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II 1 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 ' ____ 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 “ 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*” i 1 -- 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 0 . 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 ^^x . , . , ^ A °^ ^ Ducks , . , 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.