Newspaper Page Text
Home Journal.
GREENSBORO. GEORGIA.
JOURNALISM IN' DKAUVVOOD.
Uiffimllir* Under Which ike Blarli IlilU
Editor 1 -abort*.
Journalism in the Black Hills, says a
Dead wood correspondent, is not always
the most pleasant occupation to be fol
lowed. I rememl)er, several years ago,
when Deadwood, a “camp” and not a
city in any sense, was wild and often
lawless, and all nights were hideous,
that an election was held, the first, I be
lieve, following the organization of coun
ties. Two tickets were in the field—a
“people’s” and the regular Democratic.
The Timet championed the former and
the Miner the latter. The editor of the
Time,t had graduated from one of the
largest metropolitan office* in the east,
was young, energetic and possessed
“sand.” He dished it np for tho boys at
a lively rate, and as a result much'bad
blood was speedily manifested. As the
Campaign progressed proceedings be
came more and more interesting, as
“shot” after “shot” daily passed between
i the rival organs, until the climax was
Aeacked a day or two before election,
when the Timet came out with a double
leaded article alleging that the opposi
tion ticket included a government de
faulter, an escaped convict and one other
whose particular depravity as alleged I
cannot now recall. The paper declared
its statement absolutely true, as it was
pre;>ared to demonstrate if neoessary.
No names were mentioned, and therein
rested the aggravations or particular
offense of the article, inasmuch as each
one of the eighteen individuals compos
ing the ticket arrogated the reflections
to himself and felt called upon to resent
it Scenting war, the editor, immedi
ately upon the nppearance of the sheet,
passed down the rear stairway and pro
ceeded to his hotel, but was there only
a minute or two when he was summoned
by messenger to the office. He com
plied with fear and trembling, and
found the sanctum in the possession of a
net of tho wildest, most boisterous and
demonstrative set of men he had ever
Diet. They were mad clear through,
and no sooner espied the shivering
acrilie than they proceeded with their
compliments. They had called, they
aaid, to clean out the office—to teach j
the miserable quill-driver that he conld
not insult them with impunity, or any
thing else ; and they were proceeding
with their work, when tho appointed
Sheriff, Bullock, the people's nominee,
and a posse crowded into the room, fire
arms in hand, and after much parleying,
but no violence, dispersed the mob. All
night long, and for several days, the
offioe was barricaded with bundles of
print-paper, while compositors worked
with shotguns and rifles conveniently
near their cases in expectation of attack.
Buck was never made, and in timo tho
Whole affair blew over,
A* Intellectual Donkey.
I -worship the intellect of the burro.
Be cannot be humbugged. He knows
when he is within dubbing distance and
when he is not you oan yell at him till
yon are black in tho face, but he won’t
move. Some of the incidents that at
test his sagacity are almost marvelous.
I was onoo sitting on a soft sandstono
boulder in tho little mining town of
C . Down the meandering street
name old Skijiton, driving beforo him
ono of tho most remarkable looking
iaekß I ever saw. In the ruggodnoss of
pin physical composition be was almost
Boenio. Half of his left oar was gone
and numerous clear places on his hide
bade it apparent that he was addicted
to the hot imth.
"Whore did yon get that wreck,
Skip?” I asked.
“Wreck,” ho repliod scornfully; “why
yon tenderfoot, that’s Henry Ward
Beecher. He’s the father of his country,
and he’s just got more brain power
than any jack in this State.”
. "Intellectual, is ho?” I inquired.
► "Well, I should blush! Why, I’ll
§ust tell you a little act ho did yester
day. Wo was a working up on tho
High Hopes, me and Jim Atkinson, my
pardner, and we got to feeling a little
peekish along about noon, and I went
np to tho shanty to tire up. Well, Jim
lie was sacking up a few pounds of oro
io have sampled, and H. Ward was
astandingby, and somewliow Jim he
slipped and fell in the shaft, but he
caught on tho bucket and she com
menced a flying down like thunder, and
the shaft was nigh onto a hundred feet.
Well, what did Beecher do? Why, he
knew that it wouldn’t do to try and
catch the handle, se he just 1 lacked up
against the windlass ami held hard till
he stopped her, and saved Jim’s life;
that’s what he did, and I’ll take my
paralyzed oath on it, and so’U Jim. Seo
where it took the skin off his haunches ?”
The cuticle was evidently gone, and
Skip looked most solemnly in earnest.
I could not doubt him. We went across
the street and Skip took ginger in his.
—Denver News.
He Was From Oshkosh.
There entered the front door of a car
©n the Northwestern Railroad a tall,
■toon-shouldered chap, who looked as
though lie might have been a deacon of
some church in Wisconsin. He held be
hind him one of his hands in which was
tightly grasped the neck ef a .suspicions
looking black bottle, and after glancing
through the car with eager gaze, he
quickly asked;
“Is there anybody in here who comes
from Oshkosh?”
For a moment no one answered, and
then a clerical looking young man
looked up and nodded liis head. The
tall young man, with his bands still be
hind him, shuffled slowly down the aisle
aud stopped suddenly by the side of the
modest man who had mutely replied to
his query and said:
“Be you from Oshkosh
“I live there.” was the quiet answer.
Stooping down and placing his month
to the young fellow's ear, the old man
hoarsely w hispered
“Say, stranger, just lend us your
corkscrew, will you?”
Of course the entire audience roared,
an ' the Oshkosh m .1:1 wont silently into
the smokin'; ear and put the corkscrew
where it would do the most good. Mil
waukee Sentinel.
Someone asked a Mnrselalse tenor
why he sang only in concerts. “It's
very simple,” he replied. “One day I
fell' down stairs amt broke my voice, and
this is why I only sing in pieces.’
Hotel Mail.
Making a young man a clerk iu a dry
goods store, it is said knocks all thoughts
of matrimony out of his head. He not
only learns what it costs to dress a wo
juan, but he realizes how they can talk.
EDITORIAL MOTES.
A few years ago a measure was
adopted providing for the gradual manu
mission of slaves in Cuba. This worked
exceedingly well indeed, and under it
285,000 slaves have already been peace
fully liberated, with entire satisfaction to
the owners. There are now hardly more
than 100,000 slaves on the island, and
most of them will be set free during the
year.
General John Newton, who has
made a study of modern explosives, says
that no agent can supplant gunpowder
for the principal requirements of war
fare. In blasting rock the higher ex
plosives may be employed, except where
Ike rock is weak in cohesion, when gun
powder is preferable. In coal miues the
higher explosives are too destructive in
their action Dynamite as a destructive
agent for unlawful purposes can only l>e
applied on a limited sca'e, and with
nearly fruitless results, as time, money
and elaborate preparations are required
for effective woik.
The World’s exposition at New Or
leans, will devote 247 acres to lakes and
gardens, showing the rarest trees and
plants of Mexico, Central America,
Florida and foreign countriea Horti
cultural hall will be COO by 184 feet.
Mr. P. J. Berckmaus, of Augusta, Qa.,
has been appointed a special commis
siouor to confer with various European
societies in reference to the frnit and
plant display. The collective Mexican
exhibit will bo an immense thing, occu
pying a building 1,400x900 feet. Ac
companying this exhibit will be a Mexi
can band and a battalion of Mexican
troops. The exposition will receive lib
eral encouragement from the leading
countries of the world.
Beer ns an article of diet has been
discontinued in at least 27 pauper lunatic
asylums iu England, with the result that
in no instance hat the apparently impor
tant change led to any sort of physiologi
cal inconvonionoe. Many of tho super
intendents, in whose asylums the modi
fication was made, and through thorn
many of the patients testify cordially to
the benefits derivod from the change.
The question, says the Journal of Mouta]
Boience, is not one of teetotalism, or even
primarily of a financial order, but one of
pure expediency and good management.
In all probability the disuse of beer as
an element of the diet of pauper lunatics
in English asy'ums will be more ex
tended and will bo watched with in
terest.
The latest estimates place the popula
tion of the globe at 1,433,800,000, indi
cating a decrease in the last three years
of some 22,000,000, though, as a matter
of fact, thero has been an actual iucrease
of s .me 33,000,000. This apparent dis
crepancy is accounted for by the fact that
£e population of China has heretofore
on largely over o timated. In reference
to our own country the statistics show
that no country in the history of the
world ever had such a composite popu
lation, leaving but four cent from otliei
countries, and from wliito races of othei
types, and tbirtoon per cent for those ot
African descent. Probably no other
country on the face of the globe can show
such a diversity and at the same time
such a substantial unity of race and
descent.
The recent discovery of tin ore at
King’s Mountain, North Carolina, is at
tracting considerable attention. Several
scientists visited King’s Mountain a few
days ago, and found quantities of tin ore
scattered over the ground all through
the town. Striking a hill-side several
ditches were dug, but without running
across a vein of ore. The discovery was
made in a singular manner. Several
specimens of black looking ore were sent
to the Boston exposition, and marked
“unknown.” An examination showed it
to be tin oroof the richest quality, yield
ing 75 per cent of tin. There are only
three tin-bearing mines in the world and
there is a standing reward of $50,000
offered for the discovery of one in the
United States. Following the announce
ment of the North Carolina discovery
oomes the report cf the finding of vast
tin deposits within three miles of Santa
Fe, New Mexioo.
Sowdan i9 the name given to the vast
extent of territory in upper Egypt that
stretches from Nubia to the coniines of
Abyssinia and from the Red Sea to the
Lybian desert This vast and dreary
territory is inhabited by some thirty or
forty millionsef Arabs of various tribes.
The proposed control which England is
preparing to exercise over the Soudan is
not in the nature of the recovery of a re
volted state nor the chastisement of a
refractory people, nor even the snppres* |
sion of the slave trade, but it renews the
old conflict between Christian civiliza
tion and Mohammedan barbarism. The
triumph of Tel el Kebir did not conquer
Moslem fanaticism. The hatred of the
Maliommedan against the Christian and
against civilization is innate and irre
pressible. This hydra-headed monster
is not dead, and when it is quiet it is
only dreaming of Alhambra mid the
walls of Vienna, and of overrunning one
day the civilized world.
The cigarette is a harmless looking
thing, but in the opinion of many well
| posted poop e it contains about as much
| poison to the square inch its any one ar
* tide that could be named. The cigar
! ette busiuo s started in this country.
! about fifteen years ago. American cigar-
I ettes were nove ties, and attracted favor
able attention from the start. The rapid
] growth of the business and its present
| magnitude will be better understood
when it is stated that in 18S2 600.000.-
000 cigarettes were manufactured in this
country of which New York furnished
444,092,867. One hundred and eighty
two different brands of cigarettes have
been manufactured in the last fifteen
years. Of these seventy-one varieties
have had their day and ceased to exist
The original American cigarettes had
mouthpieces in imitation of the Euro
pean article. The price was then twenty
cents a package, but since mouthpieces
went out of fashion the price dropped to
ten cents. It is assr rted that the tobacco
used in the manufacture of cigarettes is
of a meaner grade than that used in the
cheapest cigars. It is adulterated with
saltpeter to prevent moulding, and this
use of saltpeter is said by medical men
to be highly injurious to the vital func
tions. The oil of the cigarette paper
wrappers is said to be even more poison
ong than the oil of tobacco. The major
ity of cigarette Bmokers are very young
people, principally boys, and not a few
girls. Physicians specify the following
as among the evils spring’ng from the
habit: palpitation of the heart, indiges
tion, catarrh in the head, asthma, pneu
monia, bronchitis, morbid craving for
drink, destruction of the nerves of the
eyes. In New Jersey a law has been
passed making it a penal offense to sell
cigarettes or tobacco to minors under
sixteen years of age, and a similar bill is
now pending in the New York legis'a
ture. There is a disposition everywhere
to suppress or check as much as possible
the habit of cigarette smoking. The
vice leads to re ults as injurious as any
produced by the use of alcohol, and the
physical, mental an moral decay occa
sioned by the practice cannot fail to fill
our hospitals, asylums, jails and cemete
ries, unless a halt is speedily called.
ITEMS OF NEWS.
The movement in Germany for the
better obs.nation of Sunday is growing
rapidly.
A census just concluded in New Zea
land givos that far-away land a popu a
tion, European and Chinese, of 532,000.
The old fields and bush undergrowth
around Mobile that sold for a song five
years ago command from twenty five to
three hundred dollars an aero.
The total inoome of the SalvatioD
army for 1883 is reported at $1,509,000.
The army is now publishing sixteen • ‘War
Cries” in various countries.
At Miss Clara Cushman's mission
school in Pekin the feet of the girls are
not allowed to be bound—the only
school in China where that is the case.
Russia, which has an area in Europe
two-thirds as large as the whole United
States, with a population of more than
70,000,000, lies almost entirely north of
St. Paul.
Them were 1,676 accidents last year
in the Pacifio coal mines, 823 deaths,
making 153 widows and 512 orphans.
There was one death to every 90,000
tons taken out.
The bank of England has a floating
balance of $100,000,000, and the bank
notes, if strotched together end to end
would reach a distance of 12,620 miles.
The Egyptian war will use up a few
miles of this money.
The “Confederate rose" is the name
of anew flower which is white iu the
moruing and red at night. Four of
them have been planted around the
grave of General Albert Sidney Johnson,
in the state oemetary at Austin, Texas.
Cremation is to be tried in France,
permission having been given by the
prefect of police, on the recommenda
tion of Drourdel, to burn the remains of
hospital subjects, provided a satisfactory
apparatus be constructed in one of the
Paris cemeteries.
Speaker Carlisle wields the gavel
with some listlessness. He pounds as
though lie was* afraid of making too
much noise, iu this respect he differs
from Xeifer, who made tho splinters fly
over the devoted heads of the clerks be
low him. He is a smoothly-shaven roan
with two bulging bumps of intellectual
ity over his eyes, a rather narrow fore
kord, and when he Bpeaks his voice
comes somewhat weak and a severe
frown ornaments or, to put it better,
disfigures his brow.
COMMITTEE WORK.
What is doing On in tile Contrewlon*
at rommUtee Hoorn*.
The House committee on the judiciary had
agreed upon a report adverse to the woman’s
BufTrage advocates, but determined to hold
it until a delegation from the West could be
heard.
Only a comparatively small proportion of
the seventy-live public building bills before
the House committee on public buildings
will t>e favorably reported.
The bill prohibiting the emigration of
Chinese laborers under other names pending
before the foreign affairs committee, has
been reconstructed. Mr. Rice, of Massachu
setts, proved that Its provisions violated
treaty stipulations.
Judge Melton, a Pittsburg capitalist, op
posed before the House labor committee the
requests advanced before tho committee by
labor organizations.
The House banking and currency commit
tee vote,! to report Sumner's bill limiting
the liability of national banks to that of
other debtors named in the limited liability
section of the revised statutes.
The House committee on postoffiees in
stx-ucted Mr. Skinner to report favorably
his bill making an allowance for rent to
postoffiees of the third class. Mr. Money
was also instructed to report favorably his
bid striking from Section 8,939 revised
statutes the word “fraudulent” before the
word “lottery.” This is designed to prevent
the u-o.' of the mails by any lottery company.
The house committee on commerce has
concluded consideration of the first section
of the Rea ;an bill to regulate interstate com
merce, mul has decided to embody it in tho
propose and interstate commerce bill. The sec
tion makes it unlawful for railroad com
panies to charge or receive from any person
or persons any greater or less rate or
amount of freight compensation or reward
than is charged to or receive! from any
other iK-rsot or persons for like ami cou
temporanonus services. All charges shall be
reasonable and railroad companies shall fur
nish without discrimination tho same facili
ties for tho tra sportation of goods. Any
j break, stoppage or interruption to prevent
the carriage of any property from the piaee
1 pf shipment to the’ place of destination is pro
hibited uuiess the stoppage may bo made for
Vine necessary purpose.
The cost of tlie Government in the
city of Paris is a little more than $50,-
000,000 annually,
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Eastern and Kiddle Staton
New York has been shrouded in the
densest fog which has prevailed there for
years. Navigation on the rivers was almost
entirely susfjendod and business was very
much impeded.
The mining village of Olyphant, Penn.,
was panic-stricken by a sudden rise in the
Lackawanna river, which flooie 1 the low
lying streets and surprised a number of
families in their houses. The women and
children were removed to a place of safety
on the backs of the miners, who waded at
great peril through the swift current that
was making its way along the streets. A
girl of seventeen years was drowned.
A large meeting was held in New York
in favor of the bS> giving the mayr the
right to nominate public officers without
making confirmatmn by the board of alder
men necessary. William M. Evarts and
others addressed the meeting.
Assemblyman Roosevelt, of New York
city, a prominent member of the State legis
lature, has suffered a double bereavement,
his mother and wife dying at his residence
on the same day, the wife having just be
come a mother.
Mary Byrne when ten years old was run
over by a train at Troy, if. Y., and lost a leg.
The case was begun fourteen years ago, and
a verdict in her favor for $7,500 has just been
awarded.
Thad S. Avery, of Chichester, N. Y.,
quarreled with his wife and cut her throat
as well as his e-.vfc*-.kiding her and inflicting
a fatal wound upon himself.
Wendell Phillips’ will leaves his prop
erty, aggregating in value about $250,000, to
his wife ana adopted daughter.
The steamship State of Nebraska, from
Glasgow, arrived In New York, having on
board the rfn* two men comprising the
officers and r of the steamship Notting
Bill, runnin.' V Steen London and New
York. The Nom, \ Hill had been Btruck by
a huge iceberg and injured so badly that she
had to be abandoned.
Six eonviett ife colored and one white—
were whipped a iww days since at New Cas
tle, Del.
Much damage has been done by floods and
Ice near Harrisburg, Penn. Four bridges.
Valued at more
and carried awjiy. Three dams were washed
out and the milk connected with them so
badly injured ok to prevent their running
until repaired.
Mayor Edson, of New York, received
many telegram- from the mayors of flooded
towns on the Ohio river, appealing for aid.
Copies of the telegrams were sent to the
various exchange of the city, and imme
diate action forYhe relief of the sufferers
was taken.
Thomas Kxnsella, a prominent journal
ist, tor many years editor of the Brooklyn
Eagle, la dead. f
Miss JehnieAlmy, a handsome young
woman, a private teacher, shot and mortally
wounded Victor C. Andre twenty-one years
old, also a private teacher, in a crowded sta
tion of the New York elevated railroad.
Then Miss Almy shot and killed herself. The
two had been engaged to be married, but it
is asserted that Andre, who had come to
this country six months ago and been ad
mitted to the best society, had betrayed and
then refused to marry the girl.
South and Vest
Fort Sully, in Dakota, has been burned
out. The soldiers there were compelled to
camp out, with tae thermometer at twenty
five degrees belosv>ru.
A gang of nine counterfeiters were ar
rested by United States Secret service offi
cers at Louisville, Ky.
About 25,000 persons in Cincinnati and
the adjacent towns of Covington and New
port were rendered homeless by the flood.
In a dispatch from the mayor of Galli
polis, Ohio, to the mayor of New York, tell
ing of the destitution which prevails in the
submerged regiouind asking for relief, the
sender says: “At least 2,000 houses have
been swept away or damaged to such an ex-
tent as to be uninhabitable after the flood
has sub id el. It is tor those unfortunate
pople that we appeal for help. The fanners
have loßt largely of their horses and cattle
and nearly all their grain and fee l, and all
their fencing; the merchant* and manufac
turers their stock*; the mechanics are thrown
out of employment; coal mines and salt
works are M, *xjfl|k4,vl everything is deso
late indeed. tube weeks, months, be
fore business c*M V- resurtied, and help will
he needed long after the waters have gone
down.”
Governor Knott has issued a proclama
tion to the people of Kentucky calling upon
them to aid the flood sufferers by private sub
scriptions, contributions and otherwise. The
Kentucky legislature appropriated $35,000
for the relief of the sufferers.
A frightful catastrophe, the result of
the flood, occurred at Cincinnati. About 4
o’clock A. M. a terrible crash was heard at
the corner of Pearl and Ludlow streets, in
the flooded district. It was found that the
rear parts of four brick buildings, which had
been undermine 1 by the waters, had fallen.
The scene which followed tho crash was one
of horror. Men wero shouting and women
nnd children were screaming for help. Soon
several boats arrive:!, and the boatmen, with
the aid of lanterns, began to rescue the in
mates of the hi Rises. About fifty iieople were
taken out of the, wrecked buildings. Ten
persons were crushed to death in the ruins.
Steamers witli supplies of food and cloth
ing have been sent by the government along
tho Ohio and trdmtarias to relieve the ne
cessities of the sufferers by the floods.
Colonel Hunt, a milliona’re lumberman
of Michigan, has just died, and being a lover
of humorists and humorous books, of which
he had accumulated a large numlier, he has
left $5,000 each to the mother of Artemus
Ward, to Eli Perkins and to Josh Billings.
A desperate shooting affray at Hot
Springs, Ark., between two factions of gam
blers—three brothers named Flynn, who
were in a back at the time, on one side, and
seven men on the other side—resulted in the
killing of one of the Flynns and the hack
driver, the mortal wounding of another
Flynn and two innocent bystanders, and the
shooting away of part of the third Flynn'*
hand. The men who fired upon the Flynns
began hostilities, and were arrested. The
affray grew out of an attempt of two too
ttonsto control the gambling “business” of
the town.
The estimated total loss by the floods in
Wheeling, W. Va, and vicinity, amount* to
$6,000,000. An appeal for aid, Issued from
Wheeling, states that the suffering there and
at points above and below is intense, and
that more than 10,000 people of the city “are
dependent and will be so for weeks.” There
are probably 20,000 people to be fed and
clothed from WelUburg to Moundsville.
I The county ja# in Wausau, Wia, was
burned early in this morning, and McDonald
I and Cary, two desperadoes, wero burned to
death.
The Platteville bank, of Platteville, Wis.,
has suspended, with Labilities of $150,000.
Eighteen drunken men captured a coal
train at Milledgville, Ohio, fatally beat a
brakeman, seriously injure,! the conductor
and drove him away, and compelled the
engineer to cut his engine loose from the cars
to save his life.
Great destitution is reported from the
overflooded banks of the Ohio and its tribu
taries, and many appeals for relief have been
sent out. Thousands of inhabitants belong
ing to numerous villages and towns were
driven from their homes to the hills for
refuge, and were compelled to camp out with
out food and with insufficient clothing. The
rivers were higher than they had ever been
before, and the state of affairs among the
people was described as appalling in the ex
; treme.
Fort Sully, in Dakota, has been burned
\ out. The soldiers there were compelled to
i camp out, with the thermometer at twenty-
I five degrees below zero.
roreigw.
Seven persons out in a pleasure beat at
Dundee, Scotland, were drowned.
English troops have been ordered to the
Red Sea ports, to defend them against El
Mahdi’s rebels.
Two mandarins have been executed for
instigating the recent massacre of Christians
in Tonquiu.
Mexico wants 0,000 feet of space in tho
main building at the coming New Orleans
exposition, and 120.000 feet outside for the
Mexican garden, the building for the Mexi
can commission, and for a camping ground
for a battalion of Mexican troops. Over
$300,000 has been n ''preprinted by the Mexi
cans. who will seiui a magnificent band of
musicians and a corps of cadets.
Several persons were drowned, and an
immense pecuniary loss was sustained by a
waterspout in Arequipa, Peru, and its en
virons.
Mtrders are now very numerous on the
Isthmus of Panama, ... .. —t
London’s lord mayor presided over a mass
meeting denunciatory of the British govern
ment’s policy in Egypt
Two members of the French chamber of
| deputies have just fought a duel, one receiv
ing a wound in the knee.
El Mahdi’s forces have evacuated their
' position ten miles from Suakim. At Sinkat
they killed 200 women and a number of
children. El Mabdi recently sent two mol-
I L)h to the ruler of the Kafa province, at
: the source of the Blue Nile, to order him
and his subjects to renounce fetish w rship
; end embrace Islamism. The mollahs, after
: they had delivered El Mahdi’s orders, were
strangled by the natives.
During a fight between whites and na-
I tives in the province of Angola, West Africa,
an explosion of gunpowder killed forty of
the latter.
Parnell, the Irish home rule leader, de
clared in an amendment to th 9 Queen’s
speech, proposed by him in the house of
that England’s policy in Deland
had failed to trauquilize the people, wantonly
prohibited public meetings and incite 1 ill
will and strife between the different classes
of the country.
A procession of 15,000 striking weavers
I at Blackburn, England, carried the effigy of
a manufacturer with the intention of hang
ing it in front of his residence. They were
charged by the police and several persons
were injured.
Miss Clara Barton, president of the
’ American National Association of the Bed
Cross, accompanied by Doctor Hubbell, the
special field agent of the association, has
gone from Washington to the scenes of the
flood along the Ohio for the purpose of af
fording relief by distributing supplies to the
I sufferers.
Nearly 5,000 bills, most of tbem of a
private nature, have been introduced so far
tn the present session of Congress.
Great dissatisfaction has been created
throughout Great Britain by the govern
ment’s vacillating policy concerning the
crisis in Egypt. As one dispatch pats it:
“People cannot understan 1 a policy of in
difference to massa res in a country where
England rules, and of indifference likewise
to the defeats of armies which Englishmen
officer.”
A BAND of 800 Indians murdered all the
principal residents of Omitlan, Mexico, and
plundered the town.
At a banquet given in Paris to leading
members of the scientific pro*, M. de Lea
se ps stated that the scheme for creating a
ten iu the great -Sahara desert, in order to
transform the arid sand into a fertile country,
would shortly he commenced.
Mr. Bkadlaugh, elected to the British
house of commons, but refuse-1 permission
to take his seat because be decliued to take
the prescribed oath for members, entered the
chamber during a session and administered
the oath to himself. Upon motion he was
excluded from the precincts of the h -use.
It is announced from Sicily that Mount
ACtna is in a state of eruption
Thomas Chenery, editor of the London
Timer, is dead.
While a wedding party was crossing the
River Theiss, near Domrad, Hungary, the
ice broke and thirty-five members of the
party were drowned.
The French bishop in Tonquin reports that
one priest, twenty-two catechists and 215
Christians have to -n massacred, and that
108 mission houses have been destroyed.
Queen Victoria has just published a book
containing a record of her life for the past
twenty years, describing her personal emo
tions, and State affairs and family matters,
and highly eulogizing her late body guard,
John Brown.
Sinkat, in the Soudan, has been captured
by El Mahdi’s rebels and its force of OcO
Egyptians under Tewflk Bey cut to pi.-cei
A motion to censure Gladstone’s govern
ment Tor its vacillating policy in the Soudan
was passed in the British house of lords by
181 yeas to 81 nays.
A violent earthquake has occurred ai
Bitlis, Asiatic Turkey, destroying a number
of buildings,
Bradlauoh has given up the long etrug
&le for possession of a seat in the British
ouse of commons, and anew election in his
district has been ordered.
Washington.
Representative Townshend, of Illinois,
Who represents in Congress the State coot
taining most exporters of pork and thar
I hog products, expresses in an interview the
opinion that retaliation is the only remedy
| left us against the foreign governments
; which are shutting out the American
j hog from their markets.
I A Chinaman who appeared in the district
I court at Washington for the purpose of be
! coming a citizen of the United States had his
application refused.
j The House committee on labor ordered a
! favorable report on Representative Hopkins’
bill for the establishment of a department
of labor statistics. The measure provides for
i the appointment of a commissioner, who
shall acquire all useful information upon the
subject of labor, its relations to capital, and
the means of promoting the material, social,
religious and intellectual prosperity of the
, laboring men and women. The question of
contract convict labor was discussed without
reaching a conclusion.
The House of Representatives passed a
joint resolution anthorizing the secretary of
war to issue rations for the relief of desti
tute persons in the district overfloodod by
the Ohio river and its tributaries, and mak
ing an appropriation of $300,000 to relieve
the sufferers. The resolution was then sent
! to the Senate, and that body passed it at
! once.
The Senate, in executive session con
firmed the following nominations: John M.
j Langston, minister-resident and consul-gen
eral to Hayti, to be also charge d'affaires to
i Santo Domingo; Henry F. Wild to beconsul
i at Concepcion del St. Oro, Mexico,
j Governor Ordway, of Dakota, addressed
i the House committee on Territories in favor
of the admission of Dakota as a whole into
; the Union. Judge Brookings and Mr. Tripp,
also of Dakota, tavored the division of the
j Teirritory.
The court of inquiry into the loss of the
Proteus, the vessel sent by the United States
to the relief of the Greely expedition in the
Arctic regions, has ma le its report. The
report states that Lieutenant Garlington,
commander of the Proteus, committed
various errors of judgment, and that Chief
Signal Officer Hazen, who superintended the
fitting out of the Proteus exjiedition, did not
fully comprehend the necessities of the case;
at the same time the court is of opinion that
no further proceedings before a general court
martial are called for.
The United States Senate commit
tee of investigation into alleged political out
rages in Copiah county. Miss., arrived at
New Orleans aud examined witnesses.
Further confirmations by the Senate:
Commodore Edward Simpson to be rear-ad
miral in the navy; Edward S. Stevens to be
consul at Victoria: Francis A. Osgood to be
collector of customs for the district of Mar
blehead; Albert Schunemann, of Denver, to
be receiver of public moneys at Prescott,
Arizona.
In i ccordance with the recommendation
of Secretary Folger, the President has di
rected the promotion of Lieutenant Rhodes,
of the revenue cutter Dexter, for gallant
and meritorious conduct on the occasion of
the City of Columbus disaster.
The President has approved the joint reso
lution authorizing the sending of au expedi
tion to the relief of Greely.
Witnesses testified before the Senate
committee of investigation concerning the
election trouble between whites and blacks
at Danville, Va
The secretary of the treasury has issued
au order thanking the officers and men of
the revenue cutter Dexter for their bravery
during the City of Columbus disaster, and
advancing Second-Lieutenant Rhodes twen
ty-one numbers in his grade.
A Monster Diamond.
The cutting of a diamond, believed to
oo the largest ever cut in this country,
has just been completed in Boston, hav
ing occupied sometliing more than three
months. The stone was found in South
Africa and was imported by a New York
firm. Its weight in the rough was nearly
125 carats. The gem, as perfected, is
brilliant and beautiful, but has a marked
yellowish tinge. As cut it weighs seven
ty-seven carats. It is cut in a rounded
eushion-shape, with fifty-six facets, its
size being nearly a full inch across and a
little more than five-eighths of an inch
in depth.
' SUMMARY OF CONGRESS
Senate*
Th? chair laid before the Senate a com
munication from tfce secretary of war trans
mitting, in compliance with a recent resolu
tion of the Senate, a statement showing the
number of soldiers of the late war who served
one year, how many two years, a:d how
many three years, and the amount of money
required to equalize the bounties of those
who served in said war Mr. Pendleton
presented the credentials of Henry B. Payne,
Senator-elect from the State of Ohio, for the
term banning March 4, 1885. The cre
; dentials were read and ordered to be filed.
The committee on naval affairs reported
favorably a bill for the relief of the survivors
of the Jeannet‘e exj:edition aDd of the
widow? and children of those who perished.
Mr. Riddlebergers resolution providing
for a joint committee to inquire into re
movals and appointments of Senate and House
employes was the subject of a long debate,
participated in by Messrs. Vest, Riddleber
ger and Conger. A message was received from
the House announcing that that b jdy was still
unable to agree to the Senate amendment to
the Greelv Relief bill, reauirinz that the men
6ent on that expedition should be volunteers.
After some debate the Senate receded from
its amendment by a vote of 29 to 22.
A oul appropriating £-‘OO.OOO to commence
the construction of a building for the ac
commodation of the library of Congress was
passed by a vote of 35 yeas to 6 nays... .Mr.
Voorhee; asked and obtained unanimous
consent to introduce, out of the regular
order, a bill to prohibit officers and employea
of the United States government from con
tributing money for political purposes. A
debate, participated in by Messrs. Voorhees,
Hawley, Beck, Dawes and Harrison, fol
lowed. The bill was referred to the commit
tee on the judiciary A bill was introduced
by Mr. McPherson to suspend the coinage oJ
the silver dollar
Mr. Hale, from the committee on naval
affairs, reported unfavorably and moved tne
indefinte postponement of the joint resolu
tion introduced by Mr, McPherson, limiting
the amount of money to be expended
by the President on the Greely relief
expedition to $500,030. Mr. Voor
hees offered a resolution directing
the secretary of the interior to withhold ap
proval of selections of lands made by the
Northern Pacific Railroad company within
certain indemnity limits The Senate con
sidered the McPherson banking bill and Mr.
Bayard delivered an address in its support.
Mr. Sawyer called up the bill recently
reported from the committee on post
offices an 1 post roads, making all public
roads and highways post routes, and after
Fome amendment it was passed A resolu
tion was agreed to directing the committee on
finance to consider the expediency of provid
ing by general legislation for the change of
names of national banks, and to report by
b ll or otherwise at the present session
Mr. Logan introduced a bill to provide that
jiersons honorably discharged from the mili
tary or naval service of the United States
l Sball b:* preferred for appointment to civil
offices, provided they are found to possess
the necessary business capacity.
The Senate spent most of a day dis
cussing Mr. McPherson’s National Bank
Note bill an<l the proposed amendments to
.t. Mr. Plumb argued against the bill. He
said the national debt should be paid off as
soon a? possible, and what was wanted was
something to take the place of the bank cir
lation as it was withdrawn from time to
time. He otfere 1 an amendment pro
viding for the issuing of treasury note-- to
take the place of the circulation of the banks
as it is surrendered. Mr. Sherman's amend
ment. providing that if any of the bonds de
posited bore interest higher than three per
c at. additional notes should be issued equal
to one-half the interest iu excess of the three
} er cent, accruing before maturity, was voted
down, 42 nays to 7 yeas,
House*
The House adopted the report on the new
rules after a two days’ debate. Mr. Randall
reported the naval appropriation bill, and
gave notice that it would be called the next
Tuesday. It appropriates $14,363,000, being
$8,392,000 less than the amount estimated
for, and $1,631,000 less than the amount ap
propriated for the current fiscal year....Mr.
Willis introduced a bill temporarily provid
ing for the support of common schools. It
provides for an annual appropriation of
from $10,000,009 to $1,000,000 for the next
ten years, the appropriation to be reduced
•1, 000,000 each succeeding year Mr.Bayn* !
introduced a bill repealing all internal taxes '
on domestic tobacco Mr. Ooff introduced '
a joint esolutio n appropriating SIOO,OOO for !
the relief of the sufferers by the overflow of j
tho Ohio river and its tributaries Mr. Fin- ;
erty, of Illinois, offered a resolution declar- [
ing that the House “laments the death of
■Wendell Phillips as a national bereavement.”
Mr. Eaton objected aud the resolution went
over.
Bills introduced: By Mr. Belford, to facil- j
itate the settlement of private land claims; ,
by Mr. Oates, restoring to the pension rolls
the names of those droppe 1 therefrom on ;
account of disloyalty; by Mr. Bisbee to im- '
pose duties on cocoanuts, bananas and
pineapples; by Mr. Townshend, a resolution '
projjosing a constitutional amendment pro- |
viding for the election of President by a
majority of tho votes of the people and the :
abolition of the electoral college, and regu- !
lating the method of counting the votes oy J
the two Housesof Congress; by Mr. Hender- j
json, providing for the i-sue of circulating ;
note; for national banking associations; !
by Mr. Poland, providiu; that before regis- ;
trotion in Utah and Idaho a vot r shall take
an oath that ho does not belong to the Church
of the latter Day Sa nts.
On motion of Mr. Stewart a resolution was
adopted directing the committee on ex[iendi
tures in the department of justice, in mak
ing investigation into the expenditures on
account of prosecution of persons charged
with frauds on the government, and j
especially in the Star Route mail ;
service, to inquire into the manner in
which such prosecutions are being conduct- 1
ed, and into the conduct, efficiency and good
faith of a 1 officials or persons in the pay of
the government in connection with such
prosecutions, and whether guilty parties
have been duly prosecuted The House
went into committea of the whole on the
naval appropriation bill.
The Se’nate bill for the construction of a
build.ng for the library of Congress was
taken from the Speaker's table aud referred
to the committee on the library The
House resumed consideration of the con
tested election case of Chalmers against
Manning. A debate ensued, but no action
was taken.
The House resumed the debate on the
Mississippi contested election case of Chal
mers against Manning. The monotony of
the proceedings was broken by Mr. Curtin,
who took Mr. Manning by the arm, led
him to the bar of the House, and demanded
that he be sworn as a member. Mr. Cal
kins raised a point of order, but the speaker
said there was no necessity for deciding
such a question, as the chair would not
undertake to administer the oath of office
to a person claiming to be a member elect,
when the House itself was considering his
right to the seat. The minority resolution,
declaring Manning’s credentials to be per
fect, was rejected, 140 to 106. The majority
resolution, discharging the committee on
elections from consideration of the prima
facie case, and leaving the seat vacant until
the case was decided on its merits, was then
adopted.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS
The Texas legislature has made fence cut
ting a felony.
Kansas last year produced 107,550 pounds
of cotton, valued at $9,650.
Sixteen Chinamen who dwell in Worces
ter, Mass., attend Grace church.
A seven-ykar-old girl is one of the fast
est type-setters at New Hartford, Conn.
A race-poxt, thirteen hands high, was
recently sold at Sealy, Texas, for SI,OOO.
A pearl weighing nearly 200 grains has
lately been found on the line of the Panama
canal.
Rhode Island savings banks have $52,-
460,205 iutrusted to their care by 120,482 de
positors.
The Montreal ice palace, built of large
blocks of ice, is in size 100 by 150 feet and
cost $3,000..
An eleven-year-old boy in Corydon, Ind.,
committed su ; cide because his parents re
fused to let him eat at first table.
Salmon fishing on the Sacramento river
is now very active, and is going on day and
night, more than 2,000 men being employed
in it.
There have been only two known cases of
female lynching in this country. The first
occurred in 1851 at DonneviJJe, a mining
camp in the Boole district of California, and
the victim was a Spanish woman named Inez
Paria, who had murdered and robbed a man
in her husband's saloon. The second and
last case is the recent lynching of Mta Oi'd
dingham in Ouray, Col.
MUSICAL AiNl) DRAMATIG
Mme. Pauline Lucca will undoubtedly
sing in tins country next season.
A movement is on foot to establish a con
servatory of music in Peoria, 111.
Lotta is announced to open the new Casino
theatre in Washington next ailtunm.
Mr. IVinch, the American tenor, is sing
ing with success in oratorio in England.
Fannie Davenport is playing “Fedora”
on the road to average weekly receipts of
$6,000.
Ristori, the celebrated Italian actress, is
coming to this country in October, and will
make a tour of the principal cities.
Mrs. Langtry will not, after all, says an
English paper, go to Australia, trat will have
a London theatre after the ternination of
her American engagement.
Edward Mit.i.tken, of the “Jalma” com
pany, has written anew drama in five acts,
which is purely American, and contains som
novel scenic and mechanical effects.
George Alfred Townsend, the New York
journalist, has written a drama called ‘ ‘Crom
well,” which deals with the history of the
protector up to and including the protec
torate.
Mbs. W. G. Noah, one of the great ac
tresses of fifty years ago, who played rival
engagements with Fauny Kemble and sup-
Eorted the elder Booth and Forrest, is still
ving in Rochester, N. Y.
Edwin Booth, who recently finished a very
successful engagement in Philadelphia, de
clined an engagement in Pittsburg upon a
guarantee of SIO,OOO clear for a single week.
He preferred to go to Boston.
“The Marchioness,” as played by Lotta in
London, is anew adaptation of the Incidents
of the novel, by Charles Dickens, who has
merely arranged his father’s “Old Curiosity
Shop” into a series of disconnected scenes,
not, in any sense of the word, a
drama.
The New York Orchestral society has an
orchestra of amateurs composed as follows:
Ten violins, one viola, one violincello, two
double basses, two flutes, one oboe, three
clarionets, one saxophone, two trumpets (cor
nets probably), two horns, two trombones,
one piano and two drums.
The Modjeska ranch out in California,
which cost her $U0,030, has eornmeuced yield
ing a profit, bringing the actress $5,000 the
other da}’, which she looked upon as “luck
money,” and in vested it iu a tiara and ear
rings to wear as a sort of mascotte in Mau
rice Barrymore's new play.
The I'all Mall Gazette notes an interesting
fact with referenoe to the well-known song,
“I Arise from Dreams of Thee." It was com
losed by Mr. Charles K. Salamon, who, not
recognizing the hit he had made, sold it for
£B, copyright and all. The present holder of
that right derives from it the nice little in
come of £BOO a year.
Mk. T. Slater Smith, manager of
“ Ranch 10,” has purchased anew play,
which will be produced for the first time in
Philadelphia on March 17. The title is
“ Kentucky Belle,” which applies not only to
ihe heroine, but to a celebrated race horse
that has been named after her. The play
has a number of sensational effects, a novel
fire scene, and a reproduction of a race
course.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Vanderbilt. —Careful estimates place the
value of William H. Vanderbilt's outfit,
when he drives, at $150,000.
Huntoon. —Colonel Nathan Huntoon, of
Unity, N. H., is the oldest Free Mason in the
world, having been Initiated in 1803.
Palmer.— Ex-Governor John M. Palmer,
of Illinois, was in early life a clock peddler.
He studied law by the advice of Stephen A.
Douglas.
Whittier. —John G. Whittier, the poet
is about the last of the influential Abolition
ists belonging to tho PhiLiips Garnson era
left alive.
Packard.— Professor AlpheusS. Packard,
of Bowdoin college,who is now in his eighty
fifth year, says that he has never been ill a
day in his life.
Villard.— Henry ViUard is not a very
poor man after all. It is given out that he
will manage to save $1,000,000 from the
wreck of his fortune.
Blackburn.— Senator-elect J C. S. Black
burn, of Kentucky, is forty-six years old, and
b tall, square shouldered and sinewy. His
features are handsomfe, and large, blue-gray
eye* look out above a heavy brown mus
tache.
George. —Henry George,who ii now forty
five years of age, began life as a printer.
Afterward he became a sailor, then a re
porter on the Sacramento Uecord, next
owner of the San Francisco Post, and later
he took to lecturing. His wife is a lady of
Irish parentage aud Australian birth.
Pierce.— Bishop G. F. Pierce, of Georgia,
the great Methodist leader of the South, re
cently celebrated his golden wedding at
Sparta. The bishop’s father, Rev. Lovio
Pierce, was the gieat apostle of Georgia
Methodism, and for over half a century the
son has followed vigorously the path set by
the father as an ecclesiastical leader.
Wheeler.—An intimate friend of Mis*
Ella Wheeler, the poetess, now In New Or
leans, says that young lady is to be married
in early spring to a Mr. Yorke, of this city.
She also says that Miss Wheeler is twenty
six years old, and with her pen has eanied
and paid for a lovely little home, in which
she resides with her mother and a younger
sister whom she educated.
Bradlaugh.— Charles Brad laugh, the infi
del member of the British parliament, has a
brother who is actively engaged in evangeli
cal work. The latter disclaims any differ
ences with his brother, except in religious
opinions, and though there is no fraternal
conqianionship between them, he says ha
loves him as much as ever and confidently
looks for his conversion to Christianity.
eccmtebT suicides.
Louis Walters, of Akron, while intoxi
cated, cut a hole in the ice and drowned him
self.
A De Kalb county, Tenn., man cut a tree
until it was ready to'fall.and then let it crush
him.
A San Antonio man cut his throat be
cause a lottery ticket he had purchased
proved a blank.
Mrs. Thomas Paxton, of Howard Lake,
Minn., killed herself because she was married
against her will.
Mrs. Joseph Wagenhauser, of Youngs
town, Ohio, cut her throat on account of the
death of her son.
After injuring her knee in jumping a rope 1
Jane Becker, aged thirteen, of Reading, hung
herself from a bedpost.
While suffering from inflammatory rheu
matism, Mrs. Benjamin Watson, of Bloom
ington, 111., threw herself into a cistern and
was drowned.
Mrs. Ann Stump, of Columbus, Ohio
poi* >ned her pet dog, fearing it might out
live her. Remorse at the deed caused her to
kill herself with strychnine.
Lemuel Whisten, near Enterprise, tied a
halter around his neck and hitched himself
to his wagon. He then scared the horses and
made them run. Whisten’s young wife bad
died but a few weeks before.
Henry F. Mill ward shot himself after
participating in a mock tragedy at Spring
field, Ohio. Some weeks ago Millward, as
sisted by a bundle of friends, constructed a
dummy out of a number of towels and pil
low?, and laid it on a bed in the Arcada
hotel in that city. The room was carefully
darkened, and the dummy covered with a
6heet. A pasteboard hea 1 with grotesquely
painted features was attached to the body,
so as to be in plain sight when the sheet
should be removed. When all was ready,the
report was circulated through the city by
the jokers that a drummer had committed
suicide at the hotei. The report attracted
hundreds of citizens, including the coroner,
who were piloted up to the room one by one.
Millwai'd killed himself in the same room. )
Bey. Mr. Talsiage, in a sermon re
cently, told of a New York merchant
who stopped the use of the “vile weed”
and saved his tobacco money, and at
the end of thirty-nine years he had
520.102.03. At this rate he would have
to do without tobacco and save his
money for more than a thousand years
before he would be as rich as Vanderbilt.
There are many obstacles in the way of
leading an upright and temperate life in
this world. —Norristown Herald.
Illinois has produced 10,503,791. tons
of coal during the last year, an increase
of 1,393,138 tons over the previous
twelve months,