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THE PAULDING NEW ERA.
Wm. A. BRECKENRIBGE, Publisher.
“Onward and Upward.”
SUBSCRIPTION : $1.50 Per Anenm
VOLUME L
DALLAS, PAULDING COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, MAY ‘24. 1883.
NUMBER 25.
NEWS GLEANINGS.
Danville, Va., lias two cotton mill*
in operation and la erecting a third on .
Gov. Boynton’s brido in worth $60,-
000 in her own right. Pile la about 40
years o d.
The firft cotton factory In Wisconsin
was opened a few days ago at Sheboy
gan Falls.
Mr J. H. Henderson, of Covington
county, Ala., D sixty-three years of age
and since 1845 has killed 412 deer
Gen Fit/.hugh I/C3 added about $3,-
010 to the funds of the Southern nis
torical Society by his recent lecturiu,
tour through the South.
The Key West, Fla., sponge fleet,
numbering seventy vessels and Bix bun
dred men, is out on a cruise. A larg
catch of sponge brings about $300,000
into that city.
It is said that a Vermont farmer
sends more than an average of 2,00o
pounds of butter to one hotel In Gcor
gia every week during tho yenr.
Within eighteen months 060 miles o'
railroad have been under conBtruclioi
in Mississippi, over $2 ',000,000 beinr
invested. During tho fifteen years pre
vious only 79 miles of road were buil .
J, T. VanS ycb, of Texas, is caryimr
47,000 Bheep from Arizona to Grahau
county,Tex. He paid 75 cents each, o
$32,090 for the whole lot.
Gen. E T. Sturdivant, of Orlando
Fla , recently took $19 worth of hone
out of one boo hive, and yet left honey
enough to keep the colony in good spir
its and working dondition.
In every tobacco factory at Key West
"thcro la a ’’reader.” Cubans cannot
talk without gesticulating, and in order
to keep them from talking a person i
employed to rend aloud to the hand
during working hours.
A negro woman at Powder Springs
Ga., stuck a kni e through her hue
band’s heart, and then aroused the
village by her yells'over his dead body
The bloody knife was found concealed
in her bosom.
Smith Island, in Smith Take, near
Ocala, Fla., containing eighty acres,
thirty five of which are in an orange
grove, sold a few days ago for $12,00
Five years ago it could have been
bought for $700.
The Sswannoo coal scam, of Tenne
see, covers an area of 3,000 square miles
in which there are 1,920,000 acres,
which, at a low estimate, will yield an
average of three thousand tons per ncre,
or a sum total of fifty-seven billion
six hundred million tons.
Talbotton (Ga.) New Era: Capt. N
p. Carreker presents J. W. T. Jones,
Talbot’s antiquarian, with a couple ot
no rifiod owls, perched on petrified
limbs. The feathers on the birds and
the leaves on tho limbs lo ok perfectly
natural.
Fifteen years ago an enterprising
Mobilian brought a little Jersey cow
that city, and was laughed at. To-day
the wealthiest men in Mobile own lierdi
of Jerseys, and it is estimated that
there are nearly 5,000 registerea ani
mals and numberless grades in Mobile
county, worth near $500,000.
Tavares (Fla.) fisherman have institu
ted a new and novel method ef catching
fidi, which seems, however, to be very
successful. A fire is built on a board
across a long row-boat, and the fish,
* attiacted by the bright light, leap to
ward it, fall into the boat and are ca p-
t u red.
Rice planting in South Carolina and
Georgia is becoming precarious, an 1,
except in the cases of very rich men,
it is thought that the industry in .he
two States will die our. Louisiana and
Florida will become the rice States par
excellence. The coast plantors of Geor
gia and South Carolina will have '.o
imitate Mr, Robert Gourdin—dra n
theia fields and convi rt them into mead-
A Little Whirligig.
In the whirligig of time many strange
companionships are formed says the N.
Y. Sun. Here we have Gen. Roger A.
Pryor, who twenty years ago was looking
for Ben Butler lo get $20,000 for hi*
head, in the intimate relations of friend
ship with tho ancient ruler of New
Orleans; and now the dashing leader of
the Black Horse Cavalry, who made such
terrible raidB npon the Union forces, is
slinking hands with veterans of tho other
side. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee and his staff
from Virginia have gone home after such
an experience, with champagne poured
out by old warriors of tho other side,
that, as they reflect over tho times and
feelings of twenty years ago, they must
doubt whether tiiey have not been pass
ing through a dream.
TOPICS OK TUB IIA V.
The New Yorkers have besu seven
years trying to raiso $250,000 for the
onstruction of the pedestal of Bartiiol
’s great statue of “Liberty Enlightcn-
ng the World,’’ to be placed on Bedloe’s
stand.
Tho Garfield Monument Committee of
be Society of the Army of tho Cum
erland havo selected Mr. J. Q. A.
Ward, of New Y’ork, to design and
omplote the monument at a cost not to
exceed $50,009.
Switzerland used to beat the world in
the consumption of fire water, but
elgium lias forged ahend. There is a
rinking shop there for every 12 persons
ml eighty per cent of tho hospital liior-
lity is attributed by tho physicians in
ttendance to alcoholism.
The functions of the Signal Service
ureau have been seriously crippled by
lie failure of Congress to makoasuf
cient appropriation for its support
ull reports will be resumed after ,Tulv
»t, when the anuual appropriation
ecomcs available.
Charles H. Welling, who failed in
<few York in 1803 for $400,000, paying
nly 6 1 ' cents on the dollnr, lias recently
ought out his old creditors and paid
hem nearly in full As he was under
legal obligation to do so, the majority
f people who are familiar with the facts
ro overcome with omaz ment.
people all over the world, and cannot
upply the demand fast eneugh Ou a
visit, the ranclic seems like a kitten nur
sety on a Urge scale.
A YbTKKAN OF NSW YORK.
William K. Dodge, the noted merchant,
who died suddenly at his homo in Now
York, was au eminent representative of
the roligious riek men who form a con-
Uuder the Taveru Licence bill n
ently ptssed by the Pennsylvania Leg
islature, all tlie licence money from | aidornbio uud influential class In the
taverns, liquor retailers, eating house*, | metropolis, sustaining its churches and
its charities, nor lacking to its popular
enterprises; and prominent in national
moral movements—not always so wise us
they are earnest,
Mr. Dodge was born in Hartford, Ct.,
A COLD DAY.
BRADS LIKE A NOVEL.
Haw ike Hawkers Man NiiataOae ap Thnl , Tke aisrr a ••Prominent t'lllaaa” ToU aa
He lllneaveriMl, J Allnuln Hepnrlnr.
brewers, auctioneers, patent medicine*,
pediers and billiard rooms goes to the
several counties instesd of tho Stati
Treasury Iu Philadelphia these sour „ _ . ,
■ »"*“■«! l-lWf&bS*
yenr to the State, and it is stated by the father aud mudo clerk In a wholesah
Bulletin of that city, that if the licens
law is enforced the sum can be doubled
It would nppoar that this new law, by
which so much additioual money is se
cured for local purpo«es, will have the
effect of interesting the different com
munities to see that the legal liconce*
are obtained, especially from tho many
iquor saloons which evade tho law
That is one of the ellective ways of
educing the number of saloon*.
A Country Banco In Vermont.
Six men and one woman in I’hliadel-
liia have organized the “National Cre
mation Society,” which is in substane-
sort of iusuranco company. Member-
re admitted upon payments graduated
ccording to the expectation of life-
hose 21 years old for $3 a year, those 3b
it $4, and so on—and nt their death the
ocicty will furnish coffin, hearse an
me carriage, pay all expenses and have
the person's remains cremated.
The opium dealers havo been lnyin ■
n largo stocks of the drug in view of
die increaso in the duty on July 1 I
'rom IG to $10 a pound. It is estimated
hat enough opium to supply tho trade
nr five years is already stored at San
Frnncisco, and large lots are received
-onstantlv and will be until July Is .
San Francisco firm recently paid $98,-
ffO in duties on *240,0(10 worth of op
'im received on one steamer
The new English decoration of th
■Royal Red Cross,” which is to he eon-
erred for special services in nursing the
•ick and wounded of the army air'
navy, Consists of a cross, enamels’
•rimson, edged with gold, hearing o"
he arms the words, “Faith, Hope an '
Charity,” with the date of the institu-
■lon of the decoration, and in the cento
he queen’s cflicy. On the center o'
he reverse tho royal and imperial arm
■ppcar in relief. The cross is to he a -
ached to a dark blue ribbon edge ’
with red, and worn on the lcftshoulde
The first cotton mill in California!
about to he built nt Oakland, near Sa-
Francisco. A large number of persons
have gone into the cotton growing bust
ness in Califirnis, ths southern half of
•ho State being climatically favoraV
to the culture of "oHon. ft is said til I
here is a gain in weight of the crops f
20 per cent, and the shipping faeiiitic
for tne Asiatic market make the eucc5
of a cotton mill very certain It i-
elaimed by Californians that sea islan-i
cotton can he grown in the State
The special feature of the new ohse-
vatory at Columbia college will he i
paper dome. There are only three oth
ers in the world. They are at the Tr >y
Polytechnic institute, the West Point
academy, and Beliot college, Wis., Th
dome at Wen Point is the largest, bn'
that of Columbia will be the best in
construction and arrangement. The
inside diameter of the dome is 20 fee ,
and its height 11 feet it is 8.32 of an
iuch thick, and so light that the hand
can turn it. The method used in the
preparation of the paper is a taade se
cret, protected by patent.
Few even among sporting people know
that there is a Shetland pony ranche in
this country At Leon Springs, Baxter
county, Texas, Baron Yon Raub, an
old time sporting gentleman, has a
ranche of 8,000 acres, all under fence,
and stocked with beautiful Shetland and
spotted ponies His breeding stock con
sists of seven thoroughbred stallion*,
forty-five mares and 200 small spotted
pony mares. He is now raising a rcce
of striped and spotted ponies to pleas-
A letter from Burlington, Vermont,
says: Lot ns present ourselves nt a
genuine country dance ill Vermont. Thu
musicians have just come in and taken
tho seats provided for them oil II slightly
raised pi it form at One end of tho lung
hall. About fllty or sixty "couples” el
yenng people are scattered about through
tlie hall, somo in merry groups, talking)
otliovs, more bashful, clinging to oaeli
others arms and waiting in siieuoo for
tho mnsio to strike up. After the usual
prelude of shrilling and tooting, tho
lender of tlie little orchestra noils to tho
floor manager, who promptly steps lor-
ward and shouts, "Gentlemen, plenso
take partners for ——as tiio dance
may lie. If it, is a waltz tho expectant
swain awkwardly and blnahingly encir
cles tlie fair one with bin arm and begins
to swi g, with n sort of rythmic apology
for tho premntnroness of tho embrace.
She timidly places her hand in his and
undulates slightly iu sympathy with his
impatience.
At luat die leader of the orchestra looks
significantly around his little hand of
artist*, noils his head upon ids violin,
draws his bow with an emphatic gesture
and tho music strikes in. About half
tho couples in the room havo caught the
rhythm of the music; tho othois swing
hopelessly round, changing step and
bumping into ouch other, till something
like a conglomerated dcad-loek ensues in
mo pnrt of tho room, and the daucers
•(imposing it disengage thunaelves and
wonder away with many blushes to a
more open space, where they try it again.
Vobodv seems to notice die little by
play. All are dancing or trying to dance,
uui liavo enough to do to attend to their
own motions. Hero >s a couple, neither
if whom know how to waltz or havo die
(lightest idea of tho magic power of
rhythm ; hut that does nut seem to dis
tal b them in tlie lenst. Round aud
round they swing, executing die simplest
\i d of a circle with endl ss rep tithm.
Presently they both grow so dizzy dint
ttiey stagger against the wall and stand
hero panting and perspiring till their
■'quilihrium and their breath is rocov
ered, when they laiuich upon a new so
ries of revolutions.
But there ore plenty of good danoeri
on the floor whom it is a pleasure ti
watch. They do not adopt the limp
oesthetieal attitude and lazy lope of th
fashionable city waltzcr, but go whirling
down tho floor'at a good lively pace and,
even where tlie crowd is thicki at, carom
from couple to couple like billiard b dls.
The lady does not lay her cheek nflo
t.ionately on tho young man’s shoulder
nor stretch out her lily-white arm and
fenthorod fan in the direction of tin- polar
star, where it meets her partner's at in
qnally iuconvenient and ridiculous aid
lulu, but aho dances in a natur 1 position
-lightly inclined forward and supportei
Py her partner’s arm, while one hand
rests firmly on biH shoulder anil die other
s clasped by Lin disengaged hand
I'hera is a spring and spirit, and cn
Inranco and evident enjoyment about
hose country dances which you will look
or in vain in the eneivnting and per
fumed air of the fashioualilo salon.
Liieso young people, will dance all night
long and tic ready for another ball tlie
next night.
store on Pearl straot, at a time when the
city had hut 120,000 inhabitants anil ex
tended but a little ways north of Canal
street.
Mr. Dodge thus began his business
life very young; lie was a diligent clerk,
uud when lie set Up in the same lino for
himself, with a partner, when 22 years
old, industry, economy, system and sound
judgment characterized Ids course. He
married a daughter of Alison G. I’lielps,
and in lH3il became Ills partner In the
linn of Phelps, Dodge fi Co., importers
of metals, with which hia whole subse-
quont hnsiuoas life 1ms been connected,
and which hits made him Wealthy, his
properly being catimatcd at from 10 to
15 millions of dollars. Mr, Dodge was
a practical benefactor of his kind in th
unostentatious work of helping young
filch out of bad circumstances anil habits,
ami ho was also prominently before tlie
mblie in connection witli a groat mini-
ier of religious ami reforming assoeia
tions, being president of tlie National
Tcfitperanco Society, during tho war
connected with tho Christian commission.
director of tlie Union Theological
Seminary, and of tho Presbyterian lies-
pitul, n trustee of Lincoln University,
vice-president of tlie American Board oi
Foreign Missions, and otherwise con
cerned iu similar organizations too many
to catalogue hero.
He was a Presbyterian, and ids re
ligions principles were continually active
ill his business, and lie repeatedly sev
ered Ids relations with railroad mid other
miturpriacH on account of them, lint
recently ill a letter written to a Hnbliii-
tariiui convention ho related how ho left
tho direction of tho Erie, then of the
New Jersey Control, and of other rail
roads hecauso they begun to run Bumloy
trains, lie resigned from tho Union
Leaguo Club years ago on tho gloiuid
that tlie sale of wines and other liquors
was olio of its sources of revenue. Tfo
was a Republieau in polities, but ho
never held an office except that of mem
ber of tho 39th Congress. He was for
some time President of the Chamber of
Commerce, anil in this connection tho
fact that ills firm were comp lint to pay
nearly $300,000 to tlie United States
Treasure for alleged falso invoices will
be rcealli d.
It was assorted at tho tiino that tho
errors in tho invoices were accidental anil
without fraudulent intent, and that the
money wns paid only to ea upo. a teditms
litigation, and Mr. Dodge’s fellow-mer-
clmnts fully accepted this explanation.
One-half of Huh nuin went to tlio in
former and othe rs under tho moiety
Blockades no Longer Possible,
According to an dftieial report lately
published in tlie Marine Fcnrdnunph
Ilia'/, it is the opinion of German naval
authorities tlmt fur tho future an effec
tive blockade has become impossible.
Tne reasons given are that a fleet would
always lie obliged nt suusi-t to gain the
open sen, and to remain sufficiently for
off to prevent torpedo lioatn issuing from
tho harbor coming up to tlie vessels in
tlie darkness; and not even a single ship
e mid lie left ou guard insight of the pnrt
without tlie risk, almost amounting to
certainty, of lining sunk during tho night;
while tlio port would remain open not
only to light and speedy cruisers, but to
any ship whose on trance might ho de
sired. Under such circumstances, the
probability of a few torpedo boatH being
hidden along the coast, would, it is
thought, he sufficient to paralyze the
action of the most powerful squadron
and prevent tho possibility of any serious
operations.
As wo whirl out of Now York, on rente
for Dundee, tlio thermometer begins to
go down, though for why, nobody
Knows; it's cold enough up where it is.
But cold uud colder grows the night, and
iiy daylight n red-hot stove feels like nn
ioielo, ami tho merry note of the ear muff
is hoard hi the land. Ami it isn't u grin s
note, neither, too. Uneasy lies tho foot
that wears a chilblain.
Even tho fool who any*, " Ih this cold
enough for you?” now only looks nt you,
weeps with iiiB nose and says nothing.
Tho hrnkeinnn, touched by the shiver
ing appearance of tho gradually freezing
passengers, only hold the ear door open
ii litllo longer than usual. When the
train steps the chilled brakes let go mi
easily and slowly, aud there is a concert
of wails ami groans ami sighs under tlie
ear that is enough to wake n night
watchman.
Tlie train hoy comes along with n troy
of oranges. Everybody shudders. That
hoy will he sun struck one of tin so days.
Tlio man whi> sita eloseat to tlio stove
lays tlie rubber soles of his Arctics rigid
against its glowing sides. Nobody com
plains. Anything that amelia of the tiro
taal s good.
Tho fat passenger makes two or three
drsperato efforts to ait on his freezing
feet, but with a heart-rending groan
givi-H it up. mid puth them on Ins valise
and looks tho picture, tho tall, thin pas-
snnger remarks, of an over-fed iceberg,
or a fat smnv man.
Tho fat passenger stilleH n groan to
say that ho hopes ho may turn into a
snow mall before ho lives to look like an
icielo on a Dr. Tanner diet.
The tall, thin piiaarngcr says no more,
lint sits with his shoulders drawn up to
ilia enis, his hands tliruat deep into his
pockets, his Illicit hmvod, drumming a
wild, woird improvization lor two drums
on tlio floor witli Iris feet.
Tho mail with tlio mindy goalee strokes
that ornamental nppomliigo witli his
shivering hands so constantly tlmt the
cross passenger asks him if lie is trying
to warm them at it.
Tlio cross passenger curlH up in a knot
at ono end of tlio scat, and had It fight
with tlio conductor rather than pull olio
of ins hands out of liis worm pocket to
show liia ticket.
Tlio Had pnsHongor shivers iu pensive,
uncomplaining ailoiieo, like a clipped
terrier looking ill nt tlio kitchen window.
Once in a while lie thaws a hole in the
frost on tlio car window with lii« tonguo,
and looks out with ono eyu at tlio deso
late wintry landscape flying past, and
sighs, hut lie Hays never a word.
The man on tho wood-box shudders n
litllo i very tirno anyone goes in or out,
Imt for the most of tlm time hu shields
his face from tlio glowing heat with his
hat, and looks down at. his smoking
shins wi ll great satisfaction. For once
bn 1ms llu boss seal-in tlio front row.
And ho offers to yield it to no man.
'Tlio woman who bilks bass sits bolt
upright-, slmii'lit na a ramrod; her hands
are iu her muff; In r feet arc twin blocks
of ice ; her nose is tipped with blue ; her
ai’o scarlet anil her eyes are set,
cars Hl'o scarlet aim nor eyes are
_ Only ono man had the teim rily to ask if
law a procedure which lie ply outing- cl i aim wore oohl, Ami thou, without turn-
public b'aliment ami led to ill ■ abolition jug her head, aim answered Dim will
public
of tho practice of giving a moiety of tlio
sum recovered to tlm agents of flic gov-
rnment. Mr. Dodge loaves a wife uud
-veil sons. His fortune is estimated at
from $10,000,0U() to *12,000,000. lie
gavo away in charity over *100,000 u
ycur.
The Complaints of Labor.
F. K. Foster, secretary of tho Fedora
linn’of Trade and Labor Unions of Mass
sin U an awful, icy croak, that it chilled
tlio warm life-blood ill Bis throbbing
veins, and bo is now riding on tho front
platform trying to freeze h.mself to
death. , ,
Brethren, ns sure ns you’re horn, it is
a oold day.
Tlie Adirondack Wilderness,
Tho urgent necessity for protecting
h. mis
mony i’ 1 mio uic u. | {1 f up j m . )()r [aj,t rivers, and especially ot
8. Somite Committee ou Ldueanon ami preserving in its natural condition, the
i... ..r tlm Llii/di.lluimut uvkt.-m ' *. ,. • . *i * .i i . r * . . ... .. ..
•u tii_ ... , . , . , — .
employees who had been prominent. 111 j widely acknowledged. Tim Acicnl Jl<‘.
labor organizations during the strikes j American draws tliia picture of som- •!
were put on tho black listn, and no mu ■ ^ r.jaults which would follow ucontimi
tor how good workmen they might Im, ; n]J00 () j 0 jj H yatem of strippi' g tlio
they could lint find employment after- n ) ( ,m,kui,a |,y cutting down the forests:
wal’d. He cited tho case of tlm strike in ; .I'X'lieriy is no question that tho gem nil
the Pacific mills at Lawrence, Mass
stive forests would produce diets
[From tlio Atlalit* (tin.) Constitution.]
"Iu auto-war times there lived in
Merlwetlu r Comity a ilon’t-cnro sort of a
negro mimed Jack Wilson, who could
m lilior read nor write. He had gained
liia freedom in sumo way or other, and
gained his livelihood l*y noting as a sort
of dirootor-goiiorol to famous horse* in
liis nctghliorliood. Jack beenmo attached
to a servant gill who wns owned by a
man iiiunod Gules, one of thoajyoaltlifest
men iu Ocorgin, who owned thousands of
acres ol land, mid with his family lived
in lordly style.
"Tho servant girl wns n bright mnlnt-
to, and Jack was a shade darker. They
made n mutch of it, and wore married
under the order of tilings that existed in
war times. At tho same timo Jack liail
a slave-wife in Virginia, hut she wns ns
black as coal. When tho war cloned
and tlie slaves were declared free Jack
took liis Georgia wife to lie his pnrtucr
for life, mul by living witli her for a
stated period she became liia wife accord
ing to law. , _ ,
"As soon ns lie woh innmoil Jack
sluuveil n sudden spirit of industry that
astonished everybody. His careless hab
its were thrown aside mal ho went to
work witli a will. Tho wealthy Gates,
liis master, died, and tlie hroiul acres Ml
to tho possession of tho heirs. Jack
still worked on tlio place, aud wus Huvhqj
anil careful. ,
"Tlm Gules family hail lost everything
except their land. IIlludl'odH of slave*
were freed by tho now order of things,
and the vast- and princely fortune wna
none, Tlio boil's could not adopt them-
Helves to tlio si 1 nation. Finally pri hsc<1,
they sold 50 acres of land to'Jack; then
limy wanted more money, and Jaok
stood their security at tho Lo Orange
Hank, mul when they were unable to pay
ho would take up tlio notes at hank nnd
trade for n piece of the Gates plantation.
Ho worked with a vengeance mul nil his
family worked. Old man Jack became
a noted and honored citizen of tlie ooun-
ly. Ho wns iiuluslrious and prospered.
In the, meantime hia old master’s chil
dren continued to sell him porta of the
old homestead. Finally lie owned it all
aud wns rich.
"Tlii'i o years ago lie decided that It
was his duly to provide for his old
Virginia wife, so he sent for her, and
she, with her children, onmo to him.
Him was given n house on the plantation,
i n 1 is well provided for. Jack owns
now the mngnittoont place of ah* lit
1,500 seres in three miles of White Sul
phur Springs, in Meriwether County,
lie is (it) years eld, mid liis children are
settled around him, and all are contented
slid happy and industrious. He owns 15
or 1(1 mules, and iH noted for keeping th*
best stock ill till! county. His credit nt
tlm La Grange Bank is good, and ho can
borrow nil tho money ho wants ou his
simple note of hand.”
How much is 1m worth ?”
I should say nbout $30,000, and
every cent of it lias been made since tho
war. It ih a remnrknnlo Htory of how a
slavo succeeds liis muster in tho owner-
-hip of a vast landed estate. I passed
die place Ik few months ago and tho
Georgia wife came to the door to givo mo
a drink of water. Everything was mat
and cl nil nbout the place, tho yurd wus
newly swept, tlm liarns appenrod filled,
„nd in tlm lots I Haw pilos upon pil s of
manure carefully sheltered. It is a model
plantation. Why, I havo soon ou Jack's
-l ice 180 mires of corn under one fence.”
"Is lie educating liis children ?”
"Yes, although lie cannot rend and
write, lie sees the advantage of an edueo-
lion, and is giving liis children the bene
fit of schooling. The story is n truo one,
mid shows what cun lm dono right hero
m Georgia liv pluck and industry. Tim
old adage is trim: 'There is more in tlie
mull than there is in tho laud.’ ”
last year, in illustration of this sysb m. I)ri ,t,.,.|
To cure existing evils, Mr. Foster roc- ‘ ol t | 1()
ommended the following remedies as tlio valleys of the str. inns flowing tlmrc-
most practicable and desirable nt pres- f r( ,jn; i ff.-otH like lliono which, during
cut: Tho establishment of a National ^j 1(J f i;w months, hove brought
bureau of labor statistics; tho establish- dentil and desolation to so many Euro-
ment ol bourdw of nrliitmtion whenever ngun fiver vhIIbvh, Tho riiinfn!] *f tlm
practicable; the enforcement of tlio No- ^,[j|.ouduck region is great: the di 1
tioiinl Eight-Hour law; the abolition of H ]„|,ea arc shop; and without tlm cu -
cliild labor, ho far us possible, bytegis- trolling and resisting influence of tlmox-
lation, repeal of nil "conspiracy laws hivanips and forints about th ir
which interfere witli tlie right of work- H(m rces, the rivers which drain this
inginen to combine for their own protec- nu ythe r n wilderness would sl ow only
tion, and tlm incorporation of tLoir gf,. a t mid sudden alternations of flooded
unions like other corporations, and the U)K [ empty channels, destructive at ouco
abolition of th convict labor contract to tho agriculture of Klieir volleys, to the
system. I manufacturing interests which cluster
Hcmitor Blair rend a letter from the ( j 01| g th,.;,- banks, and to tlio commerce
witnesses now in attendance, saying it ()f t l,,. Hudson, tlio channel of which 1ms
was evident that the great pressure of a i re(u ly been seriously obstructed by tho
business in the Semite at this lute stage detritus washed in from the unprotected
of the session, will not lenvo sufficient fiill slopes ond other spaces stripped of
time for them to present their views fill- tlioir original forests.”
lv, and therefore suggesting that their
examination lie postponed to somo more
convenient season. Tlie ci mmitteo
thereupon agreed that it wus impossible
at this time to give tlio witnesoes tlio
It is foolish to strive with what w
cannot avoid; we are born subjects, and
to obey God is perfect liberty; ho that
does this shall lie free, safe and quiet;
jhe children. He sells the increase to 1 a )l fiis actions shall succeed to his wishes.
Postmahteks,—A bill introduced in tho
United States House by Gen. Bingham
neccHHOi'Y attention, and dismissed them to readjust tlio salaries of Postmasters
witti the understanding tlmt they shall under tfie two-oent postage law proposes
be given precedence in the future hear- that the salunos of Postmasters of the
n„ of testimony first class slndl lie graduated from *3,000
ing of t y to 86/100, as receipts of their offices vary
I from *40,0-X) to *1,000,000; second class
We don't wish to alarm the American salaries to range from *2,000 to *2,900,
people, and we don't wish to create a as receipts vary from *10,000 to 40,000;
panic in commercial circles, but we third class salaries from *1,000 to *1,900,
would like to sav, from a profound con- ns receipts vary from *2,000 to *10,000; lion trains, aud taken the woman to task
viction of eternal truths aud imperative fourth class to bo fixed upon a basis of lw leaving behind articles that he had
necessity, that “ now is the time to make box rents and canceled stumps and nqver meptionod before iu his life.—
up clubs,” ’stamps sold. * Boston Globe,
What to Do.
Among the papors lately distributed by
1.. . Parly of Action in tho soldiers bar-
iicks ul Paris are some wli oh en» le tho
niing recruit to grasp the whole art of
volution down to the minutest details.
I'liere is one, for instance, whioh tells
1.. , revolutionary soldier what he ought
lo do immediately there i* nowH of an in
surrection, He must set fire to his bar
rack. To enable him to do this, he must
make for where tlie straw and other in-
tlnininablo matter may lie lying. In any
ca e ho must set lire to tlie mattresses.
For making a fire lie must employ acom-
pouml, if it is at hand, of petroleum and
alcohol, of petroleum simply, or use a
candle, if no better means are available.
When the fire has commenced to burn
up, ho must then turn on all the jets of
pas in tlio corridors and apartments. In
tlie miilHt of tho confusion he must
cither force tho officers to join thorevolt,
or slay tho recalcitrants, so that no oue
shall remain standing. Ho mast then
join the pcoplo in tlie street, and help to
burn tlio public buildings, beginning
with the polico offices. Besides alcohol
ized petroleum he should be furnished
with a yet deadlier agent, which is pe
troleum csscnco saturated with white
phosphorus.
On a New York Central Railroad oar
bom d East, the other day, a newly-
wedded party furnished much merriment
for the other passengers by their inoes-
saiit hugging and kissing. Now, if it
had been an old married couple, tho mini
would probably have crowded the wife
close against the window, swore ot the
draughts of air, growled at accommoda-
k»i trains, aud taken the woman to task