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Morse Reckoning. A Russian doctor has been experi- tuenting to find how far some of our domestic animals can count. The in telligence of the horse, as this is shown in mathematics, seems to surpass that of the cat or the dog. The instances given by him are interesting, but be fore they are accepted as authentic they should be verified by the obser vations of naturalists whose skill and care are unquestioned. He found a horse which was able to count the mile posts along the way. It had been trained by its master to stop for its feed whenever they had covered twenty-five versts. One day they tried the horse over a road where three false milo posts had been put in between the real ones, and sure enough, the horse, deceived by this trick, stopped for his oats at the end of twenty-two versts instead of going the usual twenty-five. The same horse was accustomed to being fed every day at the stroke of noon. The doctor observed that whenever the chick, struck, the horse would stop and prick up his ears as if counting. If he heard twelve strokes he would •' ro off contentedly to be fed, but if it were fewer than twelve he would resignedly go on working. The experiment was made of striking twelve strokes at the wrong time, whereupon the horse started for his oats, in spite of the fact that he had been fed only an hour before.—Ex. The Old-Fashioned Girl. She can peel and boil potatoes, make a salad of tomatoes, but she doesn’t know a Latin noun from Greek. And so well she cooks a chicken that your appetite would quicken, but she can not tell wliat’s modern from an tique. She knows how to set a table, and make order out of bable, but she doesn’t know Euripides from Kant, Once at making pie I caught her Jove, an expert must have taught her—but she doesn’t know true elo quence from rant. She has a firm conviction one ought only to read fiction, and she doesn’t care for science, not a bit. And the way she makes lier bonnets sure is worth a thousand sonnets, but she doesn’t yearn for culture, not a whit. She can make her wraps and dresses ’til a fellow fast confesses, that there’s not another maiden half so sweet. She’s immersed in home completely, where she keeps all things so neatly, but from Browning not a line can she repeat. Well, in fact, she’s just a woman, gentle, lovable, and human, and her faults she is willing to admit. ‘Twere foolish to have tarried, so we went off and got married, I tell you I am mighty glad of it. - Farm, and Fireside. Stamps valued at 81(19,249,011 were delivered for issue, reissue and de struction without loss to the Govern ment, last year. Stamps to the value of $35,500,000 arc now on hand in the treasury vaults. ‘‘I’M I.ire ns l.ona ns I Can,” Is the burden of nn old son". 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PURIFIES THE BLOOD Hiss Blanche Clark SALT RHEUM Broke out on our little gi£i*« face. Her hands swelled and blister* formed and later broke open. The itching and burning sensation was terrible. Hood’s Sarsaparilla cured her. It Hood's^Cures ig like a miracle. Her blood has become puri fied. and her flesh soft and smooth.” Mas. Akfa L. Clark, 401 E. 4th St., Duluth, Minn. Hauii's Pills cure liver ills, blllousnes., consti pation, jaundice, sick headache. 23 cents. THE FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS Tbe flonse anil Senate Called to Order in Regular Session. Daily Summary of Routine Business in tbe Two Houses. THE HOUSE. Monday, Feb. 5.—Iu the house, Monday morning, the Hawaiian de bate was resumed by Mr. Morse, of Massachusetts, who had five minutes. Before he had proceeded for a minute, however, Mr. Outhwaite had called him t-o order for unparliamentary lan guage. “To what language do you refer?” asked Mr. Morse. “To the in sulting, impudent and unparliament ary language just used,” answered Mr. Outhwaite. Mr. Morse, according to the rules, took his seat and the words excepted to were read at the clerk’s desk, as follows: “And yet, strange to tell, at the command of their mas ter, Great Grover Cleveland, his cuckoos in the house and senate, staunch southern democrats, loud est shonters for a white man’s gov ernment, disregard all their ancient traditions about the white man’s su premacy and the white man’s govern ment.” The speaker ru],ed that the language was unparliamentary to speak of members of the house and senate as being controlled by their master— the president. Mr. Morse explained that he had, in reading his remarks, omitted several words from his manu script, and he said if the words ob jected to were offensive, he would withdraw the words “controlled by their master, the president.” Before Mr. Morse could proceed after his ex planation and withdrawal, his time ex pired. Mr. Johnson, of Indiana, took the floor and made a strong speech, arraigning the course of the present administration in attempting to restore the deposed queen. Tuesday,Feb. 6.—The house at 10:11 Tuesday morning took up the consid eration of the resolution of tbe For eign affairs committee, censuring Min ister Stevens, and Mr. Outhwaite ad dressed the house. Mr. Turner, of Georgia, defended Mr. Blount from the charge which had been made against him, and attacked the provis ional government. Mr. Sickles, dem ocrat, of New York, created a sensa tion by attacking the president’s pol icy. He was the first democrat who had not upheld the resolution of the foreign affairs committee. Mr. De- Forest, democrat, of Connecticut, de fended the foreign affairs resolution, while Mr. Hepburn, republican, of Iowa, spoke in opposition, Mr. Hook er, of Mississippi, was the last speaker and in a long speech he defended the resolution of the foreign affairs com mittee. Wednesday, Feb. 7.--When the house met Wednesday morning it be came a question whether the majority had been successful in the effort to se cure a quorum. Some little time was consumed by a parliamentary wrangle, and after this was settled the house took np the Hawaiian resolution and the ayes and nays were called. The vote stood yeas 174, nays 3—no quo rum. Half a dozen democrats on the floor were restrained from Voting. These were Geary, of California; Sick les, of New York; Straight, of South Carolina; Swanson, of Virginia, Lati mer, of South Carolina—sufficient to make the 179, necessary to a quorum, When the vote was announced, 174 to 3, Mr. Springer raised the point of or der that as there were four vacant seats in the house 177 instead of 179 should constitute a quorum. After some de bate the point of order was sustained and the resolution declared passed. Thursday, Feb. 8.—The resolution presented just before adjournment of the house Wednesday evening, that the sergeant-at-arms be directed to bring in absent members, did not ap pear to have borne fruit immediately, for at the hour of meeting Thursday morning there did not seem to be a quorum of democrats on the floor. After an unsuccessful attempt by Mr. Reed to have the speaker correct the journal to show the absence of a quo rum Wednesday and prevent arrested members from voting, ho demand ed a vote on the last proposition. Mr. Bland moved to lay on the table. On a division, the vote resulted: Yeas 121, nays 68. Mr. Reed asked for the yeas and nays, and they were ordered. The result of the vote on Mr. Bland’s motion to go into committee of the whole was: Yeas, 167; nays, 6. No quorum appearing, Mr. Bland moved a call of the house, which was agreed to. The call was interrupted to re ceive a message from the senate an nouncing the passage of the bill to re peal the federal election laws, which announcement the democrats received with applause. The vote resulted: Yeas, 162; nays, 80; and Mr. Reed’s resolution was tabled. TIIF. SENATE. Monday, Feb. 5—A feeling reference to the death of Mr. Childs was made in the chaplain’s opening prayer in the senate Monday morning. Mr. Hale offered resolutions reciting that the tariff bill has come to the senate; that the reports of many great industrial interests and many laboring men believe that no opportunity has been heretofore given to be heard upon its provisions, and they now desire to present their ob jections to it before any action is taken by the senate and instructing the com mittee on finance to give opportunity to all parties who believe their inter ests affected to be heard before the committee reports its action to the senate. The resolution was laid on the table by request. Tho house bill to repeal the federal election laws was again taken np and Mr. Chandler ad dressed the senate in opposition to it. Mr. Palmer supported the bill. Mr. Frye, republican, of Maine, said that if the states could be depended upon to do what is just and fair they ought to be allowed to administer the election laws, hut that if the states could not be depended upon the federal election laws should be retained. Mr. Frye did not believe any such dependence could be placed upon the states. The discussion on the relative restrictions of Mississippi and Massachusetts con stitutions was carried on for some time with _ considerable warmth. Finally, the day’s debate closed with the decla ration by Mr. Palmer, that the elec tion law was a miserable abortion. The bill went over till Tuesday and the senate, at 4:15 o’clock, after a short executive session, adjourned. Tuesday’, Feb. 6.—The bill repeal ing the federal election laws came up immediately after the preliminary bus iness in the senate Tuesday morning and Senator Hawley took the floor in opposition to the bill. Mr. Perkins, republican, of California,' •made an argument against the bilL It seemed to him that those who had spoken in favor of its passage had done so from a feeling of partisan prejudice. Mr. Daniel, democrat, of Virginia, replied to Mr. Perkins, - - -- favoring the bill. Mr. Frye, republi can, of Maine, spoke in opposition. Mr. Frye yielded at 2:30 o’clock in order to allow a proposition to be made for an extension of time for debate, several senators having indicated a de sire to speak. After many obstacles a proposition was agreed to that the general debate on the bill should close at 3 o’clock p. m. Wednesday, and that the vote on the passage should be taken before adjournment. Wednesday, Feb. 7.—The attention of the senate was occupied for fifteen minutes . Wednesday morning by Sen ator Cameron, of Pennsylvania in the presentation of fifty or more petitions against the Wilson bill and the reading of each petition by its title. They came from man ufacturers, operators aud em ployes, representing nearly every Penn sylvania industry affected by the pro posed tariff reduction. At 12:30 the house bill to repeal the federal elec tion law was taken up, and Mr. Hoar addressed the senate in opposition to it. Mr. Gray, of Delaware, replied to Mr. Hoar. Mr. Bate, of Tennessee, c'osed the debate. He made an argu ment in support of the bill. At the close of Mr. Bate’s speeeh Mr. Chan dler withdrew th« amendment hereto fore offered by him and moved another, the purport of which was to make the proposed repeal effective only to the extent of prohibiting the employment of deputy marshals at elections. This amendment was rejected. Other amendments were also rejected and the bill was passed—yeas 39, nays 28—a party vote, except that Mr. Stewart, republican, of Nevada, and Messrs. Allen, Kyle and Peffer, pepulists, vot ed with the democrats in the affirma tive. The senate then, at 0 :15 o’clock p. m., after a short executive session, adjourned till Thursday. Thursday, Feb. 8—A discussion took place in the senate Thursday morning on the resolutions of fered by Mr. Stewart and Mr. Duboise, denying the authority of the secretary of the treasury to issue bonds, except for the purpose speci fied in the resumption act, the redemp tion of legal tender notes. In the course of the discussion Mr. Teller de clared that it was morally certain that no more five per cent, bonds on three per cent, basis could be sold. The hour expired before any action was taken on the resolutions. AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. Affairs oi Government M News tte Departments Disenssei Sotes of Interest Concerning the Pe3- ple and Their General Welfare. On account of the pressure of pub lic business the. president could not attend the funeral services of Mr. Childs in Philadelphia. Once more action on the nomination of Peckham was deferred by the judi ciary committee at Tuesday’s meeting. The matter went over for one week. The senate finally disposed of the election bill Wednesday. It passed by a majority of eleven. The populists voted with the democrats to repeal the laws. The bill now goes to the presi dent as no amendments were added by the senate. The senate committee on the judici ary Monday took no action on the case of Wheeler H. Peckham, nominated to be associate justice of the supreme court, but permitted it to go over un til a special meeting Tuesday morning. The bill to restore one thousand railway mail clerks dismissed from service in the spring of 1889 to their former position was ordered favorably reported by. the house judiciary com mittee Friday by a vote of 6 to 3 strict party vote. The president Tuesday sent to the senate the following nominations of postmasters: Alabama, William O. Monroe, Eutaw; Mississippi, Lucy E. Harris, Hazlehurst; Tennessao, L. W. Bates, St. Elmo; D. C. Morris, Mor ristown. The executive committee of the National Association of Democratic Clubs, organized July 4, 1888, for the purpose of aiding in the promotion of party success, met in 'Washington at noon Thursday. The sessions were private. The pension bureau at Washington has been notified by Special Examiner Davis, of Jacksonville, Fla., of the arrest of Ben Davis, of Pensacola, Fla., for conspiracy, transmitting false pa pers, and making false affidavits in a pension claim. He has been commit ted to jail in default of $2,000 bail. Perhaps the most important fight in the senate will be over the sugar sched ule, both Louisiana senators having declared that if a duty is not placed on sugar they will vote against the bill. The hill can be adopted without either of tlieir votes, for all three populist senators will vote for it. The secretary of the treasury sent to the house Monday a communication from the secretary of the navy, sub mitting an estimate of an appropria tion of 872,365 for the construction of a fire-proof warehouse at the Norfolk, Yn., navy yard. Tho building is to replace one destroyed by fire in De cember last. It is not probable that the treasury department will receive the money from the sale of the bonds before the 15th. In round figures it will take in $58,- 000,000 unless gold is drawn out of the treasury in redlining legal tender notes in large quantities between now and that time. The sale of bonds will increase the gold reserve to something near 8120,000,000. ’ A Washington special says: Effort to repeal tax on state bank circulation was beaten in the committee on bank ing Friday by a vote of eight to nine. The vote was taken on the bill of Bep- resentative Clark, of Tennessee, which relieves state banks from any tax on their circulation, but does not extend the relief to circulation issued by pri vate individuals or corporations. The result is regardsd as cutting off the possibility of favorable state bank leg islation in the present congress. The olfj corvette Kearsage was wrecked on Roneador reef February 2d, while en route from Port An Prince, Hayti, to Bluefields, Nicara gua. The officers and crew were saved. This news reached the navy department at Washington Thursday morning iu a cable message dated-Co- lon and signed by Lieutenant Brain- ard, of the Kearsage. Immediately on receipt of the cablegram the secre tary sent a message toLientenatBrain- ard directing him to charter a vessel at Colon and proceed at once to the assistance of the shipwrecked men. Hill’s Sentence Reduced. The sentence of Harry Hill, con victed of forgery at Atlanta has been reduced from seven to five years und all the other indictments withdrawn. As soon as this was done Hill withdrew his motion for a new trial. SOUTHERN HEWS ITEMS. Tie Drift cf Her Progress ant Pros perity Briefly Note! Happenings of Interest Portrayed in Pithy Paragraphs. The Dublin, Texas, Cotton Compress was burned Tuesday. It was complete ly destroyed. The property was stock ed up to about $150,000, though the orignal cost was only about $40,000. The insurance is unknown. A Columbia, S. C., special of Tues day says: The state dispensary is evi dently feeling the effect of the compe tition with the blind tigers, and Com missioner Traxler has announced a re duction of 50 cents : gallon on all whiskies. Asa Ray, a leading merchant of Albertville, Ala., was burned out Tues day night, presumably by an incendi ary. His store and stock are a total loss. The little city had a narrow es cape from being totally destroyed, but was saved by hard work. At Atlanta, Ga., Tuesday morning Judge Lumpkin granted a charter to the “Cotton States and International Exposition Company.” The charter Brants the company a lease of life for twenty years. It was presented to the court by Judge Palmer. The strike of the ’longshoremen at Brunswick, Ga., has not resulted as disastrously to shipping as was ex pected. Several gangs are at work for less wages than the ’longshoremen struck for, and all shipping will pro gress without serious consequences. Tho union men, however, are sti 1 out. Fred Gerding, who created quite a sensation at Knoxville, Tenn., a short while ago by attempting to hold np and rob an express train on the Knox ville and Ohio railway, was found guilty and sentenced to two years in the penitentiary by the Anderson county court in Clinton Wednesday morning. His accomplice in the crime, Will Smith, was killed when the at tempt was made by the officers who were on the tram at the time. Bill Harden, Charles Fennell, color ed; John Mongazor, Jordan Cassady, white, broke jail at Swainsboro, Ga., Tuesday nigbt and made their escape They burned the lock out of the door up stairs and broke tho lower jail doors with crowbars. Wednesday morning the jail doors were found standing wide open and all the prison ers were gone. Three of the prisoners were charged with robbery and Fen nell with murder. The Birmingham, Ala., Rolling Mill Company signed wage contracts with its operatives Tuesday and will begin work in a few days after a cessation of six months. Between eight hundred and a thousand men will thus be given employment, and there is great rejoic ing among the laboring element. One of the furnaces at Calera will also be' fired up at once. The trade in the iron district of Alabama is gradually resuming its normal condition. In chambers at Augusta, Ga., Tues day morning Judge Roney passed an order allowing Receiver J. H. Averill, of the Port Royal and Augusta rail road, to issue $50,000 worth of receiv er’s certificates. The certificates will bear 7 per cent interest. They will be issued to raise money to build a new- iron bridge over the Savannah river, three miles below Augusta, to improve the physical condition of the road and meet maturing obligations. A Savannah special says: Receiver Comer and Mr. George J. Mills left for Macon Tuesday night to attend the Southwestern railroad stockholders’ meeting. They are members of the committee on proxies. Mr. Mills will represent nearly 2,000 shares and Mr. Comer about 3,000, besides the 1,198 to be voted for the Contral railroad. A large number of stockholders from Savannah‘will attend in person and it is believed that there will be a majori ty in favor of the Southwestern remain ing with the Central. A convention of orange growers met at Ocala, Fla., Tuesday to consider the depressed condition of business in Florida, and also the effect of the Wil son bill on fruit. Speeches were made by ex-Congressman Bullock and other members in favor of a higher duty on oranges than is fixed in the Wilson bill. Opinion was divided as to whether the law or high transportation charges had brought about the present de pressed condition. A committee was appointed to formulate some plan by which the fruit growers might be thor oughly organized and make themselves felt in legislation affecting them, and also by the transportation companies. The Savannah Grocery company and M. Ferst’s Sons & Co., wholesale grocers, and the Wilcox & Gibb’s Guano company, manufacturers of fertilizers, occupying nearly an entire block of five-story buildings, on Bay street, in the heart of the wholesale section of Savannah, were burned out Monday, and other property suffered heavy damages. M. Ferst’s Sons & Co. are the lieaY’iest losers. Their loss on their grocery stock is $150,000. Tho Savannah Grocery company’s loss on stock is $130,000. Wilcox & Gibbs Guano company lose on the grocery buildings $75,000, on the guano com pany’s stock and buildings $15,000, making the total loss $370,000. Colonel James Monroe Meek, of Knoxville, one of the leading capital ists of Tennessee, made an assignment Monday for the benefit of his credi tors. His assets are placed at $282,- 000 and his liabilities at $102,900. In ability to realize on his holdings and a desire to protect himself and credi tors, are the reasons for the step. In the list of assets, two blocks of build ings in the gilt-edge portion of the business center are put down at $190,- 000. His residence is put down at $35,000, and his one-third: interest in the Duektown copper mines, on the Marietta and North Georgia railroad, is listed at $25,000. This Duektown tract contains 1,000 acres of land. Other smaller real estate holdings and personal property 6well the total to nearly $300,000. McLAURIN WINS. humiliated as Walthall’s Successor by Ihe Mississippi Legislature. A Jackson, Miss., special says; Tho friends of Taylor, Campbell and Low ry held a conference Tuesday afternoon to determine which was the strongest man. After several ballots, Judge Taylor developed the most strenth which resulted in the withdrawal of the names of Lowry and Campbell from the senatorial race. When the caucus met afterwards MeLanirn aud Taylor were the only names presented. The sixty-seventh and last ballot resulted: McLaurin 78, Taylor 62. The nomina tion by the democratic caucus insures the election of Hon. A. G. McLaurin as United States senator to succeed Walthall, KOLB NOMINATED For Governor or Alabama by Jefferson- ians and Populists. A Birmingham special says: The Jeffersonian and populist delegates joined forces Thursday and nominated Captain Kolb and his ticket. The populist delegates held a meeting be fore the convention assembled and after endorsing their national platform resolved, with practical unanimity, to co-operate with the Jeffersonian dem ocrats in the election of Captain Kolb and his ticket. About noon the Jef fersonians marched into the convention hall in a column. They were cheered as they entered, aud they returned the cheer most heartily. Things soon set tled down to business. Judge Zell Gaston, of Butler, was made chairnftu, and Jerre Fountain, of Jefferson county, secretary. The details of the organization of the convention were soon disposed of and speeches were made by P. G. Bow man, Jndge Street and others, de nouncing the election methods of the organized democracy and showing up the alleged shortcomings of the state and federal administrations. kolb’s ticket. The following ticket was then nom inated: For Governor—R. F. Kolb. For Secretary of State—J. C. Fon- ville, of Crenshaw. For Treasurer—Thomas K. Jones, of Hale. For Auditor—W. T. B. Lynch, of Macon. For Commissioner of Agriculture— S. M. Adams, of Bibb. For Superintendent of Education — J. P. Oliver, of Tallapoosa. For Attorney General—Warren S. Reese, of Montgomery. OUR latestHspatches. Tiie Happenings of a Day CflronicM in Brief and Concise Paragraplis • And Containing the Gist of the Jfeirj From All Parts of the World. The Grand Army of the Republic department of Florida met Thursday at Sanford for its annual encampment. There was a verry full attendance. The Godey Publishing Company, at New York, publishers of Godey’s Mag azine and various books aud periodi cals, assigned Thursday. A fire at Rockingham, N. C., Thurs day destroyed two saloons, livery sta ble and grain depository. Seven horses and mules aud a number of ve hicles were burned. The Galveston Feu's publishes re turns from the Texas railroads show ing the cotton crop of the state in 1892-’93 to have been only 2,025,066 bales, and the indications for the sea son of 1893-’94 to be 1,750,000 bales. The Birmingham, Ala., city council has appointed a committee of five aldermen to confer with the Birming ham Waterworks Company and take certain steps looking to the purchase of the company’s property by the city. The sentiment of the citizens appears to be largely in this direction. Advices of Thursduy from Bombay, India, state that serious religions riots between Mohammedans and Hindoos have occurred at Ycola, near Nassick, ninety-five miles from Bombay. The Hindoo temples and Mohammedan mosques ivere destroyed. Many of the combatants were injured. The troops were summoned and quelled the disturbance. The will of George W. Childs was admitted to probate at Philadelphia Thursday morning. The document is very short, and was executed August 1st last, one month after the death of Anthony J. Drexel. Mr. Childs be queaths his entire estate to his widow absolutely. The executors are George W. Childs Drexel and James W. Paul, Jr., and they place the Y’aluation of the estate over $100,000 real and over $100,000 personal. A cable dispatch of Thursday from London states that a violent hurricane prevails along the coasts of most of the countries bordering on tho North sea. Many casualties have been reported. Some have'occnrred even in the generally safe harbor of Hamburg. In Great Britain a gale is blowing, accompanied in some places by heavy rain. Reports from Inverness and Perthshire, Scotland, state that floods have occurred there. The supreme court at Topeka, Kan sas, Thursday rendered a decision in the case of Mary Ellen Lease versus Governor Lewellyn. The decision of the court is that the governor is with out the authority to remove Mrs. Lease from her position as a member of the state charities board. Mrs. Lease will at once begin an, investiga tion tour of the state elemosynary in stitutions. It is stated that Governor Lewellyn is satisfied with the decision as it relieves him from an embarrassing political situation. At the annual commencement exer cises of the Meharry Medical co liege at Nashville, Tenn., Thursday night there were fifty-six negroes graduated in medicine, dentistry and pharmacy. There were three female graduates in pharmacy, the first women iu the south to graduate in this profession. The address to the graduates was de livered by Bishop Walden, of Cincin nati. The graduates represent thir teen states and the West Indies. There were forty-one medical gradu ates, three dental and twelve pharma ceutical. A bill has been introduced iu the Massachusetts legislature entitled “An act for the suppression of indecent dances in public places.” It provides that “no woman shall appear at a public performance in a dress the skirts of which to not come within at least fonr inches of the floor and the waist of which is so constructed that any part of her person is exposed be low the neck.” The second part says: “No woman shall appear in tights or appear at public performances in high kicking, serpentine, hip or skirt danc ing.” A Raleigh, N. C., special of Thurs day says: The populists are thus early beginning to hold county meetings for the purpose' of organizing clubs. At each meeting a letter from Chairman Taubeneek, of the national executive committee, is read urging the imme diate organization of clubs in each township. It is said these clubs are to meet publicly and have no sign or passwords, such as the populists used in their organization two years ago, and that their motto will be an honest government and a fair count. At Great Falls, Montana, the mer cury has been known to drop twenty- five degrees inside of five minutes. Statistics show that’England annu ally spends $80,000,000 for foreign butter and cheese, ■■ , THE NEWS IN GENERAL. Condensed mi Our Most Important Telegraphic Advices And Presented in Pointed and Reada ble Paragraphs. Fire Wednesday morning destroyed the greater portion of the business houses of Montgomery, Mo. Seven teen stores and office buildings were burned. The loss is $130,000; insur ance, about half. A dispatch of Wednesday from San Luis, Patozi, Mexico, states that Lewis F. Lawrence, a mining man who came there from Pennsylvania about eighteen months ago, was attacked by a band of robbers near Guadalcazar, a small town northwest of San Luis, and murdered and robbed. At New York Tuesday morning, in accordance with the decision of United States Judge Lacomb, entered in the case of W. P. Clyde and others, Re ceiver Oakman, of the Richmond and West Point Terminal company, sold the stocks, bonds, judgments, claims, etc., belonging to the company at the real estate exchange. A Chicago dispatch of Wednesday says: W. W. Winchell, the local head of the Salvation Army, has summoned Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll to show cause why he is the “Prince of Pagan ism.” It is to be a mock trial. A jndge and jury will be selected, aud the plaintiff aqd the defendant will be represented by counsel. The death of Mr. Childs will not al ter the policy of the The Public Ledg er, nor will any changes be made in the management of the paper. By an agreement entered into by Mr. Childs and the late Anthony J. Drexel, and in accordance with a provision of the latter’s will, the Drexel estate will now purchase from Mrs. Child’s the interest Mr. Childs held in The Ledger and will accordingly own the paper absolutely. A meeting was held at New Orleans Monday of delegates from the Louisi ana Sugar and Rice Exchange, bureau of freight and transportation, stock exchange, Mechanics, Dealers and Lum bermen’s exchange, Wholesale Grocers’ Association, clearing house, cotton ex change, Steamboatmcn’s association, produce exchange, board of trade and trunk railroad lines for the purpose of giving expression to their views con cerning the legislation of congress in reference to sugar. According to advices uf Wednesday the Brazilian government has decided to decree that martial law shall cease on February 26th, and that the pres idential election shall take place on March 1st, in accordance with the con stitution. Dr. Prudente de Mornes, president of the senate, is the only candidate yet named for the national presidency. He is a civilian, from the state of San Paulo. It is possible that he will be acceptable to both side. A New York dispatch of Tuesday says: Dr. T. DeWitt Talmage will deliver his farewell discourse in the Tabernacle on the first Sunday in March and will start on a tour in the far east with his wife and two daugh ters about April 1. An overland jour ney will be made to San Francisco, after which Honolulu, New Zealand, Australia, India and the Fiji islands will be taken in. He will return by way of the continent of Europe and expects to reach Brooklyn again about October. Advices of Wednesday from Berlin state that the members of the reiehs- tag, who attended the parliamentary banquet given Monday night by Chan cellor von Caprivi, are gradually di vulging in the lobby of the reiehstag the details of the speeches made on that occasion. It said that Emperor William fulsomely praised the czar, saying, “He is a prince of peace, like myself. ” He is also reported to have said that the relations with the czar were excellent and of the most inti mate nature, yet should the reiehstag reject the commercial treaty enemies would immediately damage Germany. Advices of Tuesday from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, state that President Preisoto has offered to pardon privates belonging to the insurgent forces who apply for clemency within two months. Extraordinary, but unsuccessful ef forts have been made to induce members of the regular army to desert the government aud to join the insurgents’ forces. When it was thought the regulars would turn against the government the in surgent fleet was brought close to the shore in order that a force might be speedily landed to co-operate with the troops. The insurgents were confident of success, but the plan to get tho aid of the regular troops failed absolutely. REX IN HIS GLORY. The Mardi Gras Carnival Opens at Yew Orleans. His majesty, Rex, was in full pos session of his royal carnival city Tues day and New Orleans turned aside from business to pay homage to the king of mirth. Mardi gras is legal holiday in the state and all the banks, exchanges, public buildings and stores were closed. The weather was all that that a fustidious mon arch might require. It was bright and balmy, the chill of the early morn ing giving way as the sun came up from the east in all its warmth and splendor. There were present in the city many distinguished strangers, in cluding General Schofield, Senators Manderson and McMillan, Phil T. Harrahan, and a large delegation of railroad men; Dr. Keely, of bi-chloride of gold fame, and a host of military and lay strangers, who watched the parade from tne clubs and other points of vantage along the route. It was 11 o’clock when Rex appeared. He came out from his den on Calliop, street with his long train of beautiful cars aud with gay courtiers, a royal re tinue and and a host of bands making martial music. The king was greeted with the utmost enthusiasm on all sides. There were nineteen floats in the procession. The carnival came to a close at night with a brilliant page ant and a series of balls that were so cial triumphs. The day passed with out a single serious accident and in that respect the carnival was an excep tion. TWELVE THOUSAND KILLED. Horrible Story of an Earthquake in Persia. A San Francisco special of Tuesday says • Additional advices by the steam er Belgic, from China, announces the annihilation by an earthquake of the town of Kutschan, Persia. Twelve thousand persons were killed in the awful disaster. Ten thousand bodies had been recovered to date. The once important and beantiful city of 20,000 people is now only a scene of death, desolation and terror. Fifty thousand cattle vere destroyed at the same time, Highest of all In Leavening Power.—Latest U- S. Gov’t Report. ABSOLUTELY PURE How to Live Two Hundred Years. Mr. William Kinnear writes to the .5 orth American Pevicw regarding longevity, and thinks some practical rules may be observed with the result of greatly prolonging life. He says that seventy per cent, of the body is water. Calcareous salts and earthy matter are held in solution. When these become excessive and resist ex pulsion the system becomes blocked, the stiffness and dryness of old age come on and in time death ensues sim ply by the stoppage of the delicate and exquisite machinery which we call life. In the first place he thinks that by a judicious selection of food and drink it is possible to minimize the amount of calcareous salts and earthy matter taken into the system. Cereals and nitrogenous food abound in these elements. Beef and old mutton es pecially are overcharged with salts and should be avoided by persons of ad vanced years. Fruits, fish, poultry, young mutton and veal contain less of the earthy salts than other articles of food, aud are therefore less harmful. Summing up, then, the art of living 200 years, Mr. Kinnear says that physi cal decay may be kept at bay and the approach of old age retarded by avoid ing all foods rich in the earth salts, by using much fruit and by taking daily two or three tumblers of distilled wa ter, with about ten or fifteen drops of diluted phosphoric acid in each glass ful. It will be seeu that Mr. Kinnear lays special stress on the liberal use of fruit iu the daily diet. All dietary authorities concur in the opinion of the high value of all ripe fruits, such as arc so extensively grown in Califor nia. Whenever tho time shall come that the masses of American people discard to a great extent the greasy compounds they now call food and make more liberal use of fruits in their daily living, the period of longevity will almost certainlv be increased. Selected Gems. You must climb by your own strength and will power. The whole world will help when you are going down. The cause of woman can’t advance as it should until the kitchen is made perfect and the American stomach made sound. Find the cause of each wrinkle on a man’s lace, and you will find it was put there by worrying over something that worrying could not help. The sad consequences of defection in principle is corruption in practice. The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consist in promoting the pleasures of others. Never reason against what you don’t know. If you do you will soon believe utterly against reason. One sneers at curls when one has no more hair ; one slanders apples when one has no more teeth. One rule for winter is never to lean the back against anything cold. New skaters should try and keep this law. We have no words except praise for the dead. This is natural, as we usu ally exhaust our whole stock of blame on them while alive. Charity of speech is as divine a thing as charity of action. The tongue that speaketh no evil is as lovely as the hand that giveth alms. We should strive to judge of no one harshly, to misconceive no man’s motives, to be lieve things are what they seemed to be until they are proved otherwise, to temper judgment with mercy. Each one of us is bound to make the little circle in which he lives better and happier; each of us is bound to see that out of that small circle the widest good may flow; each of us may have fixed in his mind that out of a single household may flow influences that shall stimulate the whole common wealth and the whole civilized world. Queer Subject for a Monument. 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