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SOUTHERN NOTES.
A company will be organized shortly to build
a ootton factory at Dalton, Ga.
The new cotton mill at Sidney, N. 0., is
receiving its shafting and machinery.
Savannah is thinking of manufacturing as
phaltum blocks with which to pave the city.
About 40 f&rmH have been recently purchased
in Green county, Ky., by emigrants from Ohio.
A pottery has been established at the Kao
line mine, near Fl&tonia, Fla., conducted by
expert workmen.
The Knoxville, Tenn., Car Wheel Company
are running their wheel foundry extra time to
fill heavy oradrs.
Three thousand yards of cloth and one bun.
dred blankets are manufactured in the New
Braunfels, Texas, mills weekly.
All the money necessaryhasbeen subscribed
to start the Griffin, Ga., cotton factory. The
capital stock is about $84,000.
A new rolling mill, the first one in the State,
has been started up at Houston, Texas, and it
will engage in making light T rails.
The locomotive works in connection with the
Roanoke, Va., Machine Works, are in active
operation at thiB time. Several locomotives
are in process of construction.
The track of the Southern Pacific to the
great salt mine in the Colorado desert, near
Idaho, is ballarted with great lumps of crystal
*aJt. Heavy rains and high waters might
cause a dissolution of that ballast.
The Messrs. Moulton, of Laconia, N. H.
who are proprietors of a hosiery mill at Colum*
bia, S. C., where they employ the labor of toe
prisoners in tho penitentiary, are largely in¬
creasing the capacity of their works there.
According to the Orange City (Fla.) Times,
there has not been an investment in lands in
that section in the last three years that has
not paid the party investing at least twenty
per cent per annum on the amount invested.
The Cuthbert, Ga., cotton factory is crowded
with work, having received, on one day, orders
for more goods than can possibly be made in
six months, notwithstanding toe enlarged
capacity from tho new machinery now being
put in.
More than three-fourths of the cedar used in
the manufacture of cedar pencils in the world
is shipped from Florida. Large groves of ce¬
dar grow np and down the coast and on the
Suwannee river, and she supply seems inex¬
haustible.
Twenty-nine saw mills are said to receive
their supplies from Brew ton, Alabama. 5 hese
mills aro multiplying along the line of tho Mo.
bile and Montgomery and the South and North
roads, and tho timber business is developing
into immense proportions.
A party of capitalists from an Indiana town
have decided to start a jnte factory at Memphis,
Tenn. At least fifteen thousand dollars will be
expended in buildings and machinery, and the
company expect to be manufacturing bag¬
ging in time for next year’s cotton crop.
Mississippians feel very proud of their State
Library in the capital at Jacksen. It compri¬
ses thirty-eiglit thousand volumes, which in¬
clude the legal text-books and reports from all
toe States in the Union, making a collection
which ranks third in completeness in the
whole country.
The Salula cotton factory at Greenville, S, C.
has made a largo and valuable contract with a
Boston firm for furnishing them with yarns
until next January. New England yarns wore
offered at enc-fourth of a cent lower, but the
superior quality of the South Carolina yar
commanded the contract.
Charleston, S. C., has organized a coffee
importing company of fifty members, with a
capital of $50,000. Coffee will be imported and
sold at auction to the highest bidder, whether
be be a member of tho association or not. If
the scheme is successful, other articles w.ll be
imported and sold in tbo same way.
The Wilson cotton mills, at Wilson, N. C.,
wh ch were commenced about a year ago, for
the manufacture of fine yarns, are now run¬
ning thirty-six carding machines and five thou :
sand, one hundred and twenty-four spindles,
employing seventy-five hands and consuming
eleven thousand pounds of cotton per week.
Within a radius of less than thirty miles of
High Point, N. C., says the Enterprise, there
are at least thirteen cotton factories, two woolen
factories and fourteen mines, all in fall opera¬
tion. To these add a large number of tobacco
factories, sash and blind factories, spoke and
hanille, and one factory that finishes shuttles
ready for the loom.
North Caiolina shows the greatest increase
in the number of cotton mills, no less than
forty-three new mills, with one hundred and
ten thousand five hundred and ninety-five
spindles having been addel. Georgia has
added twenty-two mills with an aggregate of
one hundred and thirty-nine thousand one
hundred and fifty-six spindles during the year.
Among the new applications of cotton is its
nsc, in part, in the construction of houses, the
material employed for this purpose being the
refuse, which, when ground up with about an
equal amount of straw and asbeatos, is con¬
verted into a paste, and this is formed into
HTrge slabs or bricks, which acquire, it is said,
the hardness of stone, and furnish a really val¬
uable building stock.
Atlanta Constitution: New England capi¬
talists would save time and money by moving
their cotton factories to Georgia and other
Southern States. Why should they spend toeir
substance fighting against fate? They should
move their plants to Georgia, aa J place them
selvRS in a position to drive the English mills
out of existence.
Peanut culture will be an immense thing in
the south before many years, lhe crop this
year will be worth, say $3,000,000, The profit
in the business is tremendous. A newspaper
correspondent says that six years ago a Massa¬
chusetts, man settled near Montgomery, Ala..
Hs was very poor but he thought he saw an
opportunity, and noticing many raising pea¬
nuts. he rented land and began working it on
shares. He is stiJ raising peanuts and nothing
ehse, and he does well to stick to them. Six
years of peanut culture bare netted him $100, t
0OU.
Mobile is becoming quite a timber port.
The stevedores of the ante bellum class who
fairly rolled in wealth have passed awav but the
new stevedores vrbo handle timber are getting
rich ritpid'y. The pinion is expressed that
toe railroads will have to carry logs as a regu¬
lar thing before rhe lumber trade reaches its
Hamilton Journal.
VOL. XII. NO. 18.
full proportions. It does not cost mnch more to
run a train of twenty cars than a train of five and
ten, and there is no reason why idle cars should
not be loaded with logs. This may mean a low
rate of freight, but it is something that must
come.
A splendid quality of lithographic stone is to
be found near Six Mile, Bibb county, Ala. The
Blade says: “Seven miles of this place, on the
possessions of B. J. Eottenberry, at the south¬
ern base of the coal fields, there is found all the
indications for the petroleum oil. Iron, coal,
marble and limestone are found in the imme¬
diate vicinity, besides the entire county
abounds in the very best of timber.
The Eagle and Phenix mill, Colnmbns, Ga.,
which is the largest cotton mill in the south,
will pay a dividend of eight per cent on its cap¬
ital of $1,950,000. Tho success of this corpo¬
ration has been remarkable. It was reorgan¬
ized about 18G7, and since then has paid $1,-
370,000 in dividends and bqilt out of its earn¬
ings a new mill costing $1,000,000, and has a
large surplus besides. It is now proposed to
still further enlarge its operations by erecting
a new mill at an expense of $960,000.
A portable cotton seed oil mill, which has
Just been invented will, it is said, end tho dis¬
pute between tho nlanters and oil men of the
south. Instead of growling about the transpor¬
tation, tho planter will, ere long, express his
own cotton seed oil and have the meal and
hulls right on his haud in the best posiblo con¬
dition f»r fertilizing, and there will be an in¬
creased production of the oil, which has come
to be accepted as invaluable in cooking. A port¬
able mill that has been tested took the seed as
it cams from the gin and extracted forty-five
and a half gallons of oil from two thousand
pounds of seed.
Alabama is booming along. In 1880, her
census showed that the farmers had doubled
in acreage, her corn production increased
more than 15 per cent, oatB quadrupled, cotton
sixty per cent. The wool product doubled, and
the mineral output incresead more than 1,000
per cent. What other state can make a like
showing. In the near future we expect to lie
proud, (as we are now) that we are a native
Alabamian. The county of Jefferson alone is
now worth more than the whole of Alabama
w-.s immediately aftet the war.—Mineral Age.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Prince Bismarck has just celebrated his
sixty-ninth birthday.
Henry Irving, the English actor, is read¬
ing proofs of a book of his on America.
General B. F. Butler will deliver an
oration Decoration Day at tho New York
academy of music.
President Porter, of Yale, would objects divide to co¬
education because the system
the time and perhaps the sensibilities and in¬
terests of the instructors.
His Imperial Highness Prince Haru, tho
only surviving child of the Emperor of Japan,
having almost reached the age of seven years,
is having a separate palace built for his oc¬
cupancy.
Kaiser William, King George, of Greece,
and King Christian, Wiesbaden, of Denmark, where will King meet
this summer in
George will attend the baths, by advice of his
physician.
DR. J. H. Zukertort, who has gained of the
title of tho champion chess-player the
world, now in this country will visit the
principal cities in tho United States and then
go to China.
John Jay Cisco who died in w New York ,
recently, began life a poor boy, became a
tailor, entered the dry goods business and sub
sequently made large sums of money os a
banker. He was one among the many mil
lionaires of Manhattan island.
Secretary Lincoln resembles his father
n personal appearance only from the eyes up.
He is not so tail or so gaunt in figure as his
father, nor is the lower part of nis face so
narrow; but the resemblance in the eyes and
forehead is so marked that the Secretary portrait sat
for what is considered the best ever
,minted painted of or his his tether. other
Doctor Richard Jordan Gatling, tho
inventor of the famous Gatling gun. is now
sixty-six years of age. He is a tall, broad
shouldered, white-whiskered man, with a
friendly face, bright blue eyes, and a pleasant
voice. He has recently his been making some
great improvements in gun, and has been
n Washington explaining these improve
icnts to the officials of the war department.
THE NATIONAL DEBT.
A Reduction of Fourteen millions in
march.
The national debt statement just issued
shows the decrease of the public debt during
the month of March to be $14,238,324.
Decrease of debt since June 30, $81,828,303
1883......................... 402,875,211
Cash in the treasury............ 104,236,400
Gold certificates outstanding..... 116,408,161
Silver certificates outstanding.... 15,475,000
Certificates of deposit outstanding
Refunding certificates outstand
ing 346,681,016 305,400
Legal tenders outstanding....... including
Fractional currency not
amount estimated as l06t or
destroyed.................... 6,984,315
The payments made from the March, treasury by
warrants during the month of 1881.
were as follows:
Civil and miscellaneous.. $5,083,9? "
War..................... 2,24'
Navy.................... 1.5
Interior, Indians.........
Interior, pensions........
Total $9,198,'
The above does not include payments r*
on account of the interest United States: or principal Oi
public debt of the
A BHREAtrOF SILK 0ULTT
A Senate Bill to Establish Five
lion, to Raise Worms. ,
A bill has been introduced in the
States Senate by Mr. Call, of Florida./
vide for the creation of a sillt culture
It provides that such a bureau shall be
lisbed as one of the bureaus of the agricultural
department, and shall embrace in its organs
ration five silk culture stations, to be estab
lisbed as follows: One for the ISorth Attonac
States in Pennsylvania; one for the Soutn
Atlantic States in Florida; one for the Gulf
States in Alabama; one for toe Western
States in Iowa; and one for the Pacific States
in California. of the
The object of the establishment
gate the ^ to which to&y are subject,
-ultivate. and, cultivation by all means deemed adapted proper,
encourage the of plants fear
the feeding of silk-worms, and to experiment ascertain
in the reeling of silk, with a view to
ing the best appliances and metho ds for con
ducting the various operations of preparing
raw siuc. It provides fear the the appropriation object of the
of $150,000 for carrying ’ out
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HAMILTON, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 1884.
THE WORLD’S NEWS.
Eastern and Middle State
Six men were instantly killed Hbilse by an tile explo¬
sion in the nitro-glyceriiie of Ro
pauno Chemical works at Thonipson’s Point,
N. J. The building was tom to pieces, and
the Their men killed were frightfully Laniott mangled. Dupont,
names are as follows:
vice-president of the company: W. N. Hill,
superintendent of the works; Edward Nor
Norton, cross, compounder of nitro-glyeerhio; A. S. Ackersou, George
visiting chemist cm employe, from and Louis. a
St.
Ida Morrill, daughter of a well-known
citizen of Zanestown, Penn., tiad lor the past
year and a half been affianced to Henry
Shelly, lady a farm objected laborer. their The daughter’s parents of inti¬ the
young to
opposition macy with the Shelly, two but went t! 0 off twitbstanp.ing few days their
a ago
and got married, A going to Shelly’s home after
the cei-omorty. few hours after tho mar¬
riage Shelly’s the two brothers of the bride went to
house, an altercation ci sued, and re¬
volvers were drawn. The firing which fol¬
lowed resulted in the killing of the two
brothers and the wounding of Shelly, who
was taken into custody.
A great many disasters took place along
the Atlantic coast during the heavy gale of a
few porta days of Vessols ago. From being various wrecked, points accompanied came ro
m some instances by loss of life. The schooner
Riverdale went ashore near tho Delaware
Breakwater, and the Several captain nnd four men
were drowned. vessels were also
wrecked on the Hudson, and two or three
lives lost. The gale was the moat furious re¬
corded in a long time.
Philadelphia has just had a national cat
show, finest with $1,500 given in prizes to the
felines. 4/
A TWo-YEAn-OLD boy at Johnstown, Penn.,
was thrown down and fatally pecked by a
game-cock which tho child was teasing.
Seven women have just graduated as doc¬
tors from the New York Medical College aud
Hospital for Women.
Since the August gale, seven months ago,
eighteen Gloucester, . fishing vessels have been lost from
together Mass., the with all their overboard crews, which, in
with men lost and
dories, makes the record 249 men lost, leaving
behind, five widows as near as can be ascertained, sixty
and 134 fatherless children. This
is a record heretofore unparalleled in the hi
tory of the business of Gloucester.
Mrs. Ottendorfer, wife of the proprietor
of the New York Staatz Zcitung, the leading
German newspaper of tho country, founded
by Site her first husband, died remarkable a few days business' ago.;
was a woman of
abilities and very charitable. During founding' hen
lifetime she spent over $ 100,000 in
charitable institutions in New York, and only;
recently received a special decoration in honor,
of her benevolence from tho Empress of
Austria. Until a few years ago she was the
business manager of the Staatz Zeitang. |
The Republican ticket was successful in the
Rhode Island State election, tho candidates
for governor and minor officers being the'
present incumbents. Tho legislature will)
Btand: nine Democrats. Senate—twenty-seven House—fifty-seven Republicans,; Repub¬
licans, fifteen the Democrats; Republican a Republican loss
of one in senate and a gain of
four in the house.
Mrs. Galle and daughter died at Loyal
haima, Penn., daughter of trichinosis, and the father
and another were not expected to
recover.
Seven Austro-Polanders looking for work,
while walking on a railroad track near Scran¬
ton, Four Penn., were struck by fatally a backing injured, engine.
were killed, ono was unhurt. one
lost an arm and one escaped
George Jones (colored) was hanged at
Pittsburg, Penn., named for the murder of another
colored man when Foster, the in 1882. Jones
was mitted. only eighteen crime was com¬
South and West.
negroes were lyhcned—one Tn * fork
county, J fV s c., for assaulting a white man’s
daugh f and the other in Gaston county, N.
c or murdering another man.
General Aguero, with twenty armod
mon tly left Key West, Fla, at mid
n jg f ht and embarked on a schooner destined
, t g believed for Cu ba on a filibustering Dix started ex- in
_^ ‘urauit itlol u The revenue cutter
of the party.
At Chicago cash wheat was of quoted the at’79M, fig
within six u „d a half cents lowest
quoted in that city.
. thirteen . .._____ lives , lost . - by the .. *___
were oum
ing of the steamer Rebecca Rvoringham. Florence, Ala. on
the Chattahoochee river, near
The fire broke out at 4 a. m. , and the steamer
was immediately headed for shore. Before
the shore cou id bo reached the steamer was
* completely wrapjjod in flames,
Henry Rose, a negro weighing for 200 pounds
was hanged at Osceola, Ark, the murder
0 f another colored man, a prominent member
o{ p; s race
Forest fires have destroyed a largo number five
of houses, barns and outbuildings and six in
counties of South Carolina or seven
counties of North Carolina. Vast forests have
also been been swept away, of families many plantations rendered
ruined and hundreds
homeless.
Washington.
Secretary Freung'huysen received a
telegram from Mr. Sargent, our minister to
Germany, expressing his gratitude for the
complimentary action of the President and
Senate, but declining the Russian mission and
resigning and”other that at Berlin because of his health,
reasons to bo explained by letter.
The naval appropriation bill, as it comes
from the Senate committee, calls for appro¬
priations amounting to $20,780,676 The esti¬
mates submitted to Congress called for $22,-
655 509, and the bill, a? it came over to the
Senate from the House, provides for appro
The French and America- 1
Sion held its final
ment of all the c
I was made. J"
United
! CA.
l ” infSlvtoh.
F . . i£ easrs (_*.
, A?ea
labonoudy down the n leaning
v_ “ fo „ Speaker’# shooi ____-, -aere, hands with the
faig rrntches ha passed before him.
K Ppresf , n tatives as they presentations. Nearly
jjr Carlisle made the introduced.
every ' member was
nor voted to
■ matter. ssssttssr*--.*.-**-
. toll hashes ,
| passed The by Indian the House, appropriation _ ^
Governor Murray, of I-tab, appeared
before the Springer *orr.mittee of invefftiga
\ion, ordered by the House, and denied the
charges of irregularities while he was U ni ted
marshal in Kentu -’rv. He charged
his accusers with being men of bad character
| and in the pay of the Slormoaib
foreign.
Resolutions of condolence td the que>f.
and duchess of Albany, on the death of thar
son and husband, were adopted in the Britsh
parliamertt. made advance
Genera l Gordon an find
Khartoum, find in a battle with ttfe reWl
forces was defeated! Tho rebels pursued be
Egyptians for two miles after the battle, "tie
scene of confusion presented behold. by the retia-t
ing troops was fearful to The Egyp¬
tian regulars and the Bashi-Bazotks
kept shouting out that their grae
had betrayed thorn. 'jhe
wounded received no attention for he
long space of seven hours. The troops lad
been clamoring for three weeks before to;
meet the enemy. In the early part of . vi
encounter the Egyptians were successful, ind
the ehetny Were actually in full retreat, charge, wien
shite their the cavalry made the a inhabitants dashing still D«F ui
reverse to General Gordon. t.,,
statUioh friends tfeUchei-y, Two
black pashas were shot for which
caused the defeat of General Gordon’s troops.'
General Millot, commanding tho French
troops at Tonquin, reports that he has been
entirely successful, and that tho troops will
will soon return to France. About 6,000
troops, with the native auxiliaries, will bo suf¬
ficient to remain in Tonquin.
General OraiIam, with his The troops, has
sailed from Suakim to Suez. British
troops had hardly left when Osman Digma fol- re¬
appeared near Tamaniob with about 1,000
li overs.
General Gordon resolved to abandon a
policy of conciliation toward tho natives of
the S< oudan Tho Egyptian and adopt sold more I whonad vigorous been meas to¬
ures. era <
talled to give and a safe Conduct to parties leaving
Khartoum proceeding to Egypt received
orders to return to the bcleagured citadel -with¬
out delay. Armed steamers at Khartoum
daily engaged the rebels, who lost heavily. Eng¬
Prince Arthur’s body was taken to
land on the royal yacht Osborne.
Edmund Yates, editor a of prominent London English World,
journalist and tho months’ imprison¬
has been sentenced to four The
ment for libeling the Earl of Lonsdalo.
peal judgment has been of law. respited [lending an ap¬
upon a point destroyed
A fire in London about a dozefi
business establishments. houses, mostly publishing and book¬
binding
John and Georao Stephenson were exe¬
cuted at Regina,. old British America, for the
murder of an man named John McCarthy,
A IIong Kong dispatch says that tile tho French
will probably iilvado China ffditl northern
coast of Tonquin,and will hold Canton in sup¬
port of their claim for indemnity.
It is proposed in Canada to notify fanner!
of wea ther forecast by moans of discs on alt
railroad stations and locomotivo engines.
Five men wero instantly killed and otheiV
injured by a blasting accident at Port Arthu:-,
Manitoba".
After a thorough discussion tho British
cabinet decided against the Egypt. proposition to es¬
tablish a protectorate over
Prince Leopold’s funeral took place in
Windsor castle in presence of Queen Victoria
and the other members service, of tho celebrated royal family, later,
A second funeral
was attended only by the queen, her dead
son’s wife and the dean of Windsor.
The steamship Daniel rock Steinmann, off Sambro Light from
Antwerp, struck on a
while entering tho harbor of Halifax, N. S.
She knocked a hole in her bottom and sank
at once. Of 130 passengers the and captain, crew only five
nine wore saved, comprising Tho ship is
sailors and throe passengers. a
total loss and only her topmasts wero visible
above water.
Hungary’s supreme tribunal has confirmed
the acquittal of all the Jews who were charged It
with murdering Esther Solomossy. obtain hor blood was
alleged that they killed her to
to mix with Passover bread.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC
Emilie Charlotte Langtry is the real
name of the Jersey Lily.
Mme. Bernhardt has learned to play the
organ in view of a scene in “ La Servanto,”
The Grau English opera company will bo
reorganized to play a summer season in New
Orleans.
Mr. Stetson, the manager, and Mr. Good¬
win, the actor, have entered into copartner¬
ship for next season.
Henry Irving, when at home, is said to
while away the hours oqually between angling
for trout and studying Shakspenrc.
Mart Anderson will make a tour of 8p T ain
before returning to the Lyceum theatre, ..oil .
don, for a revival of “Romeo and Juliet.”
The Eden Musee has been opened in New
York. It is a permanent wax-flguro show
modelled after Madame Tussauds in London.
Louis James and Marie Wainwright go to
London with Barrettes his chief support.
Charles Hawthorne goes along o» stage man¬
ager. primn
Miss Van Zandt, the American
donna, who has long been a favorite inruns,
has signed an engagement to King in the opera
comique in London.
Maud Banks, daughter of General N. f.
Banks, fe studying for the stage. She has ap
11 -MI ed a-s a public reader on several occasions
with considerable success.
Herb Emil tho greatest Scaria, living who bass is regarded singer, will by
many as first in America at the
make his appearance New York.
next Philharmonic concert in
Toward tho close of the performance in
tho Metropolitan opera-house, New York, a
few evenings ago, a gentleman arose in Jus
seat, faced one of the parterre boxes, and
said: “Will the ladies and gentlemen in that
box be kind enough to keep quiet, so that
those who desire to hear the opera may do so*
A storm of applause sweet over the house,
further ir f ’ *
there was no w
formanc** and whr- *’
•Tjtnv
-alto—. -Clt OHt. Tilt
___ , the bit of candy that ihtl
is tisnaliy wrappe d around. 1
crackers are for the use of the cos.
cial travelers or others who have to
travel a great deat They loud are made the so
as to produce a report The as as the ex
plosion of a pistol. way to use
cracker is to fasten one end on the door
by wetting this little surface of gum
with the tongue, and the other eiaj to
the jam of the door. The result is that
thtsdoor eannot be opened by a hotel
sneak thief, if he picks the lock or sheets
back the boit over the lock, without pro
dating a report that will arouse the oc
cupant of the room. The alarm cracker
is popular particularly among jewelry
salesmen. ”
SUMMARY OF CONGRESS,
Senate.
A bill was reported favorably to establish a
tiational forest reservation on the head
Craters cti the Missouri... .Bills were intro¬
duced making an appitytrirttion to pay tho
fexpenses of a commission to explore Alaska,
ftnd terials to. iisod allow in drawbacks manufacture on imported of tobacco, ma¬
tho
snuif and cigars exported.... Mr. Platt spoks
in favor of liis bill to or
ganize the patent office into a depart
ment.
Mr. Hall, from the committee on appropria¬ bill
tions, with sundry reported amendments.....The tho naval appropriation bill intro¬
duced by Mr. Edmunds and reported favora
ably roll- fre.u the committee on naval survivors, affairs, fox
Passed. the ef tiio Jeannette waa
fko ■ provides losses for incurred tile eomjielisation by them oU of
survi voni for
the expedition. The narttca
amounts Melville, are as follows: $1,000: George John
chief engineer,
IV. Danenhower, lieutenant, $1,000; John Ray¬
mond L. Newcomb, naturalist,. $600: f Nin
Cob, acting boatswain, $000; IV. . C.
dennan, seaman, $000; and the remaining
survivors $300 each. Tho bill further pro¬
vides for tho payment to the widow, child or
otter legal representative of each deceased
i.umbel* deceased pf tho expedition member nnv arrears year’s of pay ad
die the and one
ditional 1 pay. I
The bill to increase tho cffloioncy of. thd
general land office, giving the commissioners
a salary of $5,IKK), and his assistant $3,000, passed
nnd increasing the clerical providing force, was tho im¬
....Mr. Morrill’s bill for
provement of the coinage was passed....Tits discussed.
Blair educational bill was further
culture A bill to bureau provide for tho introduced creation by of a Ml', silk
was introduced
Call.. ..Mr. McPherson n bill to
amend tho patent laws....The Blair educa¬
tional bill Was discussed without notion. Mr.
Pendleton apposed it on constitutional
grounds. Mr. Williams spoke in favor of
the bill.
Home.
A joint resolution was introduced by Mr.
Finerty tendering tho thanks of Congress to
Minister Sargent.... Bills were introduced for
tho construction of the ft merchant taxation ship domestic of new
design; to equalizo of
and ating foreign $100,000 insurance for companies; relief of sufferers appfdpri* by
the tho
Mississippi floods and authorizing the ap
pointment of a Missouri river commission
.....The Trade Dollar bill was further
Considered,
The House passed tile bill providing for the
retirement of the trade dollars ftild thoif
recoinago out the fourth into section, silver dollars, which after provided striking tin t
tho trade dollars recoined into standard sil¬
ver dollai-s eiioqld be deducted from tha
amount of bullion required to bo coined by
the roirtonetlzatlon act. The vote on the pas¬
sage of tho bill was MS to 4(1, and that
on to the rejection of the fourth section was 131
ills....The committee on tho commerce inspection re¬ of
ported the bill providing for
live stock and hog products Intended for ox
port, and prohibiting the importation of
adulterated food and liquors.... the hill providing An adverse for
report commission was presented the alcoholic on liquor traffic....
a on the
The bill authorizing the secretary of
treasury to invest the lawful money national deposited
in the treasury in trust by the bank¬
ing associations for tho retirement of their
circulating notes was reported favorably.... tho
Tho charges conunttteo made appointed Representative to investigate Keifer
by If. V. tho
against General Boynton, corres¬
pondent, submitted n report, charges accompanied against by
this resolution: “That- the
dence, II. V. Boynton and that are there not is sustained ground by for tho evi¬ nny
no
action by the House.” Tho resolution wus
laid over for future action. appropriation
Consideration of tho Indian
bill was entered Upon, Tho bill calls for $5,-
847,653, as against $5,300,655 for tho current
year. Mr. Throckmorton offered an amend¬
ment abolishing the fivo Indian inspectors, 1
and providing that their places shall tie taken
by army officers detailed for tho du ty.... A
message was received from the President re¬
commending an appropriation of $100,000 for
the protection of the levees of tho lower Mis¬
sissippi. A joint resolution passed authorizing
was
tho secretary of war to loan Hags nnd bunting
to tho mayor of Richmond, Va., to be used at
a fair to Is; held in that city in aid of a home
for disabled Confederate soldiers. Mr.
Throckmorton’s motion to amend the Indlun
appropriation bill, so as to alxilish the livo
Indian inspc'-lors and have their duties per¬
formed by army officers, was carried 91 to 67.
A Talk About Perfumes.
“How many flowers are used In the
manufacture of perfumes ?”
“The principal ones the are jasmine, roses, orange- cassia,
flowers, tuberoses, flowery
and violet. Aside from roses the
perfumes are produced in Franco, where
farmers and gardeners devote themselves
to the cultivation dt flowers tor the pur¬
pose. The pomades, which are a sort of
vehicle for carrying the essences, are
shipped to perfumers in all parts of the
world. Those pomades are all mado in
the same way. Several new processes
havo been devised, but none have proved also
as good as the old method. I may
gay that perfumes are everywhere made
from the raw material by th¬
ecas.”
The |ferfuiner tr •
ons object from *
horn with
end.
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j j
j Sroythe, “Yr„
j back
easily bi
the bluest
I inserting the
month he wulku
can go back for g
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$1.00 A YEAR.
THE REVOLUTION ART 1TAE.
The lit eslan Troops Fmploved l»y Great
Britain— Who and What They Were.
A work on tho "Hessians in the
Revolutionary into War," the character gives ns of somo the
further insight by the Landgrave of
recruits furnished
flesaa Gassel to Great Britain during
our first wilt with the mother country,
These Hessians have always been hold
in derisioji by Americans, fla human
cattle looked sold by’ their Princes; without they char¬ have
been principle, Upon as and men not only ready
acter or sold.
but anxious to be thus
Mr. Lowell, in his new work, de¬
scribes the position of these soldiers as
little, If any, above that of slaves. Tho
he says, really got nothing for
their American service. They had their
rations, their cldthing, and their pay, it
is true; but these would have been theirs
if they had staid at home in their bar¬
racks. It is their petty’rulers who were
paid for their service, their hardships,
and their dangers; and if they were
killed or wounded it was the rtilers who
were compensated at a fixed price for
the loss of their human cattle.
The recruits furnished to keep up tho
supply suffered more than tho soldiers
who first left their homes. They wore
men enlisted by force, kidnaped, in like a
word, and shipped off to America
convicts or swiuo—six men to a berth in
a ship’s hold. Onco kidnaped, tho poor
fellows had little chance of escape, for
tho petty Princes know their trade ns
slave drivers very well. In \Vintern
burg, if n reoruit escaped or a soldier
deserted, the whole parish was required make
to go in pursuit, aud in order to
their pursuit earnest and effective they
wore required to furnish one of thuir
own number in tho place of tho desorter
if he could not bo caught. The clergy
wore required to rend this order from
the pulpit oiioo ft month, in order to im¬
press Upon their responsibility. congregations ft There souso
of 'heir duty ami
were flues aud imprisonment at hard
labor for every one who dared help a
fugitivo, and death was tho' penalty for
Inducing desertion.
Many of the Hessian prisoners taken
by the Americans wore and permitted hire themselves to go
into the country
out as farm laborers, and when wo eon
•sider the naturo of tho despotism under
which they lived at home, the case with
which they might avoid pursuit, and tho
abundant .opportunities which this
sparsely settled country offered them to
improve their fortunes, small it seems proportion some¬
what strange that so a
of either the prisoners or the soldiers, on
duty deserted. Congress held out in¬
ducements to them to do so, and Het ac¬
tive agencies at nllegianoe. work to persuade They them
to change their wero
assured of exemption from military
duty, and wero promised lauds if they
would abandon a servico to which they
were supposed to owo nothing but
hatred. Aud yet, according to tho best
estimate that Mr. Lowell’s investiga¬
tions have enabled him to form, only
about 5.000 of tho German troops de¬
serted during the entire Beven years.
German writers assert that there were
fewer desertions from tho ranks of the
mercenaries than from those of the
British regiments, and Mr. Lowell ex¬
plains the fact by saying tlmt desertion
was at once less easy and less attractive
to the German than to the English
soldier.
A Fortune From Six Indies of Hiring.
"You see that largo factory ? It oovers
an entire block. Half a million of
money wouldn't bny it. Well, it was
built by a little piece of cord not more
than six inches long.” Here the speaker
paused and scrutinized the of reporter’s incredu¬
countenance for indications
lity, not to say astonishment. But tho
narrator was talking to a man who, since
tho introduction of the telephone, has
matte it a point of principle to lx; ready for
anything and to believe all that he hears.
The speaker added: "Eight years ago
there lived in the third story of a cheap
tenement, in New York city, a poor me¬
chanic, who was kept poor because ho
had a passion for inventing: it amounted
to a pussion. He didu’t drink and didn’t
travel with the politicians, and all who
knew his family wondered whv they
should be so poor. Time
aud still the man was poor
he perfected an invention—^ with 1 '
ihing on eartli—and
hand he «t" : ' 1
THE JOKER’S BUDGET.
WHAT A QUAKER CITY WAG HAS TO
TELL. US OF.
[From toe Philadelphia Evening Call. I
IN WASHINGTON.
“I hear that the wild Western states¬
man, Congressman X., is laid np with a
terribio cold—not been able to leave the
house for a week.”
“I knew it would happen.”
“What did he do?”
“You know old Perkins, the manu¬
facturer ?”
“Yes." X. big
“He offered Congressman bath-tub a if he
interest in a new recommend patent it after try¬
would publicly
ing “Well?” it."
“He tried it.”
learning to cook.
“Send my daughter to a cooking
school ?” exclaimed a New York mother.
“No, indeed;-our position in society for¬
bids it. Why she would be compelled
to mix with all sorts of people.” opened,
“But this is a new school just
and I hear that it will be very fashion¬
able.”
“How can a cooking school be made
fashionable ?” asked the lady, with con
siderable doubt.
“Its membership is to be very exclu¬
sive, in the first place, and it will be very
expensive, aud nothing will be taught
but the sweetest dishes, such aa pie,
cake “Well,*’ and that sort the of thing.” “I
said mother, may pos¬
sibly allow Edith to attend for a little
while, but it must be with the distinct
understanding that on pie days she shall
have nothing to do with anything but
the upper crust.”
HOW IT WORKS.
Miss Blank—“What a lot of interest¬
ing items there ore traveling around
about Frank James.”
Htm. Mr. Blank (legislator)—“Frank
who?”
Miss Blank—“James, the Western
ontliiw, bandit nnd road agent.”
Hou. Mr. Blank—“Ah 1 Yes, I re¬
member about him.”
Miss Blank—“This paper says that he
and his gang never robbed the Hannibal
and St. Joe trains, beoanse his mother
had a free pnss over that line. Yon have
a free pass yourself, haven’t you, pa?”
non. Mr. Blank—“Well, ahem I Yes.
I was given one when I became a mem¬
ber of the legislature.” railroad afraid
Mias Blank—“Was the
the people would rob it if you did not
havo a--”
Hon, Mr. Blank—“There I There,
child. Go back to understand your embroidery. all tno
You are too young to
little details of statesmanship."
A SAD ENDING.
“Ah, how do do, Miuks? Allow me
to cougrat--but pardon mo, perhaps
I am premature; I was under the impres¬
sion that your wedding day was fixed for
last week.” , the „
“Yes, it was. You were away at
time, 1 believo.”
“Yos, just got back. How did the
affair--’’ affair; lliemamago
“But there was no nearly
did not tako place, and*I am
crazy with grief.” bow must suffer.
“Poor fellow! you
Did your loved one become ill ?”
“Worse than that.”
“Worse?" failed.”
“Yes, hor futhcr
OLD FAMILIES.
Western Man—“You Philadelphians
have a good deal of ‘old family’ pride,
I see." of certainly
Philadelphian —“Some ns
have ancestors who were Americans cen¬
turies ago.” Man—“Well, _ - I v. lived - for, ,
Western families
years where there are more old
to the aero than . Philadelphia that, their ever
dreamed of; and more than
oncestors were Americans centuries be¬
fore yours landed. ”
Philadelphian—'“Where in the world
is that ?" Terri¬
Western Man—“In the Indian
tory.” _
NOT PATENTED.
First Lecturer—“How did yon like
Buffalo?” Lecturer—“I delighted
Hecond was
with the place.” Why, when I lectured there
“Indeed I bail’
a brass band the adjoining hall, and
they made a fearful racket.”
“Yes, that is tbo way P "hUe I
wks there."
“But didn’t it new'
“It ccrtninlv -
but think o'
“Tho no-"
“Yes; v
eleep. ”