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CURRENT COMMENTS. i
Charms Barrett, of Ashbnrnham, Mass.,
cow 96 years old, had his life insured for $1,<
000 in 1843, Having reached the extreme
limit of life, according to the table of mortality
on which the insurance company does busi.
ness, the president sent him the other day a
check for the amount of his policy. It is be¬
lieved to be the only case on record where a
man has beaten an insurance company by out¬
living a death policy,
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We now make one-fifth of the iron aun one
fourth of the steel in the world and we furnish
one-half of the gold and one-half of the silver
of the world’s supply. 1 aking all the mining
industries of the world, the United States rep¬
resent 36; Great Brittian, 33, and all other na¬
tions 31 per cent of the total. Anglo-Saxon
.
dom, therefore, represents 69 per cent of the
mining industry of the earth.
The Chicago Live Stock Exchange nas re¬
solved that there is no such disease as eonta
gious pleuro-pneumoma in the United , States,
no foot and mouth disease in Illinois, Iowa or
Kansas, and that at no time within twenty
years have the cattle, hogs and sheep of this
ronntrv country Wn been sn so healthy henJthv im as now now. It It has has also also
sent a delegation to Washington to lobby .
against all cattle disease legislation.
The discussion of the red sunsets continues,
Probably the voloaule dust theory has the lar
ff °umber of followers. As a recent Been
tifia writer expresses it, a tremendous volcamo
eruption hurls into space dust, steam and gas,
and this mighty mass hangs like a cloud over
,, the earth. How „ long i this i« • dust , i is » to , envelope ,
the globe is a question, but it is suggested tnat
if the clouds owe their elevation to elcctrioal
repulsion there is no reason why they should
not stay is tha upper air for years, but if they
are slowly settling to lower levels tho action of
the rain drops will drag them down.
Is New York, Philadelphia, and otnor com- ! |
mercial centers, the merchants have inangura
ted a war on the druggists; and physio lias
- dropped fully forty per cent belew the regular
rates. The out rates apply mainly to tho pat
entmedioines. The grooers and other mer
eliants * ho are competing with the druggis s
say that , - x the * i average merchant va* has to ata bo sat
iufied with five or ten per cent profit, and there | |
is no reason why tho druggist should reap
Of tho ._ druggists , . . mad, .
any movo. course are
but what can they do about it? The war may
be only a flurry after ah, or it may result in
a permanent rednotion in the price* of patent ,
medioines. The matter wU shape itself aecoid
tag to tha laws of trade.
The ontira winter packing of pork in the
west is 5,402,064 hogs, against 6,132,212 last
year; avorago woiglit 251.44 pounds, a decrease
of 15.53 compared with last year. Tho de¬
crease iu tli» yield of lard per hog was 2.18
pounds. The pork production allows 273,858
pounds less than last year. Stocks of meat iu
the west, including barreled pork, were 113,
000,000 pounds less than a year ago. Exports
since November 1 are 47,000,000 pounds Ices
than a year ago, and 145,000,000 pounds less
than the average of the seven previous years
reported. The outlook for hog cupplies indi
eates about 15 per cent shortage for the sum¬
mer. The total packing for the twelve months
ending March 1 was 9,183,100 against 9,342,
999 the previous year.
Ouu preparations for a moro effleiont navy
will cause tho public to feel interested iu the
progress of Krupp’s latest ventures in the gr.u
line. Sevoral trials have been mado with
Krupp’s six inch guns, thirty-five caliber
length. A target representing the sides of an
iron man-of-war was constructed of ten-inch
hardwood timbers, with iron plates seven inch¬
es thick on each side, making fourteen inches
of iron and ten inches of wood. The range
was 150 metres and the projectile passed en¬
tirely through the target and buried itself in
the sand hill beyond. It is understood that
Krupp is now at work on a gnu that is expected
to accomplish s’ill greater results. It goes
without saying that even the most heavily
armed vessels cannot withstand guns of tho
Krupp stamp. In future ships of war will
sot be relied upon very largely in attacking a
well fortifiod seaport strongholds.
CoxsiDBttiNO the quantity of tea used in this
country, one would naturally supposo that our
people would know something about tea, but
tho fact is, they know next to nothing Most
of our tea comes from China, but it is the infe¬
rior grades, the spurious stuff which has been
artificially colored. The really good tea is
cither oonaumed in China or is sold abroad at
fancy prioes. The emperor of Itussia imports
to a at ©40 per poimfl, arxl it is a common Unn^
for wealthy people to pay $10 per Dound for it.
When good tea is secured you should use one
fnll tcaspoonfnl for each person ami one for
the pot; boil the water ir. a clean kettle, and
alien it boils put the required quantity in a
teapot and pour on the boiiing water, allowing
it to stand about fifteen minutes. Then ponr
into a fine china teapot to serve at the table.
Never make the tea in anything but a china or
brown stone pot.
With reference to the early life of Usman
Digna, the Suakim correspom'eiri of the Lon¬
don Timea writes that he was originally a bro¬
ker and trader, and principally a slave trader,
in Suakim and Jc-ddali, where he received a
severe financial blow, when, some six years ago,
a British cruiser captured two slave dhows full
of victims on the way to Jeddah. Osman Dig¬
it’s trade then fell from bad to worse, liis house
property in Suakim was ail mortgaged, and he
became hopelessly involved. Being of no great
distinction by birth, his selection by the Mahdi
fo lead a religious rebellion is attributed to the
•ecident that Osman Digna met the Mahdi,
«ho formed a high estimate of his ability and
influence, acquired through successful trading,
tr this history be trustworthy, passions for
other objects than holiness are the key note
of Osman Digua’s character and motives, and
it is against ali probability that he will cast his
goods and his position into tho broken balance
of brittle. He is no ignorant fanatic, and lie
cannot himself believe the myths which h*
multipli.s ta order to control his followers.
In 1880 there were 6,239,958 persons over ID
years of age who could not write, There are
prsbably now 7,000,000. Over nine per cent of
the whites ta this country can not write; 70 per
cent of colored persons ta the United States
cannot write. Of males over 21 there are 2,-
150,000 that can not write. One voter in seven,
in other words, cannot write his own name.
Sot over three-fourths of the voting population
is capable of reading and writing, says Senator
BLir. with such facility as to make these arts a
source of intelligent suffrage. About three
fourths of the illiterate voters are found in
states that have a large colored population. Iu
Georgia out of 321,438 males over 21 years of
age, there are 28.571 whites and 116,616 b.acks
who can not write. A little over 45 of c-icry
one hnndred are illiterate, although the ratio
f illiteracy in this state is not as high at it is
in Alabama, Louisiana, South Carolina or
Mississippi. This state has 145,087 illiterate
voters. There are in the state 446,GS3 persons
over 10 vears of age who can not read. These
figures of course largely represent the illiteracy
that exists among the negroes. There are,
however. 128,931 whit: ”2iter*tes in the state
of the age of 1$ years and upward*.
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VOI, XII. NO. 17.
’WTTi IqJ’iS
Eastern and Middle State
Hev. Henry Morgan, a well known Bcs- 1
to i preacher and lecturer, is dead,
Candle a fire in New York destroyed the Eloctrio, loss of
about company’s factory, causing a
$300,000.
: Slx children were poisoned near Meadvillo,
Penn _ by si ing the j uic0 of a trc0 which
they had tapped. Two of the little ones died.
John Jay Cisco, a prominent New York
banker, and for eleven years assistant United
States treasurer at New York, died the other
^ te a ^ u ^^tU rears. Ho left an
^ Island Delnocratic Staf0 C en
tral committee filled tho vacancies left in the
Stato ticket by tho resignation of Amasa
kprague and G. E. Gorman by tho noniina
tion of Elisha Matthowson, for lieutenant
goveraori and Frauds L. O. Reilly for attor
ney general.
°f A bill beaters providing defeated for tho public Massachu¬ whipping
wife was in the
setts House.
James Pratt, a seaman, arrived in New
York a few days since on board a Pacifies
Mail steamer. 'He was the only survivor of a
brig’s crow of eight Gulf men who had been
'wrecked in the Stream. Pratt was
com
pan ions dying in a small boat ono by one.
James Nutt, tho slayer of Dukes, at Union
town, Kan., Penn., take charge lias gono to Leavenworth,
to of his motor’s farm.
^ Ll ! disorder occurred in the
Is ew York State assembly at Albany during
considorr.tion of the mne bills relating to New
York city. Eor some timo a terriue uproar
|Y e va: ’ mem ^ ,< Sf yelling at the top of
their . voices, . and 1 tho scone is said to liava
been unparalelled in the annal 3 of legislation,
Augustus Schell, for many years a
(prominent figure in the social, business and
ffp^rt, chairman and of tho during'’ national thu^Gr^Tcampaigi Democratic
com
mittee, ond diod the other day in his seventy-sec¬
year.
By the bursting of a dam about a mile and
a half above Ansonia, Conn., an immense
body of water was freed anil swept down tho
whichcarriod valley with a deafening roar and a force
Fortunately tha away people everything in the in its path. and
factories
bouses in tho courso of tho flood had received
sufficient warning of the impending disaster
.to that seek burnt safety from on high ground. Tho torrent
the dam opening was flv«
! feot high, and about threo hundred feet wide.
\A nuinber of shops, dwellings and barns, and
a stono arched bridge in Ansonia v. oro carried
away, and an estimated pecuniary damage
of $250,000 was caused.
Eive men at Clarion, Penn., started in a
small rowboat with a largo circular saw
Aboard. When passing over tha big falls
noar the mouth of tha Clarion river tho boat
Watson capsized and and David Hamilton Fair Walker, William
were drowned.
At a sale of Jersey cattle ta New York
350, eighty-two imported prlce animals of $501.97 brought $49,- each
or an average for
animal. The sale was made noteworthy by
the fact that. $8,200, the highest pvic-o ever re¬
paid ceived by for tho a Hon. Jersey Henry animal L. Pierce, at auction, of Boston, was
for a cow four years old, by Stako Pogis III.,
out of Bessy of St. Lambert. Mr. Pierce also
paid Jessamine $3,800 for a cow by Stoke Pogis III., out
of of St. Lambert.
During a fire near Boston a number of
fancy pigeons, valued at $5,000, were roasted
alive. One pair of a fancy breed had just
been sold for $350.
Desire Boudoir, who returned to Dover,
N. H.,and pleaded guilty to killing a man,
for which crime his father was awaiting tsun
tence to death, was sont to State prison for
three years.
Barnum’s much talked about white ele¬
phant arrived in New' Y'ork a few' days since
on an ocean steamer. He is described as a
slate-colored animal, with pink spots.
■Washington.
The pension appropriation appropriations bill, as reported tli»
by the committee on to
House, appropriates of $20,584,400, the appropriation and provide* for
that any balance remain
the current fiscal year that may
unexpended on Juno 30 shall be reappro
priated. This balance is estimated at $50.
000.000.
A PACKAOB of burnt money representing
$2,659 was received by the United States
treasury department, a few --- days - — ag -~o, for
redemption. It was the property of T1 homos
Dowling, Wis., a a quarryman," quarryman, and represented living’ living the near near savings meu- Men
osha, twenty-three of hard work.
of years destroyed by fire
His cabin was on
March 6, and with it all his money, which
was in tho form of greenbacks and national
bank notes. The charred remains of
tho money was submitted to the ex¬
amination of a committee of the treasury
exports and all the legal-tender notes,
to the amount of $1,9.50, were identified.
They were redeemed at once. The remainder
will be transmitted to the banks of issue for
their action, and the result will be that the
entire amount of the burnt money will be
restored to its owner. This is only one of
many cases of this kind acted upon by the
treasurer.
Further nominations by tho President:
David J. Brewer, of Kansas, to be United
States circuit judge for the Eighth Michigan, judicial to
circuit; Julius C. Burrows, of
be solicitor of the treasury • Colonel David H.
Stanley, Twenty-second infantry, to be brig¬
adier-general; Major John M. \\ ilson, corps
of engineers, to be lieutenant-colonel Babin, of Texas, of United engin¬
eers; Chauncey B.
States district judge, eastern district of Texas.
At a prolonged caucus of the Democratic
Congressmen a resolution was passed that the
Morrison tariff bill should be taken up for
consideration at the earliest practicable day
and reasonable time for debate allowed, and
after such debate a bill should be passed ba¬
the reduction of duties and war to
axes. The resolution was declared
to bind the individual action of Demo'-re
Out of the 191 Democratic member..
House 171 were present, and the caucu
mtil midnight.
The Senate confirmed the nomin
William M. Bunn, of Philadelph
governor of Idaho Territory, and
Howard, of Michigan, to be chief jr
the supreme court of the Territory v
zona.
Both houses of Congress passed the joi
resolution, reappropriating for the ai
sufferers by the Mississippi river Howie
$125,000 not expended on the sufferers b’
loods of the Ohio.
The supervising inspector-general steamers of
vessels reports that 5,441 w
spected during the calendar year en.
cember 31, 1883, being an increase
over the number inspected the previa
The number of officers licensed was *.
an increase of 1.007. The loss of property oy
accidents amounted to $3,998,318, an mcreass
of $1,822,806. The number of lives lost was
177, which was 134 less than were lost the
previous year. the Senate
A great surprise was given from to President
in the shape of a message ^
$£7 lemony, fill the
plenipotentiaj to
tains position in Rus-ia as succe-e
sor of the late Minister Hunt.
The nomination was not sent in with the mes
£umbe“of a sS p, r iriSs,°but n S n rS.'ta-tae
subject of a special communication: hence,
sonic of the Senators did not know
of the proposed transfer of Minister
bah: nt until the message was aid
latota ternoon ^with, 1 only continued a brief vritij- dis
ciMBicm. the aominatioa was
HAMILTON, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1884.
but referring It to a oomfifittse to oonslJcr
mid report Mr. Sargent had been savagely
'attacked recently by the German govern¬
ment organs, and his relations with that gov¬
ernment had baaoins strained and unfriendly.
President Arthur has sent to Congress for a
message recommending appropr riations
the construction of naval vessels. He sug
'gests that provision bo made for the building
of three now steel cruisers four four gunboats, double
and the completion of the
turreted monitors. He suggests such action
es will enable the government to construct its
toriiuaua* on its owu territory.
South and West
Prominent veterinary surgeons, in consid
tation claring at that Neosho the Palis, trouble Kansas, with the united in de¬
cattle in
that State is not the dreaded foot and mouth
disease.
A tornado near Columbia, S. C., demol¬
ished several residences and a large number
of l-arus and outhouses, uprooted trees, and
destroyed extended into everything the adjacent in its track. county of The Lexing¬ storm
ton, where great damage was also done.
Great damage to propierty has been done
by the bursting of leveos along the lower Mis¬
sissippi, asiiington and many telegrams have been sent
to W from tho overflowed region
appealing help. to the national government for
More than twenty levees along the
lower Mississippi have given way, and the
state of affairs was reported as the most dis¬
astrous known since the war. The breaks in
tho various levees lot in largo volumes of
water, which overspread the country, inun¬
dated plantations, and ruined the cotton and
sugar crop. The national government was
appealed to for aid, as many people were left
tmirely destitute.
A number of persons were killed, many
more done to were property injured by and tornados great in damage portions was of
Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee. In Ken¬
tucky $'700,000. alone the claniago was estimated at
San Francisco has just experienced the
severest shock of earthquake since 1858. The
people of were their very houses. much Tho alarmed shock lusted and rushed
out fifteen
seconds, and several buildings were badly
damaged.
A heavy fall in wheat at Chicago caused
ail excitement almost amounting to a panic.
Nearly hauds lOO.OOO.Ot 0 day. bushels of wheat changed
during tho
During! the recent heavy tornados Mrs.
Braughton and two Ky., children were killed in a
cabin at London, and a brakemau’s
neck was broken; at Budd, Ky., several per¬
sons were killed and many moro injured,
and at other points in Kentucky, Ohio,
less Indiana, lives the Carolinas lost and and Georgia, damage more or
caused were Several great villages was
to property. small
in the vicinity of Dayton, Ohio, were literally
torn to pieces.
Opposition to the sale of liquor in Kansas
is well illustrated by an incident which oc¬
curred recently in Canton. A man named
Harold opened a liquor store in that place on
with a Friday, of and his on drunken Monday got into a quarrel
ouo customers and v, ;:s
shot by the constablo. A band of women en¬
tered his place on Tuesday and poured all the
liauor into tho street.
Five children of Janies Wilson (colored),
living near Brunswick, Ga., ill uto and pork for linger¬ din¬
ner, subsequently became after
ing ta great agony several hours diod. Their
parents claimed that they were tho victims of
trichina ta the pork, and tho planters ta tho
county were much exercised in consequence
Many, however, were inclined to tho belief
that the children were poisoned by their
parents, and this theory was strengthened refused by
tlio fact that the parents the persistently obtained.
to divulge where pork was
A GREAT crowd of 10,000 persons attacked
William tlio jail at Cincinnati whose in an attempt trial for to lynch tho
Berner, murder of William Kirk
self-confessed
luid ended in a verdict of mere man¬
slaughter. An crowd’s immense marching indignation the meeting jail and
ended by the to
attempting to force an entrance. Tho militia
was called out, and in tho firing which fol¬
lowed one man was lulled and others injured.
Such excitement which known prevailed there in in Cincin¬ long
nati has not been a
time.
foreign.
Emperor William’s eighty-seventh birth¬
day was celebrated in holiday fashion in Ber¬
lin. Many buildings tliroughout tho city were
gaily decorated, and thousands of people and
thronged the streets about the palace,
greeted the emperor’s appearance at the win¬
dows with prolonged cheers.
At a consistory held in Roma the pope cre¬
ated two cardinals and twenty-one bishops.
Tiie whole country surrounding of Khartoum the False
was reported to be iu tho hand3
Prophet’s followers.
The imperial tribunal at Leipzig has se¬
questrated the property of tho Polish poet
Kraszewski until tho charges of high treason
against him have i veil tried.
United States Minister Sargent, in pro¬
posing the toast to Emperor William at tii*
dinner given on the occasion of tlio opening of
the American Exchange in Berlin, a few day*
ago,said: “Emneror William is entitled to tha
veneration of all foreigners who livo around
him. Ho will continue immortal in history.
He is already admired by mankind irrespec¬
tive of territorial boundaries.”
A gambling house for women has been un¬
earthed in Paris by tho police. Twenty-six
women were discovered in the place gam¬
bling.
Anarchy prevails in Crete, and numerous
murders of Christians by Moslems and of
Moslems by Christians aro reported from
various ports of the country.
A prince of the royal family of Annam
has been hanged for promoting the massacre
of Christians.
The Canadian government m in
formed that extreme C -»n£
the Indians in the
that twenty deatl
curred then
«,
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I M the ., bp«.
House of boma
0 f the late Sn F> .
i twice Premier, and was
j Xbe present baronet, Sir Robert ,
e j(j er brother of the new Speaker, is
without a seat in the House of Com
; mans at present, harm* been def-ateo,
as the conserv.itive candidate for Graves
eji d in July, 1880. He is a political free
liberal and conservative by turns,
is always eharnging his politics. He
was euca a spendthrift had in cany life tnat of
Premier baronet, who paid tens
thousands of his debts, tied up his estate
;(s tjghllr M possible, and left his heir
j and namesake in S state of chronic im
' pucTlfilosity,
SUMMARY OF CONGRESS.
Senate.
Mr. Harris moved to make the bill to ad¬
mit Dakota into tho Union as a State made a
special order for the following Thursday. Mr.
Vest, of Missouri, said the friends of tile bill
spoke of Dakota as an elysium, but he would
be able to show that It was nothing of the
tort, and that tho conditions did not exist
which would warrant its admission into
the Union. Several Senators said the lev
understood that the question of ati
initting Dakota was regarded as a political The
one. Mr. Harrison's motion was lost,...
rest of the day was given to debate on the
to bill $5,000 to increase the anil salaries oa—the of education district judges but
Mr. Coke opposed a year the education bill, regarding
it as centralization in its most concentrated
form. Messrs. Vance, Riddloberger and
others spoke in favor of it.
A bill was reported favorably for the read¬
justment of compensation for the transporta
tian of mails on railroads.... A bill was intro¬
duced for tho adjudication of pension claims
... .The bill fixing at $5,000 a year the salar¬
ies of United States district judges was providing passed
.... A joint resolution was passed
for the payment the of laborers holidays in government for
other employ days. same wages for as
The Senate passed the bill reported from
tho committee on Indian affairs for the allot¬
ment of land in severalty to Indians on the
reservations to extend tho laws of tho States
and Territories over tho Indians.... Bills were
introduced to establish a bureau of fine arts
in tho Smithsonian institution; to regulate duties
tho forms of bills of lading, and the
and liabilities of ship-owners and others, and
to provide for the sanitary inspection in
Egypt of rags to be shipped to the United
Tho Senate passed Mr. Hawley’s bill offor
ng $35,000 reward for the rocovory of the
Groely party, with an amendment responsibility exempting for
tli* United States from any
tho party undertaking the task... .Mr. Brown
introduced* bill to require the payment of
$35,555.43 in cash to ^roimbui-se the State of
Georgia forjexpenditures made for the com¬
mon defense in 1777.... Mr. l’almor, from tho
committee on woman suffrage, reported fav¬
orably a resolution proposing an amendment
to tho Constitution giving women tho right to
vote.
Houao,
Mr. Ellis askod and was refused consent to
introduce $300,000 a bo joint immediately resolution avauablo, appropriating to bo
to
expended to prevent tho overflow of opposed tho city
of New Orleans. Several members
the resolution on constitutional grounds. The
resolution was lost by 95 to rointroducod 115, but by by unan¬ Mr.
imous consent it was
Ellis and referred to tho committee on appro¬
priations .... Bills were introduced to promote
the efficiency of tho revenue marine service;
providing a uniform rating for invalid pen¬
sions; to secure cheaper correspondence by
telegraph; to regulate the carriage of pas¬
sengers by sea; for tlio revision of tho pat
snt laws. it
A bifijreported back and passed, fraudulently making
a felony for a person falsely and
to assume to be an officer or employed of tlm
United States.....The Houso passed a Senate
bill authorizing the State of Colorado to tako
lands In lien or the sixteenth mineral and lands, thirty^-sixth and to
sections, found to be benefit of tho act
secure to that State tho
donating public lands to tho several States
and Territories which may provide colleges
for the benefit of agriculture. of his bill
Mr. Dowd spoke iu favor pro
viding for tho retirement and recoinngo of
the trade dollars. The bill provides that un
til Juno 1,1885, trade dollar .1 shall bo re¬
ceived at their face valuo in payment of
all duos to tho United l States, and
shall not bo again P* laid out. Holders
of trado dollars on tho presentation of
tho coin to any treasurer or assistant treas¬
urer will receive in exchange dollar for dollar,
standard silver dollars of the United States.
Tho trado dollars received in any national
depository are to bo recoined into stand¬
ard dollani The trado dollars are to
bo regarded and treated, when receivod at
tho mint, as silver bullion, and tlioir bullion
value shall be deducted from tlm amount of
by bullion the required of February to be purchased 38, 1878. The and bill coinod
act was
unanimously reported by the committee.
Mr. Miller, of California, reported nnvul affairs, favor
ably with from amendment, tlm committee the on joint resolution
an
authorizing tho secretary of the navy to offer
a reward of $35,000 for rescuing or ascertain¬
ing the fate of tho Grcely from expedition..... the legisla¬
A memorial was presented protesting against leg¬
tive assembly of Utah, full investiga¬
islation by Congress without
tion, and making accusations ugainst Gover¬
nor Murray... .The Iilair educatioualbill was
debated, Mr. Hampton making an extended
address in its support. provid¬
Mr. Anderson offered a resolution
ing that Congress should ad journ on the 31
of June. It was referred to the ways and
means committee.... At its evening twenty-three ses¬
sion pension tho House passed thorn giving
bills. Among was one a
pension of $50 per month to tlm widow of
Major-General James B. Steodman, and a
bill granting a pension to Mrs. Sarah E. E.
Seelye, who served as a soldier for three
years under the assumed narno of Franklin
Thompson, and, when sick and about to lie
sent to the hospital, deserted to escape tha
detection of her sex.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
There are 609 Baptist churches in SoHth
Carolina.
CmcAGO in 1883 killed 3,912,000 hogs and
1,183,000 cattle.
The London Times has become a convert
to cremation.
Florida is shipping largo quantities of
strawberries North.
The cost of maintair'- -''oklvq
bridge is about $280,000
Ove? /yv’
*
________ telegraph .
,iT, a messenger, was
.d ial ta the streets of New York a raving
maniac. Ho kept crying constantly: “ I am
Bitta, the bo- detective.’ HI* brai n was
turned by boy novels.
Small. —Tho smallest invention some
times proves the moat lucrative. A Sun
Francisco lady, inventor of a baby car¬
riage, received $14,000 for her patent.
The paper pail, the invention of a
Chicago lady, yields a large income. Tlio
gimlet-pointed screw, the idea of a little
girl, has rem^d mdliioia of dollars to
its patentee.
BATTLE SCENES AT TEB.
How the False Prophet's Arabs
Fought the British Soldiers.
A correspondent . present , at , „ the , battle of „
Teb, says: Bo hotly do the Arabs press for
ward that the troops pause in their steady
advance. It becomes a hand-to-hand fight
the soldiers meeting the Arab spear with col 1
at it. There is not much shouting, and only
a short, sharp exclamation, a brief shout, or
an oath as the soldiers engage with their foes,
At this critical moment, for tho enemy are
rusliing up thickly, the Gardner guns tpen
fife, and their leaden -hail soon decides tho
matter. At this instant, Admiral HowetJ
who, with Mr. Levison, his private secretary, Nuvai
is present as a spectator, joins tho
brigade and leads them on over tho dead
bodies of the Arabs, lying work, thickly which strewn on
their front, into tho proves to
be but a bank of sand. Colonel Burnaby
hero has his horse shot Under him, and
a bullet passes double-barreled through ills fowling arm.
Still with tho
piece he carries ho knocks over the
one ol the Gorilnn Highland,!- bayoneting nil
now-, and the enthusiasm of battle is upon
them, More and more shrill tho pipes skirl
out and the men are eager w closo with the
foo.’ As single Arabs rnsli down tho brave ranks
soldioi-s stop singly forward from the
and moot, bayonet, to spear, in almost every
instance vanquishing them sofdiei- by tho bayonet had
nlono without firing. A who
single-handed engaged two of tho enemy
would have got. of the the worst Hecla, of it had to not Ins Cap- aid
tain Wilson, assailants come through tlm
and run one of his rocoiv
body, breaking his own sword and
tag a wound across tho face as lie did
so. Bharp as tho fight is, it lasts but a minute
or two after tho troops havo passed over the
fand which, bank. of Tho work falls contains into ono our Krupp hands.
gun, course, all about where
The bush grows thickly and numbers ot the wo
are now formed up, These
enemy are lying concoalod in it. con
stoutly leap to their feet and rush at us, singly
or by twos ami threes, with fanatical valor,
often coming on till tlioy fall dead almost at
tho muzzles of tho rifios. During the halt the
cavalry have moved round behind us, and
wo can now see them advancing toward a
largo mass of the enemy, who are making oil
in the distimco. They are and manifestly faster quicken- they
ing their pace. Duster and go:
tlioir sabres are flushing in the sunlight, Right
they dash into tho mass of the enemy.
through them they cut their way, and then
turn hiiarp back again. Tho Arabs do not
fly, but stand and light stubbornly and gal¬
lantly, displaying ns much courage as against
the infantry. Again and again they together uro dis¬
persed, but each timo they gather tho cavalry, as
tho hoi'someii come on; and
although scatliiess through cutting down many, go by no means
thorn
Old soldiers to whom I havo spoken resolute on tho foe
spot said they novqj' met a moro
in the courso of all their service. Tho scone
of the battlefield, which I again rode over on
Saturday, justified this description of savugo
valor. The walls of El Tob semi-circular aro protected line by of
two earth-works and a which
entrenchments, including tho rifle pits,
had been dutf wide and deep behind every
bush, and which each contained a number or
Biieorsmen. Tho entrenchments and pits were
literally crammed with dead bodies, The object many
already half buried in the sand.
of tho defenders wjis to sprinR up suddenly coniusion on
tlio advancing line, and ta the
mused break by inside their the sudden appearance Hud we and advanced rush,
to they square. might have had
upon their front some
chance of more or less partial success; but tho
Arabs, attacked in their rear, were tliran
n lves surprised. Judging from what I saw,
should think tho estimate of 2.000 killed on
mo sale oi uio enemy runner unuor than over
tlio mark. The space inside tho introneh
ments was thickly strewn with bodies, espe¬
cially about tho few ruined brick buildings.
Near tho building which Colonel Burnaby
helped clear with his double-bnrrelod
charged with buckshot, 1 counted among
great heap of bodios those than of seven twelvo. boys, not
ono of whom was more adults.
fought as desperately oven ns the
Home time after tlio battle, the and inclosuro, when
troops were searching about
youth lying unobserved among a crowd
dead and dying started up, and rushed witli
drawn knifo on two of our men, and who, thon,
aback, ran for some distance, adventure
ing around, shot him. Tho
a brief commotion in tho camp, for
might lio lurking unseen, At some
outside an Arab sprang like a cat upon
back of ono of our coldiors, and tried to
ids throat. An officer rushing barely up in time
the Arab through the heart,
save the soldiers life.
MUSICAL AND
Mark Twain is dramatizing his
“Tho Prince and tho Pauper.”
Miss Ellen Terry, who Ls
Irving’s leading support, is said to got
a week.
Hi ms Reeves, tho English tenor, close to
to make an American tour, as a
artistic career.
Peck, the author of the ‘‘Bad B--”
receives a percentage from the r
drama of t hat name.
The opera compar
Percy for the “•
play there t
Ristof'
Modeo
E'VhU
j sistenti 7
lett’s farce»
I Madison 8qu
od to put it
j with the ar
fore.
There are re,
in California ovi.
thousand people,
from the aixirx w. .
and the clamor to.
that seats were arra
wings.
I SEWI
seed
•Swj'
$1.00 A YEAR.
PBOMINENT PEOPLE,
Holmes.—J udge Olivor Wendell Holmes,
Jr., will deliver tho Memorial Day address in
J^ cene n H
Langtry. -- Mrs. Langtry is evidently York pros¬
poring. Hhe 1ms mortgages on Now'
real estate amounting to $93,000, to say noth
ing of other^investments.
ano ther rich vein in one of liis mines. It is
said that ho wants to be governor of Gol¬
orado.
Bonner -Rotort proprietor of the
j^Xealth |j is interest fs’'eitiina‘ted in the Ledger bl ut' is over Wort $YoOO.UOa h $50,000
a year.
Ccllom.— ’United States Senator Cullora
of Illinois, is no society man. Ho prefers to
and sit in slippers, his own instead cosy room, of going in dressing-gown to stilt and
starched receptions.
Uuskin.— John Ruskin, tho eminent Eng
art , CJ -jtic is described os lieing five feet
fl vc jnchos tall, with an iron-gray beard ex
tending up to his eyes, a low and retreating
f 0 n-iiead and long unkempt hair.
csg&gjszx&ssaz STSSStBSSSTiU
»
dindges, and then let a .
Vanderbilt—WH,\ andOTbilt owns 930,
$10 shares of railroad stock, worth $K8,i,i(J,
000, railroad bonds worth $26,857,420, and other govorn
ment bonds worth $5,000,000. $70,580,000, His wealth equals se
curities worth estimnster,
Cbo $300,000,000 ol the duko of \\
and tho income from it in six per cent., while
that of the (take is but two, so that he if
(clearly the richest man in the world,
Kitting Bull.— Kitting Hull is paying hi*
visit to the ratlins of civilization, and ro
p T „ t ly got so fur east, ns St. 1’aul. The other
(,y 10 chief and his nephew visited the
pioneer Press office and were telegraph, surprised,
though they didn’t show it, by the heutors,ota.
telephone, fire-alarm gong, steam
The chief sent atologramtohissoutaChioago, had been si-k, but much
toying f, (tcr, that and received lie nns.vor right was away,
e an
J-),,, telephone broke liim him, all and up, anil ho laughed forced
firstexc 1 tuuaUon from
f or tho first time in many moons. The nephew and
HH p|. l( .,,,| „t ft n instrument in one room
; u jt n n j„ another room, 100 fret distant,
f |,„ chief listened, started, grtanoil, mul then
►xclaimed: “Waukaii!" (ovil spirit). In the
composing room an accommodating cuts proof- ami
taker took proofs of various millinery of satis
t>tlior pictures, which elicited grunts
f at .tion from the old chief, and he carried olf
\± in pictures as great prb.es.
Statistics of n County.
O! tlio 2,401 counties in tho United
States, Worcester county, Mass., is No.
19 in value of its farms. It is No. 10 in
the value of farm products. The valuo
of the farm products being over 17 per
cent, per annum of the value of tho
farms.
Iu this important aspect, Worcester
county stands third. Only Oneida and
8t, Lawronco counties iu Now York
being ahead in all our vast country.
What is tho meaning of ell this? asks
Mr. Geo. Draper, who has made up the
statistics. Is not Worcester county
rooky and comparatively sterile would ? West¬ not
ern and Southern farmers
think a farmer could get a living on such
lands, much moro got a living and paid pay
higher wages to farm hands than is
on tho fertile lands of tho West and
South.
I think there aro few men acquainted
with Worcester county who would have
guessed any such renuits. I havo asked
many men to guess whore it stood, and
few,'if auy, counties. havo put her above 500 in
tho list of
Tho reasons for this are not hard to
find to a practical man. Even tlieso
farmers consume far more per capita
of Western farmers’ produce than any
customers they havo outside tho United
States.
The Western farmers sell their pro¬
duce mainly to bo consumed a great dis¬
tance from homo, while tho average dis¬
tance of the Worcester county farmers
from their markets will not exceed five
miles. The Western farmer lias to sub¬
mit to deductions for transportation,
storage, insurance against all risks oi
any description, also for interest, and
neither last nor least, to charges for
commissions from all parties that aro in
any way concerned between tho farmer*
and the final consumers.
On tho contrary, the Worces*'- ''reintv
farmer, in almost all cases
with his own team and sell*
the consumers without thr
of middle men, saving a
charges referred to abov
'““ster" , ^mr ” "ub
THE JOKER’S BUDGET.
WHAT WB FIND IN THE HUMOBOW
PAFKKS TO BiTliLE OVER.
first-night preparations.
nail Janitor—“The furnace is out ol
order, but I oan get it fixed in lime for
the performance." Theatrioal Manager-“Don t
Traveling to stay here week and
do it. We are be a brilliant
want the first night to a
popular success." the
Janitor— “But how oan it be u
hall is as cold as a barn?”
Manager—“Easy enough. At every
opportunity the audience will clap their
hands and stamp their foet to keep
warm.”— Evening Call
roos but riiouD.
“Yes; he is poor, but awfully proud.”
“What is ho proud about ?”
“I don’t know. It comes natural.”
“Ho certainly cannot boast of birth,
breeding, learning or fortune ?”
“No; but he is proud from the top of
his head to the soles of his feet; in fact,
the proudest man I ever saw.”
“Indeed 1” starving,
“Yes, sir. If that man were
and too weak to stand, ho would start a
report that lie was laid up with the
gout Philadelphia Call.
HOW WB DO THINGS,
“I see it stated that the author of
‘Kathleen Mavourneen' is starving in
Baltimore.
“Don’t believe it; the same turned report was
published once before, and it out
that ho was not in great want, but only
in very poor circumstances.”
“Biit this time there seems to be
some foundation for the rumor.”
“Indeed ?”
“Yes, it is given as a fact. Don’t yon
think something ought to be done?”
“Indeed I do. I will this very day
take steps toward starting a movement
to got up a ftvnd to erect a monument to
his memory.”— Philadelphia Call.
fully niErARED for tiib situation.
“It is my duty to inform Now yon,” England said
the superintendent of a
railroad, as one of the train condnotors
entered his presence, “that tho salaries
of all train men are to be cut ten per
went, with tho beginning of tho month."
“Yes, sir,” was tho calm reply.
“I am glad you take such a cheerful
view of the situation. ”
“Oh, I’ve boon expecting it for six
months past,” said tho conductor. “I
have put all my roal estate in my wifo’s
nnmo, clnppod a chattel mortgago on all
my porsonnl effects, and raised $200 on n
bank-note which the indorser will havo
to pay. Make tho old cut thirty only per
cont. if you want to, for this is the
timo in my life I’ve boon in n position to
beat my creditors.”— Wall A7. News.
FAITH IN nBB WORD.
A lady with a daughter of uncertain
ago, gaveitout tliatslio wna only twenty. speak¬
At a party one evening she was
ing ot her daughter and a lady re¬
marked :
“How old did you say Mary waa ?”
"Mary is just past twenty.” older
“Ah I I should think she was
than that."
"Yes, everybody takes her to be older
than she is, because Good you see evening, Mary Dr. lias
emcli quiet ways. said, old
Jones,” ska as an gentl emaa
came up, “wo wero just talking of Mary,
and tlio lady wan quite surprised to hoar aho
mo say she was so young; you know
is only twenty.” madam, of for I
“Of course, course;
havo hoard yon tell it for the lust ton
years, at least, and I have every confi¬
dence in anything you would say.”—
Merchant Traveller.
IN FLORIDA,
Strange Customer—“How do you soli
strawberries now ?”
Florida Grower—“One dollar apiece,
sir.”
Customer—“Oh 1 nonsense.”
Grower—“That is the regular price.
You know it is very early in tho sea¬
son.”
Customer—“See here, I have no time
for Grower—“Ton joking.” honor, that is
my Belling
what I got for them. Havo been
strawberries at that prico all the week to
guests at the samo hotel where you are
stopping.” Customer—“I only stopping at
am
that hotel for tho day I live about 25
miles up the railroad. Boen a resident
of this State for twenty beg years. pardon. 1
Grower—“Oh 1 I your
mistook you for a Nort>teyalid.
The price is six cents a o
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