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HAMILTON. GEORGIA*
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
Turkey is the only state in Europe that is
not Christian.
In finishing Cologne cathedral $5,000,000
has been spent.
Freight trains in England run at twenty
five miles an hour.
Drummers’ licenses in North Carolina
amount to $5,000 a year.
An apple tree at Java, N. Y., produced
fifty bushels of good fruit this year.
An engineer running a train near Reno
killed forty sheep out of a flock of seven hun¬
dred.
Florida hotel keepers thousand expect Northerners to accommo¬ this
date two hundred
winter.
Forest culture in Dakota has led to the
appearance of birds that were never before
seen there.
The Chilian miners are said to be the
strongest men in the world. They live princi¬
pally on lentils.
Sixty million people speak the German
language, 45,000,000 the French and 100,000,
000 the English.
A of „ wine-producers . , will ... leave
colony
&m^coun h t 6 y, l8 S.C Ja “ Uary *°
The first Michigan sawmill was built fifty
years ago, and the cut since then has aver
aged 2,:$00.000,000 feet a year
Nine million acres of land in Germany are
devoted to the cultivation of the potato. 1 he
product last year amounted to 2d,000,000
‘° n '
A scheme is afoot in France to convert
Paris into a seaport town. It is proposed to
uild a ship canal from tho seacoaat to the
The number of Christians . murdered last
summer in Tonquin, Anam and Cochm
China, thousand is estimated at 24,000. Seven or eight
escaped.
Thk lumber operators of Maine, with one
or two exceptions, have agreed to employ no
man in the woods during the winter unless
he has recently been vaccinated.
There are now more than 300,000 and tricycle, persons
in England who use the bicycle the manufacture
and tho capital invested in
of these machines is *15,000,000, employing
10,000 men.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC '
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The Southwest is being overdone by min
Btrel troupes, good, bad and indifferent
There are only two ladies in the cast of
Saints and Sinners, and two only in In
His lower.
Adam Forepaugh, the circus manager,
has had six railroad smashup3 during the
past season.
Johann Strauss has produced liis new
opera, “The G/psy Baron/’ at Vienna. It is
the best ho has written, and has achieved a
great succesa
John McCullough’s costumes, properties,
prompt books and plays have been sold at
auction in New York. The entire outfit re¬
alized about $3,500.
A “high novelty” in Milan is a whistling
performance of Bellini’s “Norma.” Th«
whole opera is whistled through, tne chorua
being executed by sixtesMi whistlers.
The French papers state that in Memphis
there have recently been discovered a num
her of harps three thousand years old, beside
ancient flutes, drums, trumpets and bells.
Miss Minnie Hauk, who is to be Colonel
Mapleson’s this strongest operatic attraction in
America season, now wears a decoration.
Tho emperor of Russia has conferred upon
her the cross of tho ordor of St. Anne.
A beautiful commemorative building baa
theatre, just been Vienna, completed burnt on the site of the Ring
_ _ . ________________ in 1881. The The num- num
ber of spectators wiio lost their lives in that
terrible 4.—i fire has ---------,---- nevor been accurately ------------- ascer
tained, but 300 is the lowest estimate.'
Mrs. Bara Althea Hill, who has been
made notorious by her litigation with the
California millionaire, Sharon, will follow
the course which has become popular of lata
years with the female participants in public
scandals, bhe is going to become an actresi
—a star.
Cotogni, the famous baritone, has been
highly , . , , complimented be had in Spam lhe peopl* ,
to whom sung m the Badm Theatre
visited his hotel to serenade him; the police
tried to disperse the crowd; the crowd re
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According to the l>Mted Service Gazette,
a new use has been discovered for the bag
pipes. Last year, it seems a Spanish sol
dier was brought to the military hospital at
Havana in a state of catalepsy, and for fif
teen mouths he showed no signs of improving
health. At last the doctors ordered the bag
pipes to be played near his bed, whereupon
tfae man promptly recovered consciousness,
and is now able to articulate.
road was driven near Farwell B. O.. at 9:22
Saturday morning by Hon. Donald Smith.
General Manager Yauhorne was present and
the whole party went through to the Pacific
coaat, thus traversing for the first time the
whole line froip ocean o ocean.
THE NEWS.
Interesting Happenings from aU Points.
EASTERN AND MIDDLE STATIC.
largely Moody, the revivalist, has been holding
attended meetings in Reading, Penn,
The fishing schooner, Daisy Spraiker,
which sailed from New London, Conn., Sep
th© tsxsi six S&EZFKffi.'
men on board
The Andre monument, ne*r Tappan, N.
Y., was blown up by the explosion of a dy
namite cartridge at 10:20 p. m. Both Vases
were blown into atoms, and the iron fencing
“hr 1 ‘StfEEFSS. STEFffift
broke the glass in houses a mile away. This
is the monument erected to the British spy
by Cyrus third W. Field some years ago, and it is
the attempt made at its destruction.
A plank on which a safe was being low
ered m a building at Cohoes, N. Y., broke,
precipitating and seriously the injuring safe on two men, killingon*
the other.
Samuel Chase, an office boy sixteen years
of age, was accidentally killed by falling
against an ink eraser in the hands of Jeremi
ah Cunningham, a fellow employe in a New
SyiariduT 88 tW ° yS
More than 400 horses of every description
were exhibited at the third annual show of
the National Horse Show association, held
bi the Madison Square Garden, New York.
The boiler of a dredging boat exploded at
the entrance to Long Island sound, and the
= 1 immediately carrying down six
Up recent iete the Urant National Mon .
| umen t fund had reached $9(3,000
The official returns of the vote for Con
gressman in th© Nineteenth district of Penn*
S yi V ania, to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of William A. Duncan, show a plumb
‘5 (Republican). y of *.«• *»• S>w«PO (Democrat) over Bair
During the past few weeks there has been
a strong and steady advance in the price of
stocks in Wall street, New York’s great finan
cial centre, and the question is asked, “Does
this mean a general improvement in the busi
ness of the country*”
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sOlJTll and west.
j ■ Mrs. Margaret Gallagher, the wife of
a st . Louis policeman, has given birth to
quadruplets, of all girls. This is the fourth case
ten quadruplets born in the same block within
years.
The municipal ?? 1 elect on in D droit resnit-ori
in a Democrat victory, Mavmr (.Vummond
I being defeated for re-election by M. H.
i Chamberlain.
SEVEN members of the St. Louis Knights
j hn vt \H eon nrro.iici on tho charge oi
P + an-Stcf '"'men "'are ^eetcar
j mite. strikers. The
! Thirteen
persons were more or less dan
gerously injured by « boiler oxnloaion in the
pork laboratory packing house ^ nd mo >rictary medicine
Ind” of W. M ‘ k ; > ,; Co., Evans
ville,
WASHINGTON.
The President has appointed Alfred P.
Ldgerton, of Fort Wayne, Ind., civil service
commissioner, resigned, in place of Dorman B. Eaton,
and William L. Trenholm, of
Johrf Charleston, M. S. C., in the place of
pointees Gregory, resigned. Both ap
gerton being were Democrats, Mr. Ed
i an ex-member of Con
gress, and Mr. Trenholm a commicrirvi mer»
j chant.
j Professor Powell, director of the
United States geological survey, in his sixth
1 annual report, just issued, says: “During the
i fiscal year fair progress was made in the
> I topographic of survey of the United States. An
area 57,508 square miles was surveyed and
i ma P s thereof made ready for the engraver.
rhe ftvera £ e .fost of the work was about $3
P©r square mile. The amount appropriated
j the ® sca ^l year was $489,040,
! °' which *4S4,99o was expended.”
^total expenditures of the navy de
i P ar tment last year were *17,154,999.
general In his advocates annual report* the commissioner
the enlistment of cooks
and bakers i ' for tbe ------ regular 1 ------ army,
A A proclamation proclamation designating designating Thursday, Thursday,
November 26, as a day of national thanks
giving was issued by the President.
According to the report of the register of
the treasury, of the $1,071,460,262 United
States registered bonds only *11,927.900 is
held abroad.
Dorman B. Eaton has been re-appointed
ft*memberof the civil service commission by
the President. This makes the political com
plexion Democrats of the newlv-formed commission two
and one Republican,
r r „„ T , • __. , . , ,
dian agent, at Ouray, Utah; Leigh O. Kmmn
of New Mexico, receiver of public monevs at
Santa Fe. Fostmasters-Otto R. Miller at
Brighton, N. narf Y.; G. W. S. Hammaker, at Fiiid
lay, u Ohio, M. Bhellev.at * Kansas Citv. J
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Fatal Accident to a Train,
The heavy rain« which fell on Monday uu
dermined a eulrart on the Braftleboro and
Whitehall railroad, about half a mile north of
Tounsend station, Vt. The mixed train which
m., and tha engine fell into the gap caused by
tha destruction of the culvert. George Mann,
the engineer, was probably fa tally injured,
and *»%eral other* were severely bruised, lhe
^^“dno^flil^vRh ‘ 1 ?? to th ® eusin *’
A HINDOO PICNIC.
Strange Jtlerrj'-yiaking: Neelies at an
Indian Festival.
During the months of June, July and
August, India is veritably a land of pic
nickers; and especially so in that portion The
known as the northwest provinces. of
Hindoo is eminently a lover nature;
and all national holidays, are celebrated
made ia beautiful both, l n ,T£ by s w ^\ God and h „T^ man. e „ n
F ° r with th e Hindoo it is an act worthy
of entrance into . Paradise to plant a grove
and cultivate a garden: and it is owing
to this belief that in India there have
S laut t d 30 many gardenB and tree '
dotted, parks.
It is to a Hindoo picnic that we wouid
invite the attention of the reader. The
town is astir. The rough wooden door
of a particular ‘ domicile" opens, and out
pmri comes a . wnnian did in \ a single SI blue i!
M own with her head and shoulders i, en
>
ve oped in a flimsy red shawl, which is
the only garment covering the upper
portion of her body. Proceeding to the
cen tre of the yard she starts a fire, on
which she prepares the morning meal.
B ? “V 8 ti ” c her Iord h “ '
ab.ution being . accomplished, goes
where the oxen are standing and com¬
mences to harness them to the clumsy
carriage. The yard is surrounded by the
^adit four sides of the house which is built
One huge gate gives entrance
to it and to the house. TV ithm this en
closure, on the ground floor, underneath
the apartments, are the stables and the
accommodations for the servants. It is
devoid of ornamentation, save for one or
two sickly ^ trees whose branches serve at
night to (he ones s]eep j ng beneath,
as a protector from the fall of the heavy
dew.
The oxen are soon yoked. The early
mpa “ eal i L has a q aoori soon u been ppn disnatched uispatcneQ, con- con
sisting solely of a thick, unleaven d
cake, called chappati, and which accord
ing to the wealth and taste of the makers
is either highly seasoned or not, highly
greasy or plain. A draught of pure
milk and the breakfast is finished. The
pkha ^ kaa nr or ha Dailt ;i P gari, onr ; whipb wmen meana means resDect- respect
ively pony cart or dog cart and bullock
carria £ e > are about the clumsiest species
°f conveyance yet extant. The ekha is
a light built, light running cart; and is
more used by men than women, though
when the parties are not wealthy enough
to hav e a J>aile gari the ekha is handy
enough. , In this instance let us suppose
that'the family is wealthy enough to
possess both an ekha and a baile gari.
The bade gari is a heavier repetition
of the ekha. It.is built on identally the
same plan—.though its seating capacity
is unlimited; and instead of shafts, it
has a pole to which are yoked the oxen,
for a baile gari is never drawn by horse
or ox, but by a pair of oxen. The oxen
that are used as beasts of burden are the
S noblest of their kind, for a Hindoo gen¬
tleman speaks with as much Englishman pride of his
driving oxen as would an
speak of the horse that won for him the
blue ribbon. Trotting oxen are prized them
i very highly indeed: and some of
have been known to out trot a fast.horse.
1 These oxen ire of immense si/e Thev
are „ well i. 7 led, a sleek i , and , shiny-coated
and when harnessed to a gari reserved
for women, they are never expected, or
do they ever get out of a most sedate
walk. Their trappings are of the most
lavish description. Their saddle cloths
are the of white fctlo and ks gold he brocade [ and circling reach
[° horns painted ? * T bands r great, of red and
are in
blue, and the ends are gold tipped.
Their foreheads are encircled by a neck
lace of cowries and silver pieces; and
the rope that passes through their
nozzles is of the finest cord. Within the
curtains, with certain slits on each of the
four sides, sit the ladies of the house¬
hold, twanging on the harp or tlium
ming on the tom-tom, singing, the
meanwhile some curious ditty in a highly
nasal tone, though not unpleasing withal.
On either side march the male members
of the family of the upper class servit¬
ors, for though the ladies are on an en¬
joyable picnic—their enjovment is of a
limited order—being confined to them
selves and to whatever sly glances they
may obtain of the throngs around them
through their Deep holes in the curtain. I
Imagine one immense conglomerated j
mass of color, and bronze barelegged and
barefooted individuals in groups and cir
cles of from one hundred to one thou
sand; imagine scattered among them
lanquins, carts, merry go rounds and
beggars almost as naked as when they
came into existence; and imagine, above
all, the deafening noise of screeching
human voices, the interminable beat of
tom-tom, and the villanously shrill
pipings of the Indian fife and pipes, and
you have before you a Hindostan fair.
Suppose that our party whom we saw
set out in ekha and bai!e gari have ar¬
rived safely at the fair grounds, and
already the animals have been picketed
and the family encamped underneath the
broad shadow of an enormous pipal The
tree, which grows hard by a well,
bullocks being unyoked and the churbee
straw being thrown before them, the
women begin daintily to step from the
conveyance. First to be noticed out of
the curtain are a pair of delicate naked
feet, the big toes of which are adorned
with rings, on the upper rim being fast¬
ened a "tiny bell or two; and silver then
may be seen a heavy
anklet adorned with a multitude of
bells, then a full buttoned trouser and
then a flutter, and on to the ground bundle
hops a human being—one and great For
of petticoat, shawl song. over
the face has rapidly been drawn a shawl,
and on whichever side the strange man
happens to be is drawn a shawl. Some¬
times one bolder than the rest may in
hyperbolic language ask in her Hearing
as to the brilliancy of the stars; and,
perhaps, his wish may be granted by the
fair flirt withdrawing the shawl. Then
the face displayed is certaintly a pretty
one. The complexion a delicate olive,
cheeks adorned wfith the faintest tinge
of pink, the eyes large, black ana lus¬
trous. the brows a finely drawn line, the
lashes long and silken, the hair jet
black and glossy, the nose acquiiine;
but, alas, its pierced with so huge a golden
ring that enormous circle reaches and be¬
yond tne mouth; the lips curved
the teeth often black enameled; and the
neck covered with a variety of chains,
amulets and other valuable gewgaws,
her arms covered from the elbow with
armlets, and on her fingers many rings,
noticeably on the index finger a ring
containing a mirror, into which she
often glances.
There is no intermingling of families
on thi3 great holiday. The caste restric¬
tions are so numerous and so imperative
in their operations that perhaps be entrance
to paradise would forever lost if on a
day like this one caste came into social
contact with another. About midday
the great event of the day comes—and
that is the feast. Punctually at high
noon circles begin to be formed, the
men ranging themselves together,and the
women a little apart. The condiments
are peculiarly sickening—rice in every
iorm of scientific cookery, butter
and sugar in huge doles, sweet¬
and meats sickingly sweet, milk
sugar, and sugar and
milk, chiles interlarded between thick
buttercakes, and thick buttered cakes i
without chiles comprise an Indian feast, j
But the men to be watched more curi¬
ously than all the rest whilst eating are
the always holy liberal Brahmins, supply of whom feast there is j
a on any oc¬
casion. The Brahmin is the priest, the 4
aristocrat of Hindoodom, and he is also
the ate beggar most consummate the face rascal of the and earth. inveter- He j j
on
feasts, lives well, where and the is host always thinks an attendant it honor at J ]
an
to feed him. The Brahmins always sit 1
in a line, and it requires the constant at- 1
tandence of two or three servitors to m
keep their wants supplied. The brah- m
man’s capacity for food is enormous. He M
does not stop when he is satisfied, but n
only stops when the tension of his body frwj
refuses to suffer a further strain. It
fore the common entering practice feast of to the tie Brahmin around hi b* | Yhi
on a
stomach a piece of tow, which, whe k 9
broken,signifies that he has had enough fl
It is not an unamusing sight to watcl®
form the increasing when eating. rotundity The Brahmin, of a Brahmin’^^ wheri
•
satisfied, shrine, v/iddles there to sleep an adjacent effects temple*
or to off the of
his meal. The midday meal over, the
Hindoo preceeds to comforable sleep for
an hour or so, while the more indefati¬
gable promenade through the picnickers.
There is no huckstering, no buying or
selling—all are bent on rational amuse¬
ment except the jugglers, who from thp ^1
amusement derived from the display r
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slight S 6 aD expect sor
remuneration.— San Francisco C
France pays jj $4,500,000 for its foreign
*\? Iex n ^ an f
j^ 1C< i'‘
nnn . nno
9P^.’ Holi au d, $4,000,000; and the j
L mte<1 states, 000.
Every German soldier is expected to
write home at least once a month. Let
ters to and from soldiers pass free through
the mails.
Sleeping in buckskin gloves will soften
hands.