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SOU LEY COUNTY ENTERPRISE A. J. HARP, Publisher. HOUSE COMMITTEES I M>T OF CONUKEMnEN FOR THE THIEF 4IIAIKM ANMIIPN. Nnmes of nil the Me in tiers Who Have Ileeo Appointed on tlie Leading CoinnilttPee. Sneaker Carlisle has announced the names Bf chairmen of the chief House committees as follows; Turner, of Georgia, Elections; Ran¬ dall, of Pennsylvania, Approrirmtions; Mor¬ of rison, of Illinois, Ways and Means; Herbert, Alabama, Naval Affairs; Bragg, of Wis¬ consin, Pennsylvania, Military Affairs; Curtin, of Banking and Currency; of Commerce: Texas, Pacific Railways; Reagan, of Texas, Tucker, Virginia, Cobb, of Indiana, Public lauds; Texas, Indian Affairs; Judiciary; Blount, Wellborn, Georgia, of Postofflces, of and Post-roads; Springer, of Il¬ linois, Claims; Matson, Spriggs, of New York, Ac¬ counts; Muller, of Indiana, Invalid Pensions; of New York, Militia; Gerldes, of Ohio, War Claims; King, of Louisiana, Mis- Slssippi Education; River; Aiken, of South Carolina, Halscll, of Kentucky, Eldridge, of Private Michigan,Pensions; Land Claims: U; ,x ’ of North Carolina. Reform in Civil Ser- Building. The portant following committees: is the full list of the most im¬ Texas; Ways and Hewitt, Means—Morrison, Illinois: Mills, Harris, N. Y.; McMillan. Ark. Tenn.; berry, Mich Georgia; Breckenridge, Breckenridge. Ky.; ; May¬ Penn.: Hiscock, ; N. Y.; Browne, Kelley, Reed, Maine; Iud.: Appropriations McKinley, Ohio. Randall, Forney, Alabama; — Holman, Indiana; Pennsylvania, Town- shend, Illinois; Burns, Missouri; Cabell. Vir¬ ginia; 1 .a Fevre, Ohio; Adams, New York; Ryan, Wilson, Kansas; West Virginia; Cannon, Illinois; Massachusetts; McComas, Butterworth, Maryland; Ohio; Long, Hen- derson, Iowa. Culberson, Judiciary—Tucker, Tex.; Collins, Va.; Hammond, Ga.; Oates, Ala.: Eden. Ills.; Rogers, Mass.; Seney, Ark.; Ben- O nett, N. C.; E. B. Taylor, O.; Parker, N. Y.; Ranney, Caswell, Mass.; Hepburn, la.; Steward, Vt.; Wis. Bauking and Currency—Curtin, Pennsyl- Tania; Wilkins, Miller, Texas, Crndlcr, Georgia; Virginia; Ohio; Howard, Arnot, New York; Snyder, ri; Dinglev, Maine; Indiana; Brumm, Hutton, Missou- Adams, Illinois; Brady, Virginia; Pennsylvania; Wood- bury, Coinage, Nevada. Weights and Measures—Bland, Mo.; Labor—O’Neill, Lauhant, Texas. Lovering, Massachusetts; Missouri; Foran, Ohio; Lawler, Illinois; Weaver, Iowa; Michigan; Crain, Daniel, Virginia; Fuuston, Torsney, James, New York; Texas; Haynes, Kansas; New Hampshire; Bound, Pennsylvania; Buchanan, New Jer- Forcign Georgia; Affairs—Belmont. New York; Clein- ents, Cox, North Carolina; Sing e- ton, Daniel, Mississippi; Virginia; Worthington, McCreary, Kentucky; Illinois; Crain, Connecticut; Texas; Rice, Massachusetts; Waite, Ketcham, New York; Phelps, New Jersey; Hitt, Illiuois. souri; Commerce—Reagan, Crisp, Georgia; Texas; Clardy, Mis¬ O’Ferrell, Virginia; Taxney, Caldwell, Michigan; Tennessee; Pu¬ litzer, Louisiana; New York; Bynum, Indiana; Irion, Massachusetts; O’Neill, Dunham, Pennsylvania; Illinois; Davis, Nebraska; Johnson, New York; Morrow, Weaver, California. Rivers and Harbors—Willis, Kentucky; Murphy, Blanchard, Iowa; Louisiana; Jones, Alabama; Stewart, Texas; Gibson, West. Virginia; ings, Missouri; Glover, C'arlton, Missouri; Michigan; Henderson, Cab fil¬ Illinois; Bayne, Pennsylvania; York; Stone, Mas¬ sachusetts: Burleigh, New Grosvenor, Ohio; Markham, California. South Agriculture—Hatch, Carolina; North Missouri; Aiken Michigan; Green, Carolina; Wi- nans, Alabama; Stahlneeker, Frederick, Iowa; Davidson, New York;Morgan, "Bota; Mississippi; Fuuston, Glass Kansas; ^Tennessee; Prici', White, Wisconsin; Minne- Swinburne, Hires, Now Jersey; Pierce, Rhode Island; New York; Gifford, Dakota. Kentucky; Pensions—Eldredge, Jones, Michigan; Woolford, vmiia; Cowles, Alabama; Scott, Pennsyl- North Carolina; Lander, Illi¬ nois Btruble, ; *>i..!:c:iey, Iowa; New Taylor, York: Teuue'ce; Huttor,Missouri; Virginia; White, PennsylvuaiThompson, Brady, Ohio. York; Claims—Springer, Lannam, Texas; Illi .jis; Shaw, Muller, Maryland; New Virginia; Howard,Indiana; Neal, Tennessee; Dougherty, Snowden, Florida; Trigg, Penn- sylvania; Missouri; McKenna, California; Warner, New Jersey; Fleeger, Pennsylvania; New Buchanan, Gal linger, Hampshire. War Claims—Geddes, Ohio; Kleiner, Indi¬ ana; New Cone, York; Kentucky; Timothy J. Campbell, South Carolina; Richardson, Tennessee; Perry, North Carolina; Comstock, Michigan; Reid, South Carolina; Libby, Virginia; Smalls Johnson, Indiana; Heistand, Pennsylvania; Private Land Claims—Halsell, Lyman, Iowa. Kentucky; - Barksdale, Eldredge, Michigan; Mississippi; St. Martin, Louisiana; ton, Virginia; Sadler, Alabama; Crox- Osborne, Pennsylvania; Hall, Iowa■ Reid, New Jersey; Thomas, Wisconsin; Ely, Dorsey, Massachusetts; Nebraska; Thompson, Post Ohio. Offices and Post Roads — Blount, Georgia; Taylor, Tennessee; Ward, Indiana; Riggs, Illinois; Missouri; Warner, James, Ohio; Texas; Merriman, Dockery, New York; Barry, Mississippi; Bingham, Burroughs, Pennsyl- Vania; Wakefield, Minnesota; Michigan; York; Peters, Gunther, Wisconsin: Utah. Millard, New Kansas; Cains, Public J min Is—Cobb, Indiana; Henley, Cal- ifornia; Van Eaton, Mississippi; Foran,Ohio; Laffom, Landis, Kentucky; Stevens, Missouri; Minnesota; Illiuois; Anderson, McRae, Kansas; Arkansas; Strait, Illinois: Stephenson, Wisconsin; Jackson, Payson, Pennsylvania; tory. Voorbees, Washington Terri- Favorable to the Miners. JUDGE THURMAN DECIDES A DISPUTE OVER WAGES. Ex-United States Senator Allen G. Thurman, who was selected by tha miners and operators’ arbitration board of the Hocking Valley, to act as umpire in the recent troubles among them, has rendered bis decision in favor of the minors. The price of mining in the Ohio Central and Hocking Valley districts has lieen in dispute between the operators and miners since 1884. the From lieginning the dose of of the the strike strike on June 26, until No- vemtior Then 1, 1885, tho price paid was with fifty cente a ton. sixty the miners quit work The a de- mand for cents a ton. operators declined to pay this price, and stated that they were loss. unable to do so with- out great The operators and miners agreed to submit the matter to the arbitra- tion of ten men, five to be selected by each party, and, in the event of their failure to agree, they were to select an eleventh man, who was to act as umpire and decide the mat¬ ter. After careful consideration Mr. Thur¬ man says: elaborate “My duty is simply is to decide. To make argument no part of it. It is sufficient for me to say that I have care¬ fully I read the evidence and believe that understand and remember it. The question is; Can the operators of the two districts pay the advance asked ami compete with other districts! Now considering the facts stated in the testimony, the amount of coal an¬ nually mined and the length of time that the trade has been carried on, it seems to me to bo fairly inferable that the business must have lieen, on the whole, a profitable one. My decision, therefore, is that the operators of the two districts can pay *tbe advance asked, sixty cents a ton, and compete with the other districts.” how everything is expected to be peaceful in the mining regions iu the future. THE DEMAND OF DAKOTA, HHENEKHS TO lit: ADMITTED IMo THE FEDERAL UNION. A Senate Committer Reports In Favor of ller Admission no a New State. The rejxirt of tho United States Senate committee on Territories, to accompany the bill for , the .. admission ... of the State cx*. * of - Dakota n , * into the Union and the organization of the Territory of Lincoln, reported by Senator Harrison, covers more than one hundred ixiges of f manuscript .......,,, n addition .. 1 ii,: , to its .. vein- „ . minous printed appendixes. Itsaysthomain proposition of the bill is that tho proeeodings taken by the people of that part of the pres- ent . Territory of # ix Dakota i * i lying • south of - a., the STK SIT. a [sipulur shall vote on the 3d day of November, Congress, 1885, and he accepted and ratified by the State of Dakota bo ad- mitted to the Union upon an euual footing with tho other States. The report gives the history of the movement for the organization of the new .State from the passageof the acthy tho Territorial legis- ^ttsu'Urv&ass; i ff f c.)iMtitulionai y “fi if adnnTtol cmiventii.il if S were that no legal force whatever, and the pro- coed in gs which followed are to be treated as purely machinery popular, still it for gave the the people the popular will nocessary in orderly and expression effective of the an way. The conventions which framed theconstitu- tions of Iowa, Michigan, Florida, Oregon, and, iH-rluiiis, called other States, the report says, were and held under acts of the Terri- torial legislature. Iteferring declares to the ordinance of 1787, the re- port it was a wise and beneficent compact, It guaranteed certain rights to the peoiiie who should settle the Western w ilder- ness mid Sive'riunciit amon? these was the rip-lit to form a State enuXtv aiid U> lo a lm tted u tenns of to discuss the uni whether^one m of the States without stopping te of the States contemplated by the ordinance could bis-ome “de jure’ and “do facto” a State without the sanction of Congress. Tl.e com- mittee says the existence of a State is a politi- cal fact and involves the admission of its Senators and Representatives to the Congress of the United States. By the terms of the ordinance the right of admission was ujwn the condition that “the constitution republican ami gov- ernmeut so to be formed shall be and in conformity to the principles contained in these articles.” Congress must judge whether these conditions have been complied w itli. Twenty-five original new States have been admitted to the thirteen. In the cast's of Ver- mont, Arkansas, Kentucky. Florida, Tennessee, Iowa, California Maine, Michigan. and Ore gou, there were no enabling acts. In Nevada a constitution was^framed withoot an enabling act and was rejected by the people. The second constitution was framed under an ena- bling act. In the case of Wisconsin the con- stitution was framed under an enabling act and was rejected by the people, ami a new convention was called which framed the con- stitution under which the State was admitted, To deny the people the right to assemble in convention and to propose to Congress the admission of a Territory or any part thereof would, the committee believed, be a denial of rights guaranteed ns' by the coustitu- tiou. So long the govern- ment is subordinated to the constitu- tion of the United States and to the existing Territorial authorities, so long as the pro¬ posed State function government is only such, and as¬ sumes no of an existing government but awaits the recognition of Congress, the proceedings precedents, are justified and do by safe and abun¬ dant not carry any sug¬ gestion of a disloyal spirit or involve any danger report declares of a conflict is the of attitude authority; of Dakota. such, the coifnnittee Among tho precedents of Tennessee. presented by the is the case The peo¬ ple met in convention on January 11, 17!Hi, no enabling framed act having been passed by Con¬ gress, a constitution, adopted a bill of rights and formed a government. An en¬ grossed warded copy the of the of constitution February was for¬ on 19th to President 28th Washington, day of March, with a at notification which time that legisla¬ on tlie the ture would meet to act on the constitution, the temporary government established by Congress would cease. The President forwarded the documents ergetic with a message discussion to the Congress, State and after an en¬ new- was admitted. President Washington’s message, which is embodied in the report, seems, the committee say, to of justify Tennessee. the proceedings taken by the people NEWSY GLEANINGS. Sixty vessels, worth $1,016,200, were lost on the lakes last year. There aro more colleges in Ohio than in France and Germany combined. Holland sent to this country during the past year $250,000 worth of dowering bulbs. Tiventy-Six Senators keep house in Wash¬ ington; the others live in hotels and boarding houses. ' The Maine agent of the their Passamaquoddy number 531, Indians all of reports at funnel's. It . is estimated that the depredations , .. of , the ,, British sparrows in England last year wiU reach $4,000,000. The co lorai people of Georgia own 600,000 acres of land, and pay taxes on about $10 000,000 of property. During the past year the number of passen¬ gers carried on American steam vessels ap¬ proximate 600,000,000. Two cakes gluttons at Warsaw, They Wis., ate stopped buck¬ wheat on a wager. cake. both on t he ninety-first Football on skates is the latest attraction at roller rinks in New England, and it is de¬ scribed as very amusing. The keel of the Trafalgar, which is to be the most powerful ironclad in the world, has just been laid in England. In Tokio now, all funeral roads lead to the death furnace, wherein 5,515 human bodies were burned to ashes last year. A monumental statue of Solomon Juneau is to be erected presently in Milwaukee, of which city he was the founder, in 1818. Dr. George Jeffrev, of Glasgow, Scot¬ land, has been preaching continuously for forty-six ahead. years. He keeps fifteen or twenty sermons Maine expects to gather the largest ice crop this year that it has gathered in many winters, than rooting 1,000,000. up, it is calculated, far more Roast bull-dog i»-.a favorite dish among the Bohemian nail-makers of Pittsburg, Penn., and this peculiar meat was a part or nin ny fen ts during the holidays. Negro Exodusters. HUNDREDS LEAVING THE SOUTHERN STATES FOR THE WEST. A Ch'.ttanooga (Tenn.) dispatch says that “another large party of negroes, numbering several hundred, passed through the city yes- terday en route from the Carolinas to Arkan sas. The exodus of negroes from tho Care linas, Georgia each week. and Alabama Fully to 1,(XX> the West passed is in creasing have through hundreds this city in the oast fortnight, and of others are making arrangements to leave as soon as possible. The movement w more general than ever before, and is pro- duceichiefly dehvtive by high rent-, bad crops and the tenant system in this section of the bouth. The movement is beginning to be felt in all the States of the South, and is at- trading widespread attention.” ELLAVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY. JANUARY 21, 1880. ADRIFT 01 THE OCEAN, rEKKIItl.E NUFFEKINU OF MIX MEN IH AX OPEN HO AT. rUcjr Heroine Delirious from Thirst nod tlie llnawliiss of Huntier. ana 'TT® Brazil st *’» T,Ier line, Advance, which arrrived of the at Unite.! New York States a ’ ftnv o, brou bnmgnt _ ht iat() Into Dort port six . gh ship- . miisu io a sin oun a sea , Mc ^ el1 of tha ' British „ ■, steamer County Clare. Their names aroJohn p p thjrd Alex G . i.-r, Hormen, , Ante . , . ’ ' ’ “°- . 1^"^ LodreveneP ftnd ^ T™’ Manuel Luna, seamen. Alexander ™ ’ w . j . . i . a nA 1; ^ jy «‘‘f n Iy ' HlS “»-v shl P nlates - are ltollans - He said that they , had sailed on the whaling schooner Mary E. .Simmons, from New Bedford some months ago for tho whal- .'i**!^ p“l° ne * °i a ^i'®° a es uth 4.1 to America, a th .' ! ^ . , , u ^^J^siassat gjghtcd TliMirstein’d second mates tewered J^sateaBsttisBss whale. the to a From deck of the schooner the work of the t* u crews could be seen, and T? mate 16 ! 0 orderod ?ther the spare whales boat in to sight be the lowered. third ' lie was without water or provisions, and it ' v as latelyuthe afteinoon when a start was tu ma^ 6 e t A t big ! < sjxiutei * h ! ld °mcer, was selected and when for near cap- boate^er ; sent 1ns harpoon tote whale^of 40 *** “ fehtinir g g ‘stroke tremendims “sound«T A . . oi^dived° ife of the hnrrw.n he XhT. rose ” tile h.niside sm'fac I astrine andHlFe fmli wns lnade to act n of him ^ m the hands of the tmrd officer . was plunged mto his side. Then the whale “fluked” and lifted tho b,,at - Ini ‘ u and a11 . 0,I t of tne water. When they , mm ‘ down thu boat J^ibcultj **$.„$*» it overturned was and righted. with gmot The ' vhale ' va - s dead “ nd V the sur- face a harmless mass of untried . blubber, alongside which which the men hauled their boat, was stove ami waterlogged. By this tlme d wasneaily .sunset and the schooner tbo 'y as n ?where of to of be their seen. Shortly boats before dark 8! i 1 one own was seen a “ d . tb ® wrecked men yelled and shouted to attract attention. 1 heir cries were not heard and “« bt «>“»“« aU bands were obliged lashed across the boats gun- After ' dark j 1 , the lights of l i a the L l ? gbn schooner F * n * be could water. be seen plainly, but too far off to windward to a 12^ a b) ^ beard. sighted . F,, standing , morning toward another them, schooner and a man was s rt was lashed to a boat-hook and waved a vY: , The schooner tacked three tunes within eight or ten miles of them, and at ?-st squared avvay and was soon out of sight. Weakness from want of water and food and exposure, added to the disappomt- ment when this schooner sailed away, made ’b e P 1 ” 11 almost desperate, bhortly after- ward another vessel hove in sight and hope was renewed. Frantic waving of the signal on the boat-hook failed to attract attention, f nd a 8am a feeling o- despair came over fbem. all During the day seven sails were seen and passed on their way without noticing the suffering Lima men. When night again fell Sea- man had become delirious and raved wildly. His shipmates were compelled to tie him with the boat’s painter to prevent his jumping forced into the sea. the All night the men were to listen to ravings of the de¬ lirious man, but as Seaman Wood said, “it seemed to distract our minds from ourownsuf- feriugs. ” The third day passed and still no signs of help hunger. and the men were tortured with thirst and On the morning of the fourth day, two more vessels passed by. At 11 a. m. a steamer was made out coming directly toward them. She saw them and at noon the six exhausted, starved and almost crazy seamen were taken on board tho County Clare. Every kindness was shown them hut it was some time before taken they into recovered Pernambuco, their strength. The were whence the American consul sent them home on the Advance. ♦ t ♦ MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC, Edwin Booth is playing a five weeks’ en¬ gagement in Boston. Thirty bands were in the lord mayor’s re¬ cent inaugural procession at Dublin. Mrs. Kate Chase (formerly Mrs. Sprague) Is to make an actress of her eldest daughter. Adelina Patti declares that she would rather broil a beefsteak than “bring downtho house.” Mrs. Thurber, of American Opera com¬ pany celebrity, is said to have offered a hand¬ some sum for an opera composed by an Amer¬ ican. An English version of Sardou’s latest suc¬ cess, “Georgette,” will be soon produced in London with Mrs. Bernard Beere in the lead¬ ing part. Mme. Henry Gueville is now writing for the American stage a drama out of her novel of Russian “Cleopatra,” life. a most striking charac¬ ter Manager James W. Collier, of the Union Square, theatre, New York, has bought the manuscript of John McCullough’ s “Gladiator,” for $5,000. The daughter of Soi Smith, the actor, who began her career some years ago with much promise, but suddenly lost her voice, has re¬ gained it, and is said to lie singing with suc¬ cess in South America. The Japanese village at Madison Square Garden, New York, is a great success. Great crowds go morning, entertained afternoon by the Japanese and night, work¬ and are highly fresh from their country. men own Queen Victoria desires that a perform anee of Gounod’s “Mors et Vita” shall be given for her pleasure, and promises to attend it. This will lie her first appearance at a con¬ cert hall jinoe the death of Prince Consort. Mr. Conried, of the New York Casino, has brought from Europe Strauss’ latest suc¬ cess, “Gypsy Baron,” along with several other comic operas. The “Gypsy Baron” will be produced on a scale of great magnifi¬ cence. Joseph Jefferson is reported as fifty saying: “After an experience of more than years I am satisfied that the greatest want of tho American stage at the present time is young, handsome and in every way attractive women.” The recent appearance of Mme. Georgina Burns as “Carmen,” at the Grand theatre, Glasgow, excited such enthusiasm that after the performance the students of the univer¬ sity took the horses from her carriage and drew her home with a torchlight procession. Below Zero. WHAT THE THERMOMETER HEGIM. TERED AT VARIOUS POINTS. The thermometer at 7 o’clock a. m. of the 11th, registered below zero at the following points: Saranac Lakn,N.Y.17 Milwaukee, Wis,... 2 Portland, Me...... 2 Duluth Minn.....15 Nashv'illo, ri3 ’, Tenn.... * Cairo.'ill.......... Davenport, Iowa. . 16 6 [! is , Ind .. )0 f ^’burg, ,. iuu lti Ohio... 11 Fort Leavenworth, Garry, Minn. Kan. .31 10 Penn.. . 1 ......20 Omaha, Neb... 15 ^ Ohio... 8 Huron. D. T... 25 niluskv 0 hio.... 6 Bismarck, Fort Custer,M. D. T______ T.. ..27 2 Mackinaw City.... J 1 urn a„o, * ...... THE NEWS. Interesting Happenings from all Points. EAsTKItN AND MIDDl.l: STATE*. A ©OMmittivK ill Now York in raising a fuua of $100,000 to aid Parnell, the Irish homo rule leader, and his colleagues in the British house of commons. About $2.1,000 has nl- ready been raised. Millhc Ennius, a trapeze performer, fell thirty in New io#t from a traiiezo while performing seriously, a Haven theatre, and «« lf not faUlly iuJured . Tub annual message of Governor Hill, of New York, says that the State’s finances are in a healthful condition, although there has been an undue increase in public expend! tures; that a revision of the tax laws is needed; praises the civil service laws and .le- ?® uao * th * a “ d d * cta T B * tha l the problem 1 of the satisfactory uiolveS. employment of pVison labor still remains "n ^ the death of two la,lies time ago, was acquitted by young the jury. some . The New York legislature organized by electin ? James W. Rusted s;>eaker of the assembly, while Lieutenant-Governor Jones swore in the Senators. The legislature is HepublU-an in both branches, Th* annual auction sales pf pews belong- KssSfts - J. B. Lippinoott. publishing head of the well-known Philadelphia house, is dead, Henry Bergh, the well-known president 0 f the New York Society for tho Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, is strongly opposed to M. Pasteur’s method of inoculation against scientist’s hydrophobia. lie says that the French experiments are cruel and unneces- sary. Mr. John G. BteveRs, president of the United New Jersey Railroad and Canal eom- P«ny, shot himself through the head at Tren- ^n, there J. Although his friends denied it, was suicide. a general impression that he com- mitted At at Boston R™tnn Run, Run a «inimn.»/,minP«T,...i mining town in Pennsyl- a cave-in occurred over a colliery racing three houses to smk out of sight and threatening to carry down several other.. George Holford, of Newark, N. J., went to 1 aterson, where his wife, from whom he was pistol serrated shots, after lived, which and he killed put an her end with to himself. SOUTH AND WEST. murder-kn^ked MVE pnsonem-four down of them charged , , with ... Charleston (\\ V a.) a guard ra the . county jail and escaped, The captain, mate aud Chinese cook of a schooner wrecked on the Oregon coast a few days ago were drowned. Heavy snow storms have prevailed in II- y no j Si Minnesota, Nebraska. Kansas, Colora- do aIld jj ew Mexico. Telegraphic communi- cation was temporarily interrupted and rail- way trains were blockaded, A HEAVY snow storm in Colorado has re- suited in great mortality among cattle herds. A fight broke out at a party in Clay coun¬ ty, killed Ky., and in the melee two men were and a third mortally wounded. During the recent heavy flood three col¬ ored inqn were drowned in Tangier sound, Md., Deposit, by tho upsetting of their skiff. Port Md., was ]iartially submerged, and great damage r. as done to property there and in other places. A freight train was derailed in a tunnel near Hinton, W. Va., and three men were killed and three others injured. The Chicago Raihvmj Aqe reports that in 1885 twenty-two railroads, with 3,156 miles of road, a bonded debt of $141,590,000, and a capital foreclosure. stock of $136,900,000, were sold at The Mississippi Democratic legislative cau¬ cus at Jackson nominated Messrs. Walthall and George for re-election as United States Senators. Senator John Sherman received the unanimous vote of the Ohio Republican legis- lative caucus for re-election to the' United States Senate. The 3,000 employes of the Cleveland loll¬ ing Mill company, one of the largest concerns of its kind in the country, have just had their wages raised ten per cent. Sarah Althea Hill, whose claim that she was the wife of the lato ex-Senator Sharon, has lieen thoroughly ventilated in the California courts, has just lieen married to her senior counsel, David S. Terry,ex-chief justice of the California supreme court. Washington. The number of fourth-class postmasters ap¬ pointed under the present administration w as up to the 5th, 18,435. A Washington special states that tho President has now sent to the Senate the nominations of all the men he has appointed to office since the adjournment of the special session of that body last March. None have been withheld. Four Republican Senators— Messrs. Hawley, Frye, Conger and Cullom— have called at the White House to state to the President their objections to men he ap¬ pointed during the recess. In executive session of the Senate Mr. Logan B. Eaton objected civil to the confirmation of Dorman and as service commissioner, the nomination went over for a day. The President has, in answer to a resolution adopted of documents by the Senate, showing sent the to action that taken body copies by him ascertain the of to sentiments foreign governments in regard to the establishment of an international ratio between gold and silver. FOREIGN. A young girl who had made Buda-Pesth, a highly Hun¬ suc¬ cessful debut as a singer in gary, killed herself shortly afterward on ao cou nt of a quarrel with her affianced lover. M. Pasteur, his the hydrophobia expert, eleven has undertaken at own cost to cure persons that havo been bitten by a mad wolf in a village in Western Russia. Great Britain has formally annexed Burmah, thus adding 67,000 square miles to the British empire. A Panama dispatch says that two fam¬ ilies with attendants were crossing from Taleahunano to Peno when their boat was swamped, anil aud seventeen children persons—nine dre— men, ned. six women Lwo were Matamoras, Mexico, has been the scene of a bloody election riot. The chief of police and seven rioters were wounded. The mili¬ tary took declared. possession of the city and martial law was The Arabs lost 600 killed and wounded in tho recent battle with the British near Kosheh, Egypt. Emperor William's twenty-fifth anni¬ versary of his accession to the throne of Prussia has just been celebrated through out Germany with much rejoicing and enthusi asm. principality Every of empire, Europe kingdom, aud America republic aud was represented in a gorgeous and glittering pro¬ cession to the royal chapel at Berlin, where a th:; iksgiving service was held. Women have just voted for the fir.t time candidate in Toronto, and they elected for whom tho temperance they for mayor, went almost solidly. A new French cabinet has been formed by M. de Freycinet. The Balkan conference at Constantinople has been abandoned, Russia ref using to guar antee the independence of the union of Bui garia and Eastern Roumelia. A shock of earthquake was felt a few days- since over an area of several miles in Soutli Devonshire, England. Dr. Robert Ramsey, one of the mos\ prominent night in Toronto. masons in America, died the othei The Shadow of the Cloud. Ripe field* ami sunny skies; A glamour on tho distent hill* that stand Like citadels of some enoh»nt~i )«nd Which yet invites our eyes. A wealth of daisies spread; A weight of redolence upon tho nir, from yonder crab, whose wanton blossom* t here • Oppressis e fragrance shed. Hero in tho sedges deep, A little pool that, full of sweet content. To ripple, wind swept, ’nontli tho branches bent, Lius tranquil and asleep. High up among the boughs The feathered choristers of morn, that strove To fill the air with rcstacy and love, Chirp feebly ns they drowse, And nil things yield in silenco to the power Of warmth and sunlight at the noontide hour. Unfnthonied depths of blue, And rifted dusky clouds chased by the breeze Across a sea of azure, which ono sees Tlie veiled sunlight through; Which darken pond and hillock as they pass, And cast their flying shadows on the grass. A moment and ’tis dono; liio meadow glows once more with heavenly light, A glimpse of gloom whose momentary flight Shuts out the fadeless sun. How ninny a seeming ill which casts n shade Upon life's sunny plums would be allayed, Could wo but think when that it hides the sky, ,r iis but a swift cloud-shadow passing by. —JVannie M. f'itzkugh. HOUSE-HUNTING. BY’ ROBERT J. BURDETTE. 1 believe I always did admire my cousin Celestine. She was pretty when she was a school girl. She had the softest brown hair, fine and sheeny as corn silk, and the sweetest bine eyes, J and such a confiding, trustful, timid . with her. She . such way was a girl as any boy might fall in love with. She married George Andover, a young Presbyterian preacher. 1 saw nothing of them for nearly J five years, when they , J came to Crmhntslwlin, _ a ... town down in _ Pennsylvania, ... where „ 1 ltved. It was called by a Welsh . . because there were no Welsh i i within a thousand miles of it so far I _ was able ,, , to learn. , Still, it . had . , to . called „ , something, , . and was pronounced *, , as good . a name ns it . , served. It ,, was at ... least an ‘ on Jinkinvilie ..... and , Thompsontowm t Snyderburg. _ J , , George and , Celestine . going to live the . city, .. few „ .. & in J a distant, ,, or near, rather. George to go " right ° away J and attend a presby- tery or synod or something . . ”, or other that , was going 6 b to burn a heretic or something, , . ,’ and would ,, . I go to the , citv ' and , . help Celestine , hunt , a , house? * Wouldntl? ... ,. , „ I T would ,, go and , tint! , a house , for . them myself, and Celestine J could ,, stay , at , , home and rest. T Rut , . she L ....... hesitated, in her timid .. ., way, and , 4 then . said she . would ,, go ” with ... me. Ilow „ glad , , 1 . was. She was prettier .. .. than ever, and , seemed , , so grateful that I was going to ... take care other. ... How ,, glad , , , 1 I . repeat . it. ., How ,, glad , , 1 . was, was. It didn’ttako me twenty minutes to find the verv house , she , wanted; . , just the one she described. Eleven rooms. • . hot . and , cold water in every corner, Philadelphia ... ., , , , . window . , shutters ... tour ■ inches , ,, thick, . , and , a parlor , so respecta- . .. bly dark that the boldest cat would , fall over the furniture and break its head , . against . .. the piano limbs ... every ' time it .. ventured , . in . there. Rut „ . Celes- .. tine didn t like it, . because Mr. ,, Gonge, the agent, wouldn’t paint, paper, put in a new range, build on a hay win- dow and add another story. I never saw that timid, appealing, conliding expression on Celestine’s face look quite so sweet and appealing as it did when she refused to take that house. We rode about six miles on nine different street car lines that morning, and visited a dozen houses. I was charmed with every house, but Celes¬ tine would look so appealingly at me every time, when we consulted the agent, and state her objections so sweetly and timidly, and say: “Oh, cousin, won’t you decide for me?” And then we would start after another one. We found a new house. Just completed. Just scrubbed and oiled and varnished from garret to cellar; agent just putting the card in the window when we got there. We went all over it, and Celestine said she would take it if he would have it re¬ painted and papered and a new heater put in. The brute looked into that pleading, timid, gentle race and re¬ fused. Somewhere during the next mile Celestine suddenly stopped. “There,” she said, so decidedly I was frightened. “I would take that house.” She was looking at a handsome man¬ sion of stone, situated in a beautiful yard and bursting into bloom and blossom from every window. “Yes,” I said a little uncertainly, “but isn’t it a little larger than you want?” 1 judged that it contained possibly not more than twenty rooms. “Ye-es,” she said, “but we could close a portion of tlie house. Suppose you run over and Hee what it rents for." 1 didn’t believe it was to let. “You can’t tell until you find out," said cousin Celestine, timidly, “It looks like a very expensive house," I said. “Rut maybe the man is embarrassed in business,” she said, “and would be glad to find a good tenant. Don’t fail me, please,” she added, and I said I would go. I did go. I rang the bell, and stated my business. The liveried servant shut the door in mv face without a word, aud I returned. , "Well?” said my cousin Celestine. I looked into the sweet blue eyes, and calmly, without a blush, I said: “The man said he owned the house, and did not care to rent it this sea¬ son.” She sighed, and said in low, tremulous tones that she believed she could have got it if she had gone over. That afternoon, while we were some¬ where on our ninth mile, Celestine found another house that suited her exactly, but the rent was $240 a month, and she didn’t want to go be¬ yond $60. As we walked now, she leaned heavily on my arm, and I tot¬ tered along on blistered feet, eagerly scanning the horizon in every direction for street cars, while Celestine could see a “To let” card with the naked eye farther than I could think. Her timid, trustful way grew upon her, until she looked a perfect miracle of submissive diflidence, and when we went home that night, in a low, sweet voice she tore housfeJ> landlords and agents to pieces B0 8wee tiy and timidly and com- it roude you think of a cyclone weayj lands of anemones and vlolets> anU breathing softly through a i ! flute to blow six-story warehouse . a j clear across the Delaware River . W(J went house hunti the next * and the next day after that> and j ! the next day after that in> for lwo weeks. , n Celestine , .. timidly drove , me i mto . . the .. , happy homes . of „ all sorts of . people . to . see if the , houses not to were . d)ecause> “ she said, “sometimes ! very ’ particular , people, , who , . have the .. . best houses to . . let, . may not . ... like to ad- i vertise ,. them. 0 Sometimes, .. in . these i | ! forays, . 1 r stumbled . ...... into homes of . of . my acquaintances, . , tmd , . had . to . go ; and , go through the , hollow ,, mockery , „ “a call „„ to . conceal , the ., real reason visit, ... and .... then 1 could my see my ! friends , . , wondering , . and , laughing , , . . be- hjDd the b]inds wheu j went guiltily out . and .... Celestine. ,, , .. rejoined ray cousin I T wouldn ,, t have , believed , ,. , it .. possible ,, that ... so many houses, , exactly alike ... from dram . . to , chimney . . pot, . could ,, have , so many faults, . .. uo two . alike. ... I . prowl- , od . about , . in . cellars „ until I r , began to smelt moldy, ,, and I climbed stairs till I . was , knee sprung. At . . , length, past ” : , before , 1 died, there came a letter from George. _ Celestine „ , read ... it and .... sighed. "Well, she said, .. ’ “George ° is . coming . ° , home to-morrow, bo I there suppose is an end ... to house-hunting. , .. f .. .... „ 1 . 8l “ d . reHolvln th " ’ K minute , George came home to send myself " .. a telegram . . calling e me to the North .. Pole on the first train, “you , haven ,. t found . a house yet?’ , “Oh, yes, Celestine „ , ,, said, tones in so melting ... ° that I half started to * go out and , resume the search, . “there is a par- 1 sonage with ...... the church to which George ,, has , , been called, ... and things ’ our ° are all there. The , ladies of „ the , church got it all ready for us when we decid¬ ed to come. But, she said softly, probably noticing the look of brutal amazement tliat came creeping over my face, “I thought perhaps they could let the parsonage to some one else If we found a bouse we liked better.” “Then you don’t like tlie parson¬ age?” 1 managed to say. “Oh, I don’t say that,” she said, sweetly. “I haVe not seen it. They didn’t want us to come until every¬ thing was all ready.” I have not seen my cousin Celestine since she went to the parsonage. They came out to Crmhntslwlin several times, but the man whom I have em¬ ployed to watch at the station is vigi lant and faithful, and so has warned me in time to effect my escape over into the hills of Rrddnwr. Any per¬ son desiring to purchase an undivided interest in a cousin, low-voiced, sweet- tempered and fair-favored, gentle and affectionate, a charming singer and an infallible judge of improved city real estate,- can secure a bargain by corres¬ ponding with me. I cannot give a clear title, save as to cousinship, and that I will quit-claim, purchaser to assume all risks and encumbrances of cousinship during the moving season. —New York f#ar. Wages of the various grades of help In California : Cooks, $246 to §720 a year; nurses, $180 to $800; house¬ maids, $180 to $300; coachmen, $360 $720; butlers, $500 to $600; Chinese cooks and general servants, $240 to $420. Even a child of fourteen can¬ not be hired as nurse undsr $120 a year. VOL. 1. NO. 17. Who’ll Buy! My neighbor wears a ootton dress She comes with marigold and cress All dripping, coiled together. Tho willow basket in her hand Is bright with water and with sand, This happy, happy weather! “Who’ll buy? ” Who would not buy? —They grow beside an April stream, Beneath an April sky! Again I met her, flushed and brown, With braid and bonnet slipping down! She looks upou me gaily. She knows the grassy Jutland farm Where berries ripen high and warm, And redden deeper daily! “Who’ll buy? ” Who would not bay? —She tound them in the summer field* Beneath a summer sky. Today she enters at my gate; She step* inside the sill to wait; And so once more I find her. Alack 1 the whirling leaves are brown— And he who shook the chesnuts down I* standing there behind her! “Who’ll buy? ” Who would not buy? —They found them in the autumn woods, Beneath a frosty sky. —Dora Head Uoodalt, HUMOROUS. lie stands at the head—'he phre¬ nologist. An exchange asks, “Why do people have poor teeth ?” Probably because they can’t afford to buy good ones. “How can that Mrs. Jones wear such loud colors ? ” “Why, don’t you know ? She’s as deaf as a post.” One striking differ ;nce between an old toper and an old cow is that two horns last the old cow a life-time. A country boy, who had read of sail¬ ors heaving up anchors, wanted to know if it was seasickness that made them do it. There’s nothing like having a good wife around—when a man has no mind of his own, his w*fe is apt to give him apiece of hers. The bee, after all, only works three hours a day. He is a great deal like many other buzzers. There is a deal of cell about his labor. There were 21,000,000 buttons made in this country last year. And when a man is waiting for his wife, prepar¬ atory to her going out with him, he imagines she’s secured at least 20,000,- 000 of them on her gloves. At a lecture on "The Decline of Literature” the eloquent orator shout¬ ed “Where are the Chaucers and Shakespeares and Miltons and Spen¬ sers and Macaulays? Where are they, I say ?” And a voice answered, sadly, from the gallery, “All dead.” “My love,” said a wife fondly, “am I not to have that beautiful dress pat¬ tern I spoke of? ” “ He patient, my dear,” he replied; “I will only say there is a surprise in store for you.” “In store forme!” she snapped; “that’s where it will stay. A real surprise would be something for me at home.” The Windmill* of Holland. The most conspicuous and familiar object iu Holland is the windmill, writes a Courier-Journal correspond¬ ent. Thousands of these structures are scattered throughout tho entire country, including towns, farm-houses and hills. They are used for grist¬ mills, saw mills and for all manufact¬ uring purposes, but principally for the purpose of pumping water from the low lands into the canals that form drains to the sea. Many of these mills are of immense size, their arms or sails measuring as much as sixty feet. They present a solemn look by day and a most weird look by night. In my opinion one of these out-of- the way windmills at the dead hour of midnight offers the best field on this earth for ghost hunting, if you can not And ghosts here, then you need look no farther, in the certain belief that none are to be found anywhere Tlie number and sight of these wind, mills suggest the three impossibilities with which I have met in my travels —first, to be out of sight of a China¬ man in San Francisco; second, to be out of sight of a windmill in Holland and third, to be out of sight of a priest in Rome. These may be set down as the three impossibilities of travel in these places. Another peculiar and universal sight In Holland is the fact that all the houses and buildings are covered with red pottery or corrugated tiling. Thus the tops of all structures, from huts to palaces, are bright red. This style of roofing has now extended throughout Belgium and most of Germany and Switzerland, because it is more con¬ venient and cheaper than wood or other metal. The great scarcity of timber in these countries make wood roofing an impossibility. A Crowded Countenance. Mother—Whom do you think baby resembles? Uncle—It has its father’s nose. Mo'her—And mv mouth. Uncle—Yes, fact; and I also notice that with papa’s nose and mamma’s mouth it leaves precious little room lor foi ehead.-- Chicago Tribune.