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Newspaper Page Textthe mercury. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY notice. I „■ AU oommunlesUons Intended tor tel* I mast be accompanied with the toll InflpOf ,u I of the writer, not necessarily tor pnbll- Lllon, bet aa a *narant«e o( good toUfe. 1 W( are le no way reeponatble lor the Ttawa Ljcpinlonaof eorreepoudenl*. A. J. JERNKUH, Proprietor. VOLUME IV DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE AND GENERAL lNTELLIGENOE, $1.60 per Amu SANDERSVILLE GA., TtJisDAy7uARCH 11,.1884. NIJMBER 47. a. j. jernigan; £- S. LANGMADE, Attorney at Law, SANDER^VILLE, Gt. llAYORi 0. H. ROGERS. [ :levk <t 2SiAsunj6% D. E. B, WELLS. MARSHALL. J. E. WEDDOff, ALDEUMfi*. W. H. LAWSON, Wm. RAWLINGS, 8. 0. LANG, A. M. MAYO, M. II. BOYER. 2own of lennilU. Mayor—John C. llarman, Aldermen W P. Dnvi«, J. W. Smith, 1’. J. Pi pit in, T J. Book. I Clerk- 8. H. B. Massey. Mitmhall—J. C. Ilium I ton MUSIC, MUSIC JERNIGAN Bows, Strings, iRosin Boxes, Etc. C- C BROWN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BandetirUle, Oa. Will practice In the State end United I Court*, Offloe In Ooort-honee. |Watches, Clocks And JEWELRY bbpaibbd nr IJERNIC AT T . Dr. H. B. Hollifield, IIETSICUI MI SUIBIOI, nil reoently graduated at the Unlver- iiu i>l Maryland and returned home, now ‘■nora lilt pi-ulewilonal eervlora to the eltlaena nl Humleravllle and vtolnlty. Offloe wltb Dr. H N Holllfleld, next door to(Mra. Bayne'a ■ailllnery (tore. 0. W H W SHAKE a, DENTIST SandenrUle, Oa. trusts cash. Office nt lila Realdanoa, on Harrle (treat. Aerll M, lien. H. N. HOLLITIXLD, Physician and Surgaon, MeaderavlUs, aa. Offloe next doer to Mrs. Bays** ■llllneey ■tore on Herrle street CURRENT COMMENTS. Csxmatiox eeome to be edranolng rapidly In favor. In addition to the New Orleans and Boaton societies for building crematories, New York baa formed a similar association, and the New England Cremation Booiety has taken ■teps to establish its principles In every town in the New England State*. Mom "natural gae" companies ere being formed In Pennsylvania. The preeenrs at the mouths of the wells is very groat, and the gas oan be oonveyed in oommon main* wherever it le needed for light or for manufacturing. Pittsburg expects to get rid of it* smoke end •ee the sun again. Lines are being laid to Baltimore and some of the lake cities. I* we were to be crowded ont of the German end Mediterranean markets by Russian petro leum it becomes all the more important that we should cultivate our negleoted trade with South Amorioa, Moxico, Canada, Australia end the West Lidtoa. Petroleum is one of the pro ducts of whioh we have More than ws can nee. It will be a misfortune If we have more than we can sell. The Madhi Is not an Arab by birth, end is of a black hue, whioh is nnacoepu I ■ in the Bemitio Moslems. He belongs, howover, to the Kadriyeh order, whioh is held In very high veneration in Egypt and whioh preserves all the pagan superstitions, including the worship of the gigsntio shoe of their founder. They aro distinguished from ‘other orders by thoir white bannors and by carrying always fish nets in their processions, With the Mala- wiych and Ahmoiyeli they are among tho moat powerful of the Derwish orders in Syria and E*yp‘- Under a bill whioh has passed the senate of Virginia slid Is now before the house, the State Lee Monument association (of which tho state treasurer Is the treasurer ex-offlolo) will have upon tho rodomption of thoir bonds, as.provi ded for, about 628,DOO. The ladles' Lee Mon ument association have 620,000 ; the Muaioal association 61,000 mors; total 649,000, not Including the rapidly growing veterans' fund. This money was collected all over the sooth, and is held in trust by these aaaootittons for building a monument in the eity of Richmond to Robert K. Lee. In e recent lecture on "The Rainbow," Pro fessor Tyndall described the rare phenomenon of a white rainbow which he had witnosaed in the Alps, and also In Hampshire. This rain bow is caused by reflected light on a mist at mosphere. The professor showed how to pro duce this phenomenon by artificial means. At the same time it was shown how, when the sir was composite, aa, for Instance, where water spray la mixed with paraflne oil spray, a still moro wonderful rainbow results, inch aa Is to be seen at almost all times In western China, whither the people flock at all times to witness what they call ‘The Glory of Buddah." Them are now forty-eight lady students In the Harvard annex, and it Is the testimony of jome of ths Harvard professors that the aver age scholarship of the olasses in the annex is above that of the oollege. Over fifty oourees are open to the pupils, and of these Greek, Latin, English, Gorman and mathematics at tract the largest numbers. This year thirty- five out of the forty-eight ladies have chosen 4rock electives. Two enthusiastic girls from Tsxaa sold lauds and traveled two thousand miles for privileges whioh Harvard university could afford beyond any woman’s collego. In return ths Annex has sent a gradual e to Mon tana as head of a classical school. 13UY YOUK SPECTACLES, SITMCLI^, FROM J E R N IC A H . Kone genuine without our Trad# Mark On hand and for lule, SPFXTAi’l,^, NONE GLASSES. ETC. Machine Needles, Oil and Shuttles, POB ALL KINDS OP MACHINES, for sale. 1 will also order part* of Mebnlnes that get broken, for whioh new piece* era wanted. A- J. JEFNIGAN. Hie progress of the Washington national monnmont is very gratifying to the patriirohs who have been watching the work for more than half a century. The Monument associa tion was organized in 1830. By 1848 6300,000 had been collected by private snbeoriptlons, end the sum of 6230,000 was expended in rais ing the obelisk to the height of 174 feet. In 1870 the government took charge of the work, and has sinoe appropriated 6900,000. The monument is e trifle over 400 foct in height, and its total cost thus far has been 6987,000, with a balance of 6100,000 on hand, whioh will complete the work. The obelisk will bo com pleted by December, the base being fifty-five foot and the height 668 feet, overtopping all other constructions of human hands, the ■pires of tho Cologne catbodral-being 626 foot or fifty feet lower than tho Washington monu- j ° ra < mont. When finished the weight of the struo- n * ture will be 8(f,000 tons. The New York trade sohools, though less than lour year* old, have successfully estab lished themselves, and it is generally admitted that they fill e long felt want. At these schools hundreds of bright boys and young men are learning at night the mysteries of brick laying, plastering, plumbing, painting, stone-cutting and wood-oarving. They pay only a moderate tuition foe, and in the course of five or six months they are prepared to go ont into the world and earn their living. These schools have boon brought into existence by the hostility of the trades unionB to the ait- prentice system. If yonng men oannot learn useful trades in the regular way, they will learn in some other way, and under the new Bystom it Is said that a boy will receive more instruc tion In five months than he would get in the shops in a year's time. These handle aft schools are os yet in their infancy—thi y will soon be established all over the country. The growing power of Chile Ik attracting attention. The flnanalel credit of Chile le exceptionally good: her foreign trade, whioh was barely 663,000,000 In value in 1878, has more than doubled sinoe, end in 1883 etoeedod 6135,000,000, the halanoe of trade in her favor belng.680,000,000. Her population, It should be recollected, Is only 8,600,000, and our for eign trade In 1860, when wn had 18,000,000 in habitants, wee tnuoh lex* In value. It must be admitted that Chile le the controlling power on the west ooest of Booth Amerioa. Bhe could et this moment command the Peeifla coast of the United States. Any on* of her three iron clads oould sink every woodeh vessel in onr wretched navy, end any of our seaboard cities could belaid nnder contribution by one of those formidable iron olads, whioh after re ceiving the contribution, or destroying the city by bombardment, oould quietly steam away without danger. In the event of any complication between the United States and Chile as t* the control ef the Panama canal Chile could give ns serious trouble, especially as she would probably be booked by England, Franoe and every other Booth American conn- *ry. g SUMMARY OF CONGRESS ■enaU. TUe House bill repealing tho test oath wo- lOssed after being modified by an amend ment proposed by the Sennta judiciary com- mittee, providing that no person who held a commlmion In the United States army or navy before the war and was afterward engaged In the military, naval or olvti service of the so- called Confederate States, shall be appointed to any position In the army or navy of the United Statee Mr. Sewell Introduced a bill to grant a pension to the widow of Gen eral Judson Kilpatrick ... A bill was Intro dgoed to incorporate the Yellow.-tone Park Reservation eom;>any,...The pleura-pneu monia bill was amended in committe of the whole and reported to the House. Consideration of the bill for the oonstrno- tion of new steel cruisers was resumed, and several amendments were adopted Mr. Ingalls introduced a bill to relieve the mem bers of the original Fltz-John Porter court martial of tho obligation of secreoy as to the votes of members.... Mr. Pendleton, by re- S uest, introduond a bill to facilitate tho eet- ement and development of Alaska, and ap propriating $100,00) to open overland oom- ir.untoatlnn with that Territory. Mr. Ransom reported adversely from the committee on appropriations his Joint reso lutlon providing for an appropriation to aid the sufferers by the recent great storm in the South. He ezplainell that on Invest! tlon it appeared that the suffering caused . the storm was not of such a charac ter as to bafflo local and State relief.... A resolution by Mr. Plumb was azreed to calling on the secretary of state for Informo- 'tion regarding the amount of wheat, rye, jeornund ootton produced and consuracdin foreign countries for several years back, and ’especially whether political or other oompll- Icatlons are likely to occur in the near future icaloulated to Influence the market value ol 1 .American products or their oast.... Debate on the bill to construct seven more [steel cruisers wav resumed and it was finally passed—33 to 13....Mr. (Vest introduced a bill to incorporate tb* In- teroceanlo Ship Railway company, making iCaptain Eads and his associates a body o-r- K ' rate, with power to hold property and to oe bonds to the extent of 660,000,000. The capital (took is limited to the same sum. A motion to strike out the enacting clause of the pleuro-pnoumonla bill was defeated— 118 to 114... .A resolution by Mr. Morrison was adopted, directing the eecretary of the treasury to inform the Hous i how much money Is now in the treasury of the United States, under what provisions of law it Is there retained, and how much, In view of the ourrent receipts, expenditures, and legal liabilities of the treasury, can be applied at this time in liquidation of that part of the publlo debt now payable, without embarrassing his department Mr. Phelps from the oom-ulttce on foreign affairs, reported back the resolution direct ing that committee to in tuire as to whether the minister of any foreign power has en deavored to nullify theeffeot of a unanimous resolution of the House by reflection on the honor and integrity of ft* members. The committee had male an investigation but hod been unable to obtain any information on tha subject, and aslied to b? excused from further consideration of the resolution. The report wav agreed to without dlscusBion and the committee discharged irom the further consideration of the subject. Mr. Douster.of Wise inslu, obtained unani mous consent to have the clerk read the reso lution of the executive oommittee of the Liberal Union of th- German parliament, expressing its appreciation of the action of the House of Ropresontati vos in adopting reso- lutionsin honor of Kdward Lasker.Mr. Deuster said he was convinced that the action of the Liberal Union was a true index of the feel ing of united Uerminv. Mr. Guenther of Wlsoonsin, expressed a similar opinion. Mr. gjtsson thought the House would better consult Its dignity by wniting until some official communication reached it snow- that improper comment had been mode upon its aetion. Upon hie motion the matter wav referred to the oommittee on foreign affairs.....The pleuro-pneumon'a bill wai passed, 15 > to 127. Public business being suspended, the House paid its tribute to the memory of the late Representative D. C. Haskell, of Kansas. Many eulogist o ■ lev-hra were mad « by members, and as a further mark of respect the House adjourue 1. PLEURO-PNEUMONIA. Synopsis of tho Hill as Passed by the House. • *. au a M. Howe HINES & ROGERS, Attorneys at Law, BANDERSYILLR, QA., Will P r *eU°* in the counties of Washington, iu7 8 i°n' Johnson, Emanuel and Wilkinson, Sri* 1 ,", J&U- 8- Court* for th. Southern Dte- ^AtanfiJlSS** *“ baylM * ““‘ M “ OetuV* Wm>#f PabUo Hoar*. Fob a number of years it hoe ooet more than 61,000,000 a year to pay the government expen ses of the District of Columbia, and since 1863 the amount* have been muoh higher. In 1878 the amount was more than 68,000,000. In 1876 it waa more than 67,000,000, while from 1828 to 1862 it was less than 61,000,000 a year. In 1814 only 61,800 wa* appropriated for the Dis trict of Columbia, and it waa not until 1837 that the yearly proportion reached 61.000,000. It is intereating to look over the items of per manent improvements in Washington. These Include the original ooet of the buildings and their repair, furnishing and keeping in order. The following estimate, though not eiacUy oorreot, is approximately *o. It to less rather than greater than the actual cost, some of the minor expense* during the past seven yearn being omitted i The capital has ooet 617,672,- 123- the patent offloe. over 618,000,000; the ' treasury about 67,300,000; the Washington ' .treeto more than 66,000,000; the state depart- ' m ent about 67,000,000; the navy nearly 64,000,- 000; the white house, two parks snd publio grounds, about 63,000,000. The pleuro-pneumonia bill, as pos ed by the House of Represeutativev, provides that the oommtoeioner of agriculture shall organ ze a bureau of animal industry and appoint a chief thereof, whose duty it shall be to in vestigate and report on the number, value aud condition of the domestic animals of the United States, and also the causes of con tagious and communicable diseases among tuem, and the means for the prevention and cure of the same. He is authorized to ap point two oompeteut agents, whose duty it •shall be to report upon the best methods of treating, transporting and caring for ani mals, and the means to be adopted for tin- suppression aud extirpation of conta gious pleuro-pneumonia. The bill further provides that the commissioner of agriculture may expend so muoh or the money appropriated by thto act as may be necessary In paying for The animals it i. deemed neoessary to s'aughter, and in sucl disinfection and other,mean* os[may b« nec essary to-extirpate disease. The autho i ties of the Btat-s shall pay one-half of the expense of the animals it Is deemed neoes- copy to slaughter and one-half the cost of disinfection aud car® of the herds of catt e. It prohibits the transportation from one Stale to another of any lire Stock affected with any contagious or infectious disease, and provides for th* prosecution of any per son violating thls'prohibit.on. The sum o *250,000 is appropriated to carry into effec the provisions of the bill. Thb Eddyatono Light of the Pacific ip to be erected on Seal Rook, St. George b Reef, oight miles from the shore, oppo site Crescent City, Cal., and will cost #400 000. The highest point of Seal Rock i» fifty-four feet above mean tide. The liaht will be 100 feet higher. NEWS OF THE WEEj. Jo». ■aatam and Middle ffltatae. An ocean steamer collided with a tag boot near New York, and th* latter went to the bottom with two of her crew. * RBprxrknTaTIVes of prison managsrapnt from twenty-two States met in New York end discussed the Various methods at Man aging prisons. At Newport, R. I., the officers and crew of the revenue outtor Dexter were publicly C eented r solutions recognising tlielr gat- try in aiding tha survivoni of the Clty ef Columbus disaster. . Ex-Govkhnor R. D. Humana died at Hartford, Conn., of Bright’s dheave. A n be in a New York tenement hones hta wiped out an entire family. The flame* wwff dtoeoTtred In the early morning, and when subdued it was found that Cornel I ns Whs Riper, forty years old, and III* threerUWraa aged respectively thirteen, nine nnd two years, had been burned to death. Mrs. Van Riper, aged thirty-two years, jumped from a win dow and broke her nedk. A frofosbd bill to submit to the people of the State of New York a constitutional amendment prohibiting the manufacture and lol* of llqnor wav defeated in th* State as sembly by sixty-three nays to stxty-one yeas. William McDonald, a New York city contractor, was brought before the bar of the State senate and committed to the Al bany jail for contempt In refusing to answer questions put to him by a senate oommittee concerning material furnished by him to the New York department of publio works, Thb ehemical works of Power* A Weight* man, of Philadelphia, the largest of the kind I n the country, have been entirely destroyed >y fire. The works Consisted of a num ber of briok buildings, oovering an Sd- tire block, and tb* 1cm to more than fll.OOJ,- 000. While passing from on* car to another, Henry O. Kelsey, eeoretary of state of New Jersey, was blown from the fast train which ftH s between Philadelphia and NeW York. A high wind was prevailing at tho time, ana Mr. Rebuy was blown down an embank ment, hut ha escaped without serious In juries. A RUBBORiPTiON list has been opened foi the purpose of erecting a monument to Lieu tenant Cblpp, tha exeoutlve officer of the Jeannette, at Rondout, N. Y. loath aad Wert. A pitched battle took place In Clavton county, Ky., between four.membvrs of the Burke family and two memliers of thv Clay ton family. Tho trouble grew out of an Im proper remark ro jarding a female member of the Burke family,mndo by one of the Clay- Iona The battle resulted In thedeath of one Clayton and fatal wounding of ths other and the death of one Burke and wounding of another. A special dispatch from Bpokano Falls, Washington Territory, says that the rush to the recently discovered Orour d'Alene mines In Idaho during tb* spring and turn mer will bo ovei whelming. Already the craze has spread so that miners are flocking to the place without the prospect of earning a penny in some time. Telegraph and tale- phone tinev are being pushed through the snow, aud capital has been subscribed for stage linov, a railroad, and a steam naviga tion company. A writer in Fort Keogh says that, in regard to the richness of the mines, every one who has been on the ground ■peaks glowingly of the placer yield—gold to the value of from 6101 to 63 *) being gath ered, acoording to thto correspondent, in a ■ingle day's labor. - Part of a Covington (Ky.) distillery, whi-h was undermined by the flood, slipped Into the L'oking river, with 50,000 gallons of beer. Two brothers—Luke and William Jonas— were hmured at Jackson, Ohio, for the murder of Anderson I.ockey, the motive of the orime being robbery. Ben Gilliam and William Moore, both col ored, were hanged for murder—the former at Bay boro, N. C., and the latter at Franklin, 1a. Maushall T. Polk, who embezzled 6400,- 000 of tho Tennessee State funds while State trenvurnr an I fled, but was arrested, died suddenly oi heart dhtasu at his home In Na-liville. He ha-1 been very popular In Tenue s e, and his cav> wns to have oome up In a few days before the supreme court. Washington^ UnIted States Fish Commissioner Ellis to distributing from the national Huh hatoh- ery at Northville, Mich., 7.*t,d01,00) white- fish minnows for the chain of great lakes. The jiostofflce appropriation bill, os pre pared by tho House sub-committee, appro priates $15,071,00. The estimated revenues for the next fl cal year are 647,101,0011. The appropriation for the ourrent fiscal year to 644,489,520. The House committee on foreign affairs agreed by a party vote (Democrats in favor, Republicans opposed) to a bill proposed by the California members so amending the Chine e act of last year os to greatly in crease its restriction upon emigration. Further confirmations of the President’s nomirat'ons: Max Weber, of New York, con-ul at Nantes; H. B. Trivt, Distriot of Columb a, consul at Mozambique; George B. Clark, of Georgia, consul at San Luis Potosi: Cornelius 8. Palmer, of Vermont, associate justice of the supreme oourt of the territory of Dakota. The American Government bos received aninvi'at.ion through the German legation at Washington to participate In an exhibition of fairy products at Muniob in October next. The bill parsed by the Senate in regard to .-.teel crui ers authorizes the President to di rect the construction of seven steel vessels tor tho navy, consisting of one oruiser of ♦,500 tons displs cement, one oruiser of 3,000 tons, one dispatch vessel of 1,500 tons, two heavil armed gunboats of 1,500 tons each, one light gunboat of 750 tons, and one gun boat not to oxceed 900 tons. It further au thorizes the construction of onesteel ram,one cruisin'/ torf>edo boat nnd two harbor tor- •Jo boats. The work is to be done by oon- ract, and American shipbuilders who oan ntiBfy the secretary of the navy that they rill be pro| ai ed to begin work in three nontlis after making the contract are to b3 jermilted to bid. The naval advisory board s to have no power to make contracts. The House oommittee on military affairs decided tom lie an adverse report on the bill providing for ' he perpetuation of the tlllces of general and lieu tenant-general. The civil sorviee commission's first annual report has been sont to Congress in a s;)ecial message by the President. The President Bmcn January let then have been sixteen suicides and two murders at Moat* Caflo, th* notorious gambling center. Commons several ODD HAPPEN1504 AMAEtah Jordan, of Harttaud, Me., In • In the British House of Commons several It of Insanity cut off his toes, one at a time. irnallitM strongly condemned recant dyna- . A nw wmkl ^ butterflies were numer- Ifflf, Bin HTPHMl * — s ti l. u .I - - *— — —* asul They deplored that oonsjMra- ^ A roV 1ia dog was recently frightened to ■”. . death near Lafayette, Ore., hr a child who MAMH& MilAhrt^JeMM*?!T ,dU,,M bug * b °° *“ d °“* d th * dr send up i maL I A short-horn heifer named Lillie Dale, belonging to J. W. Dawson, of Russellville. ; Ky., died lour hours after eating a leaf of i tobacco. J. H. Snoot, of Owen oounty. Ky., cut a trte recently in big hollow wm filled with honey, ui»n which a colony of flying squirrels were living. Mas. I/imsA H. Albert, of Cedar Rapids, has entered into partnnrship with her hus band in the practice of the Inw. Their sign rends, "Albert & Albert, Attorneys at Law." In Beech Groro, Ky., live William J. Har din, the father of twenty-one children, Wil liam Miller, the father of twenty-six chil dren, and Camoron Story, who has twenty- two ohlldren. In Minnesota is a we'! that freezes at a depth of seventy toet, but not at the surfaoe of the water. A draught of cold air to-ues from the Well strong enough to take off the hat of a man stall ling nt its mouth. A laroe lump of dry Nile mud, with a hole In one side showing that a mud fish was within it, lias been In the possession of the Rev. J. G Woo l for four years. He recently cut the lump open nnd round the fish in good condition, doubled up, witli its tall over its head, just as when it went to sloop more than twenty years ago. message by — . congratulates Congress and the people on the good results of thelaw so far, and avows his conviction that it will henceforth provo to be of still more benefit. He commends the ■uggeetions of the commission for further legislation, and adviseritho making of on ap propriation adequate for its needs. Foreign. Tennyson, the poet, intends to support in the British house of lords the bill legalizing marriage with a deceased wife’s sister. w. H. Hunt, United States minister to Russia, and ex-seoretary ol the navy, died in Ht. Petersburg of dropsy. Mr. Hunt was born in Charleston, a C„ in 1824, but early in life moved with his family to Louisiana. He was appointed by Hayes a judge of the court of oluims, a position which be held when called to President Gorfleld ■ cabinet a* secretary of the navy. When President Artimr reorganized bis cabinet, Mr. Hunt was sent to Russia as minister to suooeed Mr. Foster. * Several other beleaguered towns in the Soadqn have surrendered to the Folse Prophet’s followers. Much alarm has been created In London bv the discovery of several infernal ma chines, of American manufacture, in rail way stations. mile procwdlBg8.attd deolared that excas* f ^ ; n England, peas were aboveground aad was Vsfld for such wicked attempts upon life J n^*a were la leaf. SOT With the „ . hatched in Auartca, and that the attempts to carry them OUthad tieen made by agent* sent out from tho United States. Thb British government bos decided to send a coarteoas diepat h to Amerioa rela tive to the action of A mer loons in oounte- . . „ , . TTi nanefng and assisting dynamiters. In a J Mne. Nellie KlCLLBft. of Hyde Park, Vfc. leading editorial article tho London Times was severely burned in the lace, hands and sane “it hi intolerable that England should ' arms by the explosion of a doughnut which ha ixpCsed to this succession of plots from a she was frying. Mrtm which professes to be friendly with us, Mod with which we have only a desire to live ihpeace end parity. ” ■USICAL' ANI) DRAMATIC. London aators have seven clubs. Mart Anderson has now been on the stage eight years. Mart Anderson is still playing to great business in London. . Fanny Davenport, In "Fedora," has captured the South. Bartley Campiiri.l's "My Partner” Is to be played at the Globe, London. Tiimatrioal affairs are booming In Lon don. The recolpts at the theatres are larger than they have ever bo.m known to bo. It Is ctAted that th-< receipts of the Irving •rason in America will reach the enormous turn of four hundred thousand dollars. Two now German o]>oras will soon be pro- 4Ucod„ "Gustave VaW by Ooetse.at Dusel- dorf, and "Leonore, 1 by BaOh, at Augsburg. IT is reported that Mrs. Langtry will per manently retire from the stags after tho present season and go into business In Lon don. An enterprising Connecticut man is seld to be engaged In making a piano ease out of paper, which shall be entirely proof against moisture and heat. They say that Sarah Bernhardt has be come so attenuated physically that she Will return to tiiis country next September via the cable and halt rates, A niece of Senator Morrill, Mma Vaida, Is iua fuir way to bee une on* of the favor ites of musical Paris. Her singing Is already fastening tho attention of the orltias, The Czar of Russia Is the first to put down Italian opera He has resolved to pull down tho house In which It is given In iwo years and allow uo mire Italian opera to be given. Mr. Henry Irvino’h sons show maoh cleverness in tableaus and recitations. They reOeutly took tho parts of Joseph aud Charles Hurfaoe iu an amateur portormanoe of " The Sohool for Scandal." and are said to have shown dramatic talent of a high order. Charleh Barnard, one of th* editors of tho On In yu inagu ino. hoe hit upon a new idea. Ho tins written the books for mverol comic ogleias nnd the music has been supplied by such excellent composers os Alfred Col lier, Frank llowson and Dr. Pierce. Thee* work-; are intended for i lerformence by chil dren or by profcs-iionn! adult* for the enter tainment or cht dren. Harxum’r cirous will have 873 nameeon It* i ay rolls, (HU iu the exhibition deiart- ment, 2lil on the cars and tsrectv-three agent*, the daily expenses being 66,800. Th* tents will seat 21,1100 persons, and for the first time doube tent* will bs earried, so tliatwldlo the circus is playing in one town thj preparations will be uiude ill the next. There are eleven jia noo cars, seven advnnoe advertising cars nnd lifty-four core for cage* and propurl .er The Chicago yews says that the other night “a rich miner from Nevada, who is in thecity, st.rollol into Hnvrly’s, aud watobed ih> ‘ riilv.-r Kin; ’ wi.li a great deal of In- t, r st. H« wa; partioularlv struck with the ac in;; of Mtu Tia-y, and became eoeuthu- sa-tioduri ig he s -coud oat that he arose .n '.is H-u , and i ultiug a $.D gold plem from Ills p -eke", io s-d i upon the stage *ea token u: hU appree u i m for her work. His action was nor. ced by many in the house, and oo- 0 l.sioned u > lit', o ooinm-mt. Ml** Tracy, iimving the omtomi of the for West, Bent her rlrnuk; to tin nil-ie.-. wiio had gone into 1 i - I bh -, t ige'.hor with the Word that shs would kie tue money as a eoUVeul#,".' NEWSY GLEANINGS. Children on'y ten years old are working in Ohio coal (nines. Tbe first State election of the year will bj that of Ore-on, June 2. Only three executions for murder took place in France during 1833. A woman has been elected president of the Indiana Bee-keepers’ association. There are about 2,700 births and about 1,700 deaths per week in London. There are 36,000 cattle suffering from foot and mouth disease in Great Britain. There are three women in New York dime museums whose combined weight is l,u > > pounds. There Is more telegraph business done in the city of Chicago than in the entire do minion of Canada A citizen of Gainesville, Ga, now worth 650,000, never wore a pair of ihoes until after be was twenty-one years of age. The brew of malt liquors in this country la t rear amounted to 17,350,000 barrels, re quiring about 20,000,000 pounds of hops. Greeley, CoL , rejoices in the distinction of being probably tbe one mining settlement in the west in whioh there is not at least one liquor saloon. The net debt of Cana la Is $153,466,714, or about $30 per capita; that of the United States is about $30 per capita, but it Is re;>- ly decreasing. A SERIES OF FATALITIES. five Member* ol a Family Dio, Four From Fire, In Two Mom lm. In the absence of Milton Highland, of Me- chantcsburg, Ind., two months ago, bis house was destroyed by fire, and his little girls, seven and four years old, perished in the flames. A month after this iris brother’s wife and child were burned to death, with four others, in the Urr building at Alliance. Highland, almost crazed by these calamities, decided t > move to Indiana, for THE JOKER’S BUDGET. - WHAt WM FIHII IN TDM HPM—fflPM PAFMMN TO M1M11.M OTMst. <>’J They were Tetnmla* boat theatre and had nearly tenohed hgr Immm when the yonng man observed; "Isn’t the weethef oold and raw r ghe nonet have misunderstood him. "Raw.” she said, rathe* hesitatingly. Yea, I like them raw, bn*," Am erne* tinned, looking sweetly In Me ma don’t yon think they ere nleeg Medr Whatoonldhe dor . i vj OUTOENXHALHD BY OMIWI—. .. A Chinese regiment, drilled la A* > European way and commanded by an Englishman, wee stationed at Yoeehow. Their officer wee very proud o! them, »ud by way ol showing their perfeot discipline the "assembly" sounded at midnight, and tho men drew np in per- . feet order. But he tried this a second time, and the soldiers, instead of hurry ing to tho parade gronnd, ran to the windows and greeted their oommander with laughter and cries of "no oateheel" —Nest) Orleans Timet. taken sick and died within a few hours. The heai-t-broken mother, with her little girl, tbe only remaining member of what was two months ago a happy family, has returned to the vicinity of her former home almost crazed through grief. A Little Fire.—Near Blakely, Ga., a yoke of oxen ran away while the driver was standing' behind them lighting his pipe. Dropping the match, he started iu pursuit of the runaways. The pine straw took fire, and the fire spread, sweeping all before it. Some farmers lost nearly all their fencing, and a .Mr. Davis, who was sick in bed, lost every building on his place except his dwell ing, and tlfit was saved with mnoh difficulty. A bill has been Introduced in the Iowa Legislature providing for the punishment of police officers for killing persons except in oases of actual and dangerous resistance. Tho Old Lady's Twenty Dollars. The Ohioago Tribune tells this story ss coming from the lips of a street ear oonduotor: "I recollect another in stance," and the conductor’s fnoo lost its look of indignation and a smile crept over it, "iu which I completely cured a fat, fussy old woman of her efforts to lieut 'her way. She would invariably either tender me a 820 gold-piece or a bill for the same amount, Wo don’t Bouorally carry enough change for suoh large denominations, and it so hapi>ened that 1 was caught half a doaen times, and I guess she began to think sho had a soft slimmer snap, and became a regular patron of my car. One day 1 (lzod myself. I literally loaded raysell down for the occasion, nnd laughed about it to myself so often that my driver wantod to know if I thought I hml mashed tho pretty girl who sat In the corner on a previous trip. Well, at tho proper comer stood my small mon ument of flesh waiting my coming. 1 stopped tbe cur with cheerful alacrity, and nssisted the old woman on boara with suoh a beaming countenance that I really feared I might give myself away. After she hud fairly settled herself I started in. to collect her fare. Bhe lookod up so innocently At me and said 'Really, I have nothing smaller than tills 820 piece.’ nt the same time hand ing mo a shining double-eagle. ‘Well, I think I oan change it for you this time,’ says I, and I did. ."I rouohed down in a pocket where there was a good-sized leather bag, un tied the string, and held it npside down over her lAp. 'There,' I said, aa the contents jingled downward, 'you’ll find jnst 1,095 cents in thnt pile, I guess— S our exact ohnnge.’ ‘Oh I’ says she, ‘I elieve I have u nickel in my pocket- book.’ ‘All right; you’d better keep it, or else I’ll take it for some of the other fares yon owe me.’ At first she was dis posed to mnke a row, but I was so per fectly independent, and the passengers were all laughing, that Anally she took her handkerchief, made a sack, and tied up all the money she oould, filled her purse, her pockets, and then had a respectable little pile to shovel into her hand-bag. You may think I’m stretch ing this, hut a man who works on i princely salary has no inducement to lie for a few paltry pennies," said tho inno- ocnt-looking oonduotor, as he jerked tho bell-oord and took on a dude, starting the onr again so quickly as to land the misrenroHeutation of humanity into the lap of a spinster who sat in tbe farther corner. _ A Railroad Man’s Wealth. O. P. Huntington’s wealth to-day is probably something nnder 850,000,000. Hut lie may be richer even than Vauder hilt before he dies. Huntington is i New York man and is sixty-Ave yenrs of age. He is veiy strong and carries-his self-impofod burdens of affairs very easily. He seems to have a fair chance of living to be eighty. Ho has uo ohil- dien. His wife died a few mouths ago. and one young ndopte-1 danghter is the only family that remains to him. He may marry, but should he not, it will be a vi ry interesting question as to what lie will do with all biB wealth, when he dies. Perhaps the question will puzzle Mr. Hnntington more than any one else. Mr. Hnntington spends a good (leal of time in Washington, and always stops ytt Willard’s. His habits are simple and he makes no display. When he wants to see a man he generally sends for him. His agent here is Mr. Shorrill, who attends carefully to his interests, which are always before Congress in one way or another.' This year it is neoessary to prevent the revocation of the Texas PaciAo land grant, which, it is hoped, may in some way be converted to the use and beneAt of Ihe California Southern PaciAo. A good story is told of a Wash ington man whom Mr. Huntington, de sired to “see" about his railway business when he was last there. The man iu question had been pitching into Mr. Huntington’s schemes and was invited into his private -parlor to talk over the matter. When he arrived there he found other people present, and some- oody looking very much like a stenog rapher sitting at a table over in the comer. So be began to talk about the physical geography of Southern Asia, and, to bis utter surprise, found that Mr. Huntington was perfectly at home on the topic. They discussed it for an hour, and if Mr. Hnntington did not do' any railroad business that afternoon he at least proved to his companions that he was a man of wide general informa tion.— Boston Herald. BUSINESS AND THE This is miserable weather," » min growled, leaning against a lamp-poet, I think it’s beautiful,” replied ,ea acquaintance. “The sun hss showneVMiy day for a week, and the air is &ty MM pleasant.” "That’s all very well,” eald Ihe growler, "but yon know I’m a ooet- dealer.” "Why, no longer ago than a ooaple ol months I heard you growling beeanae 16 was so cool.” ... . "Yes, but yon know, I waa in the lot business than.”—Arkantaw lYaveler. A maONAL ALLUOOW, "I bclievo I'U go out end stirteh my legs a little,” said a tall gentleman os Iks train stopped at a railroad station. O, don’t,” said a gentleman passen ger who had been sitting opposite to dm, and who had been mnoh embar rassed by the leg* of the tall gentleman, "don’t do that. Don’t stretoh those lege any more. They are too long already.” The look the loDg man gave to the oritio who objected to such lengthy ex tremities will haunt the rash long os memory holds 1 WFOMTAET, IF TMVM. Little Emms Burt and Franky El more were making e doll-baby bed ol leaves in the former’s front yara'WWffl the following important oonvernation ooonrred: . _ . "Whioh would yon sooner bo, Franky, when you git married, a man nr a wo man f” "I’d sooner be e man, ’oanee pep be’e _ man, and he can go ont when he pleases, end go a-hnntiu’ end do most anything. Which would you sooner be, Emmy T” "I’d sooner be a woman, eaaae my ml she’s a woman, and ahe can go ont, too, whep she wants to, and kin git sunk fine dose and can boas pa and make him do jist what ahe wants to.” "I'll bet your mnver oan’t boas my pap,” said Franky, straightening un. "Yea, she kin, fur my pa ia a bigger man than yonr pa.” "No, she can't, nlever. My mnver is most twice m big as yonr mover end she oan’t do it."—Kentucky State Journal. A SMART SALESMAN. Aa the train slowed up at a station a ommeroial looking man, who had been noticed in earnest conversation pith an other party of the same general a^ pearanoe, was heard to remark: ' ‘Smart 7 He’s the smartest drummer yon ever met anywiiere. Why, he’s cmart enough to sell suspenders to a The other oommercial-looking man nodded his head at this very happy il lustration, and everybody thought the conversation was ended, when a lone some-looking individual on the opposite side of the oar remarked: “It doesn’t take a very amort man to oell suspenders to a dog.” Even the sleepy passengers were ‘ aroused at this startling remark by the lonesome-looking individual, end the commercial man asked in some surprise: “Why not?” “Beconse it doesn’t.” “What would a dog want with aua- penders ?” “To keep np hia pants,” softly mur mured the lonesome-looking individual, gazing out aoross the snow-swept waste, with a far-away look in his voice. And the astonished brakeman sighed so lond as to oraok every lamp-chimney in the car.—Rockland Courier. “One sowotli, and another renpetli,” is a.verity that applies to evil as well aa gooh..—Oeorg«ElioL FADED HOPES. - A young man with a broad back and a sorrowful look wob standing in front of the Board of Trade one day last week when an acquaintance came np and called out: "Hello ! Thomas—ont of a job ?” "Yea, ont of a job,” was the sad reply. "No! Why yon were porter for a wholesale house for three year* pant.” "Just so, but I’ve been discharged.” "Is that so; have trouble with the boss ?** “No, not exaotly. Yon eee 1 I went into the house to work my way np. The Arst Christmas I ought to have been pro moted to salesman, but I wasn’t. The second Christmas I ought to have been o ffered a partnership for my faithful ser vices, but the otter didn’t oome. This year I ought to have married the dangh ter of the senior partner and (OMffld a house and lot in my Christmas atooking. but that prospect has now departed” “And you left?’’ “Well, I overhauled the old man ol the street oar yesterday and intimated that t,waa ready to do my pert, hot he never let on that ha knew mik Tliir morning I was told that my were no longer needed.” . “But oan the house him you?” <«"W£Z “It may poesibly sqneene along, b«t if there's a failure it must -not be bid on agin me. Do yon know of any beak where a man oan begin aa watchman and work np to marry the- - yreeidonfe widow? I think i’ll try that burin see for a spell "—Detroit Free Free*.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Mercury. (Sandersville, Ga.) 1880-1???, March 11, 1884, Image 1