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ft CraiMfl Democrat.
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CRk\m)RDViLLE, GEORGIA.
TIIE JOKER'S* BUDGET.
WHAT A QUAKER OTTY WAG HAH TO
TELL TH OK.
ttrum the Philadelphia Evening Call]
IN WARRINGTON.
"I hear that tbe wild Western states¬
man, Cong|WH]dhn laid up with a
terrible ooU*~no* nn able te leave the
*15 b for a week.”
►ft knew it would happen.”
.Hint did be do?”
“You know old Per kins, the manu
fectnrer ?”
“Ye«.” X. big
"He offered CongreA*man bath-tub n if lie
interest ia * new patent it after try¬
would publicly recommend
ing it.”
‘■Well ?”
“He tried it. t
LEARNING TO COOK.
“Send my daughter to a cooking
school!?” exclaimed a Now York mother.
‘iNu, jtdeod; our pomticfi hi Hociety for
ffiflrf ft. WTty she would Ixi compelled
to mix with all sorts of people."
“Itut r near ttu* that is anew it will school just opened,
untr b* v/^ty faaliion
Able.”
“How can a cooking schooV Yie made
fashionable ?” asked the lady, fa ith 0£u»
•iderable doubt.
“It* meml>crnhip is to lie very exclu¬
sive, in the first place, and it. will l>e very
expensive, and nothing will be taught
but the sweetest dishes, such as pie,
cake “Well,” and that sort of thing.”
said the mother, “I may pos¬
sibly allow Edith to attend for a little
while, but it must be with the distinct
understanding that on pie days she shall
have nothing to do with anything but
the upper crust. ”
i ■ -
IT WORK*.
Miss Bliihk—“What a lot of interest¬
ing item* there .tames." are traveling around
about Frank
Hon. Mr. Blank (legislator)—“Frank
who?"
Miss Blank—“James, tho Western
outlaw, bandit, and road agent.”
Hon. Mr. 1 Yes, 1 re¬
member abont him."
Miss Blank—“This paper says that he
and bis gang never robbed tbe Hannibal
aud St. Joe trains, lteeanse his mother
had a free pas* over that lino. Yon have
a free jaiss yourself, haven’t you, pa ?”
Hon. Mr. Blank—“Well, anom 1 Yes.
I was givou one when I became a mem¬
ber Miss of the Blaik lggi*Int»m"j 4-“Wiut tji© railroad afraid
the people Would rob it if you did not
llttVP ft **
lin ir r
Jlou. Mr. Blank—“There ! There,
child. Go bank to jemr embroidery. tho
You we too young to understand oil
littte details of statesmanship.”
y* •*di. {_*"
SAD ENDING.
“All, how' , de do, w Minjw? Allow l>erliaps
to con grab--but pardon me,
1 am prem*tero; i w»* under the impros
®*ed tor
“Ye", it woe. You were away at the
fime, 1 lielievo."
“Yew, just got back. How did the
“But thorn wm no affair; tho marriage
did not take piano, and I am nearly
crazy with follow griei.” how must suffer.
“Poor ! you
i tgl J yj’itf luvcd du# IsHxune ill ? "
* *<Wonm ?"
“Ye«, her father failed."
OLD FAMll.iaS.
Western Man “Yon Philadelphian*
have a good deal of ‘old family’ pride,
1 see."
Philadelphian “Some of nsoerttunly
have anoeators who were Americans oen
furies ago. ”
Westeru Man—"Well, I lived for
Years where there are more old families
to tho aero than Philadelphia ever
dreamed of; and more than that, their
mioestors were Americans centuries lie
fore yours landed.”
fa the world
Westeru Man_“Iu the JiuUon Terri
lory."
NOT 1’ATENTEH.
First Lseeturer—‘‘How did von like
Buffalo?”
Second Isccturer—“I was delighted
with "Indeed the place. ” when 1
! Why, lectured there
It brass band hail the adjoining hail, and
they made a fearful racket.”
"Yes, that is the way it was while 1
Was there.
“But didn’t 4 ue*rly drive yon enure ?”
’*It e» rtomty tt»e»»ovelty or a* not very ufaaaaut,
but think of of thiHTning !"
“Th* noveltyY' audicnec J ^
“VtSj * not tma ot th* went to
deep, t.
* FAMlfiMR FACE.
3<hiefte*“Dter Be 1 Here comes ar
o 4 >>iy haaal-orgMW fflee But what nitk an intcr
that woman the tnm
kKHifJLc haa”
Smith—“Ye*, I wa* notirinp it
Seem* to woe I have *ben her liefore.”
Jones—“No* at *1! unlikely, In all
probability you were once an mlmirc r of
here.” v
Smith—“Do yon mean to insult m<',
air?" -■.*
Jonee “Not at all! Not at all! Bn;
von know a great many American Liellt's
iiave marriee! titled foreigners.”
faFuki; ASi' son.
“So V«m have lost your position,” said
a father to his sou who had been work
ing in a giwery store.
“Yes,” replied ftwpiuif,
“Did your employer ’??, give any reason
for dwchorgiag jT ^ade<ltinywaf you
“I» tMtid ton macii
ftnki flip order barrel.”
“Ah, I see! And what did yon say
trhen lie tired you ?”
“I didn't say a word, I fust went
SOUTHERN NOTES.
A coarrawr will be organised ahortly to bnild
a cotton factory at Dalton, Oa.
Tit* new cotton mill at Sidney, N. C., i*
receiving its shafting and machinery.
Savannah is thinking of manufacturing as
phaltum blocks with which to pave the city.
About 40 farms have been recently purchased
In Green county, Ky., by emigrants from Ohio.
A porous* has been established at the Kao¬
lin* mine, near Flatonia, Fla., conducted by
expert workmen.
T*e Knoxville, Tenn., Car Wheel Company
are running their wheel foundry extra time to
HI) heavy oradrs.
Three tbonsand yards of cloth aDd one bur,,
dred blanket* are nianufactured in the New
Braunfels, Texas, mills weekly.
Aij, the money necessary lrns been subscribed
to start the Griffin, Ga., cotton factory. The
capital stock is about $84,000.
A new rolling mill, the first one in the State,
has been started up at Houston, Texas, and it
will engage in making light T rails.
The locomotive works in connection with the
Roanoke, V*., Machine Work*, are in active
operation at thia time. Several locomotives
arc in process of construction.
f
Th* track of the Bonthcrn Pscifio to til
great salt mine in the Colorado desert, ndJj
Idaho, ia ballasted with great l«unp* of crystal
••in, n-»ry i sms and high waters might
cause a dissolution of that ballast.
Tax Messr». Moulton, of Laconia, N. II.
who are proprietors of a hosiery mil! at Colum¬
bia, 8. O., where they employ the labor of the
prisoner! in the penitentiary, are largely in¬
creasing the capacity of their works there.
Accohdino to the Orange City (Fla.) Times,
there has not been sn investment in lands in
that section in the lost three years that }isb
not paid the party investing at least twenty
per cont per annum on the amount invested.
Tnx Cnthbert, Ga., cotton factory ia crowded
with work, having received, on one day, orders
for more goods than can jgissiUy bo made in
six months, notwithstanding tho enlarged
capacity from the new machinery now being
put in.
Mont! than threo-foiirtba of the cedar used in
tlie manufacture of cedar pencils in tbe world
ia shipped from Florida. Large groves of ce¬
dar grow up and down the coast and on tho
Hnwannec river, and Uie supply seems inex¬
haustible.
Twintt-wine saw mills are said to receive
their supplies from Brewton, Alabama. These
mills are multiplying along the line of tho Mo.
bile and Montgomery and the South and North
roads, and tho timber business is developing
into immense proportions.
A tarty of capitalists from an Indiana town
have decided to start a jute factory »t Meniphis,
Tonn. At leaat fifteen thousand dollars ^.11 bo
expended in buildings and machinery, and tha
company expect to lie manufacturing bag¬
ging in time for next year's cotton crop.
HlMUMimANs feel very proud of their State
Library in the capital at Jackson. It compri¬
ses thirty-eight thousand volumes, which in¬
clude the legal text-books snd reports from all
the States in the Union, making a collection
which ranks third in completeness in the
whole country.
Tux Halnla cotton factory at Greenville, 8, C.
has made a large and v(Unable contract with a
Boston firm for furnishing them with yarns
until next January. New England yarns were
offered at one-fourth of a rent lower, but the
superior quality of the South Carolina yar
commanded the commi t.
Chaiii.kston, 8. C., has organized a coffee
importing companv of fifty members, wiih a
capital of $5O,0lK). Coffot will bo imported and
sold at auction to the bigbcsi bidder, whether
he lie a memtier of the assre iation or not. If
tlie scheme is succssful, otlier arti, ies w 11 be
imported , a nd , sold , m the , same w:.v.
Tit* Wilson cotton mills, ut Wilson, N.
tihiv'h nerg eotuuieneul aln>ut a year ago, for
the manufacture of fine yarns, are now niu
nmg thirty-six carding machines and lm thou
unual, one liuudml aud twtnty-fonr spindles.
employing wventy-fiv^ hKjuiw uiul coiiBuuii^ig
eleven thouMuid (Kuiuds of cotton f*or w<vk.
Within a rsdms ofT, than thirty n„.,sof
High Vo\n% N. C., nays tbe r.nU rpnsc, there
a iv ai kftst ihirteen ei*tu*n favUuuh, two w» oien
factorial and fourteen mines, ail in full oihtu
tion. To Uiese add a targe number of tobacco
;a.-tori<w, sash ami blind factories, t]sike and
handle, mad one factory tkai fiuKhes .huuks
ready for tlie loom.
KoBIB Cakcujua tlu-Hit greatest increase
in the number of cotton mill?, no Iwk tl.au
iw» t>‘UUfe **ew uiiutt. wjtb vino Inman d nud
ten thouauid five hunJrcJ ninety-live
spin diet having been added. Cicorgi* hie
added twenty-tvro unite w ith an aggregate of
cue hundred and thirty-nine tbouNamt c»no
hundred and fifty-fix ipimilcs dunug tbe year.
Am xo tbe uev applkwtiou* cf cotton is its
tue, m part, iu the oonwrucuon . f bonsea, the
material emplond fur tins purpose lens tbe
refuse, which, »hen ground up with »U>ut an
equal amouut of ,1x»w and a»l<crto*, is cvn
*• rtod into a paste, and tb.s is formed into
Kfge slab* or tricks, which arqn’.re. it is said.
the hardness of stone, and furnish » ready vaki
o»ble building stock.
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Ati.int. Constitution Nt n Kcglxnd cgpi
ta isls would save lime »n.l uiom v by ha-v ..^
.......
Mbstaacc fighting against fete liny sbuu.d
move U»*srv'‘»»>* teOrc'rrta. »*1 place tbco
HlJV c# i* a p><*itioo to iir.aa the Ltti'ish an «
Cnt kff ^XiSleilOQa
PlAltrrcnlture *ul Im an luuutn*. ling in
tho fs.uth lefor* many year*, lb* c_.ip this
f*“ *** ™*.~7*S#K.W. The profit
CO “ ‘r-p^dito is mat siyclr.
ehuaetta, man wttied near Montgomery, Ala.
He was very poor but he thought ha saw an
opportunity, and noticing many raiaing pea¬
nuts, he rented land and began working it on
aharea. He ia still raising peanuts and nothing
else and he docs well to stick to them. Six
years of peanat culture have netted him
ooo.
Mobile is becoming quit* * timber port
The stevedores of the ant* bellutn class who
fairly rolled in wealth have passed away but the
new stevedores who handle timber are getting
rich rapidly. The opinion is expressed that
the railroads will bare to carry logs as a re.
lar thing before the lumber trade reach
full proportions. It does not cost much i> t0 ,
run strain of twenty cars than a train of fives
ten, and there ia uo reason wliyidle ears shoull
not Is) loaded with logs. This may mean a to*
rate of freight, but it is something that mfat
come.
A splendid quality of lithographic stone is®
be found near Hix Mile, Bibb county, Ala. Te
Blade says: "Seven miles of this place, on he
possessions of It. J. Itottenberry, at the souh
em base of the coal petroleum fields, there oil. is found Iron, a^e SI,
indications tor the
marble and limestone are found in the imlo
diste vicinity, besides the entire couf-y
abounds in the very best of timber.
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The Eagle and Phenix mill, Columbus, <w,
which is the largest cotton mill in the soth,
will pay a dividend of eight per cent on
ital of $1,950,000. The success of this e
ration has been remarkable. It was reor:
ixed about 1867. and ah.ee then has r
tnO.TiOb in dividends and built out at ifMfiu
iags a new mill costing $1,000,000, snd h» a
large surplus besides. It is now proposed to
still further enlarge its operations by ereafig
a new mill at an expense of $900,000.
A ronTAnLE cotton seed oil mill, whie las
Just been invented will, it is said, end th dis¬
pute between the nlanters and oil men r tlx®
south. Instead of growling aliout the tran ior
iation, the planter seed oil will, and ere have long, the expres meal md ^is
own cotton
hnlis right on his hand in the best posible on
dition far fertilizing, and there will be ni in¬
creased production of tho oil, which has ({‘ine
to bo accepted ae invaluable in cooking. A pot¬
able mill that has been tested took the seedsa
it cam* from the gin and extracted forty-we
and a half gallons of oil from two thousasd
pounds of seed. /
is booming along. In 1830, , h*
Ai-adxma
census showed that tbe farmers had doubl*
in i aoiesk i,,, r „ _ r>rn/tn^tion 1 inereaMt
,
more than 45 per cent, oats quadrupled, cottos
sixty per rent. The wool product doubled, and
the 1 mineral output ‘ 1 ineresead more than 1,008 utl
What other , state can make . »
percent. fit*
showing. In the near future wc expect to
P ,,,,,,,,1 „rc nowl tliat we are a natird
’ '
Alabamiau. Tl.e county of Jefferson alone ,
now worth more than the whole of
w-.s immediately aftet the war.—Mineral Age.
THE NATIONAL DEBT.
A Redaction of Fourteen Jliflloti* in
march.
The national i debt Ait statement e . just .ssued
shows the decrease of the public debt durin.:
the month of March to be *14,288,SM. gw/
Decrease of debt sine® June 30,
; 1888.1..... -W.. _ '• Tff.W-q. ,
Cash in the treasury...... " lOtffiJ
Gold certificates outstanding.. Ito,?)\l|
Hilver certificates outstanding.... outstanding
Certifleatesof certikeates deposit outstand- IS,475, (XX)
Refunding
mg- uniders • ........................ outstanding....... 34n,t)81,01U|
Legal including
Fractional currency not
amount estimated as lost or j
destroyed.................... C,9S4,ol -
warrants’during The pajments made the month from tho of March, treasury 1884, bjj
were os follows:
Civil and miscellaneous.........*5,083,927 7i
M ur........................... 2,241,876 1,561,188 V f
Navy........................... Interior, Indians................ 298,087 41
Interior, pensions............... 13,6(58
Total *9,198,648 fJ
The above does not include payments m |e
on account of the interest or principal of
public debt of the United States.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Prince Bismarck has just edebratedltia
aiXt v-uiiith birthday.
Hknrv hi vim., tlu- F.nglish hitten actor, is nkd
ing ]-nn.fs of a book F. BrTUtn of Aiiterica. |
General R. "ill deliver an
oration Pei-oration Pay at the New York
academy of music.
President Pouter, of Yale, objects to co
education because the system would divide
the time anil ]x-rhaps the sensibilities and in
terests of the instructors.
Ills Impcxial Highness Prince Hard; the
only surviving almost reached child of the tl,, Emperorof of Japan,
having is having palace age built seven for his years,
a sejuirato oc
eupancy
this summer in Wiesbaden, where King
George will attend the tenhs. by advice ot Ins
physician. ,
Dr. J. H.ZrKERTORT. who has gaiind the
title ot the •Hamnion tht-' hess-Dlaver wd rt the
w*rld, now m . oui::rv.
principal . Hire in the Ui. re.! States and then
go to Chins.
John Jay Ow, who died in New becArie
recently. 1 >*t« ' life a poor boy, a
tailor, cntowl the <lrv p«ni<busin«smti4*db
sequcntly Infcnker. lU*w miulr h.igc suuu. ... mil
asoiiv an*'»ig tne inanv
lior.aires of Manhattan waiuL
Sxcretart Lincoln resembles his father
in He pemxad is ap:KMu*anoe tall only 1‘rcm in figure the eyes up. his
not go or so gaunt as
father, nor is the lower part of his faLt? st'
narrow; but the rewnblanco in the eyes and
forehead is so marked that the Secretary sat
for what is considered Uie best portrait ever
painted of his father.
Doctor Richard Jordan Gatlixo. the
inventor of the Ian h>us fiatImg gun. is now
sixty-six years of age. He is a tail, broad
shoaidered. White-whiskered man. with a
t netidiv face, bright blue eyes, and a pleasant
vno . impxxweumnts lie hns ie^*ently in his U*eu making H-nit*
great gun. aud has been
m Washington explaining these imi rcve
nif^its to ti*e ottieiate of the war department.
BUSINESS FAILURES. X
. _
U. vrrscs in tlio First Three ioaih.
jj„. .t^SSStS'&rZ^isSZ rjst quarter ot Uie jiast four years to be
as follows: •
t.rst Quarter of f . jahiUttee.
r :,.ures.
■ V*? l^wollnnrt
;'te— ..............8.*-., I 'nv
l 5 *”...................’ I
A ladj ^ j llst
tlw T* 1* 3 fortaE « of f2,5(W,0eC.
THE -WORLD’S SEWS.
Eastern and Kiddle Stats
Six men the nitro-glycerine were instantly killed by ot an explo
sion in house the Re
pauno Chemical works at Thompson's Point,
>'• J ' The building was tom to pieces, and
the men killed were frightfully mangled.
Their names are as follows: Laaiott Dupont,
vice-preiadent of the company; W. N. Hill,
superintendent of the works: Edwar l Nor
rross, compounder employe, of nitro-glyeeriue; A. George
Norton, an and K. Ackerson, a
visiting chemist, from Kt. Louis.
Ida Morrill, daughter of a well-known
citizen of Zanestown, Penn.. had lor the past
year and a half been affianced to Henry
helly, lady a farm laborer. The parents of tho
young with objected to their duuxhter's inti¬
macy pporition the Shelly, but notwithstanding their
< marriod, two went off a few days ago
and got going to Shelly's home after
the ceremony. A few hours after the mar¬
riage the two brothers of the bride went to
Shelly’s house, an altercation t-rs led. and fol¬ re¬
volvers were drawn. The bring which
lowed resulted in the killing of the two
brothers and the wounding of Shelly, who
was taken into custody.
A great many disasters took place along
the Atlantic coast during the heavy gale of a
few days vessel* ago. From various points accompanied came re¬
ports some'instances of being wrecked, The schooner
in by loss of life.
Riverdale went ashore near the Delaware
Breakwater, drowned. and the captain vessels and four men also
were Several were
wrecked on the Hudson, and two or three
lives lost. The gale was the most furious re¬
corded in a long time.
Philadelphia has just had a national cat
show, finest with *1,500 given in prizes to tho
felines. »
A two-year-old and boy at Johnstown, Penn.,
was thrown down fatally pecked by a
game-cock which the child was teasing.
SjrwtN women have just graduated as doo
tore ffbm the New York Medical College and
Hospital for Women.
Since the August gale, seven months ago,
eighteen fishing vessels have been lost from
Gloucester, Mass., with all their overboard crews, which,
together with the men lost and m
dories, makes the record ‘MU men lost, leaving
behind as near a* can be ascertained, sixty
five widows and 1.44 fatuerless children. This
is a i-ecord heretoiore uimaralleled m the his
tory of the business of Gloucester. -f
Miiij, Ottendorj^er, wife of the proprietoi ^
of the rlew York Staatz Zeitunq, tne leading
German.newspaper of the country, toundea
by her first husband, of died remarkable a few day business saga j
bh« was a woman fieri
abilities and very charitable. During
charitable lifetime she institutions spent over,$400,000 New York, in founding' and only
in
reeently recei veil a special decoration in honor
of her benevolence Until from the she Empress the' of
Austi-ia. a few years ago was
business manager of the Stoutz Zeitung. .
Tub Republican ticket was successful fh the
F.hode Island State election, the candidates
for governor incumbents. and minor The officers legislature being will) the
present
stand: Democrat*. Senate—twenty-seven House-fifty-seven Republicans,!
nine Democrats; Kciuibliean Repub
licans, fifteen a loss
of one, in the house.. senate and a Republican gain of
four in the
Mkr and' daughter died at Loyal
hanua, Penn., of trichinosis, and the father
«md «rd another ai other dau'/hter Uau^htei were were not, not exnected expected to to
Seven AuEtro-Potanders looking for - work, ,
while walking on a railroad track near Scran
ton, Penn, were struck by a backing engine,
Four wore killed, one wasrataily injured, one
lost an aj'in and one- escaped unhurt.
George Jones (colored) was hanged at
Pittsburg, Penn., for the murder of another
colored man named roster, m Jones
was only eighteen when the crime was com
witted.
South a nit Went.
'
nefcroes for were lybehed_oneTn'fork white man’s
cc<i nty, -liter, S. and C., tho other assaulting in Gaston a county, N.
dr' munleriua:
' i or another man.
- ikNeral AOfERO. Wittf twenty armed
'.ten, scvretly left Key West, Fla at mid
night and emtoirked on a schooner destined,
it is itelt.-vod for Cuba on a fihbusterftig D,x ex
peihUon revenue cutter storied m
pursuit of the party
At Chicago cash wheat was quoted at 7\t%,
within six and a bait cents of tbe lowest fig
ure ever quoted in that city.
About thirteen lives were lost bv the bum
J n g of the steamer Rebecca Evermghatn, on
the Chattahoochee river, near Florence, Ala.
The tire broke out at 4 a m , and the steanier
was immediately headid for shore. Before
the shore could lie reached the steamer was
completely wria'Sed in flames.
Henry Rose, a noxro weighing 200 pounds
was hanged at. Osceola, Ark., for the murder
of another colored man, a prominent member
of his race.
Forest fires have destroyed outbuildings a large number
of houses, liams aud in five
counties of South Carolina and six or seven
counties of Nortli Carolina. Vast forests have
also been been swept away, many plantations
ruined aud hundreds of families rendered
homeless.
Washiuffton.
Secret a r.r Frei.inohtysen received a
telegi-am lrom Mr. Sargent, our minister to
Gerinanv. expressing his gratitude i’resident for and. tlie
complimentary action v>t' the
Senate, but declining the Russian mission and
i-esi rmng that at Beriin because of his health,
and other reasons to be explained by letter,
q- HK naval appropriation bill, as it comes
from the Senate committee, calls for appro
. ir jations aU iotmting to $20,780,670. called for The esti-.
mates submitted to bill, Congress it to $22,-, tlie
655,500, and tbe as came over
Senate t'rcini the House, $14,333,896. provides for The apj>rc>.
priations aggregating Sen
ute committee added $0,451,980 to the bill.
ment of all the claims before the commission
was made. The total number of cases against
the 1 nitevl States was T2t*, aggregating 8I*,~
J^UKW Two h .vmdreda 1 id sixteeni claims
were nliowwl. and on th<>sc an au.ird of
^»V' without v w,th,n interret, ,wel ' e was mo ‘ madeito'bagud U ' s fronl da ^' to
Amount of coinage at the various L mtea
8f»** tt»nta March: grfd
pieces, worth ■' > rt,-'-to ’
worth $- . .
pieces, • • •
veins. "Oi ti. Oral coiuage, 4.UM,
uiocea, Wvitn * *•
the ^ floor dnrs of ^ the House, r^r.erht and rtrftnf was appealed the re¬
on the
cipient of much attention from members,
lie had not yet recovered from tbe effects of
his recent painful fall in New York. Repre¬
sentative Randall said: “Mr. Speaker, we are
honored to-dav by having as a visitor on this
floor General Grant. As an American I need
not introduce him to you. I move the House
take a recess of fifteen minutes to
give members an opportunity visitor."' to ren¬
their respects te our Mr.
Carlisle put the motion and it was car
ried uuanimouslv. General Grant then ros
painfully to his feet and assisted on ^ither
side by Xlessi’s. C &rlis*e and Randall, hobbled
laboriously downtbe middle aisle tp the area
liefore the Speakers desk, where, leaning
u{tou hist crutches, he shook hands with the
Representatives as thev passed before hun.
Mr ' Carlisle made the presentation! Nearly
every member was introduced,
„ a. - A , v i t
a^reeii to ret
matter.
Ttmt Tt-. Hoii a-irroi:'. * .a.u'i. bill uas Ixs-d
by t ho T'tah. appeared
GovkkCgi* Murray, of
before tbe Springer committee of mv^up
tion. oreteivv bv the House, and denied d.o
charges of i ■ :*i ics while he was LTiitexi
States raarehsi Ker.to ky He char-ed
his accusers with t e;:.c jurti of bad ciioractcr
and in the pay of tot Mermens.
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Foreign.
Resolutions of condolence to the queer,
and duchess of Albany, on the death of their
bod and husband, were adopted in the British
parliament. from
General Gordon madeanadvar.ee
Khartourn, and in a tattle with the rebel
fortes was defeated The rebels pursued the
Egvntians for two miles after the cattle. The
St-erie of confusion presented by the retreat
ing troops was fearful to behold. The Egytr
tian regulars and the Bashi-Bazouks
kept shouting out that their gene
rats had betrayed them. The
wounded received no attention for the
long space of seven hours. The troops had
been clamoring tor three weeks before to
meet t ha enemy. In the early part of the
enconnter the kgyptiaus actually hi were full successful, retreat, when and
the enemy were dashing charge. Do
their cavalry made a remain
spite the reverse the inhabitant* still
staunch friends to General Gordon. Two
black pashas were shot for treachery, which
caused the defeat of General Gordon’s troops,
General. Millot, commanding the French
txoops at Tonquin, reports that he has been
entirely successful, and that the troops will
will soon return to France. About 6,000 suf
troops. With the native auxiliaries, will be
fident to remain in Tonquin.
General Graham, with his troop*, has
sailed from SuakLm to Suez. The British
troops had hardly left when Osman Digma fol¬ re¬
appeared near Tamanieb with about 1,000
lowers.
General Gordon resolved to abandon a
policy of conciliation toward the natives of
the Soudan and adopt soldiers more who vigorous hail been meas de¬
uros. tailed The Egyptian safe conduct to parties leaving
Khartoum to give and a proceeding to Egypt received
orders to return to the beleagurea citadel with
out delay. Armed steamers at Khartoum
daily engaged the rebels, who lost heavily.
Prince Arthur’s body Osborne. was taken to Eng
land on the royal yacht prominent
Edmund Yates, a London English World,
journalist and editor of the
has been sentenced to four months’ imprison
ment for libeling the Earl of Lonsdale. Tho
Judgment has been respited pending an up
peal upon a point;of law
A EIRE in London destroyed about a dozen
business houses, mostly publishing and book
binding establishments.
John and George Stephenson America, were exe* the
murder cuted at Regina, British named John McCarthy for
of an old man
A H ONO Kong dispatch savs that the French
will probably invade Cliina from the northern
co8 . s t of Tonquin,and will hold Qanton in suj>
^rt port of 0 f their thur claim claim for for indemnity indemnity
It is proposed in Canada to notify farmers
of weather forecast by means ot discs on all
railroad station* and locomotive engines.
Five men were instantly killed and others
injured by a blasting accident at Fort Arthur,
Manitoba.
Akter a thorouu-h discussion the British
cabinet decided against the proposition to es
tablish a J protectorate over Egypt, ”, '
... ...... Leopolds T _________. funeral , took . , plaee . _ m .
^aft^’otoermenffi^re^the and tne otner memtHisoi tne rojai fmtoh^
^ J u ller ®? r '' **:?’ cetebr&Ubl later.
was attended , only by the queen, hei dead
steamship ,. Daniel „ . , ^“ bteinmann, , from
Antwerp, while . struck on harbor a rock off Halifax, hambro Light N.
She knocked entering Uie her of bottom sank K.
a hole in and
at once. Of 130 passengers and crew only
nine were saved, comprising the captain, five
sailors and three passengers. Tho ship is a
total loss and only her topmasts were visible
above water.
Hungary’s supreme tribunal has confirmed
the acquittal of all the Jews who were charged
-with murdering Esther Solomossy. It was
alleged that thev killed her to obtain her blood
to mix with Passover bread.
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JiIG AfTT^R tjlvALJ 1 AT ii-Mf \ VII PU.AllLa.Iib A If A TTP
^ Emilie „ Charlotte -;- Langtry js . the , real
name of the Jersey Lily.
’ Mwt. haa.le*rned in to play the
organ in vieof aseene La Servanto
The Grau English opera company will tie
reorganized to play a summer season m New
Orleans
Mr Stetson the manager, and Mr. Good
wm, the actor, have entered into copartner
ship for next season.
Henry Irving, when at home, is said to
while away thehoursequallj'tA-tween angling
for trout and studying Shakspeare.
Sf ary Anderson will make a tour of Spain Lon
Vlefore returning to the Lvceum theatre, I
don, for a revival of "Romeo and Juliet.”
The Eden Musee , has , been opened , in . se v w ...
York. It is a permanent uax-figure show
modelled after Madame Tussauds in London.
Louis James and Marie M’ainwright go to
London with Barrett as his chief support.
Charles Hawthorne goes along as stage man
ager.
Miss Van Zandt. tbe American in prima Paris.
donna, who has long been a favorite
has signed an engagement to sing in the o] iera
comiquein London.
Maud Banks, daughter of General N. F.
Ranks, is studying for the stage. She iias ay
peared as a, public reader on several occasions
with considerable success.
, „ , , , ,
make his first appearance in America at the
next Philharmonic concert in New York.
Toward the close of the performance in
the Metropolitan opera-house. New York, a
few evenings ago, a gentleman arose in his
seat, faced one of the parterre 1 sixes, mid
said: “Will the ladies and gentlemen in that
box be kind enough to keep quiet, so that
those who desire to hear the opera may do so :"
A storm of applause swept over the house,
there was mo further interruption of the per¬
formance, and when the curtain had fallen
many persons waited to grasp the band of the
man who had spoken out.
A BtJEEAU OF SILK CULTURE.
A Senate Hill to Establish Five Sta¬
tions to Kaias Worm**.
A bill has been introduced in the United
States Senate by Mr. Call, of Florida, to pro
vide .. , for the .. creation .. of - silk culture ,. v bureau,
a
Ft - rcvuW tint «=nch n bur^tu V**
hsm i a> o.ie o£ the bui’oa.u* ut‘ the agriculture;
States in Pennsylvania; one for the South
Atlantic States in Florida; one for the Gulf
States in Alabama; one for the "Western
tocStorar a;and0Iief0rthePaCifiCSteteS
The object of the establishment of the
bureau and the several silk-culture stations
it declares to be experimentally to raise silk
worms, rtudv their nature and the means o.
gate iinprevmg the diseas* their productive to which tney qua! iues. snbjec., investi
are
cultivate, and. bv all means deemed proper
encourage the feeding the cultivation of plants adapted for
m the reelmg of of s,lk-worms, silk, with a and view to to experm^it ascertain
mg the best api^ances and_ methods for con
ducting silk the various operations of preparing
raw It provides for the appropriation
of *159,U00 for carrying out the object of the
“Yes,” said young Montgomery Mouteomerv
Smythe. proudly, “I can trace my an¬
cestry back for generations. None but
the bluest blood Howe iu my veins,” and
inserting the head of hi» cane in his
month he walked a wav. “Yes.indeed, yen
can go back for generations.” remarked
one of the gentlemen addressed. “I know
a.; about Your fimilv. roar*great-grandfather Your grandfather
was a Smvth. a
SUMMARY OF CONGRESS
Sesai-.
A bill was reported favorably U establish head a
national forest reservation on the
waters of the Missouri... .Bills were intro
duced making an appropriation to pay the
expenses of a commission to explore Alaska r
and to allow drawbacks on imported ma
terials used in the manufacture nl tobacco,
snuff and cigars exported....Mr, I-iart spoke
in favor of his bid to cn
ganize the patent office into a depart/
ment
Mr. Hall, from the commit tee on aunropna
tian*. reported the naval appropriation lull bill
with sundrv amendment*...... Tht intro
duced by dir. Edmunds and reported do vora
ably from the committee on naval affgirs, for
the relief of the Jeannette survivoiv. was
passed. It provides for the compensation of
the survivors for losses incurred by them on
the expedition. The names and
amounts are as follows: George W.
Melville, chief engineer, #1,000: John
W. Danenhower, lieutenant ; l: Rav
mond L Newromb, nahiralrst. ^ Joffii
Cole, acting boatswain, _ $b00; W. P. C. Nm.
deman, seaman, *600; and the remaining
survivors vines for the *300 payment each. to The the billiunhjrpro- widow cfnld or
other legal representative of each deceased
itk iiiber of the expedition any arrears of pay
ore the deceased member and one year's ad¬
ditional bill pay. 1
Tho to increase the efficiency commissioners of tha
general land office, giving his the So,000,
a salary of *5,000. clerical and assistant passed
and increasing the force, was
....Mr. Morrill's bill providing for the _im*
provement cf the coinage was passed., . .The
Blair >itiu educational iiL.iv'in., bill nm xyasjurther ,,.i....,idiscussed— the" discussed.
A bill to provide for creation of a silk
culture Cali.... ______ bureau was _ introduced ___ by Mr.
Mr. McPherson introduced a "bill to
amend the patent laws The Blair eduea
tioual bill was discussed without action. MrJ
Pendleton opposed it on constitutional
Pounds. Mr. Williams spoke in favor of
t he D ili. .
WPE-.-—’ -' House,
>^,^ . . XgThe mion was thinks in’ro-’ue^d Congx-L bv Mr
F Saj-gent!.. e of to
Minister .Bills were introduced for
design;'to mnstruefion of a rnerohaii* shin o r new
equalize the taxation of domestic
and foreign insurance companies; sufferers approprir by
at ing Mississippi $400,000 for tho relief of
. the floods and authorizing the ap
pointment ot* a Missouri river conimission
.....The Trade Dollar bill was further
considered.
Tho House passed the bill providing ... for . the ,
retirement of the trade doliare and their
recoinage into silver dollars, after striking
ou * the t'ourTh section, which into providerl standard that sil
t ] le trade i dollars recoinwl
V( , r ( 0 jj ars should be deducted from tha
amount of tnillion required to be coined tho by
the remonetization act. The vote on pas
sage of the bill was 198 to and that
on the rejection of the fourth section was 131
to HIS.. .-The committee on commerce re
ported live stock the and bill hog providing products for intended the inspection for or
ex
port,, and prohibiting liquore..^..Affi the importation of
adulterated food and adverse
report was presented on the bill proviaing for
a commission on the alcoholic hquor traffic....
q'i !e v»ill authorizing the secretary of the
trea-smy to invest the lawful money deposited
the treasury m trust by the national bank
ing associations for the retirement, ot their
circulating notes was reported investigate favorably.... the
The committee appointed te
charges against General wade by‘ H. V. Rcra-Rsentotivt* Boynton, the Keifer
coires
rondent, submitted a report, ariiompanied by
this resolution: “That sustained the charges tho against evi
H. V. Boynton arc not ground by for
dence, and that there is no any
action by the House.’ The resolution was
laid over for future action.
Consideration of the Indian afipropriation .
bill was entered upon. The bill calls for So,.
347,853, as against $5,360,(555 for the current!
year. Mr. Throckmorton offered an amend.
ment abolislilng tlie five Indian shall insjiectorsJ lie taken
and providing that their places
by unny officers detailed for tbe duty... .A
message was received from the President re
commending an appropriation of $100,0'JU foil
the protection,of the levees of the lower Mi»
“toi^f re9olution w^to wfls lor£ pafited fSand rat hori bi^ftof Z in a
totlfe^avo? toTkeid of m^ondVnt^Z S
to in aid of » M
for diBabled Confederate srJdiere. Mr.
Throckmort^mV motion to amend the Indian
appropriation bill, so as to atiolish the five
Indian inspe-tors <*n ; l have tiio.r duties per
formed by army officers, was carried91 to 674
.4 RIVER HORROR.
Bjniicff of a Southern SVjamer/
With Lots of Li e.
People {.routed from Sleep to Meet
^ .
u Sin Oy rtrC or Vvtl.et,
The steamer Itebocoa Everingham was
burned on the Chattahoochee river, at Fitz
gerald’s plantation, a few miles u.bove Flor
*-«- —»
were lost. About 4 o’clock, a. m., the en
ginerr on vat -h rang an alarm signal to th®
pilot, who called to the officers' on watch and
asked if he roust go te the shore
when he was at once ordered to do so. Tlie
pilot signalled the engineer to work for the
shore, but got no response. He then headed
the boat for the (Georgia side, and the momen¬
tum she had carried her almost to tbe banks.
The pilot on watch ordered his young son,
Frank overboard Lapham, with a youth line sixteen and swim years old, ashore to
jump make the boat fast a to tree. Theboysqirang
and a
into the river, struck for the shore, reached it
safety and tied the boat up. in tjio meantime
the fire alarm was rung by Pilot. George T.np
bam, and the passengers aroused from their
sleep to find tee boat in flames. All was con¬
fusion and diso rder, but the officers of the boat
were heroic in t "tie performance of their duty.
Nearly all of them were wounded or burnt
The flames ‘wrapped the-boat in tbtar &» 7
trace and seemed to lick it up.
kpoo n to lost are ns followsr W.
L. Koimetlv, S)liili/Alii.. Mrs. A^itrt, iiepufj Guthbert, .sheriff
of Barbour county:
<hrunbcTTiiaid - I A-zSteviensctj.rerf, ‘ Stevc'ns coi
man: Randal tenge, and , ired
deck hands^Bob (mftm, colored, ^(riore,
Captain the ft “k* Whiteside ^lhamte w^
-vereiyburnrcl on
p- P " TCnrev
, . , , v V,n,-W totJ****’
am teth-s of cotton aboard the
, f which were taken on at
“'Xwsei-s She was made fast te the shore bv
™^«ser^ which were finally burnt she
Xn burned forty-five and
her moorings the stream,
»e “ hundred yards;
drifted are>u c-a
reenea anu rtj? ' Th(j fir( . v.rok*-' on*
■ - TVH*& !r
lt Originated the
!. .at reared the shore a lady sf»r»ng < ver
toa-tl and lodged in a treetop. from which
she.subsequently j^phar^ foil, and was rescued by
5, jlot This brave offi rer saved the
hvo-- r ,f two ctheiv, and asserted Captain
Whitesides ashore
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i iinAL-On- „ Meonnt ____, of«™d . recent . ,
««• dren who u f“» ladl'C-enledonwDcr.ten J , g
j l ' iscnlt ’ a phyacimstatMua the Hrt;
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