
pressible. This hydra-headed monster
is not dead, and when it is quiet it is
only dreaming of Alhambra snd the
walls of Vienna, and of overrunning one
day the civilized world.
The cigarette is a harmless looking
thing, but in the opinion of many well
posted peop’e it contains about as much
poison to the square inch as any one ar¬
ticle that could be named. The cigar¬
ette business started in this country
about fifteen years ago. American cigar
ettes were novelties, and attracted favor
able attention from the start. The rapid
growth of the business and its present j
magnitude will be better understood
when it is stated that in 1882 600.000.
000 cigarettes were manufactured in this
country of . which , . _ New iork inrmsheo , ..j
Hamilton t santliaP E ..1 Journal. ■
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YOL. XII. NO. 11.
444,092,867. One hundred and eighty
two different brands of cigarettes have
been manufactured in the last fifteen
years. Of these seventy-one varieties
have had their day and ceased to exist.
The original American cigarettes had
mouthpieces in imitation of the Euro¬
pean article. The price was then twenty
cents a package, but since mouthpi ces
went out of fashion the price dropped to
ten cents. It is ass rted that the tobacco
used in the manufacture of cigarettes is
of a meaner grade than that used in the
cheapest cigars. It is adulterated with
saltpeter to prevent moulding, and this
use of saltpeter is said by medical men
to be highly injurious to the vital func¬
tions. 'J he oil of the cigarette paper
wrappers is said to be e ven more poison¬
ous than the oil of tobacco. The major¬
ity of cigarette smokers are very young
people, principally boys, and not a few
girls. Physicians specify the following
as among the evils springing from the
habit: palpitation of the heart, indiges¬
tion, catarrh in the head, asthma, pneu¬
monia, bronchitis, morbid craving foi
drink, destruction of the nerves of the
eyes. In New Jersey a l.tw has been
passed making it a penal offense to sell
cigarettes or tobacco to minors under
sixteen years of age, and a similar bill is
now pending in the New York legis a
ture. There is a disposition everywhere
to suppress or check as much as possible
the habit of cigarette smoking, The
vice leads to re ults as injurious as any
produced by the use of alcohol, and the
physical, mental an moral decay occa¬
sioned by the practice cannot fail to fill
our hospitals, asylums, jails and cemete¬
ries, unless a halt is speedily called.
ITEMS OF NEWS.
The movement in Germany for the
better obs rvation of Sunday is growing
rapidly.
■ A census just concluded in New Zea
lan! gives that far-away land a popu a
tion, European and Chinese, of 532,000.
The old fields and bush undergrowth
around Mobile that sold for a song five
years ago command from twenty five to
three hundred dollars an acre.
The total income of the Salvation
army for 1883 is reported at $1,509,000.
The army is now publishing sixteen' ‘War
Cries” in various countries.
At Miss Clara Cushman’s mission
school in Pekin the feet of the girls are
not allowed to be bound—the only
school in China where that is the case.
Russia, which has an area in Europe
two-thirds as large as the whole United
States, with a population of more than
70,000,000, lies almost entirely north of
St. Paul.
There were 1,676 accidents last year
in the Pacific coal mines, 323 deaths,
making 153 widows and 512 orphans.
There was one death to eve y 90,000
tons taken out.
The bank of England has a floating
balance of $100,000,000 and tbe bank
notes, if stretched together end to end
would reach a distance of 12,620 miles.
The Egyptian war will use up a few
miles of this money.
The “Confederate rose” is the name
of a new flower which is white in the
morning and red at night. Four of
them have been planted around the
grave of General Albert Sidney Johnson,
in the state cemetarv at Austin, Texas.
Cremation is to be tried in France,
permission having been given by the
prefect of police, on the recommenda¬
tion of Drourdel, to bnrn the remains of
hospital subjects, provided a satisfactory
apparatus be constructed in one of the
Paris cemeteries.
Speaker Carlisle wields the gavel
with some listlessness. He pounds as
though he was afraid of making too
much noise, in this respect he differs
from Xeifer, who made the splinters fly
over the devoted heads of the clerks be¬
low him. He is a smoothly-shaven man
with two bulging bumps of intellectual¬
ity over his eyes, a rather narrow fore
hetd, and when he speaks his voice
comes somewhat weak and a severe
frown ornaments or, to put it better,
disfigures his brow.
Senator Frye’s Bank Account.
“I see,” said Senator Frye, of Main
“that a Washington paper, in a ti
complimentary notice, sets ine ’
a poor man, not worth ove
‘That’s too much,’ ” said
“But the fellow who wrote
not know the reason I am s<
came about in this wise. I x;
up in a Quaker family, and wht
boyhood, I got a chance to g.
Boston, my Quaker grandfatuei g
dollars to spend. I did r
boys iu Boston, and I con
no way to have five dollars’ w
fun without boys. So I kept the n
my pocket. When I got hon.
asked me how I spe;.
dollars, and I, with the air of o
had done a virtuous action, sate
‘I did not spend it at all, gra udi.itiv r; I j
it and have it in my pot-net.’ !
Whereupon my grandfather sai l; ‘You ;
give me back the monev. Wilimm.
r gave you the money to spend at Bos
Ever since that said tue Senator,
I have known better than to save
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Remarkable .. ___ transformation of . color
the white stag turns to bay.
HAMILTON, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1884.
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Eastern and Kiddle States.
New York lias been shrouded in the
densest fog which has prevailed there for
years. Navigation on the rivers was almost
much'imi“ mining'village deJ 11,1,1 bUSineSS Very
The of Olyphant, Penn.,
Lackawanna was panic-stricken by which a sud Hooded len rise in the
river, tha low
lying streets and surprised Tlio a number and of
families in their houses. women
children were removed to a place of safety
on the backs of the miners, who waded at
great peril through the swift current that
was making its way along the streeta A
girl of seventeen years was drowned.
A large meeting was held in New York
in favor of the bill giving the mayor the
right to nominate public officers board without
making confirmation by the of aider
men necessary, William M. Evartif and
others addressed the meeting.
Assemblyman Roosevelt, of New York
city, a prominent member of the State legis
lature, has suffered a double bereavement,
his mother and wife dying at his residence
on the same day, the' wife having just be
come a mother.
Mary Byrne when ten years old was run
over by a train at Troy, N. Y., and lost a leg.
The case was began fourteen years ago, and
a verdict in her favor for $7,500 has just been
awarded.
Thad S. Avery, of Chichester, N. Y.,
quarreled with his wife and cut her throat
as well as his own, killing her ami inflicting
a fatal wound upon himself.
Wendell Phillips’ will leaves his prop
erty, his'wife aggregating in value about $250,000, to
and adopted daughter.
The steamship State of Nebraska, from
oflice!-s Glasgow arrived in New A ork, having on
t ni crew"o7th(r Ktea™i-0i]p t n*
and Notti
Hill, running between London and New
York. The Notting Hill had been struck by
ft huge iceberg and injured so badly that she
had to be abandoned.
jsssstasgzssrs'eSfsz were whipped-few day. amce M New Cae
ue ’
Much damage has been done . , by floods and .
Ice near Harrisburg, Penn. Four bridges,
valued at more than $80,<X)0, were crushed
and earned away. Three dams were washed
out and the mills connected with them so
badly injured as to prevent their runmag
until repaired.
many
jssrjssrs^A
was taken.
Thomas Kinsella, a prominent Brooklyn journal
tot, for many years editor of the
lLagie, is dead.
Miss Jennie Almy, a handsome and mortally young
woman, a private teacher, shot
wounded \ ictor C. Andre twenty-one years
old, also ai private teacher, in a crowded star
°«- the York elevated railroad
Then Miss Almy shot and killed heiself. li e
two had been engaged to be man led, but it
to asserted that Andre, who had come to
this country six months ago and been ad
mitted to the best society, had betrayed and
then refused to marry the girl.
Boutli and West,
Fort Sully, in Dakota, has been burned
out. The soldiei-s there were compelled to
carnp out, with the thermometer at twenty
five degrees below zero.
A GANG of nine counterfeiters were ar
rested by United States Secret service offl
cers at Louisville, Ky.
About 25,(XX) persons in Cincinnati and
the adjacent towns of Covington and New
port were * rendered dl j! 1 a J Bll fro homeless m. fh« tjjr tha^flood
pohs, Ohio, . to the „ mayor ot New 5 oik, toll
S'.^ a ““lSEV,Srelr.f;,*£ 2,000 houses have
sender says: “At least
been swept away or damaged to such an flood ex
tent as to be uninhabitable after the
has sub ided. It is lor those unfortunate
people that we appeal for help. Tne farmers
nave lust largely of their horses feed, and and cattle all
and nearly all their grain and
their fencing; the merchants and manufae
turers their stocks; the mechanics are thrown
out of employment: coat mines and .-alt
works are Hooded, and everything is deso
Jate indeed. It will be weeks, months, be
fore business can be resumed, and help will
be needed long after the waters have gone
down.”
Governor Knott has issued a proclama
tion to the people flood of Kentucky by calling private upon sub
them to aid the sufferers
scriptions, contributions and otherwise. The
Kentucky legislature appropriated $25,000
for the relief of the sufferers
A frightful catastrophe, the result of
the flood, occurred at Cincinnati. About 4
o’clock A. M. a terrible crash was heard at
the corner of Pearl and Ludlow streets, in
the flooded district,. It was found that the
rear parts of four brick buildings, which had
been undermined by the waters, had fallen,
The scene which followed the crash was one
of horror. Men were shouting and women
and children were screaming for help. Soon
several iioats arrived, and the boatmen, with
tbe aid of lanterns, began to rescue the in
mates of the house-. About fifty people were
taken out of the wrecked buildings. Ten
r” persons were crushed to death in the ruins.
Steamers with ... supplies of , food . , and , cloth- , ..
ing have been sent b> the government along
the Ohio and tributaries to relieve the ne
cessities of the sufferers by the floods.
Colonel Hunt, a millionaTe lumberman
of Michigan, has just died, and books, being a lover
of humorists and humorous of which
he had accumulated a large number, he has
left $5,000 each to the mother of Artemus
Ward, to Eli Perkins and to Josh Billings.
A desperate shooting affray at Hot
Springs, Ark., between two factions •c
biers—three brotbe— '“ H
were in a hack at V
seven men on the .
killing of one ''
driver, th
she- Flynn anr
h
l
j __ mi
Eg*to” numerous tea*,
driven from their hoir
refuge, totjd and were compel
“F 1 and with insuffi
people was describ-d as a
treme.
Fort Sully, in Dakota,
out. The soldiers there a
camp out, with the thernr
4ve degrees below zero.
Foreign,
Seven persons out in a pleasure boat at
Dundee, Scotland, were drowned.
English troops have been ordered to the
Red Sea ports, to defend them against El
Mahdi’s rebels.
Two mandarins have been executed for
the rec8ut “ lassacre ot Christians
1
Mexico wants ^ 40,000 feet . of , ... the
space in
mam building at the coming New Orleans
exposition, and rJO.OiX feet outside for the
Mexican garden, the building camping- for the Mexl
c an commission, and for a ground
!°, r „wA\ tta !" n of Mexican troops, Over
$‘-00,000 has been send appropriated magnificent by the Mexi
cans, who will a band of
musicians and a corps of cadets,
Several persons were drowned, and an
immense pecuniary it* was sustained by a
waterspout in Arequipa, Icru, and its on
virons.
Murders are now very numerous on tlie
Isthmus of Panama,
London’s lord mayor of presided British over a mass
meeting ment’s policy denunciatory Egypt, the govern
in
Two members of the French chamber of
deputies have just fought a duel, one receiv
ing a wound in tho knee.
el Mahdi’s forces have evacuated their
position ten miles from Suakim. At Sinkat
they killed 200 women and a number of
children. El Mahdi recently Kafa sent two mol
lahs to the ruler of the province, at
the source of the Blue Nile, to order him
and his subjects to renounce fetish worship
end embrace Islamism. The mollahs, after
they had delivered El Mahdi’s orders, were
strangled hr the aatives.
j ^ fight between whites and no
^ , n the pr ince of Angola, West Africa,
“ ° f of
attr
I Parnell, _ the ...... Irish home rule , leader, , , de¬
dared in an amendment to the Queen's
sassa-; speech, proposed by him in the house of
1
, ujbiMd nubile meetings Tid Wltel ill
will and strife between the different classes
of tbe country.
A procession of 15,000 carried striking effigy weavers
t mannta.Wer Blackburn England, the of
a with the intention of hang¬
jn g lt fai front of his residence. They were
charged injured. by the police and several persons
were
AS^on B arSW«th1 Z
1 #srzE£$£S:
fording relief by distributing supplies to the
sufferers,
Nearly 5i000 bma , most of thera 0 , a
private nature, have been introduced so far
in the present session of Congress,
Gkkat dissa tisfaction has been created
throughout Great Britain by concerning the govern
in vacmaUug Egypt. As policy dispatch puts the it:
crisis one
«p e0 pi e ca nnot understand a policy of in
difference to massacres in a country where
England \ rules, and of indifference likewise
to "L t e defeats of armies winch Englishmen R
„
A BATO of goo Indian , murdered all the
principal residents of Omitlan, Mexico, and
plundered the town,
At a banquet given in Paris M. to leading de Isa
members of the scientific press,
seps stated that the scheme for creating a
sea in the great, Sahara desert, in order to
transform the arid sand intoa fertile country,
would shortly he commenced.
Mr. Bradlauoh, elected to the British
house of commons, but refused permission
^^^ 0 ^ 0 ^^! administered entered the
chamber during a session and
tbe oath to himself. Upon motion lie was
.hL-luded from the precm.-Mi.f lh, h-„.
It is announced from Sicdy that Mount
-Aitna is in a state of eruption,
Thomas Chknery, editor of the London
Times, is dead.
While a wedding party was Hungary, crossing the
B j ver Thei-SS, near Domrad, tlie
, ce broke and thirty-five members of the
party were drowned.
The French ... btshopin ..._____._____... Tonquiinreportethat
priest. twenty-two ratechDu and .u
Christians . have bem massacred, and that
E* 8 mission houses have been destroyed,
Queen Victoria has just p ublished a book
rontaining a record of nerli ife for the past
twenty years, describing her persona) emo¬
Dons, and State affairs and family matters,
and highly eulogizing her late body guard,
John Brown.
Sinkat. Mahili’s in the Soudan, has been captured 60$
by El rebols and its force of
Egyptians under lewfik Bey cut to pieces
A motion to censure Gladstone’s govern
ment for its vacillating policy in the lords Soudan
was passed in the British house of by
1«] yeas to 81 Days.
A violent earthquake has occurred a!
gitlis, Asiatic Turkey, destroying aliumber
o{ bu j] din ,,s.
Bbadlauoh , has °f given up the ., long , the British stre*.
6*® * or possession * Sflat ln
house of commons, and a now election in hil
district has been ordered,
Parnell, ,, the Irish ... , home rule , leadei, , , de- ,
cl red m an amendment to tho Queen’s
b pl0iK . sed Engi&'-A by him in the house of
c , )m ;non , that s policy ln Ireland
| jad f a ile l to tranuuijize the iieofde, wantonly
prohibited politic meetings and incite! ill
will and strife between the different classes
„f the country,
WlIKlllllgtOII.
Representative Townshend *' T n | -
who --*»■ in Congress
oorters *,
The court of inquiry into the loss of the
Proteus, the vessel sent Greely by the United States
to the relief of the expedition in the
Arctic regions, has ma le its report. The
report states that Lieutenant Darlington,
fatting out ofthe Proteus expedition, did not
fully comprehend the necessities of the case;
at the same time the court is of opinion that
no further proceedings before a general court
martial are called for.
The United States Senate commit
tee of investigation into alleged political out
rages in t opiah county, Miss., arrived at
New Orleans and examined witnesses.
Further confirmations by the Senate:
Commodore Edward Simpson to be rear-ad
Rural ill the navy; Edward B. Stevens to be
Consul at Victoria; Francis A. Osgood to bo
collector of customs for the district of Mar
blehead; Albert Sdiunemann, of Denver, Prescott, to
be receiver of public moneys at
Arizona.
In accordance with the recommendation
of Secretary Folger, the President has di¬
rected the promotion of Lieutenant Rhodes,
of*the revenue conduct cutter Dexter, for occasion gallant of
and meritorious ou the
the City of Columbus disaster.
The President has approved sending of tllo joint expedi¬ reso¬
lution authorizing the an
tion to the relief of Greely.
Witnesses testified before the Senate
committee of investigation concerning tho
election trouble between whites and blacks
at Danville, Va.
COMMITTEE WORK.
Wliat in (aOiiig On ill the Iongreunion
al 4 o in mi I lee ICooiiin*
The House committee on the judihiary lind
agreed upon a report adverse to tlie woman’s
Suffrage advocates, but determined to hold
it until a delegation from tlie West could bo
heard.
Only seventy-five a comparatively public building small proportion bills before of
the
tlie House committee on public buildings
will The be favorably bill prohibiting reported. tlie emigration of
Chinese laborers under other names pending
before file foreign affairs committee, lias
been reconstructed. Mr. Rice, of Massach i
setts, proved stipulations. that its provisions violated
treaty Mellon, I’ittsburg capitalist,
Judge a op¬
posed before advanced the House before labor the committee committee tho by
requests labor organizations.
The House banking and currency commit
tee voted to report Buiinier’s bill limiting that
the liability or national banks to of
oilier debtors named in tho limited liability
section of the revised statutes.
Tlie House committee on postoffices in¬
structed Mr. Bkinner to report for favorably
his bill making an allowance rent to
postoffices of the third class. Mr. Money
was also instructed to report favorably his
bill striking from Section .8,02!) revised
statutes the word “ fraudulent’’ before the
word “lottery." This is designed to prevent
the use of the mails by any lottery company.
The house committee on commerce lias
concluded consideration of the first section
of tlie Reagan bill decided to regulate embody interstate it in com¬ the
merce, and has to
proposed interstate commerce bill. The sec¬
tion makes it unlawful for railroad com¬
panies to charge or receive from any person
or persons any greater or loss rate or
amount of charged freight compensation received or reward
than is to or from any
other perso i or persons for like and con¬
temporaneous services. All charges shall be
reasonable a id railroad companies shall fur¬
nish withbut discrimination the same facili¬
ties for the Ira spoliation interruption of goods. Any
break, stoppage or to prevent
the carriage of any place property from the place
pf shipment to the or destination is pro¬
hibited unless the stoppage may bo made for
V ine nee. s-ary purpose.
ECCENTRIC SUICIDES.
Louis Walters, of Akron, while intoxi¬
cated, cut a hole iu tlie ice and drowned him¬
self.
A De Kalb county, Tenn., man cut a t.res
until it was ready to full,and thou let it crush
him.
A San Antonio man cut his throat be¬
cause a lottery ticket he had purchased
proved a blank.
Mas. Thomas Paxton, of Howard I-ake,
Minn., killed herself because she was married
against her will.
Mrs. Joseph Waoenhauber, of Youngs of tin
town, Ohio, cut her throat on account
death of her son.
After Injuring her knee in jumping arope* hung
Jane Becker, aged thirteen, of Reading,
herself from a bedpost.
While suffering from inflammatory rheu¬
matism, Mrs. Benjamin Watson, of Bloom¬
ington, ill., threw herself into a cistern and
was drowned.
Mrs. Ann Btump, of Columbus, Ohio
pois ineil iier pet dog, fearing it caused might her out¬
live her. Remorse at the deed to
kill herself with strychnine.
Lemuel around Whisten. his neck near and Enterprise, hitched himself tied a
halter and
to his wagon. He then scared t.lie horses
made them run. Whisten’s young wife had
died but a few weeks before
Henry F. Millwakd shot himself afte
participating in a mock tragedy M at Ho
Hold, < ihto. Some weeks ago ill v
sisted by a bundle of friends, co iw
dummy out of a number '*f
lews, and laid it re
hotel in that cit "
Harkened, am 1
,
sheet. A pa**
■toted tea
to T
He.
$1.00 A YEAR.
SUMMARY OF CONGRESS
Senate,
cba j r laid before the Senate a com
nunlber of soldiers of the late war who served
£ how many two years, and how
thive years, and the amount of money
’ to equalize the bounties of those
wh 0 snrV( , d , a id war... Mr. Pendleton
presented the credentials of Henry Ohio, B. Payne, for the
Senator-elect from the State of
term beginning March 4, 1HH5. The cre
dentials Were read and ordered to be filed.
.... The committee on naval affairs reported
favorably a bill for the relief of the survivors
of the Jeannette expedition and or the
widows and children of thpse who ;eristic*!,
.... Mr. Ridilleberger’s resolution providing
for a joint joint committee committee to to inquire inquire and into ip re
mova™*"d«onntntineiitaof8eiiateand Is and appointments of Senate House
employes was tho subject of Vest, a long Itiddleber- debate,
participated in by Messrs.
rer and Conger. A message was received from
the House Announcing that that body was still
unable to i agree a to the Senate amendment to
the Creel y Boliof bill, requiring that tlie men
Mint nn that hat expedition expedition should should be lie voluut volunteers,
After some debate the Sonato receded from
its amendment by a vote of fill to 22.
the A Construction oul appropriating of $r00,000 building to for commence the ac
a
commndatioit of the library of 6 Congress .Mr. wa*
passed by a vote of 25 yeas to nays...
Voorheei asked and obtained unanimous
consent to introduce, out of the regular
order, a bill to prohibit officers and employe!
of the United .States government from con¬
tributing money for political purposes. A
debate, part, Ciliated in by Messrs. Voorhees,
Hawley, Beck, Dawes and Harrison, fol¬
lowed. Tlie bill was referre I to the commit¬
tee on the indiciary.... A bill was introduced
by Mr. McPherson to suspend tho coinage ol
tlie silver dollar
Mr. Hale, from the committee on naval
affairs, reported unfavorably and moved Die
iudefliite postponement of the joint resolu¬
tion introduced by Mr. McPherson, limiting
tho amount of monoy to lx* expended relief
bv the President on tlie Greely
ex|ieditiou to $500,0 XI.....Mr. Voor
liens offered H a resolution directing
tlie secretary of the Interior to withhold ap¬
proval of selections of lands made by the
Northern Pacific Railroad company within
certain indemnity limits... .The Senate con¬
sidered the McPherson banking bill and Mr.
Bayard delivered an address in its supt>ort.
Air. Sawver called up the bill recently
reported from the committee on iiost
ofllees an 1 post roads, making all public
roads and highways |x>st routes, and after
some amendment direc it was ing passed.... the committee A resolu¬
tion e as agreed to the expediency of provid¬ on
finance to consider the change of
ing by general legislation for
mimes of national banks, and to report by
b 11 or otherwise at the bill present provide session.... that
Mr. Logan introduced a to
persons honorably discharged from the mili¬
tary or naval service of the United States
'shall be preferred for appointment to civil
offices, provided they are found to jsissess
the necessary business capacity. of day again dis¬
The Senate spent, most a
cussing Mr. McPherson’s National Bank
Note bill nml tlie promised amendment* to
.t. M v. Plumb argued against the bill. He
said the national dibt should lie {laid off ns
scon as possible, uiid wliat was wanted was
s inetliing to take the place of the bank cir
lal.ion as it was withdrawn from time to
time. Ho offere I an amendment pro
viding for the issuing of treasury note* to
take the place of the circulation of the banks
ns it is surrendered. Mr. Hhorman’s amend¬
ment. providing that if any of the bonds de
liositcd hove interest higher than three |ier
e nt. additional notes should be issued equal
tn one-half the interest in excess of the three
per cent, accruing before maturity, was voted
down, 42 nays to 7 yeas.
llOIIM
The House adopted cue report on the new
rules after a two days’ debate. Mr. Randall
reported notice the that naval it would appropriation be railed bill, tlie noxt and
rave
Tuesday. It a|Hiropriato8 than $11,208,000, estimated being
$H,2!I2,(XXI less the amount
for, aiu $1,021,000 less than the amount ap¬
propriated for the current fiscal year....Mr.
Willis introduced a biff temporarily schools. provid¬ It
ing tor the support of common
provides for an animal appropriation of
from $10,000,00) to $1. 001),000 for the next
ten years, the appropriation lobe reduced
$1,000,000 each succeeding year.... Mr. Bayne
introduce! a bill rejiealiuy all internal taxes
on domestic tobacco... .Mr. Goff introduced
a joint esolutlon appropriating $100,000 for
tlie relief of the sufferers by the overflow of
the Ohio river and its tributaries.. ..Mr. Fin
erty, of Illinois, offered a resolution declar¬
ing that tho House “laments the death of
Wendell Phillips national bereavement.”
Mr. Eaton objected and tlie resolution went
Bills introduced: By Mr. Belford, to facil¬
itate tlie settlement of private land claims;
by Mr. Oates, restoring to tlie pension rolls
the names of those dropped therefrom on
account of disloyalty; by Mr. Bisbeetolm
jKise duties on oocoariuts, bananas and
pineapples; by Mr. Townshend, a resolution
proposing a constitutional amendment pro¬
viding for the election of President by a
mi jority of the votes of the pe
abolition of the electoral col If
lating the method of counting
the two Houses of Cpno-ress; bVp
son, providing for
n- te- for nation-’
’*<nd, b! p
MUSICAL AND DRAMATId
ling Mme. this Pauline Lucca will undoubted]ji
in country next season. t
A movement is on foot to establish a eon*
«ewatory of music in Peoria, 111.
Lotta Is announced to open the new Casinoi
theatre in Washington next autumn.
Mr. Winch, the American tenor, is sing¬
ing with success in oratorio in England. 1
Fannie Davenport is playing “Fedora") otl
ou the road to average weekly receipts
IS,000.'
Ristori, the celebrated Italian actrstjs, bt
coming to this country in October, and with
make a tour of the principal cities.
Mrs. Langtrt will not, after all, sayslftn
English avlish oaner. paper, go go to to Australia, Australia, but Dut wilrEave is*
a her London American theatre engagement. after the termination otj
Edward Milliken, of the “Jalma” com-j
pany, has written a new drama in five acte, ;
widch is purely American, and contains some
novel scenic and mechanical effects.
journalist, Georoe Alfred has written Townsend, drama called theHewYork) “Crom-|
a
well,” which deals with the history of the!
protector up to and including the proteo-j
torate.
Mrs. W. G. Noah, one of the great ae-j
tresses of fifty years ago, who played rival)
engagements with Fanny Kemble and sup-,
ported the elder Booth and Forrest, is still)
living in Rochester, N. Y.
Edwin Booth, who recently finished a very
successful engagement in Pittsburg Philadelphia, de-;
dined an engagement in upon a
guarantee ol $10,000 clear for a spsgle week,
lie preferred to go to Boston. 1 .
“The Marchioness,” as played by Lotta la
London, is a new adaptation- of the Incidents
of the novel, by Charles Dickens, “Old Curiosity) who naa
merely arranged his father’s
(Shop’’ into a series of disconnected scenes,
not, in any sense of the word, making a>
drama.
The New York Orchestral society has an)
orchestra of amateurs viola, composed violinceUo, as follows:; two
Ton violins, one flutes, one oboe, three
double basses, saxophone, two two oue trumpets (oor
.clarionets, one trombones,
nets probably), two horns, two
one piano and two drums.
The Modjeska ranch out commenced in California, yield¬
which cost her $00,Odd, lias
ing a profit, bringing the antypts $5,000 “luck the
other day, which she looked upon as
money,” and invested it in a tiara and ear¬
rings to wear as a wort of mascotte in Mau¬
rice Barrymore's new play.
fact iun witli 1’iM reference Mull Gazelle to the notes well-known an interesting) song,
“I Arise from Dreams of Thee.” it wasoom-l
posed by Mr. Charles K. Halamon, who, not!
recognizing 1 lie hit he had made, sold it for;
TH, copyright right and all. The present holder little In- of)
t! at derives from it the nice
eoine of i-HOO a year.
Mr. T. Slater Smith, manager of
Bunch 10,” Inis purchased a new time play, in
which will be produced for the first
Philadelphia on March 17. The title is
“ Kentucky Belle,” which applies not only horse- to
the heroine, but to a celebrated race
that Ims lieeu named after her. The play!
nils a number of sensational effect*, a novel,
fire scene, and a reproduction of a race
course.
MOMJNliNT riiOPLE.
Vanderbilt. —Careful estimates place the
value of William H. Vanderbilt’s outfit, 1
when he drives, at $150,000.
Huntoon.— Colonel Nathan Huntoon, in of
Unity, N. H., is the Initiated oldest Free in Mason 181)2. the)
world, having been
of Palmer. Illinois, —Ex-Uovernor in early life John a clock M. iieddler.| Palmer,)
was
He studied law by the advice of Stephen A.
Douglas.
Whittier.— John G. influential Whittier, Abolition-! the poet;
Is about the last of the
ists belonging to the Pliillips-Uarrison era
left alive.
Packard. —Professor Alphous S. Packard, >
of Bowdoin college,who is now in his been eighty- ill 1
fifth year, suys that he has never a
day ill Ills life.
Villaro.— Henry Villard is not a very
poor mati after all. It is given out that he
will manage to Have $1,000,000 from the
wreck of his fortune.
Black uurn. —Senator-sheet J C. B. Black¬
burn, of Kentucky, is forty-six years old, and Hi*
is tall, square shouldered and sinewy.
features are handsome, and large, blue-gray
eyes look out above a heavy brown muss
taohe. is , forty
Ueobqe.—H enry George, who now
five years of age, begun life as a then printer.
Afterward he became a sailor, Record, a re¬
porter on the Baoramento next
owner of the Bail Francisco Post, and later
he took to lecturing His wife is a lady of
Irish parentage and Australian birth.
Pierce,—B Methodist ishop G. F. Pierce, of South, Georgia,
the great louder of the re¬
cently celebrated his golden wedding Rev. Lotto at
Bparta. The tho bishop’s gieat father, apostle of Georgia
Methodism, Pierce, was and for half century tha
over a
■on has followed vigorously the loader. path set by
the father as an ecclesiastical
Wheeler.— An intimate frleud of Mist
Ella Wheeler, the poetess, now In New Or¬
leans, says that young lady is to be married
in early spring to a Mr. Wheeler Y orko, of this twenty- cityj
Bhe also says that Miss is
six years old, and with her pen has earned
and paid for a lovely little home, in which
■lie resides with her mother and a younger
sister whom she educated.
Bradlauoil— Charles Hradlaugh, tic toft
del member of the British partiaine-t w
brother who ii actively uga-" ' ,r
cal work. The latt/
ences with his brow,
opinions, companionship and thougl bet
..
loves him as much i
looks for his oonve
An I
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