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DALLAS, PAULDING COUNTY, GA„ THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1884.
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NUMBER 20. '
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CURRENT COM MEN TH.
Aotmftd iiWms to Imrr known flip temper of
Cnbj, ir|-lv»l ill Hit* island!.** fanned
the people into open, revolt. Tl»c handful of
followed \fHh -whom liellandcd hex hwoIIcu
int(MM« arm* mi<1 hi* programs in * triumph.
The Hpaniah force* afe preparing to fioct him,
111ajMk'too ftitthfnr hi* dash ntj*T>»iflinni*8iii. ’ the medical profession is poor, very poor,
•fa \ r l Tf1 ' ' • *“*" r * r- DoetOrswlio folk of iuconic* of $20,000 to $25,*
Tho foiling «Tf Hi thc*-Ti>orta qf hi-eadniniTa
for ttotfiins month* ending March 81, a* corn*
parqrkWitkfclhB exports of tho corresponding
nine months* in the previous year, 4 *mounted in
valued* i<V474,W5j in the ligh\ of thia dif-
fernce tlio eiport of gohl needs no further ox*
pin nation. ii in tlpo, f*ruie#^vo depend upon
to eveunptjio .exchanges for tnjiigi'Ve are
ohltgrd to tropin,foreign markets. .
isof the indtia-
^ew Jersey' capitalist
Dads county, and
has planted 100,000 seed (ocqa nuts imported
from South America. Iu Fix year* the trees
will begin to yield returns, and it is estimat'd
that |u ten rears tlio grove, will pay ten pri
ceift on a valuation of $2,000,000. A full grown
rcymll rtuiftircabout sixty nuts annually. Tlie
trewik riry beautiful, and the experiment will
be WatUiffil with interest.
action was taken, and it it
not likely that anything will bo dono for tome
time to come.
.Many American physicians are in favor of
em|«>wmng a state board of. examiners, indo*
pemkut of mere cnllego degrees, to confer tlio
-authority to practico. An eminent physician,
however, wild their iiqitirfottl* in dlvi)ilimj wtgi s<Wates tlie clungo, make, tlie point
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CocoANtftr iulture is to ln»
tries of south Vlorida. * A Mew
has start#) a *plantafi<ji in 1
IK Central Africa, instead of tea coffee am.
whiskey, Yhe natives use a stimulant called
kola. This kola is a hut with a kernel about
two inches in length. When the kernel it*
perfectly dry it is elrewcd as if It were tobacco.
It sustains the system under groat hardships,
and even supplies the place Of food. Kola sell*
at .various prices, from twen y 'cents a pound
tow dollar for a single nut. The Africana
believe that this stimulant is almost a cure-all
andwc may expect to sco the patent medicine
men introduce if in various shapes into Europe
and America.
v :
The United States despatch boat Dolphin,
just launched#t Chester, Pennsylvania, is re
garded us tlio avant courier of our new navy.
The Dolphin will not only bo serviceable as a
dis^|pa^but will he in every way avails
bMMHnMookir.ler or a commerce destroyer,
aufl her visht) in this respect may be illustra-
ted by the fact that a few years ago when there
waafc prospect of a European war the llussiam
pitfChliHcd Just such a steamer at a price fai
above its commercial value. The Dolphin is
256 fret long with a beam of 82 feet. Hho it
rigged ns a three masted schooner, is well
armored and oarries revolving cannon am 1
gatling guns, Her speed is fifteen knots.
lint beer
stain. 1
little dex-
could not
or, brewed
ing, but »
The claim made by 11:
both food and drink isi
ViGnjiabtw.w light a
taint? nbd augnt, it is ev
sustain life. The darkc
in Austria and Boheiui
gallon contains only as much nutriment as mnj
be found in seventeen ounces of bread. Eng
lish beer is beady and stupefying. It may not
have more acoliol in it than the German beer,
but it has considerable aldehyde. While bee
is largely used in many countries, tlio brewcri
of England are the only ones who have ovci
ranked highly in tlio socinl scale. Many
them have been pious, sober people, of except
ional education and refinement.
The medico legal society of New York dis
cussed tlio alleged poisonous properties of
canned fruit the other day. Jn ouo case of
canned fruit poisoning it was found that tho
lid of tlio can had been soldered on with muri
atic amnlgnm, audit was supposed that sonic
of tho acid dropped into the can. A physician
who read a papor on the subject beforo tho
oifon year simply talk for effect. A practl
Holier dors v*i£ well If he collects one-third of
what he books. "Undoubtedly there aro too
biany doctors. Iu the United States tho ratio
ts-wne doctor to every 650 persons. In Eng
land the ratio is one to 1,800; in France, one to
2,8(00, and in Germany one to cv«l^2,000.
JfrttV/flfts it out of all duo proportion. Tho
trouble Is that men aro allowed to get through
tho colli^ges too easily. With u higher stand*
aid of medical education, and with tho right
to investigate and cancel college diplomas
lodged in an independent board of examiner*,
there would be fewer and doubtless better phy
sicians turned loose upon tlio world every
jroar
Occasionally wo find in America vigorous
d men, who continue to be up and doing,
and obstinately refuse to lag superfluous. T»vo
shell men live in Washington. They nre Geo,
Ikmcroft, tlio historian, and W. \V. Corcoron,
the banker. Few men ever carried the sor*
own of eighty-five winters on their heads as
chenily and briskly as Mr. Bancroft. The old
gentleman not only continues his literary work
but looks after his gardening, rides on horse
back every day, and goes into society, lie is
the only private citizen in Washington who
enjoys tho privilege of the floor of the senate,
and he is the only gentleman President Arthur
will accept a dinner invitation from, outsido
of the official circle of cabinet officers, foreign
ministers and icnators. Mr. Corcoran is equal
ly wonderful. He is eighty-six, and in hale and
handsome, managing his estate of a dozen
millions with perfect ease, and still finding
time to devote to the nohlo charities which he
*has so liberally supported for many year*.
Those two old men enjoy mental and physical
henltft and the possession of all their facultice
because they liavo lived lives of simplicity,
virtue and industry. The lives of such men
teach us many useful lessons.
Out In the Indian Territory the Choctaw*
continue to administer justice in their own
way. When an Iudian c imuilts a theft he it*
given thirty-nine laslies on the baro back.
it is his second offence he is given ninETyyitnc
lashes, and should it bo bis third offenco they
stand hint up nnd shcot him like a dog. The
follow who is so unlucky ns to bo condemned
to be shot for stealing is permitted to kcIccI
his executioner, nnd lie generally chooses hi*
dearest nnd best friend. The victim is strip
ped to tlio waist nnd a black spot is made oil
his breast over his heart. The executioner
stands off six or eight paces with a navy rc-
vc Ivor olid sends a bullet crushing through tho
thief’s heart. The victim is never bound or
blindfolded. lie stands up bravely, without a
sign of flinching nnd in fact rather seems to
liko it. An Indian who iu rente need to die i
this way knows that if he exhibits ibo slightest
sign of fear or mokes bis creaj e, be will ever
afterwards bo ngsrded as a coward, and in
his ryes this is a more d eadful doom tliau
dentil itself. This being tlio case no attempt is
ever made to escape. No jail is needed t>
fine a victim. Jlo is allowed the freedom of
the territory until the day of his death when
ho always turns up at tho appointed hour and
place and takes his littlo leaden pill with n
much unconcern as you would a dose of salts,
HEWS OF THI WEEK.
Tnitsrn nnd Middl# Stall’ <
Tur. British schooner George Calhoun $n-
v ©unlered n Gloucester, (Moos.) schooner u%-
sen in a Minkin; condition; nnd whiletryin«
to tiunsfcr the latter's crew of live tlshermeii
to the former vessel the boat was swainpwh
The five Ast ern on and a sailor bolonging ti*
the George Calhoun wore drowned. AftijM
ward the George Call oun was wracked, artoP
her mmiining crew of four n»en were rw»rw*t
by tlie schooner Zenobia and taken to Boston^
Joseph Ahatf, a retired merchant, worty
about $5,000.ntl0, chiefly in real estate, COMF
inittod sui’itlr In a New York hotel by shoop
ing. He iva* a resident of Yonkers, N. Y.i
and left a note stating that he was sufforinjf
from nervous prostration, and had not hail an.
hour's natural sleep in four months.
A fter the lapse of nearly a month four
teen of the one hundred and fifty odd minor*,
killed by the catastrophe at l'o ahontas. Va..
were tounil, luirtly deeomiiosed ana dUp
figured almost beyond identification. *
The body of Payne V. C. Tidily, a promi
nent raloon keeper of Cincinnnti, was reducoil
to ashes at the I.e Moyney crematory, WasV*
ington. Penn., innking lh« twenty-ninth caso
Of cremation which has taken place there.
Forty-onk trade org intuitions nnrehed
in proc* ssion to Union Hquare, New Yorkeit.yv
nnd held an opm-air meeting iu favor of au
eight hour law. ^
Two men were instantly killol nnd severar
sorioi’fily in ur’d hv an explosion of fire
damp in a < oal min! hear hlizaboh, Penn,
TiiKUnitol F talcs ami Binr.il F team ship
o.npnny h st ain h p Hel anc •, lunnii g In-
twe'ii New Yoik and ll o d ».laneiro, HioMU
wiveke<l while til her hnmewutd
from Hie In ter pla o. Hhe w is valued
at. mid h *r cargo eontaiiu d a nong
othert dug; 7,C0d b’ig* of c *tlee. All on
board, in* m ling Thomas A. (.'sborno, United
States* in nister to Bsuzil were saved.
John C. Pkrhy. ro.en'ly npiMiintol chief
imfci e of the mpcni! court of Wyoming
Territory, di m 1 suddenly of apoplexy while
walking* with his daught r in 1 rook.)Ui, N.
Y. Ho was lM»rn in Hullivau c nmty, N. Y.v
In US!-2, wn< a lawyer by i rorra-ion, hail long
resided in Pro >klyn, aud lin l served ill the
Now York s* unto and assembly.
Sen tli an A Waal.
jAMi fs Fr.EETWOon mi l his wife, an aged
coii|)le living near Bnridnn, 111., were found
cloud in their IhvI witii tludr throats cut. Tim,
house had been ransacked. A hircnl man
o nested.
Tun sec retary of the California Mati Ag
ricultural bureau predicts an uncxaniplotl
wheat cn.p lor the I ncitlc c«>ast.
f'HAiu.r.s B. Finlavson. seventeeii years
old, convictod of his grandmother's murder,
hanged hmisolf in the J’ortland (Ora.) jail.
A p.km ankari.e uis' of iiisoinuia is report
rd from Wheeling. \\\ Vn., where Joseph
Bnulsbury, a ship carpenter, sixty years of
ago, has not slept on hour at a time.nor nior
than t» n hours in all, since January 1
Otherwise lie seems sound and healthy, and
works every day at his trade.
Eight prisomiv*. r.t (IftinesvlU ^ Ark--,
fnuUcd the jn I r, on b iblv'fatally irtjnrtng
liim, and escaped. The citizens mot the es
caping | ri oner- - , nml att«r a dmper.ito fl^ht
siu c-erdcd in kil Ing one nnd worn ding nnd
recapturing three other
Two Spanish war v*!sse|s have lx*en cruis
ing off Key West, Fla., oil the watch for tili
blistering expeditions for Culm. United
States revenue vessels nr*' also on tlio lookout
in t hat rogt
Nine buildings, forming the |ri;icii>nl
business 1 loiis*c« of Tn •« ilia, Washingt n ’ler-
ritory, have Imoii ccmp’o'ely destroyed by
fire, resulting in an rstininted aggregate loss
of h.7-,0 0.
The com nissnry g’iieral of the army has
ro eiv.d a di jmt b ir »m Captain Whitehon l
atNinv < rleans saying t.1 at h i had fhip|tc*l
M) 0 )0 rations 1o the lrcently Hooded region.
He fays matters ur • looking more favorable
and promising.
society recommended tho examination of the
cap to every can. If two holes aro found
punched in it the can should bo thrown away.
Every con that docs not show the golden line
rtsiii around the edge of tho solder of tho cap
should be rejected. If there is any rust around
the cap on the inside of the can, it shows that
the fruit has form nted. A ran without tho
manufacturer’s name should ho rejected. If
the bottom of the can rattles when it is turned
up the contents are unsound.
More than half of a large number of physi
cians, questioned by tho British medical asso
ciation concerning the contagious nature of
consumption, replied in terms well calculated
to excite gra ve apprehensions. In 192 reported
cases of consumption believed to have been
communicated between husband and wife, it is
distinctly stated that there existed no family
predisposition or tendency to consumption iu
the parties who caught the infection. Many
other cases are cited of communication between
persons entirely unrelated. In many instances
there was strong proof going to show that
liealthv persons contracted the fatal malady
from invalids in their families. The chances
are strongly in favor of the idea that consump
tion is infectious; that the germs of the
“bacilli” are conveyed td healthy persons in
the breath of consumptives.
A gold coin loses weight in consequence of
the wear and tear to which it is subjected by
active circulation. The treasury experts esti
mate that a $20 piece should continue current
fifty years, an eagle thirty-five years, and $5
and $2.50 pieces each fifteen years. It may
not be generally known that this natural abra-
■ion has been provided for by law. The statute
says that gold coins which have berome re
duced in weight by natural abrasion not more
than one half one per centum below standard
weight, after* circulation of twenty years, and
a proportionate rate for a less period, shall be
received at their nominal value at the treasury
and its offices. It is believed that some plan
should be adopted for the redemption of un-
enrrent coins. A short timo ago the leading
bankers of the country petitioned the secretary
of the treasury in reference to the matter, and
suggested a standard of value for mutilated
Washing ton.
Five nations—tho Italian, American,
French, German nnd English—aro demand
ing indemnity from Haytl for damage* sus
tained in the recent rebellion.
Ah ex|volition under General Aguoro hai
invaded Ouba. Advices front Havana sxy
that General Aguoro in landing met with no
resistance, and that many factions joined him
on the march to the interior, swelling the part y
to several huiidro J followers. They Nan sev
eral encounters with troops, tho. result of
which wtw that the tipons lyera. obliged to
ret reat. The government lias 'telegraphed to
Nfiain requesting that additional troojw bo
‘lit.
('llaulas Ream, the noted English novel
ist. died a few days ago iu London at tlie ago
of seventy years.
Great excitement, was created in Birming
ham. England, by thenri’eet of a man named
Daly with a nuiiiimr of dynamite bomb* and
other explosivon in his iiocket*. His arrival
iu England had been discovered by the police,
an<l the man at whoso house he DOanlod was
also arrest'd as an atieonipfice.
Latent advices from Shanghai report a
serioua political crisis at Pokin. The empress
has publicly degraded Frin e Kiint and four
members of tho privy * mmcil. They were
dripped of all their honor.i be wii oof the
dilatory' manner in which they have dealt
with Tonquin affairs.
liONPON ; newspapers are calling upon
America to put a dop to the dynamite war.
It is asserted that there is a coalition of French,
German, Irish and Knglish*dyiianfiters.
A band of forty-two Uulmii insurgents was
attack'd by Spanish troop' and thirty-eight
of them killed.
Kdwahp M. Smith, Unit'd States consul
at Mannheim, Germany,died a few days sinco
of apoplexy while on a railroad train in
England. He was liorti in Rochoator, N. Y.,
in 1881, and hod served as mayor of Uiat city.
General Aqijrro’k insurgent force in
Cuba has been incroasd to 1,400 men.
Henry J. Byron, the English dramatist,
is doad.
The French troops in Tonquin attacked
tlie villages lipforo liong-hoa, and that town’
was thereupon fired nnd evacuated by tho
Chinese.
Large numbers of peoplo are leaving
Canada for the United States, principally for
Now England.
Infernal ma’liines found on attested
dynamiter* in England arc ia'd to have been
made in Ameri a, and iho English pai e a ore
m :ch exerelMd and tailing for the interven
tion of the American government.
At Naples, Italy, a drunken mldl r fired no
a number of comrades rooming In the mime
dormitory with him, killing five of thorn and
Wounding three. ..
SUMMARY OF (MGHESS.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
General Grant still hobble3 about on
crutches.
Dyspepsia nnd neuralgia torment United
States Senator Edmunds.
Kosa Bonheur’h pictures are always sold
long before they are painted.
The youngest son of General Robert E-
Lee. Bob, is a quiet farmer. He lives near
Richmond, on tne James river.
General Fremont’s health is not bad, al
though several newspaper report* havo repre
sented that he is failing. Mrs. Fremont, who
is in Washington, is in excellent health.
D. O. Mills lias been given a vote of
thanks by the California legislature for his
gift to tho State of a piece of statuary repre
senting “Columbus before Queen Isabella.”
Mr. George Ashworth, of Lowell, Mass.,
is said to be o’dcst Odd Fellow living in this
count!*}'. He is more than eighty years old,
and has belbnged to the Order sixty-one
3'ears.
Mrs. Rogers, tho Texas cattle queen, is
fifty 3'ears old. Her husband, twenty-three
years her junior, gave up preaching; but she
permitted him t j be elected to the Texas leg
islature.
Mrs. James G. Blaine is tall and not slim,
and she is grave and dignified in manner.
Born in New England and well educatad, she
met Mr. Blaine in‘Kentucky, and was his first
love. Her companion and cousin is Miss Abi
gail Dodge, the “Gail Hamilton” of litera
ture.
Henry George, author of “Progress aud
Poverty,” began life a printer; later lie be
came a sailor, then a reporter on the Sacra
mento Record, the owner of the San Francis
co Post, and afterward a lecturer. He is forty-
five. Iiis wife is of Irish parentage and Au*
tralian birth.
• George William Oup.tis. the editor of
Harper's Weekly, was asked by an inter
viewer recently: “Are there an> r new authors
on either side of the water of special prom
ise'” His reply was: “Not one; and there is
no important literary movement of any kind
under way.”
' John Bright is described as “oerhnp3the
only living man in whom are united the su
preme gifts of the orator—tho most brilliant
imagination, the most exquisite sensi^veness,
the finest humor, the surest judgment, the
most upright conscience, and the most ele
gant, pure, and vigorous language.”
San Francisco shipped 8,828 barrels
of Hour to England last January, against
30,000’in January, 1883.
Inspector Woodward, of the jiostofllco
department, appeared before tho House com
mittee of investigation and explained tho
good results which hu*l followed tho star
route prosecutions in a reform of the service.
General Adam Radkac, who has l>eon
United States consul general at Havana for
two years, lius forwarded his resignation to
the state departmuit nt Washington.
The Senate in executive session passed tho
resolution authorizing the President to rec
ognize tho African International association
ns the ruling jiower in tho Congo region.
A special camp lire of tho department oi
tn<
The naval appropriation bill was further
discussed and amended.... A bill was intro
duced to provide for the protection of railroad
employes engaged ill inter-state dimmerco
,...The eonimitteo on foreign relations re*
sported a substitute for the bills to appoint a
i* [• ommission to visit tho Houth America ti coim-
trtts. and to authorize tlm President to invito
Mexico and the Central nnd Houth American
countries to send delegates to a convention in
Washington. The sulMtituto, which wtuj
framed by Mr. Frolinghuyseii, with the ap
proval of tho President, appropriates,
through an amendment to the consular diplo
matic bill, $100,AGO to enable the President to
compensate a commission to be appointed to
exumino nnd rejiort upon tho relations of
the United States with the countries in ques
tion, and upon the liest inodra of securing in
ti mate national nnd commercial relations,etc.
'J lie naval appropriation bill was passed
with an amendment, appropriating
$ >,'00,00) for tho construction or new steel
cruisers: also an amendment proposed by
Mr. Bayard requiring tho so’rotaries of war
and tho navy and the gun foundry board to
report to the next, session of Congress plans
and estimates for a gun factory to complete
f uns from six inches to sixtem inches cnli-
•er... .'I he ‘ enat * took u > the bill to retain
ish a uniform system o* bankr iptcy through-
o .t this country. I actions con diluting the dLs-
tir.t cour.s oi 1 a ikr.iptoy, and providing
for tho nppointm nt of commissioners in
lamki’iipt y to havo all the powers of a mas-
tor in eh in’cry, and supervisor; in lank-
niptey to examine into the administration of
proceedings, were a'W.-o'l to... .Tho postoffico
appropriation bill was reported with nearly
$8,r»<:0,00!) add -d. As am n le 1 by the Henato
c unmifctee it provi led for a total appropria
tion of $t9,?J5,40:», which is $'>,£15,880 in ex
cess of the amount appropriated last year,
and $ 5,499,500 in excess of tin amount callo J
for by the b II when it left the House.
Home*
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
Wme. Patti lias decided not to sing In lion*
don this spring.
Mrk. Langtry returns to New York short
ly to play “Pygmalion andGalaten.”
D. D. Lloyd, tho editor who wrote tho play
“For Congress, has gone to Europe.
Mmb. Mod.if.sk a lift* fixed upon Juno 7 ns
the date of her departure for Europe.
The gross receipts of the sevent een per
form a liras of Mapleson's <>|>era company in
Him Francisco are stated to have b*'**!! $\>05,-
000.
Tits Statement that Theodore Thomas would
cononct concerts nt Coney Islam! the coming
summer is contradicted. l!o sails for Europe
in June.
Kate Forsyth,t lie actress, lost several thou
sand dollars’ worth of personal effects by tho
fire Monday aftnnioonln the Ht George tints,
New York.
Mr. Palmkr, of the Union Square theatre,
New York, told n reporter in I’arts that, he
hod ini id Brenaon Howard more t han $70,00 )
for fits author's righto in “Hie Banker’s
Daughter,”
Gustav A MBKno.the manager of t he Thalia
Company, of New York, is negotiating for an
American tour of the famousMelningon com
pany that imulo such a sensation in London n
lew years ago.
At tho Berlin Theatre Royal Inst .year there
were twenty-seven representations of Hhakra-
penman plays. Heven of his plays were
acted. There were eighteen represent*cions
of Hchiller nnd three of Goethe.
When not. acting, Jnn Jefferson lemls a
pleasant life on his plantation of ten (.lunHand
acres in Iviuisiana in the region «HxuipiiHl l>y
tho Acndiims, fishing and painting, nml sur
rounded l»y it colony of grandchildren.
An organization known ns “Tho New Eng
land Musical Charitable Association” has behn
t onno*l by the theatrical managers of Boston,
its object lieing to care for sick members of
tho profession who derive no iNUictit from any
other society.
There was a novel dramatic |ierformauoe
in London ixiocutly, when the m<smb'!i’s of a
deaf-mute mission pi’csonUtHl “Tlio School for
Scandal,” and “The Sorrows of MK Muonic*,” 1
entirely in tlio sign language and to an au
dience of mutes.
L. V. II. C’RoaBY, one of the originators of
negro minstrelsy, recently died at Uvyuolds,
Go. He first appeared as a minstrel forty
years ago. Ho entertained President Polk
nnd family nt the White hoii.se in 1840. Mr.
Crosby was a bass singer.
Herr Anton Dvorak, whoso “Stalnt
Mater” has won for him a nigh rank among
musical composers, lias bad a curiou» history,
lie was born Hopteiulier 8, 18-11, in auobHcurB
Bohemian town, of liuinble folk. At the age
of sixteen he entail'd the organ school at
Prague, having exhibitml previously marked
musical talent. At the age of tweilty-one he
played in the back row of tlio violas at the
opera house in the same city. Hubs fluently
both Brahms and Liszt, recognizing Id* ge
nius, to'came interested in IiIh fortunes, aiul
then J'Michini brought his ''hni)il>er musio
into prominent notice. Dvorak’s music wn»
firet Introduced to nn English iuidioico by
Herr Manns, who, in 1870, performed the first
of his Hlavonic dan* o».
THE JOKER’S
frn.i
•THAT Wit MNII IN TIIR IIIIJMIIMIW
I'At-lCItN TO rt.HII.K ?I»KU. .
IN THE TO'IT,
Slrnncor—“I lieMAthnt Mym Clnrk
QnincH lays cliiim to thin town."
lleniilent number—"You don’.t nay
BO I"
Htrangcr—"Yob; and Bhn savn that.ah*
van prove that, she owns it,"
Resident Dumber—"Hho does, doeit
she? Just wait until my winters bills.
aro made out. Then nee who owns the
town!”
the I’otomhe of tho (.rand Army of the He-
publiu «os held in Wnsliington to comniomo-
rato tho operatioiiB against VirksbarK. Cion-
ernl Jcsepli >t. Hnwley preside.1, nnd amonz
the quests wen Frem.lent Arthli 1 ', (tenerai
tiroiit, t’ecretory J.incoln, amt (-'eiieral I.o-
gnn.
Mjcsihehs of the Hoiibo coinniittoe on public
lands nre of opinion that a hill will Iw ro-
portied to repeal tlio pre emption nnd timber
culture acta, and to ameud the homcBteod
act.
Complete returns of the )x«tal revenues
or the first nnd second quartern of the pres
ent fiscal year and oetimnteB for the third
quarter give ‘ the following results: Gross re
ceipts for the ouarter ended fjoptcmlwr GO,
1883, $10,.-1115.8.7; for the quarter ended J)e-
cemtKU’31, IBS'), ascertained, (11,IS'.), 1118; esti
mated for f ho quarter ending March 81, 1881,
$10,703,01 J: estimated for the quarter ending
June ,30, 1*31, $10,737,340; total estimated
revenue for the yoaiy % to.cdi.i-ln; total -eve-
nue for year ended June ISO, 1881, $45,808,692;
falling off in the revenue for the present year,
$2,240,340.
I):-uin11 the first quai-ter of this year there
lies been a largo increase—mol e than twenty-
seven per cent.— in the sale of two-cent post
age stamps over the corresponding period of
I8s3. The issue of postal cards has fallen off
about 18,0( 0,000 pieces sin e the two-cent rate
was begun.
A bill to restrict the use of distilled spirits
to the arts an t manufactures has been re
ported r.dver. e'y in the Ho.:s?.
Foreign.
Captain Schoonhoven, of the wreeutrt
steamer Daniel Kteinmann, mad* at Haiitav
his formal statement of the terrible disaster.
He said that he had overrun his reckoning in
the fog, and. till fatally too late, .mistook
Sarabro light for that at another point. He
thought it guns had been fired by tho watch
ashore- lie might have been warned in time t-»
escapo tlio peril.
Five French missionaries and thirty eate-
chi.-ts linve boon massacred at Thanlioa, n
town in Tonquin.
Gknei-.ai, GoTtnox sbelleel the rebel enaip
near Kiuirtoum and kiihsl forty of Iho
enemy. Jn several engagements tietwoeu
General Gorelon's troo-.s and theArnlw the
latter were defeated, 'i'he lels-lsahoutTniar-
toiun are estimate 1 by Gordon to number
2,000.
A. M. Gillespie & Co., London mer
chants. have failed for $1,250,000.
Mr. Eaton reported a substitute for the
Presidential electore bill, which won referred
.... A bill was introduced liy Mr. Bowen to
provide for tho protection of employes of
railroad cor|>orations engaged in mter-otate
eonimeree nnd in the transportation of freight
by railway in the District of Columbia nnd
the Territories of tho United Matos.
After a abort debate tlie House |>osso:l tho
Henato resolution offering a reward of $->,-
0 Ki for tho rescue of the Greely party. J his
reward, Mr. Kills explained, is expected to
stimulate tlio sealers an l winders who go
north early in tho season, so that t$ey will be
on tho alert and take )»iins to explore the
hays, roasts and islands and soak for traces of
thu Greely party....Ill committee of tlur
whole I he pension appropriation bill was con
sidered. The bill appropriates $20,(»4,400
and reappropriates an amount estimate<l at
$66,1X10,000. Tin appropriations for the cur
rent year were $126,000,000. of which only
$25,673,001 were expended during the first
half of the year.
Mr Turr.e • Introduce! a bill reciting 1 hat
thebondh ldeis and mlllioiaires have pai 1
no lax on iu on esto supportt :cgovernment
river twenty yei s; tnat. taxes sh.uldbe
Imi os-’d and that, t :e e should be no favored
lass; oivl providing th it oil iu :omc tux of
Tree per cent. 0:1 over 85,0 XI. 11 .e per cent,
on over *!0,C0:>. anl ten pa- -ent. on o tr
$10 LOCO ba ccU.ctad A b ll wjs Intro-
dued by Mr. Dcrsh.diner aitboriong
the T resident to appoint and
retire John C. Fremont wlt.i tne
rank of major-general. A similar bid wai
introduced in tha Senate by Mr. Fberman .
Vr King introducerl a bill to place aernul-
turil implements, cotton ties, flannels, blan
ets, knit goods, and s me other articles on
the lire list.... A resolution was passe 1 di
recting the committee on agriculture to in
vert gate the re rortod introduction of th;
loot-an 1-mouth disea e iu o Maine
Ooino West.—Matthew Arnold told
a reporter that the further west he went
during his tour here the more discon
tented he lie (-nine. He only went ns far as
St. Louis. Boston he found too cold and
artificial. Philadelphia is, in his opin
ion, tlio handsomest of the big cities,
nnd Chestnut street is the onljjr "busi
ness-looking street in America. 1 It re
minded him of Bond street, London.
Some 30,000 children nre living on
niml-hoats jn England.
No Room for Anything Else.
“You can’t do nnytliing with a man sn
loug ns tho ofUoo soeking fever is in
him. You have got to’wntoh him, and
when ho meets with defeat or reverses in
politics, then fire somo sense into him.
Bnt ns long ns lie is red hot in n cam
paign, nothing will stop him. I havo
seen a politician wiio wns full of enthu
siasm nnd lioor, fall into tlio river nml
drown, nnd tho police pulled him out and
thon rolled him on a barrel, nnd pretty
soon lie came tn aud tho first tiling he
said wns * ’Rnh fur Tilden. Met ’em up
ngnin I’ You would liavo thought that
mail would quit politics, and try and lend
a different life, but tho next day lie was
going whooping around, electioneering
in the saloons pud on streot corners, with
n cork lifo-presorver strapped around
him. no is alivo yet, and is an oldor-
man. When a man gets into politics it
takes possession of him, nnd wherever
ho is ho is getting in his work for his
r ty. There was a ward )«ilitioi«u that
know once that used to make a
specialty of laboring with tlie working
mon. One day he was on top of a build
ing that was being erected, arguing with
a bricklayer, when his foot slipped and
he fell oil. As he was going down ho
passed a liod-carricr going tip with n load
of mortar. You would think that man
wonld forget politics, as he won falling,
and say his prayers, or nick out a soft
place to strike on the side-walk, but lie
didn’t. As he pnssed the hod-carrier he
yelled to him, ‘Don't forgot tho caucus
to-night in yonr ward, and get ont all
the boys.’ He struck in a bed of soft
mortar, which saved his life, and as they
took a hoo aud pulled him to tho sur
face he .scraped the mortar out of his
eyes, and as a doctor came up to set his
bones he asked the doctor if he hod
mode up his mind how to vote this year.
No, sir, there is no room in n politician
for anything except politics,”—Peck's
Sun, m
The Temperance Boom.
The women of Ulster county, New
York, may be said to hare soiled the
demon of intemperance by the throat.
They have gone to work in a manner
that will either eradicate the habit pf
drinking from that county or drive all
the men out of it. The matron* have
pledged themselves to neither buy nor
sell of a man who drinks, who sells
drinks ov who holds that It Is defensible
to do either. The young women have
signed a pledge which binds them to
avoid apeaking to all young men who
cannot put themselves right on the
total-abstinence question. These deter
mined women will make no exception on
account of social position, wealth, genius
or influence. They intend to bo.voott
every merchant who does nob vote for
prohibition. We shall wait to hear from
Ulster with anxiety. If the men up
there are as stubborn ns their sex usual
ly is, what a delightful plaoe that will bo
for tlio average temperance young man
in'nbout six weeks !—JV. I'. World.
Wf. strugglo with adversity, but suc
cess disarms ns.
PLANTATION rillLOSOPHT. * •' .
Do wise man au’ de fufl doan quarrel,
hut two fools or.two wiso mon kwn’t get
along so well. • , r ;
De man what mnrrir-s aAmnsn- dVtee
slio's go moro souse don ho lias is nobor
allowed ter lotto sight ct dot faok.
Do ohile dot too soon shows signs o’
smartness doan turn out ter he de
smartest mau. Do fust cotton dat opens
is never do bos'.
l)e gigglin’ girl ginorolly turns ont ter
be do woman what, doan laugh much,
an’ lomme tell yor, marriago an’ A lot o’
ohillnn will take de ohuokle outen de
mon’ o’ ’em.—Arkansaw TrOiVCllar. ,
IN A nniO-A BBAO STOUB.
Oustomcr ; -"How* much is that coat
of'moil worthrt” .- f*
Clork—"This, sir, is a very rnre ob
ject, centuries old; but wo will ldfyou
hove it for (non." * ;
Customer -"AJLright. I will t»hO;U.
provided, of conrso. it fits.” ™ .
Clerk—"Fit*?" 5 t
Customer—“IJ feqk? q t l 9P4tfK«J
forme.’' * , , ,
Clerk—"O real <MM*r$ you dtiait Wauta
to wear it, do your » ixmf m. twt
Customer—"Oil,^sbsj ’ I 'win put ft
avs*fsxwSw?**’'
Clerk—"At. • work, arid ip* a atfct vt!
l“o“w ?”f«v. |
Customer—"lami a bfabk 1 Agent f'i t vis
TEAn NcrrtH. • r ‘
Tho first loop of a marriage hoot ia in
bean knot. , ; j
Girls, this 1b the yenr for row."
yon give a young inirn slippett; 1
iiimlits. . a. ! Lav
From tlio combinations of loan yape
and n cold winter .qsost every girl has 1
cliaps on her hands.
Happiness. A curtained, warmed
room; a little, little light; one chair;
two lovers; night, and a disabled clock.
"Don't givo mo away ” is a very com
mon expression, yot yon won’t find one
girl iu n hundred who is bold onough to
say that to iter pap.
A woman says that very few men
have iho slightest idea how to hold a
baby, No, not until Jt gots tp bo (tbduf
sixteen or seventeen, ^ears old.
Benjamin Franklin said,. “He who
takes a wife takcscare.” We thjnk jliat
Benjamin was slightly mistaken,' and
that ho who takes a wifo is more, likely
to ioso hair.
A MfJKY a MIL.
Mnlxil—"So Captain Fiiul Roytott iff
to lie married.’’
Rditli—“Indeed 1 Who to?”
Maliol—“A Cincinnati girl, I be
lieve.” uitiunl
Edith—"Lucky girl I"
Mabol—"fs Captain, Boy tori shell a
great catch ?"
Edith—“I don’t know that ho is.
Mabel—"Then, why is she so lucky?”
Edith—"Yon said she lived in Cin-
oiunati, didn’t you ?”
• Mabel—“Yes.” . .
Edith—“Well, it is a mighty!lucky
tliiug for a Cincinnati girl fo have a
husbuud that can swim.”
IN TITB WliST.
News Editor—“Another railway disite-
lor—broken bridge—many killed, etc.,
etc. What shall I do with it ,
Monagiog pJitor—“Ob, pnt it in tw
column of "Every Day Hoppenings.’ ’
nORBIULE KEVEI.ATIONS,
Mabel—“Oh 1 Edith, X have just heard
tho awfulost thing about tho Blsiilw.
Edith—"Goodness gracioua t What is
it?”
1 in one end of the ater-
Mahol-
keep a fish ‘1
kot.” ’ ; . >
Edith—’ 'Ob, it can’t be I
Mabel—"But it ». Grsndma says
sho hue often seen him. oleamugdish
customers.” , , ,,, n »■ -a.
Edith—“How did gt ; andma hajgien t*>
see him?” • ' *i:« ■sioyr
Mabel—“.Why,
proprietor of an eg^ anu barter «n-
poram at the other^n^^ .M
idfeJffcdtjWWMTowwi. adT
Chicajfo EdHdfa-i'fWlujiwibiMM^taf
dehy the mighty power o{; .^ Westejh
Pr Chioago Cifizen—“WhiH jjmivts SW
^Editor—"You know it wai aiicovereH
gome time ago that"* man whoee piotaye
was in the rogues’ gallery had » position
under the city government ?’
Citizen—“Oh,>es ! and indignation
meetings were held and the papers
actually thundered againit the disgrace.
Editor—‘‘Well, I have, just reotuyed
intelligence that wo havo won, Slid
Chicago ciin ouoo more hold up hov licad
above all the world.”
Citizen—“Good; how was it man
aged?” , • ,
Editor—“Tlie authorities had to back
water, and they have taken his piottiro
ont of the rogues’ gallery.’