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DEYOTIjp TO LITERATURE, XORICULTURE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.
VOLUME IV
SANDER8VILI.E. GA„ TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1884.
$1.50 per Annum
NUMBER 44.
Htuiuni.ia'Jl
A. J. JERNIGRA^,
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ftta(llfUMU MM . r ..M.m
IICHIIRD I- HARRIS,
Atforn& at Lem,
" g 8ANDER8YLLE,GA.
Will pmtlre in Ml the courts* of the
middle circuit, abd in the oonntie* snr-
1 roauding Washington Special atten
tion given to commevoiul. law.
T s. LANGIMDE,
- Attorney at Law,
BANDERSVILLE, Gt.
MAYOR.
0. H. ROGERS,
'.'LEfiK <e 2JtEASE2tEJt.
D. E. B, WELLS.
MAUSBALL.
J. E. WEDDON.
AL7)EJiMEA,
W. H, LAWSON,
Wm. RAWLINGS,
8. G. LANG,
A. M. MAYO,
M. H. BOYER.
EDITORIAL NOTES*
Tm Hon. 3. B. Grlnnell, (or whom
the town of Grlnnell, la., wu named,
recently said: "In GriiineU there are no
saloon*, and n* one has been sent to
jail, to the poorhotise or to the penitent
tentiary for twenty-fire yearn. We can
■land a cyclone occasionally if yon will
h ep whisky away from no.”
It he made like ordinary rope, and is
spun from Italian *« baa to* thread.
Ta> market is fnll of adulterated but
ter and ehemists are etill at work on the
problem of making batter without the
cow end the churn; The adulterated
article, however, bee come to etay, and
the qneetioa to be considered la how to
inake the best and cheapest article at
Uft least expense to the manufacturer.
About twenty-fire firms in this ooun . . . ,. . ,
try make a buelheseoi publishing school u " ft® u traJ lard is probably the
i ^ _ , i latkmmiK av an adislvAtinista IA ia i**4ala*a
books. They do a business of perhaps
$8,000,000 a year. Only three of the
school book publishing hooeee ore south
or west of Philadelphia or Baltimore, j
Two-thirds of the business fs dftfie by
fire firms. It oosts each of the larger
firms something like $200,000 a year for
agents and other expenses under the
"introduction account.”
largest of all adulterants, It is tasteless,
easily colored, and gives a good body to
the batter, and ia Inexpensive compared
with cream. Cotton seed oil is also
largely need. It has the natural advan
tages of flavor and color and gives the
butter a,good grain. Oleo oil, a fluid
obtained from tallow, figures largely in
the manufacture of batter. Pure cow
_ , ^ 7T . ,, I butter is difficult to find in any market
There are only four nations in the ... ....
1 1 at the present time.
2 own of 2ennitte.
Mayor—John C. Hannan.
Aldermen- W. P. Davis, J. W.
Smith, P. J. Pipkin, T. J. Beck.
Clerk—8. H. B Massey.
Marshall—J. C. Hamilton.
B. D. IVANS,
ATTORNEY AT UAW.
SandeievlUa, Oft
April 1,1180.
MUSIC, MUSIC
QO TO—
JERNIGAN
FOR
VIOLINS, ACC0RDE0N8,
Bows* Strings,
Rosin Boxes, Etc*
a C- BBOWN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
■andwevUl*. Ov it
Will practice tn the State and United SUM
Court*. Offlo* In Court-house.
Watches, Clocks
And JEWELRY
world to ; dny that are paying their way.
England- general y manages to maki
both ends meet and show a trifling sur
plus of $2,000,000 or 18,000,000 to be
applied to the reduction of its enormous
national debt; the United States, in
spite of congressional extravagance, puts
by nearly fifty times as much, and Hol
land and Belgium keep about evou
With these exceptions every nation in
the civilized world shows an annual de>
licit of more ortess millions
Thh London Times says that compe
tition between the Uni tod States and In
dia in the wheat trade has already be
come bo close, that the preference fre
quently depends upon the difference in
the rates of exchange. India furnishes
a third of the imports and the States
about forty per cent, but India is gain
ing end the United States is falling back.
The situation' described by the Times,
however, depends upon a very variable
factor, os the crops of India are exceed
ingly uncertain, with the chances rather
in favor of drought as an average condi
tion.
The Department of State publishes a
1st of six prominent grain-producing na
tions of Europe, wliioh in 1871 to 1872
produced 448,756,000 bushels of wheat,
and in 1878 to 1881 produced 810,880,000
bushels. Between the two periods the
aar aired n
jeb.itica.it.
Or. H. B. Hollifield,
nnmi m
Having recently graduated at th* Univer
sity ol Maryland and return**! home, now
oners his professional service* to the eltlsens
ol Hsiulerevllle and vicinity. Office with
Dr. H. N H olllfleld, next door to|ltrs. Bayne’s
millinery store.
An English paper says that penal ser
vitude is, as now carried out in England,
a very dreadful punishment ind ed.
From the dook the prisoner is carried
away in the prison van, and on his arri
val at the jail the heavy gates are shut
to with a horrible sound behind him.
He is thrust into a narrow cell, Lliorc to
remain without companionship for nine
mouths. Scarce'y ever hearing a human
voice, save the warden’s, fod on cou so
food, his fate ia soaled for thirty six
weoks and after that he will probably
be sent to another establishment
where the discipline is somewhat less se
vere. The nine months’ solitary confine
ment of a five years’ conyiot is hard to
boar. About five feet from the floor 1b
a$eep hole. The warder can look in at
any moment, and the dread of this con
stant supervision induces in sensitive
prisoners nervous anxiety, in such coses
the most sovero part of the punishment
inflicted upon them. The period of sol
itary confinement at an end, they ore
allowed to work in gangs, under a strict
and purposely vexatious disoipline.
In France pork is a power, especially
when it is salted. The law against the
importation of salt pork from the Uni
ted States is regarded by Johnny Chapau
as an unmitigated nuisance. It is main
production of Ae United Kingdom de- I ‘“"ed that Ou fear of the introduction
creased by 10,010,000 bushels, blit in al| I of trichinosis has been intensely exagger-
7 he towns aud cities that have so far
gone for (he "dry" tioket in South Caro
lina, represent 16,701 totes, and those
(or the "wet” 10 866.
Last Tuesday was said to be the
coldest day Key Westers hate felt foi
many years. The thermometer stood at
51. In 1870 it fell as low as 45.
Tub IitiGoute pear trade of Florida ia
increasing very much. The growers in
Jefferson county will put out over two
hundred thousand cuttings this year.
In January twenty-six permits were
issued for the erection of new buildings
in Charleston, and seventeen permits for
the improvement of buildings already
. erected.
The Supreme Court of Florida decides
that railroad owners in that state who
want the lands of individuals for their
tracks and depots, must buy and pay for
it like private parties.
Imports of merchandise at New York
have largely fallen off this yonr ns com
pare! with last. Last week the imports
were only 80,056,828. Since January 1,
imports aggregate 182.872,565 compared
with $35,676,241 for the same period lost
year.
The annual report of the ^rations
of the patent offico for the calendar year
shows an increase of 17 per oent in the
number of patents, trade marks, and
labels issued over the piecoding year.
The cash receipts increased 8137,000.
The excess of receipts over expenditures
was 8800,000. Cosh on hand, $2,676,476
Seven members of the house who
were elected to the forty-eighth congress
have died since their election. They are
Herndon, Alabama; Cutt, Indiana
Hnnkell, Kansas; Horron, Louisiana;
Pool, North Carolina ; Updcgraff, Ohio;
and Mackey, of South Carolina. Mr.
Mackey was the only one of the seven
who lived long enough to occupy his
seat,
Among the new applications of cotton
is its use, in part, iu the construction oi
houses, tho material employed for this
purpose being the refuse, which, when
ground up with about an cqunl amount
of straw and asliestos, Is converto I into
a paste, and this is formed into large
slabs or bricks, which acquire, it is said,
the hardness of stone, and furnish a really
valuable building stock.
other countries there were important
gains. The European crop of 1882,
which is this side of the dates of the De
partment report, was greatly in excess
of any yield on record, and that of 1883,
while considerably smaller, was still
above the average.
Spain now has an annual yield o.
about 40,500,000 gallons of wine, which
places her in the fourth rank among
wine-growing countries, being surpassed
only by France and Italy, and Austria-
Hungary. She has a large export trade
with France, but it is not true that she
has developed this wholly or chiefly by
the prevalence of phylloxera in the
French vineyards, for in 1876, when the
phylloxera haddono comparatively liit e
harm, she exported wines to the amount
of 151,000,0001. or one-third of her total
exports, a proportion which was scarcoly
exceeded in 1879.
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
8«it*n>*a4 VMMle Mates
Dr. Elisha Harris, honorary secretary
of the New York ritato board of health, die*
linguished for bis sanitary eervioes during
the war and for his many valuable contri
bution* to medical science, died the other
day ft Albany, aged sixty years.
EdwArd N. Rowell was acquitted at Ba
tavia, N. Y.. of the charge of murderiug
Johnson 1,. Lynch, whom he found at hu
bouse with his wife three months ago, and
shot dead. The jury acquitted him on the
round that the shooting of Lynch had been
lone in self-defense. The verdict was re
ceived with great cheers, the building of
bqoflree and the extruding of fireworks by
t he excited citizein. Rowell's former part
ner, Palmer, against whom much feeling had
bean engendered l>y his testimony on the
witnees stand, was hanged in effigy.
A jury returned a verdict of $38,987
against the Boston sod Albany Railroad
company in favor of James B. David, of Bo*
ton, as damages for personal injuries sus
tained at Springfield, owing to the neglect of
train men.
Judge Harry E. Packer, president of
th* Lehigh Railroad company, died a few
daye since at bis homo in Mauch Chunk.
Penn., in his thirty-third- year. He was the
youngest and the last surviving son of the
lata Judge Asa Packer, the famous projector
and builder of the Lehigh Valley railroad.
At a meeting of cotton operative*, repre
senting fifty-one mills, in Fall River. Mass.,
H. N- holufuld.
Physician and Surgaon,
■oaderavllle. «es
Office next doer to Mia Bn# art ftMltasep
.tore on Harris street-
BUY YOUR
eted, and it iB suspected that the crusade
against American salted pork arises from
the intrigues in France and Germany of
people who are interested, that is to say,
butchers and sausage manufacturers, in
ridding themselves of the fierce compe
tition which comes from the article so
abundantly produced in the states The
effect of this prohibitory legislation was
keenly felt in the states, and a measure
o' reprisal is now agitated. It is pro
posed whenever a foreign government
restricts the introduction of cured pro
ducts made from ihe flesh of American
cattle or swine, the President shall pro
hibit the importation into the United
States of the wines, liquors and mer
chandise oi the offending country, the
prohibition continuing until the obnox
ious restrictions are removed. Such a
retaliatory measure would fall heavily on
France, and would be the making of the
wine growers of California.
ITEMS OP NEWS.
Seven varieties of ooal are being
found in Alabama.
Salmon are being caught in Missis
sippi out of the Yazoo river,
A large cotton seed oil mill will soon
be erected in Tampa, Florida.
The Memphis Board of Underwriters
Senator Plumb lias introduced a bill
to break up the system of favoritism by
which army officers get and keep easy
places by moans of social and political
influence • It merely provides that no I
officer shall be detached from his regi
ment or company for more than thr.e
years consecutively, and that after his
return from such detached duty he shall j
not ngain be sent upon such service un
til he has seen three years’ aotive service I oro reported as having disbanded,
with his regiment wherever it may be ^he population of Jacksonville and
stationed. Exceptions wil‘ be made in j suburbs, is now estimated at 18,740
the case of instructors in West Point,
officers of the signal corps and aides.
Femn< ‘
Several mountain tribes In Albania have
revolted and seized the reins of government.
They entered Montenegrin territory, but
were repulsed with the loss of fifty men.
Tub king and queen of Italy are alioa : to
visit the German oourt.
P. W. Thomas, Sons A Co., prominent
London stock brokers, have proven default
er*. They owe 44,000,(100 to customers.
A supposed plot to murder the emperor of
Austria in his box at the Court Opera-house
has been unearthed. A man was discovered
concealed near the box with a number of in*
■truments and wire*.
Thirteen school teachers have been dis
missed in Bervla for promoting the recent
revolt.
Lord Castleton Is the author of a scheme
which proposos tho establishment of a land
hank for toe relief of Irish landlords and for
the assistance of tenants.
Flacahdb have been posted throughout
Paris Inciting the ilisafTectcd policemen and
starving workmen to arms.
A Corunna (Spain) dispatch says that a
Bpanish vessel wus capsizod during a heavy
S ale, aud her crew of uinoteen persons were
rowned.
The remains of Commander De Long and
his companions of the lost steamer Jean
nette wore received, upon their arrival in
Berlin from tho long journey through Rus
sia, by United States Mlnli
Alabama is now building quite a num
ber of flourishing young towns and cities.
FROM
JERNIGAN,
Koq$ genuine* without our Trtdi MfcfH
On hand and for sal*
SPECTACLES, NOSE GLASSES. ITC.
Machine Needles,
Oil and Shuttles*
fob all KINDS OF MACHINES, for sal*.
1 will also order parte of Mnohlne*
that get broken, for which new
pleoea are wanted.
A.. J. JEHNIGAN.
V X. Hikes. a H Boefti
HINES & ROGERS,
Attorneys at Law,
BANDERSVILLE, QjL,
Will praettoa In the conntle* of Washlngtoai
Jefferson, Johnson, Emanuel and Wilkinses,
and in the U. 8. Courts for th* Southern Dis
trict of Georgia.
Will *ct as agents la buying, selling or
M Mng Heal Estate.
"flSVV™ * w * #f PubU ® **■**•>
Some idea of the magnitude of the
business of raising sweet scented flowers
for their perfume alone may be gath
ered from the fact that Europe and
British India consume about 160,000
gallons of handkerchief perfumes yearly; I sugarcane.
Tennessee has thirty-three cotton
mills with 1,461 looms and 78,877
spindles.
A Quincy, Florida, farmer has sold
$100 worth of syrup from one acre of
wnuiig hivT*oiio iniiuf, iii mu xuvui.
it was resolved to strike in ten of the milts
against a proposed reduction in wage*. Right
thousand persons were thus thrown out of
employment* It was deoiled to pay single
men of the strikers 44 per week, married
men $4.60, and twenty-five cent* for each
child while tho * trike continues, and also to
ask .for assistance from the cotton operatives
throughout New England.
WniiJl members of various Masonlo
lodge* were assembled In a hall nt Guilford,
N. Y., preparing to attond a funeral, the
floor of the hall suddenly gave way, precipi
tating seventy men to tho floor below. A
number of men wore severely Injured.
Mrs. Catherine Dix, widow of Governor
Dlx, died in New York a few dnys since.
The Queen of Tahiti, the largest of the
Society Islands, has been traveling across the
continent, and recently arrived in* New
York.
A great crowd witnessed the funeral of
Judge Darker, lato president of the Ijehigh
Valley railroad, at Mauch Chunk, l’onn.
Business was entirely suspended end S)iectal
trains brought hundreds or people from New
York, Philadelphia and other points. The
pall bearers numbered thirty-two, Including
Congres -man Bamuel J. Randall.
At Homer, N J., James E. Lines, a car
riage trimmer, became involved In a quarrel
with his wife, from whom he had lived apart
for sevprnl years, and shot her twice, in
flicting fatal wounds; thou he killed him
self. Linen was a man of vlolont disposition,
and ills wife hail refused to go with blin to
Denver, Col., where lie had been li Ting
Fire broke out nt night in the factory of
Grossman <V Klueiitner, Allentown, I’enn., to
tally destroying it an-l a number of small
buildings at tucked. As tho flromeu who
were standing iii Ihe ladders nhd in the
building were doing tludr utmost to subdue
the tinmen, the north and south wnlls sud
denly fell i u’.wnr!, anil some fifteen men
Were covered with the debris. Btreams of
water were immediately ijirected upon tho
rqius covoring the men, which prevented
some of them from ivitig burned to death.
Fire mon were killed, mid eleven seriously
Injured by thofa'Ieu wnlls.
Between G.iHHI uud 0,000 buildings wore
eulmiergeil by the rising waters hi Pittsburg
and Allegheny City. These buildings in
cluded th*residences of ‘Jo,1)00 |x>op)e, 40,000
of whom were not nhlo to occupy their
homes. Fifteen thousand persons wore tem
porarily thrown out of employment by tho
stopiiage of mills and factories. A number
of persons were drowned, and tbo estimated
pecuniary damage Is 43,909,009.
Henry H. Church, city chnmberlain of
Troy, N. Y.,' disappeared suddenly, and an
examination of his accounts showed that he
was n defaulter to tho extent of $83,000.
An immense Ice gorge, thirty miles long
and in some places twenty feet nigh, form d
in the Susquehanna river. AtWilkesbarre.
Penn., the gorge sudd inly broke with a loud
re|x>rt, mid in less tlinn three hours the rivor
rose seventeen feot, flooding milei of terri
tory. Immense Ice jams also formed on the
Schuylkill and Delaware rivers.
An entire square in tho control part of
Hazolton, Penn., a town of 8,IKK) inhabitants,
suddonlv caved in, causing great consterna
tion. The drop was caused by tho giving
way of tho timber in a mine underneath the
town. Three or four houses, including n
hotel, wei-e wrecked, anil many other build
ings were more or less damaged.
Professor A. II. Guyot, the celebrated
Swiss geographer, n professor in Princeton
" Billy" McGlory, the meet notorious of
New York dance house keepers, has been
sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for
Violation of the excise law.
Gcvhrnor Robinson, Mayor Martin, and
many other prominent people attended
Weudell Phillips’ funeral in Boston. The
remains Iny In slate In Faneiiil hall, where
they were vlowed by thousands.
Fifty farmer* from all over the country
were present nt the annual convention of
the American Agricultural association in
New York. A paper by United (State* Sena
tor Vance, i>f North Carolina, on ‘‘The Or-
gani/a’ion of Farmers for Political Pro
tection,” and other )»|)ers of interest to
farmers were read
TmiEE Irish laborers were struok by a
night expreiw train near Baden, Penn.,
and instantly killed.
THE Ohio legislature passed a bill appro-
C rlating 490,000 for tho relief of tho sufferers
y the floods.
Vigilantes have recently hung a large
number of* borso thieves In Northern Ne
braska. As many ns eloven are said to have
been si rung up within a fortnight.
Tames Graham, n New Orleans lawyer,
formerly with a largo practice, hut doprivoa
of it all through his drinking hnbits, lived
very unhappily with his wife, whose large
fortune ho hna also squaml red. A few days
since Graham, hi oiio of his ninny quarrels
with his wife, shot her dead and tlieu com
mitted Btiieide.
A btranuk enso is reported from Canton,
Ohio. On a small farm near that city live
William Hewers mid his wife. For nearly
twenty-five years III 1 couple, ns the result of
a trilling qunerel, have not spoken a word
to each other. ’i ho other day the wile,
while ill, suddenly ejaculated: ‘‘William, 1
believe I am dvmj." Hhe recovered, how
ever, and to n nko up for lost time the two
have liosii talking to e i h other over since.
Washington.
Bknatou Bi.a ill's i" >ised educational bill,
reported 1>Y hint to *'.io Senate, provides that
for tho pur lose of securing the Ismellis of
common school education to nil the children
living In the United .Slaios, there shall be
appropriated am unity tor ten years a sum
of money be^fiiuin' with 416,000,000 aud
o. w a. maxktXWv
DENT I
■oa4ettrlUa,8
TMKltW CASH .
Office at bis fteeMenee, on
jim
K Sollet
. luLn'*!,
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diminished by 41,0)0,009 in each suc
ceeding year. which sum shall be
imUI out to each of the several .States and
Territories and the District of Columbia in
that, proportion which the whole number of
persons of ten years and over ill such Htate
or Territory, or In the District, wlm cannot
read nud write, bear to tho wliolo imiulmr of
such persons in tho United Htntos, according
to the census of 188 l. It provides that no part
of the money shall bo imlil out to
any .-date or Territory which shall not, dur
lug the lir.it five years of tiio operation of
the act, iin.iually expend for the mainte
nance of tho common schools at least one-
thir.l of the mini whl-h -hall lie allotted to It
of this pro!<os3'l cducati mat fund, au l dur -
ing the second five years, a sum at least
equal to the whole amount of tho allotmeut
mado to It*
Tiie lost national debt statement issued
shows the following:
Decrease of debt during January 411,998,00!
Dccria o of debt since June 540,
1K85S 05,007,488
CAsh in the treasury 893,415,233
Gold certificates outstanding.... 101,350,020
(Silver certificates outstanding... 110,137,051
Certificates of deposit outstand
ing 10,880,000
Refunding certificates outetund-
|„ K (107,090
Fecal fenders outstanding 840,081,010
Lractloual currency (not includ
ing amount estim.'itad as lost or
destroyed) 0,087,250
A delegation of Indians belonging to the
BIX Nations, of New York, have Iwen In
Washington asking l or an Indemnity of about,
$1,500,001) for lands surrendered to tho gov
ernment many years ago.
A DELEGATION of six men, representing the
Amalgamated Association of Iron Workers,
the Miners’ association of the Pittsburg dis
trict nud the Glass Worker*’ association, of
Pittsburg, have been testifying liefore the
House committee on labor, nud endeavoring
to secure leaislutiou to prevent the luqiorta-
tiou of foreign laborers under contract.
The Sena to labor committee ordered a
favorable rejiort on th 1 hill establishing eight
hours as a day’s work for laborers mid me
chanics In government employ.
During January the various United Btates
mints coined 88,180 gold pieces, worth 41,-
061 245 ; 2,850,CO!) standard sliver dollars; L-
060,000 dimes, worth :lu5,0K), and 2,873,800
minor uidcon, worth $101,778, uittking ft total
of 6,890,980 pleci-s, worth $1,211,028,
that the English revenue from ean de co
logne is $40,000 annually, and that the
total revenue of other perfume is esti
mated at $200,000 annually. There is
one great perfume distillery at Cannes,
in France, which uses yearly 100,000
pounds of aoacia flowers, 140,000 pounds I
of rare flower leaves, 82,000 pounds jas
mine blossoms, 10,000 of tuberose blos
soms, and an immense quantity of other
material.
Oil wells have been discovered near
Bladon Springs, Alabama, which promise
great results. , ,
Roanoke, Virginia, is to have a cotton
factory which will give employment to
»t least 850 hands. ......
The whole number of convicts ia the
Tennessee penitentiary footsnp 1,842,418
white and 942 colored.
Orangeburg, South Carolina, is to
have an artesian well to supply the town
and factory with water.
Pearl buttons are turned out by the
bushel daily at the button factory in
Rhea county. Tennessee.
Two hundred buildings, ranging in
value lrom $1,200 to $50,000 were erected
in Chattanooga last .vear. _
Jefferson Davis has erected a fine
monument to his benefactress, Mrs. S.
The inanufacture of rope from ashes
tos is likely to become an industry of
oonsiderable importance in England, the
strength of the article being estimated at
about one-fourth that of ordinary hemp
rope of the same diameter. Rope of this
material of one and a half inches in di
ameter is stated to have a breaking
strength of one ton, and twenty feet o(. D ftt NatcheZ) Miss.
;*«t “ <■*““*« *
brii, and means of escape from dwel- The Lee monument fund in
Ungsand public buildings, its advanta- for building a monument m the city of
E that it will not break and drop Richmond to General Lee now amount,
fts burden if the flame bears upon it. I to $49,000.
Ulster Sargent. The
coffins, which filled the floor of one car.
were hidden by beautiful wreaths and
flowers presented by various corporations en
route.
El Mahdi’s insurgents ore reported to be
falling back from Khartoum. The False
Prophet’s forces have made an unsuccessful
attack upon the fortilied camp of the
Egyptians.
At a Nationalist meeting in Ballymote,
Ireland, a fight occurred between the Na
tionalists and a body of Orangemen. Three
Nationalists and two Orangemen were
wounded.
A portion of the beleaguered Egyptian
garrison at Sinkat, becoming desperate at
their starving situation, made an attempt to
cut their wav through to Buakiin, but were
surrounded by a large body of rebols and all
were massacred.
An immense number of visitors, chiefly
from the United .States, were present at the
opening of the annual winter carnival in
Montreal. Upon their arrival In tho city
tho Marquis of Landsdowne, governor-gen
eral of ( anada, aud his wife, were escorted
to their hotel by a procession. Triumphal
arches, gay decorations, illuminations, torch
light processions and a brilliant ball were,
features of the first day’s festivities. The
carnival lasted a week.
Tiie editor of a newspaper at Posen, Pol
land, Jankovskl by name, has been sentenced
to two years’ Imprisonment because bo pub
lished an address congratulating Cardinal
Ledochowsld, primate of Poland, on hie
birlhday.
Baker Pasha’s force of Egyptians, while
advancing from Snakim, were attacked by
the Folse Prophet’s troops and routed with *
lots of 2,003 men in killed and wounded.
At the opening of the British parliament
the queen’s speech was delivered by rovsl
commission. ,
official advices from Cairo announces
that the total number of Baker Pasha’s troops
killed near Tokar was 2,260. This Includes
ninety-six officers, sixteen of whom were
staff officers. The rebels lost 600 men.
Resolutions condemning the govern
ment’s policy in Egypt were introduced by
the opposition party in the British bouse of
lords and the house of commons.
In a discussion in the British house of
commons on the importation of foreign cat-
tie, s member quoted statistics which de
clared that the number of cases of disease
among cattle imported from America In 1883
was 536, against 647 cases among cattle from
•11 other countries.
Dispatches from Tonquin announce that
the rebels in the provinces of Namdinh and
Sontay have been dispersed with a loss of
between 400 and 600. The gunboat Parceval
has destroyed neeta of pirates at Pavalow
and Fowtainson, killing and wounding
manv.- Excellent feeling prevails at Hue,
the capita! of Anam. The kiug has ap
pointed two delegates to assist Admiral Cour
bet, of the French fleet, in pacifying the
country.
college, died a few days since at his home in
Princeton, aged seventy-seven j ears.
An explosion of oil in a tank at Hunter's
Point, N. Y., resulted in n fire which de
stroyed property valued at about 4100,000.
South and West*
The groat California land suit of Emerio
against thn heirs of fi-Governor Alvarado
has been decided by fho aupreme court at
Ban Francisco in favor of the defondants.
The case lias occupied tiie courts for seven
teen years, and involves 18,000 acres of land
in Contra Costa county, including the vil
lage of Ban Fablo, the whole being valued at
$2,000,000.
John C. P. Collins, who robbed a stage
and killed W. F. Cummings, a banker, while
robbing him of two bars of gold worth
$7,000, was hanged at Nevnda City, Cnl., Id
presence of a large crowd.
The boiler in Twit-hell's shingle nifll noor
Blanchford, Mich., exploded the other morn
ing, killing Henry Roopand John Finlayson
fatally injuring a man named Uerrod, and
wounding soveral others.
Eight persons wore killed and ns mhny
more injured by an oxploslon of gasoil no in
a stove store at Alliance. Ohio.
The two stages running betwapn TVhites-
boro and Gainesville, Texas, were robbed •
few days since by three road agents.
Tns steamer Natchez burst her boiler near
Baton Rouge, In., and was run ashore by
the pilot. A colored boy was instantly
killed and one passenger terribly scalded,
"Sandy” Robinson, a negro imprisoned at
Crockett, Texas, for the murder of Deputy
Sheriff Lathrop. was taken out of jail by
masked men and banged.
At Rendville, Ohio, two men called Peto.
Clifford, a brakeman, twenty-three wars
old. to hts door and shot him dead. Four
members of the Hickey family of despora-
does wfiPa arrested, and at night a crowd or
men wok Richard Hickey from the guards
and hanged him to a tree.
Charles Palmer, of Youngstown. Ohio,
• railroad baggage master, was crippled in t
collision, and the company has paid him 425,
000 damages. ,, . . ...
A Nashville, (Tenn.) dispatch says that
Judge Henry Cooper, formerly United States
Senator from Tennessee, has been lolled
by robbers in Chihuahua, Mexico, where he
was manager of a silver mine.
After a long'and desperate struggle in th*
Kentucky Democratic senatorial caucus.
Congressman Joseph G. 8.Blackburn received
the nomination for United States Senator,
obtaining on tho last ballot 68 votes to 67 for
Senator Williams, the name of Speaker Car
lisle having bien withdrawn. Mr. Black
burn was born in Kentucky in 1888 studied
law served two terms in the legislature, in
1874 was elected to Congress, anil lias served
there ever since. ■
By a collision between two trains near
Lexington. Ky., five colored section band*
were instantly killed and fifteen others in-
lured.
Mil. II URDU A Hi), the director of the United
rftat-H mint, told a sub-committee of the
House committee mi weight* an 1 measures,
that bo thought lietween five nnd seven mil-
,,1011 trade dollars were out, und he lielievod
n tho hands of traders. Tho sub committee
has been considering the subject of the with
draws! of the trade dol'ar from circulation by
emigres Jotial enactment.
The President sent the following nomina
tion 1 to tho Senate: Henry 1). Lymun, of
Ohio, to he second assistant |»4master-gen-
cral; William li. Dickson, of Utah, to lv> at
torney of tho United States for the Territory
of IJtah.
The Senate confirmed the nomination of J.
A. I/eonard, to ba consul general of tbn
United States at Calcutta; Oscar Malmros, of
Minnesota, to ba United States consul at
Leith; Joseph II. Durkey, ns United States
marshal for tho northern dt.-triot of Florida,
and Richards. Tuthill, United States at
torney for the northern district of Illinois.
Mu. Richard A. Elmer, second assistant
lostmnster-goneral, has resigned IiIb posi
tion in orde- to take the presidency of the
American Surety company'of New York.
Edward McPherson, of Pennsylvania,
has aecopteil tiie secretaryship of tho Repub
lican <«ngr*wional committee
The Senate commitiee 011 commerce au
thorized Mr. Fryo to report to the Neimtejn
new bill for the robef of American -hip
ping. This has boan prepared by the com
mittee as a substitute tor all the vurious bills
heretofore referred to it on tho same general
subject*
Hon. William M. Evarts, representing
the Western Union Telegraph company, ap
peared before the House committee on post-
offices and post roads, and made a long argu
ment agaiust the proposed bill establishing a
postal telegraph. He said tluU, should either
of the three bills before Congress to-morrow
bocomo a law the problem of government
control of the telegraph would not be solved.
Senator Morrill's new coinage bill, in
troduced by him in tho Senate, provides that
the now coinage shall be. based upon the
metric system; that the now' fractional coins
shall contain an amount of silver pre ihh'-
tional to the nomina! values represented by
them as oompare! with the standard silver
dollar; that anew five-rent stiver coin b-> sub
stituted for the prevent, five and three- ent
nickel coins, and u one-cont nickel coin for
the present copper c >ius; that tho fractional
silver in the treasury shall be used in the
coinage of the u«w pieces, and that the
amount of silver t hus used shall be in lieu of
the monthly purchase of silver bullion re
quired by la* for the coinage of standard
silver dollars.
Pkekident Arthur has issued an order
announcing the retirement of General Sher
man, without reduction in his pay and al
lowance, and [laying a high tribute to his
services while in the army.
Representative Ebmentrout was in
structed by the House committee on banking
and ourrency to report a bill for the ex
change of trade dollars for st tn lard silver
dollars at par by January 1, 1335.
SUMMAKY OF CONGRESS
Bills were Introduced to relieve (
travelers from license taxes; to authorise the
retirement of naval officers and to regulate
promotions tn the navy....Hi* Senate in
structed the coinmttte* on po«*$Mrn and 1
[lost roads'to investigate the subject of the
c-wt of telegraphic correspondence.... The
Bena to rejected the Conference report on the
Oreely Relief bill and . voted to ask a new
conference Mr. Blair reported favorably
a revised Educational bill.
Resolution* from tho legislature, of Ohio-
favoring a tariff forrevenuo, so adjusted a*
lo encourage homo itidiidries nnd afford pra
ted ion to labor, but not to creato monopo
lies, were laid on the table... .The select
committee on library accommodations re-
ported a bill providing for llto purchase of
lands cast of the capital grounds for a con
gressional library building, and appropria
ting 4503,00(1 to begin work with. The com
mittee on judiciary reported favorably on th*
Lowoll bankruptcy bill. Thn committee on
education and lab ir reported favorably on
the hills establishing a bureau of labor sta
tistics, and limit ing a day's work in the gov
ernment workshops to eight hours. The
fionate authorized U10 committee that had _
been instructed to investigate alleged elec- ‘
tion outrages in Virginia and Mlsslsaippl to
send snb-oommlt*.epn to various places. Mr.
Bhermon offered a bill to regulate banking.
Tho bill providing for the allotment of
lands In severalty to Indians, and to extend
the laws of thn State) nod Territories over
the Indians, wai favorably reported....
The bill suspending for u further period
of five yenrs tbo sect Ion of the Revised
Htatutes, which prohibits the landing of
guano exeept for use in tho United
Btates from guano islands under th*
protection of the United Htates was passed.
....Mr. Hnwloy Intro bleed again his bill of
th* last Congress prohibiting pomdon agent*
from receiving nny compensation for prose
cuting a slntm beyond tho amount allowed
by the ootumiHsionur of pensions, and regu
lating fees.... Honator Morrill introduced »
bill which is practically a substitute foe
Senator McPherson’s financial bill,
Mr. Miller, of Now York, reported favora
bly the bill providing mentis for the suppres
sion and extirpation of pleuro-pnenmonta
and other contagious diseases among domes
tic affimnls The Senate, after debate,
1 a sed tho bill “to provide for the completion
of tho capitol ten a es and the stairways oon-
jieeted therewith.” The bill appropriates
4177,5*0.93... .Mr. Miller, of California, from
therommlttoe on foreign relations, reported
a hill amending the anti Chineae aot.
The Senate passed the Mexican l and Grant
Titles bill....Mr. Frye rejiorted a bill for tha
roll-f of Aiiierlcun shipping. Mr. Veat, for
the minority of the committee, aaid
Dint although tlioy acquiereed in tha
bill report's I, they by no mean* agreed
that the bill touched the main difficulty
which bad struck down our commerce....
Mr. Logan introduced a bill creating a com
mission to Inquire into and report upon tho
material, indttsl rial, aud intellectual progreee
made hv tho colored |>coplo of the United
Htntcs since 186.5, ami making appropriation
tm' the same. Mr. Riddleberger offered a
concurrent resolution for the appointment of
threo Heuators nnd five Representative* to
iii<mire Into the cause of all removals of sub
ordinate officers of tiie Beuato autl House,
Hans*,
The House passed the bill declaring a for
feiture of lands granted to tho Toxti* Pnciflo
Railroad company under the act of Congress
approved March 8, 1*71, and acts supple
mental thereto by a vote of 269 to 1. Three
other land grunts to Mississippi, two to Ala
bama and 0110 to Arkansas, were also declared
forfeited. The amount of laud affected by
the pa.s.-ago of tho bills taking away thee*
grants is 21,000,000 acres.
Mr. Dockery, of Missouri, introduosd a bill
prohibiting tiie removal of employe* of tha
Iloiisu except for cau-e during tho vacation
of Congress. Referred. Also a resolution
amending the rules so as to make a similar
provision. Referred....On motion of Mr,
Randall, of Pennsylvania, tho further oon-
ferenee a-ked by the Senate on the Greelr
relief bill wai agreed to, and Mr. Randall
aud Mr. Calkins were appointed as oonforees.
I11 coimnillo on the whole the de
bate on the Fit/. John Porter bill
was concluded. Mr. Wulfnrilapoke in favor of
and Mr. Calkins in opposition to the bill. Mr.
Phelps defended the bill and Mr. Boutelle at
tacked it. After several amendments bad
lieen made'and rejected Mr. Curtin made*
long speech in favor of the bill. This closed;
the debate aud the Houvi then, bv a vote of
184 yeas to 78 nays, passed the bill whioh re-
Wrra regard to value ef product the great
furniture manufacturing cities stand in the
following order: New York, Chicago, Phila
delphia, Cincinnati and Boston.
stores Fit.z John Porter to the army and *u- ]
thorizes the President to place him on the re-
Mr. Morrison Introduced his bill for the re |
Auction of the tariff Mr. Eaton introduced
a bill making it a felony for any officer *f the
government to permit Ids subordinates to ba
assessed for political purposes, aud making an
official who contributes money liable to indict
ment. Mr. Cox, of New York, introduced a
bill authorizing the construction of a bridge
across (be Hudson river, and Mr. Doruheimer
a bill for tho free importation of coal, iron
ore and coke, and tho products of Cauada.
Other hills were introduced by Mr. Xxmg to
establish a life-saving station at Gay Head;
by Mr. Weller offering a reward of $100,000
in standard silver dollars to tho master,
owner and crew of any vessel that rescues
Lieutenant Greely aud party during 1884;
by Mr. Anderson, to prevent the
sale of Pacific railroads before
they have fnllv discharged their obligation*
to the United States ; by Mr. Houk a reso
lution directing the committee on education
to inquire into the working and management
of agricultural colleges in aid of which lands
have been granted, and to recommend such
measures us will secure to the ln-
dustriiil classes the benefits intended
by tho act of Congress The
Speaker announced tv few changes in the
jiouse committees. Mr. Thomus> takes Mr.
Cliucu’s place on river and harbors, Mr.
Rockwell the place of Mr. Millikan on educa
tion, and Mr. Eaton the piaco of Mr. G. D.
Wise on the foreign uttitlr.-.committee.
Mr. Dorsheimor’s foreign copyright bill
was reported favorably from the committee
011 the judiciary Tho joint resolution pro
posing a constitutional amendment provid
ing fur the election of postmastefa, revenue
collectors nnd United States district attor
neys was reisirted adversely... .The House
spent some time on the bill to eradicate
pleuropneumonia among cattle, but no
action was taken.... ML Finnerty introduced
a memorial from the Western Associated
Press, asking that tho |K>stage on newspapers
moiled by-others than the publishers be fixed
at one cent for four ounces
A resolution reported from the committee
on foreign affairs by Mr. Belmont, calling
upon the President for copies of correspond
ence and information about extradition
treaties and stipulations with Greet Britain
since 1876, was adopted. A report acoom
panying the resolution state* "that th* ex
tradition treaty ot 1842 with Great Britain
remains unenlarged and ur J
covers murder, assault with
der, piracy, arson, robbeiy s
not burglary, the fabrication),
tion of counterfeit iuqney,
bank notes, embezzlement' of f
or of private funds, kidnap
any of the modern commerc
House spent a long time in <
to extirpate pleuro-pneuiuon
and Potter, of New York, and others, op
posed the bill, on the ground that it tendad to
hreak down the old, well-ordered division of
State and Federal powers. N« action was
taken. n»