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CURRENT COMMENTS.
In- New York and Philadelphia the cutting of
Srug prices still continues. After several large
dry goods houses commenced selling drugs at
about one-third less than the regular prices,
many of the druggists lowered (heir rates and
accepted the situation. The indications at
present point to a general reduction in drngs
and patent medicines all over the country.
f Work on the pedestal for the Bartholdi Stat¬
ue of Liberty is progressing rapidly. In less
than thirty days the pedestal will he completed,
and then the masons will begin laying stone
for the column. By October I the pedestal will
be ready to receive the statue. Eight largo
iron rods will run down through the column to
prevent the figure from being blown from tlio
stand. Funds are coming in at the rate of.
about fa,000 a week, and there is now about
$80,000 on hand.
The supposed decrease in the world’s supply
of gold is not home out by the facts of the case
A German writer.says that we have now four
great gold fields: the western part of the Uni¬
ted States, Australia, Siberia and the section of
South America north of the Amazon. The
output of these gold fields is sufficiently large
to su.itain the view list means will be found
when the demand becomes really urgent to fur¬
nish gold enough to meet tho world’s monetary
wants for centuries to come, if not for all time.
It is quite probable, however, that as civiliza¬
tion advances gold will be used chiefly for pur¬
poses of ornamentation, and will form hut a
very small part of the circulating medium of
the world.
| Ifc is quite possible that u Chinese” Gordon in
A crank. His religious convictions are pecu
a r. He believes that this life is only one of a
series of lives which our incarnate part h&A
lived. He has little doubt of our having pre¬
existed. In the present life he believes that
everything was settled from the very begin¬
ning by tho Almighty, The doctrine of eternal
damnation arouses General Gordon's intenge
ndignafcion. He believes that everybody will
be saved, not on account of their worthiness,
but because of the infinite goodness of God.
The creed of this strange man is said to resem¬
ble that of Cromwell, but it is greatly tempered
by the humanitarianism and catholicity of the
age.
The English prejudice against masquerade
iballs is so deeply rooted that it will never be
removed. Public masquerades are not permit¬
ted in England. After the restoration ho
at tempt was made to restore the court masques
and the few public affairs held in the Georgian
era were soon frowned down by public opinion.
Of late years masquerades have been disallowed
by the magistrates, and nobody regrets it. The
English say that intrigue and mystification are
essentials of Italian and Spanish masquerades,
and such amusements are, therefore, incom¬
patible with fhe spirit of the English people.
In fact, the profilers and novelists seefii to
agree in regard ng n'^as-querade as the short¬
est possible cut to Tophi*,.
—
ter Richard Jordan Gatlini, the Inventor
of the famous Gatbng gnu, has mvlo some im¬
portant improvemcT. to in bis destructive piece.
'Jhe gun ci nrc- on su average • . about
2,100 shots per minute ecntinttously, ad tlio
latest inventions t ir. to he fir'-,, nt fmy
angle. Tie was first led to invt -t his
murderous g .-. by humane motives,
thought that if a gun ,ouM he that
would do tlio wur n of a hundred " - -d. re
quire but a few men to ope raj!
oi v> greatly tiitfv
cud would c"'. r - v.» .x.r
STheJi rst-Ga
Rutlcr and i ^ •im At Pete- -at?
created-consternation, nd them'‘8 of them
went all over the world. They a ^ now used
iu all wars, and nro purchased in immense
quantities by foreign governmei U.
Thebe is no doubt that a gang of expert dia¬
mond swindlers are now operating iD tho
country. A great many south African dia¬
monds of a yellowish or straw colored tint have
been sent to New York, whore they are cut, set
and sold for what they really are. These dia¬
monds are worth from one-fourth to one-twen¬
tieth of the value of the white or bluish tinted
brilliants. Within the past year diamond ex¬
perts have discovered a process which removes
the yellowish tint of the African diamonds and
gives them the blue hue so highly prized. It
will be recollected that a few days ago a lady
offered some of the bogus diamonds for sale in
Boston nnd the fraud was detected. It is be¬
lieved that a great number of the diamond*
now worn are of the South African variety.
They look so much like tlic geuiuc article that
® test is required to ascertain tlicir real valuo.
Eli Teekins has been examining the wheat
fields in the winter wheat belt from Philadel¬
phia to Emporia, Kansas, and from Toledo to
fit. Joseph. He says that he has not seen such
a prospect for wheat in ten years: It is good
everywhere. Pennsylvania will raise 50,000,
000 bushels this year. In Michigan, Missouri,
and Illinois the crop is phenomenally good.
The < ffect of this great crop of wheat is being
discounted at Chicago. Wheat has been sold
for delivery in Liverpool at a dollar a bushel.
This will break up wheat raising in Europe.
They can't afford over there to raise wheat at
a dollar a bushel on land worth $300 an acre.
Alter this year America will raise wheat for
the world. This year’s yield will be 600,000,
000 bushels.
The guilds of London just now are the sub¬
ject of parliamentary inquiry. These guilds
are antiquarian relics. Starting at first, as
political corporations for the protection of
their members they subsequently became direc¬
ted into religious and commercial organiza¬
tions. At present the only remaining func¬
tions of these guilds is feasting. Some of them
have accumulated vast funds, but nobody
knows what they do with their money. As the
guilds no longer attend to the business ^or
which they were instituted, it has occurred to
some of the progressive law makers of Brittian
that they may he in the nature of monopolies
or public abuses, and it is probable that they
will be cioseiy investigated. That such* socie¬
ties should have so long outlived their uaefui
oh is remarkable—that in, if anything can be
larkabie in a city where & fund is still in
en.ee for buying faggots to be used in
• ng infidels.
i is looming
TANA UD as a great cattle
-dg country. In 1W1 there were 274.316
■jattle in the whole territory. To-d»y the Yel
lowstoDe valley alone contains more than
doable the number. Montana beef shipped to
oastern cities readily brings five cents a pound
Then brought in o competition with Texas
>eef. The difference is in the peculiar flavor
he meat obtains from feeding on Montana
pAss. The main point in favor of Montana is
ft- .the elevation of the country above sea level.
the ^ *“» consideration 7 The
, s m-r.mportant a W-
1 jde ML ‘ tB ' tae sreat stock centre of
nwthw ? r ’ n3t 0Dt md> k “ ' k>D *•*»
®#|et gsriil above :ms*e tee Gulf -he . of cu-'.e Mexico. :sie In this ;f them- won
cere
“ives winter and summer, and grow while |
»tr sit-p*. With sneh advantage* j
Hamilton Journal.
VOL. XII. NO. 19.
The April returns of the Department of
agriculture make the western wheat area 27,-
600,000 acres. This is nearly the breadth sown
in the previous crop, of which five and six per
cent was subsequently ploughed up, leaving
26,400,000 to be harvested. Comparing with
the area harvested the presented breadth is an
increase of five per cent. The present ar«a is
greater than that of tho census year by m e
than 2,000,000 acres. The increase is about
1.500,000 acre's on the Tacific coast, and nearly
750,000 acres in the southern states. There is
a small increase in the middle states and a
slight decrease in Ohio.
Mexico consists of twenty-seven states, one
federal district and one territory. There are
even cities of over 40.000 population. The
City of Mexico lms 300,000 inhabitants, Pueblo
200,000, olid Leon 120,000. Civilization out¬
side of the large cities iB very primitive. Many
of the Indiim villages are built of turf or of
cane stuck in the ground without a window,
without a table, chair, stove or bed. Yet a
village of this wretched appearance will have a
.magnificent stone church with nave, choir,
chime of bells, fretted ceiling and resounding
dome, with a font of onyx or jasper, with a
marble pulpit and silver chancel rail. Outside
of the villages, in the country, every few miles
the traveler comes to a vast straggling one
story building, covering four or five acres,
with a tower in one corner surmounted by a
bell. This is a Spanish farmhouse, or abaci
cmla. There are 13,000 of these haciendas in
Mcxi?o and they own four-fifths of the land.
One owns 4,000 square miles and another owns
10,000 square miles. The proprietor of a haci¬
enda lives in a ducal state, He has soldiers
under his command, a physician to attend his
tenants, and many of the peons ©n his place
are virtually his slaves, because they are im
debt to him and ?he law makes them his serfs
so long as they owe him. The rapidly multi¬
plying railroads will gradually revolutionize
business and modes of life in Mexico, hut for
generations to come our southern neighbors
will be regarded as a peculiar people.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC,
Mme. Patti has decided not to sing in Lon¬
don this spring.
Mrs. Langtry returns to New York short¬
ly to play “Pygmalion and Galatea.”
D. D. Lloyd. the editor who wrote the play
“For Congress," has gone to Europe.
7.1 me. Modjebka has fixed upon June 7 as
the date of her departure for Europe.
The gross receipts of the seventeen per
formances Francisco of Mapleson’s stated opera hav company beep m
San are to 1
The shitement .fiat The- j s j,, ^
in June. actress.lost several thou
‘Kate Forsyth, worth t’ : persema! * by tho
and dollars' ’it in tho yt. George fiats.
•y ro Monday afterra (
ot tlio Union Square theatre,
T ew York, told a reporter in Paris that by
ba l paid Jironson Howard more than $ .0 O')»
for liis author’s right in ‘'‘The Bankers
Daughter.”
(i • r \ v .\M KV'R<;.rhenu\niigvTof the Tluvlia
company, of New York, is negotiating for an
American tour of the famous Meiningen com¬
pany that made such a sensation in London a
few years ago.
At the Berlin Theatre Royal last year them
were twenty-seven representations of Shakes¬
pearean ted. There plays. Be veil of hs representation! plays were
a of Schiller and were eight* of Goethe. c i
three
When not acting, Joe Jefferson leads a
pleasant life on his plantation of ten thousand
acres in Louisiana m the region occupied by
the rounded Acadians, fishing and grandchildren. painting, and sur¬
by a colony of
An organization known as “Tlio New Eng¬
land Musical Charitable Association'* has been
formed by the theatrical managers of Boston,
its object being to care for sick member* or
the profession who derive no benefit froir. any
other society.
There was a novel dramatic performanm
in London recently, when the members of a
deaf-mute mission presented “Tho School for
Scandal,” and “The Sorrows of Mr. Snooks.*
ent -r fiy in the sign language and to an au¬
dience of mutes.
L. V. H. Cuos nv, one of the originators of
Ga. negro He minstrelsy, first recently died minstrel at Reynolds,
He appeared entertained as a President forty Polk
and years ago. White Mr.
Crosby family at bass the house in IMG.
was a singer.
Herr Anton Dvorak, whose “St?bat
musical Mater” has won for has him had a high curious rank history. among
He born composers, September a in
jhemian was 8, 1841, folk. an obscure the
B town, of humble At age
of sixteen he ei tored the organ school at
Prague, having exhibited previously marked
-musical t dent. At the age of twenty-one he
played in the back row of the violas at the
opera house in the same city. Subs xniently his
both Brahms became interested and Liszt, recognizing his fortunes, and ge¬
nius, in
then Joachim brought his chamber music
into prominent notice. Dvorak s music was
first introduced to an English performed audience the first by
Herr Manns, who. in 1879,
Yf his Slavonic dances.
ODD SUICIDES.
DavidS. Rawlins, head of Philadelphia, with killed
himself by beating LY a stone.
Miss Mary Thompson, of South Abingdon,
Ma«. , hung bersalf because she was suffering
from neuralgia.
After bequeathing her body'
Eliza Fitzpatrick, of Sandusky
with a handsaw.
Benjamin Bcckwalter, <■
Penn., hung himself because 1
hail wronged the Meimouite ch
he wss a member.
Haying had poor crops for
lost considerable stock, James \
lanta, became discouraged and k u
with a slotgun.
After having married three has.,
Mrs. killed DaviaDutcher, herself of Sullivan coun»
Y,, because, as she said, r
them came u* to her expectations.
Th 3 J r namlte if s J ' Care *
The dynamite spare in England i
siding, but the papers still continu.
harp upon the duty o( America t« snp
press conspiracy. The Saturday Re,
view says: “The new form of Irish war
{>iTe ’ s 88 dangerous to Americans as to
Englishmen, Irish If a portmanteau belong
t° 8n conspirator for who is about
j'”* America Europe shonld ex
e I*
to EDgland t be whole subject
WO uld at once present itself to the Amer
icon mind in quite a different light from
any series of outrages on English homes.
Bat eves without such a practical lesson
it must be believed that the proceedings
Irish iu America are not offences
HAMILTON, GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY, MAY T, 1884.
THE WORLD’S NEWS.
Eastern end Middle State
One houses—the of New York's St. many George towering flats, apart¬ eight
ment families of
stories means—caught high, occupied tiro in by the thirteen cellar, nnd the
flames rushed with such rapidity through tlio
elevator and ventilating shafts that in tv
*jort time the immense structure Several was gutted,
only' the walls remaining. persons
were injured. The total loss is about $200,
000 .
Dr. L. U. Beach, a prominent physician (lie Lu¬
of Altoona, Penn., was received into
theran church there, and the next day cut his
wife’s head off. Ho was generally thought
to he insane.
The First National bank, of St. Albans,
Vt., closed its doors, being unable to meet its
obligations. bill
The New York State senate passed salb of the olco
prohibiting the manufacture and
nargarine and and butterine. Easton,
John Dillman was hanged at
Penn., for the murder of his wife.
At the Pennsylvania Democratic State
convention in Allentown, Penn., General
AV. H. H. Davis, of Doylestown, three vrav
nominated for Congressman at large,
presidential electors at large were at
put in nomination, six delegates elected,
large to the national convention were
nn d district delegates and electors were
chosen. The platform adopted favors "a
tariff for revenue limit id 1 1 the necessities of
the government” and ‘‘the abolition of
the internal revenue system of taxes
and such adjustment of tad
existing tariff duties as will be consistent
with these principles;” denounces “the elec¬
toral fraud of 187tV7,’’ opposes centralization,
monopolies, subsidies, etc., and declares that
“ Samuel J. Randall is the choice of the De¬
mocracy of Pennsylvania as the candidate of
their party for President.”
A man suffering from trichinosis has been
admitted to Bellevue hospital, New York,and
his case is being watched by all the doctors.
A piece of muscular tissue about the size of a
pea taken from his arm was found to be
Bwarming with trichinae.
The British schooner George Calhoun en
roun ered a Gloucester, (Mass.) schooner at
sea in a sinking condition; and while fishermen trying
to transfer the latter’s crew of five
(o the former vessel the boat was swamped.
The five fishermen and a sailor belonging to
the George Calhoun were drowned. After¬
ward the George Calhoun whs wrecked, and
her remaining crew of tour men were rescued
by the schooner Zenobia and taken to Boston.
Joseph Agate, a retired merchant worth
about $5,000,000, chiefly in real estate, com
mitted sui ide in a New York hotel by shoot¬
ing He was a resident of Yonkers, N. \
and left a note staling that he was suffering
from nervous prostration, and had not had an
hour’s natural sleep in four montlis.
Am kr the lapse of u—.rly ■ ■ -Yi ■ ur
teen of the one hundred and fifty odd mi ere
killed by the catastrophe partly’ at Po ahoutas, *1 Va., dis¬
were found, dr >•.»►> am!
figured almost beyond identification.
Washington.
House -, iiiimi! . iar.v adopted
'tee Mat In-, ■ m r report on
-: i) proposing i r.i-.iistit tional
-vi linen the right of suf
it wovk. >x r was of future opinion time that
give - omo t
worn exile.
A MAJO committee on
public the IftJiq oort declaring
*Mi >'fw 'voi-theni Pa
clftc land gn Sited
Mb. Newi OMh, iKituifiii. of • h© Jcnnuetto
expedition, appeared bcL u t hf ' g-hd ivos
tfae
age. voy¬
The sub-committee of the House committee
on the judiciary has agreed upon a jo if * reso
lution proposing a constitutional amen., ^ent
relating amendment to the currency. follows: li The The legislati prop
is as
powers granted to Congress construed by the Constitu¬
tion shall not be to include the
power to pass any law making anything but
gold and silver coin a tender in payment of
debts except after a declaration of war, or in
case of rebellion or invasion, when the public
safety may demand it.”
Inspector Woodward, of the postoffice
department, investigation appeared before and the House com¬
mittee of explained the
good results which had followed the star
route prosecutions in a reform of the service.
United General States Adam consul Badkau, general who has been
at Havana for
♦ wo years, has forwarded his resignation to
tho state department at Washington.
The Senate in executive session passed the
ognize resolution authorizing African International the President to rec¬
the association
as the ruling power in the Congo region.
South and West.
Joseph Medill, of the Chicago Tribune,
made nn argument before the Senate com¬
mittee on postoffices and post roads in favor
of the reduction of the present pound rates
of postage on newspapers issued from the
offic e of publication.
Da v i d KkllaR, pilot of the steamer Scioto,
which collided with the John Lomas at Mingo,
Ohio, on the night of July 4, 1882, ha*s l»een
sentenced by 1 he Federal court at Parkersburg,
W. Ya., to two years’ imprisonment and to
pay a fine of $500 for manslaughter. The col¬
lision resulted in the loss of seventy lives.
Cleveland’s municipal election resulted
in a llepublican victory by about 3,000 ma
jority.
B. T. O. Hlbbard, cashier of the First
National bank of Monmouth, Ill., lost $100,
000 of the institution’s funds by speculation,
and comjielled it to suspend.
All amusements have been seriously affect¬
ed in Cincinnati by the recent riots, strangers
keeping ing away fr<>m the city, ami women be
afraid to venture out at night.
Reports from Ohio, Indiana and Illinois,
show the condition of tho wheat, clover, tiino
thy and apple crops to lie favorable, and the
peach crop unfavorable.
Thirty buildin;
strayed occupied as stop
>tal by ‘
est
Oils V'
ft
6t>
for the first <».
ent fiscal year r
quarter give IheuKOv..., .ember re- 30,
ceipts for the quarter eudeo
18IW. $10,595,817; for the quarter ended De¬
cember 31, l>Si, ascertained. $11,159,61(5; Mareh esti¬
mated fr,r the quarter ending 31, D81,
$10,709,614 . estimated for the quaifler e nding
June 30. 1881, $10.737,349; total total estimated
revenue for tbe year, $ 13.268.446; reve¬
nue for year ended June 30, 18S1. $15,5(8,692;
falling 'ff in the revenue, for the present year
62,243,240. _____
_ ,
port „t the iran fi - hill. He deteiid.-iithw
extension of Hie frari i ; i-r m Ireland
oi right and Justjog
A revolt bn* broken out in Mexico, a
the merchants in the republic closing their
Stores and protesting against the the enforce*
meut of an obnoxious stamp act. President
Gonzales insisted upon the collection of the
•ax at all hazards.
A riot against the employment of female
labor has occurred at Kidderminster, Eng¬
land.
Prince Bismarck has withdrawn from the
Prussian ministry, but w ill still keep a watch¬
ful eye over the affairs of imperial Germany.
A FIRE at Gmegan, a small place in llora
rio, destroyed fifty houses. One woman und
two children were burned to death.
Great damage lias been done by floods in
Armec A.
One-Half of Mandalay, tlie capital destroyed of Bnr
mah. a city of 00,000 people, has been
by lire. connection existing
A rosiTlVF. proof of the
between the anarchists of Europe and their
alleged confederates in the United States is
said to have been obtained l>y the Swiss
authorities.
Captain Hciioonhoven, of the wrecked
steamer Daniel Steinmann, made at Halifax
his formal statement of the terrible disaster.
He said that he had overrun his reckoning in
the fog, and, tail fatally too late, mistook
Sambro light for that at another point. He
thought if guns hail been fired by the watch
ashore he might have been warned in time to
escape the peril.
Five French missionaries nnd Thanhoa, thirty cate¬
chists have been massacred at o
town in Tonquin.
General Gordon shelled the rebel camp
near Khartoum and killed forty of the
enemy. In several engagements between
General Gordon’s troops and the Aratis the
latter were defeated. The reltelsahout Khar¬
toum are estimated by Gordon to number
2,(KR1.
A. M. Gillespie & Co., Ixmdon mer¬
chants, have failed for $1,250,000.
TitF, Dutch authorities have blockaded a
portion of the Aeheen coast (Sumatra), with
a view to exercising pressure upon the the rajah of
of Tenom to force him to release crew
the wrecked English steamer Nisero, held
captive since last November.
Five notions—the Italian, Amer can,
French, German and English—are demand¬
ing indemnity irom Hayti for damages sus¬
tain, d in the recent rebellion.
An expedition under General Aguero has
invaded Cuba. Advices from Havana say
that General Aguero in landing met with no.
resistance, and that many factions joined him
o-.i the march to the interior, swelling the party
1 1 reveral bundle 1 followers. Tney nan sev
tril encounters with troops, the result of
which was that the troops were telegraphed obliged to
retreat. The government nas to
Spain, requesting that additional troops l*'
6Cllt.
Oil arles Reade, the noted English novel¬
ist, died a few days ago in London at the age
oi seventy years.
G reat excitement was created in Birming¬
ham, England, by the rarest of a man named
Duly with a number of dynamite bombs raid
other explosives in his ixickots. His arrival
in England Bad been discovered by the police,
and the man Rt whose house he hoarded was
also arrested us an accomplice.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
General Grant still hobbles about on
crutches.
Hyrtutpsia and neurnlpda torment Unibol
States Senator Edmunds.
Rosa Bonhecu's pictur s are always sold
long before they are painted.
The youngest son of General Robert E.
Ijec. Bob, is a quit t farmer. He lives near
Rictmiond, on the James ever.
General Fremont’s health is not bad, al¬
though several newspaper reports have repre¬
sented Washington, that he is failing. Mrs. Fremont, whj
is in is in excellent health.
D. O. Mills has been given a vote ot
L inks by the California legislature for h i
gib to the State of a piece of statuary repro
sen trig “Columbus l>efore Queen Isabella.”
Mr. George Asiiwortr, of Lowell, Mass.,
is said i ) be o'dost Odd Fellow living in this
country. He is moro than eighty years old,
and has belonged to the prcler sixty-on*
years.
Mrs. Rogers, the Texas cattle queen, is
fifty years old. Her husband, twenty-three
y permitted a‘s her junior, him to gave be elected up r )roa< tho filing; Texas but iog- she
to
islature.
monism Governor in Utah, Murray, born the in Kentucky, enemy of Mor- and
was
is a half-brother of Governor Crittenden.
brigade He is six commander feet three inches the high. of He was a
at age ninet een
and a general at twenty-one.
Mrs. JamesG. Blaine U fall and n< tslirn,
and she is grave and dignified in manner/
Born in New Blaine Englan in Kentucky, 1 and well and edneet his xl, first she
mot Mr. was
love. Her comp inion and cons n is Miss A! i
pail Dodge, tho “Gail Hamilton” of litera
lure.
Henry Georoe, author of “Progress a id
Poverty,” sailor, began tin life reporter a printer; later the Sacra¬ he 1 m
eame a n a on
mento llecord , the owner of the Ban Francis¬
co Post, and afterward a lecturer. He is forty
five. His wife is of Irish parentage and Aus¬
tralian birth.
Geobge William Curtis, the editor ot
Harper'.. Weekly, was asked by an inter¬
viewer recently: “"Are there any new authors
on either side of the wat r of special prom¬
ise;” His reply was: “Ni t one: and there is
no important literary movement of any kind
un ler way.”
only John living Bright is in described whom as united “perhaps ttie the
man are su¬
preme gifts of the orator—the most brilliant
imagination, the most exquisite sensitiveness,
the finest humor, the surest judgment, tht
most upright and conscience, vigoi I nnd the ” most cle
gant, pure, o is • ->ge
W. Jennings
chant c f "ew T
tissue
-J — before, get
close enough a carrying <./t
neat them after I began a gun,
I went out with my gun every evenin
for weeks. I crept behind fences and
lay in wait in the bushes, but could
never get a shot at them. One day, I
however, I struck upon a plan which
hare since operated very successfully.
I held my gun dose to my side, the bar¬
rel running down the side of my leg,
and walked boldly down the road with
out taking any notice of thesa. With
the,r ,wnal for the ?
let me pass cloee up to them, when I
turned suddenly and fired. Now |
g^OOt ft CTOW wfaftQ^y^r I Wftfit to.
SUMMARY OF COXGRESS.
Senate,
Consideration of the Blair educational bill
was resumed. Mr Hoar’s amendment was
adopted providing that the amount to be dis¬
tributed in the first year lie $7,0*81,000, in tho
second year $ 10 ,( 4 ) 9 000 , nnd in tho third j enr
, appropriation to be then
f ir»,(KK),00 >, and the $2,(XK),000 early
diminished at tho rote of 3
until the expiration of the eighth year, n lieu
the appropriation shall oease....Another
amendment offered by Mr. Hoar, thus
equal opportunity of education Ihj given
to nil children was adopted. which Mr. Sherman adopted,
offered nn amendment, shall was lie used only
providing that the money charac
for common schools not sectarian in
ter. The bill was finally passed by thirty
three to eleven. It appropriates ft < < ? ihkj,uUv#
to be distributed among the 8tab’s in propor¬
tion to their illiteracy, on the basis of tho
census of 1880, the payments to extend over
the relief »r ttenwl vr. W. Av
erill was reported favorably.... Bills were
passed authorizing the construction of two
bridges over the Rio Grande river.... The
naval appropriation bill was considered and
^Mr. lliil, from reported the committee favorably on to postofflees the Sen¬
and 1 tost, roads, establish postal tele¬
ate an original bill to remarked a that tho
graph system. Mr. Hill
committee were unanimous as to the first ten
sections of t he bill, which relates to doing tho
work by contracts with existing companies,but
that a'minority of tho committee were o(e
posed to the si c: ions relut mg to the construc¬
tion of purchase of lines by the government Thomas G
....Tho bill to the promote retired Captain list of tho navy,
Corbin, now on rear-admiral the list
to the rank of on naval same
was postponed indefinitely... .1 he ap¬
propriation bill was debated.
The naval appropriation bill was further
discussed and amended*...A bill was intro¬
duced to provide for the protection of railroad
employes engaged ill inter state commerce
.Tho committee on foreign relations re
ported a substitute for the bills American to appoint a
commission to visit the South coun¬
tries. and to authorize the President to invito
Mexico and the Central and South American
countries to send delegates to a convention lu
Washington. The substitute, which was
fumed by Mr. Frelinghuyscn, with the ap¬
proval of the President, consul appropriates, diplo¬
through an amendment to the ir
matic bill. $100,(H0 to enable the Pnaidant to
compensate a commission to l c appointed relations of to
examine and report upon the
the United States with the countries in ques¬
tion, and iq>on the best modes of securing in¬
timate national and commercial relations,etc.
House.
Mr. Converse, of Ohio, secured the floor
and moved to suspend the rules and pass the
bill restoring the duty of 187(1 on wool. After
tho thirty-nunute debate allowed by the rules
the motion was lost by a vote of 119
yens to Kid nays.... Mr. Springer introduced
i\ resolution looking to preventing tho con¬
fiscation by the Italian government of the
property of the American college ill Romo
....A bill was introduced by Mr. Ixiveriiijt
grunting a pension of $7amonth to all United
States soldiers raid sailors who served sixty
days during the late war.....The House
adopted a resolution declaring it unwise for
the present Congress to abolish or reduce the
taxon spirits distilled declaring from grain. that the
A bill was passed Territory shall consist supremo of
court of every justices and a
chief justice and three associate bedit
providing tlmt every Territory shall
vidod into four judicial districts, and » dis(
triet, court shall be held in oonrt....A each Ly one of *>nl th.
justices of the supreme Mil
passed requiring tile governors (, t the T erri
tories to be resident of the Territory to which
he is appoinUsl at leasttwo years proceeding
appointment. bill passed for the adoption . of . re
\ was preventing col¬
visisl internal regulations for
lision at, sen.... A resolution was introduced
raid referred, providing for an investigation
of tiie present system of railroad transport*
tion of live stock. M ..
Mr. Eaton reported a substitute , for th.
Presidential electors bill, which was referred
....A bill was introduced by Mr. Bowen to
provide for the protection of in employes inter-Htato of
railroad corporations engage I
commerce nnd in the transportation of freight
by railway in the District of Columbia and
the Territories of tho United States.
After a short debate the House jittsso 1 th.
Senate resolution offering 111 Greoly a reward party. of $->,- 'This
0 Hi for the rescue of i
reward, Mr. Ellis explained, whalers is expected who lc
stimulate the scalers raid go
north earlv in tho reason, so that they will ht
on the nieit an 1 take pains to explore tho
bays, coasts anil islands raid seek for traces oi
the Greoly party.,..In committee of the
whole the pension appropriation Dill was con
sidereal. The Dill appropriates estimated $20,(184,400
ftndreayiprolii’iatei an amount, at
$09,000,000. The appropriations for the cur¬
rent year were $120,000,000, of which only
$25,078,000 were expended during the first
half of the year.
NATIONAL EDUCATION.
TUs (Hair BUI aa It I*it«ed the
United Mate* Senate.
The important points of tho Blair F/luoa,
tional bill, as it passed the United Htatos Sen¬
ate, and went before the House, are a* foL
Ws:
That for eight years next after the passage
of this act there shall be annually appropri¬ the fol¬
ated from the money in the treasury
lowing sums, to wit: Tho first year the suin
of $7 000,000, the second year the sum of
of $10,000,000. tiie third year the ship
000,000,the fourth year the sum'
the fifth year the sum <
sixth year the sum c *
year the sum of
the sum of •
shall tie e;
common
of the
“
r
I
t
Sta
tber
ration v
therein.
No oort of
any State or * .
erection of uchool o
ot any description
The mon*y*
tor*
%>
$1.00 A YEAH.
TIIE INDUSTRIOUS IIEN.
Turnln* Out 800.1X10,000 Onzen and
000,000,000 < mthen, a Year.
[From tlie.Nevr York Sim.]
"If I owned all the hens in this conn
try," said the market man, ns ho Counted
out a dozen eggs and put them in n cus¬
tomer’s basket, "and had a place to pas¬
ture them in, all I would ask would be
ten years in business, and I’d make it
very warm for Vanderbilt.”
“How’s that?” asked the reporter. that’sliow.
“How’s that ? know, Why, easy, that
Maybe you don’t young man, birth
26,000,000 cackleH, announcing the
of the same number of eggs, kept the
farmer boys busy every day last year
gathering in the efforts of 20,000,000
hens? But they did. Well, those ef¬
forts for 3G5 days resulted in 9,600,000,- 800,
000 separate and distinct eggs, or
000,000 dozen, ns near as I can calculate.
Now, it took just 750,000,000 dozen of
those eggs to supply tho demand for
Tom nnd Jerrys, puddings, hard and soft
boiled eggs, egg nog, anil liam and eggs
in this country hist year, and eggs was
eggs at that. I figure tlmt 30 cents a
dozen, for 1883, was about the average
price. Thirty cents a dozen for 750,
000,000 dozen climbs plumb up to the
comfortable little purse of $225,000,001). and if
There’s nothing mean about me,
I had the handling of those offerings
of (lie nation’s hens, I’d lie satisfied with
a profit of two cents on a dozen.
"What would be my tittle divvy?
Well, if I haven’t forgot what old Daboll
drummed into me, I make it. out that
when the old year died 1 would lug home
something like $15,000,000, clean and
sliek, ahead of the game. Ten years of
that, and I think I could sit clown with
tlic hoys and stay with as heavy a jack
pot as any of ’em.”
"What would become of the other
fifty million dozen ?” naked the reporter.
‘"‘There you are again !” replied tho
market man. "If I owned all the hens,
there's another little item that would
help me to keep from worrying about
the punctuality of tho rent and the infal¬
libility of the gas meter. Last year
mustliavo been a good one tor broiled, peoplo
visiting in the country, for folks
fricasseed, and roasted something like
six hundred million chickens, young
and old. That used up ttie little balance
of fifty million dozen eggs. That fifty into
million dozen of eggs were turned
chickens that gobbled up $300,(K)0,000
of tho hnrd-oarned coin of this realm,
ciphering the thing down close poultry, at fifty
cents a chicken. I don’t deal in
but from the size of the diamond pi UH Of
the ones that do I don’t hesitate a
minute to say that there can’t bo less
than five cents profit on every chicken
they sell. Old Daboll comew up again
and lays if’I it down for a nickel-plated fact
that owned all the hens in this coun¬
try I would huve to make t wo trips home
from the shop at tho end of the year, for
uxivt in the till to i.ave bo carried fil,5.000.000 moro piled
away ami starred
in the stocking, and $15,000,000is plenty
for one man to curry at one time.
“Ho you sec what a nice nest egg I’d
have at the end of ten years. And yon’d
hardly believe that New York city would
chip in about one-thirtieth of the whole
pot every year, would you ? But she
would. Last year it took 25,000,000
dozen of eggs to satisfy her, and she
paid $9,000,000 to get them. Now, New
York Htote only keeps hens enough to
lay atxvnt 8,000,000 dozen, and so, of
course, we have to go knocking around
all over the country und part of Caiiodn
to keep up with the cry for eggs. It
would take all the eggs that New
York, New Jersey, PenneyIvatiin responsible
Massachusetts hens are
to supply this oily with all tho eggs
wants. The 25,000,000 eggs used
last year, if laid in a single line,
after another, without a hair’s space
tween them, would reach from Boston
Him Francisco. 1 tell yon there’s a
thing waiting for some one who can
a corner on hens.”
Jfiillngatawnj Soup;
A leason in scraps wan given in Mias
Parloa’s cooking school, Now York, and
white stock, mnllagatawny, bouillon and
consomme were prepared before made. the To
class. White soup was rirst
four pomids of veal, which hod been sim¬
mered in a gallon of water for
houra, was added half an onior a. nara
nip, a turnip and a stick of
The sonp was then cooker
longer, and strained throi
when it was ready to be ser,
the pr v”' ’ u
THE JOKER’S BUDGET.
A HATCH OF QUAKER CITY FUN AND
MISCHIEF.
[From the Philadelphia Evening Call ]
SOCIAL AMENITIES.
"Yes,” said a New York girl, "I can
take my pick from half a dozen wealthy
men in the city.” able to,” replied
‘•Yon ought to be a
rival belle sweetly, "you are certainly
old enough to pick.”
A SUITABLE NICKNAME.
"Isn’t ‘Collar Button’ rather an odd
nickname to give your hoy?” asked a
gentleman of a friend, who had just ad*
dressed his son by that title.
"Well I don’t know,” replied sound the
father, laughingly. "It may a,
little curious, but it suits the boy brut
rate.” think tlio nickname
"Why do you
•Collar‘Button’ suits the boy?’ “when he
“Because,” was the reply, able
slips out in the evening I am never
to 'find him.”
an apt rupm.
rhimber—"So you would like to learn
onr trade?” n
Phfmber—“Are you good at arithme¬
tic?” schoohn. .....
Boy_"I never had much
Plumber —“How much are 2 and 2 ?
JJoy-“16.” “If I work at a pipe three
Plumber— hour, how much
hours at fivfe dollars an
will that make ?”
Boy--'‘$125.” Plumber—“You’ll do.”
AN IGNORANT CITIZEN.
“I noe yon are shipping a Rood deal
of prime butter to the city,” said a gon
tleman to a farmer living iu the vicinity
of Now York. doing , .
“Yes,” lie replied, “I am very
well this year.’ do keep?
"How many cows you "I don’t
"Cows?” said the farmer.
keep any cows." without
"How do yon make bntter
cows V" was the astonished query.
"1 guess you don't know much about
the dairy business," replied the farmer,
somewhat amused. "I am the proprietor
of that bone boiling establishment over
there."
A SAFE PIiACm.
Country Editor—“Well, sir, what can
I do for you V”
Btranger—“I want to find a place and for I
ray boy. Ho in a fine accountant,
hear Editor— yon need a bookkeeper.”
“Yoh, I want some one at a
small salary to keep my books, oolleot
bills, and look after tho safe when I am
out.” do %U that. He
Btranger— “He can
is the best bookkeeper in the State.”
Editor—“Is he thoroughly reliable?"
Btranger—"Well, tho fact is, lie is a
kleptomaniac. He has been in the peni¬
tentiary a great many times for taking
money out of safes, but beyond that ho
is all right, and that is why I want to
get him n place with you.” eh ?”
Editor—“With wo, will be out
Btranger—"Yes, where he
of temptation,"
Domestic Recipes.
A delicious and now way to make ft
tilling for a layer cake is to chop some
figs very tine; set a hall a pint or two*
thirds of ft hint of thick sweet cream
where it trill got. very quid, then whip and it
light, mix ft with the chopped figs
spread old-fashioned on the layer pudding of cake. that
An sauce
cun ho made in nn instant is simply milk
sweetened and flavored with grated nut¬
meg. This is really palatable with corn¬
starch and blauo-mange. winch to make
If the bread ot yon are
stuffing soaked in is hot squeezed water dry it will after be it much has
nicer. It will not be so likely to be
soggy, but will bo light. For veal or
for hi tub the stnfling should be seasoned
highly; a little onion and parsley with
the popper and imlt arc decidedly appe¬
tizing. precaution when roasting
A necessary
a large arid fat loin of mutton is to cover
it with a paper (lining the earlier stages
of "its roasting; otherwise the fat will
burn, or at least will be scorched, and
impart a bad flavor to the gravy.
Codfish is pinch nicer then if soaked it is picked for in
very small bits and an
hour in cold water than if put into warm
water or scalded; in the latter case it
becomes hard and does not mix lightly
and well with the dressing.
A good cracker pudding is made by
breaking or rolling two largo crackers
tine; add the juice of one lemon and the
grated rind of two, ha 1 ’ a of thick,
sweet cream, a Ire* *>, bil of
butter, the. '-"Iks » V to
the taste, oep
plate or t fflg
dish, 71
merice- 1
above
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