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DALLAS, PAULDING COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1884.
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NUMBER 18.
A company will bo organized ihortly to build
• cotton factory at Dalton, Go.
Tn* new cotton mill at Sidney, H. 0., la
receiving its (halting and macliinory.
Savannah ia thinking of manufacturing ac*
phaltnm blocks with which to pave tlft^Gftg. .
About 40 farms liavobceu recently purchaaad
In Green county, Ky„ by emigrants from Ohib,
A tottery baa been establiahed at the Kao-
line mine, near Flatotdm Fla., conducted by
expert workmen, "
The Knoivllii Ten n * $ai|wheel Company
arc running, theft wheel foundry extras time to
till heavy oradrs.
SRfcealaba or bricka, which acquire, ft laaaldi
the hardnoaa of atone, and furnish a really val-
uahic building a took.
Atlanta 1'onatitutioni New England aapi-
raliats would aave tima and Haney by moving
tlieir ootton factorise to Georgia and other
Southern Statea, Why ahonld they apend their
aubatanco fighting againat fate? They ahould
move their plant* to Georgia, and placg thorn:
, aclvci in a position to Mlt th* English mills
out of existence.
Three thousand yards of cloth and one hup.
dred blankets sro manufactured in tho New
Braunfels, Texas, millB weekly.
All the money necessary has been subscribed
to start the Griffin, Ga., cotton factory. The
capital atock ia about (84,000.
A new rolling mill, the first one in the State,
has been started tip at Houston, Texas, and it
will engsgo In making light T rails.
The locomotivo works in connection with the
Boanoko, Va., Machine Works, sro in active
operation at this time. Several locomotives
aro in process of construction.
The track of the Sonthern Pacifio to the
great salt mino in the Colorado desert, near
Idaho, is ballasted with ggest lamps of crystal
salt. Heavy rains and high waters might
cause a dissolution of that ballaBt.
The Messrs. Moulton, of Laconia, N. H.
who aro proprietors of a hosiery mill at Colum-
b1 *’ 8 ' epphu' tho labor of the
prison^kaVi^ll ‘ft** 1 *
city oft half works there,
<*»■«< City (Tie.) Hems,
mure nasnot Been an investment in dtndain i ui ,, /’"r" —'
that section in-the last throe Years that ha. !>”>'* dividend of eight per cent on its cap-
not paid the tbirtv aJgS * ■>-" ’ ' of •1,080,000. The success of this corpo-
at leapt twenty
tkr amount Invested.
The Cnthhort, Ga, cottoii factoiy ia crowded
with work, having received, oil one day, orders
for more goods than can possibly he made in
six months, notwithstanding tho enlarged
capacity from tho new machinery now being
put in. .
More than throe-fourths of the cedar used in
tho manufacture of cedar pcLeils in tho world
is shipped from Florida. Large groves of ce
dar grow up and down tho coaBt and on the
Suwannee river, and ilie supply soems inex
haustible.
Twenty-nine saw mills are said to receive
their supplies from Bren ton, Alabama. Iheso
mills are multiplying along the lino of tho Mo.
bile and Montgomery and the South and North
roads, and the timber luisincss is developing
into immense proportions.
A tarty of capitalists from nn Indiana town
have decided to start a jute factory at Memphis,
Tenn. At least fifteen thousand dollars will ho
expended in buildings nnd machinery, and tho
company expect to ho manufacturing bag
ging in tlmo for noxt year’s cotton crop.
Mississitpianb feel very proud of their State
Library ill tho capital at Jackson. It compri
ses thirty-eight thousand volumes, which in
clude tho legal text-books and rcportB from all
the States in tho Union, making a collection
which ranks.third in completeness in tho
whole country.
Peanut cnltnro willb* an imaiqnM thing in
the south befor* many years, iha crop this
year will be worth, say (3,000,000, Th* profit
in tho business is tremcndoUa. A. newspaper
'Correspondent says that six years ago a Massa
chusetts, man settled near Montgomery, Alai
Ho was vory poor but h* thought lie saw tu
opportunity, and noticing many raising pea
nuts, ho tented lend end began working it on
sharoa. He ie.etill (ailing peanut* and nothing
else, and ho doea welt to (tick to them. Six
years of pcannt culture baYO netted him (100,-
000. •
. .Mobile la becoming qnito a timber port,
'i'lio stevedores of the ante helium class who
fairly rolled In wealth have pawed away Imtth#
nejv HtovedorcH who bundle Umber are getting*
rich rapidly. The opinion ia expressed that
the railroads will have to carry logs as a regu
lar thing before tbs lumber trade reaches its
full proportions. It does not coxt much moro to
run a train of twenty cars than a (rain of flvo and
ton, nnd there in no rstHon why idle cars should
uot be loaded with logs. This may mean a low
rate of freight, but it is something that must
come. '
A splendid quality of lithographic stono is to
-ho fpuiul near Six Mile, Bibb county, Ala. The
Bl§de says: “Seven triiles of this place, on the
posHesHions of It. J. Itottenberry, at the south
ern haso of the coal fields, there is found all the
indications for tho petroleum oil. Iron, coal,
mar hi a and limestone aro found in tho immo-
dfftto vicinity, besides the entire county
the very best of timbor.
Tor Eagle and Fhenix mill, (^olnmbus, Ga.,
‘which is the largest cotton mill in the south,
Xfition has been remarkable. It was reorgan
ized about 1867, and sinco then has paid $1,-
870,000 in dividends and built out of itj oarn-
ings a new* mill costing $1,000,000, and lias a
large surplus besides,' It is now “proposed to
still further enlarge its operations by erecting
a new mill at an expense of $060,000.
Tiie Saliila cotton factory at Grcenvillo, 8, O.
has made ft largo nnd valuable contract with n
Boston Arm for furnishing them with yarns
until next January. New England yarns wero
offered at one-fourth of a cent lower, but the
superior quality of tho South Carolina yar
commanded tho contract.
CjiaMaEbton, S. C., has organized a coffee
importing company of fifty members, with a
capital of $50,000. Coffee will he imported and
sold at auction to tho highest bidder, whether
he be a member of tho association or not. If
the scheme is successful, other articles w 11 bo
imported and sold in the same way.
Tiik Wilson cotton mills, at Wilson, N. C.,
wli ch were commenced about a year ago, for
the manufacture of fine yarns, are now run
ning thirty-six carding machines and five thou
sand, one hundred and twenty-four spindles,
employing seveuty-fivo hands and consuming
eleven thousand pounds of cotton per week.
Within a radiuitaf kin than thirty miles of
High Point, N. C., says the Enterprise, there
are at least thirteen cotton factories, two woolen
factories and fourteen mines, all in full opera
tion. To these add a large number of tobacco
factories, sash and blind factories, spoke and
handle, and one factory that finishes shuttles
ready fer the loom. _
North Caeolina shows the greatest increase
in the number of cotton mills, no less than
forty-three new mills, with one hundred and
ten thousand five hundred and ninety-five
spindles having been adde l. Georgia has
added twenty-two mills with an aggregate of
one hundred and thirty-nine thousand one
hundred and fifty-six spindles during the year.
Awnvft the new applications of cotton is its
use, in part, in the construction of houses, the
material employed for this purpose being the
refuse, which, when ground up with about an
equal amount of straw and asbestos, is con
verted into a paste, and this is formed into
A portable cotton seed oil mill, which has
Just been invented will, it is paid, end tho dis
pute between the planters and oil men of the
south. Instead of growling about tho transpor
tation, tho planter will, ere long, express his
own cotton seed oil and have tho meal and
bulls right on his hand in tho best posiblo con
dition fer fertilizing, and there will be an in
creased produotion*of the oil, which has come
to be accepted as invaluable in cooking. A port
able mill that has been tested took the seed as
it came from tho gin and extracted forty-flvo
and a half gallons x>f oil from two thousand
pounds of seed.
Alabama is boomirtg along. In 1880, her
census showed that the farmers had doubled
In acreage, her con* production increased
moro than 45 per cent, oats quadrupled, cotton
Sixty per cent. 'J’hc wool product double^, and
tho mineral output incrcscad more than 1,000
percent. What other state can make a liko
showing. In the near future we expect to bo
proud, (as wo are now) that we are a native
Alabamian. The county of Jefferson alone is
now worth more than tho wliolo of Alabama
w°,8 immediately aftet the war.—Mineral Age.
THE NATIONAL DEBT.
A Itcdiicllou at Fourteen million, in
Harthi
Tho national debt statement just issued
shows tiie doorcase of tho public debt during
tho month of Marcli to bo $14,238,324.
Decrease of debt sinco Juno 80,
1883 (81,828,81*8
Cash in the treasury 402,878,211
Gold certificates outstanding 104,230,400
Silver certificates outstanding.... 110,408,101
Certificates of deposit outstanding 15,475,000
Refunding certificates outstand
ing.. . 305,400
Legal tenders outstanding 340,081,010
Fractional currency not including
amount estimated as lost or
destroyed 0,084,315
Tiie payments made from tho treasury by
warrants during tho month of March, 1884,
were os follows:
Civil and miscellaneous (5,083,027 70
Wur 2,241,870 lfi
Navy 1,661,188 48
.'uu'riqr, Indians 208,087 04
Interior, pensions. 13,508 43
Total |0,10H,OH 4.1
* Tho above doos not include payments made
on Recount of the interest or principal of tho
pu die d&bt of tho United States.
Walking into a Fortune.— The man
who is all tho time saying what ho is
going to do when he accumulate 85,000
seldom does it. Ten years ago two poor
but honest young men, named William
Henry and .John Thomas, sat upon a
rail fence trying to pry into the future.
Said William Henry : “When I accu
mulate 85,000 I am going WeBt to buy a
herd of cattle, and in a short time I’ll
be a rich man.” John Thomas did not
reply, but got down off the fence and
went West while the jvalking was good.
To-day William Henry doea not own a
solitary cow, while John Thomas has
more horned cattle out in Wyoming than
■on could count in a week.
“Therb’s nothing like leather,” but
the bottom crust of the railroad restau
rant pie resembles it somewhat. —Salem
Sunbeam.
THE WORLD’S NEWS.
BMUr* «n& Kiddle State
• Six nifiii wero iustaptly killed by antoxulo-
*ion in thg uitro-glycorino liouso of tho Ro
mano CliemicftljvorkD nt Thompson's Point.
N. J. Tbo.lmiMm* was tom to pieces, and
tho men killed wens frightfully nmnglcd.
Their names aro as follows: Lamott Dupont,
vice-president of the company ; W: N. Hill,
superintendent of the works; Edward Nor-
cross, compounder of liitro-glyeerinc; George
Norton, an employe, and A.*H. Ackcrson, a
visiting chemist from St. Louis.
Ida Moujull, daughter of a wi ll-known
citizen of Zancstown, Penn.. had for tin* i>ast
S car nud n half been hlnnxtoM to Henry
helly, a farm lalx»rer. Tho parents of the
young lady objected to tlieir daughter's inti
macy with Shelly, hut notwithstanding their
opposition file two went off a few days ago
and got married, going to Shelly's home after
the ceremony. A few hours after the mar
riage the two brothers of tho brido weqt to
BheDy’s house, an altercatiou ei iticd, hfid re
volvers wero drawn. The firing whit'll fol
lowed resulted in tho killing of the two
brothers and tho wounding of Shelly* who
was taken, into custody.
A Great many disasters took placn along
tho Atlantic coast during tho heavy gale of a
few days ago. Prom various points came re
port* of vessels being wrecked, noeoinnjiuicd
in some instances by lose, of lifo. Tho schooner
Hivordnlo went ashore near tho Delaware
Breakwater, nnd the captain and four men
wero drowned, Several vessels wore also
wrecked on tho Hudson, and two or three
liven lost. Tho gale was tho most furious re
corded in a long time.'
Philadelphia has just had a national cat
show, with $1,500 given in prizes to tho
flnwt felines. , v
A TWO-YRAli-OLD boy nt Johnstown, Ponn.,
was thrown down ami fatally peeked by a
game-cock which tho child was teasing.
Seven women have just graduated os doc
tors from the Now York Medical College and
Hospital for Women.
Since tho August gale, seven months ngo,
eighteen fishing vessels have been lost from
Gloucester, Mass., with alltlioircrews, which,
together with the men lost overboard nnd in
dories, makes the record 249 men lost, leaving
behind, as near ns cun lie ascertained, sixty-
live widows nnd 184 fatherless children; This
is a record heretofore unparalleled in tho his
tory of tho business of Gloucester. /
Mrs. Ottendorfer, wife of the propriotoi
of tho Now York Staatz Zeitung. the leading'
German newspaper of the country, founded
by hor first husband, (lied n few days ago.j
Bne was a woman of remarkable business!
abilities and very charitable. During hen
lifetime she spent over $100,000 in founding
charitable institutions in Now York, and only)
recently received ft special decoration in honor
of her benevolence from tho Empress of 1
Austria. Until a few years ago she was tho 1
business manager of the Staatz Zeitung. . » |
The Republican ticket waa success!nl in tho
Rhode Island Htato election, tho cuniliflatra,
for governor nnd minor officers bemg tho 1
present incumbents. Tho legislature will!
stand: Senate—twenty-seven Republicans,;
nine Democrats. House—fifty-seven Repub-!
beans, fifteen- Democrats; a Republican loss
of one in tho senate and a Republican gain of
four in tho house.
Mrs. Galle nnd daughter died at Loyal-
hnnnn, Penn., of trichinosis, nnd the father
and another (laughter wore not expected to
recover.
Seven Austro-Polanders looking for work,
while walking on a railroad track near Scran
ton, Penn., were struck by a backing engine.
Four were killed, one was fatally injured, one
lost an arm nnd one osenped unhurt.
George Jones (colored) was hanged at
Pittsburg, Penn., for the murder of another
colored man named Foster, in 1882. Jones
was only eighteen when tho crime was com
mitted
South andWiat.
T\C6 negroes wore lyhcnbd—one fri‘ York
county, 8. C., for assaulting a whito man’s
daughter, nnd tho -other in Gastou county, N.
C., for murdering another man.
General Aguero, with twenty armed
men, secretly left Key West, Fla., nt mid
night nnd embarked on ft schooner destined,
it is lxfiieved, for Cuba on a filibustering ex
pedition. Tho revenue cutter Dix started in
pursuit of the party.
At Chicago cnsli wheat was quoted at 71%
within six and a half cents of the lowest fig
ure over quoted in that city.
About thirteen lives were lost by tho burn
ing of the steamer Robeeca Everingham. on
tho Chattahoochee river, near Florence, Ala.
The fire broke out at 4 a. m., and the steamer
wns immodlately hooded, for shore. Beforq
tho shore could, do reached tho steamer was
completely wrapped in flames.
The largest and most influential mooting of*
cotton manufacturers ever held in tho South,
hns just taken place ut Atlanta. A largo
number of mills were represented by delo-
S rites, and a resolution was passed to curtail
io production of yarn and cloth for tho
present Steps were also taken to form a
Southern manufacturers’ association.
Washington.
Secretary Fkklinghuybkn received a
telegram from Mr. Sargent, our minister to
Germany, expressing his gratitude for tho
complimentary action of the President and
Hcnato, but declining the Riissiali mission nnd
resigning that nt Berlin because of his health,,
and other reasons to bo explained by letter.
The naval appropriation bill, as it comes
from tho Hennto committee, calls for appro-
priatioiiH nmmmting to $20,786,670. Tho osti-,
mates submitted to Congress called for $22,-,
655,506, and the bill, as it came oyer to tho,
Hcnato from tho Houso, provides for appro*,
priations aggregating $14,ta,096. Tho 8on-
ntc committee added $0,451,980 to tho bill. .
The French nnd American claims commis
sion held its final meeting. A final settle-'
ment of nil tho claims before the commission
was made. The total number of cases against
the United States was 720, aggregating $17,-
581,000. Two hundred and sixteen claims
were allowed, and on these an award of $025,-
6Trf», without interest, was made to l>epaid to
France within twelve months from ditto.
mount of coinage at 111$ various Unite a
States mints dnVin r March: 87,K12 gold
pieces, worth 81.476,231.50: 2,602,040 silver,
pieces, worth 8'.’,880,943.50; 1,914,810 minor
coins, worth $29,524.48; total coinage, 4,004,-
688 pic *es. w orth *8,888,009.48.
A few days ago General Grant appeared
on the floor of tne House,, and was the re
cipient of much attention from the members,
He hod not yet recovered from tiie effects of'
liis recent painful fall in New York. Repre-
sentnti ve Randal 1 said :* ‘ ‘Mr. Speaker, wo are
honored to-day by having us a visitor on this
floor General Grant. As an American I need'
not introduce him to yoif. I movo the House
toko a recess of fifteen minutes • to
give members an opportunity to pay
their respects to our visitor.” Mr.
Carlisle put the motion arid i 1 . wan car-
i ried unanimously Genera! Grant then r
painfully to bis 'feet and on rither
side by Messrs. Carlisle and Fuiviull. hu> •' •
laboriously down tho middle eirie to th° >:r-ja
before the Speaker's d r - >. where, leaning
upon his crutches, b shook hands with the
Representatives as they passed before him.
Mr. Carlisle made tho pre:; ■ntuiiuus. Nearly
every member was introduced.
Foratfix.
T
Resolutions of condolence to the queen
and duchess of Albany, on the death of their
sou and husband, were adopted in the British
parliament
^General GoBDoa made nri adtonco from
Khartoum, and in a battle with the retail
forces was defeated. The rebels pursued Ilia
Egyptians for two miles after the hatUe. Th*
eceno of confusion
ing troop* was
tlan regulars .
kept ahoutinf on* that their
rab had - fcetftayed tlieiu; ■ “Tin
• wounded received no attention for tin.
long space of seven boors. The troop* had
been clamoring tm Hires weeks Injure to
meet the enemy. In tho early part of tho
encounter the Egyptians were successful, nnd
tho enemy were actually In full retreat, when
their cavalry mndo n dashing chanm. I)e-
X 'te the reverse the inhabitants still remain
uneh friends to General Gordon. Twa
black pashas were shot for treachery, which
caused the defeat of General Gordon's troops/
General Millot, commanding the French
troops nt Tonqutn, reports that ho lias been
entirely successful, and that the troops will
will soon return to France. Abont A,uot
troo|>s, with the patlve auxiliaries, will he suf
ficient to remain in TonqhliL
General Graham, with hb troops, lias
sailed from Buaklan to Hues. Tiie British
troops had hardly left when Osman Dlgnrn re-
apimirod near TamaUtob with about 1,000 fol>
loweis.
b General Gordon resolved to abandon a
S filcy of conciliation, toward Uie natives of
io noudan nnd adopt moro vigorous incus
urea. I’lio Egyptian soldiers who lind been do.
, ibeleogni
out delay. Aimed steamers nt Klinrtoum
daily engaged the rebels, who lost heavily.
’ Frinck Arthur’s liody was taken to Eng.
lnml on tlio royal yacht Osborne.
Edmund Yates, a prominent English
Journalist and editor of the Isindun World,
lias lieen sentenced to four months’ imprison
ment for libeling the Earl of Lonsdale. Tha
judgment has been respited ponding an ui>-
penl upon a point of law.
A fi he In London destroyed about a dozen
business houses, mostly publbhing and book
binding establishments.
John and Goorgo Stephenson wore oxo>
cuted at Keginn, British America, for tli*
murder of an old man named John McCarthy
A Hong Kono dispatch says that tho French
will probably invado China from tho northern
coast of Tonquin,and will hold Canton in sup
port of their claim for Indemnity.
It is proposed in Canada to notify fnrmcr)
of weather forecast by moans of discs on all
railroad stations and locomotivo engines.
1 Five men wore instantly killed awl other*
injured by a blasting accident at Fort Arthur,
Manitoba.
' k RIVER HORROR.
Burning of a Southern Steamer;
With Loss of Lira
Peoplo Aroused from Sleep to Meet
Diath by Fire or Water,
The steamer Rebecca Everingham waa
burned on the Chattahoochee river, at Fitz-
gerald’s plantation! a few miles above Flor
ence, Ala., at an early hour and many livee
wero lost. About 4 o’clock, a. m., tho en
gineer on watch rang an alarm signal to tho
pilot, who called to tho officers on watch and
asked if ho must go to tho shore
when ho was at once ordered to do so. Tho
pilot signalled tho engineer to work for the
shore, out got no rosjxmiie. Ho then headed
tho boat for tho Georgia ride, and the momen
tum she hud carried her alnv^t to the bunks.
Tho pilot on watch ordered his'young son,
Frank Lanham, a youth sixteen years (3d, to
jump overboard with a line and swim ashore
and make the boat fust to a tree. The boy sprang
into tho river, struck for tho shore, reached ft
safely and tied the boat up. In the mtontirne
tho ffre alarm was rung by Pilot Georg® Tsap-
ham, and the passengers aroused from their
sleep to find the l>oat in flnmos. All was con
fusion and disorder, but the officers of file boat
wero heroic in tho performance rtf their duty.
Nearly ull of them were wounded or burnt.
The flanujs wrapped the boat in their fiery em
brace nnd scolded to lick it up.
» Those known to be lost aro as follows: -W.
L. Kennedy, Spring Hill, Ain., deputy sheriff
of Harbour comity; Mrs. Avart, Cuthbert,
On.; Miss ftimpson, FortOuinos, Ga.; J. 13.
Yates, Bainbrldgo; two whito men, whoso
names were unknown; .Tulin Adams, colored,
chambermaid; Dolph Thomas* colored, fire
man ; Randal oingerand.Aaz Stevens,colored,
deck hands; Bob Griffin, colored, stevedore,
and a colored woman and child, name un
known. Captain G. B. Whiteside was
severely burned on the face, head and hands.
E. I). Williams, of Lagrange, Ga., was
thought to l>o fatally burned. J. T. Carey,
assistant engineer, was painfully burned.
There wero 5307 bales of cotton alioard the
steamer, 210 of which were taken on at
Etifaula. Rhe was made fast to tho shore by
two hawsers, which were finally burnt. Hho
remained tied to the bank About forty-five
minutes, when her moorings burned and
the wreck floated out in tho stream,
drifted about one hundred yards, car
reened and sunk. Tiie fire broke out
among tho cotton just aft midship. It
is not known how it originated. When tho
boat neared the shore a lady sprang over
board and lodged in a treetop, from which
she subsequently fell, and was rescued by
Pilot Lapham. This bravo officer saved tho
lives of two others, and assisted Captain
Whitesides ashore
A Case of Defence.
It might as well Vie understood that
the doctrine has been laid down in thin
city that a man lias no right to defend
himself against the assaults of a muscu
lar ruffian, Emil Holltmder was a weak,
sickly man. Ho was struck a* terrible
blow by a man named liademaclier—a
.creature of powerful mould. The as
sault was about to bo repeated when
Hollander drew a pistol, tired and killed
his rtssailant. Ho was found guilty of
manslaughter in tho first degree. In
passing sentence, Judge Barrett said
that Hollander, liko mtfny others in tho
community, had a mistaken-idea of.his
rights as a citizen in the use of firearms
fol inadequate cause, and having violated
the law must suffer some penalty, but
should not suffer to the extent which the
law forced the
him. Re sonic
SUMMARY OF CONGRESS
Semite*
A bill waa reported favorably to cxtabliah a
national forest reserv itlon on tho head
waters of tho Missouri.... Bills were Intro
duced making nn appropriation to j>ay tho
expenses of a commission to explore Alaska,
and to allow drawbacks on iuq>orted ma
terials liked In tho manufacture of tobacco,
snuff ami rigors exported... .Mr. l'latt spoko
In favor of his bill to or
gnnlso the imtont office into a depart
ment.
Mr. Hall, from the commit tee on aprfroprln*
tions, reported tho naval appropriation bill
with sundry amendments The bill intro-'
duced by Mr. Edmunds and reported fiivofu*
ably from tho eommitteo on naval affairs, for
tho relief of tho Jeannette survivors. w»w
passed. It provides for tho compensation of
tho survivor* for losses incurred by them oil
tho cxixMlition. Tho names and
atnountn ure ns follows: George W.
Melville, chief engineer, $1,000; John
W. Dnuenhnwer, lieutenant, $1,000; Ray
mond L. Newcomb, naturalist. $000; John
Cole, acting boatswain. $000; W. F. O. Nin.
denimn, seaman, $000: ami tho remaining
survivors $5100 each. The bill further, pro
vides for tho payment to tho widow, child or
other legal representative of (Midi deceased
mcmlier of tho o^jxxlition any arrears of pay
duo tho deceased member and one year’s ad
ditional pay. i
The bfll to increnso tho efficiency of tho
general land office, giving the commissioners
a salary of $5,000, and his assistant $2,000.'
and increasing tho clerical foreo, was passed
....Mr. Morrill’s bill providing for tho im
provement of the coinage was passed... .The
Blair educational bill was further discussed.
A bill to (irovide for tlio creation of a silk
culture bureau was introduced by Mr.
Call... .Mr. McPherson introduced n bill to
amend the patent laws....The Blair educa
tional bill was discussed without action. Mrj
Pendleton opposinl it on constitutional
grounds. Mr. Williams spoke in favor of
tlio bUl.
UottDe*
A Joint resolution was introduced by Mr.
Finerty tendering tho thanks of Congress to
Minister Sargent.... Bills wore introduced for
tho construction of a merchant ship of now
design; to equal (so the taxation of domestia
mid foreign insurance companies; appropri
ating $400,000 for the relief of HuiJbJrcrH by
tho Mississippi floods and authorizing tho ap
pointment of a Missouri river commission
The Trade Dollar bill was further
considered.
The House passed tho bUl providing for tho
retirement, of tho trado dollars and their
rocoinnge into silvei; dollars, after strikin'!
out the fourth Roctkfh. which provided thnti
tho trade dollars recoined into standard sil
ver dollars should bo deducted from the
amount of bullion required to ho coined by
tlio remonetisation uct. Tlio vote on the pas
sage of tlve bill was 19$ to 40. and thut.
on tho rejection or«b(v>€eui*$0.sectlo4 was ftyi
livo stock and ling products intended for
port, and prohibiting tho importation of
adulterated food and liquors... .An adverse
report was presented on the bill providing for
a commission on the alcoholic liquor traffic....
The bill authorizing tho secretary of tho
treasury to invest tlio lawful money deposited
in the treasury in trust by the national bank
ing associations for tho retirement of their
circulating notes was reported favorably....
Tho committee appointed to investigate tho
charges made by Representative Kcifor
Against General H. V. Boynton, tho corres
pondent, submitted a report, accompanied by
this resolution: “That the charges against
H. V. Boynton ore not sustained by thoevi-,
denco, and that there is no ground for any
action by tho House.” Tho resolution wak
laid over for future actiou.
('onsideniUou of the Indian appropriation
bill was entered upon. Tho bill calls for $5,«
847,053, as against $5,800,055 for the current
year. Mr. Throckmorton offered nil amend
ment abolishing tho live Indian inspectors,!
and providing that their places shall lie taken
by army officers detailed for tho duty.... A
message was received from tho President rev
TIE BEYOLCTIOHABl WAS.
The llml.i Tr*#** (tmtlsve* tr (treat
Britain—Wh* aa* Whal Thar War*.
A work on the "Heaaiana in the
Revolutionary War,” gives tu aome
farther inaight into the onamotat ol the
recruit* furnished bj the Landgrave of
He*no Caaael to Great Britain daring
onr first war with tha mother eonntnr.
These Heaaiana have alwaya been held
In derision by Americana, aa human
cattle sold by their Princes: they bay*
been looked upon as men without aha*
aotor or principle, and not only ready
bnt Ruxions to be thui sold.
Mr. Lowell, in hia new work, de
scribes the position of these aoldiera ee
little, if any, above that of piavea. The
Bolilten, he anys, really got nothing lor
their American service. They had their
rations, their clothing, and their pey, it
is trne; bnt theso would havo been theirs
if they had staid at home in their bar
racks. It is their petty rnlcra who were
paid for their service, their hardship*,
and their dangers; and if they were
killed or wounded it woe the rnlere who
wore compensated at a. fixed price foi
the loss of their human cattle.
The reernita furnished to keep np the
supply suffered more than the soldiers
who first loft their homes. They were
men enlisted by force, kidnaped, in *
word, and shipped off to America like .
convicts or awine—six men to a borth in
a ship’s bold. Onoo kidnaped, the poor
fellows had little chanae of escape, for
the petty Princes knew their trade as
slave driven .very well. In WuHetn
burg, if a recruit csoaped or e soldier
deserted, tho whole parish waa required
to go in pnrsnit, and in order to moke
their pursuit earnest and effective they
were required to furnish' one of then
own number in the plaao of tho deeppter
if ho could uot bo oaught. Tho olergy
wero required to road this order from
tho pulpit ouoo a month, in order toIm
press upon their oongregetion* a sense
of 'heir duty and responsibility. There
were flues and imprisonment at hard
labor for every one who dared help a
fugitive, apd death was the penalty foe
inducing desertion.
Many of the Hesaian prisoner* taken
by thb Americans .were permitted to go
into' the country and hire themselvee
out as farm laborers, and when we oon-
. eider theniaWre of tho despotism under
■y?hiok indy (ived -ot herne, the ease with
. which they ufglitavoid' pursuit, nnd the
aimudant oppuruuiuiu, .,1.1.1. ill.
sparsely settled country offered them to
improve their fortunes, it seems some
what strange that so small a proportion
of either the prisoners or the soldier* on
duty deserted. Congress held ont in
ducements to them to do so, nnd set so-
tive agencies at work to persnade them
to ohange thoir allegiance. They were
nssnrsd of exemption from military
duty, and were promised lands if they
would abandon a service to which they
wero supposed to owe nothing buf
hatred. And yet, aeoording to the best
estimate that Mr. Lowell's investiga
tions have enabled him to form, only
abont 5,000 of the German troops de
serted during the entire seven years.
Gorman writers assert that there wero
fewer desertions from tho ranks of the
mercenaries Ilian from thoso of tho
British regiments, and Mr. Lowell ex
plains tlio foot by saying that desertion
comutniyling nn anproprl
tlio protection of tlio levees of tlio lower Mis.
•lasfppi.
A joint resolution wns passed authorizing
the si oretary of wur tu ioiin Hags uinl bunting
to tho mayor of RJehmond, Va., to be used at
a fair to tie held in that eity in aid of a homo
for dlsaliled Confederate soldiers. Mr.
Throckmorton’s motion to amend the Indian
appropriation bii'. so ns to alsilisli tlio livo
India . insp t..r. nd have thoir duties per
formed by army ollleers, wns carried 111 to 07.
A BUREAU OF SILK CULTURE.
Jill U1U IIOTHMJIIC IU- 1 , - V V U , ...
iation of (100,000 for | was at once less onsy nnd less attractive
to tho German than to the English
soldier.
A bill has been introduced in tho United
States Senate by Mr. Call, of Florida, to pro-
vido for tho creation of a silk culture bureau
It provides that such a bureau shall lie estab
lished as 0110 of tlio bureaus of tho agricultural
dopnrtmont, and shall omhrneo in its organi
zation five silk culture stations, to lie estab
lished as follows: One for tiie North Atlantio
Htatos in Pennsylvania; one for tlio Mouth
Atlantic Stab* in Florida; one for tlio Gulf
Sbitus in Alabama; one for tho Western
States in Iowa; and ono for the F
In California.
Tho object of tho establishment of tho
bureau and tiie several silk-culture stations
It declares to Ixj experimentally to raise silk
worms, study their nature nnd tlio means of
improving tneir productive qualities, investi
gate tlio diseases to which they are subject,
cultivate, und, by all meuiis deemed proper,
encourage tho cultivation of plants adapted for
tiie feeding of silk-worins, nnd to experiment
In the reeling of silk, with a view to ascertain
ing the best appliances nnd methods for con
ducting th - various operations of preparing
raw silk. It provides for tho appropriation
of (150,000 for carrying out tlio object of tho
hill.
Maying it Fast.—A Kentucky ex
change tolls us that a novel sight was
witnessed by n Itirgo number of persons
during tlio flood. An old German, who
owns ft little liouso on. Front street, Louis-
villo, has been in mortal terror for the
puat few days, for fear it would float
away. Ho accordingly secured a boat,
and, rowing out to where the building
wns located, climbed upon the roof. He
then began tearing down the chimneys,
nnd carrying tho brick and mortar dovyn
a ladder, dumped it in through the win-
dow. When asked his object, he replied
that ho was weighting his house down so
that it would not move.
Milk.—On ocoflunt of several recent
cases of death in England amoDg chil
dren wjio had been fed on wheaten
biscuit, a physician slates in the British
Court to impose upon j Medical Journal that infnuts under six
p. 11 nim to five years’ ; or eight months Bhouhl be fed with
A Sahara Inland Sea.
The Bey of Tunis has given M. Ban-
datro authority to carry out his scheqio
lor transforming a portion of tho Dczort
of Sahara into an inland sen. 1
M. Boudnire is a French naval officer,
who has devoted special attention to
hydrography. In 1873, whilo engaged
in geodetic observations with n view to
determining tho meridian of Biskra, a
town in Central Algiers, he was im
pressed with the fact that a portion of
the great Desert of Sahara is below the
level of the Mediterranean. He con
cluded that this must be the bottom of
an ancient sea, and he conceived the
project of outting through the dunes
which separate the sea from the desert,
with the idea that he would thereby
transform vast tracts of arid waste iuto
fertile country. His plan seemed so
inc States promising that the French Assembly
gave him an appropriation of 10,0001.,
nnd he devoted two years to further sur
veys and observations. Tho results of
tiiis work were made public in 1877 nnd
created a profound impression. M.
Woddington, who was then Minister of
Public Instruction, gave M. Bondaire
nnequnled support. Since then the sur
veys havo been re-made and the project
has been the subject of much con
troversy in the scientific world. M.
Roudaire has become more convinced
thnn ever of the feasibility of his plan
and of the immense advantages which
will flow therefrom, and the difficulties
lu the way of its realization are one by
one giving way.
cut.-A'. W orld
othing whatever but milk.
An. individual applies to the cab com
pany for a situation. “Do yon know
how to drive?” “Yes, sir.” “You know
that you must be polite with all your
passongers ?” “Ah I” “And honest.
For example, what would you do if you
should find in your oab a pooketbook
containing 810,000?” “Nothing at all.
I should live on my income.”
Manx Washington ladies now write
themselves “Mrs. Secretary-—-/’-“Mrs.
General ,” and “Mrs. Commodore
.” We hope the btyle will spread
until suoh signatures as the following
become common: “Mrs. Dry Goods
Clerk “Mrs Butcher ,”
“Mrs. Cobbler ,” “Mrs. Barber
” “Mrs. Hod Currier ,” etc.