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ihe Dears and Jnrmer.
J. YF. WIIT®, Bdltar and Proprietor.
VOLUMEIV.
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They have great i i~pect for the .'vtae§-
can flag at Andaman, Society Islands.
When a man dies there, hia body i
painted rod, white and blue.
Observant jjjy?
country in Europe has three j.sk for
everything The lirst U for
natives, the seeffH fqr Englishmen, and
the third far. Anerieans. It is needless
to acid that ttfh'Tfttter receive the Full'
benefit of the highest price.
Some men don’t know when they .■ re
well off.' .No ancient fable eve- poir -- 1
a moral with greater effect ’ h
etory of two murderers in Mi s , h
They had been sentetxSepl to print. .l h-r
bfp, but, beihg dissafisfi-oj, . tabu *
new,trial. They
the 12th of March, unless 1 ' the governor
interferes.
• A correspondent wishes to kpow the
names and nativities of foreign-born
members of Congress. In the Senate
they are Beck (Scotland), Fair, Sewell
and C. W. Jones (Ireland), and M. P.
Jones (England). In the House m Rep
resentatives—Davis, Collins, McAdoo,
Downey and Lowry (Ireland), Hahn and
Bomeis (Bavaria), Pulitzer (Hungary),
Nelson (Norway), Muller (Germany),
West (England), and Farquhar (Scot
land).
The relative efficiency of labor in the
cotton mills throughout the world can
be seen by reference to the amount of
cotton which different workmen will
consume per year. In India the average
is 3,451 pounds per operative, in Eng-,
land S-))14 -pC'a£aSj in Germauy-T,560 to
1,500 pounds, and in the United States
4,850 pounds. The cost of gathering
and plan-, g the cotton crop is computed
to -We ha 1 '.450,000, or thirty-six per
cent. ;k of Igross value at'nine cents per
pounds Chi.
ve ■=f===
.Our mercantile marine if not quite
“swept from the sea” yet, as investiga
tion shows that in the number and qual
ity of our traveling ships we still stand
second among the nations of the world.
We have 6,284 seagoing sailing vessels
of 2,138,830 tons, and 13,863 sailing
coasters of 2,100,000 tons; and we have
355 seagoing steamers, and 4,111 inland
and coasting steamers. So we are not
completely annihilated yet upon the
wave, though Britannia is a good way
ahead of us.
Arepresentative of the New York
Tribune hag made public the fact that
some of the liquor saloons of that city
sell quinine pills to their patrons. A
bartender who wa3 interrogated by him
on the subject said: “We sell lots of
quinine. If we didn’t keep it our cus
tomers would go to the drugstore for
their liquor as well as their quinine. It
would do no good to kick, so we set up
the pills. Quinine to a certain extent
acts on the system like liquor. Men who
drink much or go in for any excitement,
until the ordinary stimulants fail to
operate on their nervous system, often
take to quinine, opium or its compounds,
chloral, absinthe, and so on,”
According to the Hong Kong daily
Press, the empress of China has caused a
great commotion among her counselors
by her liberal ideas and her conduct.
She has abated the rigor of court eti
quette, has transferred ‘her residence
from the winter palace to the castle in
Imperial park, takes boxing lessons, and
does not conceal her opinion that reform
in social and religious matters are
needed, and that China no longer can
keep up her isolation from the rest of the
world. The conservatives complain
that her conduct is weakening the popu
lar belief in the divine power of the im
perial house, and are confirmed in their
belief that a woman is unfit to rule a
country.
A singular sort of fertilizer for potato
fields has been introduced on a Pomera
nian fnodel farm. Hitherto herrings and
potatoes have been known as a palatable
dish in family households. The man
ager of thfe farm in question has hit upon
the idea of blending them from the start,
by planting his seed potatoes with a her
ring placed in every heap, and with so
decided a success as to cause him to in
crease the area thus planted from twenty
acres last year to sixty in the present
one. The expense he calculates at about
nine marks per acre, which is cheaper
than the cost of any other kind of
manure, and amply repays the outlay.
Of course it can only be employed near
the sea coast.
General Brisbn recently visited the
Rosebud Indian agenoy to witness an is
sue of Uncle Sam’s beef to the red chil
dren of the prairie. He found that the
beef was issued on the hoof, and the
braves were armed with repeating rifles
and revolvers to do the butchering.
First one young warrior would shoot a
horn oil, then another would break a
leg? and so on. The poor animal would
be tortured by slow degrees, his death
being put off as long as possible so the
sport might last longer. “And this was
the government of the United States
method of issuing beef to its Indiana,
encouraging them to be barbarous and
cruel, making a gala day of its meat is
sue, and giving the young warriors a
chance to learn to shoot well and ride
well, so that they can kill my soldiers
more readily and kill citizens better if
they should go to war."
The King of Bavaria keeps carefully
out of sight, but contrives to provide
matter Tor more stories about his private
doings than 'any of the visible monarch')
of Europe. King Ludwig’s latest ec
centricity is remarkable even for him;
he has been photographed. During one
of his solitary walks in the Bavarian
Alps he encountered an amiable os,
which barred the way and refused to
allow hia majesty to pass. For a bovine
subject to make himself so unpleasantly
conspicuous was not to be endured;
wherefore the king seized a p'ank
which happened to be at hand, and,
placing himself in a position of attack,
as with a bayonet, he prepared to charge.
Then, of courts^;,the surly os sheered
and ifa
was swpleased with his own exploit that
he had himself photographed in the at
titude of charging.
A City of Mexico letter to the Boston
Herald asserts that “the ancient volcano
Popocatepetl has got into the courts.
Not that it has been bodily transported
into the halls of litigation, but it is the
subject of a novel suit at law. For many
years General Ochoa has been the owner
of the volcano, the highest point of land in
North America, together with all its ap
purtences. The crater contains a fino
quality of sulphur, which the general
has been extracting, giving employment
to Indians who cared to stay down in
the vaporous old crater. The property
was at one time fairly profitable, but
now it appears that the volcano was,
some time ago, mortgaged to Mr. Carlos
HeeKfiisr r wjilft ferifigs suit o! foreclosure.
The papers have been joking about tho
matter, some asking what Mr. Kecamier
intends to do with his volcano when he
gets legal possession. He has been sol
emnly warned that the law forbids the
carrying out of the country ancient mon
uments and objects of historical interest.
Probably there are precedents in law for
the foreclosing.of volcanic property, but
you nor I have never heard of them be
fore.
A scheme for turning, or, rather, de
flecting, the gulf stream, which for the
present, however, is likely to exist on
paper only, has been originated by Mr.
John C. Goodridge, an inventor and
engineer well known in New York. It
has for its object changing the tempera
ture of the Atlantic states, by obtaining
more of the benefit of the gulf Etream.
Mr. Goodridge assumes that the reason
that those states do not get the benefit
of it now is, that they have between
them and it a polar current, coming
down along the coast of Labrador,
through the straits of Belle Isle, and
forming the cold western wall of the
gulf stream. The existence of this cur
rent is well estab'ished, and, in fact, is
one of the facts on which official sailing
directions both in the United States and
England are based. What Mr. Good
ridge proposes is that it should be
stopped in the straits of Belle
Isle by a dam at a point where
it is about ten miles wide and 150
feet deep. The dam, he says, could be
built with the adjacent rocks, and the
cost would not exceed $30,000,000. The
effect of this would be, he calculates, to
change the temperature of the coast from
Cape Hatteras to Newfoundland. Nova
Scotia would have a climate as mild as
Cape May, and Block Island and Cape
Cod would become winter watering
places. Moreover, the St. Lawrence
would be open to navigation throughout
the year. Mr. Goodridge also thinks,
though not with much positiveness, that
the deflection of the Arctic current
might turn the gulf stream further
southward, and thus cut oft enough heat
from the British Isles to givo them the
climate of Labrador; and then, giving
the reins to his fancy, he sees the queen
abandoning her icy kingdom and taking
refuge as Empress of India. But al
this, says the paper Iran, is too much to
expect for $40,000,000, and very thank
ful we ought to be that there are not
enough insane men to raise between them
even that sum for such a wild scheme as
that of Mr. Goodridge.
A Quaint Negro Hymn.
An Abbott (Miss.) letter to the New
York Sun says: I have frequently read
in the Sun hymns sung by negroes on
our cotton plantations, but never heard
ono with both words and melody so
strangely weird and fantastic as that I
have copied for you. I heard an old ne
groes sing it, and took it down hurried
ly as she did so, thinking it would inter
est your many readers, as it did myself.
It is perfectly original, having been
composed by an old colored woman on
an adjoining plantation.
SITTIN’ DOWN BY THE SIDE OB DE LAMB.
God told Noah
By the rainbow sign,
No more water,
But fire next time.
Cho: Halleluyah! Halleluyah!
Ise a settin’ down
By de side O de lamb.
I went to the valley—
Didn’t go for to stay;
My soul got happy,
And X staid all day.
Cho: Settin’ down, eto.
Down by de graveyard
Ise gwine to walk;
Me and God A'mi-hty
Gwine to stun’ and talk.
Cho: Hallelnyan! Halleluyah!
Ise a siltin’ down
By do side O de Lamb.
“Tommy, is your sister Clarinda in?’
"Mebby she is, and mebby she ain’t.
What’s your name?” “Why doyou ask?”
“Waal, ye see, she said if Mr. Tampkins
palled she’d he in, but if old Cruikshank
CHine she’d he out. Which be you?" Mr.
Cruikshank departed.
A ’WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE MATERIAL AND IN IKLLECTUAL ADVANCEMENT OF OUR COUNTY.
' LOUISVILLE. GEORGIA. THURSDAY, MARCH 4,1886.
PfipEST AND SENATE,
V
TOEktu, statement op the ma-
JCk'TV OP THE COMMIT! EE.
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The JniLVfrrjr Auert ng the Senate’* Rl*hf
to the President for Papers.
i Mmumls on the 18th made a re.
port to t:\ TJnited States Senate from the
judif'r vy i.mtmittee on the letter Of the at*
ton* • declining to transmit to the
Seur,. ' sof -Gihcial records ailQ papers
couoc-ri.m. • tho administration of the office
of d'* ‘’ir;? u (> orne y f or the Southern district
of Via. *ti!\ from January 1,1885, to January
L v •*'* The report recites the suspension
P ? -px DWS, by order of the
<T‘-'V r .Hv Durkin from the
office of district attorney of that district'fhe
designation on the same day of John D. Bur
nett to perform tho duties of the suspended
officer, and the nomination to the Senate
on December 14, 1885, of the same John D.
Burnett to the said office, which nomina
tion was in duo course referred to
the committee on the judiciary. The
report then declares that it has been the uni
form practice of tho judiciary committee,
since the passage of tho tenure of office act,
to call upon the heads of departments for aU
“papers and information” in the possession
of the department touching the conduct and
administration of the officer proposed to be
removed and the character and conduct of
the person proposed to be appointed. In no
instance until this time has the committee
met with any delay or denial in respect to
furnishing such papers and information, with
a single exception," and in which exception
the delay and suggested denial lasted only for
two or three days.
In the particular case under consideration,
the report says, the committee addressed a
note to the attorney-general in the same form
and asking lor the samo papers and infor
mation that it had been accustomed
to do,— The attorney-general not com
plying with the request, the committee, on
January 85, 1886, to the Sen
ate a resolution, which was. adopted
the next day, directing that officer to trans
mit to the Senate the documents and papers
asked for. To this resolution the attorney
general replied on February 1, saying that he
had been directed by the President to say
that the papers and documents not already
transmitted to the Senate “having exclusive
reference to the suspension by the Presi
dent of George M. Durkin, the late
incumbent of the office of district
attorney of the United States for the South
ern district of Alabama, it is not considered
that the public interest will be promoted by
a compliance with said resolution.” This let
ter, the report says, “as-umes that the at
torney-general is the servant of the Presi
dent, and is to give or withhold copies of
documents in his office according to the will
of the executive, and not otherwise.” The
report adds:
‘‘Your committee is unable to discover,
either in the original act of 1789 creating the
office of attorney-general, or in the act of
1870 creating the department of justice, any
provision which makes the attorney-general
of the United States in any sense the servant
of or controlled bv the executive in the per
formance of the duties imputed to him, by
iaw or the nature of his office. It is true
that in the creation of the depart
ments of state, of war, and of the
navy it was provided in substance
that these secretaries should perform
such duties as should from time to tirao be
enjoined upon them by the President, and
should conduct the business of their depart
ment in such manner as the President should
direct; but the committee does not think it
important to the main question under con
sideration that such direction is not to bo
found in the statute creating the department
of justice, for it is thought it must
be obvious that the . authority
intrusted by the statute in these cases to the
President to direct and control the perform
ance of duties was only a superintending
authority to regulate the performance of the
duties that the ‘law’ require, and not to re
quire the performance of duties that the laws
had not devolved upon the heads of depart
ments, and not to dispense with or forbid the
performance of such duties according as it
might suit the discretion or the fancy of the
executive.”
The report then discusses the question
whether it is within the constitutional power
of either house of Congress to have access to
the official pajiers and documents in the va
rious public offices created by themsolves. On
this point it says “that from the very nature
of the powers intrusted by the constitution to
the two houses of Congress it is a necessary
incident that either House must have at all
times the right to know all that officially ex
ists or takes place in any of the departments
of the government,” and they have the
power “to obtain in one form or another,
complete information as to every paper and
transaction in any of the executive depart
ments, even though such papers might relate
to what is ordinarily an executive function,
if that function infringed upon any duty or
function of the representative bodies.”
A table is submitted showing that out oi
about 1,485 nominations sent to the Senate
up to January 5, 643 were nominations of
persons totake the places of officers suspended
and proposed to be removed.
The committee in conclusion report for
consideration and adoption the following res*
olutions:
Resolved, That the Senate hereby expresses
its condemnation of the refusal of the attor
ney-general, under whatever influence, to
send to the Senate copies of papers called for
by its resolution of the ‘doth of January, and
set forth in’the reports of the committee on
(he judiciary, as in violation of his official
duty and subversive of the fundamental prin
ciples of the government and of a good ad
ministration thereof.
Resolved , That it is under those circum
stances the duty of the Senate to refuse its
advice and consent to proposed removals of
officers, the documents and papers in refer
ence to the supposed official or personal mis
conduct of whom are withheld by the execu
tive or any head of a department when
deemed necessary by the Senate and called
for in considering the matter.
Resolved, That the provision of sectimi
1,754 of the revised statutes dcclarin™
“That persons honorably discharged from the
military or naval service by reason of disa
bility resulting from wounds or sickness in
curred in the line of duty, shall be preferred
for appointments to civil offices, provided
they are found to possess the business capaci
ty necessary for the proper discharge of
the duties of that office” ought
to lie faithfully and fully put in
execution, nnd that to remove or pro
pose to remove any such soldier whose faith
fulness, competency and character are above
reproach, and to give rdace to another who
has not rendered such service, is a violation
of tho spirit of the law and of tho practical
gratitude the people and government of tho
United States owe to tho defender of con
stitutional liberty and tho integrity of the
government.
Mr. Pugh, of Alabama, from the minority
of the committee, said:
“I desire to state that the minority knew
nothing of the contents of the report until
read to the committee this morning. The mi
nority desire to prepare a report in which
they will present their views, and to enable
them to do so they have until Monday
week within which to prepare the
report; and it is understood that
the majority report and tho resolutions ac
companying it will not be called up for con
sideration until we get leave to file the
minority report. The time given us to do sc
is not to extend beyond next Monday week.’
The consideration of the report was post
poned in ordei' that the Democratic members
of the committee might have an opportunity
to prepare a minority report.
THE NEWS.
Interesting Happenings from all Points
EASTERN AND MIDDLE STATES.
The losses by freshets iu Eastern Con
necticut will exceed $1,000,000. Nearly the en
tire eastern end of the State was inundated.
Around Boston 10,000 people were rendered
teniporarilMbomeless, and the losses are up
ward of $3,000,000.
A struck for increased wages, begun by
the operatives of the Amoskeag mills, Man
chester, N. H., on the 15th, threw more than
5,000 people out of employment.
John B. Gough, the well known temper
ance lecturer, was stricken with apoplexy in
Philadelphia on the 15th while delivering a
lecture.
The subscriptions for the benefit of
General Hancock's widow up to late date
had reached about $30,000.
At the National Agricultural and Dairy
convention, held in New Yorfecipr# than fifty
delegates w ere present.. WnSfts papers bear
ing on agricultural and dairy matters were
read, and a committee was appointed to urge
the passage of a bill by Congress appropriat
ing $15,000 to each State for experiment
stations.
Ex-Governor Horatio Seymour’s fu
neral at Utica was attended by Governor
Hill, Lieutenant-Governor Jones, a delega
tion from the New York legislature, numer
ous State officials, and many others. From
the Trinity Episcopal church, in which the
exercises were held, the body was conveyed
to Forest Hill cemetery. Memorial exercises
were also held in the Utica Opera house.
Mayor Kinney presiding. Governor Hill
and others eulogized the deceased.
A Chinaman was found in a "Waterbury
(Conn.) laundrv suffering from leprosy.
SOUTH AND WEST.
A FIRE at Flagstaff, Arizona, has laid the
entire business portion of the town in ruins.
One man perished in the flames. Aggregate
losses, SIOO,OOO.
Timothy Whelan, aged twenty-three
years, struck his father on the head with an
ax at San Francisco, Cal., killing him in
stantly. He then stabbed himself, probably
fatally.
Four small children were trying to build a
fire on Tangier island in Chesapeake bay when
a can Of kerosene exploded, and two of the
little ones were burned to death and the
other two fatally injured.
A passenoei? coach attached to a train on
the Ohio. Central railroad jumped the track
at Ten Mile Trestle, W. Va., and plunged
into the Kanawha river. Several persons
were killed and half a dozen more seriously
injured.
The counties lying along the Tombigbee
river in Alabama have been visited by an
earthquake. Chimneys were thrown down,
crockery smashed, and families camped out
all night, afraid to re-enter their houses.
The great McCormick Reaper worlcs,
Chicago, have closed down, throwing 1,400
men out of employment. The suspension
was caused by*a threatened strike against the
employment of non-union men.
Reports received indicate that the loss of
cattle in Western Kansas and Eastern Col
orado by the terribly cold weather will
amount to 25,000 head.
The body of a clergyman named Jesse B.
Brady was found floating with tho ice
in the Mississippi, near St. Louis. From
papers found in his possession it was clear
that the deceased had committed suicide.
WASHINGTON.
The House silver committee, by a vote of
seven to five, determined to report adversely
Mr. Bland’s bill for the free and unlimited
coinage of silver. A proposition to report
favorably Mr. Waite’s bill for the immediate
suspension of silver coinage was also lost by a
tie vote—six to six—one member being ab
sent.
The House ways and means commitWe has
adopted a joint resolution directing the sec
retary of the treasury to apply the surplus
above $100,000,000 to the liquidation of the
interest-bearing public debt.
The committee on invalid pensions agreed
to report favorably the bills repealing the
limitation of time within which militiamen
can complete and present their claims, and
increasing the rate of pension for total deaf
ness of both ears from sl4 to S2O a month.
The President has sent the following nomi
nations of postmasters to the Senate: Chas.
A. White, at Gardiner, Me.; George O. Guild,
at Bellows Falls, Vt.; Dennis D. Dinan, at
Westborough, Mass.; Joseph H. Wilder, at
Shelburne Falls, Mass.; William A
Pousler, at Flemington, N. J.; M. O.
Bowdoin, at Griffin, Ga.; J. W. Renfroe, at
Atlanta, Ga.; Thomas J. Francisco, at Cuy
ahoga Falls, Ohio; George Moore, at Steuben
ville, Ohio; Nathaniel S. Bates, at Rensse
laer, Ind.; A. T. Bitters, at Rochester, Ind.;
Joseph Edelbrock, at St. Cloud, Minn.; James
J. Russell, at Muscatine, Iowa; Frank B.
Smith, at Wichita, Kan.; Samuel E. Rigg,
at Beatrice, Neb.
Numerous inquiries are being made on be
half of loyal citizens whose slaves were en
listed into the service of the United States
during the late war as to their right
to compensation for such slaves. Genera]
Butler lias declared that these claims are per
fectly legal. There is a fund of $9,000,000
said to be available for the payment of such
claims.
The House committee on coinage, weights
and measures, by a vote of seven to six, has
laid on the table the bill providing for a sus
pension of the coinage of silver.
At a caucus of Republican Senators it was
resolved not to confirm the President’s nomi
nations unless, when asked for, reasons for
suspensions are given. Nominations are to
be rejected when papers are refused.
The President has sent to the Senate the
following additional nominations: Pendle
ton King, of North Carolina, to be secretary
of the legation of the United States at Con
stantinople; ex-Se:iator James B. Groome, of
Maryland, to be collector of customs at Balti
more; I. Freeman Basin, of Marlvaud, to be
naval officer at Baltimore. Prank I. Fhelps,
of Wisconsin, to be surveyorof customs at La
Crosse, Wis.; Alfred B. Jcdd, of Wisconsin,
to be pension agent at Milwaukee, Wis.;
’William M. Campbell, of Minnesota, to be
United Slates marshal for the District of
Minnesota.
The sub-committee of the House commit
tee on postoffices, having charge of the postal
telegraph question, agreed to report adversely
to the full committee on all propositions for
the building or purchase of telegraph lines
by the government.
The eighteenth annual national con
vention of the National Woman’s Suffrage
association began in Washington on tho 17th.
Seventeen States and Territories were repre
sented.
The Senate has confirmed the nomination
of George N. Stearns to be U nited States at
torney for the district of Massachusetts.
FOREIGN.
Two Americans have been oxpclled from
Holstein, Prussia, for “having made them
selves troublesome to the authorities.”
The Dublin enrporatien has adopted reso
lutions demanding home rule for Ireland,
and expressing reliance on Mr. Gladstone’s
ability to obtain it.
A revolution is in progress in Uruguay.
In Ireland 359 Presbyterian congregations,
numbering altogether 333,101) persons, have
adopted resolutions denouncing the project of
establishing home rule in the country.
The great Ursuline convent at Laeken, two
miles fiom Brussels. Belgium, has been do
stroyed by fire, but the thirty nuns and 105
girls who were scholars and lodgers were all
saved.
M. Simon Lock, a banker of Soleure,
Switzerland, has failed, with liabilities of
$400,000. Hundreds of small depositors were
ruined by the failure. Lock was arrested on
a charge of fraud.
NEWSY GLEANINGS. !
Among the 102,000 shareholders of the
Panama canal are 16,000 women.
“No Man’s Land,” iust south of the far
corner of Kansas, has been seized by settlers.
Sawdust burned to the windward saved
many Florida orange groves from the biting
frost.
Ie 1885 the enormous total of 71,500.000
tons of copper was mined in the United
States.
The Pillsbury flouring mills, at Minueapo I
lis, divided $35,000 surplus profits among
1,100 employes last year.
About sixty patents are issued every year
to women inveutors. Last year the total
number of patents issued was 22,000.
Alabama eoa’ is working its way into the
Gulf and trans-Mississippi States, Mexico
and the South American republics.
It is in contemplation to divide London 1
into ten municipalities, each to enjoy hom '
rule and an independent civic identity.
Lulu Hurst, the Georgia girl, who math j
man> thousand dollars by erhiMUng hci '
alleged electric powers, is now a student it’
Shorter female college.
According to the latest official figures th< |
number of workingwomen in England and I
A Vales is 7,706,545. They are employed in
280 different branches of work.
A french physician claims to have found
a < ase of “spontaneous hydrophobia” in a
patient twenty-nine years of age, who had
neither been bitten nor snatched by any
animal
Moody are drawing such
immense crowds in New Orleans that the
Washington Artillery hall, where they have
their meetings, will not begin to hold the
throngs.
In Clark county, Kan., during the late
storm, a flock of sheep crowded together (lur
ing the blizzard, and the snow melting for a
while and then freezing, fastened the entire
flock together.
A message was flashed last week from
New York to London, the business referred
to in the dispatch transacted, and an answer
received in New York in just six minutes,
the quickest time on record.
PERSONAL* mention
Representative. Mills, of Texas, is the
fastest talker in Congress, delivering 215p
words a minute.
Dr. Sch Wenninger, Bismarck’s physician,
is going to St. Petersburg to try and reduce
the fat on the czar.
Thomas P. DudLEY, of Lexington, Ky.,
the oldest Baptist preacher in America, is
ninety-four years of age and blind.
General Pope, whose retirement is at*
hand, says he will travel iu Europe for a time
and then make his home in Chicago or Cin
cinnati.
Mrs. Polk, the widow of the ex-President
has not visited Washington for more than
thirty years, or since she retired from the
White House. 4
Senator Van Wy joined Congress
man Hewitt in extermination of
barking dogs in Washington. Both suffer
from insomnia.
Mr. Tilden, who is outliving his conspicu
ous party rivals, associates aud successors,
has gained twenty pouuds in flesh within the
last twelvemonth.
The late George L. Lorillard made it a
poiut for a long time to give away about $40,-
UQO a year to persons of merit whom he knew
would be benefited by gifts.
Louis Kossuth, the Hungarian patriot,
now in his eighty-fourth year, is iu excellent
health, aud is at work upon the fourth vol
ume or his memoirs. He writes from six to
seven hours daily.
Miss Clotelle Palms, to whom United
States Senator Jones, of Florida, is paying
court, is the daugh or of Francis Palms, the
Croesus of Michigan. She is about thirty
years old and the heiress to some $10,000,000.
Queen Victoria drives on state occasions
in a heavy gilded carriage drawn by eight
cream-colored horses, which are never used
on any otlior occasion. They are a special
breed, raised in Hanover, which the queeu is
permitted to use only because she is of Han
overian descent.
Porter Sherman, of the Yale class of ’65.
left the college during the war and enlistsed
in a Kansas regiment, without finishing his
college course. Recently he returned to com
plete his course and is now talked of by his
friends in Kansas as a congressional candi
date. He is a man of about fifty years aud
is paying particular attention to the science
of political economy-.
“The most devout man in sight from the
galleries o: the House o Repre .entatives,”
says the St. Louis Globp-Dcinocral, “is Air.
liendersonof North Carolina.” Heissmooth
shaven, of cleri al appearance, stan Is with
uplifted face and eyes shut, his hind; palm
to palm in front of him. “As the prayer
progi esse; Mr. Henderson, with a rh, th meal
movement, part; his fingers aud or ugs the n
together again, keeping ti ue to the well
rounded periods af the blind pi ejeher.” i
John B. Gough
* KATII OF THE CELEBRATED TEM.
PERANCE LECTURER
John B. Gough, the noted temperance advo
cate, who was stricken with apoplexy in a Phil
adelphia church, on the lath, while delivering
a lecture, lingered until the 18tb, when he
passed away in presence of his wife and two
nieces. The body was sent to his late home
at YVoreester, Mass., for interment.
John B. Gough was bom in Sandgate,
Kent, England,of very poor parents, in 1817.
He came to America when twelve years old,
and it was not until 1842 that he began his
work as a temperance advocate. In the in
terim he had worked as a bookbinder for $2.25
per week in New York; had sung and acted
iu low theatres there and in Boston; had
seen his mother buried in the Potter’s field
in New York, and had fallen into the depths
of intemperance and degradation. He was
induced to sign the pledge at a temperance
moeting in Worcester, Mass., in 1842. Ho first
spoke as a reformed drunkard. His speeches
soon drew him large audiences, and he
lectured successfully in Boston, Now York
and Philadelphia. In 1853 he went to Eng
land, and again in 1857 and 1878, staying
once three years and making ' .‘.’(iu speeches
in all. Ho has delivered nearly 10,009 ad
dresses and traveled hundreds of thousand; of
miles in the cause of temperance, and spoken
before more persons than any one man now
living.
Miss Anne Whitney, who is much
talked of in Boston now as a sculptor o!
marked power, used to fancy herself
jioet. One day, however, having over
turned a pot of Band in a greenhouse,
which, from its dampness, readily took
impressions, she began to model it,
keeping at work for hours, and returning
to it next day with zest, till she had
wrought out her ideas. She then deci
ded to make soulpture the pursuit of
her life.
If one were to enter the parlors of 001.
and Mme. Jerome Bonaparte at Wash
ington any Sunday evening he would
imagine he was in Paris. The language
and the surroundings are all French;
even the servants belong to that nation
ality. Mme. Bonaparte, although an
A mencan, has lived so longabroad that
she has become thoroughly French.
Wild Cattle. —A large band of wild
.‘attic is running on tho hills on lower
Joos River, Oregon. They are the off
iprmg of cattle just by the early settlers,
md as they bear no brand or marks of any
aind they are considered public prop
erty,
BOW IT HAPPENED.
He held my hand—
I knew ’twas wrong.
And still I did not chide him;
He clasped my waist—
He is so strong,
And I so weak beside him!
He bent his face
Down close to mine—
His brown eyes were so ploadingl
And maybe, too,
He saw in mine—
But eyes are so misleading!
His mustache brushed
My reddening cheek—
Oh, dear! how it did tickle!
*1 had to smile—
I couldn’t speak—
I wonder if he’s fickle!
He kissed me! Well.
it you must knonr,
I’m sure I don’t deny it!
And I kissed him?
Well, maybe so— o
His actions would imply it.
My foolish heart
Was throbbing so
That I could not prevent It.
He said he loved me—
I don’t know—
I wonder if he meant it!
—Somerville Journal
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.
After dinner—A hungry man.
Plays a leading part in life—The
blind man’s dog.
Pleasant recollections—Collecting a
bill the second time.
The war articles in the Centur;/ are
rapidly bringing that esteemed publica
tion down to the level of a Powder
Magazine. — Life.
It is officially reported that there are
now in England upward of 30,000 blind
persons—but to which party they belong
is not stated.
The whale is said to be capable of liv- 1
ing a thousand years. He iloesn't.ibave
to read the dizzy old jokes in thdWunny
papers. —Fall Hirer Advance.
The title to-a dead whale is’ in dis
pute in the MouteroV,- Gfl-. courts. But
the title to a live whale is never in dis
pute among schoolboy*.
Take up the fiddle and the bow
And play “Let the Eagle Scream;’’
lay down the shovel and the hoe.
Potatoes are dug by steam.
—Boston Courier.
“One at a dime, blease,” remarked a
German saloon-keeper to a crowd that
was scrambling for a ten-cent piece on
the floor.— St. Paul Herald.
A Louisville paper gives a picture of
a young woman who was kissed by a
tramp. If the likeness is a correct one,
the tramp deserves sympathy.— Puck.
John Boyle O’Reilly says that if women
ruled the world it would be a poem.
Perhaps so, but the average man don’t
want a poem. He wants pie. —Hew Bed
ford Mercury.
The average housewife will take more
pains to keep a sickly tifteen-cent plant
through four months of winter than she
will to keep butter on ice iu summer.—
Siftings.
Supposing a man lost both his arms in
the war, what is he going to do in case a
mosquito alights on bis nose?— Maverick.
Call the first man he meets a liar. Oar
ham Mountaineer.
An exchange says that if clothes are
brushed up, that is the wrong way, they
will not get shiny. We have tried this
rule on a silk hat and can testify that it
works like a charm.— Call.
the latest craze.
We’re not so fond of England,
Or her pretty little ways.
As once we were, and far behind
We’ve left the British craze.
'Tis not the dainty French we love,
Nor yet the dash of Spain,
For Italy we never rave,
They’re all upon the wane
But now we look for fashions to
Celestials, and we clap
Onr hands with joy whene’er we see
An 18-carat Jap. —Life,
Signal Revenge.
Thirty-six years ago occurred the bat
tle of Chillianwallah, at which the Eng
lish ran an appallingly narrow chance of
being defeated by the courageous
Sikhs opposed to them. Though Eng
land did gain the day, it was only by an
enormous expenditure of brave men’s
lives. A commemoration pillar is erected
to their memory, in the garden of the
Chelsea hospital.
This battle, however, one of the se
verest ever fought by the British on the
soil nf India, is also noteworthy because
of the shadow of misfortune and dis
gra o overhanging it. The fourteenth
regiment of dragoons, in tho midst of
the engagement, suddenly turned in re
treat., and nearly caused a panic in the
army. Its commander, Captain King,
overcome by sham: , aftei ward committed
suicide.
Previous to his death he repeatedly de
clared that he gave no order for retreat,
and knew no reason why his troops
should have fled. But the order was
heard by many officers and men, and the
captain’s word was not believed. Publio
opinion gave a verdict of cowardice
against him.
The circumstancos of the battle have,
however, been recently revived,and new
evidence has come in, which, if true,
frees both office); and men froratbe worst
charge which can be preferred against
soldiers. In the regiment, says this ex
onerating voice, was a private who, for
some reason, bore a grudge against his
colonel. Though he had sought for an
opportunity of taking revenge, none had
presented itself. But the man was a
ventriloquist; and at last his chance
came. On the day of the battle, at tho
critical moment, when it was infamy to
take one backward step, the ventrilo
quist threw his voice close to the colonel
and cal ed
“Threes about!”
It was the signal for retreat. Tho
regiment was a model or discipline, and
had always obeyed as one man. It did
so now with fatal promptitude, and, in
the melee of the battlefield, its retreat
was soon converted into helter-skilter
flight. The soldier had avenged his
wrong at the expense of his comrade’s
honor, and at the risk of defeat to his
country’s flag. Youth's Companion ,
Snbtcription $1.(9 in Adrana#
NUMBER 9.
Care of Fowls.
Poultry keepers should not require)
iheir fowls to remain, during the hot
months of the summer, in the same quar
ters in which they were kept during the
excessive cold of the winter. Pure good
air is essential to all animal life, and
fowls can no more easily keep in good
condition without it than cows, horses or
hogs. Houses that were found suitable
for winter will be too close for the hot
nights of summer, and they should bo
changed te suit the change in circum
stances. Hens should have plentiful
supply of pure fresh water, otherwise
they cannot be expected to furnish eggs,
as water enters largely into the composi
tion of their product. If confined, fowls
should be furnished a variety of food aud
not fed upon any one special diet. If
made to scratch for a portion of their
living upon such grounds reward
lr t -vV*f >**•**' •
proven, Fooyg.)"il *' UttC 1 "
ihoald not be such as induces fat, as this
will cause them to fall off laying. Green
food, and especially onion tops finely
chopped, will he good for fowls.
Cleanliness enters largely into the ele
ments of success in aising fowls. All
nests should be occasionally destroyed
by burning, and the douses thoroughly
cleaned and whitewashed. Alb tie car
bolic acid added to he whitewash will
serve a good purpose. Tobacco stems
spread in the bottom of nests and a ittle
tobacco dust spread over the eggs will
help to destroy vermin that would other
wise swprm under sitting hens. Milk,
thickened with a lithe wheat bran, will
be relished by fowls aod furnish them
excellent food. An occasional feed of
meat will be of service, and constant ac
cess to grass or other green foi and is quite
essential. Gapes and many other dis
eases of fowls are caused hy filth. Ihe
best way to have healthy fowls is to pre
vent disease by removing the causes.
If these are looked after in advance, the
business will be much more profitable
and pleasant.
Wanted'Frivolous Young Men.
“It’s no use,” a young lady recently
remarked,*despairingly; “there are iu>
frivolous men any more, and it is quite
useless uftrvdo have parties. Nobody
comes but the sole&tjly dndish empty
brains that, it gives one cold chills simply
to look at, and if nue f the fellows that is
really interesting does stray into a ball i ‘
811 asssmbl'’ he lias the air of having
made a dreadful mistake, and gets away
as quickly as possible. Everybody is .*•
dreadfully in earnest either o‘> working
or being a fop that there i u 1 a :od(Y
comrade left.” Ihe lively young cica
lure has more to say iu much the same
style aud to the same general purpose,
the burden of her complaint being that
there were no society men who seemed,
as she phrased it, worth while, and that
the indivklua s who were rc-aly worth
while—whatever Hint misterious formula
may mean —could not be dragged into
those gay assemblies wkitli r the belles
of the town repair to criticise each other’s
dresses and to meet the opposite sex.
Distance Between ! rees in Orch
ards. —Standard apples from 25 to 33
feet apart each way; standard pears and
cherries, 18 to 20 feet; Duke and Mo
relle cherries, 16 feet; standard plums,
peaches, apricots, a l nectarines, 15 to
18 feet; quin os, L to 12 feet; prya
midical apples, p ars, cherries, and
plums, 8 to 10 feet; currants and goose
berries, 3 to 4 feet; raspberries rows, E
feet apart and 2 feet in the row.
A Cheese factory U to be started a;
Quincy, Fla., nextseasoa to workup tli<
uiplus milk there.
Central & Southwestern Railr’ds.
t
[All trains of this system are run by Staml
ard (90) Meridian time, which is 36 minutes
slower than time kept by city.]
- Savannah, Ga., Jan. 24, 1886.
ON AND AFTER THIB DATE PASSEN
GER TRAINS on the Central and South
western Railroads and branches will. run as
follows:
GrOINGr NORTH.
Leave No. 51— No. 53 —
Savannah...D 840 a m.. D 810 p m
Leave No. 15—
D 5 40 pm..
Arrive No. 15 — -
Milieu D 8 45pm..
Arrive No. 51— No. 53
Augusta ....D 345 p m.. D 615 a m
Macon D 420 pm.. D 320 am
Atlanta D 9 35pm.. D 732 am
Columbus...D 6 23am.. D 215 pm
Perrv DEB 845 pin.. DES 12 00 m
Fort*Gaines DES 438 p m
Blakeley DES 710 p m
Euftpila D 4 01pm
Albany D 10 45 pm.. D 2 45pm
Montgomery D 7 25 p m
MilledgevilleDES 5 49pm
Eaton ton .. .DES 7 40pm
Connections at Terminal Points.
At Augusta—Trains 51 and 53 councct with
outgoing trains of Georgia lla’lroad,Columbia,
Charlotto and Augusta Railroad, and South
Carolina Railroad. Train 53 connects with
outgoing train of Augusta and Knoxville Rail
road. Train 51 connect* with trains for Syl
vania, Wrightsville and Louisville.
At Atlanta—Trains 51 and 53 connect with
Air-Line and Kennesaw routes to all points
North and East, and with all diverging roads
for local stations.
COMING SOUTH.
Leave —Nos. Nos.
Millen.. .16 D 5 00am..
Augusta.lß D 930 am. .20 D 9 30pm
Mac0n...52 D 940 am.. 54 D 10 50 pm
Atlanta. .62 D 600 am.. 54 D 6 50pm
Columb’s2oD 9 00pm.. 6 D 1140 am
Perry....24DES 600am..22DES 300 pm
Ft. Gaines 28 • ‘ 10 05 ain
Blakeley 26 “ 815 a m
Eufaula 2D 10 55 a m
Albany.. 4 D 410 am.. 26 D 12 15 pm
Montg’ry 2D 7 40 a m
MiU’dg’ve 25 DES 6 37am
Eatonton 25 DES 515 a m
Arrive—No.
Savannah 16D 805 am.. No.
Savannahs2 D 407 pm. .54 D 600 a m
Conneetions at Savannah, with Savannah,
Florida and Western Railway for all points iu
Florida.
Trains Nos. 53 and 54 will not stop to take
on or put off passengers between Savannah
and Millen, as trains Nos. 15 and 16 are ex
peoted to do the way business between these
points.
Local sleeping cars on all night passenger
trains between Savannah and Augusta, Savan -
nali and Macon, Savannah and Atlanta, Macon
and Columbus.
Tiokets for all points and sleeping car berths
on sale at oity office, No. 20 Bull street.
G. A. Whitehead, WILLIAM ROGERS.
Gen. Pass. Agt. Gen. Supt., Savannah.
J. C. Shaw, W. F. SHELLMAN, .
Gen. Trar. Agt. Traffic Manager,
Savannah. Q.t.
“D,” daily, “DES,” daily exoept Snnda.v’,