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Newspaper Page TextTHE NEW EEA. JAS. BBSOUNRIDOI, Publisher. ONWARD AND UPWARD' VUB8CBIP1ION: $1.(0 Pw Aiwa.. VOLUME II. DALLAS. PAULDING COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1884. NUMBER 13. CURRENT COMMENT^. Cuuutiok seems to bo advancing rapidly in favor. In addition to Urt'-New Orleans and Mlpa aocletiea for buildlng-VraiAatorio^ New York has formed a siniiisr' assueiaiion, and the New England Cremation Socin/ has taken steps to estabiiak ita principles in every town in the New England States. Mou “natural gas” oompanles are being formed in Pennsylvania. The pressure at the mouths of the wells is verygreat, and the gas can be conveyed in commo%maine wherevertt is needed for light ’qj ftir manufacturing. Pittsburg expects to ggtrid of its smoke and Bee the sun again. Link*, are being Baltimore and some of the lake citl ig power of Chile is .1 firacting e financial eredit of t liilo is sing^Uid to to be crowded but of the iJT. whioh ancan marketsby lorian netro? ' w » 8b “ eI 3 r MV™,000 in value in lS78,hae Irvewen and Mediterranean marked by InUii petro leum it beoomos all thf more infporUut that we ahould cultivate oar neglected trade with South America, Mexico, Canada, Australia and the* West Lillies. Petroleum ia one of the pro ducts of which we have more than we can use. It will be a misfortune if we have more than we can sell. The Madhi is not an Arab by birth, and is of a black bue, which is unaccoptkMe to the Bemitio Moslems. He belongs, howevor, to the Kadriyeh order, which is held in very high veneration in Egypt and whioh preserves all the, pagan superstitions, including the worship of the gigantio shoe of their founder. They are distinguished from other ordors by their white banners and by carrying always flsh nets in their prooessions. With the Mala- wiyeli and Ahmeiyeh they are among the most powerful of tho Dorwish orders in By.-ia and Egypt. Under a bill whioh has passed the senate of Virginia and is now before the house, the State Lee Monument association (of whioh tho state treasurer is the treasurer ex-oftioio) will have upon tho redemption of their bonds, as provi ded for, about $28,000. The Ladies’ Lee Mon ument association have $20,000 ; the Mnsical association $1,000 more; total 1140,000, no' including the rapidly growing veterans’ fund. This money was collected* all over the south, and is held In trust by these assooi tions for building a monument in the eity of Richmond to Robert E. Lee. It is interesting to look over the items of per* manent improvements in Washington. These Include tlie original cost of the buildings and their repair, furnishing and keeping in order. The following estimate, though not exactly correct, is approximately so. It is less rather thsn greater than the actual cost, some of tho minor expenses during the past seven years being omitted: The capitol has cost 917,672,- 123; the patent office over 918,000,060; Mid treasury about 97,200,000; the WaaMbgton streets more than 96,000,000; the rfMle'dtpart- mrnt about 97,000,000; the navy nearly 94,000,- 000; tho white house, two parks and public grounds, about $2,Qp0,000. Tub grot attention. In a recent leeture on “The Rainbow,” Pro fessor Tyndall described the rare phenomenon of a white rainbow which he had witnessed ia the Alps, and also in Haftipshire.~" This rain bow is caused by reflected light on a mist at mosphere. The professor showed how to pro duce this phenomenon by artificial means. At tho same time it was shown how, when the air was composite, as, for instance, where water spray is mixed with paraiine oil spray, a still more wonderful rainbow results, such as is to be seen at almost all times in western China, whither the people flock at all times to witness what they call “ J he Glory of Buddah.” There are now forty-eight lady students in the Harvard annex, and it is the testimony of some of the Harvard professors that the aver age scholarship of the classes in tno annex is above that of the college. Over fifty courses., are open to the pupils, and of these Greek, Latin, English, German and mathemagmat- tract the largest numbers. This ypptr thirty- five out of the forty-eight ladies have chosen Greek-electives. Two enthusiastic girls from Tex ns sold lands and traveled two thousand miles for privileges whioh Harvard university could afford beyond any woman’s college. In return the Annex has sent a gradualo to Mon tana as head of a classical school. The progress of the Washington national monument is very gratifying to the patriarchs f who have been watching the work for more than half a century. The Monument associa tion was organized in 1830. By 1848 $300,000 lad been collected by private subscriptions, and the sum of $230,000 was expended in rais ing the obelisk to the height of 174 feet. In 1876 the government took charge of the work, and has since appropriated $900,000. Iho monument is a trifle over 400 feet in height, and its total cost thus far has been $987,000, with a balance of $150,000 on hand, which will complete tho work. The obelisk will lx: com pleted by December, the base being fifty-five feet and the height 555 flpot, overtopping all other constructions of human hands, tho Bpires of the Cologne cathedral being 625 feet or fifty feet lower than the Washington monu ment. When finished the weight of the struc ture will be 80,000 tons. The New York trade schools, though less khan four years old, have successfully estab lished themselves, and it is generally admitted that they fill a long felt want. At these schools hundreds of bright boys and young men are learning at night the mysteries of bricklaying, plastering, plumbing, painting, stone-cutting and wood-carving. They pay only a moderate tuition fee, and in the course of five or six months they are prepared to go out into the world and earn their living. These schools have been brought into existence by the hostility of the trades unions to the ap prentice system. If young men cannot learn useful trades in the regular way, they will learn in some other way, and under the new system it is said that a boy will receive more instruc tion in five months than he would get in the shops in a year’s time. These handic aft schools are as yet in their infancy—they will soon be established all over the country. Fob a number of years it has cost more than $1,000,000 a year to pay the government expen ses of the District of Columbia, and since 1862 the amounts have been much higher. In 1373 the amount was more than $8,000,000. In 1875 it was more than $7,000,000, while from 1828 to 1852 it was less than $1,000,000 a year. In 1814 only $1,800 was appropriated for the Dis trict of Columbia, and it was not until 1837 more than doubled since, and in 1882 exceeded ‘9125,trade in her favor being 920,000,600. Hejppowhlation, 1$ should be recollected, is only 2,60pffHX), and our for eign trade in 1830, when we had 161606,000 in habitants, was much less in value. It muBt be admitted that Chile ia the controlling power on the west coaetjof South America. She could at thie moment oofliimaud the Pacific coast of the United States. Any one of her three iron clade could sink every wooden vessel in our wretched navy, and any of bur seaboard cities could be laid under contribution by one of those formidable iron elads, whioh after re ceiving the uouirtyutionv or destroying the eity by tombarament, could quietly steam away without danger. In the event of any complication between the United States and Chile as t * the control ef the Panama canal Chile could give us serious trouble, especially as she would probably be backed by England, France and every other South American coun try. OUR SWINE INDUSTRY. Report of tho < o iimi*i«ion llealth fulnewwel Anerirae llogw. Commissioner Loring has laid before the President tho report of the commission ap pointed to examine the swiue industry of the United States and into tho allegations rela tive to the healthfulness of pork products. The inquiry embraces the origin and history of hogs which make up the market supply, their condition on farms, the methods of management, transporting treatment at stock yards, mail er of slaughtering, curing, packing,*'handling and shipping of pork products, the effect and extent of hog dij»afl^)MRRIRRM*7entive • measures ana on trlehinw. The nil rearing and fatten-, OpoffTeceptinn of thj B*. MuTgreat hc>K producing re-r ln London great excitement ensue!_ anil gions are elaborately >-et forth, and. thwre port is emphatic that there is no condition surrounding the industry which tends to prop agate disease or render pork' unhealtnful. It finds the number of hogs raised annually to be about thirty millions, making a total of cured meats, lard and other products of 4.725,000,000 pounds. The most careful, thorough and minuth inquiry seems to have been made igrtho handling of pork from the farm to port of debarkation. From lypurns from.railroad and transpor- tatioiMttiqpaiiies, slaughter houses, packers and BhipiM’r*. confirmed by those from boards of health, humane societies and ex- p6r,ts employed by the commission, it ap pears that the utmost care ig preserved throughout; that hogs which die of disease are never transported except to offal render ing establishments: that diseased hogs are refused transportation; that humane laws and sanitary regu ations exist at all stock yards, enforced by local inspectors under penalty of linos. etc.; that rigid scrutiny is enjoined at all slaughter houses; that meth ods of slaughter and packing, qualities of material use 1. inflection, etc., are regulated by rules of chatnliers of commerce and of trade, and constant care is exercised to see that no unhealthful means are employed in any branch. Of the extent of diseases, preventive measures and the effect of salt on trichinae, the report is full of valuable and interesting information. Even the extremely small per centage of trichiniasis, as shown by the in vestigations of the agricultural department, seems to be largely removed by processes of curing- The degree of heat necessary to render pork harmless is treated of at length. The commission deny that hog cholera is dangerous to humm health, and assert th* impossibility of curing such meat even so as to deceive the most superficial examiner. The report ]>oints out the practibility of a microscopic inspection, if such is necessary to remove existing restrictions. The com mission state that their examination proves our pork fully equal, perhaps superior, to that of France or Germany: no general disease exisls, an I the occasional pres ence of trichinm is. comparatively unim portant. The report is signed by Mr. George B. Loring, chairman of the board; Mr. E.W. Blatchford, of Chicago; Professor Chandler, of New York; Dr. D. E. Salmon, of the department of agriculture, and Mr. F. D. Curtis, of PJew York, and in conclusion it says: “While we believe that no legitimate ground exists for the restrictions imposed in some foreign countries on the importation of American pork, we are satisfied that micro scopic inspection of all pork for export can be secured at the packing houses, if such in spection should be demanded.” NEWS OF THE WEEK. Baa tern find Middle States. Salmi Morse, who gained cons! ierable no toriety in New York some tine*ago by siren- ucua but unavailing attempts to produce the Passion Play, which depicts the death of Christ, commilte I suicide in the metropolis by drowning. Mayor Kdson refused to give Mr. Morse a license to produce the Passion Play, and a large number of suits for unpaid claries, brou - lit. by performers whom theMe- ceased had engaged, wore tending. At tho time of his death a melodrama written by Morse was tieing played at one of tbs New York theatres* About 126 gentlemen more or Ism promi nently conn oted with the Republican party n New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Maryland met in New York city for the purpose of perfecting au independent Republican organization having lor Its object the nomination of presidential candidate at the forthcoming Republican national convention whose record would “warrant entire confidence in'mKreadi- nees to de end the advances already made toward divorcing the public sarvioe* from party politic!* 1 Upon motion of Carl Nchurz a committee was appointed to perfect an organization covering all the States and to take RuAffitbsr action as may be deemed expedient. ’• Thieves entered a jewelry store in Troy, N. Y., blew open the safe and carried away proi'erty valued at $45,060, Vessels arriving at Boston report imag ing immense icebergs and ice packs. Some icebergs were from a half to nearly three miles long, and from 10.) to 300 feet high. George William Curtih has accepted the invitation of the Boston city government ♦.»deliver tho eulogy on Wendell Phillips, and has selected April 16 ns the time for its de* ivory. A national bird show has been held in Bos'i-n. with more than 2,000 entries. Thomas B. Marshall, a prominent citi zen of Girardville, Penn., committed suicide hv cutting his throat Heavy financial losses led to the act. Chief-End inker Melville, of the lost Je annette, will accompany theGreely relief ex pedition as engineer of the advance ship Thetis. Foreign. The London TVmes. in an articls on the Lasker incident, implies that dislike of the country which deprives Germany of thou- »ands of conscripts is the basis of Bismarck’s action, and that Mr. Hargent’s resignation would strain the relations of Germany and the Untsd Staten. * After holding qut for weeks agaipst the attaoks of El Mahdi’s forces tho Town of Tokar surrendered to El Mahdi’s rebels be fore it could be relieved b.v General Gra ham’s expedition. Tiie news 'was brought to Kuakiiu by five soldiers who had escaped from Tokar. it was stated that only tho tiddlers at Tokar who hud families hail sur rendered,''while the others attempted to A SERIES OF FATALITIES. Five Member* of a Family Die, Four From Fire, In T%v«»IUoiiilis. In the absence of Milton Highland, of Me- chanicsburg, Ind., two months ago, his house was destroyed by fire, and his little girls, seven and four years old, perished in the flames. A month after titais his brother’s wife and child were burned to death, with four others, in the Orr building at Alliance. Highland, almost crazed by these calamities, dec ded t > move to Indiana, for which place lie started a few days ago with his wife and a surviving daughter. When al most within sight of bis new homo he was taken sick and died within, a few hours. The heart-broken mother, with her litt e gild, the only remaining member of what was two months ago a happy family, has returnod to the vicinity of her former home almost crazed through grief. Tire Eddystone Light of the Pacific is to he erected on Seal Hook, St. George’s Reef, eight miles from the shore, oppo site Crescent City, Cal., and will cost 8400,000. The highest point of Seal Rook is fifty*lour feet above mean tide. Hint the yearly prcpwfrm recked $1,000,000. J The light will be 100 feet, higher. Rjiecial cabinet meeting was called. El Mahili appointed his brother, Ali Yussuf, governor of Darfour, and ordered him to levy 7,060 men, and inarch to Kordofan to reinforce tho main body of El Mahdi’s troops. General Gordon announced that after restoring order in Khartoum he would pro ceed to Kordofan, to interview the False Prophet. Ohm an Digma, the leader of the rebels in the vicinity of Suakim is exciting his follow ers by quoting the Koran, saving that El Mahai, the False Prophet, is divinely inspired, and requires little food and clothing. Nine sailors belonging to the British bark Ada Barton, from 8t» John, N. B., abandoned at sea in a waterlogged condition, were drowned. Bismarck’s action in returning the Lasker resolutions of sympathy to the American Congress has excited much discussion among the papers of Germany, the government or- S ans praising and the op( msit ion press con- emning the Gennau chancellor’s course. Mr. Sargent, the American representative at Berlin, is also bitterly attacked and vehe mently defended by German jiapers for the I art which he has taken in the matter. Notwithstanding irrepressible Mr. Brad- laugh’s re-election to the British house of commons, and his willingness to take the pre scribed oath of office, the motion denying him his seat was reaffirmed by a vote of 286 to 167. An Indian uprising has occurred in Mani toba, British America, and twelve mounted, police sent to quell the disturbauco are re ported to have been massacred. The three men who murdered Count Von Majluth, president of the court of cassation at Ofer, Hungary, last March, have been hanged in Peath. A great crowd collected about the prison and cheered the condemned. The boiler of tho steamer Kotsai, from Hong Kong to Maca >, exploded. Seventeen passengers—eight of whom were Europeans, the rest natives—were killed. Seven thousand Arabs have reinforced the insurgent army of Osman Digma in the Soudan. He has altogether 18,000 men against 5,000 British troops. Emperor William, of Germany, and the czar of Russia are to have a meeting in tho spring. Masses of stone fell upon and killed five laborers in a quarry at Bienne, Switzerland. El Mahdi’s emissaries are busy throu gh- out the whole of Egypt. They go from vil lage to village bearing the simple message: ‘*1 am ooming. Bj ready!” This imsses on from mouth to mouth, and the uituatiou is becoming serious. Shortly after 1 o’clock, a. m., a terrible explosion occurred in a cloak-room at the Victoria railway station in London. The ex plosive agent was undoubtedly dynamite. A large portion of the roof was blown off and nearly all the glass work in tho station was destroyed. Seven men were sent to tho hos- pital with severe injuries. Extensive dam age was done to surrounding projierty. A Russian government committee which has been examining tho ail ministration of Turkestan has discovered a deficiency of 100,000,000 roubles (about $76,000,000) iu the last fourteen years. Arthur Wei.Lesley has been elected speaker of the British house of commons. War prevails am ng the South Sea Islanders. Twenty natives of one island were killed in an engagement with the na tives of another island. The British house of lords has passed the^ bill plac ng greater restrictions upon the im-* portation of cattle. Tennyson, the poet, intends to support it the British house of lords the bill legalizing marriage with a deceased wife's sister. An Indian uprising baa occurred in Mani* toba, British America, and twelve mounted police sent to quell the disturbance are re ported to have been massacred. Sir Hennrv Brand, who has resigned tin speakership of the British house of com mons on aooount of sickness, has declined i peerage. Washington i Secretary Folder has issued the 190th call for bonds. The call is for the redemp tion of $16,000,000 in bonds of taV three per cent, loan of 1882. The agricultural appropriation bill, as completed by the House committee on agri culture, appropriates $4:t0,59tp-an increase of about $24,( 00 over the last appropriation. The bill makes an appropriation of $3,000 for the pro;iagation of the tea plant. At a meeting of the Demqcratio National committee in the Arlington hotel) ’Washing ton, held for the purpose of naming the time and place to hold the national conven tion for the nomination of candidates for President and Vico-President, every State was represented either by 9*mMn- ber of . the committee or a proxy. W. H. Him mm. of Conneoticut,preeided,aml Frederic O. Prince, of Massachusetts, was secretary. A motion was adopted that the Democrats of each organised Territory and of the Distriot of Columbia be invited to send two delegates to the national conven tion. Upon the third ballot Chicago wgs se lected as the place to hold the national <J in vention, tha city receiving twenty-one votes to seventeen for St. Louis. The date ’or the convention is July 8. Atferi ssmng ;he call tor the convention the committee dlourned to meot next in Chicago on uly 7. ijfiK National Greenback Labor party has uied a call for a national convention to be iki in Indianapolis, on Wednesday, May 28, 884. At a State convention of the Indiana reenbackers in lndlanai>dlis a full ticket, heattod by H. G. I*eonard for governor, was nominated, and twenty-three resolutions af firming the principles of the Greenback- Labor party were adopted as a platform. The state department has received by cable intelligence of the suicide of James It. Partridge, formerly minister to Braz.il and ot her South American States, a’ Alicante, S i. Continued illness is aligned as the . Mr Partridge was appointed as minister wtentiary and envoy,extraordinary to Perk on April 5, 1883, He was one of the most distinguished citizens of Baltimore, and had beea identified with the*diplomatic service of tie government for thq^past t wenty years. ThK President has nominated Horace C. Burchard,'of Illinois, to be director of the min|t and Commodore William G. Temple to be a rear admiral of the navy. Speaker Carlisle ha* received a letter addfess^d to him personally by several of the mo4t prominent members of the liberal party in the German reichstag, express ng thek* high sense of appreciation of the action takln by the House of Representatives as a tokwj of respect for the memory of tlie lab' Heir Lasker. The letter expresses the hope that the two nations may develop and con tinue in friendship. The commission appointed by the Presi dent to excmi'io the swine industry of the Uifttod States ha* male a report, asserting the h* althfulness of American pork products. The Sorrniu has conilrmod the nomination of-Horatio C. Burchard to be direotor of the ir Bed States mint. Yu prhdentativk He \ itt was author- 4«kU>y Miy ways un t in ‘aim oommitt** of Congress to rei>ort, a bill to prevent the im- I ior.ation of adulterated teas. The bill is lased upon the recent recommendations of the secretary of tho treasury. South and West. Two colored me i in jail at labanou, Kv., for assaulting a woman, were taken out oy a furious mob and hanged. B. F. Barnes, a prominent citizen of Booche, Wis., killed his wife and cut his own throat. Protracted illness in the family is assigned as the cause. Five ismy-stealing Piegan Indians had a pitched battle iu Montana with their pursu ers—four Crow Indians and seven white men. Four Piegans anil two white men were killed and two other whites wounded. A fire at Jackson, Mich., destroyed the Union hotel block, occupied by a hotel, theatre, savings bank and other business houses. One man was burned to death, and four persons were fatally and one seriously injured. The pecuniary loss is about $175.- •)60. Part of an express train fell through a bridge on the Hannibal and St. Joseph rail- read in Missouri. Several persons were killed and about twenty-five injured. W. B. Cash, son of Colonel Cash, tho duel ist who killed Colonel Shannon a few years ago, entered Cheraw, H. C., and after drink ing heavily got into a difficulty with Town Marshal Richards, who was roughly handled. Cash then left town, but returned the follow ing afternoon and approaching Marshal Richards draft* a revolver aud rapidly fired three shots. Tlie first ball struck an inno cent bystander named Cowart and tho second hit Richards, both shots causing mortal wounds. Cash then mounted his horse and rode rapidly away. The cabin of Beverly Taylor, a colored mau living near Cincinnati, was burned to tno ground at night, aud it was at first thought that the owner, with his wife and a grandchild, had perished in the flames. Later, however, the bodies of all throe were dhcovered iu the building of the Ohio Modi • cal college, whither they had been carried for dissection. Allen Ingalls, a noted negro body snatcher, was arrested, and confessed that he a id Ben Johnson ha l entered the cabin aud killed the three inmates, taken the bodies to a waiting wagon, driven by R. B, Dickson, and conveyed them to the Cincin nati medical institution, where they sold the corpses. Beside the three negroes mentioned, two others wer<* arrested for complicity in the terrible crime. Two Denver (Col.) lodging houses occu pied by railroad laborers were destroyed by fire and four inmates were burned to death. Numerous colored men’s civil rights leagues are being organized in the West. TnK Rev Thomas G. Thurston and his daughter, fcgod sixteen years, were drowned while a‘tempting to ford the Catawba river, nsar Taylorsville, N. C. Measles is scourging the Zuni Indians, of N$w Mexico, and more than 100 have died within a month. The scenes about the Indian villages are sickening. The subsidence of the waters of the swollen Ohio river has l*een followed by a rise in the lower Mississippi. For 100 miles above and below Shreveport, La., the country was re ported under water, and steamers were em ployed in bringing people and stock to places of security. The river was filled with float ing debris and deal cattle. A freight train left the trach near New Philadelphia. Ohio, on acoount of a mis placed switch, and a second section follow ing ran nto its rear, demolishing twenty two cars and two engines, and killing four persona Heavy snowstorms have prevailed in Da fcota and Southern Minnesota, and the rail roads have been blockaded. A cyclone which struck Amberson’s, Ala., demolished nearly every house iu • V>w!i. Fourteen persons were rejiorted killed: i The Smith ha* boon visited by a tornado ! ' which destroyed thousands of houses and killed hundreds of people in Georgia, Ala bama. North and South Caro&ia. Louisiana and Mississippi. . SUMMARY OF CONGRESS Scssta Tho Senate passed tho h II v a’dng it a felony, punishable by tliive yea V imprison ment and $1,000 fine, lo la'soy lpersonate g overnment offlcei* or employes with intent > defraud.... Most of the day was spent iu debate on Mr. Morgan’s a me id me it jicrinit- •ti ig national banks to deposit bonds of the separate States as security for circulation, and finally Mr. Morgan withdrew it, having introduced tho wimo pro|M>sition as an origi nal bill. ..tin motion of Mr. Sherman a joint resolution was pu«t«ed appropriating $10,000 to enable the ooniL.it tee on privileges anu elections to carry on its investigations. Mr. Knusoni olferet in the Senate in the morning, a joint resolution to appropriate $100,000 for the relief of the sufferers by tho recent tornado in tho Southern States. He said that over 590 peoplo were killed, and many thousands wounded. Mr. Harris said he would not vote a dollar out of the treas ury for any such purpose, and Mr. Morgan said he thought the new Ihie of policy ‘dangerous. Mr. Voorhe^s lnuiifved the im mediate supply of food, clothing, aud shel ter in a ease of great public calamity such as the ivoent floods in tho West seemed tu- dis|tensable in the cause of humanity. Tlie resolution was referred to the committee on appropriation*... .The currency bill, after lennte, was ;>aased. Mr. Hale introduced tho following joint resolution, whioh was at once read three times and passed without deliate:. “Resolved by tho Senate and House of Reiiresentntives, That the act of her Britannic majesty’s g overnment in presenting to the United fates government the Arctic steamship Alert, which will lie used in the contemplated expedition to relieve I .i<»utenant Greely aud his party, is recognized as opportuna and generous, and lndee|fly appreciated by the Congress and pe pie of tlie United States. That the I'resident bo, and he is hereby requested to communicate a copy of this resolution to her Brito inic Maswty's government” Mr. Sewell reported favor ably from the committee on mili tary affairs the bill for the re lief' of Fitz John Porter. It is the bill which passed the House some tune ago, with an amendment striking out the provision for the restoimtion of Porter “to all the rights, titles and privileges” of tlie rank hind by him at. the time of his dlsmisal from the army. Thus amended, the restora tion provided for by the bill is simply the position or colonel or the same grade and rank as was held by him at the time of hia disinis-al Tills makes the bill identical in its provisions with the bill wh ch passed the Senate of tlie last Congress... .The bill pro hibiting the mailing of newsiiapers contain ing lottery advertisements was rejiorted fa* ▼orably. A communication was received from the President, transmitting a statement from the secretary of state to tlie effect that the British.- government had presented the Kteamsli p Alert to the United States for use on the Greely relief exiwdition. The i*ead- ing of Secretary Frelinghuyseii’s statement, at the request of Mr. ltainlall, iHmIimmI that in the search for vessels suitable for tho ex pedition now pro| wring for Greely’s relief, attention hail been directed to the Alert, and that Minister I/iwell hadlieen instructed to inquire whether she could be s|iared by the British government; that Minister Low ell was told the British government had not forgotten th»» action of the United States in the matter i ( the Resolute, a British vessel which hail lieen abandoned in the Arctic regions, discovered and brought to this country by American sea men, purchased from them by the Amer ican government , repaired aud then returned to Great Britain; tiiat the British govern ment, in recognition of this courtesy, had now given the Alert to the United States un conditionally, with all her equipment; that in resjsmse to this “graceful uud opportune act of courtesy on the part of her majesty’s government,” Secretary Frelinghuysen hail telegraphed to Minister Lov^pll that this evidence of sympathy “receives the highest appreciation of the President, as it will that of the |>cople of the Unitea States,” etc. Mr. Randall asked unanimous consent that the communicatio n l»o spread u|>on the journal of the House, and teat it be referred to the committee on foreign affuirs with the object of having a more formal and appro priate recognition of tho act, of the British government. Mr. Finnurty objected, and Mr. Randall then put his request In the form of a motion, which w as agreed to, Messrs. Fin- nerty, of Illinois, and Robinson, of New York,voting in the negative... .The military academy npprooriatiofi bill, and the post route bill, with Senate amendments, were passed. Mr. Springer introluceil a proposed con* stitutional amendment making the presi dential term six years, and rendering tin President ineligible to re-elo'tion for the next succeeding term. It pro viiles for a direct vote for i J resident in each State, and abol ishes the electoral college.... Bills were intro duced: By Mr. Beach, of Now York—Au thorizing the controller of the currency to change the names of Nat ional banks; by Mr. Dowd, of North Carolina—Appropriating $50,000 for the relief of the sufferers by the late cyclones in North Carolina; by G. D. Wise, of Virginia—For the completion of the monument to the mother of Washington at Fredericksburg, Vo.... By Mr. Dunn, of Ar kansas—Appropriating $500,000 for the re lief of the persons rendered destitute by the overflow of the Mississippi river and its tributaries Mr. Fills, of Louisiana, rose to a question of privilege a id denied a recent ly published statement that G. F. Brott gave him a fee for services in securing Star route contracts on the Donalds->n route. Mr. Ellis offered a reso ution, which wai adopted, di recting the oominltte • on i*o.toffices t<4inves tigate the chart'd reflecting upon him in connection with Star route frauds. The Kenato bill providing for the comple tion of the statue of Rear-Admiral Samuel Francis Du Pont was passed. The statue is to be placed in Du PontjCircle. Washington. ... .Mr. Broadhead, from the judiciary com mittee, favorably reported u bill providing for tho increase of the sa'uries of the circuit and district judges of tho United States. Committee of the whuU* MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. Only three executions for murder took place in France during 1883. Mrs. Esther Gantz, of Troy, N. Y., died while on tier knees at prayer. Many Western railroad camps are now for bidding the presence of Chinamen. Fourteen millions’ worth iff diamonds were ex;x)rted from South Africa last year. The government envelope factory, at Hart ford, Conn., uses a ton of gum arabic every year. There are three women in New York dime museums whose combined weight is 1,965 pounds. California is at present producing not fat from $18,000,000 of gold and silver bullion annually. A kite has been secured at Lutterworth, in England, for the monument of John Wy- cliffe, which, it is intended, shall b3 set up to commemorate the five hundredth anniver sary of his death* MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC T. C. kcoi.thon, tli* colored tragedian itarte.1 on hi. .Southern lour. Mmk. Mni.jB.sKi inad*. a great hit In “Nad- Jivsla,” iirougbt. out in New York. Hkvkni'y different opera* were given at the Vienna Opera holm during IWS8. Sonnkntiial, the (oreiiimt leading nan in (lermany lius been engaged (or en American tour. ('harlotre Wai.kkr, the eoprano. will orgnnln. an Engllah opera company tor neat is asm. i.im.K Kva French, the child-actreae, has been takon from the profemiou and neat to uchuol. Tkaekkiua Tha, the young viollnUt, comet to America next October (or 100 ooncerte; price, $40,000. Mmk. Kistori will make her appearance in this o imitry at the Mar theatre, lfew York, Octobiir 0. Mmk. Marik Durand. i, the American lady norms abroad iatke o|iora “Uloeonda,” will noon return burnt. Durino Edwin Booth'll first visit to Eng land be was mipp irted by a Manoheeter stock company, among who u was Henry Irving. Tkn combinations have gone to piee^e recently on the Western oironit, and (ram all BOi oniits the number will eliortly be doubled. Mkh. Chari.kh Hthatton, widow o( Tom Thumb, applied ree mtly to Mayor Edsna, of New York, for a liemiso to open a museum Iu the Bowery. Planqukttk'h new opera. "Nell Owynne," has nindo a great success in London. It Ie said to belong to the purest school of Frenah ooinlc o]iera and suggests Allbir. Harlev, a tenor of the ttoyal Comedy theatre, dismissed some time ego for tinging out of lime, has recovered x&XI demegse from tlie director of the theatre. Piccot.oMiNt, who wee en operatic actua tion In tills oountry a quarter of a century 3 [o, Is now an old woman In very destitute rcuiiistaiMMu. Her condition Is attributed to her having married an Italian marquis. It is said that Mary Anderson will make a tour of Great Britain next season; the year after she will follow Booth's example and act through Germany, and In the autumn of INNtt she will begin a thirty-weeks’ tour in this oountry. Thk liberal remuneration secured in Franca to dramat c authors, who for each piece retire entul are entitled by law to a certain liriqiortlou of the gross receipts, It directly due to the agitation on the subject under taken by llenumarchalt. THKRKarein Ixmdun 4,000 profemore of music, including vocalists, instrumentalists, aud teachers, but excluding musical govern esses. There are about. '4X> shopkeepers, mu sical Instrument makers, mid others engaged in tho music trade. In the provinces there are 0,000, including both classes. ODD HAPPENINGS. Amaziah Jordan, of llartland, Me., In a Ht of insanity cut off Ids toes, one at a time. A few weeks ugo butterflies were numer ous in England, (was were above ground and rosea were in leaf. A younii dog was recently frightened to death near Lafuyette, Ore., by a child who dremed up as bugaboo aud chased the ani mal. A short-horn heifer napied Lillie Dale, belonging to J. W. Dawson, of RuaaellviUe, Kv., died four hours after eating a leatat tobacco, Mrs. Nrt.i.nt Kkli.br, of Hyde Park, Vt. was severely burned in the face, hands and arms by the explosion of a doughnut which she was frying. J. H. Smoot, of Owen county, Ky., cut a tree recently in whicb a big hollow was filled with honey, u|»n which a colony of flying squirrels were living. Mrs. Isiuiha H. Ai.bkut, of Cedar Hapids, has entered into partnership with her hue- band iu the practice of the law. Their sign mads, “Albert & Albert, Attorneys at Law.” In Beech Grove, Ky., live Wiliam J. Har din, the fattier of twenty-one children, Wil liam Miller, the rather of twenty six chil dren, anil Cameron Story, who has twenty- two children. In Minnesota Is a well that freezes at a depth of seventy feet, hut not at the surfaoe of the water. A draught of cold air ie ues From the well strong enough to take off the hat of a man stan ling at lt< mouth. A I.AHOK lumn of dry Nile mud, with a hole in one side showing that a mud flsh was within it, has been in the poesesoon of the Kev. J. O Woo 1 for four years. He reoently cut the lump 0|ien and fouud the fish in good condition, doubled up, with its tall over its head, just as when it went to sleep more than twenty years ago. _ _ Baron Uothhciiild, of Ixindon, is having built “the largost steam yacht in the world.’’ The craft Is to be tiki fe t long, and Is to have twenty-seven feet bean. PROMINENT PEOPLE. Boynton.—Paul Boynton, fcbu svrinrner, was married recently to Maggie Connelly at Chicago. Brown.—United States Senator Brown, of Georgia, lias four iron mines in tlie northern part of that State, in which he employs nearly 1,006 hands. Grant.—Judge James Graut, of Daven port, Iowa, president of the National Trot - ting association, says tiiat there are in the association 5,000 hordes trotting below 2.30. Beecher.—It is expeeted that Mr. Beechei will go to Europe on a§!ecturinjg tour iu tho spring or early summer. It is over twetitv years since Mr. Beecher was in England, where he made many addresses upon the war Barnum.— P. T. Barnutn being invited the other day to lecture b if ore a temperance so ciety in New York wrote in reply: “ I have finished lecturing forever in this world.” Mr. Barnum is a frequent visitor to the Bridge- jiort, Conn., jail, and often addresses the prisoners. Cox.-x-Washington correspondents note the sprinkling of gray in Congressman 8. S. Cox’s hair. Thou :h one of the youngest members in appearance, he is fifty-nine years of age. an l lie > been jn Congress for a longer period than a iy democratic member. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, only exoeods him on the re publican side in length of service. New York Heal Estate.—The con veyances of real estate in New York city last year were for $165,192,848, agains- $174,653,227 in 1882. As the total tax able valuation of real estate is about $1,080,000,000, it would seem that about fifteen per cent, of the property changes bands in a year, though the undervalut ation in stated consideration may net be as great as in valuation for taxing pnx- poses.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Paulding new era. (Dallas, Ga.) 1882-189?, March 06, 1884, Image 1