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TI3 Hamilton Journal
HAMILTON. GEORGIA.
THE NEWS.
lutereslingr Happening* from all PoL^s
EAMTICKN AND MIDDLE NTATII.
Tux losses by freshets in Easter* Con¬
necticut will exceed $1,000,000. Nearly the en¬
tire eastern end of the State was inundated.
Around Boston 10,000 people were rendered
temporarily ward of $3,000,000. homeless, and the losses are up¬
A strike for increased wages, begun by
the operatives of the Amoskeag mills, Man¬
chester, 5,000 N. H., on the 15th, threw more than
people out of employment.
John B. Gough, the well known temper¬
ance Philadelphia lecturer, was stricken with apoplexy in
on the 15th while delivering a
lecture.
The subscriptions for the benefit of
General Hancock’s widow up to late date
had reached about $80,000.
At the National Agricultural and Dairy
delegates convention, held in New York,more than fifty
were present. Various papers bear¬
ing on agricultural and dairy matters were
the read, and a committee was appointed to urge
passage of a bill by Congress appropriat¬
ing $15,000 to each State for experiment
stations.
Ex-Governor Horatio Seymour’s fu
neral at Utica was attended by Governor
Hill, Lieutenant-Governor Jones, a delega¬
tion from the New York legislature, nnmer
ous Shite officials, and many others. From
the exercises Trinity Episcopal church, in which the
to Forest were Hill held, the body was conveyed
cemetery. Memorial exercises
were also held in the Utica Opera house,
Mayor and Kinney presiding. Governor Ilili
others eulogized the deceased.
A Chinaman was found in a Waterbury
(Conn.) laundrv suffering from leprosy.
BOUTll AND WEST.
entire A fire business at Flagstaff, portion Arizona, of the has in laid ruins. the
town
One man perished in the flamos. Aggregate
losses, $100,000.
Timothy Whelan, aged twenty-three
years, struck his father on the head with an
ax at San Francisco, Cal., killing him in¬
stantly. He thou stabbed himself, probably
"" y*
}<’■ iUR small children were Chesapeake trying to bay build when a
lire * i Tangier island iu
a can of kerosene exploded, and two of the
1K11* ones were burned to death and the
Other two fatally injured.
. .’assenger coach attached to a train on
the Ohio Mile Central Trestle, railroad W. jumped Va., and the plunged track
at Ten
into tho Kanawha river. Several persons
were killed and half a dozen more seriously
injured.
The counties lying along the Tombigbee
river in Alabama have been visited by an
earthquake. Chimneys were thrown camped down,
crockery smashed, and families out
all night, afraid to re-enter their houses.
The great McCorrai k Reaper works,
Chicago, have closed down, The throwing 1,400
men caused out of by employment. threatened strike against suspension the
was a
employment of non-union men.
Reports received indicate that the loss of
cattle in Western Kansas and Eastern Col¬
orado by tho terribly cold weather will
amount to 25,000 head.
The body of a clergyman named Jesse B.
in Brady was Mississippi, fouud floating with Louis. the From ice
tho near St.
papei*s found in his possession it was dear
that the deceased had committed suicide.
FOKKItiN.
i \vo Americans Prussia, have been expelled fro r r
Holstein, for “having made them¬
selves troublesome to the authorities.”
The Dublin corporation has adopted for Ireland, reso¬
lutions demanding home rule
and expressing reliance on Mr. Gladstone’s
ability to obtain it.
A revolution is in progress in Uruguay.
In Ireland S59 Presbyterian congregations,
numbering altogether 32S,100 persons, have
adopted resolutions denouncing the project of
establishing homo rule in the country.
The great Ursuliue convent at Laeken, two
strayed miles Horn by fire, Brussels. but the Belgium, thirty has been and dej 105
nuns
girls who were scholars and lodgers were all
saved.
M. Simon Lock, a banker of Soleure,
Switzerland, has failed, with liabilities of
$400,O'X). Huudreds of small depositors wera
run e l by the failure. Lock was arrested on
a charge of fraud. .
Railroad Through to Tampa.
The Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West
railroad was formally opened between Jack¬
sonville and Sanford Tuesday, Through
trains are now running, completing the last
link of the direct all-'ftil route to Tampa. The
event was celebrated at Sanford by the boom
ing of cannon and a public reception to the
railway officials and others interested in quiek
ran sit from New York to the West Iudies.
Smiles are not only the most becom
ing of all adornments, but also the leas*
expensive.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
Among the 10:3,0)0 shareholders of the
Panama canal are 16,000 women.
“No Man’s Land,” just south of the far
corner of Kansas, has been seized by settlers.
Sawdust burned to the windward saved
many Florida orange gToves from the biting
frost.
Ie of 1885 the enormous mined total of the 71,500,000 U nited
tons copper was in
States.
The Pillsbury flouring mills, at Minneapo¬
lis, divided $35,000 surplus profits among
1,100 employes last year.
About sixty patents are issued every year
to women inventors. Last year the total
numlier of patents issued was 22,000.
Alabama coa’ is working its way into the
Gulf and trans-Mississippi States, Mexico
and the South American republics.
It ia in coni emulation to divide London
into ten municipalities, each to enjoy home
rule and an independent civic identity.
Lulu Hurst, the Georgia girl, who male
many thousand debars by exhibiting her in
alleged electric powers, is now a student
Shorter female college.
According to the latest official figures the
number of workingwomen in England and
Wales is 7,700,545. They are employed in
280 different branches of work.
A French physician claims to have found
a ease of “spontaneous hydraphobin” in had a
patient twenty-nine years of age, who
neither been bitten nor scratched by any
animal.
Moody and Sankey are drawing such
immcn*e crowds in New Orleans that the
Washington Artillery hall, where they have the
their meetings, will not begin to hold
throngs.
In Clark county, Kan., during the late
storm, a flock of sheep crowded together dur¬
ing the blizzard, and the snow fastened melting the entire for a
while and then freezing,
flock together.
A message was flashed last week from
New York to London, the business referred
to in the dispatch transacted, and an answer
received in New York in just six minutes
the quickest time on record.
personal mention.
Representative Mills, of Texas, is the
fastest talker in Congress, delivering 215
words a minute.
Dr. SciiWenninger, Bismarck’s physician,
is going to St. Petersburg to try and reduce
the fat on the czar.
Thomas P. Dudley,* of Lexington, Ky is ;>
the oldest Baptist preacher blind. in America,
ninety-four years of age and
General Pope, whose retirement is at
hand, says he will travel in Europe for a time Cin¬
and then make his home- in Chicago or
cinnati.
Mrs. Polk, the widow of the ex-President
has not visited Washington for^ more than
thirty years, or since she retired from the
White House.
Senator Van Wyck has joined Congress¬ of
man Hewitt in urging the extermination
barking dogs in Washington. Both suffer
from insomnia.
Mr. Tilden, who is outliving his conspicu¬
ous party rivals, associates ami successors,
has gained twenty pounds in flesh within the
last twelvemonth.
The late George L. Lorillard made it a
point for a long time to give away about $40,
000 a year to persons of merit whom he knew
would be benefited by gifts.
Louis Kossuth, the Hungarian patriot,
now in his eighty-fourth year, is in excellent
health, and is at work upon the fourth vol¬
ume of his memoirs. He writes from six to
seven hours daily.
Miss Clotelle Palms, to whom United
States Senator Jones, of Florida, is paying
court, is the daugh er of Francis Palms, the
Croesus of Michigan. She is about thirty
years old and the h -tress to some $10,U JO,000.
Queen Victoria drives on state occasions
in a heavy gilded carriage drawn by eight
cream-colored horses, which are never used
on any othe»* occasion. They are a special is
b;eed, raised in Hanover, which the queen
permuted to use only because she is of Han¬
overian descent.
Porter Sherman, of the Yale class of ’65,
left the college during the war and enlistsed
in a Kansas regiment, without finishing his
college course. Recently he returned to com¬
plete his course and is now talked of by his
friends in Kansas as a congressional eandi
date. He is a man of about fifty years and
is paying particular attention to the science
of political economy.
“The most devout man iu sight from the
galleries of the House Globe-Democrat, o: Representatives,” Mr.
says the St. Louis “is
Henderson of North Carolina.” He is smooth
shaven, of clerica l appearance, stanis with
uplifted l& e and eyes shut, his hands palm
to palm in front of him. “As the prayer
progresses Mr. Henderson, with a rhythmical
movement, parts his fingers and brings them well
together again, keeping blind time preacher.” to the
rounded periods af the
Miss Anne Whitney, who ta much
talked of in Boston used now as a sculptor herself of
marked power, to fancy a
poet. One day, however, having over
turned a pot of sand in a readily greenhouse, took
which, from its dampness, model it,
impressions, she began and to returning
keepingat work for hours, till she had
to it next day with zest,
wrong ^ ht out her ideas She then deci
ded make g^ip^e the pursuit of
her life.
TURKEY’S TREASURE.
dazzling* exhibition made
TO A TRAVELER.
Opening the Turkish Imperial Treas¬
ury—The Wonderful Contents
of Three Rooms—Bowls
Full of Jewels.
Writing to the London Times, from
Constantinople, J. C. Robinson says: The
sultan’s treasury is not accessible to
mankind in general; on the contrary,per¬
mission to explore its recesses is a matter
of high favor requiring special diplomatic irade by
intercession and the issue of an
the sovereign himself-—a mandate solemn
and potential. The directions with his
majesty’s irade were to present myself on
the Monday after its date of issue at the
royal palace of Dolma Bagtche, on the
Bosphorus, at 6 o’clock, Turkish time,
when an aide-de-camp would be in atten¬
dance to accompanyme to the old serag¬
lio, where the treasury is situated. Half¬
past eleven o’clock in the morning
seemed to be the time really intended,
but his majesty’s aide-de-camp did not
make his appearance until an hour later.
A high official, the keeper, of the im¬
perial treasury, and a staff of thirty sub¬
officers and attendants were assembled at
the unlocking of the door. This in itself
was, a picturesque, formal ceremony of
prescriptive usage, The officers and at
tendants ranged themselves in two lines
facing each other and leading up to the
doorway, and a green velvet bag con¬
taining the massive keys was passed
along to the principal official, who, in a
$)lemu manner, took out the keys one by
one and compared and verified them
in the presence of a couple of coadjutors.
When the outer wooden door was
opened, a massive barrier of wrought iron
was disclosed, crossed by several long
bars, or bolts, on which were hung
heavy padlocks. One by one these were
opene d and removed, and at last the
ponderous gates swung upon its creaking
hinges and the well guarded precincts
were entered.. Very cave-like and mys¬
terious indeed is the first aspect of the
three great, square, lofty rooms, en suite
with each other, occupied by the collec¬
tion. The rooms are dimly lighted walls, by
grated windows high up in the
and a gallery with a low balustrade sur¬
rounds them at mid-height. The deep,
old-fashioned glazed cases containing the in
bulk of the objects, especially quite those in the
the lower story, are thus
shade.
The first room is the richest iu notable
objects. The most conspicuous, though
by no means the most interesting, thing gold
is a great throne or divan of beaten
occupying the entire centre of the room,
set with pearls, rubies and emeralds,
thousands and thousands in number, cov¬
ering the entire surface iu a geometrical
mosaic pattern. This specimen spoil of of bar¬
baric magnificence of the was shahs a of Persia. ivar
taken from one
Infinitely more interesting and beau¬
tiful, however, is another canopied
throne or divan, placed in the upper story
of the same room. This a genuine work
of the old Turkish art, made sometime
during the second half of the sixteenth
century. This throne is a raised, square
seat, on which the sultan sat crosslegged.
At each angle rises a square, vertical shaft,
supporting a dome-shaped canopy, with
a minaret pinnacle surmounted by a rich
gold and jeweled finial. The hack is
paneled, or closed in, as if by a cloth
of estate, and there is a footstool
in front for aid m as
cending the high-raised seat. The en¬
tire height of the throne is nine or ten
feet, the materials precious woods, ebony,
sandal wood, •etc., incrusted or inlaid
with tortoise shell, mother of pearl, silver
and gold. The entire piece is decorated
inside and out with a branching floriated
design in mother of pearl marqueterie, in
the style of the fine eariy Persian painted
tiles, wonderfully intricate and in admir¬
able taste, and the center of each of
the principal leaves and flowers is set
with splendid cabochon gems, fine balas
rubies, emeralds, sapphires, pearls, etc.
Pendant from the roof of the canopy,
and occupying a position which would
be directly over the head of the sultan
when seated on the throne, is a golden
j cord, on which is hung a large heart
; shaped ornament of gold, chased and
perforated with floriated woik, and be
neath it again a huge uncut emera d of
fine color, but of irregular and triangular
shape, four inches m diameter and an
inch and a half thick,
Richly decorated arms and armor form
a conspicuous feature of the contents of
all the three rooms. The most notable
work in this class in the first apartment
is a splendid suit of mixed chain and
jeweled, plate mail, wonderfully by Sultan damascened^ Murad IVin and
w »rn
1638, at the taking of Bagdad. the Near to it
is a cimeter, probably part of panoply
of the same monarch. Both the hilt and
the greater portion of the broad seftb
bard of this weapon are incrusted with
large table diamonds, forming checker
work, all the square stones being regu¬
larly and symmetrically cut and of exactly
the same size—upward of half an inch
across. There is another sumptuous
work of art in the same room, similarly
adorned. That is a massive cylindrical
tankard, in solid gold. The handle,
cover, and a raised band around the cen
ter of the drum, or body, of this piece
are admirably chiseled with floriated and
cartouche ornamentation.
Large bovrls, cups and vases, filled
with gold and silver coins, uncut gems,
and pearls are in great number dis¬
tributed through the rooms.
A splendid series of large crystal, jade,
and onyz vases, bottles, bowls, etc.,
mostly of Persian and Indian work, in¬
laid with gold and set with innumerable
rubies, sapphires, emeralds, etc., must
not be forgotten. Some of these pieces
especially the crystals, are of great size
and very unusual shapes, and many of
them are of considerable antiquity.
Among these are specimens of mediaeval
Western European origin. These are
two large octagonal crystal ewers of well
known Gothic type. One of these, re¬
tains its beautiful and most quaint, and
ancient, silver-gilt handle, cover
projecting spout, the latter in the shape
of a grotesque dragon’s neck and head.
The other and larger piece, upward of
nine inches high, has lost its original
mounts, and a jeweled gold lid of Turk¬
ish work of comparatively recent date has
been adapted to ’ it. Not ancient improbably
these pieces and certain . manu¬
scripts in the library are all the remains
of the spoils of Matthias Corvinus, or the
Palseologi.
What the Forehead Reveals.
An observer sends the following forehead to
Tid-Bits: A very retreating
which is low and shallow usually accom¬
panies want of intellect. If slightly retreating re¬
treating, or wlrat appears to be
from the fullness of the forms over the
eyes, it signifies imagination, susceptibil¬
ity, wit, and humor.
Slow persons, with dull intellect, have
very projecting foreheads.
Perpendicular foreheads, rather high,
and well rounded at the temples, rarely
fail t« go with solid understanding, of
powers of concentration, and love
study. arched forehead which is full
A low,
at the temples is indicative of sweetness
and sensitiveness, and when combined
with great fullness over the eyes, gives
an impressionable, idealistic nature.
High, narrow, wholly unwrinkled fore¬
heads, over .which the skin is tightly
drawn, show weakness of will power,
and a lack of imagination or susceptibil ¬
ity. Foreheads entirely projecting, but
not
having knotty protuberances, give vigor
of mind, and harsh, oppressive activity
and perseverence.
Persons possessing poetic, ardent, and
sensitive natures not infrequently have in a
blue vein forming the letter “y” an
open, smooth, and low forehead.
Perpendicular wrinkles between the
eye-brows, when of equal lengths, sig¬
nify anger, but if the wrinkles are of un¬
equal lengths, they show deep thought
and concentration.
The Two Lands.
There is a land of bitter tears and wailing—
A land most like that drear one Dante
knew, wan-faced Niobe, with dark robes
Where
trailing, procession brows bound with
In sad moves,
rue, peopled by witless mortals—
It is a land
Compared with them the virgins five were
wise—
And it is writ above its gloomy advertise.” portals:
“We did not think it paid to
There is a land that flows with milk and
honey— condensed, yet the sorghum
Not the nor
strains—
Each dweller bears a gripsack fat with,
monev.
Bonds, coupons, stock and various other
gains; at high tide, the fishes:
Haopv are these as,
No tear doth drown the laughter in their
eyes; luck they have sort of wishes^
For better no
The cake is theirs—they learned to adver¬
tise.
— Pi'inters' Circular.