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VOLUME IV
THE MEttUUfaY.
i^T
A.J.JBRNI^3STp
E S. LANGMADF,
Attorney at Law,
8ANDRR5VILLE, 04.
MAYOR.
0. H. ROGERS
'LEKK ft 2XEASCTSJ , X.
D. E. B, WELLS.
MAltSJJALL.
J. E. WELDON.
ALT) ETtMEX'
W. H, LAWSON,
Wm. RAWLINGS,
8. G. LANG,
A. M. MAYO,
M. II. BOYER.
'town of 2ennille,
Mayor-John C. Ilurman.
Aldermen W P. Livm, J. \\
Smith, P. J. Pipkin, T. J. Beck
Clerk—S. II B M**sey,
Marshall—J, C. Hamilton.
Mtj'Sia MUSIC
—ao to—
JERNIGAN
LIlUJl
Bows, Strings,
Rosin Boxes, Etc*
a c BROWN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
■aadesevUle, On,
Will practice in thi state and Unite*
OourU. Offlce In OoDrt-hoose.
Watches, Clocks
And JEWELRY
UPAIIIB BY
JER1TIGA1T.
Dr. H. B. Hollifield,
uu m muni,
Having reosntly graduated at the Unlver-
•iiy ol Maryland and returned home, now
•fv* ,l1 * proleKBlouiil services to the citizen*
0 t-audeievllle and vicinity. Offloe with
br-H. N Hollifield, next door to|llrs. Bayne’s
nunnery (tore.
1 W H. WHITAKER
DENTIST,
Bandenvllle, On.
™ rp ••, cash.
'im-nnt ills Resilience, on Herrl* street.
AorilM. lost).
H. N. HOLLIFIELD,
Physician and Surgeon,
SendsrevlUe, On
Oflee next doer to Mm Sayaeh Millinery
•tore on Harrli street
HUY YOUlt
imruus, SPECTACLE,
FROM
J E R N IC A
•tom genuine without onr Trade Mark
On huud and for lain
9PECTAIW NOSE GLASSES. ETC.
Machine Needles,
Oil and Shuttles,
KINDS or MACHINES, foriale.
* will also order pert* ot M-chlnei
that get broken, for which new
pleoee are wanted.
«T. JEHNIGAN.
* K. Him
O. H. Roane
HINES & ROGERS,
Attorneys at Law,
Will
SANDBR8VILLB, GA„
J,li. PJ® 01 ' 0 * In the oonntlea of Washington,
•MV2°Si J ° hns °n, Bmanael am'
tad ItvTL' Vv “ auu » ^ujannei ana wiikiosob,
triotV, n“® u - s - Court* for the Southern Die-
Win °®° r «ln-
‘ B bU5r,,,e ’ °’
Dot U_tf°“ W *“ aid * of Vubllo Square
WhohM ni * do kimiell famon.
S2-S.*- “» «** oath m a member of the
otiiiMh Parliament, hu been re-elected.
fa 188° Ten nance ranked fonrteebth In the
Uat irf lroo-produdng.ute., Alabama fifteenth,
“ d v,r «fafa a lx teen th. In three yean thee
na itatea made a rapid gain, and In 1888,
**° 0<1 n,Btk > Alabama iliUi, and
Virginia eeventh.
to thta country are only two establishment*
Mwhioh cannon can be made. One ii at South
Borten. MneachneeMe, and the other at Weet
Point, New Iork. Th# Boeton work*, which
nave lain idle for Ax yean, an laid to be fit to
tooipete with foreign foundrloe.
^ Eveet little frog ia great In his own
1886 and 1780 it waa cnatomary to
P" 0T,r th * UUe of periodical! a crow with the
Initial letten of the cardinal point* of theoom-
Pr*»—N. B. W. B,, indicating intalllgeno*
™ quarter!, and the name nowipaper
“an# to be applied to inch periodical*.
Tm oil business ha* all grown up within th*
pact twenty-four yean. In 1860 *eventy barrel*
of oil flatted the market. Now tbo world use*
about 80,000 banela a day. Tho amount of oil
prodaced aeema to ba steadily' lncroa*lng.
Probably the oil supply will Ui-vcr entirely give
ott, but M1* beginning to be vei.v evident that
■nlae* new oil field* are speedily dincoverod tile
price of oil will go to a high figure.
Faskaoot, the widow of Admiral Tarra*
gnt, receive* in penalon money 80,000 a year.
Then an 89 oa*e* where the widow* of Qen-
arale reoeive 860 a month, and 80 widow* of
naval offloen an *o rewarded also. Some of
Hie widow* receive a* high a* 8100 a mofath,
whll* othem are given 830 only. The rate al
lowed by the general law 1* 880, and the 100
*•** where penaionon an paid more are cov
ered by tpeeial legiilatlon.
Aooosdwo to the coneua of 1880, the total
number of pereone of both eexee reported aa
punning gainful vooation* waa 17,893,099, dis
tributed among four great oluee* of occupa
tion*, a* follow*:
. , ,, Male. Female.
Agriculture 7,076,088 894,610
Professional and penonal
eerviot* 3,712,943 1,301,296
Trade and treniportatian. 1,760,893 69,364
Manufacturing, mechani
cal ami mining 8,306,134 681,988
A paoraamoNix ventrlloqaiit recently ad
mitted to a reportor that ventrlloquiim waa
nothing but a humbug. It 1* generally thought
that the ventriloquiat throw*hi* voice in order
to make It appear to oome from different direc
tion*. Thi* U all an illuaion, Th* only thing
requisite la to deceive the ear. It 1* well
known that the organ ia aingnlarly inaccurate
in determining the dlreotlon irom which a
found proceed*. The ventriloqniit take* ad
vantage of thi* and by a little juggerly pro
duce* the illnilon. He give* to hi* voice inch
intonation* aa oonvey to the audienc* the Im
pression of sound* heard from soma particular
point at a greater diatenoe. He direct* at the
aame time th* attention of hia hearer* to the
point from whioh the sound i* to come, and (
thus oontrols their Imagination.
The different kinds of dye wood* used in this
country are logwood and fnstio, from the Weet
Indie*; lima, from the shore* of the Pacific,
and the bar and. earn wood* from Africa. The
wood* mentioned, with the exoeptlon of fustic,
which Is yellow, are red, but of various shade*.
The sapponla wood, whioh 1* a dslioate pink,
oomes from the Bait Indie*. The oost* of the
woods in tho rough are, aooording to the Provi
dence Journal, a* follows : Logwood, from 830
to 836 a ton ; the red wood*, from 840 to 870 a
ton, and the oam wood about 8160 a ton. Tbo
latter wood come* from the interior of Africa,
oo*t« considerable for transportation and is
beoomlng scarce. Cam wood is mod mostly
by woolen manufacturers in making their dye*.
Tho wood 1* drawn to tha market* in Africa by
•lave*, and vory frequently staple* and oh&in*
are found attached to the logs when they ar
rive in this city, and poisonous inseot* of that
olime are often found in the hollows of the
wood, whioh are speedily killed.
Ma. S. It. Cockriix, senior vice-president of
the Cotton Planters' association, has made a
number of interesting suggestions to Director
Qenoral Burke, of the New Orleans exposition.
Mr. Cockrlll wants a premium of 800 bales of
cotton offered for a cotton piokor with iron
fingers, so constructed that human fingers oan
be dispensed with. Under the new system, of
t)ie 6,000,000 negroes in theionth, one half will
go to work in the cotton mill* and th* other
half will plant, cleft land* and sow grass.
This progressive cotton man concludes by say
ing that the basis of a great south is "a cotton
bank in the cotton belt; cotton mills amid cot
ton fields ; oottop planters’ motto The cotton
picker open* tho way for the mills.” The
oranky part of Mr. CockriU's lottcrs is his ang-
tion that half of tho negro population should
be employed in tho cotton mills. This is not
likely to come to pass for some time.
The late William Cullen Bryant made a strong
pica a score of years ago for the preservation
of onr forests.' Tho poet called the attoption
of hiH readera and of the government to the
atal results whioh follow the stripping of a
oonntry of its forests. In all woodlands natufe
has provided for retaining the moisture of
rains. The earth under tho treoa is covered
with a thick carpoting of fallen leaves, whioh
prevent the wator from passing immediately
int# the streams and hurrying to the sea. Part
of tho moisture thus confined makes its way
slowly into the veins of the earth, rises in
springs and runs off in rlvulots; part is gradn*'
ally drawn up by the rootlets of the trees, and
given off to tho air from the leaves to form the
vapors whioh are afterwards condensed into
showers. Thus forests undoubtedly protect a
eonntry against drouth, and keep its streams
constantly flowing and its well constantly full.
Out down the trees and the moisture of the
showers passes rapidly off from the surface and
hasten* to lake* and ocean.
Thk great Pnosphate industries of South
Carolina are looming up wonderfully. In elude
phosphate* the busine** in February last at
tained unprecedented proportions, the ship
ments exceeding 46,000 ton*. The quantity of
fertilizers manufactured in 1871 was 22,689
tons, which increased the next year to 87,769
tons, and in 1878 to 66,288. The next year there
was a slight falUng off, and the previous figure
was not exceeded until 1879, when the product
reached 80,000 ton*. Th* prodnet ainoe then
has been as follows: 1880, 80,000 ton* i 1881,
103,626 ton* j 1883, 108,490 ton* ( 1888, 183,464
ton*. For 1884 Maj. Willi, estimate, the prol
duet at 186,000 Iona The prodnet of tho mine
from June 1, 1876, to May 81, 1877, waa 168,990
ton*. The next y«ar it was 120,828 ton*, which
was not exceeded until 1880-81, when it readied
839,077 ton*, 1883-88, It was 866,883 tons. From
June 1,1888, to January 81,1884, It was 809,888
ton*. New field* ar* being opened and worked,
•ml the factorie* In every instanoe have been
weU kept up and are now in first-claw order.
UNUSUALLY OLD PEOPLE
John Riley, of Frederick county, V*., ia
107 years old.
W, J Barlow, of Live Oak, Fla., is 103
year* of ago.
Hhoda Howard, of Otvingaville, Ky., ia
112year* old.
Lubmh Holdkn. of Waterford, Conn., In
109 years old.
Amos Dennis died recently at Rldgevllle.
B. C., in his 108th year.
Mrs. Martha Crockett, of Liberty, Me
recently died in her 104th year.
Charles FIELDER, a farmer of Clinton, 8.
C. , has lived 103 years. He is a bachelor.
Nicholas Bolky, ajiensionerof the war of
1818, died reoently at Boone, Ky., in his 100th
jr*ar.
A belle iii Washington seventy years ago
was Mrs. Jossie McGee, who baa lust diedin
Illinois, aged 101.
Every oommuniou Sunday Mr*. Annie
Gordon, of Bluffton, S. C., walks four mile*
to church She is ill.
Christian Cooper, who livos iu the house
formerly tho resdence of Koliert Fulton, in
Livingston, N. Y., is 110 years of age,
Mrs. Daniel Buck, of WethersOeld. Vt.
end Mrs. Georgo Travis, of Canistoo, N. Y.,
have celebrated their hundredth birthdays.
After being blind lor twenty years, Mrs.
Josephine lAipatrla died at Watertown, N.
aged 104. Her husband recently died at
the age of 100.
At Blythe wood, eighteen miles from Cbluin-
bin, B. C., Andrew McClellan, aged 113, re
cently married Martha Wilson, a widow of
twenty-seven.
Miss Barra Phillips, of Norwood, R. I
is 100 vears old. She does her own house
work, brings hoc fuel from the woods on her
bn- k and raws it herself, and reads without
glass* i.
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are the names
o. triplets still living at tneavoof acventy-
tivo years. They are the children of Catha
rine Kile, of Richland townshi|i, Penn., who
recontly died, aged ninety-eight.
Jacob MiLuken, of Dunstan, Ma, on the
annlvenary of his 100th birthday made a
Klimilar confession: “I voted for Thomas
Jefferson for his second term, although I
la l;ed two mouths of my majority.”
B. Pe Prare, of Marshfield, Wis., is 100
r< ft is old. For fifty years he never slept
under a r of. His father was a French fur
•rader. and his mother a i Indian. He wai
viil: General Jackson at New Orleans.
WHIRLED TO DEATH.
A Vivid Tornado Scene—Ml\ Dead and
'I lire# Wounded In One llouae.
A dispatcli from Ja»|iec, Ga , describing
the terrible effect* of the tornado, says that
it came in sight seven miles to the right of
ttiat town. “ It weut ovor tho mountains
and out of eight eight miles from Jas|>er. It
was iu sight flvo minutes. Tho devastated
routo was from half u mile to three mile*
ecrosc.
‘■In its five minutes’ trip over that fifteen
miles strip of country twenty persons were
killed. Tho scenes that the tornado left iu
its track are beyond description. One needs
to stand in the midst ot the demolished
forests and see tho destruction of life and
property to form an idea of the extent of the
daiuago. Near where the cycloni was first
seen from Jasper iliroo brothers have lived
for years. Their names are Johu, Peter anil
Levi Cogle. They are till prosperous fann
ers, owning good lands and running an
extensive government distillory. They
live within u stone's throw of each
other, and have good, comfortable
houses. l.evl Cogle lived in a large two-
storv house, Bitting up>n the crest of
a lifll overlooking tho valloy. Huuthwesl-
ward from his house was an opening. No
trees or hills were in th j way, and the res!,
douce stood right iu the pathway of the tor
nado. In the house were hts wife aiul five
children and three hired men—William Gro
ver, William Herren and Alonzo Wright.
Ti e tornado whisked over the mountain aud
into the valley, where it paused to gather its
to cos. Then, settling down,; it whizzed to
ward the house of Levi Cogle, ami literally
tore it into a million pieces. There was a
crash and a clatter, and the air was filled
with Hying timbers, pans, furniture, feath
ers, corn, wheat, he lding, chickens, and, iu
fact, everything' tluit the place held. Mr.
Cogle was at the residence of bis brother
just outside the fury of the storm, and when
he saw ttie tornado coming he started to
ward his house. Before ho reached it he was
forced to cling to the underbrush to keep
from blowing uwuy. As soon us tho torna
do hud gone, lie went to where a moment be
fore his house stood, aud a heartrending
spoctacle met bis gaze. His wife and two
cuildr-n were found one hundred vardj
away, dead. Furtheron thivootherohildrou.
one a baby eighteen months old, were picked
up in an almost dying condition. Two
or them bad been • blown three
hundred yards. Scattered about
in tlie woods were the three men—
Grover, Herren and Wright—all dead, one
witli a huge tree across his body. Thus in a
moment in that house six persons were killed
and three others dangerously injured. The
distressed husband and father, in the midst
of his demolished home and dead and dying
family, wns wild with grief. The dead
bodies and the injured children were taken
to the house of Mr. Wesley Cogle, and one
messenger went for shrouds for six, and an
other went for surgeons for three. Ruch a
visitatien rarely falls to the lot of one man.”
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Boynton.—Paul Boynton, th ■ swimmer,
was married recently to Maggie Connelly al
Chicago.
Brown.— United States Senator Brown, of
Georgia, lias four iron mines iu the northorn
part of that State, in which he employs nearly
1,000 handH.
Grant.—Judge James Grant, of Daven
port, Iowa, president of the National Trot
ting association, says that there are in the
association 5,000 horses trotting below 2.30.
Beecher.—It is expected that Mr. Beecher
will go to Eurojie on a lecturing tour in tha
spring or early summer. It is over twenty
years since Mr. Beecher was la England,
where he made many addressee upon the war.
Barnum.—P. T. Barnum being invited the
other day to lecture before a temperance so
ciety in New York wrote in reply: “ I have
finished lecturing forever in this world.’ Mr.
Barnum is a frequent visitor to the Bridge
port, Conn., jail, and often addresses the
prisoners.
Uox.—Washington correspondents now th
sprinkling of gray in Congressman 8. B. Cox
hair. Though one of the youngest member*
in appearance, he is fifty-nine years of af? 0 !
end has been in Congress for a longer period
than any democratic member. .Kelley, ot
Pennsylvania, only exeeed* him on th* re-
publican side in ianeth of servioa.
Am evil thought in the heart of a mau
who line a heart is about as troublesome
os a wasp in the ear.
A WEEK’S NEWS.
fariwi ul KklAle Melts
The International ami h a-torn Telegrapa
omnpanv, with a capita! of ♦ >,000,00$ was
Incorporated in Albany, N. Y,
Consider a i ; Le interest wis aroused by
th* registration of a teii-n.illlon-dollAt mort-
rage In the offices of forty different town
clerks In • direct line across the State of
Connecticut by tee Bankers' aud Merchants
Telegraph eompnny.
Mun.oiPAX eleolions in Pennsylvania r»
Wlted in the success of I he Hepublioau can*
cldare for mayor in Philadelphia, Harris-
burg, Pitt-burg, Allentown, lauoester and
Allegheny City, *■M of the Democra.ic can-
aidato in Williamsport, Chester and Berate
ton. Reading elected twenty-eight Demo
crats and twenty-three Republican* to the
Common council.
Five cosos of suicide and several sudden
oealhB were reported the oilier day in New
York city.
Laht year’s coal produot, as reported b>
the mine inspector of tbo Pennsylvania rntd-
niedislrict,wnsaifollows: Lehigh Valley Coal
eompnny, <14.778,01.‘Hons: Lehigh and Wilke*-
bnrrecompany. 175,116,736 tons; Delaware
end Hudson, 186,781,056 tons; Susquehanna,
JU.983,0 6; Wyoming Valley companies,
45,64D,IjOO tons; miscellaneous companies,
f84,.|flil,fi0!) tons. The number of pereone ao-
iua'ly employed In mining coal Waa 17,8831
There tlgu rue show an excea* of more than
800,000 tens and more than 8,000 employee
over tlie previous year.
By an explosion of fire damp la a mine near
Untontown, Penn., nineteen miners were
killed, and others had a uarrow escape from
•offbeat!..n.
Aster being twice buried and twioe disin
terred, and after 11,000 milesof strange wan
derings, the bodireof the ten heroes of the lout
Jeennelto have once more reached the land
from which they went forth to death.
The steamship Frisia arrived at New York
with the remains of T Jen tenant Commander
George W. Do I .on g; Jerome J. Collins,
toeteoro'ngist of the expedition; Dr. James
M. Ambler, surgeon: Walter Lea, Georgs
Washington Boyd, llenry Hansen Knaack.
Carl Augustus Gortz, Adolf Dressier and
Nelae Ivorson, seamen, and Ah Bam, oook.
The remains of Collins were Rent to Cent.
Ireland, those of Bovd to Alexandria, Va.,
and those of Dr. Ambler to Philadelphia,
The remain* of the others were buried at
Woodlawri cemetery, near New York.
- Adopt 1S8 gentlemen more or lea* promi
nently eonneotod with the Republican parl y
In New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey,
Massachusetts and Maryland met In New
York city for the purpose of perfecting an
independent Republican organization hnvinr
for Its object the nomination of presidential
candidates at the forthcoming Republican
national convention who** record would
“ warrant entire confidence in their readi
ness to defend th* advances already made
toward divorcing the publio services from
party politics.” U|iou motion of Carl
Bchure a committee was appointed to perfect
an organization covering all th* State* and
lo take such other autlon as may be deeme.l
expedient.
Thieves entered a jewelry etoro in Troy,
N. Y., blew open the safe and carried away
projierty valued at 116,000.
Vessels arriving at Boston report pass
ing immense icebergs and ice paolca Borne
Icebergs were from a half to nearly three
miles long, and from 103 to 300 feet high.
Waehlnrtoa.
The secretary of war received numerous
telegrams tho win ; m ist satisfactory prog-
r ss in the work of relief to the flood suf
ferers along the Ohio river aud its tribu
taries.
The President nominated C. B. Palmer, ot
Vermont, to be associate justice of the su-
S rente court of Dakota; Max Weber, of
ew York, to be consul of the United States
at Nantes; H. B. Trist, of the District of
Columbia, to be consul of the United States
at Mozambique.
Senator Daw eh has been authorized bje
tho Senate committee on Indian affairs to
favm ably report a bill providing for tho
punishment of tresiiasaera on Indian lands
by imprisonment for one year or $500 tine,
or botn. This is specially intends i to keep
Payne aud ids followers out of the Oklahama
lands.
Senator Plumb has retorted to tho Sen
ate an original bill Iroin tlie committe) oil
a ;ricu turo, making tbo department of ag
riculture an executive department, whose
cniof officer shall be the secretary of agricul
ture.
The Keuuto has passed a bill making an
on uul appropriation to provide arms for
tlie militia. The bill appropriates (<IO!),0’K).
The House lias passed a joint resolution
appropriating $160,000 to be expended among
tin' Indians lor eduoatlonal purposes.
Secretary Folder bas issued theldilth
call for bonds. The call is for the redeni|>-
tion of $lo,0iX),0b‘) in bonds of the three per
cent, loan of 1882.
The agricultural appropriation bill, as
completed by the House committee on agri
culture, appropriate* $430,690—an increase
of about $1-1.1 Oo over tlie last appropriation.
The bill makes an appropriation of $3,000 f r
the propagation of the tea plant.
At a meeting of tho Democratic National
committee in tlie Arlington hotel, Washing
ton, held for the purixise of naming the
time and place to hold tlie national conven
tion for the nomination of candidates
for President and Vice-President, every
Slate was represented either by a mem
ber of the oommittee or a proxy.
W. H. Barnum, of Connecticut,presided,and
Frederic O. Prince, of Massachusetts, was
secretary. A motion was adopted that tho
Democrats of each organized Territory and
or the District of Columbia be invited to
send two delegates to the national conven
tion. Upon the third ballot Chicago was se
lected as the place to bold tho national con
vention, tha city receiving twenty-one
votes to seventeen for St. Louis. Tho date
for tho convention is July H. After Is-umg
the call for tho convention tho committee
a t (turned to meet next in Chicago on
July 7.
The National Greenback Labor parly has
ireued a call for a national convention to he
held in Indianapolis, on Wednesday, May 28,
1881. At a State convention of the Indiana
Green Pack era in Indianapolis a full ticket,
liea lel by H. G. Leonard for governor, was
nominated, anil twenty-three resolutions af
firming the principles of the Greenback-
Labor party were adopted as a platform.
South and Wees.
Beudkn Hart and wife (colored), residing
three ti tles from Crockett, Texas, went to
church at night, ami left six children at home
asleep, with tlie door looked. At 10 o'clock
the house was discovered to be. oa lire, and
it burned so quickly that It was Impossible
to ia* e it or tho children, every one of whom
was bums I to death. The eldest was a boy
thirteen years old.
A freight train left the track near New
Philadelphia, Ohio, on • account of a mis-
E laced switch, aud a second section follow-
ig ran nto its rear, demolishing twenty-
two cars aud two engines, aud killing four
persons.
Heavy snow storms have prevailed in Da
kota and Southern Minnesota, and the rail
roads have been blockaded.
A cyclone which struck Amberson’s,
Ala., demolished nearly evory house in
town. Fourteen iwrsona were reported killed.
The South has been visited by a tornado
which destroyed thousands of nouaes and
killed hundreds of people in Georgia, Ala
bama. North and South Carolina, Louisiana
and Mississippi.
A Kim 1 , at Jackson, Mich., destroyed the
Union hotel block, occupied by a hotel,
theatre, savings bank and other business
houses. One man was burned to death, and
four iwrsons were fatally and one seriously
injured. The pecuniary lore is about $175,-
000.
W. B. Cash, eon of Colonel Cash, the duel
ist who killel Colonel Shannon a few year*
ego, entered Clieraw, H. O., and after drink
ing heavily got info a difficulty with Town
Marshal Richards, who wus roughly handled.
Cash then left town,but returned the follow
ing afternoon and approaching Mondial
Richards drew a revolver and rapidly fired
three shots. The flr-t ball struck an Inno
cent bystander named Cowart and the second
hit Richards, b th shot* causing mortal
Wounds. Cash then mounted hi* hone end
rode rapidly away.
The cabin of Beverly Taylor, a colored
man living near Cincinnati, was burned to
the ground at night, and 1t was at first
thought that the owner, with his wife awl a
grandchild, had porished in tlie llmnes.
Later, however, tlie bodies of ell three were
di-oovered in the building of the Ohio Modi -
cal college, whither they had been carried
lor dissection. Allen Ingalls, a noted negro
body snatcher, wns arreitod, and confessed
that he and lie i Johnson ha 1 entered th*
cabin and killed the three inmates, taken the
bisliee to a waiting Wagon, driven by R. B.
Dickson, nml conveyad (hem to th* Cincin
nati medical institution, where they sold the
corpses. Beside tlie tlnve negroes mentioned,
two others were arrested for complieity in
to* terrible crime.
The breaking of a dam on the Lo* Angeles
river produce I the most disastrous flood ever
experience I In California. Tho lower part
otlios Angeles wns completely inundated,
ami forty li.dldiiigs wereswent away. Hun
dreds of fiimilies were obi ged to abandon
their homes and seek shelter on the
hills. The loss amount* to $160,000. From
law Angeles to Mo/ave, a distance of 100
allies, hardlv a mile of the Southern Pacific
track remains in p u *o, and east to Ran
Gorgonio, eighty mi es, the devastation Ii
tqua ly great. 1bu California Southern road
from Colton to Ran Diego is also washed
out. Tiavel in nil directions is suspended.
It will probably lr- two months before com
munication rah be properly edabllshed. Re
ports reoolved from towns in the Southern
portion of the Ran Joaquin valley announced
the h aviost Hoods ever known.
Two < o ored me : in jail at i.ebanon, Ky.,
for iiss iultiiiL’ a wornnn, were taken out by
a furious mob and hanged.
B. F. Bar: ks, a prominent citizen of
Boo< ho, W is . killed his wife and out his own
throat. Prot noted UJne.re in th* family is
assigned a- the cause.
Vtiem.
A dispatch from Berlin aenert* that
naturalized Gentian-Amerlcan citizens who
return to Germany are again being rigorously
subjected to military duty, it says, too. that
the German foreign office ignores United
Slates Minister Sargent, and conduct* all
negotiation* directly with Washington.
The Ixtndon Timex, in an article on the
Ireskor incident, implies that dislike of tho
country which deprives Germany of thou
sands of oouoripts Is the boat* of Bismarck's
notion, and that Mr, Rargent* resignation
would strain the relations of Germany and
the Unted States.
After holding out for weeks against, the
attack* of Ki Mahdi’s forces the town of
Tokar surrendered to El Mali.tils rebels bo-
foro it could bo relieved by General Gra
ham's expedition. The news was brought to
Ruakiin by five soldiers who had e>ca|ied
from Tokar. It was stated that only the
soldiers nt Tokar who bad fumllies had sur
rendered, while the others attempted to
reach Suaklin. Upon reoeptlon of the nows
iu Ixnidon great excitement ensued and a
special cabinet meeting was called. i'll
Malidi appointed bis brother, All Yussuf,
governor of Barfour, and oidered him to
levy 7,DUO men, and march to Kordofnn to
reinforce the mala body of El Mahdi'*
troops.
General Gordon announoed that after
restoring order in Khartoum he would pro
ceed to Kordofau, to interview the l'ulse
Prophet.
Ohhan Dioma. the leader of the rebel* in
the vicinity of Biiakim is exciting hi* fol low
ers by quoting the Koran, Having that Kl
Mahdi, the False Prophet, isdiviuejy inspired,
and re ,uiree little food and clothing.
Nine sailors belonging to the British bark
Ada Barton, from St- John, N. B., abandoned
at sea iu a waterlogged condition, were
drowned.
Uiumarok’b action in returning the I Asker
resolutions of sympathy to the American
Congress hasex. itoU much discussion among
the papers of Germany, the government or
gans praising and the opposition prare con
demning tlie German chancellor 1 .- course.
Mr. Hargent, the American representative at
Berlin, is also bitterly attacked and vehe
mently defended by German ] apers for the
part which he has taken in the mutter.
A n association of English authors has been
formed 11 aid in securing ail Engllsh-Ameri-
ca t copyright law.
> An Indian uprising has ocourred iu Mani
toba, British America, aud twelve mounted
polii e rent to quell the disturbauoe are re
ported to have been mareacred.
But Uennry Brand, who has resigned the
sjirukersbip of the British house of oom-
Dions on acoount of siokuese, has declined a
) eerage.
The three men who murdered Count Von
Ms Hath, president of the court of cassation
ot Ofer, Hungary, last March, have been
hanged In Pesth. A great crowd collected
about tho prison and ebssred the condemned.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS,
Only three execution- for murder took
place in Fiance during 1833.
Mrs. Ehi'iik i O.i.vrz, of TmyJ N. Y., died
while on tier knee i at prayer.
Many Western railroad camps are now for
bidding the presence of Chinamen.
The government envelope factory, at Hart
ford, Conn., uses a ton of gum urabic every
year.
There are three women iu New York dime
mureums whose combined weight is 1,9(55
pounds.
California is at present producing not far
from $18,000,300 of gold aud silver bullion
annually.
A street car driver in Now York says he
has jiicked up as much a- $32 in one night by
watching the tracks for lost money.
Baron Rothschild, of Ia>ndon, is having
built “the largest steam yacht in the world.
Thu craft is to be 210 fe t long, and is to have
twenty-seven feet bea n.
• A site has been secured at Lutterworth,
.11 England, for the monument of John Wy-
cliffe, which, it is intended, shall b"s ret up to
commemorate tlie five hundredth anniver
sary of his death.
The Rev. Henry Morgan has engage II03
scales to be placed at every polloe station
and branch of the aa-ooiatet! charities in
Boston, so that poor neople in that city may
not be cheated in the weight of the coal they
buy in small quantities.
Wheat in Kansas is said lo have been se
riously affected by the variable weather.
Alternately freezing and thawin ', causing
the ground to swell, has injured the roots of
tlie p ant, and in some counties it is feared
the orop will be a total failure.
Exclusive.
The Cabinet Album is going through
the press in the Government printing
office. It is a custom for the bureau to
prepare tine steel engravings of each
President and his Cabinet. These en
gravings are in the highest style of the
art, and are bound in a corresponding
style. The book' contain^ the portraits
of all the Presidents and views of the
White House, Capitol, etc. Only a suf
ficient number of oopies are mode to
present the President And members of
his Cabinet with one each and retain one
copy at the Bureau of Printing,
SUMMARY OF CONGRESS
Isaaisi
Mr, Morrill,from We committee on finance^
re(Kirtod adversely the bill authorising the
payment ht custom* duties In legal i aider
note*, bat a-kel that Hi deferrnca to ilia
wish of another Bcuat -r. it In placed oil the
calendar. Tl, -via j- prATea. Mr. Morril
also reimrU-l onvertolv tho b II providing
for tlio lo'i’vmeiit of small legal tender
notes: also, a iver ely, tin pill authorizing
the secretary of th# treasury to make fltbil
adjustment of cla.ins of foreign ateauisliip
companies arising irom the illogal action of
tonnage dues. The lust two bill, were in
definitely postponed... .Mr. Blair Introduced
a bill to amend the pentton laws... .The Hen-
ate further conetdered eh* bill to provide for
the issue of circulation to national banks.
The Senate paused the bill making it a
felony, punishable by thru* years’ Imprison
ment and $1,000 fine, to falsely tiereonate
government officers or employes with Intent
to defraud.... Most of the - ay was spent In
debate on Mr. Morgan’s amedmoat permit-
tl ig national hanks to dep islt bonds of tlie
se|>ar<ite Bfates ns security fur circulation,
end finally Mr. Mus-gan withdrew ft, having
introduce t tho mine propositi ni as an origi
nal bill....On motion of Mr. Hherman a
joint resolution was pa-se.l appropriating
fiO.OOO to rmililp the c nuinitteeoii privilege*
lad elections to oarry on its investigation*
Hews*.
Mr. Dorshelmer moved to suspend tlie
rules aud make tho bill granting copyright
to oitizens of foreign countries a siiecialordur
for February 27. Mr. Deusler said the effect
ot the bill would lie to tnnko books dear and
to tax our people for tho bon- flt of foreign
authors. It would also throw out of employ
ment men u ho were engaged in mak
ing reprints of foreign authors. Mr.
Chaco bnlleved lit intonintlnual copy
right, but was opposed to the bill In its
(resent Hliapo. Mr. Kelley wished to hnvs
the bill fixed for u later date In order to heal
authors, publishers and Ii okmakers, Mr.
Dorshelmer’* motion was lust The bill fot.
tho retirement of thotrado dollar was mad*
a special oMir for March 11. Mr. Town-
■bend said he was upp set to the bill. Th*
trade dollar had circulated at jiar until the
bankers repudiated it, and the merchants re
fused to receive it. it limned a.ely depre
ciated to eighty cents on the dollar, and
went Into the ban Is or jobbers in New York,
who now wish to have it exchanged at (*r.
....A bill was iAs-od relieving from the
charge of desertion soldi-re who served
through the war, but who, being absont, Irom
their command wheu it was mustered out,
did not reoeive au honorable discharge....
A hill was passisl fixing the iHistaueou tran
sient newspaiieiH nt om- cent for four ounce*
... .The House voted to hold night seesiona on
Fridays to consider |tension bills.
The Houre a;xvut ell li ght in a filibustering
session. From 5 o'clock at night, until 1
O’clock in the morning there was a do* Hook,
owing to the fact that the Republicans de
clined to vote on a motion to fix a day for
the coui-ideratlon of the bill to |* ot >n Mexl-
cau veterans, and the survivors of some In
dian wars. AtHbout 3 o’clock a. m., an ex
citing discussion was brought about by a mo-
tioo, made by Mr. lAiub, of Indiana, to On*
Mr. Bruinm, of Pennsylvania, five dollars for
leaving the House sifter the contest of tlie
evening bad begum An angry dulwte fol
lowed, principally participat d iu by 51-wsrs,
11 lscock, Morrison, Tucker, Rend and Hunt.
Atone time Mr. Hiscock was standing fulliw
front of the Soaker's desk, where he wa-sur
rounded by an excited crowd of adherents
and opiKinents, and tho services of the ser
geant-at-arms had to be cal'ed into requisl
tlon in ordor to secure some degree ot order
Finally, Mr. Urumm explained that he tiu4
bueu misunderstood a- saying that he had no
left the House until tlie filibustering uai
liegun. He had loft before that time. Mr
Iamb then withdrew Iff- motion, and Mr.
Brutnin was excused. At8:15 a quorum huv.
ing been obtained a motion to make the bill
the special order for tho 21st was carried by
175 yeas to 35 nays, and the Hou-e then u I-
journed.
A communication was received from th*
Fresldeut, transmitting u statement from
tho secretary of state to the effect that ihe
Britl-h government had pres.-nted the
steamship Alert to the United States for use
ou tho Greely relief expedition. Tho real-
ing of Secretary Kreliiigbuyscn's statement,
at the request of Mr. Bandall, disclosed that
In the search fur vessels suitable for the ex-
pedition now preparing for Oreely’s relief,
attention had been directed to the Alert,
and that Minister I-owell ha-1 been instructed
to inquire whether she could be spared hy
tho British government; tiiat Minister Low
ell was told the British government had not
forgotten the action of the United States in
tlie matter Of the Resolute, a Hritisu vessel
which had been abandoned in the
Arctic regions, discovered and brought
to this oouptry by American sea
men, purchased from them by the Amer
ican government, repaired and then returned
to Great Britain; that the BritUli govern
ment, in recognition of this courtesy, had
now given the Alert to tlio United Slates un
conditionally, with all her equipment; tliui
in response to this “graceful and opjiortuiia
act of courtesy on the part of her majesty’*
government,” Secretary Frel.nghuyseu hud
telegraphed to Minister Lowell that this
evidence of sympathy “receives the highe.-.t
appreciation of the President, u-it will thul
of ihe people of the United Stales,” eta
Mr. Randall asktvl unanimous consent that
the communication be spread upon ths
journal of the House, and tuat it be referred
to the committee ou foreign affuir* with th*
object of having a more formal and appro
priate recognition of the act ot the British
government. Mr. Fiunerty objected, and Mr.
Itundall then put ids request in the form of
a motion, which was agreed to, Moa rs. Fin-
nerty, of Illinois, and Robinson, of New
York, voting in the negative The military
academy approuriatiob biff, aud the pobt
routo bill, with Senate amendments, were
passed.
A Duped Tradesman.
In London, lately, two well-dressed
men enterod the shop of a fashionable
tradesman and asked to see the chief of
the establishment, whom they privately
informed that they were detectives from
Scotland Yard. The men said that from
information received they knew that two
“swell women” wonld drive up to tho
shop in a brougham and order drapery
to a large amonnt, paying for the same
with a forged cheek for £50, bearing the '
name of a well-known nobleman. It
would, however, be necessary, in order
to properly oonviot the women, to allow
them to carry the goods off with them,
and take the ohange of the check. But
in order that they should not escape, the
detectives were to have a hansom with »
fust horse, to follow the brougham aud
take the ladies into custody. The officers
took their stand behind the counter; tlie
“ladies” came, ordered the goods, and
tendered the chock. They received the
change and goods, and drove off. The
detectives immediately followed in their
hansom with tho “fast horse.” The
tradesman is still waiting for the good*
A lady artist, who had painted'a
smiling cherub on her canvus, remarked
to a gentleman observer : “Do you
know, sir, that with one stroke I cun
change this smiling boy into a weeping
one?” “Tlmt’s nothing,” said the
gentleman. “At home, when my boy
makes too rnuoh of a racket, I oan, with
one stroke of my cane make him weep,
and howl, too, instantly.Texas
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Aud then she smiled ao sweetly and
broadly ovpf the well-merited applause
thst the corners -oilier month held a so
ciable on the faeek el he* nsok,—J34*-
marok Tribune,
BEATS
“Father,” Raid tho youngest sporting
member of the family, “there ain't
nothin' oan Iteat Hand 8., is they 7”
“Olt, yes,” replied Mr. Wiggles worth,
“What?”
“A tramp,” replied Mr. Wiggle*-
worth, with a light and airy touoh of
humor. ' 'A tramp beats everything and
everybody,”
“J know one thing he don’t beat?” re
marked Mrs, Wigglesworth,
"WIihI'h Mint ?” queried her husband
in mild emprise.
“A carpet,” returned Mrs. Wiggles
worth ; “yon can't ever get $ tramp to
Itent a carpet.”
k DRTOOODS OVnci.
“Yes, papa,” said Beryl. “I am in love
—nay, more than that, I have plighted
my troth.”
“How rnuoh did yon get onit?” asked
the banker,
"Yon misunderstand me,” replied
Beryl. “I have pledged myself to be
come the bride of the only man I can
ever love—Arthur Ainsleigh.”
“What!” almost shouted the banker,
“that drygoods clerk ?”
“Yes, was the reply, In clear, reso
nant tone*. “I love him, and, aeepite
7oar sneers, I shall marry him, It is no
crime for a man to be a drygoods olerk.”
“Wo,” said Mr. Setback, thoughtfully,
“but it aught to be.”—Chicago Time«.
NOTHING HOT A OTiTTB WILL BO Vr.
A big olook hangs above the head of
the ticket agent at the 125th street sta
tion pf the fhird avenue elevated road.
A placard on the pendulum says: “Yes,
sir 11 am right;"
A passenger gazed at .it yesterday and
started to inquiro “What fa—?"
But tlie agent snt him short and
yelled:
“That's thete to keep people from
asking if thst’e the right time* Ques
tions used to average from 100 to 500 a
day. Now twioe au many ask what the
placard’s for, aud tho thing’s wome than
ever. Keeps ine talking nearly all day.”
—New York Sun.
PLANTATION PHILOSOPHY.
Pe wise man an’ de fool doan quarrel,
hut two fools or twe wise men kam’t get
aloug so well.
Du uian what marries a ’oman ’case
she's got more sense den he fans fa neber
allowed ter lone eight o’ da faoh.
Du chile dut too soou shows signs o’
siuiirtness doan turn out ter be do smart
est man. De fust oottou dat opens ia
ueberde lies’.
J'-beii ’mong de animals ’ueafanoes
makes n difference, fur ef de blaekbird
had bright feathers in his wing we’d
think dut his song was mneh sweeter.
Du gigglin' girl generally tnraa ont ter
be de woman what doan iaff much, an' -
leinme tell yer, murridge $n’ * lot o'
chi I lun tfill take de ohnckle oaten da moa'
o’ ’em.
De fox is not only smart, bnt he fa de
mos' pellicular o’ all de animals. He is
mighty playful, bnt ho nebbergetso far
Ids' in de persuito' his pleasure dat he
m-plecks his business; an’ aasoonaahe
stops playin' ho. is so mighty connin' dat
yer would tink dut he nebber paid any
’tention ter frolick. De ooon bas also
got some fun in him, but it is a sort o’
(lull au’ oberfed kine o’ sport, for he
nebber plays till nrter he eats an’ arter
lie gets thro’, w’y he’s dun eat so mneh
1st he (loan feel mneh like caperin'
'ronu’.--Arkansas Traveler. '
AH EDUCATED GENTLEMAN.
"Dis is de fouf anavers’y o’ my mar
riage,” said au old negro.
“How many times is yer been mar
ried ?” asked au acquaintance.
“Ef dis is de fouf anavers’y, o’ oo’se
I’se been married fo’ times, i’se beard
de white fokes say dat it doan do no
good ter edycate tie nigger, an’ now I
b’leves it Heuh yer is dun gone ter
school an’ got a good edyoation an’ doan
nu’erston’ ’rithmetic yet I’se ashamed
o’ yer, sab.”
“Uncle Ban,” replied the acquain
tance, "I neber went ter uohooi mneh
au’ I kain’t talk zackly proper, but
blame ef I ain’t got mo’ sense ’boat sioh
matters dan yerse’f has. De annavers’y
o’ a marriage doan mean how often a
man’s been married.”
"What do it mean den?”
“Why, it meaus how long. Anavers’y
meiuiB year, an’ is tuck from de Latin.
Ann means married, an’ vers’y means
year, an’ da bof when pnt togedder
means married year.”
“Wall, chile, yer must ’sense me.
'Fore de Lawd I didn’t know yer had so
much ’ligh’enment. When yer sets up
a school, dinged ef 1 doan sen’ my chil-'
lun ter yer, for I'se larned mo’ from yer
in fifteen minitsdeu Ieberkdowed befo’.
i ken stun’ mos’ anything, but when a
man draws ont de En’iish an’ de Latin
on me, I’se bleeged ter gin up den an’
Jar. I thanks yer for de infiimation. ”—
irkanaaw Traveler.
“No, Henry,” she said, with a coun
tenance fall of love and determination
beautifully blended, “I cannot consent
to be your wife this month or even next
mouth. Perhaps I may in tha gentle
spring-time.” “But why noi.pooner,
dearest ?” asked Henry, with a. faoe full
of anxiety. “WeU, sinoq you pfees me
for my reason, dear Henry, I will tell
you. The newspapers say there wiU be
thirty-eight, snows this winter, and I
want to enjoy some of the good sleigh
ing. I have notioed there fan’! rnuoh
Bleighing for a girl after marriage,
Henry. ” The. wedding will not take
plnee till April. — Middletown Tran
script,
