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NUMBER 45.
THE MEHOUBT.
Entered ee seconds! see matter el Me Ew
derSTllle Postofflce, April ff, IMfc
Bandemllle, Wnhlnglon Coutft fl*>
A. J. JERNIGANa
Paoraiaroa ahb Ponunia
Bnbscrlption...,
,.11.10 per Tear
RICHARD I. HARRIS,
Attorney at Zaw,
, SANDEBSVLLE, GA.
Dfill prsitite In all th© courts of the
middle circuit, ana in the counties Bur-
oundfne W.-sliin.i'ton Special atle**
11Ion (riven to commercial law.
£• S. UNGWAOEi
Attorney at haw,
SANDBR3VILLE, QA.
MAYOR.
O. H. ROGERS.
‘tlEEFC <C 27ZEASURER,
D. E. B, WELLS.
MARSEAZL.
J. E. WEDDON.
AZ'ZE'RMEJy.
W. H, LAWSON,
Wm. RAWLINGS,
8, G. LANG,
A. M. MAYO,
M. II. BOYER.
2onn of 2enmlle.
Mayor—John C. Harman.
Aldermen- W. P. D.ivis, J. W.
Smith, P. J. PipVin, T. J. Beck. -
Clerk—S. H. B Mswey.
Marshall—J. C. Hamilton.
B. D. EVANS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
BandersvUle, On.
April 1,1880.
MUSIC, MUSIC
JERNIGAN
UllHJ)
Bows, Strings,
Rosin Boxes, Etc.
0. C BROWN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
EandenrlUa, Oa.
Will practice In the State and United State*
Courts. Office In Oourt-hotu*.
Watches, Clocks
And JEWELRY '
REPAIRED »T
JSHITICAIT.
Dr. H. B. Hollifield,
Having recently geminated at the Unlver-
•lly of Maryland and returned home, now
oners Ills professional services to the citizens
SJ Handeravllle and vlolulty. Offioe with
hr. 11. n Bollifleld, next door to|Mrs. Bayne's
Ullllnery store.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
H. N. HOLLIFIELD,
-•
Physician and Surgeon,
BandenvlUe, fla
Office next door to Mia. Bayne's millinery
.More on Harris street.
BUY YOUR
A few years ago a measure waa
adopted providing for the gradual manu-
mission of slaves in Cuba. This worked
exceedingly well indood, and u: dor it
286,000 slaves have already boon peace
fully liberated, with entire satisfaction to
tlio owners. There aro now hardly more
than 100,000 slaves on tho island, and
most of thorn will bo set free during tho
year.
General John Newton, who has
made a study of modorn explosives, says
that no agent can supplant gunpowder
for the prinoipal requirements of war
fare. In blasting rock tho higher ex
plosives may be employed, except where
the rock is weak in cohesion, whou gun
powder is profornble. In coal mines the
higher explosives are too destructive iu
their action. Dynamito as a destructive
agent for unlawful purposes can only be
applied on a limited sca'o, and with
nearly fruitless results, as time, mouoy
and elaborate preparations are required
for effective woik.
The World’s exposition nt Nc.v Or
leans, will devote 247 acres to lakes and
gardens, showing tho rarest tieus and
plants of Mexico, Central America,
Florida and foreign conntiies. Horti
cultural hall will be 600 by 184 feet.
Mr. P, J, Berokmaus, of Augusta, Ga.,
has beoa appointed a special commis
sioner to confer with various European
societies in reference to tho fruit and
plant display. The collective Mexican
exhibit will bo an iinmouso thing, occu
pying a building 1,400x900 feet. Ac
companying this exhibit will bo a Mexi
can baud and a battalion of Mexican
troops. Tho exposition will receive lib
eral encoursgomeut from tho leading
countries of tho world.
Beer os an article of diet has been
discontinued in atleast 27 pauper lunatic
asylums in England, with the result that
in no instance hai the apparently impor
tant change led to auy sort of physiologi
cal inconvenience. Many of tho super
intendents, iu whose nsylums the modi
fication was made, nnd through thorn
muny of the patients testify cordially to
the benefits dorived from the chango.
Tho question, Bays the Journal of Mdhtal
Science, is not one of teetotal turn, or oven
primarily of a financial order, but ono of
pure expediency and good management.
In all probability the disuse of beer us
au elemeut of the diet of pauper lunatic,
in English asy urns will be more ex
tended and will bo watched with in
terest.
The latest estimates place the popula
tion of the globe at 1,433,800,000, indi
cating a decrease in the last three year,
of some 22,000,000, though, as a mutter
of fact, there has been an actual iucrense
of s me 33,000,000. 1 bis apparent dis
crepancy is accounted for by the fact that
the population of China lias heretofore
been largely over o timated. In reference
to our own country the statistics show
that no country in the history of tho
world ever had such a composite popu
lation, leaving but four cout from othoi
countries, nnd from white races of other
types, and thirteen per cent for those ol
African descent. Probably no other
country on the face of the globe can show
such a diversity aud at the some time
suoh a substantial unity of race and
descent.
FROM
JERNICAfJ,
Hon. genuine without our Trad* Mark
On hand and for sale.
SPECTACLES, NOSE GLASSES. ETC.
Machine Needles,
Oil and Shuttles,
POR ALL KINDS OF MACHINES, for sale,
r Will also order parts of Machine*
that get broken, for whloh new
pieces are wanted.
J. JERNIGAN.
*• *• Hut BA
a H. Rooms
HINES & ROGERS,
Attorneys at Law,
Si’P ra «tlc« in the oountles of Washington,
ami Johnson, Emanuel and Wilkluson,
triutVi L he D - 8 - Courts for the Southern' Dis-
Wl?f Ge . orgla -
^V&aMte* in bnyln ** ***** ° r
Ootu-tx 01 ^** 1 ot PubUo
SANDERSVILLE, GA.,
walls of Vienna, and of overrnnnlng one
day the civilized world.
The cigarette is a harmless looking
thing, but in the opinion of many well-
poBted poop e it contains about as muoh
poison to the square inch as any ono ar
ticle that could be named. The cignr-
ette busine s started in this country
about fifteon years ago. American cigar
ettes were nove ties, and attracted favor
able attention from the start. Tho rapid
growth of the business and its present
magnitude will be better understood
when t is stated that in 1882 600.000.-
000 cigarettes wpre manufactured in this
country of which Now York furnished
444,092,867. One hundred and eighty-
two different brands of oigarettes havo
been manufactured in the last fifteen
years. Of tlicso seventy-one varieties
have had their day and ceased to exist.
Tho original American oigarettes had
mouthpieces iu imitation of tho Euro
pean urticle. The price was then twonty
cents a package, but siuoo moutlipi ces
went out of fashion the price dropped to
ton cents. It Ib ass rtod that the tolmoco
used in the manufacture of cigarettes is
of a meaner grade than that used iu tho
cheapest cigars. It is adulterated with
saltpeter to prevent moulding, and this
use of saltpeter Is said by medical men
to bn highly injurious to the vital func
tions. I ho oil. of the cigarette pnpor
wrappers is said to be even moro poison
ous than tho oil of tobacco. Tho major
ity of oigarette smokers aro very young
people, principally boys, and not a few
girls, Physicians specify the following
ns among tho evils spring ng from tho
habit: palpitation of the heart, indiges
tion, catarrh in tho head, .asthma, pneu
monia, bronchitis, morbid craving foi
drink, destruction of the nerves of the
eyes. In New Jersey a law has been
passed making it a penal offense -to sell
cig&rottes or tobacco to minors undor
sixteen years of age, and a similar bill is
now pending in the Now York legis n-
turo. Thero is a disposition everywhere
to suppress or check ns iniu.h as possible
tho habit of cigarette smoking. The
vice loads to re lilts as injurious hs any
produced by the il>o of alcohol, aud the
physical, mental on moral decay occa
sioned by tho practice cannot fail to fill
our hospitals, asylums, jails aud cemete
ries, unless a hnlt is speedily called.
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Eastern and Middle State*.
New Yoiik lias beon shrouded In the
densest fog which has prevailed there for
years, Navigation on the rivers was almost
entirely suspended and business was very
much imjiededt
The mining vtllago of Olyphant, Penn.,
was panic-stricken by a sudden rise in the
Lackawanna r;v<>r, which floodel tho low-
lying streots and surprised a number of
families in their houses. Tho women and
children were removed to a place of safety
Tub court of Inquiry Into the low of the
Proteus, the vessel Rent by the United States
to the relief of the Greely expedition in the
Arctic regions, has made its report. The
re]iort states that Lieutenant Darlington,
commander of the Proteus, committed
various errors of judgment, and that Cbtof
Rignal Officer Haven, who superintended the
. ih. »». Ol Christ! nn.
in lonquin. at the sanlo time tho court Is of opinion that
Mexico wants 40,000 feet of space in the
main building at the coming New Orleans
Vonin
Seven persons out in a pleasure boat at
Dundee, Scotland, were drowned.
English troops lmvo been ordered ho tho
Red Rea ports, to defend thorn against El
Mohdi's rebels.
Two mandarius have boon executed for
exposition, and 120,000 feet outside for the
Mexican garden, the building for the Mexi-
on the backs of SS mta£ 'who I g? ™^ln’ ^ * '“ft
great peril through the swift current that jgSST
cans, who will send a magnificent band ol
was making its way along the streeta
girl of-seventeen years was drowned.
A i.ahok meeting was hold In New York
In favor of tho bill giving ttie hiayor the
right to Uomlnnte public officers without
making confirmation by the Itoard of aider-
men necessary. William M. Evarts and
others addressed the meeting. ’ •
Assemblyman Roosevelt, of New York
city, a prominent member of the State legis
lature, iins suffered a double bereavement,
his mother and wife dying at his residence
on tho samo day, .the wife having just be
come a mother.
Mart Byrne when ten years old was run
over by a train at Troy, N. Y.. and loot a leg.
The case was begun fourteen years ago, and
a verdict In her favor for 07,600 has just beett
awarded.
THAD 8. AvEhr, ot Chichester, N. Y.,
quarreled with Ids wife and cut her throat
as well as his own, killing her aud inflicting
a fatal wound ujion himself.
Wendell Phillips’ will leaves his prop
erty, aggregating In value about (250,000, to
his'wife and adopted daughter.
The steamship Stato of Nebraska, from
Glasgow, arrived In New York, having on
board the ninety-two men comprising the
officers and crew of the steamship Notting
Hill, running between London and Now
York. Tho Notting Hill had boon stiuck by
a huge iceberg and injured so badly that she
had to be abandoned.
8tX convicts—five colored and one white—
Were Whipped a few day* since at New Cat
tle, Del.
Much damage has been done by floods and
Ice near HarrLbuhg, Penn. Four bridges,
valued at more than 080,000, were crushed
and carried away. Three dams were washed
out and the mills oonnocted with them so
badly Injured as to prevent thoirrunnieg
until repaired.
Mayor Epson, of New York, received
many telegrams from the mayors ot flooded
towns on the Ohio river, appealing for aid.
Copies ot the telegrams were sent to the
various exchanges of the city, and imme
diate action for the relief of,the sufferers
was taken.
Thomas Kinbella, a prominent journal
ist, for mauy years editor of the Brooklyn
Eaule, is doad.
Mibh Jennie Alhy, a handsome young
woman, a private teacher, shot and mortally
wounded Victor C. Andre twonty-one years
old, also a private teacher, in a crowded sta
tion of the New York elevated railroad.
Then Miw Almy shot and killed horself. The
two had beau engaged to be married, but it
Is asserted that Am'
mo thi ,
no further proceedings bofore a general court
martial arc called for.
The United- States Senate commit
tee ot investigation into alleged political out
rages In i oplah county. Miss., arrived at
New Orleans and examined witnesses.
Further- confirmations by the Senates
tmisioians and a corpa of cadet*. i Commodore Edwai-d Simpson to bo rear-ad-
BEVEhAL persons were drowned, and an AJSJjJ‘J f&fto 1»
w^^rf^uipT 1 Pe^dten ' SoUector ofcuurtoiwfor'the districted
Z± r . ap0Ut ir Arequipa, Peru, aud its en- . ,\ibc r t Hchunemaun, of Denver, to
virons. J | rP00 |ver of publia moneys at Prescott,
Arizona.
of
ITEMS OF NEWS.
The recent discovery of tin ore at
King’s Mountain, North Carolina, is at-
tractingconsiderable attention. Several
scientists visited King’s Mountain a few
days ago, and found quantities of tin ore
scattered over the ground all through
the town. Striking a hill-side several
ditches were dug, but without running
across a vein of ore. The discovery was
made in a singular manner. Several
specimens of black looking ore were sent
to the Boston exposition, and marked
"unknown.” An examination showed it
to be tinoroof tre richest quality, yield
ing 76 per cent of tin. There are only
three tin-bearing mines in the world and
there is a standing roward of $50,000
offered for the discovery of one in the
United States. Following the announce
ment of the North Carolina discovery
comes the report of the finding of vast
tin dopoaits within three miles of Sants
Fe, New’Mexioo.
Soudan is the name given to the vast
extent of territory in upper Egypt that
stretches from Nubia to the confines of
Abyssinia and from the Red Sea to the
Lybian desert This vast and dreary
territory is inhabited by some thirty or
forty millions ef Arabs of various tribes.
The proposed control which England is
preparing to exercise over the Soudan is
not in the nature of the reoovery of a re
volted state nor the chastisement of a
refractory people, nor even the suppres-
don of the slave trade, but it renews tho
old conflict between Christian civiliza
tion and Mohammedan barbarism. The
triumph of Tel el-Kebir did not conquer
Moslem fanaticism. The hatred of the
Mahommedan against the Christian and
against civilization is innate and irre
pressible. This hydra-headed monster
is not dead, and when it iB quiet it is
only dreaming of Alhambra and the
TnE movement in Germany for the
better olm rvation of Sunday is growing
rapidly.
A census just concluded in New Zca-
lan I gives that far-away land a popu a-
tion, European and Chinese, of 632,000.
The old fieldB nnd bush tindorgrowth
around Mobile that s >.d for a song five
years ago command from twenty five to
throe hundred dollars an acre.
The total income of the Salvation
army for 1883 is reported at $1,609,000.
Tho army is now publishing sixteen ’ ‘War
Cries” in various countries.
At Miss Clara Cushman’s mission
school in Pekin the foot of the girls are
not nllowod to bo bound—the only
school in China where that is the ense.
Russia, which has sn area in Europe
two-thirds as large as the whole United
States, with a population of more thun
70,000,000, lies almost entirely north of
St. Paul.
There were 1,676 accidents lust year
in tlie Pacific coal mines, 323 deaths,
making 163 widows and 612 orphuns.
There was one death to eve y 90,0-jO
tons taken out.
The bank of England has a floating
oalance of $ 100,0;)0,0C»0 and the bank
notes, if stretched together end to end
would reach a distance of 12,620 miles.
The Egyptian war will use up a few
miles of this money.
The "Confederate rose" is the name
of a new flower which is white in the
morning and red at night. Four of
them have been planted around the
grave of General Albert Sidney Johnson
in the state oemetary at Austin, Texas.
Cremation is to be tried in France,
permission having been given by the
prefect of police, on the recommenda
tion of Drourdel, to burn the remains of
hospital subjects, provided a satisfactory
apparatus be constructed iq one of the
Paris cemeteries.
Hpeaker Carlisle wields the gavel
with some listlessness. Ho pounds as
though he was afraid of making too
much noise, in this respect he differs
from Xeifer, who made the splinters fly
over the devoted heads of the clerks be
low him. He is a smoothly-shaven man
with two bulging bumps of intellectual
ity over his eyes, a rather narrow fore
he *d, and when he speaks his voice
comes somewhat weak and a severe
.frown ornaments or, to put it bettor,
disfigures his brow.
A young lady rushed breathlessly Into
l> r home aiid sat down in a chair com
pletely exhausted. "Why, wlmts the
mutter ?’’ asked her motherin the great-
, at, alarm. "Oh;” said the young woman
when sh.o had recovered her breath, ."I
just escaped it. Another one of those
horrible red sunsets to-night, and red is
so trying to my comploxion.”—
detphia Call,
Murders are now very numerous on the
Isthmus ot Panama.
London’s lord mayor presided over a nasi
meeting denunciatory of the British govern
ment’s policy in Egypt.
Two members of the French chamber of
deputies have just fought a duel, one rcoelv-
ing a wound in the knee.
El Mahdi’s forces hnve ovnouatod their
S .ion ten miles from Buakim. At Binkat
killed 2U0 women and a number of
Iren. El Mahdi recently sont two mol-
lnhstatn* ruler of the Kafa province, at
the source of the Bluo Nile, to order hint
and his subject* to renounoe fetish worship
end embrace Islamism. The mollahs, after
they had delivered El Muhdi’s orders, were
strangled by the natives.
During a fight between whltos nnd na
tives In the province of Angola, West Africa,
an explosion of gunpowder killed forty of
tho latter.
Parnell, the Irish home rule leader, d»-
olured in an amendment to the Queen’s
speech, proposed by him in the houso of
commons, that England’s policy in Ireland
bad failed to tranqulllto the people. Wantonly
prohibited publio mootings aud incite! ill-
will and strife between the different classes
of the country. .
A procession of 16.000 striking weaver*
at Blackburn, England, carried the effigy of
a manufacturer with tbe intention of hang
ing it in front ot hla residence. They were
charged by the police and several persona
Were Injured.
Miss Clara Barton, president of tbe
American National Association of the Red
Cross, aooompanled by Dootor Hubbell, tba
•pedal Held agent or tho association, has
|jon* from V
_ Vndre, who had coins to
this country six months ago and been nd-
mitted to the best society, hnd betrayed and
than refused to marry the girl.
■outh and Wash.
Fort Sully, in DalgSta, Jins been burned
out. Tho soldiers thero "were compelled to
camp out, with the thermometer at twenty-
five degrees below zero.
A gang of nine counterfeiters were ar
rested by United Ktates Beerot service offi
cers at Louisville, Ky.
Adout 26,000 porsons in Cincinnati and
tho adjacent, towns of Covington and New
port woro rendered homeless by the flood.
In a dispatch from the mayor of Galli-
xills, Ohio, to the mayor of New York, toll-
ng of the destitution which prevails in tho
submerged region, und asking fur relief, the
sender says: “At least 2,000 houses have
been swept away or damaged to such an ex
tent as to tie uninhabitable after the flood
has sub ided. It is for those unfortunate
people that we ap[ieal for help. The farmers
have lost largely of their horses and cattle
und nearly all their grain and feed, aud all
tbelr fencing; tho merchants and manufac
turers their stocks; tho mechanics are thrown
out of employment; coal mines and salt
works aro flooded, ami everything is deso
late indeed. It will tie weeks, months, be
fore business can bo resumed, nnd help will
he needed long after tho waters have gone
down.”
Governor Knott has issued a proclama
tion to the people of Kentucky calling upon
them to aid the flood sull'erersby private sub
scriptions, contributions and otherwise. The
Kentucky legislature appropriated (26,000
for the relief of tho sufferers.
A frightful catastrophe, the result of
tho flood, occurred at Cincinnati. About 4
o’clock A. M. a terrible crash was heard at
tho corner of Fearl and Ludlow streets, in
the flooded district. It was found that tho
roar imrtsof four brick buildings, which bad
been undermined by the waters, had fallen.
The sceno which followed tho crash was one
of horror. Men were shouting and women
and children were screaming for help. Boon
eeveral boats arrived, and tbe In at men, with
the aid of lanterns, began to rescuo the In
mates ot tho houses. About fifty people were
taken out of tbe wrecked buildings. Ten
persons wero crushed to death in tho ruins.
Steamers with supplies of food and cloth
ing have been sont by the government along
tho Ohio aud tributaries to rolievo tho ne
cessities of tho suirerors by the flooda
Colonel Hunt, a millionaire lumberman
of Michigan, hns just died, and being a lover
of humorists und humorous books, of which
he had accumulated a largo iiumlier, lie has
left (6,000 each to the mother of Artemus
Ward, to Eli Perkins and to Josh Billings.
A desperate shooting affray at Hot
Springs, Ark., between two factions of gum-,
biers—three brothers named Flynn, who
were in a hock at the time, on one side, and
seven xnen on the other side—rosulted in the
killing of ono of tho Flynns aud the hack
drivor, the mortal wounding of another
Flynn nnd two innocent bystanders, and tho
shooting away of part o( the third Flynn’s
hand. The men who fired upon the Flynns
began hostilities, and were arrested. Tbe
afrray grow out of an attempt of two fac
tions to control tho gambling “ business” of
tlie town.
The estimated total loss by the floods in
Wheeling, W. Va, and vicinity, amounts to
(0.000,000. An api«a! for aid, Issued from
Wheeling, stales that tho suffering there and
at points above and below is intense, and
that more than 10,000 people of the city “are
dependent and will be so for weeks.” There
are probably 20.000 people to be fed and
clothed from Wellsburg to Moundsville.
The county jail in Wausau, Wib., was
burned early in tlie morning, and McDonald
and Cory, two desperadoes, were burned to
death.
The Platteville bank, of Platteville, Wia.,
has suspended, with liabilities of (150,000.
Eighteen drunken men captured a coal
train at Milledgvillo, Ohio, fatally beat a
brakernan, seriously injured the oonduotor
and drove him away, and compelled the
engineer to cut his engine loose from the cars
to save his life.
Great destitution is reported from the
overflooded banks of the Ohio and its tribu
taries, and many appeal* for relief have been
sent out. Thousands of inhabitants belong
ing to numerous villages and towns were
driven frpm their homes to tho hills for
refuge, and were compelled to camp out with
out food and with insufficient clothing. The
rivers were higher than they had ever been
before, and the state of affairs among the
people was described as appalling in the ex-
Fort Sully, in Dakota, has been burned
out. The soldiers there were compelled to
camp out, with the thermometer at twenty*
4ve degrees below zero.
ling ton to tlie soenes of the
flood along (he Ohio for the purpose of af
fording relief by distributing supplies to the
•offerers.
Nearly 6,000 bills, most of them of a
private nature, have been introduced so far
in tbe present session of Congress.
Great diseatisffection has been created
throughout Great Britain by tlie govern
ment’s vacillating policy concerning the
crisis in Egypt As one dispatch puts it: ,
“People cannot understand a ]iolioy of In
difference to massacres in a country where
England rules, and of iudtffereuoe likewise
to the defeats of armies which Englishmen
offloer.”
*A band of 800 Indians murdered all the
prliieliiol residents of Omltlan, Moxioo, and
plundered tbe town.
At a banquet given in Paris to leading
members of tbe scientific proa, M. do Los-
seps stated that the scheme for creating a
sea in the great Sahara desert, in order to
transform the arid sand into a fertile oountry,
would shortly he commenced.
Mr. Bradlauoh, elected to the British
bouse of oommons, but refused tiermisdon
to take his seat because he declined to take
the proscribed oath for members, entered tlie
chamber during a session and administered
tbe oath to himself. Upon motion he wus
excluded from the precincts of tho h mse.
It is announoed from Blcily that Mount
AStna Is in a state of eruption.
Thomas Cuehehy, editor of the London
Times, is dead.
Whim a wedding party was crossing the
River Thelss, near Domrad, Hungary, tho
ice broke and thirty-five members or the
party were drowned.
THe French bishop in Tonquln reporta that
one priest, twenty-two catechists and 215
Christians have bean massacred, and that
108 mission houses have been destroyed.
Queen Victoria bos just published a book
containing a record of her life for tho past
twenty years, describing her personal emo
tions, and Htate affairs and family matters,
aud highly eulogizing her late body guard,
John Brown.
Binkat, in the Soudan, has been captured
by El Mandi’s rebels and its foroe of 000
Egyptians under Tewflk Bey cut to pieces.
A motion to censure Gladstone’s govern
ment for its vacillating policy in the Soudan
was passed in tlie British house of lords by
181 yeas to 81 nays.
A violent earthquake has occurred al
Bltlis, Asiatic Turkey, destroying a number
of buildings.
Bradlauoh has given up the long strug-
K le for possession of a seat in the British
ouse of commons, and a new election in hi*
district has been ordered.
Parnell, the Irish home rule leader, de-
cl red in au umondment to the (. uren’s
spe. cli, pleased by him in the house of
commons, that Engla'td's policy in Ireland
had failed to trauquilize the ]ioo]>le, wantonly
prohibited publio meetings and incite I ill-
.tlll and strife between the different classes
of the country.
WnNlilnal en.
Representative Townbhknd, of Illinois,
who represents in Congress the State con
taining most exporters of pork and ther
bog products, expresses in an interview the
opinion that retaliation Is the only remedy
left us against the foreign governments
which are shutting out the American
hog from their markets.
A Chinaman who appeared in the district
court at Washington for the purpose of bo-
coming a citizen of the United States had his
application refused.
The House committee on labor ordered a
favorable report on Representative Hopkins’
bill for tlie establishment of a department
of lubor statistics. The measure provides for
tho appointment of a commissioner, who
shall acquire all useful information u|sm tlie
subject of labor, its relations to capital, and
the means of promoting the material, social,
religious and intellectual prosperity of the
laboring men and women. The question of
contract oonvict labor was discussed without
reaching a conclusion.
The House of Representatives passed a
joint resolution ant Uorizing the secretary of
war to issuo rations for tho relief of desti
tute jiersons in the district overflooded by
the Ohio river and its tributaries, and mak
ing an appropriation of tdU0,iXK) to relieve
the sufferers. The resolution was then sunt
to the Senate, and that body passed it at
onoe.
The Senate, in executive session con
firmed the following nominations; John M.
Langston, minister-resident and consul-gen
eral to Hayti, to be also obarge d’affaires to
~ ” F. Wild to be consul
Mexico.
Governor Oiuiwav, of Dakota, addressed
the House committee on Territories in favor
of the admission of Dakota as a whole into
the Union. Judge Brookings and Mr. Tripp,
also of Dakota, tavored the division of the
Terrritory.
In i ccordanoe with the' reoomnxndatfon
of Boeretary Folgor, tho President has di
rected tho promotion of Lieutenant Rhode*!
of the revenue cutter Dexter, for gallant
nnd meritorious conduct oil the occasion of
the City of Columbus disaster.
The President has approved the joint reso
lution authorising tlie sending of an expedi
tion to the relief of Greely.
Witnesses testified bofore the Senate
rommlttoo of investigation concerning the
election trouble betwocri whites and blacks
at Danville, Va
COMMITTEE WORK.
What Is Going .On in the I ongrt-Mlen
til ConiMlItM lleoiue.
The House committee on tho Judiciary had
agreed upon n report adfrirr. to tlie woman’s
suffrage advocates, but determined to hqtd
it until a delegation from tlie West could be
heard.
only n comparatively small proportion of
the seventy-five publio bill ding bills b -foro
the IIoiihc com nit re on public buildings
will Ixvfuvornbly.reported.
Tin* bill prohibiting the emigration .of
Chinese laborers under other nnmos ponding
before the foreign nffairs committer, has
lieen re -oustrurteJ. Mr. Hire, of Mavach i-
suit-, pro veil that its provision* violated
treaty stipulations.
Judge Melton, a Pittsburg capitalist, op
posed before the House labor committee the
requests advanced lieforu. tJio Committee by
labor uiy uni/at ions.
' The House liuuking and currency commit
tee voted to report Bumiier’s bill limiting
tho liability ot national bankH to that of
other debtors named In tho iimft«>d liability
section of the revised statutes.
The House committee on iiostofflcea in
structed Mr. Hliinner to lejiort favorably
his bill making an allowance for rent to
po-tolllces of the third class. Mr. Money
was also instruct si to report favorably h(!s
bill striking from Section HdMI revised
statutes tho word “ fraudulent ” beforo the
word “ lottery.” This is dosigued to provent
tlie use of tlie mails bv any lottery company.
Tho house committee on commerce has
concluded consideration of tlie first section
of the Ken'uu bill to regulate interstate com
merce, and has decided to embody It in the
propos -d interstate commerce hill. The sec
tion iiiukes it unlawful for railroad com
panies to ciiargo or receive from auy |ienon
or |iersoiis nny greater or less rate or
amount of fii-fght coui|ioiisatiou or reward
than is charged to or receive 1 from any
other perse or persons for like and con
temporaneous services. All clmrges shall be
reasomible a id railroad companies shall fur
nish without discrimination the samo facili
ties for thu tru s|sirtutlnn of goods. Auy
brenk, stopmgo or interruption to prevent
the can dago of any property from the place
ol shipment to ll.ep ncoor destination is pro
hibited unless the stnpi ngo may bo made for
vine noc, ssary purpose.
EG0ENTRI0 JBUIGIDES.
Louih Walters, of -Akron, while intoxi
cated, cut a hole in thu ice and drowned him-
ulf.
A Db Kami county, Tenn., man rut a tres
until it wus ready to full,and then let it crush
him.
A Ban Antonio man cut Ills throat be
cause a lottery ticket he bad purchased
proved a blank.
Mrs. Thomas Paxton, of Howard Lake.
Minn., killed herself becauso she was married
against her will.
Mrs. Joseph Waoenhauber, of Youngs
town, Ohio, cut her throat on account of tni
death of her son.
After Injuring her knee In jumping a rope’
Jane Becker, aged thirteen, of Heading, hung
herself from a bedpost.
While suffering from inflammatory rheu
matism, Mrs. Benjamin Watson, of Bloom
ington, 111., threw herself into a cistern and
was drowned.
Mrs. Ann Stump, of Columbus, Ohio
pois mod her |iot do-.', fearing it might out
live her. Remorse at the deed caused her to
kill herself with strychnine.
I.emuel Wuihten, near Enterprise, tied a
halter around his neck and hitched liimBolf
to his wagon. He then scared tlie horses and
made them run. Whisten’s young wife hod
died but a few weeks bofore
Henry F. Mii.lwahd shot himself aftei
participating in a mock tragfdy at Spring-
Bold, (’bio. Koine weeks ago Millward, as
sisted by a bundle of friends, constructed a
dummy out of a number of towels and pil-
lews, and laid it on a lied iu the Arcade
botel in that city. Tbe room wai carefully
ilurkoued, and tlie dummy covored with a
sheet. A pasteboard heud with grotesquely
painted features was uttaclied to the body,
so as to be ill p’oiu sight when the sheet
should bn removed. When alt wn< ready,the
leport was circulated through tlie city by
tbe jokers that a drummer hnd committed
suicide at the bote!. Tlie report attracted
hundreds of citizens, incluling the coroner,
who were piloted up to the room ono by one.
Mfilward killed himself in tlie same room.
O. W- a. WHITAKER.
DEN T I ST,
Bandenvllle, Ga.
TERMS CASH.
Office at hi* Residence, on Harris street,
▲orll 8d. 1880.
SUMMARY OF CONQBBSSi
Senate-
The chair laid before the Senate a com
munication from the secretary of war trans
mitting, in compliance with a recent naolu-
tlon of tho Benntc, a statement showing the
number of soldiers of tlie late war who served
one year, how mhny two years, and how
many three years, and the amount of money
required to equalize tho bounties of those
who served In said war—Mr. Pendleton
presented the credentials of Henry B. Payne,
Benator-elect from the State of Ohio, for the
term beginning March 4, 1885. Tbe cre
dentials wore read and ordered to be Hied,
... .The committee on naval affaire reported
favorably a bill tor the rolief of the survivor*
of the Jeannette exi-editlort find of tbe
widows and obildren of those who perished.
.... Mr. Riddleberger's resolution providing
for a Joint committee to inquire into re
movals and apis ilnl meats of Senate and Hotisg
employes was the subject of a long debate,
participated In by Messrs. Vest, Rlddleber*
gor and Conger. A message was received from
tho House announcing that that body waa still
unable to agree to tlie Senate amendment to
the Greely Rolief bill, requiring that the mew
•ant on that ex|«ditlou should be volunteers.
After some debate the Senate receded fosse
its amendment by a vote of 21) to 22.
A oul appropriating (f 00,000 to oomBMac*
the construction of a building for the no-
coramodation of the library or Congress wai
passed by n vote of sift yea* to • nays... .Mr.
Voorheei asked nnd obtained unanimous
consent to Introduce, out of the regular
onler, abilt toprolilbll officers and employe*
of the United (states government from con
tributing money for political purposes. A
debate, lmrt oinntod in by Messrs. Voorhees,
Hawley, Beck, Dnwos and Harrison, fol
lowed. The bill was referred to the commit
tee on t he iudlciary.... A bill wa* introduced
by Mr. Md’horsun to suspend the ooinage ol
the silver dollar •
Mr. Hnle, from tho committee on nasal;
affairs, reported unfavorably and moved too
indellnto iHistponement of the joint resolu
tion introducedby Mr. McPherson, limiting
the amount of money to be expended
by tho President on tho Greely relief
• x|ieditinu to (ft0d,0X). ... .Mr. Voor-’
hoes offered a resolution directing
tlie secruturv of tltu interior to withhold ap-
S nival of solo -lions of 'amis mode by'the
orllieru Pacific Kallrca I company withjti
certain indemnity llinics The Senate con
sidered tho McPherson banking bill and Mr.
Bayard delivered an addross in Its support.
Mr. Rnwyer called up the Mil recently
reiiorted from tlie committeo on post-
offices an 1 |iost ruud-, making ail publio
roads and highways post routes, and after*
some amendment it wus passed.... A resolu
tion was agreed to direct lug the oommittee on
finance to consider the expediency of provid
ing by general legislation for the change of
iianieHof national Imnks, and to report by
b II or otherwise nt the present session...^
Mr. I/igan introduced a bill to provide that
persons honorably discharged from the mili
tary or naval service of tho United States
Wlin l bu preferred for appointment to civil
offices, provided they are found to possess
tho necessary business capacity.*
The Semite siient most of a day again dis
cussing Mr. McPherson’s National Bank
Bote hill and thu proposed amendments to
.t.. Mr. Plumb argued against the bill. He
said I he national debt should be paid off os
soon as possible, nnd whnt was wanted was
something to tuko tbe place ot the bank cir-
luiiou os it was withdrawn from time to
time. He offered an amendment pro
viding for the issuing of treasury notes to
take the place of tho circulation of the banka
oh it is surrendered. Mr. Sherman’* amend
ment, providing that if any of the bonds de
posited lioro interest higher than three per
cunt, additional notes should be issued equal
to one-haif tbe interest in excess of the three
per cent, accruing beforo maturity, was voted
down, 42 nays to 7 yeas,
Kan to Domingo; Henry F.
at Concepcion del St. Oro,
The secretary of the treasury has issued
an order thanking the officers and men of
tbe revenue cutter Dexter for their bravery
during the City of Columbus disaster, And
advancing Beoond-Lieutenant Rhodes twen
ty- one number* in his grade.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
The Texas legislature has made fence cut
ting a felony.
Kansas last year produoed 107,560 pound,
of cotton, valued at (ti.tt.80.
Sixteen Chinamen who dwell in Worcas
ter, Moss., attend Grace oliuroh.
A seven-ybah-old girl Ib one ot tbe fast
est type-setters at New Hartford, Conn.
A race-pony, thirteen bauds high, wai
recently sold at Bealy, Texas, for (1,000.
A pearl weighing nearly 200 grains has
lately been found on the line of the F’Rnama
canal.
Rhode Island savings banks have (62,-
460,266 intrusted to then' care by 120,482 de
positors.
The Montreal ice palace, built of large
blocks of ice, is in size 100 by 150 feet aud
cost (3,000.
An eleven-year-old boy in Corydon, Ind.,
committed su’eide becauso his parents re
fused to let him eat at first table.
Balmon fishing on the Sucramento river
is now very active, and is going on day and
night, more than 2,000 men being employed
in it.
There have been only two known cases of
female lynching in this country. The first
occurred in 1851 at Donneville, a milling
camp In the Bodie district of California, ana
the victim was a Spanish women named Ines
Paria, who had murdered and robbed a man
in her husband’s saloon. The second and
lust case is the recent lynching of Mrs. Ci’d-
dingbam iu Ouray, Col.
The cost, of the Government in the
city of Paris is a little more than $50,-
000.000 annually.
The Houso adopted tue roport on the new
rules after a two days’ deliate. Mr. Randall
reported the tiavul appropriation bill, and
r ive notion tiiat it would bo called tbe next
uesday. It appropriates (14,268,000. being
(8,802,000 less than tbe amount estimated
for, and (1,681,000 less than the amount ap
propriated for the current fiscal year....Mr.
Wlllis'introduced n bill toui|iorarily provid
ing 1 or the support of common schools. II
provides for an annual appropriation of
from (10,000,000 to 0).OOO,O()O for the next
ten years, tlie appropriation to be reduced
(1,000,14X1 each succeeding year... .Mr. Bayne
introduced a bill rei>ealin'T all internal taxes
on domestic tobacco....Mr. Goff introduced
a joint esolutio u appropriating (100,000 for
the rolief of the sufferers by the overflow of
the Ohio river and its tributaries....Mr. Fin-
erty, of Illinois, offered a resolution declar
ing that tho House “laments tho death of
Wendell Phillips as a national bereavement.”
Mr. Eaton objected aud the resolution went
over.
Bills introduced: By Mr. Belford, to facil
itate tlie settlement of private land claims;
by Mr. Oatos. restoring to the pension rolls
the names of those clrop|ied therefrom on
account of disloyalty; by Mr. Bisbee to im
pose duties on oocoanuts, bananas and
pineapples; by Mr. Townshend, a resolution
proposing a constitutional amendment pro
viding for the election of President by a
majority of the votes of the people and the
abolition of the electoral college, and regu
lating the method of counting tne votes by
the two Houses of Congress; by Mr. Hender
son, providing for tho Issue of circulating
notes for national banking associations;
by Mr. Poland, providln: that before regis
tration in U tali and Idaho a voter shall take
an oath th'it helloes not belong to the Churob
of tlie Lutter Day Saints.
On motiou of Mr. Stewart a resolution was
adopted directing the oommittee on expendi
tures in tlie department of justice, in mak>
ing investigation into the expenditure on
account of prosecution of iiersons charged
with frauds on tho government, and
esjiecially in the Star Route mail
service, to inquire into tho manner in
which such prosecutions are being conduct
ed, and into the conduct, efficiency and good
faith of all offleiuls or porsons in the pay of
the government in connection with such
prosecutions, and whether guilty parties
nave been duly prceeoiited... .The House
went into committee of the whole on the
naval appropriation bill.
Tho Senate bill for the construction of a
build ng for the library of Congress was
taken from the Hpoakor’s table and referred
to the committee on the library—The
House resumed consideration of the con
tested election case of Chalmers against
Maiming. A dobate ensued, but no oqtion
was taken. ... ..
The Houso resumed the debate on the
Mississippi contested election case of Chal
mers against Manning. The monotony of
tlie proceedings was broken by Mr. Curtin,
who took Mr. Manning by the arm, led
him to the bar of the House, and demanded
.that he be sworn as a member. Mr. Cal
kins raised a point of order, but the speaker
said there was no necessity for deciding
such a question, as the onair would not
undertake to administer the oath of office
to a person claiming to be a member elect,
when the House itself was considering his
right to the seat. Tho minority resolution,
declaring Manning’s credentials to bo per
fect, was rejected, 140 to 106. The majority
resolution, discharging the committee on
elections from consideration of the prima
facie case, and leaving the seat vacant until
the case was decided pn its merits, was then
ado.Dted. aWS i-> oc a^.- vtaim •■***&-