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GREENSBORO, GEORGIA.
ODDS AND END!
A European conference is to be held
5n regard to Egypt
Lbtxko, the actor, made $400,000 dur
ing bis American tour.
The Rothschilds own $400,000,000 of
United States bonds.
Koniosbero was founded by the Ten*
tonic Knights in 1255,
Thbee-fourths of the officers in the
-German army wear corsets.
Ireland’s population is now 5,100,000
-—3,090,000 less than in 1841,
The stealthy moth has begun flying in
clothes closets and boudoirs.
Thebe are twenty-eight direct heirs to
the succession to the British throne.
The semi-annual dividends payable in
Boston in May aggregate $3,198,080.
P. Lorillard & Cos. have donated
$5,000 to the Bartholdi Statue Fund.
The Bank of England has just opened
a reading and eating room for its clerks.
It is probable that trade unions will
take an active part in politics this fall.
The New York Driving Club will give
$15,000 for a meeting June 18, 19 and
20.
The order of the Knights of St. Fat
jiek was instituted by George IIL in
f The raising of sugar-beets in Den
mark promises to become on important
Industry.
C. tit many, it fs now stated, uses paper
instead of wood in the manufacture of
lead pencils.
To keep np the snpply of horses in
the United States 1,000,000 must be
bred annually.
Flowers are received in London from
Italy as fresh as if they had been cut
raly an hour.
Depression in the English shipbuild
ing trades lias thrown 25,000 men out of
employment.
The new imperial palace at Strasbnrg
is to bo completed in three years, at a
cost $1,250,000.
TnaitE are a hundred students in the
Irish College of Paris, all of whom are
Irish by birth.
About two million sheep are at pres
ent in Colorado. The clip this year will
be ton million pounds.
“Brutality to mothers,” says a
Massachusetts Judge, “is more com
mon than wife beating.”
The convict mortality in Alabama’s
State Prison is larger than in that of any
other, except Mississippi.
Michigan raises nearly one-half of the
world’s supply of poppermint, the an
nual yield being 75,000 pounds.
The amount of Peruvian indebted
ness guaranteed by the nitrate and guano
deposits aggregate £60,000,000.
Mrs. Pierre Lorillard, Jr., of Now
York city, is the authoress of the novel,
“Those Pretty St. George Girls.”
More than three-fourths of the cedar
Used in the manufacture of cedar pencils
in the world is shipped from Florida,
Eight thousand CMnamen are em
ployed in California ns honso servants,
and they get from S3O to SSO a month.
An agent predicts that steerage pas
sengers will bo able to oross the Atlantio
for $lO or sl2 before another year passes.
The German Government has for
bidden the transit through German terri
tory of early fruits and vegetables from
Fran 00.
A walnut treo eight feet in diameter
At Fort Smith, Ark., is to he felled to
eend a section to the Now Orleans Ex
position.
An Ohio postmaster’s name is Eman
cipation Proclamation Goggswoll. He
was horn on the day the proclamation
was issued.
Caitain Eads promises that his ship
railway in Tehuantepec will he in work
ing order within five years. It will he
130 miles long.
Mme. Nilsson lias arranged with
Theodore Thomas to sing in twenty
three concerts, for which ho is to give
her $28,000.
It is estimated that there now are be
tween 600,000 and 700,000 people in Da
kota Territory, and 200,000 more ore ex
pected this year.
In a reoont trial on the Thames of an
electrio launch forty feet long, with a
storage battery, a speed of seven knots
An hour was attained. •
Holding a Farm 150 Tears.
The Philadelphia Jiccord says: "The
fine 160 acre farm belonging to’the estate
of the late Jeremiah Van Reed, in Amity
Township, Berks county, Penn., has
been willed to James Warren Van Reed,
now five years old, thus descending in
uninterrupted succession in the Vac
Reed family for over one hundred and
fifty years. All the deeds and papers oi
the old homestead are in the hands of
the Executors, and run back to the pro
prietorship of William Penn. Jacob
Van Reed, the first of the family in
America, came over from Holland a cen
tury and a half ago, settled in Amity
Township, purchased the farm, and the
place descended to his sons and grand
sons. The fourth owner, Jeremiah Van
Reed, was the great grandson of the first
owner, ho lived louger than any of his
sons, and the old homestead now goes
in regular succession to his grandson,
James W. Van Reed. At the sale of the
personal effects of the old gentleman a
mahogany chair one hundred and twenty
five years old was purchased by relic
hunters. The family Bible, which goes
to the yonng heir, is more than three
hundred years old, and was brought
here from Holland.
A Strange Story.
An extraordinary story is told in Eng
lish court circles, and has been retailed
by the Spiritualists, as to the reasons
which induced the Queen at the hist mo
ment to alter the arrangements for
Prince Leopold’s funeral. It is said that
a short time before his death, dancing
with an intimate friend, a lady of Danish
birth, of great personal beauty, and the
wife of an English peer, he was rallied
by her upon his unwonted abstraction.
His answer was that his sister Alice had
ccme to him in the night, warned him of
an approaching calamity, and told him
not to trouble, for all would soon be
well. The royal Duke, like his mother,
the Queen, seems to have accepted su
pernatural visitations as real, and he told
the lady he would prefer, if anything
happened to him, to have a military
funeral. Her ladyship, the recipient of
these confidences, wrote a letter to a
high ecu; i official, telling him the story,
and lie laid her communication before
her Majesty. At once the Queen or
dered her dead son's desires, expressed
in life, to be fulfilled. Hence that change
at the last moment which led to so much
perplexity ami inconvenience.
MEXICO.
A gentleman who has been to Mexico, and
I knows all about what sort of people live there,
j says that it was the greatest misfortune that
■ the recent cyclone in that oountry was not at.
tended by any mentiofcable loss of life.
THE ALPS. *
Roberto Taolo considers that the glaciers of
the Alps were developed daring a period of &
lower mean summer temperature than that of
the present, and that they are retreating not
so much, however, by cosmic or teluric canseg
as through meteorological changes depending
partly an the prolonged action of man on
earth.
FUFF YOUR OI.D WEED l
A woman who attempted to get off a Michi
gan avenue car and ran against a man smoking
a cigar on the platform gave him a withering
look and said:
“Sir! doesn’t that sign read: “No smoking?’ ”
“Yos’um, but doesn't the one inside read:
‘Pay your faro on entering the oar?’ ”
“Lands I but I never thought of it,” she
gasped. “Here—put this nickel in for me and
go on puffing your old weed !”
FUFF SEEKERS.
A country editor urges his brethren to
“bounce the puff-seekers.” This would be a
step in the right direction, and the next move,
ment would bo to give all the “honorablcs” and
“colonels” a long and peaceful rest. A gentle
man is sufficiently honored by the oldfashioned
title of “Mr.” The puffery and snobbery com
plained of is by no means confined to the coun.
try prcßS; many city dailies bear their full
Sare of the blame. If alt the distinguished
litary heroes, all the rare and radiant bellel*
of tho “beautiful and accomplished” type, all
the “able and eloquent” orators, and “bril
liant” statesmen and patriots who crowd the
columns of tho country newspapers could bo
gathered into one company, they would form
an assemblage so distinguished as to throw all
the famous soldiers, sages and beauties of the
world's history into oblivion. But the evil al
luded to is too ridiculous for serious discussion.
It is not a part of journalism, but merely one
of its blemishes.
CREMATION.
Southern Asia, tho original homo of crema
tion, is also the region whero it is celebrated
with the greatest pomp and splendor. In Siam
when any famous man is cremated, a magnifi
cently decorated building is erected specially
for tho occasion, and vast sums aro expended
in making the wholo spectacle as gcorgeous as
possible. Tho oeremonies obßorved at the ere.
motion of tho Into Regent of Siam may serve as
a fair specimen of those customary on such
occasions. Immediately upon his death, in
March, 1883, his remains wero inclosed in a
vast urn of costly material, several yards in
height, which was placed in a largo room open
ing upon tho courtyard of hiß palace, which
stands on a creek flowing into the river that
traverses the capital. Bands of native prießts
relieving each otlior in turn, kept repeating
prayers night and day in the death chamber,
around which were displayed all the orders and
decorations worn by the dead man in hia life
time. Twelvo montliß after his death tho urn
knd its contents wore carried in state to a kind
of temple created for the purpose, whero the
cremation was performed in tho presence of
thousands of spectators, including tho King
himself and his entire court.
THE MINIMI!31 LOCOMOTIVE.
Following aro some points about the little
locomotive built at Oil City, Fa., the smallest
engine in tho world, being but eight inches
long and weighing but a pound and a half.
Throe years, counting ten hours as a day’s
labor, have been devoted to its construction.
There are 585 screws in the engine. The steam
gungo is but one-quarter of an inch in diame
ter; the pump throws but one drop of water
every stroke; the head-light is only one-half
an inch in width, seven-eights of an inch high
and three-eights of an inch long. Tho space
in tho lamp is so small that it was almost im
possible to get enough oxygen in it to support
the combustion. Tho tire is kindled by using
a gill of alcohol, which runs tho engine for
half an hour. Tho stroko of tho cylinder is
one inch; boro, 5-16; the throttle lever is but
five-eighths of an inch long, arranged with a
thumb-latch and click; the fire-box is seven
eighths of an inch wide and one inch long; tho
smoke-stack one and one-fourth inches high
and five-sixteenths of an inch in diameter; the
steam-dome is nine-sixteenths of an inch in di
ameter; the driving-wheels are ono and ono
half inches in diameter; the front truck-wheels
half an inch, and those of the tender are of tho
same size. The tender is but threo and three
fonrths inches long, two and one-eighth inches
wide and two inches high. Tho metals used in
its construction are brass, solid silver, gold and
steel.
TIIE ORIGIN OF DIXIE.
On a Saturday night in 1859, when Dan Em.
mett was a member of Bryant’s Minstrels, New
York, Dan Bryant camo to him and Baid: "Dan,
can’t you got up a walk around?’ I want some
thing new and lively for Monday night.” Dan
went to work, and by Sunday afternoon he had
tho words commencing "I wish I was in Dixie.’
The expression was not Southern, hut appeared
among the circus peoplo of the North. Iu the
early fall, when nipping frosts would overtake
the tented wanderers, the boys would think of
the warmth of tho South, and tho common ex
pression would be, "Well, I wish I was in
Dixie.” This gave the catch-line, and the rest
of tho song was original. On Monday morn
ing it was rehearsed and highly commended,
and at night a crowded house caught up the
refrain and half of them went homo singing
Dixie. The song became the rage, and W. W.
Newcomb's Buckley's Minstrels and others gave
Dan $5 each for the privilege of using it. Mr.
Werlean wrote to Emmett to secure a copyright;
but without waiting for % reply, published it
with words by a Mr. Peters. Pond, of New
York, secured it of Emmett for $600; but Wer
lean sold thousands of copies without giving
him a nickel. Not only was Emmett robbed of
the profits of his song, hut tho authorship of it
was disputed. Will S. Hays claimed the au
thorship of it. Fond brought the matter
before a music publishers’ convention, and
settled the authorship; but Dan reaped no ben
efit from this tardy justice.
AN ODD BANK.
If things keep ou in this country, the only
safe wav to keep money will be to spend it.
Banks are failing, they are selling off old stoves
in which your money is concealed, without re
moving the wealth, and even if you hide your
! money iu a pig pen, as did an lowa man, it
taketh unto itself wings, and is fled before you
j can count it again. Even the latest money
safe proved unsafe. A Chicago merchant put
eightv-five dollars into an old shoe, one eve
ning last week, and when ho camo down to
business next morning, the shoe was missing,
and so, of course, was the money. The perspi
ration stood out on the merchant's forehead in
1 beads as big as goose eggs. He called his clerk
| and asked him if he had seen an old shoe that
j was laying in a certain place the night before.
He had, for the shoe belonged to him, and he
had disposed of it that morning to a rag picker
in order to get it out of the way. This infor
mation paralyzed the merchant and the clerk
also, when he learned that his old shoe was the
savings bank of the firm. The clerk expected
to be arrested on a charge of defalcation, and
speculating with depositor’i money, and
thought soon of lighting out and registering
at some first-class hotel, in order to evade the
detectives, and thus escape punishment. Bat a
sober second thought induced him to hunt for
the rag picker, whom he found, with the old
shoe in his sack. Grasping the old shoe with
a firm hold, that defied escape, he jammed his
fist down into the toe, found the money, and
left the surprised ragman on a dead run for
the store, where he proved his innocence of the
charge of fraud, defalcation and speculating
with depositor’s money. The ragman, after
kicking himself for several blocks, is now buy
ing up all the old shoes he can, an<? dissecting
them. An old shoe is no safer than any other
institution for a savings hank.
CALIFORNIA MINING TOWNS.
All of the old California mining towns are in
a decayed or decaying condition. In 1850 there
stood an exceedingly lively town known as
Mathenas Crec-k, a tributary of the Consumncs
which “forty-niners” christened by the pre
tentious name of Aurnm City. The country
was full of cities in those early days. Besides
Sacramento City, the County of Sacramento
had a place towards its eastern line called Prai
rie City, which lasted till about 1865, and then
vanished out of aiglitasince then out of mem"
ory. FoUom was originally called Granite
City, and then Granite, so named by Dr. L.
Bradley, a gentleman whose enterprise created
the first considerable mining canal in the Statei
drawing water from the North Fork of the
Cosumnes to the dry diggings around Diamond
and Mud Springs and old Weumytown, on
Weaver Creek. In 1855 the plar] known as
Mormon Island, three miles east'if Granite,
was as large a town as Polsom now Is. At pres
ent it is a mere shadow of what it was. In
1851 Aurnm City contained a population of
1,200, and that in those days implied at leas*
1,160 active workers in the mines, at an aveV
age of $lO to an ounce per day to the worker.
In 1856 Aurum was in the list of decayed towns
and ten years later it had “gone glimmering
amid the things that were.” Even the name
of Mathenas Creek is now extinct, save in E'
Dorado County, where it constitutes an election
precinct, or did a few years ago, and the Co
sumnes is now the modern substitute for the
ancient Macosuma river. Nobody from 1849 to
1854 called Placcrville by any other name than
Hangtown, which it earned at the hands of a
mob and by and by exchanged for its present
more euphonious name. Within a radius of
fifteen miles of Coloma there were existing, in
the Bummer of 1850, not less than twenty towns,
cities and camps, the largest being H-ngtown,
Diamond Springs, Mud Springs, Georgetown,
Uniontown, Spanish Dry Diggings, Binggoid
and Wcavertown. All of these, save three or
four, have gone out of existence, and tho three
or four remaining aro now chiefly supported
by orchards and vineyards.
SUMMARY OF CONGRESS.
Senate.
Tho Senate passed tho House bill fixing the
rate of iiostage on mail matter of the second
class, when sent by persons other than the
publisher or news agent. This bill, as it came
from tho House, fixed one cent as the rate of
postage on newspapers weighing threo ounces
or less. Mr. Marcy explained that tho Senate
committee on postofliees and post roads had
found that some of the largo
newspapers weighed a little over
three ounces, and had there
fore extended tho newspaper limit of weight
forone-cent postage to four ounces The
bill passed the Senate with this amendment
Bills were passed providing for the col
lection of statistics of marriage and divorce;
for tho repression of the opium traffic; to es
tablish a forest reservation on the head
waters of the Missouri river and Clark’t
Forks of the Columbia river.
A bill was introduced providing for offer
Inga reward of SIOO,OOO to any perion who
shall discover tho truo cause or germ of yel
low fever Bills were passed granting an
annual leave of absence witli pay to letter
carriers; granting a pension to the widow of
General Juilson Kil|>atriek; to regulate the
payment of bills of exchange.
House.
Mr. Buckner introduced a bill to amond the
National banking laws Mr. Hutchins in
troduced a bill amending the act authorizing
tho coinage of tho stamiaiyl silver dollar
Tho legislative appropriation bill was amend
ed and passed.
Tho House passed the bill to prevent the un
lawful occupancy of tho public lands. It pro
hibits the inclosure of any public land when
the pereon or corporation making the inelos
ure lias no claim or color of title to the land;
Rnil makes it lawful for any person to tear
down or demolish any such iuelosure when it
includes more than 160 acres.
THE DYNAMITE EXPLOSIONS.
The Excitement They Cnnaed Thronahout
Great Britain.
The excitement caused by the explosion of
dynamite in Scotland Yard, London, is intense,
and many alarming rumors prevail. The police
liavo been actively engaged since the explosion
in searching for the persons who committed
the outrages. The fear that more disasters of
the samo sort are to speedily follow is so great
that a large forco of police has been detailed
to guard all the public buildings and principal
railway stations, while a number of detectives
have been placed on duty in the vicinity of
each of the Cabinet Minister’s houses, and a
couple are at the disposal of each Minister to
guard him to and from his residence.
Great pressure is being brought to bear on
the Government to offer a reward of £5,000 for
the capture of the persons who caused the ex
plosions and £2,500 for information which will
lead to their arrest.
Thirteen persons were more or less injured.
Among theso are five women. All the wounded
aro in the hospital. Five, including the police
man, aro in a precarious condition.
The explosion was most destructive on the
west side of St. James's Square. The windows
in the Duke of Cleveland’s house and in tho
War Office In Tall Mali were shattered.
At St. James's Theatre the explosion sounded
like two claps of thunder. The audience were
seized with alarm which came near resulting
in a panic. Several ladies fainted and men
started to their feet ready to stampode. The
audience was finally quieted.
The explosions created great havoc in the
Junior Carlton Club House. The club will re
main closed several days. The dynamite was
carried down the iron steps leading to the
kitchen and cellars. It was placed iu tho cel
lar under the pathway, with & lighted fuse at
tached. The upward force of the explosion
broke a large hole in the pavement and
wrecked the basement apartments of the club.
Col. Majendie, the government inspector of
exploslveSj pronounces the material used in
the explosion to be largely composed of an atlas
powder, recently imported and probably a sur
plus from an old stock which had laid for a
long time in America.
FATAL CLOUD BURSTS.
A Serious Loss ol l.tfe in Calilornln and
Colorado.
A cloud hurst near Visalia, California, with
such fury as to sweep away the house of Peter
Stewart and all its inmates, consisting of him
self, wife, mother, two childreu, and R. Weis
ner, a sheep herder. The bodies were fright
fully mangled, their elothing being torn into
shreds.
A cattle round-up camp on Frenchman
Creek, near the Nebraska and Colorado line,
was destroyed by a flood last Thursday and
eleven cowboys, belonging in Colorado atid
Nebraska, were drowned. The flood was
caused by a clond bnrst, which occurred at a
point near the head of the Cheyenne Indian
trail canyon. The water came with such force
that it swept away everything in its path. Men,
horses, wagons, camping outfits, all were car
ried down the stream.
At Qnebeo, Eno was brought before tha
Court of Queen’s Bench on a writ of habeas
corpus. After hearing argument of counsel,
the Court rendered a decision ordering ihat
the accused be liberated. Immediately after
ward another warrant was served on Eno, and
he was ordered into the custody of the High
Constable of Quebec, pending further proceed
ings.
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Eatern and Middle Staten*
Fisk & the well-known New York
bro?cers w& failed during the recent panic,
have resu med business.
Jesse CrjtTER (colored), convicted of being
accessory fythe murder of John Foster, was
hanged atpitteburg, Penn. “Babe” Jones,
the principt in the murder, was hanged last
April.
Th* State conventions in Con
necticut, Vermont, and in other States held
recently, ai declared in favor of the old
presidentialticket of 1876.
5 South and West.
The ca o G f the steamer Wave, running
between ’ flmington and Fayetteville, N. C.,
shifted a | the vessel sank. Ned Beebe, 00l-
Graham, (colored), and Em
pie Hill Cjliite), passengers, were drowned.
THE. < F6-th Ohio Infantry regiment ha3
been disbfsaed on account of inefficiency dur
ing the Cincinnati riots.
o. E. Babcock, formerly private
secretary f> President Grant, but of late en
gineer ofjthe Fifth Lighthouse district; Mr.
Levi P. Ijpkey, his chief clerk; Mr. Ben. P.
Gutter, D. C., and a seaman
*jere droned in Mosquito Inlet, off the coast
of Florid* while superintending the work on
the lighthouse now building at that point.
Sadie 1-ayes, a colored woman' has been
death at St. Louis.for the murder
of Police Sergeant Jenks.
J. H. Ykndell, an old resilient of Cald
well, Kar is, in a fit of insanity caused by
whisky, *,ot and killed his wife, and theD
killed
A te>l is reported from ir-nsas.
Mrs. Jchf v nderson, wife of a i r^ njr farmer,
and heii >lir children w erf a d found mur
dered nlfc- Pleasanton, -md it was thought the
father f fonet fate. The Anderson
fami]vk knowledge of a crime committed
by on' ampler. The two men left the
house' Hlier. Wampler returned alone,
t Anderson haa sent for the family.
Thk and, in a wagon, and on the way it ia
su pNc4- ■ *#it Wampler murdered the woman
one! t\ Jl* children and fled.
The of John Anderson, the sixth
victim of lie Pleasonton (Kan.) murder, were
•found conclaled in a deserted coal shaft, with
a bullet vrajnd in the head.
An among the Indians at the Rose
bud growing out of the return to the
nnerva/mwat Crow Dog, the slay or of Spotted
Tail, tJL -jd in the killing of Chief White
Thunder the fatal wounding of two other.
Indians by he son and friends or Spotted TaiL
Crow Dog lad been set free by a decision of
the UniteaStates supreme court.
A TitAiifwas wrecked on a railroad between
Denison an Gainesville in Texas, and four
teen ]x*rson were reported to have been killed
and many ethers injured.
At tho election in Oregon the Republicans
elected a mljority of their legislative candi
dates and tleir candidate for Congress.
"l Washington.
The laapjnational debt statement issued
shows the ! Icrease of the public debt during
May to be**),763,341.20. |
Decrease of debt since June 30,
1883 *91,823,714 88
Cash in the Treasury 380,368,637 49
Gold certificates outstanding 98,812,260 00
Silver certificates outstanding. .117,300,091 00
Certificates of deposit outstand
„ ing 1 11,0.50,000 00
Refunding cA-tificates 291,100 00
Legal tender) outstanding 346,681,016 00
Fractional currency (not includ
ing am cunt estimated as
lost or destroyed) 6,981,379 30
Cash balance-available 147,817,660 33
Government receipts in May aggregated
•321,234.646, against $363,371,413 during May
1883. Government expenditures in May were
$229,608,290, against *'.’50,647,190 during the
same period lest year.
I Juki no May the various United States
mints c0ined242,160 gold pieces, worth $2,951,-
600; 2,520,000 silver pieces, worth *2,331,000,
and 7,278,000 minor coins, worth $123,500.
Total coinage, 10,040,160 pieces, worth $5,406,-
Setretary Lincoln telegraphed to tho
Unitod Statq/' signal officer at Jacksonville,
Fla., to cause the remains of General Babcock
to bo embalmed and sent to Washington.
4 Foreign.
News has been received that a violen
shock of earthquake occurred on the island of
KishnijuArthe mouth of the Persian gulf
Twelv A 1 destroyed, 260 personae
killed ffriirvnimyiJtltL'rti injured.
Sixty persons wero injured during an elec
toral riot in Clausenburg, Austria.
Five Mexican states have declared war
against the government on account of the
revenuo stamp tax.
Oscar Wii.de, leader of the aesthetes, was
married a few days since in London.
Five persons were killed and about thirty
more injured by the precipitation of a train
down an embankment near Downturn, Eng
land.
Fourteen of tho crew of the brig Confed
erate, stranded on the ice floes of Labrador,
have been lost.
Ten suicides occurred in Vienna, tho Aus
trian capital, in two days.
The False Prophet’s followers in tho Sou
dan have captured the town of Abu-Hamad.
A fire in London destroyed the East Lon
don Aquarium. A number of lions, bears,
jackals and monkeys were burned to death.
A woman who has been arrested at Varan
da, Hungary, confess s that she poisoned four
husbands and also hundreds of women dur
ing the j a<t two years. A number of ac
complices were also arrested.
MISCELLANEOUS.
—Harvey D. Parker, the proprietor of the
Parker House. Boston, and one of the best
known business men of that city, is dead. He
was born in Maine in 1805.
—General Samuel Graham, who, at the
breaking out of the war, raised the Fifth regi
ment of New York artillery, is dead.
—By the foundering of the schooner Annie
Jordon off the Georgia coast, four lives were
lost. Three of the crew were rescued from a
raft.
—A convict in the Eastern Penitentiary at
Philadelphia murdered a keeper.
—The frost of Friday night caused great
damage to fruit and vegetables throughout
New York State and New England.
—The defaulting cashier of the First Nation
al Bank at Monmouth, 111., was arrested.
—President Biddle’s (of the Penn Bank)
former broker iu oil was arrested in Jersey
City and returned to Pittsburg.
—The trouble between the iron manufactur
ers and the Amalgamated Association has been
settled for a year.
—Prince Bismarck opposes the pardoning of
Krazewski, recently convicted at Leipsic of
treason.
—A was shot dead and two persons
wounded in the county Cork by moonlighters.
—A serious electoral riot occurred in Claus
enberg, Austria, Monday. The rioters in
dulged in many acts of' violence, including
stone throwing. Sixty persons were injured,
—Twelve villages have been destroyed and
200 persons killed by an earthquake on the
Island of Kishm in the Persian Gulf. The en
tile population of the island is but 5,000.
—The boiler on the dredge Norwalk, lying in
the Harlem River, exploded, killing one man
and seriously injuring another.
—A ticket agent who shot himself in Atlanta
on Saturday was $15,000 short.
—The convict who murdered a keeper in the
Eastern penitentiary of Pennsylvania on Sat
urday is now shamming insanity.
—By the sinking of a steamer in the inland
waters of North Carolina three lives were lost.
—At the Cleveland Rolling Mills two men
lost their lives in a torrent of molten metal
from one of the furnaces.
—The car of a captive balloon containing 20
persons became detached at Lille, France, and
fell 40 metres. Three of the occupants of the
ear were killed outright and the remainder
were seriously injured. The accident caused a
great sensation.
—lrish Nationalist meetings were held in
Ireland despite of the government proclama
tions.
— l The stables of the Glasgow Tramways
Company on North street, Anderson, were de
stroyed by fire on Saturday night. Two hun
dred horses were burned to death.
—The City Tan Works, of Edinburgh, have
been destroyed by fire. The loss wfil be large.
—There were thirteen deaths in Havana
from yellow fever during the week ended
May 30.
—The long continuance of the present
drought throughout England is almost unex
ampled, no such dry season having been known
for over fifteen years.
—The Residing Bbhop of the Protestant
Episcopal Church in tl.e United States .lied at
his residence in New York city, at the age of
ninety.
—Brigadier General Henry W. Bin 1 am. of
the United States Corps of Engineers is dead.
He was a native of Connecticut and when a
boy served as an apprentice in the printing
office of a newspaper in that State.
—lt was estimated that 50,000 persons at
tended the annual meeting of the Dunkards,
near Dayton, Ohio.
—Two boilers exploded in a sawmill, in Mont
calm county, Mich., killing three men and
severely injuring others.
—The rebels again attacked Snakim. They
succeeded in driving in the pickets, when they
were repulsed by the cavalry, who pursued
them for some distance from the town.
—Precautions have been taken in Australia
against dynamiters.
—A new Atlantic cable is proposed between
Portugal and America.
—The noted Oscar Wilde was married to
Miss Lloyd.
—The Mussulmans of Morocco display a
strong feeling in favor of France.
—The witness McDonald, imprisoned for
contemptfcof a New York State Senate investi
gating committee, has been released by the
Supreme Court.
—During a trial at Trov, N. Y., one of the
jury became insane.
—The banking house of Middleton & Cos., of
Washington, closed its doors.
—A post-mortem examination of the brain
of Mrs. Schweifer, who killed herself and her
children Albany, revealed bo traces of
ip sanity.
—The French Chamber of Deputies, by a
vote 395 to 92, rejected the amendment of
Bishop Freppel to the Army Recruiting bill ex
empting from military service young men
training for holy orders.
—The dynamite explosions in London created
alarm in Vienna, especially as it has been an
nounced that the dangerous anarchist Schwarts
has left New York for Austria, bearing with
him a quantity of dynamite.
—Suakim advices state that rumors have
reached there that Berber has fallen and that
Osman Digna has collected 3,000 men and four
guns. It is further rumored that he intends to
attack Suakim soon.
—The East London Aquarium was burned;
many of the animals perished.
—A fire in Liverpool destroyed a warehouse
and 8,000 bales of cotton.
—A woman who was arrested at Varanda
Hungary, confessed that she had poisoned four
husbands and also a large number of women
during the past two years. A number of ac
complices were also arrested.
—The British government has decided not to
allow Orange counter demonstrations to take
place in Ireland at the same time and place as
the Nationalist meetings.
—'The authors of the London explosions are
said to have escaped from England.
— l The Egyptian rebels are said to have cap
tured Abu-H&med.
—lsmail Pacha was attacked and beaten by
an unknown man in the Paris Palais Royal
Gardens.
—A St. Petersburg journal says that Russia
In annexing Merv only wished to define her
frontier.
—Ten suicides occurred in Vienna in two
days.
—Mr. Vanderbilt has sailed from Liverpool
for New York.
—Extensive fires prevail in the Dismal
Hwamp. One fatality is already reported.
—An old man committed suicide over hia
daughter’s grave, near Birmingham, Ct.
—The boiler of a burning saw mill in Mount
Kißco, Me., exploded, killing one man and in
juring another.
—The Mountain House, on Englewood Cliffs,
N. J., which was just ready for guests, wan
burned on Wednesday morning, with a loss of
over $200,000.
—All the bodies, seven in number, oi the
killed by the fall of a warehouse in Baltimore,
are now recovered.
—The Methodist Conference at Brockville,
Ont., condemn foreign missions as detrimental
to home interests.
—The members of the Massachusetts Legis
lature havti raised their salaries $l5O, over the
Governor’s veto.
—The corner stone of the new Episcopal
Cathedral at Albany was laid with becoming
ceremonies.
—President Riddle, of the Tenn Bank of
Tittsburg, after swearing to his published
statement,' assignee} ail his property for the
benefit of the bank’s creditors.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
Mme, Modjeska will summer in Poland.
Mr. Edwin Booth is now established in his
new house in Boston.
Jenny Lind’s oldest son has just married
an English gil l named Daniell.
John McCullough, it is said, has made
over SBO,OOO the present season.
Fanny Davenport has cleared $50,900 w ith
“Fedora’ r during the past season.
Mrs. Langtry has invested $97,(X 0, earned
in America, in New York real estate.
Mlle. Nevada, the Western prima donna,
now in Paris, sends all her floral gifts to the
hospitals. •
Patti is said to have the most unique “crazy
quilt” in existence, It is pronounced “awfully
handsome.”
There are eighty people on the stage in
“The Pulse of New" York. ” It requires t wenty
special stage hands to work tho scenery.
The Madison Square theatre (New York)
has had as many as twenty companies on the
road at one time, including both regular and
short season ventures.
Mlle. Nevada, the American prima
donna, will sing in three oratories at the Nor
wich festival in England. She afterward
goes to Madrid, Barcelona and Lisbon.
This year there are three “Silver King ’
companies; next season there will be but two-
This year there are four “Lights o’London’
companies; next year there will be but one.
A Worcester firm is building a special
ear for Dion Boucicault, which will accom
modate his entire company of twenty-five
persons, and give Mr. Boucicault and his
daughter each a state-room.
Mary Anderson is making an even greater
impression in the British provinces than die did
in London. At Manchester, for instance, die
is said to have taken in one week more money
than was ever before known in that city.
Charles Mitchell, the prize-fighter, is
going on the stage. He says he wants to
“begin at the lowest round and work up;”
fight his way to the front, so to speak. His
idea of beginning at the bottom seems to be to
tackle Orlando in “As You Like It,” and this
he will do in England this summer.
PROMINENT people.
Rowell has made upward of $80,600 out
of the various walking matches he has en
tered. '
TV. TV. Corcoran, the Washington banker,
has shaken hands with every President except
Washington.
Senator Palmer, of Michigan, has the
reputation of giving the most elaborate din
ners in W ashington.
James Rubens, a full-blooded Nez .Perce
Indian, is in the East making addresses on the
Wrongs of his race. He speaks English well,
and is eloquent.
W. W. Corcoran, who founded a home
for aged women in Washington, supports it
entirely from his own means, and the women
who live in it are his guests.
General Sam Caret is to travel over
Maine this summer and urge the adoption of
the constitutional amendment prohibiting the
manufacture and sale of liquor.
Ex-Secretary Eliuu B. Washburne ex
pects this summer to carry out a long-cher
ished purpose of making a carriage tour
through old Oxford county, Me.
Marshal McMahon lives very quietly in
Paris, with a few months every summer in
his chateau near Aufun, where he has a large
collection of Irish relics and curiosities.
Captain James B. Eads, of Mississippi
jetties fame, received £2,Odd for an hours
speech before a committee of the house of
lords against the proposed ship canal between
Liverpool and Manchester.
David Davis appears in public in a full
white board and a black slouch hat, and
claims that since he left his easy seat in tha
Senate to mingle in the turmoils of the busy
world he has lost exactly' 100 pounds.
Ex-Governor Stanford, of California,
is about to found a college for working peo
ple in that State, to be splendidly endowed at
the cost of several millions, which Mr. Stan
ford can well spare, as he is worth more than
$20,000,000.
WOMAN’S POSITION.
An Important Matter Dl.rns.rd by One ol
the Gentler Hex.
The claims —not to say demands—that
she is making for herself, as to position and
work, are hardly questionable as to their
results. The women of the future will
not, it is to be feared, be such as won the
reverence and love of Christ; she will not
be willing to be the “help-meet” for man.
Man needs help in matters where he is
deficient; she is fitting herself to clash
with him in matters where he is suffi
cient.
I would not for one moment cast a
shadow of slight on the advance in wo
man’s education. The best of us have
long felt that some move, commensurate
with the times, was necessary; but has
not the move been in the wrong direc
tion, or, at all events, of too violent a
character ? And ought we not hopefully
to anticipate that time, when wisdom
shall suggest some happier means than
has yet been attained?
Granted that woman needed a higher
and fuller education—is she in the right
road to attain it by following her pres
ent prescribed course? Is she not in
danger of cultivating her head to the
neglect—nay, injury—of her heart ? Is
she not giving the best years of her
probation life to the study of subjects
that will be useless to her if she is to
continue in her true woman’s sphere ?
If she is aiming lteyond that sphere (I
will not say above it), where will she
find herself ? Not on a level with man,
either physically or intellectually ; she
cannot reach it, but in an intermediate
position, having lost her own individual
ity and special charms, and not gained
anything instead worthy her endeavors.
Who, again, is to take woman’s place
if she forsake it ? Must we plead for a
new creation ?
Nay! We would see a stronger,
truer, lovelier woman, but not a weaker,
poorer man.
It is the something different in wo
man which makes man look to her for
help, and feel that he can get it, too,
nor is he one whit humiliated by the
fact. It is a law of nature, moral and
spiritual as well as physical, that every
thing is in itself beautified and
strengthened by its contrast. It is the
heart in woman that counsels man’s
head, her weakness, yet enduranee,
that stimulates his energy; her tender
ness and unselfish love which gives him
firmness and strength.
And are these qualities worthless?
Are they not rather priceless jewels
which nothing short of madness would
barter for tinsel which will never stand
proof ? Let us beware how we lose
what is ours by right and gain nothing
in its stead. The “position and work”
that Scripture has assigned to woman is
far higher and nobler than any that she
is idly conceiving for herself now in this
nineteenth century.— The Oirl’a Oum
Paper.
Him They Cateli Monkeys.
Monkeys are saucy and insolent, al
ways making an attempt to bully and
terrify people, and biting those first who
are most afraid of them. An important
cariosity runs through all their actions;
they never can let things alone, but
must know what is going on forward. If
a pot or kettle is set on the fire, and the
cook turns her back, the monkey whips
off the cover to see what she has put
into it, even though he cannot get at it
without setting his feet upon the hot
bars of the grate. Every monkey de
lights in mischief. If he takes up a
bottle of ink, he empties it upon the
floor. He unfolds all your papers and
scatters them about the room, and what
he cannot undo he tears to pieces; and
it is wonderful to see how much of this
work he will do in a few minutes when
he happens to get loose. When the
wild monkeys escape to the tops of the
trees, the people below show them the
use of gloves by putting them on and
pulling them off repeatedly, and, when
the monkeys are supposed to have taken
the hint, they leave plenty of gloves
upon the ground, having first lined them
with pilch. The monkeys come down,
put on the gloves, but cannot pull them
off again, and when they are surprised
betaking themselves to the tree as usual,
they slide backward, and are taken.
TWENTY-ONE INFANTS DEAD.
Only Two Left in thelllnine Established by
Miss Symenthe S. Ntvtsou.
In the yard of the Nivison Home, in Ham
monton, N. J., the bodies of twenty-one chil
dren have been discovered in lude pine boxes.
The home was started by Miss Symenthe S.
Nivison in January last. Circulars were sent
out setting forth the purposes of the homo,
couched in language of piety and philanthropy.
Since then twenty-three babies have been re
ceived. and of that' number only two are alive,
Nothing was known of this until two or three
days ago, when Ezra M Hunt, Secretary of the'
State Board of Healtli of New Jersey, made an
investigation, and discovered that the children
bad received no medical attention and had
been buried without permits.
Dr. Hunt laid the matter before the Prosecu
tor of the Pleas, and an inquest was held. The
verdict was that the children died from neg
lect and improper treatment.
Nothing could be done with Miss Nivison,
except to proceed against her for violation of
the burial laws. It is said the infants wera
mostly the children of wealthy women.
Repressing the Opium Trade.
The United States Senate passed Mr. Miller's
bill, providing for the execution of article 2 of
the Supplemental Commercial Treaty of No
vember 17,1880, between the United State&and
China, for the repression of the opium trade.
It prohibits Chinese subjects from importing
opium into the United States, under penalty of
not more than SSOO nor less than SSO, or im
prisonment of not more than six months nor
less than thirty days. No vessel owned and
chartered by a subject of China, or sailing
under a Chinese flag, no matter by whom
owned or chartered, shall be permitted to bring
opium to any port of the United States and all
such opium 'shall be seized and forfeited, and
the ship captain shall be subject to a fine equal
to the value of the opium.
DROWNING CASUALTY.
General Babcock and Ex-Frlvatc Secretary
Luckey Two ol the Victims.
A dispatch received at the Treasury Depart
ment says that General 0. E. Babcock and
Levi H. Luckey, together with a gentleman
named Suter, have been drowned off the Flor
ida coast. Both Babcock and Luckey were
President Grant’s private secretaries. General
Babcock has been lor some time lighthouse
inspector of the fifth district, and Mr. Luckey,
who was at one time Secretary of the Terri
tory of Utah, was his assistant at the White
House. The body of General Babcock was re
covered.
Decreasing the Nntlonnl Debt.
The monthly debt statement issued from the
Treasury Department of the United States
shows a decrease of $4.7G3.241 in the pnbiic
debt during Hay, and $91,823,714 during
eleven months of the fiscal year ending May
31. The total debt now, less cash in the Treas
ury. is $1,459,267,492, and of this amount
$L244.545,650 is interest-bearing debt. The
available cash balance in the Treasury is
$147,817,660. a decrease for the month of
nearly $5,000,000.
In the House Mr. Hiscock of New York
moved to suspend the rules and pass a bill re
pealing the internal revenue taxes on tobacco,
allowing the use of alcohol free of tax in the
arts and manufactures, and repealing the tax
on brandy distilled from fruit.
The men who write circus bills will be
glad to learn that the new English dic
tionary will be thirty-seven volumes long.
THE JOKER’S BUDGET.
that we find to sjire over i>
THE HUMOROUS FAFERS.
A NAUTICAL DISCOURSE.
Little Jack—“ What did pa mean by
sayings that he was captain of this
ship ?”
Ma—“Oh, that is only his way of
saying that he is the head of the house.”
“If pa is captain then what are yon?”
“Well, I suppose I am the pilot.”
“Oh, yes, and then I must be the
compass.”
‘ ‘The compass ? Why the compass ?”
“Why, the captain and pilot are al
ways boxing the compass, you know.”
— Phila. Call.
A young Alexandria miss
Was asked by her beau for a kiss,
Demurely contented
She sweetly assented,
And their lips looked exactly like this.
> ' '
But her pa interrupted the bliss.
And said: *‘Who’s this young feller,
And without more ado
The young fellow flew,
And his eyes looked exactly like this
U ij
A FRIEND TO FELINES.
A gentleman of Detroit, says the
PVee Press, who is fond of using old
sayings and speaking in metaphors,
went to look at a house that was for
rent; he was accompanied by the Ger
man landlord.
“Nice house,” said the would-be ten
ant;” pleasant location, but the
are too small. I couldn’t swing a cat
here 1”
“Vot vas that?” inquired the land
lord.
“Booms are not big enough to swing
a cat in. ”
“Vot for you vants to sving der cat ?”
“Why, I might want to, and if I
should, there is not room enough,” said
the American, laughing.
“I likes not der cat ter sving mine
house in,” said the landlord, and went
home.
The next day the gentleman who
wanted to rent received a note :
“Mine Fren : I rents my house py a
family mitout cats. Yacob Smitd.”
THEN HE KISSED HER.
“Johnnie," said a Second street girl
to her bashfnl company, as they occu
pied remote ends of the sofa the othei
night. “I see by the Derrick that a
lady in New Jersey, 104 years old,
boasts of having been kissed by Wash
ington.”
“Yes,” said Johnnie. “I saw it, too.”
“Suppose you were to become a great
man like Washington.”
“Well,” said Johnnie.
“And I were to live to be 104 years
old.”
“Well?” said Johnnie.
“I couldn’t say of you what the old
lady said of Washington, could I?”
Then he kissed her.—j Oil City Der
rick.
SrEINO on the farm.
We’ll graft the lobster on the hop,
The oyster bed we ll gayly weed,
The cranberry jelly tree we’ll flop,
And save the macaroni seed.
/lie beetroot sugar we will get
By tapping of the hickory tree,
Horse chestnuts in the spring we’ll set,
That in the autumn colts will be.
We’ll prune the climbing sorghum vine,
We’ll dig the rutabaga pear,
The clam shall with the pea entwine,
And both shall, mingling, blossom there.
The Berkshire goat its wool shall shed,
The Bantam cow shall feed on hay,
We ll milk the ducks, all thoroughbred,
That steal the eggs the squirrels lay.
A KINDLY SPIRIT.
“Never’ll speak to him again, never l”
said the man in the tweed suit as he shut
his teeth together.
“Oh, come now, he’s your best
friend,” replied the one with the white
plug bat.
“He can’t be. He had a party at hie
house and never invited me.”
“That proves his friendship beyond
question. He haJ, invited no less than
twelve of your creditors and he realized
what your portion would be.”
HOW TO CATCH FISH.
“Boy, how much do you want for
that string of fish ?” asked an amateur
fisherman on his way home from a day’s
sport.
The boy named his price.
"All right, there’s your money. Now
just throw me the fish,” and he dexter
ously caught them.
“Talk about catching fish,” he said,
as he pursued his way,
A SAFE PLACE.
First Cincinnatian—“What a fearful
riot that was. I lost several dear friends
in it.”
Second Cincinnatian—“Were you hurt
yourself ?”
“Yes; I was wounded while standing
• my own doorstep, but only slightly.
Were you hurt ?”
“Oh ! not at all. I was in a safe place
while the rioting was going on.”
“Where were you?”
“In jail.”
AN ARISTOCRATIC FAMILY.
“Young Mr. Smythe comes from a
fine family, does he not ?”
“Oh, my, yes? one of the most aristo
cratic and exclusive in all New York.”
“Is the family of Dutch or English
ancestry, do you know ?”
“I don’t know anything about theii
ancestry. All I Ifnow is that old man
Smythe made over a million dollars dur
ing the war in government contracts.”—
Phila. Evening Call.
LIFE AMONG THE MORMONS.
“My dear,” said a Mormon wife to he*
husband, “I should think that you
would be ashamed of yourself, flirting
with that Miss JB. as you did in church
to-day.”
“Flirting with her ?” he replied in as
tonishment, “why we have been engaged
for more than three months. It’s all
over town.”
“Oh, I beg your pardon,” said his
wife indifferently. “If you are engaged
to her, I suppose it is all right. When
does the happy event occur ?”
Ministers in Maine,
The Lewiston Journal says: Recently
Mr. Granville Hubbard, accompanied
by about a dozen other generous heart
ed men of Fayette, came to the parson
age with two horses and a saw, and sawed
about ten cords of nice hard wood,
which they, with others, had cut, hauled
and given to the minister; and later fif
teen others split and put a large part ol
it under cover. This is the third time
in three years that Mr. Dawson has been
pastor of the church that they have
done the same. During this time he has
kept no cow, has purchased no butter ;
has had a never-failing supply of all his
family wished to use, besides hogshead"
of milk that have been given to him If
this kind and generous people.