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VOLUME IV
DEVOTED TO IJTKKATURE, AGRICULTURE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.
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SANDERSVILLE, GA., TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 1884.
$1.M par Anhui
NUMBER 50.
■Mfcmnk *«**•<-«■*». to
A. J. JKENJSAN,
rail in »«
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MMim Yaw
E. S. LMGIMOE,
Attorney at Law,
SANDERS VILLE,
04.
MAYOR.
O. H. ROGERS.
CLEHK A 21tJFASimi;it.
D. E. B, WELLS.
MARSHALL.
J. E. WEDDON.
AZ2>£XM£Jy.
W. H. LAWSON.
Wm. RAWLINGS,
8. 0. LANG,
A. M. MAYO,
M. H. BOYER
CURRENT COMMENTS.
7own of 2cnnille.
Mayor—John C. Harman.
Aldermen—W. I’. Davie, ,T. W.
Smith, P. J. Pipkin, T. J. Beck.
Clerk—S. H. B Mawey.
Marahall—J. C. Hamilton.
MUSIC, MUSIC
GO TO—
JERNIGAN
Bows, Strings,
Rosin Boxes, Etc.
a o. BROWN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BandraavUIe, Oa.
Will praotUo In tha Mate and United
Court*. Office In Oourt-bouaa.
Watches, Clocks
And JEWELRY
repaired »t
JERXTXCAXT.
Dr. H. B. Hollifield,
nnuui m mnoi,
Having reosntly gradaated at tha Untver-
iltv of Maryland and ratnrnad horn*, now
oflers hi. professional aarvlaaa to tha elttaan.
of Randarayllla and vicinity. C/flloa with
Dr, H. N. Holllflald, next door topira. Bay «•’.
millinery ttora.
0. w. H. WHITAKER.
DENTIST,
flendenvllle, Oa.
TERMS CASH.
Office nt hta Resictenee, on Harris strset.
April 8d. 1880.
H. N. HOLLIFIELD,
Physician and Surgeon*
BaadrarrUle, (tra
oaea nut doat to MM Brans*
•tor* on Harris rarest
BUY YOUR
SPECTACLES, SPECTACLE,
FROM
JERNICAG,
Won* genuine without our Trad# MmE
On hand and for sals,
SPECTACLE*. NOSE GLASSES. ETC,
Machine Needles
Oil and Shuttles
FOB ALL KINDS OF machines, tor aala.
I will also order part# of Maonlnaa
that get broken, fpr whleh new
pieces are wanted.
A.. J. JEHNIGAN.
5?
A bill introduced in the Kentucky Houie of
RcpreranteUvte, making pool-soiling or betting
on horse races punishable by a fin, of not lam
than 4360 nor more than 4600.
Kakrar Citt loomi up second in winter hog
packing. Chicago packer* slaughtered and
packed 2,026,000 head; Kansas City packed
426.000 head; Cincinnati, 270,000; Bt. Louis,
368.000 head; Indianapolis, 274,000 head; Mil
waukee, 266,000 head and Louisville 141,000
head. The total shortness at the point* named
aggregates about 750,000. As the falling off in
weight is large, it would seem that people
must eat muoh less pork or prices must go up.
The millionaire* of New York are making
ample provision for a dazzling ehow in the
slisdo of costly monuments and mausoleums.
In the woodlawn cemetery Btauds a model of
the Pantheon The lot on which it stands cost
460,000, and the structure is 37x30 feet, con
structed of Westerly granite, surrounded by
thirty Dorio pillars. The bronze door oost
(3,000. Inside are twelvo catacombs, and
through the stained glass windows a soft, mel
low light plays ovor tho interior. 2 his is the
elaborate temple which is to receive the dust
of Jty Gould.i
Tub Legislature of Kansas, whleh baa been
called in session to consider the prevailing cat
tle plague, has already inaugurated step* for
its suppression. The number of cattle now in
the state is nearly two million head, which has
been increased during the year 1888 nearly two
hundred thousand head, valued at nine million
dollars, with a total valua of at least 460,000,-
000, there are at least 410,000,000 worth of
fatted cattle ready for tho market, and a large
stun of money will bo lost to the cattle growers
if their cattle aro quarantined against by other
states and countries on accouut of the prevail
ing disease. -
A Pottrtown, Pa., dispatch says: "Another
colony of nailers, and employees of the Pott*-
town Iron company have left here. These men
have gone to Lvnchburg, Va., where they have
secured lucrative positions. Altogether some
eighty skilled workmen have loft here since the
strike of the Pottstown Iron company's nailers
inaugurated last December." These
movements of iron workers are significant.
They point tho way in which the iron business
is traveling. Both the cotton business and the
iron business are moving southward and west
ward. Dear coals and dear ores are driving
Iron makers away from Pennsylvania to tbs
neighborhood of cheaper raw material.
A comesfokdeht, writing from Balt Lake
City, says that he never aaw a Mormon wife
with a smile on her face. The favorite wife in
a family may look happy during her brief
reign, but the others are in tho depths of
gloom. Bad pfccling revails all the time.
Even Brigham was always in trouble. At one
time he had so muoh trouble with his wives
that he threatened to divorce tho entire lot,
but this had no effeot. Mormon wives feel
their absolute degradation, and are wholly mis
erable. Nearly every Mormon girl seeks to
marry a Gentile. All women who have seen
anything of the horrors of polygamy desire to
escape from its bondage.
The president of the Eagle and Phenix com
pany says that the southern mills now control
the markets of the country in coarse cotton
goods, and he predicts that the south will
eventually control the cotton goods markets of
the world, becanse she has as many advanta
ges over Now England as the latter has over
old England. And what is truo of cotton is
true of iron, at least so far as this country is
concerned. That the pig iron of the future
will be made in the south is plain at a glanoe.
The cost of making a ton of pig iron in Penn
sylvania is thna stated by the American Manu
facturer of Pittsburg:
One and one-half tons of ore, 48.50 412 75
One and one-quarter tons coke, 42 2 60
Lima k 86
Libor 1 60
Incidentals, repairs, taxes, eto 1 00
Total 418 60
Tho freest of calculations on a similar basis
made a ton of iron in Alabama, Georgia or
T ‘-.inessce cost as follows:
2 .oils ore, $1 42 00
1 < tons coke, (2 2 66
L 83
Lr.'ior 2 60
Incidentals 1 00
Total.
48 61
* K- Himes.
o. H. Koei
HINES & ROGERS,
Attorneys at Law,
8ANDER8VILLE, QA.,
TUI practise in the counties of Washington,
“•••rson, Johnson, Emanuel and Wilkin***,
tn th« U. s. Courta for tha ■oalkern Bis-
“ifjef Georgia.
_JYJU *•* »■ “rents in buying, sailing ot
re r!« n ® Estate.
aid* ef Public Square.
At Fort Hamilton, New York, experiments
h ve been tried the past week or two with a
1 ns brass tube invented by a Mr. Mifford.
This tube is s gun twenty-eight feet long with
a two inch bore. The motor is compressed air,
and it is proposed to experiment at 600 and 860
pounds pressure, The missiles are of light
pine wood 34, 10 and 48 inches in length, and
are headed witli brass oases charged with dyn-
a nite. Whon in position tho gun is mounted
o : a tripod, and lias tho appearance of a long,
s ondor telescope. The small tube connects
with a receiver, which in turn connects with a
twenty-flvo horso power engine with a long
hose. Tlioengino and fortor are located in
tho fort. It is bolioved that the gun wUl provo
a very effective w capon.
The hot water craze has attracted its share
of attention, but other popular crazes fully os
remarkable have enjoyed their run during the
past few years. About ten years ago the blood
c.iro started and for a time everyone troubled
with weak lungs became a convert , that is, in our
largecities. Then came the mud bath. People
flocked to a certain Spa in Germany to try the
virtues of a sticky black mud, which was said
to cure rheumatism. To bathe in it meant to
simply be buried in it up to the chin for about
two hours, and then to spend several hours in
* tub of water getting rid of the reminiscence.
The blue grass cure will be recollected by all.
The sun bath cure, the fish oil cure for con
sumption, the simple diet cure, the celery cure
for nervousness, and many others, started out
aa crazes, but their best point* have found
their way into orthodox remediee.
Tub Indian appropriation bill, as reported
to thehouseappropriate. 45,347,653,a decrease
of 413 000 from tho appropriation of last jcai,
and of 3,119,106 from the estimates. 1 he ap
propriation for the support of wh °“ ls “
000, sn increase from last ol « 13 . 6 ’°°£
The amount appiaprifiM undw th0 Xmty
stipulations for school buildings and the sup
port of teachers, is also increased 46,500. An
appropriation of 41,600 ie made for the la-
diana In Alaaha. New legislation, proposed h* -
the committee, prohibit* the war department'
from introducing liquor into the Indian reser
vations under any circumstances, and appro
priates 46,000 for tho detection and prosecution
of persons attempting to do this. Tho census
of the Indians is also provided for. ihe prin
cipal reductions made by the present bill, as
oompared with that of lost year aro in tho
amounts appropriated for rations and clothing.
The committco.taking tho view that as the In
dians bccamo more and moro civilized, they
should depend Icsb and less upon tho govern
ment for support.
Busch, tho Boswellian, biographer of Bis
marck', has produced an interesting hook.
His description of tho prince ss a humorist is
good. Most of Bismsik's humor, however, is
of tho Rabelaisian kind and will not lx-ar
printing. His account of himself is patheti
cally amusing: "In point of health 1 am a
mero drum, only skin and.sound.” Bpesking
of his interview witff Louis Napoleon after Bo-
dsn, he said: "Sitting for an hour opposite
the Emperor Napoleon, I felt for all the world
llko a young man at a ball who had engaged a
young lady for a cotillion, but could not find a
word to say to her, and wished some ons
would como and tako her away." Tho natural
good humor of tho prince was sorely disturbed
on many occasions by the lute Herr Lasker.
Tho impertinent interruptions of politicians
like Lasker or Dr. GueUt generally drovo him
into an nngovcrnablo passion. In ono of these
outbreaks ho turned aside from tho matter in
hand to thunder out: "I tell you I’pi no orator.
I can not play with wards bo as to work on
your feelings and thcroby darken fact*. I am
a man of plain speech." *
SUMMARY OF CONGRESS,
Senate,
Mr. Alltson reported with amendmeuKtho
deflnlonry appropriation bill received from
t he Hou-a A bill was reported favorably
to prnvldo for refunding exoosj ot imposts
on raw sugar The Senate debated, at
length and without action, the bill to fix tv
salaries of United States District ju lgos at
15.000, and the Blair education bill.
Tho bill increasing tlm salaries of TTnl'cd
Rtntes district judges to (6,050, an I Mr.
Blair’s bill to give government aid to ed tc i-
tlon were again under consideration, but no
action was taken upon them, except to re
ject some proposed amendments to tho former
....The deficiency appropriation hill was
pas-ed,... A bill was Introduced for tho ad
mission into the Union of tho R'nte of Ta
coma, to be oomposrd of the present Terri
tory of Washington and a part of Idr'.^
HMMi
On motion of Mr. Unndnll the House sui
pended tho rules rul pos ed u spcc'al dell
cieney b II appropriating (l,(iitl,000... .The
sum of (5,000 was appropr.'a'od from tlm
contingent fund to enanlo the committee on
navnl affairs to proceed «i*h tho Jeannatte
investigation.... Among the bills introduced
were these: By Mr. H -w tt—To sus|«-nd for
two years the coinage of the silver dollar,
and t> make it un'aw ill nr the secretary of
the treasury to print and issue treasury not s
of the denomination of (1 nnd by Mr.
Budd—Prohibiting tho importation anil sale
of opium tx cpt ns aqueous extracts for
medicinal use; by Mr. Hlocum—To provide
f. r tho enrollment of c very nb'o-bodied ninle
citizen between eighteen nnd forty-two year*
of age in the militia, the enlistment to tie for
nt lead three yeiiri. Tho bill provides for
drilling nnd equipping tho militia and foi
instruction in rifle practice.
Bills were reported ma cing an appropria
t'd! to construct revenue marine vessris for
use in Alaskan waters, authorizing the con
struction of brid 'c i over the Najera no 1
Hudson rivers, on i reduo'ng tho number of
nnval cadets one-half The JIouso passed
the postofllcn appropriation bill, with all the
amendments adopted in committee of the
whole except one. Tho amendment increas
ing by (40:*,000 tho appropriation for thi
free clolivery system «ai rejected... .Mr.
Rogers roportod a bill to prohibit tho mnil
Ing ot lottery elrenla' s or of newspapers con
taining lottery a lvortisoments.
Mr. Cur. in, of tho foreign a'Talrs commit'
too, submitted n report on the l.asker nffnlr
saying that white tho committco thought tho
resolutions of tho House on tho death of
Herr Lnsker shell'd have been received ami
transmitted in the samo spirit of cordiality
and good will by whleh they wore prompted
it refrains from expressing n-i opinion os to
whether the courso i ursiied by the
thorities of the Gorman empire in
regard to them was or was nit
in accordance wit lithe proprieties governing
the internal regulations of the empire as a
matter n it within its province of o insiders-
tion. Mr. Hisco-k’s reemt. rosolu'.irtin were
reported n Ivors -ly, n-i 1 new resol itious d o-
claring that li e resolutions of the House
about Lasker's death ivo-e intonl'd ns a
tribute of respect to tin memory of an emi
nent foreign statesman who had died within
the United States, and an expression of sym
psthy with the German peonlu, for whom he
had bs.-n an nonornblj representa
tive, and Hint the House, hnving no oflicial
concern with tho welntloni betweon tho ex
ecutive nnd legislative b;a i Vi-s of tin 1
man government, do ?s not deem iL requisite
to its dignity to crit c ic tho manner of the
reception of' the resolutions or the circum
stances which prevented their reaching thoir
destination after they ha l been communi
cated through the proper channels to
the German government, were of
fered. Mr. Curtin immediately de
manded the previous question. Mr.
Cox, of New York, moved to tuble til)
whole matter. That was 1 lie wav, he said,
to treat thi German chancellor. List, 83 to
125. Mr. Ochiltree, of Texas, declared it
was not bee lining tlie dignity ot this body
to enter into ox; laiiations of i li: meaning of
lb? original rssoiut.ons. Alter a eulogy
upon l.asker, Mr. OcYltive, a liid so no
laughter, real no ext act from a letter
written by Mr. Laikor simo days before hii
dentil in willed lie refers to Mr. Ochiltree ns
having intro lu • -d him to ill- i'resident,.mem
bers of the cabinet, nnd foreign iiu.ilstors.
After further discuision M '. *u tius reso
lutions were a loptid, as wj.-- an res ..u-
tions reciprocatin r th i wish u o; t.n liberal
union of tho me ubir.s of the G.-r.uan parlia
ment for tlie clu.se union of tho two nations,
and accepting the resolutions sent by t;«
libera union, uu l directing tliiit tfyoy be
unread on tho iourna'.
* Mr. Turner 'called up the Virginia con
gested election cose of Garrison against
Mayo, the report declaring the contestant,
Garrison, entitled to a seat. Mr. Mayo, the
sitting member, was heard In his own be
half. He admitted that, if the act of tha
;eneral assembly _ of Virginia requiring
▲ WEEK’S NEWS.
*tf KlUl# Mate
Th* strik* at Ihe Montour Iran and Htca)
mill, Danville, l’eAn., inaugurated January
V has astttmod serious proportions. Five
men a ref out nf employment and
prevail* in
largo number of
) ortho
families. T^e wife of one of"tho laboring
men foil* ck. and failing to get proper noun
i-hment, died in ahsMutn penury.
Two three-year old Holstein heifers, Ja
maica and Etelka, owned by John Mitchell,
a farmer near Newburg. N. Y,, have shown
themndvee the great-st milk producers in
tho world. .Tama'ca recently produced 112><
pounds of milk In one day, apd Etelka 101
pounds. During thirty-one day* the former
pave 0,82 pounds, and the latter 5.4MI
pounds ten ounces, beating all records to
dato. Tlie owner has been offered $25,000 for
Jamal ca and her calf, or (10,000 for the calf
only, but declined both offe-.'S.
H. M. RicmtoNn, a young lawyer of
Meadville, I’cnn., son of a prominent law
yer of that oltv, shot himself through th)
heart in a Now York hotel. He had long
suffered severely from dys|<epsla.
A Latrohk (Penn.) dispntch says that n
German family—Mr. Bhiilthers, wife and
two brothers, at the Lovnlhnnn* coal mine
—have been affected with trichinosis, as a
result of eating fresh pork, raw, with na con
diment but a little salt. They ha 1 been re
duced to great poverty by the recent flood*.
The women died, and was buried, and her
husband’B death w#< hourly expected. The
two brother* were also, reported aa gradually
getting worse.
The Rhode Is’and Democratic State con'
vent.i n at Providence was the most exciting
political gathering held In that State for
many years. George H. Corliss, Republican,
and nominee of the Independent Repute
beans for governor, was put in nominal ion,
and reetived forty-four votes upon tho fir t
ballot, to twenty six for A-ua a Sprague
aid twenty-throe for Th ma< W. Sognr.
Mr. Corliss wis thereupon mode the nominee
for Governor, but decline 1 the no ulnnMnn
u or. the score of ill health. Sognr was then
nominated for governor aud Sprague for
lieutenant-governor, together with tho re
mainder of tho Slate t ckot. Eight delegates
to tlie Chicago national convention woro also
elected.
A nit.t. n aklng it mandatory, instead of
optional, with the mayors of cities to on-
loroe tho elvll service reform law ; a-sod the
N iv Yoi k a-semhly by 84 yeas to 32 nays.
Madamk Anna Bishop, the once famous
singer, d o I a few days slued in New York
of a|)Oj)'exy. She was born in Izmdon in
181 *. and bad a long and remnrknble pro
fession tl career, appearing in either concert
or u era In n ■arly every country in the
world nnd singing in a dozen different
la. gunge*.
At tlie Ithodo Island Republican State
convention, held in Providence, all the pres
ent Stato officers, from governor down,
were renominated, and a resolution was
adopted congratulating United States (Sena
tor Anthony upon his return to health.
Prominent Now York German business
men are raising a fund of (100,000 for ex-
Senator and ex-Secretary Carl Hrhurr.
Pf.teh Edwards, seventy-five years old,
a well-to-do farmer of Albany county. N.Y.,
but addicted to opium eating, killed his
aged wife with a hammer and then made
an unsuccessful attempt to cut his own
tli root.
Citaut.er Lanoreimer, hotter known a*
"DickenR’ Dutchman," died a few days ago
In the Eastern penitentiary, Philadelphia,
where ho had spont tho bottor part of his life.
Ho was eighty-two years old nnd was buried in
Potter’s Field. He was flint sontencod to the
penitentiary in 1810 and was released from
time to time only to lie returned for thefts.
Hi? notoriety was gained bv Dickons’ refer
ence to him in tne American Notes, in a
chapter describing tho system of solitary
confinement, and sneaking of Langhoimor
in pathetic terms. I.angneimer, however,
succiks u ly passed through a(l the misery so
pathet’ealjv pictured by Dickens and lived
to hear of the novelist’s death.
Tills country 1b to have an invasion of
white elephant's, t ho first of his kind arriv
ing in Now York u few days since on an‘
ocean steamer, His color is described as " a
light gray, a shado lighter, pcrlia|>s, than
cigar ashes."
At a meeting of Now England milk pro
ducers lu Uoiton they voted that the State
hoard of liea’th ought to reguluto tlie saW of
milk to i iRuro purity, and arranged with tlie
city contractors to deliver milk to iho lat er
fortbiriy-four cents a can of eight and a
half quarts.
As a result of the recent inventigalion by
a committee of the Now York nsKemb’y, the
New York city grand ju'y have Indfclnl
Sheriff Davidson ami several minor officials
for corrupt action In office.
Viikii|toBi
Tub Senate confirmed the nominations ot
Joseph E. IrUh, of Wisconsin, to be consul
of the United Btatea at Cognac; Leonard B.
Wales, ot Delaware, to be United State*
district lodge for the District ot Delaware;
James N. Kerns, of Pennsylvania, to be
United States marshal for the eastern dis
trict of Pennsylvania
Both the Senate and House having a c
cepted the conference report on tho military
academy appropriation bill, it went to the
President.
Ms. Buss, late oounsel for the govern
ment. appeared before the Sprlngor commit
tee of Investigation and explained Ills con
nection with the star route prosecutions. He
s'ated that in his opinion tho Dorsey case was
the strongest of all w.th which to go before a
Jury.
Tmc number of postoffloes In the United
States on March 20 was 53.U03, an increase
ef 1,136 in leas than nlno months. If th*
sam* rat* of increase is maintained during
the remainder of the flscii year it is esti
mated that the postoflices will number
60,000 on July 1 next.
RarnKsENTATivK Hoi.man thinks Con
gress will be unable to adjourn before Au
gust.
The President sent the following nomina
tion to thoKe nte: Ruinner Howard, of Mich
igan, to be chief justice of the supreme court
of the Territory of Arizona; Case Broderick,
of Knnsns, awoclafe justice of the supreme
court of lho Territory of Idaho; Jacob B.
Biair, of Wyoming, nssosociato justice of the
supreme oourt of Hie Territory of Wyoming.
Ne natoh Hawley having introduced a
bill lu tho 8 mate authorising till secretary
of the navy to offer a reward of (25,000 for
the reicue or discovery of tho Greely expe
dition in the Arotio regions. (Secretaries
Chandler and Lin min wrote to the President
opposing any snob action.
Hccrxtary Chandler has written to Mr.
B. S. Cox, chairman of the committee
on naval affairs, opposing the recent
resolution of the House providing for
another investigation of the Jenn-
netto expedition. He says the allegations
made against I.lout-naut Del.ong, Engineer
Melville, the members of tho court of In
quiry, and tlie nuvy department, in behalf of
Jerome J.Collini,mote irologlst of the expedi
tion, are untrue and unjust, and objects to
reopening the Inquiry into what, he says, the
court of inquiry correctly termed “trivial
difficulties, such as occur on shipboard even
under the most favorable circumstances."
Th* Indian appropriation bill as agreed
upon by the House appropriation committee,
appropriate* (5,347,653, a decrease of (13,-
002 from the appropriation of last year ar
43,100,166 from the estimates.
Toreifiu
Henry Brown, a colorod man, dl*d a few
days ago In Niagara, Ontario, at the al
leged age of 121 years. Ho elaimo 1 to re
member Gearge Washington, and saiil that
on one occasion he drovo that gontleiuuii
from his master’s plantation to Washln ;ton.
Admiral llKWiTT isesuel a proclamation
offering a reward of £2,000 for the head of
Osman Digna, tlie rebel ohief in tho Eoudan;
but the English war secretary ordered the
proclamation to be withdrawn. Osman
Digna was retried to be sti.l defiant, and
returned with 2.00J followers to his former
encampment. He exhorted tlie people to a
religious war, promise ! them snccoss in a
third battle, aliil used stern m<a urea toward
hi* aisaff*cle l followers.
A woman who was attacked by two dog!
In Quebec was frightens l to death.
The French government lias decid'd tc
occupy Upper Tonquin as far as tlie Chino •*
bord'T.
The Italian ministry resigned owing to I he
smallne.'S of the majority received by tlie
president of the chamber 'of deputies.
Admiral Lkssoffhky, the Russian minis*
ter of marine and commander of the Rus
sian squadron which visited tho United (State!
during tho civil war, is dead.
Twenty-seven nihilists, among them
four artillery officers, were arres ted a few
day* since in Bt, Petersburg.
The alleged kidnapping of an Indian from
British'Commbia, a.ul his si
BOGUS BUTTER.
Report of % New York State Senate
Committee.
Alarming Wholesals Adufbratlona ot
Food Discovered.
general assemuiy ui vusum
the prepayment ot a capitation tax con
stitutional, the report of the committee whb
absolutely correct But he believed that the
act waa Unconstitutional and Voia; tnat it
the rutet: of the persons who had been re
jected for not having complied with that
liv were counted he would be found to be
entitled to the seat. After some debate,
political in character, the resolution declar
ing Garrison entitled to the seat was unani
mously adopted, and that gentleman ap
peared and took the oath of office.
The House adopted a resolution declaring
that the charges made in Star route docu
ments recently published, reflecting on Rep
resentative Ellis, of Louisiana, in connection
wit h the Star route frauds are untrue.... hrr.
K. H. Funstou was sworn In as the successor
of the late Mr. D. C. Haskell, of tho Second
district of Kansas... .There was iv long con
test over the bill to retire Wiliam H. Aveiil
South and full
A call ha* been Issued for a national con
vention of Anti-Monopolists, to be held in
Chicago on Mav 14, to nominate a presiden
tial ticket. The quota of representation will
be four delegates from each congressional
district, four from each Territory anl four
fro n the District of Columbia.
1 atkh reports put the number of lives los
by the explosion in the Pocahmtas (Va
mine at 112.
Several lnree plantations were inundated
by a break in the levee on the Mississippi at
Baton Rouge, La.
While a colored man and his wife were at
work in a (ini l not far from MeBean, Ga.,
their four children were murdered.
A dispute between three men playing
cards near Hutsburg, Tenn., ended by one
of the players shooting his two companions
dead.
Joseph K. Sanders, bookkeeper for a St.
Louis whole-ale grocer, stole $15,000 of his
employor’s money nnd spent it in sj)eculation.
An affecting scene occurred the other day
at, a prayer meeting in Chicago.
Mrs. Gcorgiana Miller, a widow,
remained on her knees i 1 the attitude of
prayer, wh le the rest of tho worshiper*
slowly loft the hall. Examination showed
that Mrs. Miller wat dea l.
Fi ve miners in Colorado were killed by a
snow-slide fifty feet deep.
Bishop Kavanauoii, senior bishop of the
M-eli -ilist Episcopal church South, died at
Columbus, Miss., niter a paiuful illnoss.
The Virginia senate beforo final adjourn
ment authorized the transmission to the pres
ident of tlie United States Senate of a copy
of the resolution recently adopted requesting
Senator Malione to resign.
By the oxplosion of an oil still in Cleve
land, Ohio, three employes were surrounded
by e-caping oil, which had caught fire, and
were burned to death in sight of a helpless
crow 1.
A train of forty cars, handsomely deco
rated aud loa kd with corn valued at (11,000,
h 'S been lent to tha Ohio flood sufferers by
the people of Sedgwick county, Kan., in
grateful romombraijca of charity extended
when they were suffering from the grass
hopper plague in 1874.
Mrs. ,Tohn . Smith, of Jackson county,
Ga., filled a pot witli water, put it on the
fli-o, and when the w iter baga i to boil she
plunged her head into it and died.
The Gill Car Manufacturing company,"of
Columbus, Ohio, has failed for about $260,
000.
A fireman and ti ros chi'dren were in
stantly killed by the explosion of tho boiler
attached to a saw mill at Newport, Ark.
Two brothers—Rudolph and Champ Fitz
patrick—were hanged at Columbia, Ky-, for
tho murder of Miner Brewster last August.
All three snen wertf form bauds, and the
murderers made away with their victim be-
...... ... summary execu
tion by a party of masked men from tha a l-
jaeent United 8tatos territory, has been tha
subject of indignant commout in tha Do
minion parliament.
MADAME ANNA BISHOP.
’I'bs I ons anil Hcmnr <n'*ln Cn-oer
of is Olivo 1'nino in (linger.
Mn-lamo Anna Bishop, win died a few
days ngo in New York ot apoplexy, in liar
seventieth year, was onco faninui in tlie
world of song, and had a mo.-t ov.nt ul
career. In tlie course of her long profes
sional life, she appeared in oithor concert or
opera In almost every oouutry in the world.
It is believed that, from first to last, Mad-
amo Bishop tang bofore a greater numbar of
lieoplo than any othor singor who ever live l
She lias sang ill from ten to fifteen differer t
languages on one occasion, while in Moscow,
successfully taking the part of Alice, in
"Robert lo Diablo, in the Russian language.
China and India aro among tlie countries in
which she has given concerts and in 1873 she
was accords 1 the unusual privilege of sing
ing in the tabernacle in (-hit Lake city, which
was filled bv an immense audience.
In 1866, while on tlie voyage from Mono
she and *"
lnlu to Hong Kon
shipwrecked on a
her parly were
arren coral island, whore
they remained for twenty-one days. In the
wreck they lost all their personal cffcots.
Finally they set out in a boat twenty-two
feet long for one of the Ladrone islands, 1,400
miles distant, and accomplished the jour
ney in thirteen days. Thoy had but
a scanty supply of food and water, which
was exhausted before they reached their
journey’s end. Wnlle thoy were almost
starving, a large fish leaped from tho water
and fell into the boat. There were twenty-
two persons in the party, and tlie fish wa*
cut into twenty-two piece*, which were
raten raw. Madame Bishop has referred to
her share on that occasion as one of the most
delicious tasting mirsels she ever ate.
Kite started on her la t tour around the
world in 1875. Since its completion she lias
lived for most of the time in New York,
with her husband, Mr. Martin Schultz,
whom she married In 1858, a few years after
the death of her first husband. Her lust u;>-
liearance in pub’io was at a concert in
New York about a year ago. Her voice wad
wonderfully well preserved in her latter
years, and in her personal appearance and
manners she was also remarkably youthful.
Her conversation was highly entertaining,
being enriched by a fund of curious anec
dote, although she wa* singularly modest in
speaking of her own urtistic triumphs.
The Electoral College.
The Electoral College will this year consist of
tlie following votes :
wlththe rank and pay of colonel, which wai ; cause he was letter liked by Ilfs »Bink*yei'
finally passed,
tloAu they.
The New York State senate committee
whleh has been investigating adulterations
of fond, savs in its report that it has dis
covered alarming wholesale adulteration*,
which are dangerous to the consumer and
which are depreciating property In
the rural districts. The adulter*,
tion of butter by tallow oil, bone oil, and
lard oil was found in almost every town
and city in th* State and in an amount
which equals half the production of the nat
ural article. The imitation is so disguised
hat often it can only be detected by chem
ical analysis. Out of thirty samples of al
leged buttec purchased by the committee
In New York only ten were genuine.
No labels to distinguish the pure from the
bogus butter are displayed, ns required by
tlie existing law. Bogus butter is largely
purchased by saloons, boarding houses, and
second-class Hotels. The pooror qualities of
bogus butter sell for from twenty cents to
thirty cents to laboring men, and the better
grade* at forty or forty five cents. The cost
of manufacture rnngee from twelve to
eighteen cents, the average being four
lean cunts. The manufacture in
New York State is chiefly carried on in New
York anil Brooklyn, several concerns manu
facturing over 8,000,000 jiouiids each out o(
fat brought from the We t, from France, aud
from Italy. Tile bulk of tlie bogus bhtter is
manufactured in tlio West nnd sold in New
York to the detriment of tlio State’s dairy
Interests. Many dairy farmers have lawn
driven out of business in consequence.
Tlie lo-s to the State is estima'ed at
from (5,000,000 to 410,000.000 yearly. The
o minilttee estimates that 40,000.000 pound!
of the product are sold annually in the State,
and the illegitimate business is breaking our
•x|iort butter trade. Thaeffect of the de
ception in the trade is deleterious to business
morn's. Hulteriue cun be sold at eighteen
cents less than natural blitter.
Tlie committee quotes extensively from the
evidence obtained to show Ihe evil moral,
commercial ami sanitary effects of adultera
tions. The use of nitric and sulphuric
acids In deodorizing adulterated butter is
particularly condemned. The committee
recommends the total prohibition, after a
given time, of the manufacture and
•alo of all butter adulteration*. Th*
living cow, the committee aaserts,
cannot compete with tlie dead hog. Th*
committee also finds that 200,00!) out of th*
500,000 quarts of milk furnished to New York
dally in 1882 were water or skim milk. The
committee recommends tho appointment of*
State inspector of milk, and also reeoinmends
that th* officials to be chosen to enforce anti-
a Alteration laws be selected from and rep
resent dairy interest'!.
Accompanying tlie report was a bill bv the
committee. It prohibits under penalty of
(300 fine, or six months’ imprisonment, tha
sale of adulterated infik. the keeping ot oowe
for the production of milk in an unhealthy
condition,and thedilutingof milk with water.
It provides thatevery manufacturer of butter
shall brand his nnme ami the weight of the
butter on the package. Cans for Ihe sale of
milk shall bt stumped with the name of the
county where the milk is produced, unless
sold exclusively In the county. A penalty
of from (500 to (1,00 (and imprisonment for
one year is impose l on the sale or manufac
ture of boguH blitter or cheese. The State
Dairymen's association is appointed a onm
misdon to enforce tho provisions of the bill,
and (30,000 i* appropriated for the purpose.
SOME BIG THINGS.
An Iowa man'drank three quarts of cider
In three minutes.
A ten-foot alligator was captured re
cently near Waxaliatchie, Texas.
The government envelope factory at Hart
ford, Colin., uses a ton of gum a week.
A party of Raton Rouge, La., bird hunt
ers recently killed 1,400 robins with sticks.
A sea noo was killed on the beach near
Lung Brunch, N'. J., not long ago. It weighed
143 |Kjunds.
While trapping mar Bridgman, Mich ,
William Williams caught an eagle that
measured nlno feet
An owl measuring four feet and two inches
from tip to tip was recently captured in
Franklin county, Ga.
Missisbiitians feel very proud of their
Btiito library in tlie capitol at Jackson,
co uprise* 38,(XX) volume*.
A cow horn four' feet eleven inches long
nml eighteen inches in diameter at the base
Is on exhibition at Monliccllo, Fla.
Roiiins are found in flocks of 10,000 in
the neighborhood of Powhatan, Vi
uinn recently killed 480 of the birds.
The highest rate of postage from this
country is to Patagonia and the island of
fcit. Helena—fifty-four cents an ounce.
A strange fish was recently captur d off
Block Island, Newport It was four feet
long, and it nod a mouth ten laches wide. It
weighs 200 pounds.
A lady sixty years old, residing in
Rochester, N. Y., skated from that city to
Brockport, twenty miles, in an hour and
twenty-five minutes.
* New Orleans recently bad a baby show,
with ninety-nine Infants on exhibition. The
first prize was won by a seven months old
baby that weighed thirty-one pound*.
The United States Treasury has the big-
gest.spittoon on record. It is a great oblong
wooden box as big as a bed, filled with saw
dust. it lies in the basement at the foot of
the four flights of stairs which lead to the
various stories, and a-commodates the gov
ernment employes aud others,
J. B. Kernk, of Stokes county, N. C-,
went there from Pittsburgh, Pa., four years
ago. In that time six children have been
added to his family. He has been married
to tlie same wife eighteen years, and hai
twenty-three children livi g. Seventeen of
them are boys and six girls. His wife is
forty-six and lie forty-eight.
THE JOKER’S lUDORT.
WI1AT wit Finn Iff fjnf JjipaokHovp
rAl’KHM TU SMiM *»UU
; - *- ty a -•
tn OOOH* HANGS HIOH.
In Hnnr*»fy this to*tch Willi litincr, nnd
on tho wallows found; fur in Mlnnnn*
when he wm yonnjr. Wd alway* lum*
I aro mill. .. Ana wheti
ho leaf $ ‘ Md, alas,
to love In* in ton-
• • _ lost to* cun*
ipoTf tne slat*
aweartnfr. too,
It," he wouldssy.
Ills cap up, ryot ns (O'
linns dog way, A tl*
hun
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men buns a-
*uve he M si-
wsys lions I*
up. lie so*
., training of
* ‘Gosh liars
sad hang
in quite.n
cr-on tin
kerch le f
met him
to hang
hungry,
nd mother
not run
nor right
ity and
in vain
Jtt evf
If! hung
Thus he
a drop loo
took one 111
Alabama 10
California 8
Connecticut,
Florida
Illinois
Iowa
Kentucky
Maine
Massachusetts..
Minnesota
Missouri 16
Nevada 3
New Jersey 9
North Carolina 11
Oregon -' 3
Bhode Island 4
Tennessee 12
Vermont 4
West Virginia 6
Arkansas 7
Colorado 3
Delaware 8
Georgia 12
Indiana 15
Kansas 9
Louisiana 8
Maryland 8
Michigan 13
Mississippi 9
Nebraska a
New Hampshire 4
New York 36
Ohio 23
Pennsylvania 30
South Carolina 9
Texas .13
Virginia .12
Wisconsin 11
A Suggestion.
Total 401. Necessary to a choice 201.
xiismabck, mr.kinfg war ugniust the
I raericun ho;', will fin-1 the pen is
VgUtjw’ than tlie sword,
Charles Delmonico, thirty years ago,
when a mere lad, suggested to his uncle
that men who patronized a restaurant of
the kind the firm had just opened, were
not the men to dun, and at his request,
the rule was established, never, under
any circumstances, to present a bill or
ask the payment of a check, until such
action was requested by the debtor.
"Why isn’t that the best place to go
and board when a man visits New
York?” asks the editor of a Western
paper. “A place where they don’t pre
sent bills till a boarder asks for them
would seem to fill a wantlong felt”
Consolidation.—A Chicago company
are building machines for consolidating
various waste products into compaot
blocks for nse as fuel. Sawdnsts, hay
ings, etc., are pressed into moulds sn
that'dOO to 900 cubic feet of the loose
material are compacted into less than 40
cubic feet of blocks of convenient siste
9,nd fpfW tQ he used as iue}.
»ng
ban*
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\W*
gry wretch his grn
Blsy, because she aid
to fetch litsdln B
swsy. Inssn 1
sclf-do fence
ills law yarn pi
whon was In
(Idler, his 11
by * thread,
w li o took
much In life,
death which
IS’ry that Its toqoh
swsy bis bresth. ..
Ml
the next world go, find
that s hangman with
bis skill give* them tbefr necks twirled low.
U. 0. Dodo*, in Jtuk.
ma papa's HfcLimoff.
"So, my little boy, you woAld like to
join our Snn day-school, would you?"
■aid the superintendent, kindly.
"Yes, sir," replied the little boy.
"What is your name, did yon ray ?”
"Johnny Simpson.”
"Oh, y«*, yon aro tlie son of Mr.
Bimpnon. Let me see, Is your papa a
Presbyterian or an Episcopalian ?'
"No, sir; ho isn’t either; ho's a news
paper man. ’ '
OVER THE GARDEN WALL.
An exceedingly bright and pretty little
East Third street girl raoeived a New
Year’s card from a small admirer, and it
created more or less comment in tho
family.
"Why. ohild, I didn’t know you knew
him," said the mother.
"Oh, yee," mamma,” she replied,with
eoqnettiBb smile; "I hkvemet him.”
"Indeed ? How did it happen ?”
"Well, yon aee, we first became ac
quainted by throwing mnd at each other
over the alley fenoe, and then several
days afterward Unole Frank presented
him, and since then we have been quite
good friends indeed. "—Merchant Trav
eler.
ESTIMATING wealth.
"Ma, yon know those Newcomer*
across the way that we have all been
afraid to call on because their furniture
arrived at night, and we couldn’t toll
whether it was uioe or not ?"
"Yes, and they always keep tho cur
tains so near closed that not a soul has
been able to geta glimpse of the rooms.”
"None of tlie neighbors have called
on them yet, have they ?”
"No.”
"Well, wo better go ovor, because if
we keep on snubbing them they may
turn around and snub ns."
"But why do yon think so?”
"Their servant girl woe in Cash A Co.’a
tea store this morning, Bhe bought a
pound of tea, and when the clerk handed
her a glorious chromo, she turned up
her uoee at it ”
MUCH TO BE THANKFUL FOR.
"Yes, wife, wo have muoh to be thank
ful for. Let us not complain.”
"Oh, you provoking man. No matter
how miserably wo are situated, you
always lay back and say, ‘Wo have
much to bo thankful for;’ just as if that
put coal iu tlio stove or food in tho pot.”
“But think of tho thousands who have
not the blessings we enjoy.”
"Blessings ! Aro you orazy ? There
is not a stick of wood or a piece of coal
in the house, and the thermometer is
below zero. There is not bo much as a
crumb in the cupboard. Tho windows
are broken, and we have not a blanket
left. Now. where do you find anything
to be thankful for ?”
1 'Think of the thousands, nay millions,
in India aud Africa, blistered by a broil
ing sun, and suffering night and day for
wbat we have in such abundance.”
"Suffering for what, pray ?”
“Ice !"—The Call.
fotfbrhan’s golden wisdom.
"I believe I’m being robbed,” said
Mr. Popperman to his wife, as he en
tered his home.
"By whom?”
“By Walter, my grocery clerk. I
went into the store to-day and discov
ered him in the act of putting some
thing in his pocket. I also heard, or
thought I heard, a sound such as would
be.made by one coin falling on another
in a person’s pocket. I said nothing tc
the clerk, as I did not desire to accuse
him until I was certain of his dishon
esty.”
"Are you sure you heard the coins
clinking in his pocket ?” asked Mrs. Pop
perman.
“No, I’m not sure. Here, I’ll experi
ment, and determine it suoh a sound
can be beard twenty feet off. Take
these two $10 gold pieces. Stand near
the door. Put one in your pocket, and
drop the other one upon it. I will
listen.”
Mrs. Popperman did as direoted, and
then asked:
"Did you hear it?”
“Yes, I heard it. Consequently the
result of my experiment is ”
"That I’ll have a new $20 bonnet be
fore I sleep this night,” exclaimed Mrs.
Popperman, as she snatched up her
false front and slid out of the front door.
They are offering wagers in the South
Park, Colorado, that their ohampion
snow-shoe traveler can make fifty miles
in a day of ten hours.
The mortgage of $67,500 on Mr. Par
nell's estate has been paid off, but the
petition for its sale in the Land Court
has not been withdrawn.
Since the opening of the Suez Canal
tea has, 1879 excepted, declined eaoh
year in price.
It has never been lower
m Eneland than now.
Statistics show that in Iudia wild
beasts destroy about 4,000 human lives
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