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GREEKBBORQ. GEORGIA.
JOURNALISTIC NOTES.
Bobert Bonner's wealth is estimated
at *7,000,000.
Henry Geobor began life as a print
er, later he became a sailor, then a re
porter.
Con. John Hat’s biography of Lin
coln is reported to be rapidly nearing
completion.
Newspapers are like men—the live
liest have the best circulation and the
most power.
Fifteen thousand dollars a year is the
salary paid to Mr. F. C. Burnard for
editing the London Punch.
Jok Howard, the famous New York
correspondent, lost *3,000 in an oil spec
ulation in Wall street recently.
Ttpooraphicai. Union No. 6, of New
York city, say that they have succeeded
in the strike at N. L. Monro's.
"When an editor successfully hides a
*2O gold piece from his wife, should he
be called a '‘gold beater” or a “wife
beater ?”
Thk man who professes to hold news
papers in contempt is thi first one to
look in the morning jonyniu to see if his
arrival has been chronicled^
Ah Augusta, Ga., editor says that five
men in tne Southern States now read
the newspapers where one man read
them ten years ago.
Another : When a man is so stingy
as to borrow a newspaper when he is
able to buy, he will talk through his
nose to save wearing ont his teeth.
"Warren Leland, the noted hotel
man, once edited a country newspaper
in Caliloruia. When the paper went up
the flume, he became a stage driver.
The newspapers and periodicals now
published in this country and Canada
number 13,402, an increase of 1,000 in
the last year and of 6,018 in the last do
cade.
The Journalist says that although
William A. WilkiDß, the philosopher
and proverb ereoter of the Whitehall
Timm, is not much taller than a flour
barrel, he stands high in the estimation
of his friends.
I>r. James G. Ramsey, a distinguished
physician and author, died in Knoxville,
Tenn., aged eighty-seven years. Ho
was tho author of a history of Tennes
nee and many yoars President of tho
Tennessee Historical Society.
“That's the trouble in this part of tbo
country,” remarked a Texas editor, ns
a bullet crashed through the window
and took a piece of his ear off, “You
mako a paper interesting and newsy,
and you’ve got to dodge around to keep
it up.”
Major Ben Ferlky Poore is the
oldest newspaper correspondent in
Washington. Ho lias been writing from
the capital for over thirty continuous
wears, and it is only a short while since
he gave up telegraph work and gave
himself up to corrospondcnco.
The late Mrs. Oswald Ottendorfer, the
stimable wife of the proprietor of the
Stoats y.ictung, used to turn the wheel
to print her husband's paper when they
were too poor to pay for help. Sho left
*3 ,000,000, a large amount of which
went for charitablo objects.
- M. ..QnA(£ of the Detroit /Mass,
l|a to ta*J a position on n New York
Weekly July Ist. A year ago the Sun
offered Mr. Lewis a five years’ engage
ment at $l5O per week, ale would not
accept it. It is understood that now ho
is to reoeive S2OO per week.
The man doth ilo a dirty caper,
Who in arrears cries “Stop my paper.”
Whitehall Times.
A man doth do the proper caper, *
Who pays arrears, thou steps the ipcr.
—Canajohariv Courier.
Tint man doth do a f-qnarcr caper
When up to the counter he doth prance.
And pavs his subscription in advance.
And cheerily says, “1 like the paper.
Chicaqo .Sun,
Somethin); About Soldiers.
General Egbert L. Viele read o paper
on “Camp and Garrison Sanitation,” bo
foro the Military Service Institution, at
Governor's Island. He said 2
Of the 29,000 Hessians sent to this
oonutry in the Revolutionary War, one
lialf perished of disease. Iu tlio Mexican
War, 120 officers ami 1.400 men fell iu
tmttle or died of wounds in the United
States Army, while 100 officers and 10,-
800 men diet! of disease. In the War of
the lit*hellion 90,000 men died of wounds
or fell in battle, while 210,000 diod of
disease.
In speaking of the military strength of
the United States, he said :
In ten days the United States could
put into tlie field an army as largo as
that of either of the five great powers of
Europe. This country needs but a
proper military system to bo the strong
est country in the world. Switzerland,
that land of freedom, which has stood
for ages in the midst of despotism, has
no standing army whatever; but so per
fect is its military system that it could
put 200,000 men in the field at once.
It is about the same size as Ohio; yet
Ohio could not protect itself from a
brutal and unorganized mob. The
regular army of the United States may
be estimated at 30,000 men. This little
army protects 5,000 miles of sea coast
and 5,000 miles of frontier, and keeps iu
subjection 300,000 Indians. There are
187 forts and barracks in the country
which are eared for or garrisoned by this
army. It may he safely said that the
United States does a larger business on a
smaller capital than any other organiza
tion in the world.
The Army Question.
Three or four mouths ago General
Sherman, while on his last round of iu-
Bpection as the head of the army, pre
dicted that dangers would arise iu the
future, and that at no distant day the
country would again have to invoke the
protection of the army as its surest safe
guard. He suggested a plan at the same
time whereby the army might lie in
creased to one hundred’ thousand men.
The country ridiculed his fears. Who,
said our wise editors and legislators, are
going to attack us ? Where is the na
tion which dare invade us ? Mexico ?
Assuredly not. Canada? Nonsense.
The Cincinnati riot, with the destruction
it has wrought, may suggest dangers iu the
future of which we little dream to-day.
Five hundred regular troops would have
ended the Cincinnati riot in a day. The
presence of a garrison of five thousand
soldiers in the vicinity of every large
city, would do more to suppress in
cipient riots than a score of militia regi
ments. There is, of course, a prejudice
•gainst a large standing army; but there
Is a still greater prejudice against mob
law and mob violence. —New York
Hour.
TREE TO THEIR MOTHER.
A Wmm < harerd with Murder aad bn
Children Hefaee it Testify-
A sensational scene of an nnnsnal kind, even
In Irish murder trials, occurred at Curricle
on-Hair, county Tipperary, Ireland. The
victim of the supposed murder was
Michael Ulanov. of Kilcaah, whose body
was recently exhumed and was found to show
traces of arsenic in sufficient quantity to cause
death. Suspicion rested upon the widow, and
she was arrested and placed on trial at Carrick
on-Buir. Her two children, of vety ten
der years, were produced as witnesses, hut on
being placed upon the witness’ table they
stubbornly refused to utter a word. They were
threatened with imprisonment, and were evi
dently much frightened, but threats and per
suasion alike failed to elicit from them a single
morsel of evidence. They were therefore com
mitted for oontempt at court and ordered to
be kept in confinement separate from their
mother unt J they purge themselves of oon
tempt by giving their testimony in open court.
The severity of the Judge’s action under the
peculiar circumstances has caused a great ren
aation in the neighborhood and has turned the
sympathies of the people in favor of the widow,
who has hitherto been regarded by most of the
neighbors as guilty.
I'smimai of the Crops.
The retnrns of the Department of Agricul
ture for May make the wheat prospect nearly
as favorable as in April. Then the genera! av
erage was within five per cent, of the standard
of full condition. The May average la 94. It
was 833-4 in 1883. Barring the changes of the
future, a winter wheat product of about 850,-
000, IMS bushels is indicated.
Tho temperature of April has been lower
than osual, and low-lying lands have been sat
urated with moisture, retarding growth. Well
drained wheat soils are nearly everywhere
bearing a vigorous and healthy growth.
A few reports of injury by the fly have been
received, but the aggregate loss from insect
gavagrs (Jill be trivial. ,
The wf Af wheat of New Kb/land is \
scarcely / rr ciable a qnantity. Its condition
is qsital uniformly high. The Middle and
Southern* States make averages ranging from
80 to 100. The Ohio basin makes a less favor
able showing, with little difference in the
States on the north side of the river.
HIGH AVEUAOEB EOB WHEAT. r -.A
TV-fUates of large production make the
lowing averages, 100 representing not an £fi B.
age condition, hut a full stand of h*h^
riant* of medium growth: New YorlArjii
‘ennsylvania, 98; Kentucky, 99; Ohi~**
Michigan, 85; Indiana, 85; Illinois, 87*50 ft!
souri, 94; Kansas, 103, and California, 95Xj.
WHEAT CROP.
The prosent outlook of tho wheat f% -w—a
generally favorable, though a large part <W
backward. The returns imlicato that the con
dition is now 96 as compared with 100 repre
senting a full average. This implies that tho
present outlook is 17 percent better than a year
ago. The area of the crop reported this season
is about 27,000,000 acres, and it is believed that
the yield will lie about 350,000,000 bushels.
150 IN THK HIIAIIK.
It is wonderful how Europeans stand the
summer in Calcutta, hut they contrive to worry
through it by living in a state of perfect idle
ness. Hcrvants fan tho sleeper all night, wash
and dress him in tho morning, and attend to
every want. Tho thermometer frequently goeß
np to 150 in the shade and 180 in the sun.
Every slimmer the heat kills people riding in
the railway cars. The main business of life
here is to keep cool. The climate soems to be
tbo one thing which is fatal to tho develop
ment of this wonderful country.
A'Train Itlanstor.
Tho train operator at Connellaville, on the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, ordered a oamp
train, bearing forty-six workmen, to “run
wild" to'Ohio X’ylo Falls, a station sixteen miles
east of .Connellaville, on the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad. A few minutes after,the train
left the operator remembered that the second
Boction of freight train No. 80, which was du
in Gomiellaville at four o’clock in tho morning,
was not ill yet, but hail just left Indian Creek
station, and was constantly bearing down on
tho oamp train at that moment. The operator
tried to stop the camp train at Gilson station,
hut fouud he was too late, and a collision oc
curred in which 14 men wero killed and
seriously
fSUI.II> WHIfSKY.
The old story about the invention of solidi
fied whisky comes up in anew shape. This
time tho story goes that a German named
Peterman, lining near Pittsburg, Penn., has
discovered a way of solidifying whisky and
packing in plugs like tobacco. A plug of
whisky is rather light tin color, and ran hs
aasily carried in tho .vest pocket. It can bo
dissolved in water or chewed up. The inventor
says ho can do nothing unless he has perfectly
pure alcohol. Ho therefore claims that his
solidified whisky will ho the pure article, and
will drive out the adulterated stuff which is so
extensively used at present.
A NEW mVHKII.
Gunmaker Krupp lias a now powder that ia
•aitl to ho more powerful than the powder here
tofore used. It is called lirown powder to dis
tinguish it from the black powder of everyday
nse. The brown powder contains the ingre
dients ef the black powder, but in different
proportions. The brown powder has, it is
claimed, many points ever the old-fashioned
black powder. It ia good in gtms of all sizes.
It explodes only in a tightly-enclosed space. It
is non-explosive when not so confined. It does
not fill the air with smoke, and better than all
to the gunmaker, it produces a greater velo
city. It is thought the new invention will
supersede the black destructive agent
A 1111 l to locreooe Pensions.
The U. 8. House Committee on Invalid Pen
sions unanimously agreed to report favorably a
bill which provides that all |ieusions now on or
hereafter placed on the pension roll, who while
in the Military or Naval service of the
United States lost an arm or a leg,
shall be entitled to a pension of
S4O per month, and those who have
lost a hand or a foot, shall be en
titled to a pension of S3O per mouth, and if
they have received a wound or other disability
in addition thereto they shall receive a pension
of SSO per mouth. All persons who have a leg
amputated at the hip joint and all persons who
have lost an arm at the shoulder joint shall he
entilltvl to a pension of SSO per month, and all
persons who nave lost an arm and leg shall be
entitled to a pension of S7O per mouth.
POETRY SOUTH.
Joaquin Miller thinks the south is the laud of
poetry. He sees in the books that have ap
peared the first little sweet flowers after tho
storm and winter, and the southern Byron, or
Real* or Shelly may yet appear and be the
American poet that all are looking for, Sidney
Lanier died just as he got a place to set down
and rest. Of Ticknor's “Little Giffen,” Miller
gays there is nothing iu the land as good and
graphic in its way. He thinks Lillian llozell
Messenger will yet he accorded a great recep
tion. John Henry Boner is doing refined and
perfect work, and Theophilus H. Hill, another
North Carolina poet, is devoir and true. The
new poet* of the south are full of promise.
lilt; tuns.
Krupp, the German ordnance manufacturer,
claims to have settled the contest which has
teen waging for several years between armor
plate and heavy guns. He is constructing
guns at present of 16-inch bore and 35 calibers
length, which weigh I*2l tons .and carry a pro
jectile weighing more than a ton. with a charge
of 770 pounds of powder. These guns can
penetrate, at several miles distance, any armor
which it is possible for a vessel to float with.
They cost about $175,000 each, and it requires
over two years to complete one. Krupp*s 12
inch gun carries a projectile of about half a
ton, and it is claimed that at & distance of two
miles it can penetrate the armor of the strong
est ship in the English navy, consisting of 26
inches of iron and 17 inches of teak.
TilE GAMBLER’S WAYS,
A recent writer, who is himself a gambler, is
not inclined to believe the statement that pro
fessional gamblers have a high standard of
honor among themselves. He says they are a
very suspicious body of men whose bond takes
the form of collateral security. The two chief
component parts, he says, that go to make up
the professional gambler are cupidity and lazi
ness. These two characteristics predominating
result in the complete demoralization of the
man. He sums up the whole matter in this
way: “A business that is illegitimate in itself
and draws to its support criminals from every
walk in crime, must on its face be demoraliz
ing. Ido not attempt to lay that every gam
bling room in Boston is the constant and only
resort of criminals, but I do wish to be under
stood as saying that there is not a game in this
or any other city that would exclude a man on
social or moral grounds. Cash, no matter how
obtained, is the ‘open sesame’ in every in
stance. The conclusions arrived at in this
article have their foundation in solid fact, and
the deductions and suggestions are the out
come of mature thought, by one who has made
thewubject a study, from the vantage ground
of the dealer's chair.”
DI6EABE AND OI.D AGE.
A prominent English physician- says that a
great many people who are afflicted with mor
tal maladies manage to live to a good old age.
In his opinion more people are killed by fear
than by disease. There are innumerable in
siances of persons dragging along for years in
daily expectation of death, and yet living to
the average age of man. Medicine is valuable,
but it owes more to the influence of hope than,
it does to drugs. The brain, or mind organ, is
just sb much a part of the body as the liver or
the heart. The influence of hope is frequently
manifested when there is a consultation of
physicians in the sick room. Generally the
(treatment is not changed, but the patient feels
the presence of skillful medical advisers, and
Hie at once calls up hia reserve forces to fight
'against disease. A resolute and intelligent
and confidence will do more to
I ward off and cure sickness than anything else.
MlSIfAb A\i) DRAMATIC
l Emma Abbott goes to Europe this summer.
Comic opera will be given on tho iron pier
at Coney Island this summer.
A monument is to be erected in Paris to
Berlioz, the eminent composer.
Anna Dickerson, it is said, will hence
forth be seen in public only on tho lecture
platform.
Marie Van Zandt has been appointed a
eo-.irt singer by the king of Holland. This is
an honor rarely conferr- 4.
Barti.ky Campbell, bus written a four-act
drama, which will bo produced ut the Union
Square theatre, New York, next season.
Mary Anderson will mako a tour of
Bpnin before returning to tbo Lyceum thea
tre, London, for a revival of “Romeo and
Juliet.”
The Metropolitan Opera honso (New Yorkl
has swtillowod fully $358,000 during the dis
astrous season that usod up Mr. Abbey so
budly.
Thomas Nast Is going to lecturo next sea
son He yearned fur a play in which he
might show his skill as a drawer of cartoons,
but could not get one.
“Dkkirik,” a new American comic opera,
tho music of which Is by .John Philip Sousa,
leader of the marine baud in Washington,has
made a decided hit at tho capital.
Minnie Palmer continu • her success in
London, and there is some talk now of her re
maining in England another season. At any
rate it is not at all likely that sho will return
in August, as arranged some time ago.
Rubenktein’s “Nero” was recently given
seven times in succession at Moscow, the
house being sold out ea -li time. Thiso|iera,
whic h Rubinstein considers liis.best work, is
also in preparation at Vienna, Berlin, and
other German cities.
It is rumored that Italian opera will only
ho continued another season at Ht. Petore
bergj lu |SBA lit. VUaric theatre to to be de
molished, and the sums hitherto consumed
by the Italian opera are to be devoted to tfie
Russian opera.
An old lady from tho country goes for the
first time to the opera. After a few solos,the
troupe all sing together. “Ah!” remark a the
old lsdy, “they don'tenro now that they have
our money, bee. ail are singing togother, so
that they can got through sooner!’’
Mr. Edwin Booth, the distinguished
actor, is acquainted personally with but fow
members of his profession. Ho prefers the
society of literary men, of painters, and of
sculptors to that of actors, and is very much
at home in the studios that he frequents. In
personal appearance Mr. Booth is getting to
resemble his celebrated father. Junius Brutus
Booth.
SUMMARY OF CONGRESS.
Scnstv.
Tho “Senate insisted on its amendments to
the Fitz John Porter bill and the pleuro-
Snoumonia bill, which were rejected b
le llouso The committee on pensions
reported favorably, with an amend
ment, tho house bill granting pensions to the
soldiers of the Mexican war. The amend
ment provides that no such officer, enlisted
man, or w idow shall bo entitled to the bene
fits of this act unit as dependent iu whole or
in part upon his or her own labor or assist
ance from others for support. Considera
tion of the shipping bill was resumed, and it
was finally pa s -d with amendments.
The Senate took up the Indian appropria
tion bill and Mr. Dawos briefly recapitula
ted its provisions. The estimates for the year,
hesaid. had boon $5,4i0,8t9.91 The amount
of the bill os it came from the House had
been $5,456,389.31. The amendments pro
pose! by the Senate increase l the amount by
$757,413.60, making the total amount reported
to tho Senate for the Indian service for the
coming year $6.213,802.97. This amount ex
ceeds the Indian bill of hist year by $540,t47,
the chief clement of which increase, Mr.
Dawe3 said, was the amount for Indian
schools.
House.
The bill appropriating .001.000 as a lr*nn
to the New Orleans exposition c ame up. Mr.
Holman strongly opposed the bill, declaring
that Congress had no constitntional power to
loan money to a private corporation. Mr.
Hotter took similar ground. The bill was
passed VS! to 87... .The secretary of the in
terior submitted a supplementary estimate
of $272,0,0 for additional clerical force in the
office of t’:e commissioner of pensions.... A
bill reviving the patent laws was introduced.
The Hous3 passo 1 the bill granting $0,0.K)
to the widow of General Francis I*. Blair for
her husband's service* in organizing troops
during the war. and increasing her peusi n
to $lO a month .. .Most o’ the day was spent
in debate on two bills, one appropriating
$0,00) for the relief of Willis N. Arno and. of
Henderson. Tonn., which was reported fa
v rah y bv the comm ttee onwar claims, the
other lor the relief of Hiram Johnson and
lorty six other persons of the same place*
whi h was reported adversely The House
in committee finally si.b-uitutod the Johnson
till for t’.o Arnold bill.
Mr. Cox, of New York, introduced a bill to
pla o General Gi ant on the retired list. Bills
wore also introduced to restrict the ownership
o ’ real estate in the Ter:itories to citizens oi
tii-3 United t-tat s; to repeal internal revenue
taxes o.i tobacco and brandy, and wine made
fr m limit; and to repeal pro-einp
tion and timber culture laws.... Mr.
lio\> i*t i t o luecal a lull amending the
tarid'. 'the bid provides for simplifying
the a ’min s ration of the custom laws. Cot
toa and e >t o i poo Is are not to pay a higher
rate of duty than forty per euit. ad valorem;
hemp, jute and fiax/than thirty per cent.;
wool and wooleus, than seventy por cent ,*
carets an l carpeting, than tn Tty-five p r
cent.; earthenware, glassware and metals,
than fifty per cent. On chemicals, wood, pre
visions, books, sundries (other than prec.o s
s ones', and sugar, the eshall be levied nine:y
per cent, of ihe duties now imposed, and to
bacco shall pay ti htv percent, of t .e dut es
now im vs -d.' The bill makes reducto.is in
the iron schedule, an 1 a number of additions
to the tree list
Yellow Fever.— Owing to the dis
covery of yellow fever germs in earth
about* the graves of those deceased by
the disease, Brazil is to have a crematory
for the disposal of all such bodies.—
Dr. Foote's Health Monthly .
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Eastern and Middle States
The remains of the late Dr. Famuel D.
Gives, a 1 naninent 1 hila ielphia physician,
were cremated at Wa hington, Penn.
Owino to the failure of the Marine bank of
New York, and of the firm of Grant & Ward,
, r '*T a Gtsfit and his sons, Ulvsses S. Grant,
Jr., Jesse R-Grant and Irederick D. Grant,
have "sail .A gone into bankruptcy
and m&.e for the benefit of
their credit-i-g Thl . flrm of Grant & Ward
involved t j the extent of $lO,-
it ’• (J D. Kish, president of the
Marine also made an a. c s gnment.
The stetf.yer C'-ty of Port'and, from Bos
ton to Bt. Yohn s, N. F.. struck on a ledge off
the Maine coagt. H.jr passengers and crew,
Hi" per-ofo i n all.were saved. The vessel was
valued at $125,000.
John F. Hmtth, the well-known Albany
CN. Y.) pfijtician, banker and broker, has
failed. f
Genera! Grant and his wile have trans
ferred thy; property, including two houses
in WflifiYlrton. a house in 1 nilad-lphia, a
term iiri*’’ sur.urbs off St. Louis, a cottage at
1 ong Branlh a hoi s: in New York to
William H Yauderbi tto protect him on his
loan of $154,000.
Bfn.rj Strabo, a prominent Pennsyl
vania pollfcian, ex-sp aker of the house and
ex-preside\t of tie fttite senate, in which
position % a/tid as lieut naut-governor.
conjnittteOguic and, by shooting himself at :.is
home in Test fi Id. He had long been in
poor bealft),
Isa *.ul Jy HrßF.tiki, a New York chemist,
sixty-femn y e ars old. called on his wife, with
whom Hi-yinot living, and after a short
convif Vm sh ,0 and killei their six-year
old (i. sperale y wound id the woman
and Sk ihimsAl
f p South and West.
f\u "f\ Benjamin,the noted lawyerand
®dvm I and ex official of the .Southern
ConY-vy’tcy, died in l aris a few days a;o.
He on the island of Ist. Croix, of
Jewish parents, in 1811, wr,s admitted to the
bar at Niv Orleans, became a United States
Senator li 1852,and was returned in 1858: l.e
cairte ijfamoy -general in Jefferson Davis’
cabinet n 1881, and was appointed Confeder
ate secretary of war in 1882, and afterward
secreterjhpf steti: went to England at the
close of lse w ar, where ho practised law until
his retirement test year. He was then con
sidered Me of the foremost lawyots tn Eng
land, am - hod amassed a large fortune.
Ditiujlthe progress of a game of i a-cb ll
in an exposed park at Chillicothe, Ohio, the
grand st-nd suddenly fell with a terrific
crash, burying many people in Iho mini.
About fdlty pe.sons were injured, eight of
them with serious if not fatal effect
f 'YJion4,-NO destroyed a mill at Keyser, N
C’ . killed he engineer and injured two other
persons.
AxUjf Icsjell whs hanged at Jonesvillc,
Va., fok-J e murderof hie brother-in-law, and
on tne sane day James S. Coleman (colored)
was hanzxl at Columbia, S. C., for the mur
der of hi sister in-law.
John Bihjltree, a prominent barrister o
Portage ha Prairi". Manitoba, now in Port
land. Orbjnn, has absconded with $70,00(1 of
other pe-| le s money.
'fHENnd. western Car company, of Still
water, Minn.. of which United states Hen'ifcor
Sabin is pre-ident. has failed and a receiver
be *n apr> wit* and. The liabilities are estimated
at $l,O y,o<)o, and the asses largely in excess
of that turn. Mismanagement is said to be
the oauAof the company’s down] all.
Lawrknce Spiller, a farmer living near
•Petersburg, W. Va, vowed e against
hs stepdaughter ami a hirel man named
Taylor, who had eloped and got marriel.
Sp.iler followed the pair, found th m to
gether, kil'e 1 I'aylor with a revolver shot,
and then l*eat the newly-ma<le laide, in
fd ting fatal injuries. After his return horns
Bpiller fcas am stei.
The Cincinnati grand jury found fifty four
indictments against person* concerne 1 in the
late r ofc*.
A brokelevee on the Missl sippiin Lo iis
iana caused an which ruined the
crops for mih s. At Hhrevepoit t>,ooo acres
wer e under water.
W ashing ton.
The testimmv in the Jeannette investiga
tion be*! ore ti e blouse naval committee enoed
with that of Po Ixung, who tedifle 1 t'mt
her hush' .studi xl the sub ject of pro-
y y, V. ctie vovage and hud endeav*
orod' |Vboue best.
HepresevtatlTe Collins w.rs directed
by the committe* to favorably report a join
resolution proposing an ane jdinent to Arti
cle lf> of tne Constitution. Tho umendiiu nt
consists of .the insertion of the word ‘nativ
ity ” and ma'ices the tlrst s*ction read as fol
lows: “The right of citizens of the IJnitMl
Btab*s to \ote shall not lie denie<l or abridged
by the l)nit<*<i States, or by any State on ac
count of nativity, race or color, or previous
condition of servitude.”
The secretaries of war and the nary have
appointed General John Newt n chief of eiu
gmeers, Colonel Q, A. Gillmore, corps of
engineers, and Lieutenant Commander 6. H.
McCalla, membei-s. and LieaUmaut T. H.
Blisa, First Artillery, recorder of a lioard ('Te
at ed by a resolution of tho House of Repre
sentatives to consider the expediency of the
construction of a line of int rior waterways
for the protection of the seaboard of tho At
lantic and Gulf State-.
Foreign.
A Winnipeg (Manitoba) dispatch says that
startling -developments have just come to
light, which show that the United States and
Canadian governments have Iwen systemati
cally robbed for years by collusions between
their Indian agents and contractors for
supplies for the Indian departments. An
Indian agent says lie has documents which
will prove that a gigantic system of swin
dling the American and Canadian govern
ments has been carried on for year*by such
collusion*
Out of IFO senators elected in Spain 150 are
supporters of the government
By an explosion in a dynamite factory in
Ayrshire, England. ten women were
blown to atoms and two others severely
wounded.
The British government has decided upon
sending an expedition lor the relief of Idea
oral Gordon to Khartoum in July’.
A massacre of Christians by a native
ribe is reported from South Africa.
An anti-socialist law has been adopted by
fho German reichstag.
Bismarck’s long-contemplated retirement
from the Ge rman ministry has at last been
sanctioned by the emperor.
The bark Venus arrived at Montreal from
I.ondon. England, with seven of the crew of
nineteen belonging to a fishing schooner on
board. There had keen a eolhsion. and the
schooner had gone to the bo:tom with twelve
men.
MISCELLANEOUS.
—ln Noir Fork, the notorious James Irving
an ex-Alderman and ex-Assembly man, was
surrendered in court by his bondsnien and
sent to the Penitentiary to servo the two years’
sentence imposed upon him by the Court of
General Sessions in May.
—The Grand Jury of Cincinnati report their
findings in the riot matter with iifty-four in
dictments.
—Captain Munro, of the City of Rome,
positively denied that any signals of distress
were observed on board tile ship Louisa or that
any signals at all were raised by the bark
Theresa, which vessels had on board the sur
vivors of the State of Florida disater.
—The German Anti-Socialist law has been
adopted by the Reichstag.
—The Swiss elections resulted in a Conserva
tive victory; all the government measures were
rejected.
—Zobchr Facha declares that he will not rest
until he has killed General Gordon.
—A treaty of peace ha- been signed between
France and China. The latter agrees to with
draw her troops from Tonquiu.
—At a nationalist meeting at Waterford. Mr.
Pavitt argued that live years’ rent would be
an equivalent for the purchase of holdings
from landlords.
—France has refused to recognize the Igle
sias government in Peru.
—Spanish flour merchants complain of the
treaty with the United States in regard to Cuba.
—Aguero and the insurgents continue to hold
their own in Cuba.
—The Mexican Congress grants President
Gonzalez authority to contract a loan of
$20,000,000-
—The StadFTlieatre in Vienna was totally de
stroyed by dre, but fortunately no lives were
lost
—Bismarck's resignation of the Presidency
of the Prussian Cabinet has been accepted.
—A heavy frost took place in Wiscorfdr.
—Three negro murderers were hanged at
Greenville, 8. C.. and two white men for
same crime at Ashland, Ohio.
—A man arrested in Philadelphia for mal
practice was found dead in liis ceil.
—The coal tonnage of the anthracite carry
ing companies for April amounted to 2,828,209
tons, an increase of 316 499 tons compared
with the corresponding mouth of la-t ytar.
—There were 187 failures and suspensions
in the United States reported to the agencies
during the past week, against 132 in the pre
ceding week, and 166. 116 and 88 in the corre
-ponding weeks of 1883, 1882 and 1881, respec
tively.
The Dakota Democratic Territorial Con
vention elected delegates to the National Con
vention. They are nninstructed, but are be
lieved to be for Tilden and Hendricks. Resolu
tions were adopted favoring revenue reform
according to the Morrison bill, a correction of
the evils of the present tariff system, civil ser
vice reform, and a land bounty for soldiers,
opposing sumptuary laws, and favoring a cur
rency of gold, silver, and convertible paper.
The Vermont State Greenback Convention
adopted resolutions which demand the pay
ment of the public debt as rapidly as the
money shall accumulate in the Treasury; that
the government shall issue greenback money:
favor inter-state commercial regulations, and
extend thanks to the Supreme Court for its de
cision that the greenback is a legal tender. The
delegates favor Gen. Butler.
—Bogan Cash, the fugitive murderer, was
overtaken by & posse near Cheraw. 8. C., but,
on answering with a shotgun a summons to
surrender, the entire posse tired and he fell
pierced with twenty balls.
—Joseph Barling, sixty-four years old, while
walking along Third avenue, New York city, at
noon, was attacked by three men, who dragged
him into a hallway, and. after robbing him,
choked and beat him to death. His murderers
were arrested.
—ln the New York State Senate a bill allow
ing New York city to contribute £50,000 for the
Bartholdi 3tatue of Liberty Pedestal Fund
was passed.
—Lieutenant Emory, commanding the Bear,
reports from St. John’s generally favorable
conditions in the Arctic for the relief of Greoly
and party.
-—in Soutn Worcester, Mass., the Tapachoag
mill, owned by Georgo Compton, was burned.
The mill was four stories high and built of
brick. It was used for the manufacture of
woolen yarn, and was running day and night.
The tire originated in the picker room, and
spread so rapidly that many of the operatives
had to jump from the upper windows. Fully
20 of them were badly injured and some of
them it is feared fatally.
Czar Alexander, th Emperor Franri-*
Joseph of Austria-Hungarv. and oti.er o er
eigns and 1* a iing statesmen wrih probab y
meet at Nice this i-.ummt a
Midhat Pasha, th - great Turki h states
man who dejred the Sultan Abdul A iz
and was afterward convi td of his murder
nnd sentenced to impri-onraent lor lite, is
dead in his sixty-third > ea-.
The Norwegian bark Theresa, having on
board the remainder ut the survivors ot tbo
collision between the ste mdi p Mate of
J' lorn la nnd the barn loueuia, airivcd at
Quebec.
France and China have signed n tecntv ot
peace, the latter agreeing to v itbdruw her
troops from Touquin. nnd the form r aban
doning all < Dims to indt minty lor o-ses sus
tdned during tile trouble> tietwe n the two
nations.
—The witnesses who acknowledged their
perjury in the Ifill-Sharon case in the San
Francisco trial have been arrested and placed
under heavy bail.
—Two fatal cases of criminal negligenoe on
the part of druggists occurred in Pittsburg.
—The Seymour Satin Company, of Minne
apolis, is in the bauds of & receiver.
—Cyrus H. McCormick, head of tho great
harvester manufacturing company, and one of
the richest men in Chicago, died Tuesday, aged
75. He had been an invalid for several years.
He was never known as a politician.
—The Governor of New York vetoed the
Broadway Arcade or Underground Railroad
bill
—President Grevv, of France, has pardoned
a majority of the miners who were imprisoned
for having participated in the labor riots at
Denuin.
—The English government has finally deter
mined to send a relief expedition to the Sou
dan in July-. “Chinese" Gordon has made a
successful sortie from Khartoum.
—The struggle between the German Im
perial govemiment anil ftp German Liberals
becomes dally more letter.
—Correspondents at Haiphong cable the ro
newal of hostilities against the Aimaniite and
Chinese pirates. Ih ihe mountains the French
captured a gun.
—Outbreaks between the soldiers and na
tives at Cairo are of daily occurrence. It is
reported that Lord Wol-elt y will command the
October expedition to Khartoum.
—The Empress of China approves of peace
between China and France.
—A band of Persian nomads have plundered
several villages on the right bauk of the Kurd.
Tlie National Convention of the Anti-
Monopolists’ party met in Chicago. The plat
form calls for the enactment and vigorous
execution of all just laws and equality in rights,
burdens, privileges and powers; asserts that it
is the duty of the Government to at once
regulate commerce among States; holds that
bureaus of statistics must be established; the
national eight hour law must be enforced; de
mands the payment of the bonded debt as it
falls due; holds that the election of United
States Senators should be by a direct vote of
the people; calls for a graduated income tax;
demands that the tariff, which is a tax upon tho
people, shall be so levied as to bear as lightly
as possible upon the necessaries of life; de’-
nounccs the present tariff as being largely in
the interest of monopoly, and demands that it
be speedily reduced.
—A man who was helping to hoist a safe into
a third story window in New York had his fin
gers caught in the tackle so that the ropes had
to be cut to release him, the great mass of
metal fell to the sidewalk, demolishing the
cellar roof of the building.
—At the interstate drill and encampment in
Texas, tho infantry first prize of $5,000 was
awarded to the Houston Light Guards.
—Lieutenant Schuetze has made a report of
his search through the Lena delta for Lieut.
Chipp and party, embodying a description of
the country, character of the inhabitants, local
government, etc., of the regions through which
he journeyed.
In the Senate Gen. Logan, from tho Military
Committee, reported favorably the bill to place
Gen. Grant on the retired list", with the rank
and full pay of General of the Army, and the
bill was passed at once without dehate.
The Indian Appropriation bill was amended
and passed by the Senate.
The House passed the Senate bill to provide
a civil government for Alaska. There was a
spirited debate on the bill providing that no
Territory shall form a constitution, or ajjply
for admission as a State, until it contains a
permanent population equal to that required
to entitle a Congress district to a representative.
Messrs. Cox and Potter, of New York, cham
pioned the bill, but it was finally tabled, 109 to
15 ,
—Fourteen hundred Egyptian troops have
been ordered to proceed a few days’ march be
yond Assouan so as to be ready to assist
Korosko.
—lt was rumored in Dublin that there was a
plot to blow up the Nelson coluijm in SSackville
street
In the New Jersey Democratic State
Convention Tilden and Hendricks were
declared to be, in the opinion of the Conven
tion, the most e igible candidates for President
and N ice-President. The platform arraigns
the record of the Republican party anddeclares
in favor of revenue and national civil service
reform.
Ex-Senator Henderson sav.s the Republican
delegation from Missouri will be divided be
tween Logan, Blaine, Arthur and Edmunds,
with Arthur as the second choice of the friends
of the latter. Blaine’s nomination will, he
thinks, imperil the party.
The Virginia Democrats in State Convention
declined to instruct the delegates to Chicago,
while manifesting a decided preference for the
“old ticket.”
—The bodies of two fishermen in a dory were
picked up by a Gloucester schooner.
—After a fight in which he was stabbed,
a man walked away and bled to death in the
streets of Utica.
—The officers of the New England Tobacco
Growers’ Association have inaugurated a move
ment to secure the repeal of all internal reve
nue taxes on tobacco.
__ —The bill providing civil service examina
tions for the employees of the cities in the
State of New York, passed the Assembly and
now goes to the Governor.
—A redaction of $2,000,000 from the New
York State taxation of last year is made in the
hills which passed the Assembly.
—lt ha? been discovered that the civil service
law practicaily prevents all federal officials of
eveiy character from acting on political cam
paign comniMtees, and all Senators and Repre
sentatives will have to resign.
—A blcw-ly -ja-eet fight between a white man
and a negro, which lesulied in four deaths, oc
curred in Baltimore. The negro had three
loaded revolveis, and the deaths were at his
hands.
—lnvestigation into the case of Isaac D.
Edrehi, in New York city, who shot his son and
wife before committing suicide, shows that he
was crazed by the taking away of his child by
its mother.
—Charles O’Conor, the noted New York law
yer, died at Nantucket on Monday afternoon.
His remains were taken to New York city and
deposited in St. Patrick’s Cathedral, where the
funeral services were held.
—Both houses of the New York Legislature
passed the bill to compel telegraph, telephone
and electric light companies to put their wirei
under ground in New York and Brooklyn
—lt is rumoredjun Paris that Prince Bis
marck urged China to conclude a peace with
France, and that therein he was iufiuenced by
a benevolent and human motive.
—The court martial assembled at Pamplona,
Spain, to try the banditti recently captured in
a fight at Navarre, has sentenced them to im
prisonment, with hard labor for life.
—A family of six persons were murdered at
Buezaas, a town of Galicea, in Austria. One
child hid and so escaped. The motive prompt
ing the murder was robbery. The miscreants
escaped.
—The Paris Temps has a dispatch from
Aden reporting that a revolt has occurred near
6ena, and that 300 Turks have been massacred.
—An earthquake has occurred in Turkey, in
the region south of the Sea of Marmora.
Some damage was done at Panderma and Er
dek, in the province of Broua-a. Two slight
shocks were felt at Balikesz, but no damage
was caused.
—A prominent barrister of Winnepeg ran off
with 870,000 of other people’s money.
—The expected result* of Canadian immi
gration are greatly lessened by the number of
persons who immediately cross* the border and
settle in the United States.
—The Norwegian bark Theresa, having on
board the remainder of the survivors of the
collision between the steamship State of Flor
ida.and Pomena, has arrived at Quebec.
—A young man named Walls became insane
through accidentally killing his mother in
Sussex county, DeL
—Trouble is feared among the Choctaw In
dians owing to some of them being dissatisfied
with a recently enacted law regarding the
trial of criminals. The militia have been called
out and stationed at different parts of the Na
tion.
—The spinners’ strike at Fall River, Masa,
is practical .y ended, and disastrously for the
spinners.
Of the loans of the Marine Bank, a little
more than $2,000,000 were made to Grant <t
Ward. Of these, $300,000 were made on good
securities, which are available. There are
SBOO,OOO additional made on securities which
are believed to be in good part rehypothecated,
and about $900,000 loaned on no security what
ever.
As illustrating the profitableness of the
Grant & Ward pool, and iudi&fting where its
receipts have gone, attention was catled to the
fact that witliiu less than two years Ward lias
acquired at least $759,000 in real estate. Fish
about $1,000,000, U. 8. Grant, Jr., $500,000,
and W. S. Warner at least $250,0011, a total of
$2,500,000.
Among the heavy losers by the failure are
mentioned the following, though of course it
ia impossible to get any accurate account of
the losses until the several statements are com
pleted : Eric, $1,500,000; Nickel Plate, sl,-
400.000; Buffalo, N. Y., and Philadelphia,
$150,000; Work, $500,000; ex-Senator Chaffee,
$600,000; First National Hank, $213,000; War
ner, $700,000; New York city, $1,000,000. Fish
loses -$1,500,(ki0, Gen. Grant about $300,000,
001. Fred Grant, Ulysses, Jr., and Jesse at
least a half million each, and Ward estimated
himself as worth a million when the crash
came.
PROMiNENTJPEOPLE.
A traveling show has secured Sitting
Bull for an exhibition to ir.
John Wanamaker, tlie emi- ent Philadel
phia merchant, conducts a Bible class nuin
lermg 236.
James Gordon Bennett’s income is esti
mated at $2,000 a day. He is forty -th e and
the riche ,t bachelor in the world.
Sir Michael. Arthur Bass, who died re*
cently in England a' the age of forty-nine,
was le ad of t e cnglis.i brewing firm.
Colon Et. Robert Beaty, agtd eighty-four
frenrs. o Union county, south Carolina, has
u ld the oils e of sheii.f ia ti.afc comity since
18 (a.
King Ciiulalonkon, of Siam, is not Ori*
en al iu ap) ea ant-e, but lo >ks like a Euro
pean prince wuo is wiling to marry an
Am ri -mi heiress for her u-on.-y. He speaks
English very well.
I Dr. Zat.divar, the presi lent- of Salvador,
now visiting this co- u 1-y, is a S aniard of
tme a lure s and < ordial manner. He is as
brown a a berry, anil is regarded as a hani
s me specimen of the tropi al American.
The i r vd ait of the ( regon Pacific railway
rejoin sin the nam • o i. Eggiirton Hogg.
He is a very efficient and popular oi: i 11, b it
he is said to have summarily “sacked ’ sev
eral i-mp oves who flippantly alluded to him
as “Ham and Eggs. '
General Swaim. the judge advocate-gen
eral of the ar.ny. an i loru.e:- c o e triend of
Garfield, is pictured as a short, stout man.
with a rustic air. He has dark hair and
whisk rs, a florid fa e is careless in h s tre-s,
usually has a cigar in his mout.i, an i is quiet
nr.d retiring iii his manner.
John Ruskin, the eminent English art
critic and authrr, is sixty-five yeirs old, bat
is s iii to act like a man of forty-five. He is
not more than live feet, five in .her in height.
Indeed, he is ; etit Hi - comolexion original
ly was probably fair, though now his face
pretty nearly up to the eyes is covered with
un ir n gray b ard; the abundant hair is pn
couv -utionally lo.ig.and though he is p>na
lv neat and ••trim,” his hair s*- ms to hive
had no recent speaking acquaintance with a
brush. The tVr.-he ci is low and retreating;
th- eyes gray and sparkling—quizzing and
mishier ous
Buried Under the Snow.
The early winter was so pleasant in
Colorado that hundreds of men, disre
garding the advice of old settlers, re
mained in the mountains. The fate of
some of these is already known. As to
others there is great and increasing
anxiety. The men who have been scour
ing the country on snow shoes, riding
on avalanches, and sliding down glisten
| ing mountains of ice have some strange
i stories to tell of their experiences. At
! Crested Butte, Irwin, and all snrronnd
! ing places the snow lies ten to sixteen
feet deep on a level by actual measure
ment. Two-story dwellings are buried
to the roofs, and in numerous instances
it has been found necessary to piece out
chimneys with sections of stove-pipe.
The people have tunneled out as best
they could, and cut airholes through the
solid masses which surround their
habitations. A man living in a one
story cabin delves out to the'surface with
a shovel in hand, and after clearing a
hole for his smokestack and opening up
holes for the windows, sets about con
structing a snow stairway leading down
to his door. The snow is packed so
hard that this becomes comparatively
easy. Getting the pitch of his steps to
suit him. he has but to lift the chunks
out as they are cut with the shovel, and,
with the aid of small pieces of wood, ]
which serve to protect each step, the j
passageway remains firm, growing hard
er with use. Coming out of his house
a man has but to climb to the surface of
the snow, don his snow shoes, and sail
away over the tops of houses and stores
at will Many a “city” which cuts as
big a figure on the map as Denver does,
consists at this moment of twenty or
thirty stovepipes stuck in the snow.
That is the way it looks to a newcomer,
at any rate.
m •
Two-fifths of all the newspapers
and periodicals sent through the mails
by publishers at pound rates are mailed
at New York city.
TIIE JOKER'S BUDGET.
Wn.iT 4TB FIND IN TIIE HI’IIOROUSI
i’AFEKS TO SMILE OVLIi.
THE VISITOR.
“What is yon doin’ to be, Tommy,,
vhen yon dit a man ?”
“I dun know. What is von doin’ to
be?”
“Why, I'm doin’ to lie a liver'-stnble
man, so I kin ride in a horse and buggy
every day.”
“Oh, I know what I’m doin’to be ! I's
doin’ to be a preacher, so 1 kin dit chick
ens to eat all the time, and ponn’ cake,,
too.” -Kentucky State Journal.
VERY HARD LtCK.
Jones—“lt is too bad. I believe I was
bom on an unlucky day.”
Smith—“ Why so ?’’
“Here I am, _ __ sre nobody, and yet
the man that 1 made sits to-day in the
halls of Congress, and he don’t ac
knowledg ehis debt, either.”
“That is strange. To whom are yon
referring.”
“To Colonel Blank.”
“But he owes all his political success
to his brilliant war record.”
“Yes; but if it had not been for me
he would not have had any war record.”"
“How so?”
“I was drafted and I sent him to the
war as my substitute.” —Philadelphia
Call.
PLANTATION philosophy.
De bes’ work whut a man does is alius
slow. De oo’n sprout doan rush its way
through de clod.—When a coward takes
up de notion o’ fightin’, he ken whup a
brave man. De snappin’ dog what backs
inter de fence co’ner is awful.—When a
’oman comes ter me an’ tells me dat one
o' de neighbors is bad, I knows dat one
o’ dem is bad, but de ’oman whut does
de talkin’ is de one. -De man what am
allns at work ain’ no sign dat de neigh
borhood tain’ do widout him. De suck
aig dog is pekin’ roun’ while de fox houn”
is er sleep.—De prospecks o’ man is alius
greater den de fack whut follows. De
fish pulls mighty hard fore yer git him
outer de water an’ yer thinks data ounce
cat fish weighs ten poun’s.— Ar/.ansaw
Traveler.
A SHREWD MOVE.
Minks—“ Yes, ray boy, lam going to
Salt Lake City to live.”
Finks—“But you don’t expect to be
come a Mormon, do you ?”
Minks—“ Certainly not; but don’t tell
Mrs. Minks I said so. You see, I have
a special object in settling where a man
can have as many wives as he wants,
though, of course, I will never have hut
one.”
Finks—“A special object?”
Minks—“ Yes; I never can get Mrs..
Minks to keep my buttons sewed on, but
I think there will be no trouble about
that after we settle in Salt Lake City.’”
Finks—“ Why not?”
Minks—“ When the buttons are off I
will just gently bint to Mrs. Minks that
she needs more help, and they will go
on in a jiffy.”— Phila. Evening Gall.
A HOME THRUST.
A hnmorous editor, living in Austin,.
Texas, received a crnel rebuke from his
wife not iong since. She had been to
the theatre, and on her return home,
gave such a very amusing account of the
performance, that her literary husband
exclaimed :
“Why don’t yon write that out just as
yon have told it to me? It would make
first-class copy. You ought to write for
the paper.”
“No, ljthsnk you. injh^ :
family is enough,was the cutting reply*.
Texas Siftings.
HE WAS INSULTED,.
An individual who was very unsteady
in his movements wished to obtain more'
liquor at one the boulevard cafes.
“I shall not serve you anything at’
all,” said the owner of the cafe. “You<
have drank like a sponge.”
“Monsieur,” replied the intoxicated!
individual, “you have a right to put me
out of doors, but I forbid vou to insult
me.”
“I have not insulted you; I have sim
ply stated your condition.”
“What! have you not insulted me in'
comparing me to a sponge? Please to
remember that sponges are only filled;
with water I”— French Fun.
changing the subject.
“Your mother and father are well;.
Miss De Cook ?” asked young Featheriy,.
who was making an evening call.
“Papa is enjoying excellent health,”’
replied the young lady, toying grace
fully with her fan, “but mamma, I am
sorry to say, is far from robust.”
“Indeed !” said Featheriy, putting on
an anxious look and getting in a little
genteel work; “her condition is not seri
ous, I trust ?”
“Oh, no; nothing alarming. We have
been without a servant girl for a week
past and dear mamma is beginning to
leel the effects of it, that is all. It is a
great trial to us. Are you an admirer of
Whistler’s etchings, Mr. Featheriy 1”
Phila. Call
CONSIDERATION OF A MOTHER,
A dwelling house took fire in one of
the chambers the other night from an
exploding oil lamp. The flames were
extinguished after a sharp struggle bv
the woman of the house, who had her
hands pretty badly burned. She was re
lating her adventures to a neighbor next
morning, and the woman asked:
“Why didn’t you raise an alarm—
where was Bessie ?”
“Bessie and her beau were courting in
the parlor,” was the calm reply.
“And yon never called on them ?”
“Not a word. I have known of oases
where a sudden alarm has upset a young
man just as he was about to propose and"
changed the whole future of two lives.”
—Chicago Sun.
THE FIRST ONE.
“Yes, sir,” said the politician to the
caucus manipulator, “the office should
seek the man, and not the man the of
fice.”
“Exactly,” answered the c. m.
“But in this case when the office starts
out to seek the man ”
“Yes, sir.”
“I want you to fix it so that I will he
the first man that it will find.”
With a Club. —Ward Lamon, when
Marshal of the District of Columbia, ac
cidentally found himself ia a street fight,
and, in restoring peace, he struck one of
the belligerents with his fist, a weapon
with which he was notoriously familiar.
The blow was a harder one than Lamon
intended, for the fellow was knocked
senseless, taken up unconscious, and
lay for some hours on the border of life
and death. Lamon was alarmed, and
the next morning reported the affair to
the President.
“I am astonished at yon, Ward,” said
Mr. Lincoln; “yon ought to have known
better. Hereafter when yon have to hit
a man, use a club and not your fist.”