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JAS. BRRCKEXRIDGE, PuhUsjjjer.
VOLUMfftr.
A IIKAVV HUN.
I There mi successfully cut at the Booth
Boeton iron work*, In fulfillment on contract
With tlio United State# government, of the
largest gun ever constructed in this country.
When fully completed it will be about 30 feet
In length, of twelve Inch rlflo boro, and will
weigh 13,300 pounds. Tho coat of the gun will
be $2,800 or about one-half the sum a steel gun
would have coat. It is calculated to throw a
projectile six miles.
vVENTKUN UVK RTOt'K.
It is expectod that 300,000 head of oattlo will
bo driven bom Texas into Colorado this year,
and that 50,000 more will corao from other
western stetes. The calf crop of this year is
about 300,000, and when all Ur# new cattlo are
there Colorado stock will amount to 3,000,000.
Xhe largest purchaeers of Texas cattle have
been tho Pryor brothers of Pueblo. They will
drive 45,000 head into Colorado, and to do that
It will require a force of 40mon and 400 horses.
The Journey will last from sixty to ninety days t
DKMEltTKII UI.UOR3.
For a new state, California has a greater
number of deserted villages than oan be found
In any other section of tho country. In some
counties scarcely a vestlgo exists of the thriv
ing towns of a quarter of a century ago. Of
the 5,000,000 sheep in this Btato probably ono-
half are subsisted in the old mining counties,
grazing among the forgotton camps, citlos,
gulches, bars and canyons, out of which hun
dreds of millions have been taken,"adding to
tho general Wealth of tho world, but impover
ishing California.
CUBAN POLITIC*.
Discontent, financial disaster, disorder and
revolutionary symptoms are the main features
of the situation in Cuba. There aro, too, no
less evil conditions and forebodings of open
outbreaks of violence in Mexico, nominally re
publican and actually free, but untrained in
either in republican government or free insti
tutions. The worst foaturo of the Mexican
situation is the utter worthleBsuoss of most of
the local authorities. Universal distrust' pre
vails and no wisdom or leadership adoquate for
the crisis seems to cxiBt.
OUR EXPORT*..
Tho value of exportsof domestic cattle, hogs,
beef, pork and dairy products for March, 1884,
was $5,610,905) for the same month in 1883,
$10,434,325. . For the three months ended
March 81, 1884, $21,657,682, against $81,205,
190 for tho corresponding period last year.
Beef and pork products for the five mouths
ended March 31, 1884, $38,421,000, against
$48,048,900 for the same time in 1883. Dairy
products for eleven months ended March 31,
1884, $15,204,043, against $12,093,972 for tho
corresponding montliB in 1883.
• DURATION OF LIFE.
According to Dr. Farr, if wo take the march
o. a mimon cntWrcn through life, tho follow
ing will bo tho result: Nearly 150,000 will die
the first year, 58,000 the second year, 28,000
tho third year, and less than 4,000 in the thir
teenth year. At tho end of forty-five years
500,000 will havo died. At the end of sixty
years 370,000 will be still living; at the end of
eighty years, 90,000; at eighty-five years,
000, and at ninety-five yearB, 2,100. At the
end of 100 years there will be 328, and at the
end of 108 years thero will be one survivor.
aatolhs
M no doubt
. filth, cold and
any conn-
•hum of ths grant
* ONWARD AND UPWARD
UUB8CRIPIION i $1.10 Peri
UNTY, GA„ THURSDAY, MAY* 15. 1884.
NUMBER 33.
WHAT IT MEANS.
An umbrella carried over a woman, the man _
getting nothing but the drippings ofths rain, shape in the (paosVf~144 hoots byt
signifies oourtshlp. When the men bsa thetlie Bible was a UAAnd all rsligien train f
umbrella and the woman the drippinp tt lndi.' “To-day," he'saya,' "nafir
cates marriage. , . “•
AMERICAN BILK.
One of the largest Philadelphia jobhsN
that very nearly one-half of all the'
sold In the United States are of
facture, spun by Amerii
and woven on American
RCaWoFR]
Judah P. P-^imltii the
and advocate and ex-moml
ment of the southern coi
died in his apartments,^
He had been in felling health
while descending from a
yean ago, •' . •
eel* In Ireland.
There are no snakes in Ireland, but tho cols
make up for any deficiency in this regard. It
is c common thing to catch eels in Ireland ten
feet long and as big around as emeu's thigh.
They are found only in tho deepest water wliero
they lurk under the rocks. When oneie
caught he leahee around like a boaconstrlctor,
and if he gets a man's foot into his mouth ho.
will not let go until hie hoed is cut off.
FIGHTING MEXICANS.
Mexico bee more bloody, beastly fights to the
death among its desperadoes than any other
country. A Moxican is quick to take an offence,
ready to fight, and if necessary will treasure
his wrong for years until he has an opportu
nity of wreaking his vengeanoe. The courage
of these people Is more frequently manifested
in their hand to hand encounters than in any
othorway. -
charge* shall be levied U(
MogUrouga any
TO BUY CUBA.
The proposition for the purchase of the
(stand of Cuba has been revived. In this con
nection it is interesting to recall the fact that
before the outbreak of the rebellion Senator
Slidell introduced a bill in Congress appropria
ting $30,000,000 for that purpose. He wanted
to make a slave state of it. Nothing ever
came of the measure. It iR interesting to re
call alBo that in 1825 Spain was willing to cede
Cuba to the United States in return for some
commercial concessions, but our government
wouhbnot consent.
IN THE BEGINNING,
Dr. W. J. Beecher, of Auburn theological
seminary, tells his students that, when lie bey
gan reading religions newspapers there weffe
plenty of leaders of religious thought who
exolusivoly to
its in tha two former states. The
evidently bean badly
weather. .Wisconsin reports
falling off In the acreage of'spring wheat, as
the farmers are giving greitei r *ttcu&i*4o the
datry r - Dakota aud Minnesota have a larger
acreage than last year, and there la a prosper^
of tho largest yield for years, no damage from
Insects being reported from any point.
NEW THING IN MTATIBNERY.
The shades of fashionable writing paper now
in use are . white, drab, cream, golden rod
cream, perfootion cream, mazorino blue, cof
fee, burnt cafe, peach, wild rose, moss green,
sea shell, otd gold, chocolate, shrimp, tor-
qttoise and dozens of others, somo naw tint
coming up every day. Damask paper in tints
ta in fair demand to-day, and Irish linen paper
both rough and smooth, will always bo popu
lar. One of tho present styles known as tho
'Forgo” has the appcaranco of having been
hammered by a blacksmith, and hence ita
uame. A pen glides over ita undulating sur-
aco without any trouble.
OUR NATIVE WOOD*.
There are in the United 8tat<B 36 variolles.of
ak, 34 df p(uk, 0 of fir, 6 of spruce, 4 of boto-
ick, 3 ot pcraommbn, 13 ot alh, 18 of willow;'
xnd 9 of poplar, Tha New York museum of
natural history Is to'liavo a complotc collection
of the native woods of onr entire oonntry. Tha
toga aro being prepared In' the arsenal at Cen
tral Park.. They are, for the most part, flvo
feet long. At one end a section of half tho
thickness of the tog Is removed. In this way
the longitudinal and transverse graiuings aro
both shown. There is also a diagonal out on
the section, which displays that graining also.
The remainder of the lag reinainaii^'hs natu
ral condition, with the bark attached.
TIN DEPOSIT* IN T1IE UNITED STATE*.
Thero will be no need of sending abroad for
tih in future. Last year wo imported 24,000,-
000 pounds of block tin, worth more than $6,-
000,000, aud of tin plato and other manufact
ures we received lioarly $20,000,000 worth. Hio
tin deposits of California, North Carolina and
Georgia bavo been pushed to their utmost,
with the exception of the North Carolina de
posit, which is a nowly discovered ouo. Re
cently, however, an immense field of tin haB
been found in tho Black Hills. It it believed
that this new field iB practically incxliaustib|c-
Tho tin is found in the granite region, and
was discovered by miners who were prospect
ing for mics.
WASHINGTON MONUMENT.
Tho Washington monument, now 414 foot
high, is visibio at a distance of miles from tho
city. Tho blocks of white marble of wliioh tho
obelisk is composed are of all sizes and quali
ties, and conic from all parts of llio world.
A$hong some of tho most interesting are a
block from Win. Toll’s ehapol on lako Lucorno,
erected in 1388, one from the ruined palace of
Ilanuibal at Cai'tbagc, a largo white ma bio
from a temple crectod by Augustus oil the Nile,
a massive block from Russia, and finely chis
eled stoucB from Braddock's Field, Bni.kcr
Hill, Vesuvius, tho Buddhist pile of Siam, the
temple of Esculapius in the isle of Paros, and
from other places of interest in every country
under the sun.
COLORED COFFEE.
More than half tho coffee sold is artificially
colored, aud the health officers of Now York
have made sojne Startling discoveries. They
procured samples.ef the coloring matter used,
and of the mirdkstM beans so treated. They
found that the coloring'inattar contained both
arsenic and leadj'alsb chrome yellow, Prussian
blue, yellow ochre, umber, Vonetian red, lamp
black, gum Arabic, soapstono and charcoal.
The dealers try to make the cheaper grade of
coffee resemble tire genuine Java, wliich lias a
/color produced by tho long voyago,
Severe! of the large coffee houses in New York
claim that while they color their coffee they
nso no injurious dyes. Tho matter will bo
thoroughly investigated.
DEMAND FOR FACT*.
The erratic jonmaliat who objected to facts
“because they hampered a writer," will soon
find his occupation gono. People of the pres
ent day want their fiction iu^tho shape of fic
tion, and they will Btand a gooffdoal of it, but
there never was a. tlino wjrcn -ifiere was such a
universal demand for facts^Hn this country
the writers who command Abe widest circlo of
readers are practical, wellqiosted, business-like
men who know how to handle attractively the
salient points of interest about people, places
and thingB. Tho country is going ahead with
such a rush that people have the keenest, live
liest curiosity to keep up with it. This ac
counts for fho popularity of newspapers. What
the modern reader wants Spread out before
him every day is a map of busy life, itB fluctua
tions and vast concerns
THE CHOLERA.
The periodical pestilence scare is familiar to
everybody. This year tho minors come early.
Well defined cases of cholera aro reported in
eastern Europe and Asia, and at Marseilles and
otlior French portH active preventive measures
have been taken. Now • thero is no sense in a
premature alarm. But we have a long Bum
mer before us, and Egypt the nursery of the
disease is giving it a terrible vitality and start
ing it ont betimes ou its death dealing march.
work. , v -
irta, tbd in
will preserve na
cholera visitation button
summer diseases, if jh#
sanitary authorities will put in their work sral 1
daring th« next thirty days, all wiU bo well,,
• ’ «*
WHAT THE HtUlWKRM MAY.
For some year* the temperance peo
ple have teen getting the b:at of John
Barleycorn in a comparison of statistic*.
This has stirred up the United States
Brewers’ association, and that body ha
recently published a queer volume enti
tled “The Beal nnd Imaginary Effects of
Intemperance." It is a statistical
sketch of Borne interest. Tho author
concludes from official figures in the rev
enue department that intemperance is
decreasing. In 1870 tho consumption
of distilled spirits in this country was
about five quarts per oapita, and in 1880
it was but throe and a half. In addition
to this proof ths book speaki of the ous-
tom of fifty years ago, when every house
kept liquor on band, when all visitors
were given liquid refreshments, and
when all harvest hands considered a jug
of rum and water as part of the refresh
ments to ho furnished by their employer,
Reports from fifty-four asylum* contain
ing 36,978 patients show that 2,B88 in
mates were made insane by intemper,
snee, or lea than seven per cent of the
whole number. That .beer ‘drinking
leads to spirit drinking is answered bgr
figures showing that in Munioh whore
Uie annual consumption of beer is 238 . 1
quarts per capita, out of 10,000 hospital
patients only twenty-one wen sufferers
from alcoholism. That dmnkenou is
the chief cause of poverty is opposed by
the statement that, according to the
Massachusetts census, of 4,842 pttupo
only 584 had been intemperate or the
children of intemperate parents Tho
Brewers’ association will have a big job
on hand if this statistical warfare is to
lie kept up. When the modieal men,
prison wardens nnd judgos of tho crimi
nal court are heard from, the tomper-
ance people will have the best of the
argument.
APPROPRIATION* OP INTERKMT TO
TIIE PEOPLE OF THE MOUTII.
Among the appropriations in the
River and Harbor Bill, aa reported to
tho House, ate the following;
Big Sandy (W. Va.) $45,000
Clrent Kanawha (W. Va.) 200,000
Little Kanawha (W. Va.) 81,«00
Monongahela (W. Va.) 45,000
Pearl (Miss) 12,500
Yazoo (Miss) 10,000
Red (La.) 76 000
Mouth ef the Brazos (Texas)..., 10,000
Buffalo Bayou (Texas) 25,000
Arkansas at Pine Bluff 5,500
Black (Ark.) 20,000
Onachitn (Ark.) and Black (Ln.) 15,( 00
White (Ark.) 85,000
Cumberland, below Nashville... 7,600
Cumberland, between Nashville
and Smith’s shoals 2,000
Tennessoe, above Chattanooga.. 3,000
Tennessee, below Chattanooga. .850,000
South Fork of the Cumberland,
(Ky.) 4,000
Kentucky (Ky.) 250,000
Ohio 600,000
At th Grand rapids of tho Wn-
basli (Ind.) 35,000
Vabash, between Vincennes aud
Torre Haute (Ind.) 10,000
White (Ind.) 10,000
-esffrxoirs at headwaters of tho
Mississippi 60,000
fississippi, from St. Paul to Des
MoincB rapids 250,000
t Des Moines rapids 60,000
lississippi, from Do# Moines
rapids to the Illinois river.... 20,000
'.iesissippi, from the Illinois riv
er to Cairo 500,000
Tississippi river, below Cairo to
the head passes 125,000
emoving obstructions in the Mis
sissippi 75.000
emoving obstructions in the Ar
kansas 30,000
ontinuing the survey of tho
Arkansas 21,090
The Ohio at tho Falls 300,000
Among the appropriations for ha:bore
are;
Charleston, 8. C 250 000
Savannah, Ga 150,000
Cumberland Sound, Ua 75,COO
Mobilo 200,000
J’ennsacola 50,000
Tampa Bay 20,000
4 ’Arkansas Pass and Bay, Texas. .100,000
’' Galveston 250,000
Passo Cavalo, Texas 50,000
Sabine Pass, Texas 150,000
Cincinnati Harbor of Refuge.... 17,000
Fail-port, 0 10,000
Mouth of the Muskingum river,
Ohio 20,000
There aro a large number of minor ap
propriations in the bill for rivers and
harbors in vnrious parts of the country.
The bill provides for a Missouri River
Commission also no tollB or operating
« in Colo, ado and made in tho
of tho Fart or Dimraven and othei
men, aid which said entries
. ..alleged to bo fraudulent.
4 Mr. M|n IVyok said his obiectln offering th>
■ -reeql non was i.ot only to have action tak in
- by Congress to protect tho public d main,
but to hare stfrh a t on taken Very speedily.
Ho A mwished (benotion taken ln order taat
it may eervo as t-btlce hi innocent pereo m la
foreign conn! rice who invest money hi laiuls,
t'le title ti wliich thoy snppoie to have be m
prop.'Hy acquired... .Discussion on the ship-
1 inff bill was o intinurd.
Trie ajrlcultural appropriation bill wee
rejiorted back to the Penate. Tho Henato
committee has increased tho appropriation
for sorghum experiments from (lil.OtOto
S’iO-.OOO, and has added a provision for ar
tesian wet's to reclaim arid lan Is, $90,000,
and one for oncou-ngtuw tilk c.iltuie, $l>,onu
...»Mr. Plumb iutrodn led n bill t > prevent
tho acquisition of res' estate by slionv
It provfdos that aliens who havo notdeclared
tl air intention tn besoms (Risen* shall not
uc (ulre title to real estate in any of the Territo
ries or in ths District of ( oiombla. It pro
vides that no foreign corpor
ten per rent, of the sto -k ot
aliens, shall Require It In to
Territories or In I ho District
tint no corporation, native
ho nega-
rnilroads shall acquire morn than I
Mr. Van Wyck el o introduced a I
restrict the ownership by alien* and f. _
corporations and companies of publlo lam
and of any land in tho Territories
A'tor final tpiectxa by Menrs. Randall
a*d Kaason against, and by Meiers. Morr s m
ami Ulaokbu n in facer of the tarlf bill, a
motion to nlke out iti muting circs',
whi-'h pra -.'i ally kl.li the biU, was carried,
Amid mtieh excitement by 15(1 rove to 165
nays-forty one Democrats voting In the
ntir.nativsand ftor Republican t in tin
„4.ve.
L MaHVto
I Tho TarilF'debate was continued In ths
, flluiiBo, brief speoemb Doing made by Meson.
Retell, Belmont, Cox, Vance, Hoblltzell and
ethers An evening session was hold (or
the consideration of pension bills.
'. The House derided in the Virginia con
tested elect ion case of O'Ferrail against l’aul
that, (I’Fercnll was entitled to tho seat. Me
at elite, took the oath of office....At ths
evening session speeches were made hy
Mrs is. Young, Holman, Woodward, Mor
gan,Sumner, Hrockrnridge and Oates in favor
or, and Messrs. Forr if, Connelly, Davis,
.'nmes. Fkbinor, Hpriggs nnd Taylor against
the tariff trill
The report, of tho committee on privl'eges
a id elections in relation to the Copnti co in
ly (Ml.s.1, election troubles, wns Ini 1 liefors
(lie Somite... .i lio bill to provide fora free
bridge a ross the I’utoinac 11 ror was uaserd
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
It is said tl.a^ Mr. Mati-lww Arnold .’.’earjI
Fix thousand dollnr.4 from the bwcg'-uom and
light he distributed omonj tin.
Harrison, the reviva!i*t, Hayn tint tint
hymn, “Jomw Haves,” was writtjn by the
n.oit godly woman ho ever naw.
M. Dk Lksbkth often Hleei« for tweuty-
four hours on a atretch, and t ten goes a who o
week without a moment ? dozing.
General “Lew’ Wallace, <ur minister
to Turkey, will devote hiniHo’f entirely to
literary pursuit* on hit* return from Constan*
tinople.
Gilbert Du La Matyr, tho Greenb.vk ad-
vocato and ojeOngreBMn m, is pastor now of
a fashionable church at Ht. Paul, into whi h
he haB introduced an orchestra.
At a recent ball in New Orlcann in ih?
most conspicuous* box, tho center of all eye*
sat Jefferson Davis, the daughters of General
Loo, and tho wife of Htonowall dnekton
NEWS OF THS WEES.
' " "S — - - —
Xastsra sat XlMlt Mates
Forest Urea have dona n Immense anuoiM
of damage In portions of'New Yo:k, Penn
sylvania and New Jersey. In many distri ti
tha flames raged w4 u r.ncxamp ed fury,
sweeping away everythin; in th tr path for
mtl«i. 1 he burning woods i ot fire to n pow
der company s Works near Hiranton, l’enn,,
and by the explosion which followed one
workman was killed nnd two injured. The
lumbering village of California, Penn., was
-almost entirely destroyed by the flames.
Other towns were reported to bo nb'.nie or
teriouxly threatened by tho advnnrinz flames.
Several mountains In the thro3 Mtatas were
oh lire, and many lives were reported lost.
Two men were instantly killed and live
othera seriously Injured by the sudden fail of
the rafters of a buildiag which they were
tearing down In 5VI1 iumsbtirg, N. Y.
Gilman's Station, a busy hamlet in 8ul
livsn county, N. Y., was destroyed by the
foro-t t ree. In all eighteen btiiUlluus, 20,-
000,003 foet of lumber, and four care loads I
with lumber were fed to the name'. All the
buildings dost: oyqd belonged to hire Oilman,
whose lore is $150,600. ana many of his IftO
employes lost their all. A tract of laud tan
nd re long and two n IPs wide waa burned
over.
Mix men were kll'ed by the exnloalon of a
boiler attached to the Whltnoy Marble com
peny’s works near Gouvornetir, V. Y.
C.xnnaB CaoasAt’t.T, bis wife and twe
children wore bunted to death in a lire which
destroyed aerrral building. In Clinton county
Foiirtrrn men, Including an In lion and a
negro, st-.rtel Inineslx-dny,go-as-you-rluse
■edratrian match in Now Yolk, revon
Ben were on the track at tl s
end of tho sixth day, having arc m-
ytebrd the fUi miira necessary to obtain a
share of thegate rccelpte. During tho week
Mur. wav a force contest for first place be-
Wreon Rowell and Mtzgrrnd. i.reloneant
Mien tho other bring ahead, tin the last dny
ltowell mode a dtwmra'e effort to rega'n Ins
lost lead, but rould not get nrarrr than t
within four miles of Kitsgcraid. 1mm, nee
ciowds vooffere u'ly (beared the eont atanw
all the week. The previous highest score
on record — 600 miles, made hy HaeOet
In DW — was beaten. Fellowring are
th. scores of tho sevoa men who qivlded tho
gate money, anil tho nntount reio.vel Inr
each: Patrick Fltagera'd, of HOnte w Point,
lx ng Island, IU0 miles, $11,600; tharlsi
ltowell, of Eiiginiuli IAI3 miles, 14,100; Peter
J. Panrhot, of lliiffalo, N. Y., 5.M miles, $2,-
1100; (I, o-ge D. Noreniae, of Newr York, 515
tnllce, $1,400; D. J. herty, of Breton, 033
mil,a, (1,000; Robert. Vint, of Brooklyn, f-.O
miles, $801; Alfred Klson, of Connect'cit,
525 mile*, $4$.
A Hi Aintsa emhaesy to this country, with
Prince Krotn Mi,n Narca Va ariddhl.tlie lud(
brother of King llirobat Homdetch
Pina Parameiido Mahnh Chulah-
longkoro, of Siam, at tho lie id as envoy ox
Inordinary and minister plenipotentiary,
Were received with naval honore upon their
arrival In New Y oik. From the mrtropolls
they proejoded to Washington.
Much etcitement wns created In New York
by the announcement that two llfaboaia be
longing to the o.oiui steauiablp Htata of
Florida, from New York, bound for GlaagoW,
Hcotlnnd, had bi on picked up at sea. The
Htnte of Florida oarried thirty-five cabin uud
fifty steerage pi a.cngers, anil her otllcera aui
crew numbvrivl eighty |iersons—1115 so ils Al-
t igctlicr. A sailing veasul which was sighted
by another steamship sent out signals indica
ting that slie hud some, of tho I pining steam
ship's people on hoard.
Losses from the forest flros in Elk county
Penn., are ovtimated at $1,009,000.
Twkntv thousand neoplo wore preeont at
the formal opening of the new Fioduc. Kx
change building in New York.
HuNmiEDSof coninus of high and low de
gree wore on exhibition at the dog show,
which follow od the pedestrian match at tha
Mi.ds m Square garden, N,w York. Presl-
d n nt Arthur was I opreei nted by a red rasatf if.
'Iho l.l|7 dogs on exhlbl.ion were valued at
over $350,000,
Hon. Truman Hmitu, ex-Uulted Htatea
Senator, and for several succaseive terms a
member of the lower hours of Congress from
Comic dicut, did a few days since in Btnm-
foivl, Conn., at tho ripe old ago of ninoty
three ycurs.
5Vild excitement prevail -d ln 4Yall s'revot
financial circles npou tlie announrenieat that
A tornado which attach ’tea towns of Dal
church a d several cabins, sad damaged
many other buildiag*.
Edward Thompson, of-Roland. Iowa,
struck hla wife with an pa, whan Ms bto-har
Interfered Htruggling together. tho two
men tell into a well and wars bath hfiled
Ilia. Tl.ompaon was roortal y lnJmrd.
The steamer B. B. Ford cmkM firs white
at her pier at Cheatertown, Jld.. and was
burned to tho watar'aodge.. Me ooat$»,«B
to build, aud $50,000 more had bean aa-
pended on her in improvemeMk.
A obass lire started for fun by how*' in
Cedi coi nty, Md., travened a tract of terri
tory eight miles long and three wtds. Atom
numlHr of bains and other buildlno, with
much valuable timber, were consumed
A nsa at UalmeevUte,'
thirty-five hi U Itnga. The ti
mate! at fil’d,0.0.
Violent storms hvvedretroyed much prop-
a ty In portions of Iowa, Uljnote and Arkan-
av. At Lit la Reck, Ark., a shed fell on a
number of convict* employed ln hrtok-mak-
Inc. killn; one and a-rtouay Injuring an
other.
lo.crn F. Mdsmu. Jr., died at Itobfli
Ala., the ether day, of a strange malady.
He was mb o-t to torrlhle ronvnfilona when
asleep on’y. II Is father or some otli-r at
tendant wav, th-refo-*. always prrednl at
eight to prevent hiv falling asleep, and tha
on y res', obtained for a dojea yuan Waa n
state of dozing- ,
M. V. TFagNkr, a prnmlhen*^business man
of Marshall, Mi h.. ban Just bean, re-elected
mayor of thvt llvoly rl'y by a largely in-
prpaned liiD^ority.
Htrono feeling ntnlnnt the Drjtlihfoveni-
ment erlftt: among trie people of cngfanjl m
account of the abandenmenf ef General Ckir-
don t ■» hie fate.
Governor Hoiiinson. of Maosachusott^ ' the Marine XCgti njal h»uk, mippoeeii be one
wantfi “fo-shionablo drinking” attacked nett, of the mos^eonyorvaflvo and fccuroit bank!
and hopes tho tine will hooii oomo wh *n wine in New Vo k, had cioH’sl its dojra.
Mrh. MoElroy, tlio PreBldentVBieter, docs
not oxixict to return to the White Hom:e, she
«iyu, before January next Khe hoe modest,
yet affable mannen*, and has become a great
'avorito in Wtushin^ton.
It is said that tlio health of Unit’.*! Htatea
Senator Farley, of California, has been Her! -
ously impuito 1 by th’) ufA, on hh* beard, of a
hair dye, which lias boon found to contain
poinonouH ingredients.
Cijkti-s Lee, the eldest son of General R.
E. Leo, has tde reputation of being the hand
somest man in Virginia. His bearing as ho
? ;i own older is remarkably like that of his
at er. The youngest wm of tho family is a
quiet farmer near Richmond.
Mrs, General Lander, who is working
for the Garfield Memorial Hospital, in Wash
ington, says that five hundred dollar* a year,
or the interest of ten thousand dollar , will
endow a bed to perpetuity, and the donor will
have the privilege of saying who shall oc
cupy it
General Robert Toombs, speaking the
o‘her day of Liberty Hall, the home of Alex
ander H. Stephens, said: “I want the people
of Georgia to buy tho property, and when
they do X will endow it witn enough to make
it such a college ns little Aleck would like to
see there if he were alive.”
Secretary Frelinghuysen occupies a
large third-floor in Washington, furnisne l in
walnut and light brown leuther, with Turk
ish rugs on the hardwood floor. At the s de
of his desk is a srna'l btand bearing a polyglot
Bible, with notes and index. In writing ths
secretary uses a gold pen in a cork holder.
Lieutenant Wagner, of the Sixth In 'ai-
try. has been awarded the gold medal of the
Military Service institution of the United
Stites lor the best C8say on the “Military No
tes? i ies of the United Stute* and the Best
Provisions for Meeting Thom.” Gener
als .Sherman. Franklin and Tower were tho
judges.
“Surely you can trust me ?” he said in
pleading tones.
“No,” the lady replied sorrowfully.
- “I can put no more trust in men. My
experience has beon too, too bitter.”
“But I Bwear by yonder ”
“Do not Hwep.r,” she interrupted; “it
is useless. Yon must forget what has
passed between us,” as she walked to
the back end of the store and sat down
under the counter.
He was trying to buy a new spring
bonnet for his wife on tick.
About
two hours Ittt t tin bankii g bouao of Grant
A; Ward, of which Gcnoral Grant i* a
special, and his non, Cly/sen H. Jr., g mini
partn *r, also sunn n l« I, with liab lit en eafci-
inn'id lit auywiwo bo:worn $ O'J.OOO ant
$1,100,0,0. Pio idont Fis i, of tlu Marina
bank, in nl<o a «i e ’iai partner in tho firm of
Grant A Ward, whi!o tho la-t named part
ner, Ferdinand Ward, is a dirjctir in the
bank. '1 h»w the bank and (he firm were so
Identifcd lli.aii la'ly that the collapao of the
one was clote y followe l by the nuir/onHion of
tho otto-. '1 ho bank had a largo amount of
mrnoy on doprait, including $1,001,000 of
city funds, but it was thought tho do-
poitori would bo eventually pa’d in
lull. It was claime 1 that i resi
dent Fish and Mr. Ward hal lo*t heavily in
iolnt roil estate sf.e.ul it.on, tl al the firm of
Giant A Hard had ovordiawn it* a omit
at the I ank t th extor.tof more than $*>00,
000, andJr. h s caused the bank'ssuspen
son. (ter 1 * ..'Grant wa* reported to b
hravry lojtr Dy the double ru -pens on The
two fa'lurei) ranvd a fo-1 rg of inuecuriy
an«l a.i.rm in Wa’l str^ t thxt la* not pre
vail id thero in year.'.
tenth and Weal.
Sheriff At.vins, of Boone county, W.
Va., was vi. it d at his house by a band of
robbers, who de.-randod his money, and upon
his refuxil to give it up thoy shot him dead.
The robbers n.»xt visited Alan on J. Woods’
farrahor.83 nnd Intally shot Mr. Woods nnd
killed his ron Albert, but wete driven
off by his daughter at the point of a revol\ er.
Two hundred citi ons wen in pur* it of the
murderers, and throe o? them -Scott Hill,
IrownJow Hill and Charles hpurlock—were
cap'tired nnd taken to Ht. Alboiw A crowd
o r ; 00 took the Hill brot'.ers away from the
officer an t hange I them. Fpurock was spir
ited away by ottcers to Cl aries own.
FouKiobbeni entered a bank at Med cine
Lodge, Kansas, and shot and killed tho
cashier, George Geppcrt, and la£olly
wounded tin president, K. W. Fayns. Than
they fled without securing any money. A
large crowd of i itizens followed and captured
them. Thei'- impr;sonment in jail wa* short,
how ver for a crowd took thre? o.’ them out
and hanged them; the fourth was s .ot to
death in his cell.
William McHugh and Enoch Brown
(colored) were h tngod for wife murder—the
former nt Cincinnati nnd the latter at Hali
fax (,'ourt House, N. C. For n f irnilar ci-irno
William Brooks (colored) wa* swung into
eternity at Alexandria, La.
Fop. stealing $150, a colored boy eighteen
yeurs old wi s taken out of jail at Burlington.
Ky., by a party of l&J uiOfcktd men and
bunged to a trie.
Judge ttYLt* deddwt In tha criminal
court at- Washington that the pretscution
against ca-Bchator Kellogg la Nutm by tho
statute of Upnitations; accordingly a vardict
of “not guilty ” was entered by the jury.
The secretory of the Interior km Him-
milled te Senator Flumb, cha rman of tho
mNiTrittTf on public lands, reports firm
special sgrnte, showing tlie methods atfcgM
(or the unlawful acquisition of tU’e to puM
lands ih ths interest of foroign capitalists.
The receipts of the United Btnlss govern-
nwsil in April wwe: Customs $MV).»75,005;
internal revenue. mlsoMlMieans,
f.fi.fmi.o.VJ: total receipts, $2‘9.aO$,«tA
against $MI1,t*d,*g> In the same time Inal
year. Goiernment rxrenssa in April were:
Ordinary, $118,015,»i7; pensions, $41,Ml,
Rina til last year.
DtihiNO April the national debt was tto-
rraaaeil $\3 f-',D7.V2i», leavlngthe total debt
at $1,4«M,0i0,mtl0, with $j#»,75»,«H.«5 ta
thntreasury. ’
Th* coinage executed in the variqoa United
Male, mints during April con dated ofilO,-
minor coins, worth MKI.m ■ TdUl ca4*fla»
4,545,70(1 pieces, worth $4,402,410.
Tbs bill amending the Chtaase sreirndtoa
act passed the Home by 184 yeas to 13 Days.
TnaHenate oonflrmod the Domination of
Henry W. Cannon to he controller of the cor-
reucy.
Tn* House committee On Invalid penriooa
instructed Reptreantative M
favorably Mr. Ryan's bill, rot
Ration ta the arrears of pami
the hill introduced in Hie Senate I
'Ingalls.
fmlia.
Fn*Mian Gladstone stated hi th* British
house of commons that neither Khartoum
nor General Gordon, who fa irttrenebed there,
were in military peril.
Bandh of insurgents have been committing
depredations in Spain, cutting Sriagrepb
wires and destroying a railroad bridge.
A wall belonging to a horned bolldtnT ta
London fen auddsoly, burying.fifty wort-
men in the ruins. Eleven menwefeserlouUj
injured.
Tnc ship Atlantine, of Drammea. Jforway,
was wrecked in a gale near the Magdalen
h ands. Nineteen five, were lost, the second
mate I wing the only survivor, i.
Min Uxtiqy Wuorr, well Imqvn ta thl
country, of whl -h he was a native, aa Cheva
lier tvisoir, ex-journaltst, diplomat, and man
of Iho world, died a few days ajo m London,
aged about s xty-flve yea’*.
A call of the Ruvian go-ornmmt fora
loon or $15,000,030 has b -on reapon te4 to by
anhscriplioui amounting tomme-th*** seven-
t en times that sum.
It is stated that owing to tha discovery a*
Moscow of a plot to asses lnate the rear, the
festivities designed in honor of-th* : coming
of ago of the csaiivkb.,wiU If.
Fetcrsliurg.
M. Ccrciiod, tlie manager e( apremlno-it
Hwiss lionk at iAiusanm, has been arrested.
The institution has sunk $809,#3 ta apota-
lafcors’ scan nts. >
A Dublin Hispst h siys Michael Davltt,
the noted Irish lio ne-ruie leader, on account
of differences with Mr. PameU, hoe retire!
from politics, and w’ll sett’s In Australia.
A dispatch has b?en pubR-hed from Gao-
ernl Gordon stating that as there is no inten
tion of rending relief to him at Khartoum
or to Berber, he will hold himself as long as
he can, ahd than retire to the Kjtatar.
■: 1-' ■
"Oli, some one is coming up the stops,
ms I” exclaimed Mize Pyrkins to ner
mother, who keeps a Boarding-house,
“Shall I go to the door?"
“No, indeed,” answered Mrs. Pyrkins,
bustling around. “It is a young man
who is probably looking for Doara. Go
down into the parlor ana be playing a
dreamy air on the piano when ne cornea
in.’’
“Yea, I know; bat sene one must at
tend to the door. There goes tlie bell
now.” .
“Well, I wiU run to the Wtohsn and
send Jane to open the door, and while
you are playing and Jane is showing
him in i will Im pounding on the table
with a rolling-pin.”
“But what for, mi?" ,
“It will sound aa if tee had two ser
vants and were going to have beefsteak
for lunoh.”
On, yes; we know ho\y to oust a gloom
over n man. It we just want to agonize
hint wo say: “I out a mighty pleasant
notico of you out of somo paper thin
morning, hut I’ve lost it.” And then h«
frantically wants to know what paper it
was and we can’t remember, and it
drives him nearly to madness.