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CDEBENT COMMENTS.
Ssw York has under lock and key in her
prisons, penitentiaries and reformatories an
army of convicts numbering 15,699. This is
an increase of 53 per cent in ten years, concur¬
rent with an increase of 23 per cent in the to¬
tal population of the state.
Without speedy legislation to protect game
in the western states and territories, it is safe
to predict that in five years from now, at the
present rate of destruction, there will be very
few elk, buffalo, mule deer, .or antelope to
hunt. The hide hunters are destroying game
in a wasteful and reckless manner. As an in¬
stance of the wholesale destruction now going
on it may be mentioned that in the past year
the hide hunters killed more than 25,000 buffa¬
loes between the Yellowstone and the headwa¬
ters of the Little Missouri.
I Since Queen Victoria ascended the throne
she has received an annual allowance of £385,
000 for her expenses, but of this amount Ho
less than £131,220 is absorbed in the salaries
paid to the fortunate people whose duty it is
to aid in spending her majesty’s handsome in¬
come. Sometimes the British people feel a
ripple of indignation when they reflect that
such an immense sum is swallowed up annually
by a horde of titled drones, who in reality do
nothing to earn the salaries which they draw
With such great regularity.
'
It is claimed that the population of Florida
has doubled since the census of 1880. Settle¬
ments are springing up all over the state with
magical rapidity, and it is believed that there
are now in the state fully 100,000 tourists and
pleasure seekers. The real estate fiend flour¬
ishes inFloridalike the greenbay tree,he hangs
out his shingle in the wilderness with aB much
oofidence as he would feel in the crowded oity.
Towns with high sounding names are spring¬
ing up all over the state, and there is no doubt
as to the permanence *and prosperity of these
enterprises.
i The New Jersey law making it a penal of¬
fence to sell cigars, cigarettes and chewing
tobacco to boys appears to work well. The
magnitude of the tobacco evil among boys is
not sufficiently well understood. The use of
nicotine in excess is very injurious to adults,
i>ut it is infinitely worse for youths. It stunts
■them physically and mentally, and blunts their
moral perceptions. Any law prohibiting the
sale of tobacco to children is difficult to enforce
because the small shopkeepers are the worst
offenders. The most effective scheme ever
suggested was a law empowering every adult
to cane on sight any boy caught smoking.
Lieutenant Gabunoton, whe was in charge
of the government relief steamer, Proteus, last
summer, is possitively certain that the Greely
party is safe. Greely had plenty of provisions
to last him through the winter, and he was
stationed where ho could get all the fuel he
needed. Under these circumstances there is
no reason why Greely and his men should not
all be alive and in the best of health. Of
course the cold weather is hard to stand;
Lieutenant Garlington is anxious to return to
the Arctic regions, and will make application
to be permitted to accompany the Greely relief
party this summer.
The great sensation of the day is the new
motor. This new motor is simply the vapor of
hi sulphide of carbon. It has been in practi¬
cal use in driving machinery in New York city
tor the last six months, but in so quiet a man¬
ner that the general public knows nothing
about it. Bi-sulphide of carbon can be manu¬
factured abundantly at a cost of $3 per hun¬
dred weight. The force of this vapor is irre¬
sistible, and heretofore the difficulty has been
in controlling it. The inventor has organized
a company with $8,000,000 capital, and the
motor will be speedily brought before the pub
lie.
Cremation really appears to be entering
Upon a boom. New Orleans now has a crema¬
tion society, which is going actively to work,
anil intends to build a crematory in a short
time. Its members urge that the public health
demands cremation in New Orleans above all
other cities, because of the low, wet land in
and surrounding the city. The society is com¬
posed of the most nrominent and public spiri¬
ted of the citizens. One thing that it wants to
get is an ordinance authorizing the cremation
of all who die in smallpox hospitals, and of all
who are to be be hurried at the public expense.
Fublic opinion seems to be moving more rapid
idly than hitherto towards cremation.
A committee of the Mississippi legislature,
in reporting upon the convict lease system,
says that crimes have been committed under
the guise of the law more cruel and offensive
than in the Fleet and Marshalsca, under the
English .ystem. The prison system has been
mu without expense to the state, hut this has
been done at the expense of the lives of help¬
less, manacled creatures, and the profit can
only be regarded as blood money. The com¬
mittee recommends the greatest activity on the
part of the superintendent in order to protect
convicts from cruel treatment. In regard to
the sub-letting system the report says it is so
horrible that the commitiee deem it improper
to make public it* horrors.
Only two of the five full generals of the con¬
federacy are living. These are, Joseph E.
Johnson, ex-United States senator, residence,
liiclimond, Ya., and General P. G. T. Beaure¬
gard, adjutant-general of Louisiana, who lives
in New Orleans. Of the 21 lieutenant gener¬
als, but nine are living: General Wade Hamp¬
ton, United States senator, Columbia, S. C.;
General Gordon, ex-United States senator,
Atlanta, Ga.; D. H. llill is president of an Ala¬
bama college ; 8. D. Lee is president of a Mis
sissipi college ; Jl P. Stewart is president of
the university of Mississippi ; Jubal Early is
principal owner of the Louisiana lottery, at
New Orleans ; S. B. Buckner is a farmer in
Kentucky, and a possible governor, and Joseph
E. Wheeler is a member of congress from Ala¬
bama. General Longstreet is a United States
marshal for the state of Georgia.
In a recent article in the New York Indepen¬
dent, Rev. Dr. Dorebester states that the aver¬
age per capita consumption of spirits in this
country sixty years ago was five gallons a head
and it is not over two gallons a head now.
This may astonish temperance advocates, bnt
it is nevertheless a fact that within the last 60
years the production of spirits has not grown
as rapidly as our population. The use of alco¬
hol in the arts has increa»-d enormously, and
the consumption per adult for drinking purpo
see is probably much iess than half what it was
two generations ago. The cause of this de¬
crease is probably dne in not unequal shares to
the influence of the temperance organization
and the progress of beer drinking. The fact
is that the bulk of the liquor drinking in this
conntrr is done by foreigners. Intemperance
is 6/6 gradually ceasing to be an American vice,
Gendehs butter is a thing of the past. Very
little of it is to be found on sale in the large
cities, and even wealthy peopie sometimes find
,t . impossible . , 1o to get thft the real ^rtinife article. The The
method of making butter from .wine is very
simple. Leaf lard i» run through a hasher and
then rendered at a temperature of 140. Next
it in deodorized and cooled in ice water for
from tbirty-ffix hours to fonr or five days. Ai
terward it is drained off, melted, churned and
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mixed with cream butter. The percentage of
butter used is from twenty to fifty, ordinarily
about forty. Oils are used to produce the de¬
sired color. It is a settled fact that the live
cow cannot compete with the dead hog in the
matter of making butter. Very few retailers
admit that they are selling a substitute. They
take the, cover from a tub of oleomargerine, lay
it on the counter bottom side up and set the
tub in it. 1 hat conceals the oleomargerine
brand on the cover. Then they conceal the
brand on the tub by putting a “best creamery
butter” placard over it and they retail the stuff
for butter.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC
The first comedy wa? -performed at. Ath¬
ens, 552 B. 0.
Mr. Lawrence Barrett will . lay at the
Lyceum, London, 111 the eud of May.
Henry Irving says that Joe Jefferson is
the only foreign ad or woo has been univer¬
sally accepted in Engl md.
Johann Strauss haj agreed to accept the
offer of th ■ imperial opsra ot v .e-iua an d
write a genuine comic opera.
Miss Auer, an Ameri-an prima donna,
will make her debut in i’aris, at the Opera
Comique, in Gounod's “Mo vefile.”
Mary Anderson, at the L - urn theatre, £365
night; London, that is playing close to an •$! 1,000 averu ..v»k. of a
is oil a
Emma Abbott is said to have made more
money in California than all tho operatio
combinations, big and little, in the country
have made this season.
Thursday, April 17, has been fixed upon
as “actors’day,” when special matinees will
be given in the New York th atres for the
benefit of the actors’ fun 1.
Gertrude Griswold, one of the American
girls who has been singing in Paris, has been
engaged for the coining opera season at
Covent Garden in London.
Manager Harris, of the London Drury
Lane, is a b Id and skilful advertiser. His
latest is to invite the wives and children of
all bishops and clergy to come to see his
pantomime wit bout price.
A young American laly. Miss Ma id
Powell, has achieved a success in London as a
violinist. She is a pupil of the Paris Con¬
servatoire society and has so far appeared mostly in
concerts.
Colonel Mapleson told a Chicago the re¬
porter the following story as illustrating
demands of opera 1 ic singers: "Max Stra
koseh at one time had a number everyb of big Just peo¬
ple with him. He had paid idy. lie
before a matin e, one afternoon, was
stricken with paralvsis. One of his si gees
heard of it, and immediately refused to sing.
‘ But he is V'tv bad an of l ! s paralyzed,’they aralyzed”
told her. ‘What side him is
she asked. ‘The left side.’they said. right ‘Then
he ran sign a mortgage with his baud,’
she reolie.1, ami lie actua V ha 1 to do it be¬
fore she would sing.”
Mr. Henry Irving’s sons show much
cleverness in tableau* and recitations. They
recefifely Surface took the parts or* Joseph and Charles of
in an amateur performance
“ 'I he School for Scandal,” ami are said to
have shown dramatic talent of a high order.
Charles Barnard, one of the editors of
the Century magazine, has hit upon a new
idea. He has written the books for several
comic operas and the music has been Alfred supplied
by such excellent composers as Col¬
lier, Frank Howson and Dr. Fierce. These
works are intended for performance by chil¬
dren or by professional adults for the enter¬
tainment of children.
Barnum’b circus will have 873 names on
its pay rolls, (540 in the exhibition depart¬
ment, 210 ou the cars and twenty-three
agents, the daily expenses being $ >,' 00. The
tents will seat 21,0 00 persons, and for the
first time doub'e tents will b^ in cirried, so
lhat while the circus is playing one town
the preparations will be in tde in the nex%
There are eleven pa ace cars, seven advance
advertising cars and fifty-four cars for cages
and properties.
The Chicago News says that the other
night “a rich miner from Neva !a who is in
the city, strolle l into Hi v rly's, ani watched
the ‘ 8ilv r King ’ wi h a great deal o ' in¬
ter'st. He was par;icularlv struck with the
acting during of Miss Tracy, md and became that so he enthu
s.astic he sec act aro^e
in his sea , and l ulling a 8-JO the go’d piece token from
his pocket, tossed i' upon stage asa
ot hi.s applic ation f r her w >rk. His act on
was noticed by many in the house, a id oc
casioned no little comment. Miss Tracy,
Jcuowing the customs of the far West, so it
ho** thanks to the mi le •. w io ha l ;on« into
the lobby, together with the w >r 1 that she
would keep the money as a sou v mir.”
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
Arkansas is developing valuable coal
beds.
San Antonio is the horse market of tho
South.
Texas rates as the sixth State in railroad
mileage.
There are nine circuses in the country
this season.
The assessed property valuation of Texas
is $520,000,000.
Mississippi is making rapid strides in the
manufacture of wool.
Texas plants 200,000 more acres in corn
than she does in cotton.
The proposed reform bill in England will
enfranchise 2,000,000 ra u n.
Hundreds of farm houses in Arkansas
have never yet been b'essed with cooking
stoves.
It is sail that the Salvation army is mak¬
ing many converts among the negroes of the
South.
A factory with facilities for making 100,
000 wooden dishes per ( ay is to lie erected in
Chattanooga, Teun.
The Russian army consists of; Genera’ ;,
staff, and superior officers, 20,074. and mm,
830,145; in all, 804,213.
There are over sixty -five Mormon elders
engaged in proselyting in ail sections of the
South, and the force will be doubled in May
The people of the United States will rr
cover fully 100,000,000 acres of land by
recent action of Congress in canceling
road grants.
Ff.nce-cutting has been made a felc
the Texas legislature, and the inch
tne property of small land owners in
X astures is pirohibited.
An American church is soon to bi
in Dresden, the necessary funds ba
raised at a series of private th
cently given under the auspices <■
can colony in that city.
IIow to Know Tour Fn
A miserly old Earl had fa!’
an estate worth some tho
pounds. Being always reputeu
his relations looked askance at lum.
I Unaware of bis altered circumstances,
he tried the following ruse to know who
; were his friends; At the beginning of a
hard winter old skinflint a},,died little to liis
« relations individually him for the a winter. assist- Only
j ance to tide over
one, a niece, a poor teacher, responded
j by Bending €o of her hard-earner pi
tance, With a promise of more when her
Shortlv thereafter
, the 0 'ld man sickened and died, and to
^ ^tonUhment sad chagrin of his
host of relations he thed to th©
poor teacher, whose Itearfc was in the
right place, his whole estate, amounting
in all to £20.000
HAMILTON, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 1884.
Iff H WK 0 J* THE iy P! RTC ^
Eastern and middle States. j
John McGinnis was hanged the other day
in Philadelphia for the murder of his moth
er-in-law. He first shot his wile, who had
left him and gone back to her mother on ac
count o r his mtemiierate habits and then l
put two bullets into the elder woman. His
wife recovered, but her mother died.
The United Slates inspectors at Boston
who investigated the recent City of Columbus
disaster in th«|y report condemn the Captain
S. E. Wright, in command at time the
vessel was wrecked, and revoke his license.
From a circular issued at Pittsburg, Penn.,
by the United States Brewers' association,
at appears that the brewers and liquor deal¬
ers of the country are taking stops to or¬
ganize politically without regard to party.
The boiler In J. T. Trees’ dyeing establish¬
Jobn ment at Lawrence, Jr., Ma«., engineer, explode and fatally 1, killing in¬
Trees, the
juring William Moreland and Michael Cro¬
nin, two employes. So great was the force
of the explosion that the three buildings
were shattered into splinters. Pieces 400 of the
boiler and debris were thrown feet,
crashing through roofs of dwellings, but for¬
tunately injured no one.
Jay Gould, the noted New York financier,
sailed the other day from New York in his
famous yacht Atalanta for the West Indies.
Pond, The boiler exploded, of the Boston killing mill, at Bryant’s while
Me., four men,
another was badly injured. Three of the
killed were boiler-makers from Boston, who
had just repaired the boiler, which burnt
while they were gathering up tlioir tools.
A YO N : woman dressed in men’s clothes
stopped a young m m early in the morning
on one of the principal leveled streets pistol of Philadelphia, compelled
and at the iKiint; of a
him to “sand and deliver ’’ his money in or¬
thodox highwayman fashi .n.
South and West.
Jesrb Stephens, (colored) aged twenty
one veal's, was handed at West Point, Miss., old
for the murder of Porch Westbrook, an
colore 1 man who ha 1 accused the murderer
of stealing his n; Ions.
A crowd of me took a prisoner from the
constables at Allapha, Ga., defied the civil
authorities, and so terrorized the town that
the mayor telegraphed to the governor him the for
assistance, which was sent to in
shape of a comjiauy of militia.
After partaking of canned blaekberrie
the Guthrie family, prominent residents o
Bogersvilie Junction, East Tennessee, were
taken ill with symptoms of poisoning. H our
children (lied soon a ! ter, and the mother was
not expected to recover.
Trouble between a Cathode pne-t at
Corning, Ohio, and a druggist named Mc
Devitt led the latter to cause tne arrest of
the former on Che charge of running a
gaming device at a fair. Tho pri»st de¬
nounced McDevitt from proceeded the pulpit, McDovitt’s and at
night a body of men t >
store, led him out, took off all his clothing
and compelled him to leave town and swear
that he would never return. For this action
twenty-five men were arrested.
Martin E. Van Fleet, treasurer of Huron
countv, Ohio, decamped for Canada with
about *75,0 )0 of the county funds.
Hon. Kenneth Rayner, solicitor of the
United States treasury, died a few days since
in Washington, aged seven y-six years. He
was born in North Carolina in 1808, bad
served two terms in Congress and was author
of a life of Andrew Johnson.
Ohio Prohibitionists assembled in State
convention at Columbus and appointed Pitts¬ dele¬
gates to the national convention at
burg on May 81.
At the Lou siana Republican State con¬
vention, held in New Orleans, a State delegation
to the national convention and a ticket,
hea led by John A. Stevenson for governor,
were chosen. The national delegation is un¬
derstood to be for Arthur for first choice.
During a quarrel at "San Leandro, Cal.,
William Scollard drew a revolver and shot
Aleck Dietrichsen, a saloon-kee|>er, of dead. son’s
Whe;i Scollard’s father wes told his
act, he exclaimed: “My God, can this be?”
and fell dead.
The California legislature has been sum¬
moned in extra session for the purpose of
taxing and governing the railroads through¬
out the State.
Two men were killed and a third was fatal
ly injured by the explosion Mich of a saw-mil
boiler at Onondaga,
John Griffin, a Maryland cattle dealer,
an 1 one of the best known and wealthiest
men in the State, win found murdered and
robbed near Frederick At first it was
thought natural causes had led to his death.
Two men were arrested on suspicion.
During a fire which destroyed the main
business block of the little town killed of by Memphis; falling
Mo., three three persons others were fatally and four
walls, and more
badly injured.
Frank Randb, the notorious desperado
and convict who madean attempt upon the
life of a deputy warden in the State peni¬
tentiary at Joliet, Ill., and who was placed
in a solitary cell, hanged himself. Rande, killed
whose real name was Charles C. Scott,
no less than five men in 1377,and is supposed
to have murdered thirteen persons in Indi¬
ana, Illinois and Missouri.
Long-continued rains have caused much
damage to property and great delay in travel
in Southern California.
A special posse of twelve picked men,
armed to the teeth and commanded by State
Constable Richbourgj proceeded residence secretly of
from Columbia, 8. C., to the
Colonel Cash near Cheraw. Colonel Cash
wa; captured, but his son escafied Into from the
adjacent swamp. A posse of fifty men
Cheraw was sent after young Caah.
A snow slide half a mile wide at Alta,
Cob, swept away the works of the New
Emma mi killing «us ... Lybecker, foreman;
e, machinist, and brother;
D. D. Wasson, '"’harles <”■ ’ and
Samuel Prathers, T.
wife; Edward C” 7
Johnson, N. S.
and John Tl
glide ever
dist rict.
high. '~
e.
Uams and ia,;.- ziien. and
Williams was tryirn .onite
% color ed n (,«.., an n. wh ___o were fighting, when
| j ^ngston interfered and an altercation
_ revolver and
arose ___; J^angston polled out a Speneer,
egan firing, hitting Williams and
a bystander.
Ex-Postmaster General Jakes and ex
Attornev General Mac ea<h have testified
before the House committee giving an ac¬
count ofthe Initiation of the star route pros¬
ecution and the directions of President Gar
eld In reference t > the?n.
Rev Henry Ward Beecher and Henry
Irving- the Eugiidi actor, were among recent
sailers on the Presi dent.
Consuls nominated by the President:
Archer Rus-eli I’latt, a'. Chefoo, China; Wil
Us Edwards Baker, at Rosalia, Argentine
Republic.
Further nominations by the President!
Colonel John Newt in of the engineer corps,
to p e «hief 0 f engineers with rank of briga
dier seneral: 1 narii E. Wales, of Delaware,
to be 1 nited Stat 'S district judge of the dis
N rict of Delaware.
Mb. White, the of Kentucky, who was the only
member of Hou^e voted against the
passage of the nava’ appropriation oilL
The Senate committee on Territories has
agreed to give the name Lincoln to the new
Territory which it is proposed to make out
cf th« northern portion of Dakota.
Since the introduction of two-cent letter
postage thoro hash 1 n an unexpected red uc
tii n in the i.unmer of postal cards issued and
an increase in the number of stamps sold.
Susan B. Anthony, Phnebe Couzens, Mr. -
Hagcert. a d other members of the Woman
Suffrage ass .ciation. in session at Washing
ton, made addresses before Ihe House judici¬
ary committee advocating their the extension of
tlie right of suffrage to sex.
Foreign.
Joaquin Ltmendoux, president and direc¬
tor of the Havana Savings bank, the o ily
institution of tho kiu 1 iu the city, has cn a
mitted suicide. The bank has suspeudol
payment in consequence.
In Tarragona, Soain, a shoemaker named
Perez, nineteen years of a ;c. enteral a c gar
store for the purpose of robbing and it Meeting fatally
with resistance he stabbed
wounded an old woman of eighty, her two
daughters and a servant.
John Arthur, o prominent stealing banker the of
Paris, has absconded after aggregating sav¬
ings of many persons, nearly
*550,000.
Mr. Parnell’s HU amending the Irish
land act has been rejected by the British
house of commons—335 to 72.
Two members of theflrm of Messrs. Parker,
London solicitors, have absconded, deeds. having Their
misappropriated clients’ title
liabilities are between $5,00.>.000 and $10,000,
two. They had borrowed *2,500,000 for va
rinus speculations.
Another man has committed suicide at
self-murder at that notorious resort since
January.
The death of Cardinal Caiuillodi Pietro,
born in Rome in 180ti, is announced.
A reward of £10 for each head of a
French soldier, a d £32 for the heal of an
ollicor, has been offero I by the commander
of the Black Flags hi Ton juin.
An a rray occurred at Pressa, and villagers, Italy, bo
tween laborers on the railroad
Catbineers interfered to suppress the dis
tin bance, and lired, t illing eight and wound
ing fourteen of the villagers.
The German reiefastag has been opened
Itiet'i^^ ! m' 1, 'was f .°i'a'l a < twretary
bv thH home
The speech asserts that tho chief task of tho
reirhs tag lies in the domain of social and
j olitical affairs, and rays that the einperor a
wish, tten“ which ha,Iwen e solemnly andrejieuUdly
workmen, hai mnt with full apprecia
tion on the part ofthe German people.
In the German reichstag. tod, that after funccio the pvesi
dent ha I been re-“"' jo iaiy
announced the deft-U of Herr Lasker and of
other members who had died during the re
vc—. Tlw deputies remained standing as a
mark of respect while this announceraent
w is being made. Derr Rickert, an indepen- Herr
dent, expressed thanks in the name of
Lasker’s friends for the numerous tokens of
sympathy j-articularly which grateful had to been the received. American H*wai Con
gross for the action of tb‘ House.
Tie r Hammersteiu, in behalf of tho conser
vatives, protested again-t the action of Herr
Rickert and against the course pursued by
theAmerican Congress. During remarks the exci- do
ing di-cussion that ensued
nunciatory of Bismarck’s action in returning
the resolutions to theAmerican Congress
were made. Herr Rickert charactemea
Bismarck's action as ‘ umustifiable inter
ference.” whereupon an uproar arose.
Two Aral, chiefs who arrived recently at
Suakim report (hat during tho recent battle
with General Graham’s troops Osman D.gna s
forces lost 0,00 1 killed and wounded.
Nearly a hundred dynamite prsons suspected of
complicity by in plots arc bemg,
watched tho police ».Franc,.
Notwithstanding the furious attacks
mode upon him by the German zovernmant minister
press, Mr. Sartrent the American ito
Gern any, has decided not to resign.
The bodies of Jerome Collins, the meteorol
ogist of the Jeannette, and his mother, were
!■■insisting n KSrsS3 various .
EoSeties, g of the town cori(oration
and merchants and tradesmen.
Emperor William, of Germany, and the
c/ar of Russia, will meet in Juno ^ barm
stodt.
A Berlin dispatch says that a majority cf
the houses belonging to Jews in Neustetfcin
have been destroyed by a mob.
One member of the Canadian house of
farliament at Ottawa, while intoxicated,
savagely assaulted another member witth a
stick in the legislative chamber, but was dis¬
armed before he could do any harm.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Ghant. —General Grant has gone to Old
Point Comfort, Va., for the benefit of bis
health.
ARTOR. —The. Aster family own in
York city 1,200 house- valued at ah
0)0.000.
SpuRf TON, M- S
j j joum town her in han future , retu/uet «
Cady homestead, where
eight yearn a^o, -he will
ot her days.
Palmer. —Thomo* Palmer
king’" H«*nator from Michigr
should* 1, healtby-lookirn .
tbrw.th a full face, a
and re ; -i-. b ack ey*-s. He
a ’«teu artist. When he r
*»ye« ' »t failed and he we
hr* b, with a fellow fitnr.v.
ot all over Spain, taxi n,
te ♦- r ing ruins, collection pretty of girls, *
i Senator .ade up still a owns and prizes picture ajglu,.
SUMMARY Or CONGRESS
Senate.
Mr. Sherman introduced the following hill
grouting copyright to newspapers: “Any
da ly or weekly newspajier, or any associa¬
tion of any daily or weekly newspapers, of
published in thoUnitot States, or any the
Territories thereof, shall have the role right
to print, issue and soil, for the term of eight
hours dating from the hour of going to press,
the contents collected of said daily or of weekly said news pi¬
pers. or the news newsaper
association, exceeding one hundred words.
For any infringement section of the this copyright the
granted by the first of act
^MrSlcton, action the damages and sustained mswetonany by him prop- from
er togoth
the person making the suit”.... infringement, Bills
er with the costs of were re
jmrted favorably: To provide for the issue
of duplicate checks for government officers
in cases of losses of the originals; dedicating
the military reservation of Plattsburg,
N. Y.. to the village for appropriation a pub
lie park.....The military
caUsAtTelveTfpoin? should mfiitery be academy eligible
dismissed for hazing not
for The reappointment. bill providing for the nrotoetion and
adding'"some°2,OOf?square nifies to*Wi^'i(ft providing ritj
was passed.... A bill was reported of marriage
for the collection of statistics
and divorce. which the Mexican , treaty had ^
Tho vote by toY h!
ITp’ for the invention construction of
Emery for testing iron aim and steel.... Tho
a machine of
Pendleton bill providing of the extra a system territorial courts
for the exercise juris
diction of the United Stales was pissed.... the iiiil
A favorable report wus made .
mairmatter fixing tho rate of postage l to be when paid upon sent
of chnsocon cia s,
fcy others than publishers transient or news agents. at
It fixes the rate on newspapers
onecentfor four ounces; the present rate
sing one oent f ir tw mi ic es.
The Senate fire-proof passed u hall bill of appropriating records
*2. r >n,000 for a in
Washington.. . .The bill making a mu rit\
«r wm
RRj- M P umb »%S^SSrlK pie anted a majority
« A,,, £ £ H of’Cfkiy^ introduced
fen - Korbes,
*75,000 .’ for his Historical studios, sketches,
otl „f bittles. marches, camps, incident!
and characters of the army of the Potomac,
made on the field in 1861.
On motion of Mr. Voo- -=»» the Honato took
u ,, a nd passed various hi;,» providing for the
c instruction of public buildings in various
cities and at; total costs for sites and bull 1
ings, as follows; Augusta, Me., *150,0011;
Camden, N. J., *75,000; Carson 'wLo’ City. Nev.,
*d 0 OJKK) ; Oreenvilie, S C Texas'
OK);' ^.‘o doC,■ Ban Antonio’, *400,1)00; Texas Mont- t'.W,
Ban Francisco,
Vk,
Mwim, J *!" mnonenar, «. n.,
A *p“)5k)- Ga.!
J V " " ’ Oshkosh* V^ls.,’ Augusta
, ( ( l() *H)!)J)W; Fort
*lot),0()i>; Huntsville, Atn.,
*1.HMSI0; Nehm^ Wt^ N^ *75.«i<> i
^^M.^RulogUs late V^the Representative llfe^anl llus
P h nT -a ter of the
k(<) | 0 r Kansas, were passed bill
Mr. Bhennan introduced the following “Any
; prm)tinf? weekly copyright to iitwspaiwrs: oasoola-
1a lv or newspaiw, or any
* ;n ‘ 0 f ai) y daily United or States, weekly newspajierH, of the
Territories published In thereof, the shall have the or any sole right
,,,-iut, issue and so LI, for tho term of eight
hours dating from th« hour of going to praw,
contents of Kaid daily or woekly newspa
, prs, or the collected news of said nowsapm
association, exceeding one hundred words,
F( , r any infringement, section of of the this copyright not tho
ftIlte:t by the first,
,, {^terd, ar .|,y injured may sue, in any oourt of com
jurisdiction, and recover in any prop
(>r nc tion the da"ia es sustained by him from
the person making the Infringement, togeth
c] . w (t.h the costs of suit”.... Bills were to
, j, lort ed favorably: To for provide ivo-nment. for the officers ri-n
f ,|, lp licate ( hocks g
j n cases of losses of the originals; Plattsburg, dedicating
the military reservation of
n. Y.. to tho village for a pub
’ic park.....The military appropriation
l,i 1 ’*m,"Wc'I.’i'oict mUlterv aca lem
foSpZtment. *
Horn*.
Ellis reportei adverse! v from the coin
nrt.tee on appropriation bills for the relief of
Kiitforers by the Moo I in tne lower Mississippi
vaitry an i the tornado in North Carolirut,
time to time with infermation of the pro- W
grass of the floo Is In the valley of the
rtwpPh nd ^ tuch".Offering Z,
» ^
“^f to,I V M
relief on of
Congress. The resolution was adopted.... elec
In aooor lance with a report from tho
tions committee, T. Luua wa unseats \ an a
Delegate <q Co i gras, from Sew Mtrxico, ao a
F A Manzanares wfin sworn in m his steau.
A <h ba’ took: place on ihe bill to roti
General Alfred Pieasonton, with the rank
colonel. The bill was recommitted wltho
instructions by a vote of VM 11'.
its evening session the House pa ed bills
granting a Txmsioo to The wnl» y o* -e.1
Judson Kilpatrick. «nd increas
sion of the w i do» r ,eor
to $50 a month
The Prefrfd.
report of *"
Ine into
this co
>!' IC
$1.00 A YEAR.
THE SAW DUST OPERA.
HOW IIUUSKM ARB TRAINED FOR THE
CIRCUS RING.
The IHont Spirited Anlmnlt* not Wanted-A
Steady lleast With u PhlCHinattc I)i«po
Mltlon the Best.
‘ ‘How lire horses trained for the ring ?”
asked a reporter of a well known circus
man.
“Yon the , horses which ...
mean Upon _
riders perform their feats ? I will begin
| saying that the host age at which to
selecting fain > >»«*> » for {ro Ihc ® purpose ^OBixyears you must to
one
first decide what kind of riding you
w ish to use him for. As you doubtless
k w c j rcus ,;fij nK j a 0 f two kinds,
namely, principal ... acts and manege a a Ma
.
Principal acts are those in which tho
B1 y 8 t lidos in standing position pirouetting, and per
f orm8 various feats, such as
B-niping and throwing somersaults over
objects, oto. Principal acts may bare be
ridden either upon the horse’s
(,ack, or upon a pad saddle. They may
acta, the performer riding any of thoso
number of horses all at the same time;
or they may be hurdle acts, bars or
hurdles being placed in the ring and
i‘or« f « jumping over them. Manege**.
are those in which a horse is ridden
under nil ordinary saddle by a lady the or
gentleman in a park riding dress,
object • , , being, : as t tne i 1B nnrae name oi u t 1,e e not uei
implies, to display the skill of the rider
in managing the horse. For hurdle nd
ipg vou want the most dashing, spirited,
|,j„h-mettl6(l horse you can get. hut
. '“'"T, tnr aov tlilhWl other form of Amldnos nritictoftl
act, should not he high-bred, shorn t l os
sens little or no spirit, and should disposition be of
n dull, plodding, phlegmatic
ti, n t nothing horse? oan excite. Having selected
your tho tint thing to do is to
—“»?}■•• ‘bit’him, that is, to make his mouth so
bit that he will instantly
^l’ 011 ' 1 to the slightest accomplished pressure with upon
it. This may be some
horses in ft few Weeks, while others will
require months and some, perhaps, evon
a
“After tho horse is well bitted he is
P nt . * . nt0 , tlle ""ft • j,i J?* roller 1 ?' or sur
cmgle around hisfiody, , his head 1 mug
kept m position stands by the bearing-up-reins. centre of the
His trainer in
ring and holds one end of a long rein,
called a lunge, of which the other end
is attached to the horse’s bit. In this
way ho is sont around the ring, and when
he has mastered the idea that he is to
keep on going around and around tho
sawdust circle without deviating from it
tlm men and boys connected with the
circus practice vaulting on bis back to
aC( . lwtl „ m | lim to what he must undergo
and to give him what is called the
‘balance of tho ring. Ihen the paper
covered hoops, through which riders
■ tip, wide pieces of cloth, called
bannerB, mrs ’ over over wiiien which thev wioy lean and * tho ^
other objects used Itl principal acts, are
held lip and lie is made to pass them
un t,j] he will do so without showing the
H |i„i,test £ tendency to shy or frighten,
Then, If if ha he is 18 demimed deBlgnea tor ror ft ft pad pft m horse B),
tho pad IS placed upon him, all to the accustom other
fijm to it. Sometimes, after
H (,,ges of his training have been suc
cAssfullv cesHtnlyi Deseed , he will not submit to
tho pod, but will kick to niton an extent . .
that it cannot bo placed of upon tho him. ring ulto- Ho
m „st then be taken out
ther Formerly it was thought that
p mirses t for nT orinoitml principal acts acts could cornu not notgo CO too wio
faHt, but now they are allowed to go mori
slowly, difficult to enable feats. their riders to perlorm
more should be
horse for a manege act
tho handsomest that can be obtained
should bo horse good for stock this in style every of way. rid
f I „ training ® a H hmincr mimt
mg the gtmt P°intlH bitting lie m i t
bo bitted muen more cftreiuuy man a
horse designed for any other purpose.^
jfo must then go through ft course of
fu j training to loam the various
“
execute, Sticll as dancing, piaffing—ft raised
peculiar gait, in which the legs are
bent and are then slowly_ extended
marching, rearing and walking on the
hmd logs, extending different feet, Btep
ping over hurdles, buck jumping, up
w ,tting chairs, etc.
ft manege horse everythinf
depends i on ai the bridle i \ hand, which mu
},p very steady. It is of very r
ref juires an o*«or n4 ‘ eai
that tht "k
eaonoKposslb noHHib 7
mere if
ainiiiB
THE JOKER’S BUDGET.
WHAT THE JOKER FINDS IN THE H<
jtlOKOl/M PAPERS TO BE TUANK.
FU1. FOR.
A COM) SNAP. ’
“I had hardly entered the room,”
jaid he, -with a tremulous voice, “when
a mist suddenly gathered before inch my in
eyes. I was unable to see an
front of me. I heard the murmur of
voices, and then—”
“You fainted,” quiokly put in his
friend.
“No; I wiped the frost off my
glasses .”—Chicago News.
A WARNING
“Will you be home to dinner?” asked
a Chicago woman of her husband as he
was about starting for business.
“No, I think not,” he answered, Besides, “I
expect to be very opened busy. just around a
new saloon is to be
the corner .from my office and I will
drop in there and get a little free
lunch." while of
• ‘Well,” said his wife, a wave careful
fear swept acrosB her face, “ be
not to get hurt in the rush ."—Evening
Call.
BEGINNXKG AT THIS BOTTOM.
An old negro and his son called on the
editor of a newspaper.
“I wants my son ter work inyer office,
auli.”
“What can he do ?”
“Oh, at fust he kaint do within’ but
cdick yer paper, but arter a while, when
he learns mo’ sense, ho ken black yer
hoots an’ sweep de flo ’.”—Arkansaw
Traveler.
A GENTLE REMINDER,
■Will you bo good enough to bring
me some butter?” said a traveler to
a hotel waiter. dish,
“You have butter on yonr butter
sir, ” returned the haughty knight of the
soup-ladle, in reproachful me,” said tones. the traveler,
“Oh 1 exense
“I took it for a greaso spot.” heard
And then no sound could be ex¬
cept the geutlo rustle of the dinner
goug .—San Francisco Post.
CAUSE FOR GRIEF,
“I gave that girl my heart’s devoted
love,” Bald Simpkins, ‘in a broken tone
of voice, pointing out a young lady on
tho street to his friend the other day.
“Well, what are yon blubbering
about?” was tho sympathetic she?” reply.
“She returned your love, didn’t
“Yes. That’s just the trouble. She
did return it. She said she wouldn’t
have it. She unfeelingly remarked that
n name alone was enough for her.”—
,
The Judge.
ANOTHER LITTLE QUEEN
“What shall we name baby sister ?’*
asked a mother of her little four-year
old daughter. Early, that’s
“Call her mamma; a
pretty name.” girl’s
“Early I That’s not a little
name.”
<‘Oh, yes it is. Don’t you remember
you read to me about the little girl who
Wftfl to lie the May Queen, and who
wanted her mother to eail her early."
A JIARPWORKER.
As showing the honesty of the average
ward striker, a prominent politician
warrants that at a recent eleotion, when
ho was a candidate for office, he went to
a poll in the eastern part oi mysteriously the city on
eleotion day, and was
beckoned to one side by a colored man.
“What do you want?” said I.
“Jess a leetle money, boss; iess a
loetle money to treat tho boys. I'se a
wuckin’ hard for yer, boss, I is.”
He had a large paokage of tickets in
his baud, and I thought I’d see how
hard he was “wiickin’ ” for me, so I
grabbed them away from him, and yon
giay shoot mo if my name wasn’t
scratched off every one of them !”— De¬
troit Free Press.
Our Sheep Interest
Mr. Harputor, of the Ohio Wool
Growers’ Association, before the Ways
and Means Committee of the House at
Washington gives the following figures
- relative to the sheep interest of this
country. There is a total of nearly Terri¬ 43,
000,000 sheep in the States and
tories, distributed very unevenly. Cali¬
fornia heads all with nearly 6,000,000
sheep and an annual vtelfl of 17,000,000 second
pounds of wool.
with 5,000,000 s' ’’ in
wool product!.
000,000 pome’ •’
1,500,1X10
pounds, neonoo '
i >