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E S. LMGIMDE,
Attorney at Zan> }
SANpERSVILLE, Oft.
MAYOR.
O. n. ROGERS.
"LFStK d SSgJPASFStJFlt.
D. E. B, WELLS.
MAStSBAZZ,
J. E. WEDDON.
AZDBStMBJV,
W. H. LAWSON.
Wm. RAWLINGS,
8. G. LANG,
A. M. MAYO,
M. H. BOYER
SANDERSV1LLE. GA„ TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 1884.
NUMBER 1.
CURRENT COM RE NTS.
I» New York end Phlledelphle the catting of
drag price* eUll conttnuee. After several large
dry good* houec* commenced Bailing drag* at
ebout one-third lee* then the regular prloss,
many of the drugglete lowered Iheir rate* and
accepted the situation. Tho Indication* at
preient point to a general reduotion In drag*
»ud patent moRclnc* all over tho country.
Work on the pede*tal for tho Bartholdi Slat-
no of Liberty la progre**ing rapidly. In loss
than thirty day* the pcdeatal will bo completed,
»nd then the maeon* will begin laying .tone
for the oolumn. By October 1 the podeatal will
be ready to receive the *tatue. Eight largo
Iron roda will run down through the column to
prevent the llguro from being Mown from tho
*tand. Fund* «ro coming in at the rate of
about W,000 a week, and there 1* now about
*80,000 on hand.
Sown of Sen nit to.
Mayor—John C. Iltrman.
Aldermen - W P. J)avi», J. W.
Stnilb, P. J. Pinlrin, T. J. Book.
Olerk-S. II. B M.Uey.
Marshall—j. C. Hamilton.
MUSIC, MUSIC
JEKNIGAN
—run—
Bows, Strings,
Rosin Boxes, Etc*
Tnt *nppo*od tiecreise in the world’* *npply
of goldl* not borne out by tho facta of tho ca*e
A German writer aay* (hat we hare now four
groat gold A*ld*i the weatern part of tho Uni
ted State*, Australia, Biberia and the lection of
Bouth America north of the Amazon. The
output of the** gold field* 1* *ulBclcntly large
to iujtaln the view that mean* will b* found
when the demand become* really nrgent to-fur*
nlah gold enough to meet the world’* monetary
want* for eenturte* to come,if not for all time.
It 1* quite probable, however, that a* civilisa
tion advance* gold will be used chiefly for pnr-
poae* of ornamontation, and will form but a
rcry email part of th* circulating medium of
the world,
a 0 BROWN,
’• ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Yv. ...
Bandsravllla, Oa. *
It 1* quite possible that "Chlneao" Gordon i*
aorank. HI* religiou* conviction* are pecu-
* r. H* believe# that thi* life ia only one of a
aerlea of llvei which our incarnate part liaa
Uved. Uo ha* little doubt of our having pre
existed. In the p'raaent lifo he believe* that
everything was auttled from tiro very begin
ning by the Almighty. Hie doctrine of eternal
damnation aronae* General Gordon’* interne
ndlgnation. He believe* that everybody will
be laved, not on account of their wortlilne**,
but because of the Infinite gooduesa of God,
Tho creed of thi* strange man ia said to reacm-
blo that of Cromwell, but it i* greatly tempered
by the hmnafiltarianiam and catholicity of th*
ago.
Will practttwla ttmlteteaadUnitedMatafi
Court*, onto* in Court-lion**,
Watches, Clocks
And JEWELRY
ItKFATMD BY
JBR1TICAU.
Dr. H. B. Hollifield,
PiTSlCIAl HD imm
n JI r«o»nlly gradnated at th* Ualvar-
f.i. i/? 1 . a “, d r »turn«d homo, aow
effara lit* proleialonnl aervloa* to tha elila*n«
I)r i?‘'iU°i ? nrt T'olnl'7. Onto# with
mi l 11 nery more?* 1 '*' *“* d °° f
o. w. h: whitaher.
DENTIST,
Handeravlll*, Oa.
TKRMS CASH.
AoriTld ItoO. 1 * R * ,,d * n **' OB ■■«na atraat.
H. H. HOLUnilD,
Physician and Surgeon,
BUY YODU
SPECTACLES, SPECTACLES,
FROM
JERNICAfJ,
Non* genuine without onr Trad* Mark
On hand and forial*.
SPECTACLES, NOSE 0LASSES. ETC.
Machine Needles,
Oil and Shuttles,
*OB ALL KINDS OF MACTIINFk, forint*.
1 will sliio order parts of Mvonluss
last get broken, for which ntw
pleoes ars wanted.
A. -T. JEHNIGAN.
'O' *• Rmu,
HINES & ROGERS,
Attorneys at Law,
SANDER3VILLB, OA.,
Jaff!.? rnc< J c ’ > ln fl1 0 enmities of Wuahlngton,
ana D°n , J nil n ao c, ft in n n n el and Wilkinson,
anwTaT ii* V; ,a * ou » Jumnnuei uua w
hi,., Ibe U. H. Courie for the Southern Dls-
w,u Gf,or « Ul -
towingRmi , raj u ln ‘ H,y|n *’ ■* U|D » 01
$M*-tf >U ,'^ slKtrl ® of VublloSquare.
Tag Engllab prejudice against ma»qnerado
Iballa ia so deeply rooted that it will never b*
removed, rublic masquerades are not permit
ted in England. After the reatoratinn no
attempt was made to restore the court masqnea
and the few public affairs held in the Georgian
era were soon frowned down by public opinion.
Of late year* masquerades have boon disallowed
by tlio magistrates, and nolxidy regret* it. Th*
English »ay that intrigue and mystification are
essential* of Italian and Spanish masquerades,
• nd such amusement* art, therefore, incom
patible with tho spirit of the English people.
In fact, the preacher* and novelist* seem to
agree in regard ng a masquerade a* tho short,
out possible cut to Tonhct.
Dr, Riobard Jordan Gatuno, tho inventor
of the famous Gatling gun, has made some im
portant improvement* in hi* destructive pieee.
1 he gnn can now fire on an averago of about
3,100 shot* per minute oontinuonsly, and the
latest Invention* enable it to be fired at any
angle. The doctor wa* first led to Invent hta
murderous gnn by humano motives. He
thonght that if a gnn ootild be Invented that
would do the work of a hundred men and re
quire bnt a fow men to operate it, tho horrors
of war would be greatly diminished, and the
end would oome very rapidly of every struggle.
The first Gatling'gnn* were purchased by Ben
Butler and need by him at Petersburg. They
created oon*ternation, and the news of them
went all over the world. They are now used
iu all wars, and are purchased In immense
quantities by foreign government*.
Theiie is no doubt that a gang of expert dia
mond swindlers are now operating in the
country. A great many south African dia
monds of a yellowish or straw colored tint have
been sent to New York, where they are cut, set
and sold for what they really are. These dia
monds are worth from one-fourth to one-twen-
tiotli of the valuo of the white or bluish tinted
brilliants. Within the past year diamond ex
perts have discovered a-proccx* which removes
the yellowish tint of the African diamonds and
gives them the blue hue ao highly prized. It
will be recollected that a few days ago a lady
offered some of the bogns diamonds for sale in
Boston and the fraud wa* detected. It ia be
lieved that a great number of tho diamonds
now worn are of the South African variety.
They look so much like the geuine article that
a test ia required to ascertain their .real value.
Eu Perkins has been examining the wheat
fields in the winter wheat belt from PhiladeU
phis to Emporia, Kansas, and from Toledo to
St. Joseph. Ho sayB that bo has not aeon such
a prOBpect for wheat in ten years: It is good
everywhere. Pennsylvania will raise 60,000,-
000 bushels thi* year. In Michigan, Misaouri,
and Illinois the crop ia phenomenally good.
Tho i (feet of this great crop of wheat is being
discounted at Chicago. Wheat has been sold
for delivery in Liverpool at a dollar a bushel.
Tliia will break up wheat raising in Europe.
They can’t afford over there to raise wheat at
a dollar a bushel on land worth $300 au acre.
After this year America will raise wheat for
tlio world. This year's yield will be 600,000,-
000 bushels.
The guilds of London just now are the sub
ject of parliamentary inquiry. These guilds
are antiquarian relics. Starting at first as
political corporations for the protection of
their members they subsequently became diroo-
ted into religious and commercial organiza
tions. At present the only remaining func
tions of these guilds is feasting. Some of them
have accumulated vast funds, hut nobody
knows what they do with their money. As tha
guilde no longer attend to the business fdr
'which they were Instituted, it has oocurred to
some of the progressive law makers of Brlttiao
that they may be.in the nature of monopolies
or public abuses, and it is probable that they
will be oiosely investigated. That such socie
ties should have so long outlived their useful-
new is remarkablo—that is, if anything can bo
remarkable in a city where a fund is still in
existence for . buying faggots to be used iu
burning infidels.
Montana is looming un as a great cattle
herding country. In 1880 there were 271,318
THE. MEKCURT/
■ntarad a* neond-stan nattar ad lha ton
damwllla Postern o*. April ff, UMt
Sandemllle, Washington Canty, Ak
A. J. JERISTIGULN,
raonmoB ax* Pnuan
..li.M p*t Y*ae
oattle in the whole territory. To-day tho Yel
lowstone valley .lone contain* more than
double tho number. Montan, beef .hipped to
eastern olties readily brings five cents a pound
whfln brought into competition with Toxm
beef. Tho difforonoo is in the peculiar flavor
the moat obtain* from feeding on Montana
grass. 1 ho main point in favor of Montana is
the elevation of tho country above sea level.
Good Judges of cattle will say that the altitude
is the most important consideration. The sJ.lt•
tudo of Miles City, tho great stock oentro of
tlio northwest, is not one inch less than 2 600
foot abovo the Gulf of Moxioo. In this won
derful climate tho cattle take care of them
selves winter and summer, and grow while
their owner sleeps. With such advantage.
Montana w "mdiso of tho cattle kings.
The April returns of the Department of
agriculture make the westr;*' vhrat or* 27,•
fi0(l,00(J seres. This is nearly the breadth sown
in the previous crop, of which fire and six per
cent was subsequently ploughed up, leaving
26.400.000 to he harvested. Comparing with
tho area harvested the presented breadth is an
Increase of five per cent. Tlio present ares is
greater than 1 li,t of the census year by m c
than ViOO.OOO seres. Tho increa o is shout
1.600.000 acres on the Pacific coast, ami nearly
750.000 seres in the southern states. There ia
a small increase in the middle states and a
slight deurease in Olijo,
Mexico consists *f twenty-seven staies, one
federal district and one territory, Tliore are
even cities of over 40,000 population. Tli*
City of Mexioo lias 800,000 inhabitant*, Pueblo
300,000, ond Leon 120,000. Civilization out
side of tho largo cities is very primitive. Many
of the Indian village* are built of turf or of
cane stuck in the ground withunt a window,
without a tabic, chair, stove or bed. Yet a
vlllago of thi* wretched appcaranco will have a
magnificent atone rhuroh with nave, choir,
chime of liclls, fretted ceiling and resounding
dome, witii a font of onyx or Jasper, witli a
marble pulpit and silver chancel rail. Outside
of the villages, iu the country, every few miles
the traveler conttB to a vast straggling one-
story building, covering four or live acres,
with * tower iu one corner surmounted by a
hell. This is a Bpiinlah farmhouse, nr abaci
cm!#. Tliore are 18,000 of these hacienda* in
Mexico and they own four-fifths of the land.
One owns 4,000 square miles end another own*
10,000 square miles. The proprietor of a haci
enda live* in a ducal state. He ha* soldiers
under bi* command, a physician to attend ill*
tenants, aud many of tlie peon* an his place
are virtually hi* slaves, because they are ia
debt to him aud ihc law makes them his **rf*
so long as they owe him. The rapidly multi
plying railroads will gradually revolution!*#
business and modes of life in Mexico, but for
generations to como onr southern neighbors
will be regarded as a peculiar peoplo.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
Mmk. Patti lias decided not to sing in Ion-
don this spring.
Mrs. Langtry returns to New York short
ly to piny "Pygmalion and Gnlnton."
D. D. Lujyd, the editor who wrote tho plnv
"For Congress, has gone to Euiopo.
Mint. Moojehka ha* fixed upon Juno 7 as
the date of her departure for Europe.
The gross receipt* of tho seventeen per
formnnccs of Maplcson’s opera company in
San Frar.cisco are stated to have been $.0").-
000. ’
Tim statement that Theodore Thomas would
conduct concerts at. Coney Islnml the coming
Slimmer is contradicted. He sails for Europo
in .Tune.
Kate Forsyth, tlio actress, lost several thou-
wind dollars’ worth of personal effects by tlio
fire' Monday afternoon in the Ht. George fiats,
Hew- York.
Aiu. Palmer, of the Union Square theatre,
‘w'w York, told a repniicr in Paris that ho
had paid Bronson Howard morn than S I) 00)
his
for his author's rights in "Tho Bunker's
Daughter."
Gustav AMRERiUhenmnngcr.of tho Timlin
company, of Now York, is negotiating for an
American tour of the famous Mciningi'ii .-om-
unuy that made such a sellout ion iu London »
ew years ago.
At tho Berlin Theatre Royal last year there
wore twenty-so veil representations of Shakes-
peorean plays. Seven of h:s pinys were
B 'ted. Tliore were eight/ o i represoiitatiou
of Schiller and three of Goi th s.
When not noting, Joe Jefferson lead' \
pleasant life on his plantation of tell thouwin.i
acres in Ismisiana iu the region occupied by
the Acadians, fishing and painting, anil sur-
rounded by a colony of grandchildren.
An organization known ns “Tho Now Eng
land Musical Charitable Association" lins been
formed by the theatrical nmnngere of Boston,
its objoct being to care for sick mombers of
tho profession who derive no benefit lroir. ar.y
other society.
There was n novel dramatic performaure
in London recently, when the member* of a
doaf-iiiuto mission presented “Tlio School for
Scandal,” and “The Sorrows of Mr. Snooks.*
entirely in tho sign language and to an au-
'lieuee of mutes.
I,. V. II. CroSiiy, one of the originators ot
negro minstrelsy, recently died at Reynolds,
Gn. lie first appeared ns a minstrel forty
years ago. He entertained President Folk
and family at tho White house in 1846. Mr.
Crosby was a bass singer.
Hu till Anton Dvorak, whoso “fitnhul
Mater" has won for him a high rank among
musical eomposors, Ima lin/l-a curioiu history.
Ho was bom September .8, 1841, iu mi obscure
Bohemian town, of humble folk. At the aga
of sixteen ho oi tyred tlio organ school ut
Prague, having exhibited previously marked
nvisical t dent. At tho ago of twenty-one ha
plqyod in the hack row of tlio violas ut the
opera house ill the sumo city. But axiuontly
loth Brahms and Liszt, recognizing his ge
nius, became interested in his fortunes, and
then Joachim brought his chamber musio
Into prominent notice. Dvorak's music wui
fli-st introduced to an English audience by
Herr Manus, who, in 1879, performed the first
if his Slavonic dunces.
ODD SUICIDES,
DavidS. Rawlins, of Philadelphia, killer,
himsolf by beating his head with ft stone.
Miss Mary Thompson, of Bouth Abingdon,
Mass., hung herself because she was suffering
from neuralgia.
After bequeathing her body to the doctors,
Eliza Fitzpatrick, of Sandusky, cut her throat
with a handsaw.
Benjamin Buck Walter, of Lancaster,
Penn., hung himself because he imagined ha
had wronged tho Mennonite chutch, of which
he was a member.
Having had poor crops for several years ana
lost considerable stock, James Vanvire, of At
lanta, became discouraged and killed himself
with a shotgun.
Aktsr having married three husbands,
Mrs. David Dntcher, of Sullivan county, N.
Y., killed herself because, as she said, nous of
them came up to her expectations.
How to catcit ft husband— Grab him
the huir,
THE WORLD’S NEWS.
fc»«t*rn *nd Kiddle Stats
On* of New York’s many towering apart-
tnont house*—the St. George flat*, eight
stoiie* high, occupied by thirteen families of
means—caught tire in tho cellar, and the
flame* rushed with such rapidity through tho
elevator anil ventilating shaft* that, in a
short time the immense structure was gutted,
only the walls remaining, Sovernl iierson*
why injured. The total loss is aliout |2on,-
Db. L. TT. Beacii, a prominent physician
of Altoona, Penn., was received into the Lu
theran church there, and the next day cut his
wifeWicad off. Ho was generally thought
to be insane.
The J irst National bank, of*Rt A11 sms,
* t., closed its doom, being unable to meet ita
obligations.
The New York Rtnte senate passed the bill
prohibit ing tile manufacture and sole of oleo-
unrgnrino and and buttcrino.
John Hillman was lunged at Easton,
Leon., for the murder of hi* wife.
At the Pennsylvania Democratic Btato
convention in Allentown, Perm., General
w. H. H. Davis, of Doylestown, was
Dominated for Congressman at large, throe
presidential elector* at large were
{ 'ut in nomination, *ls delegates at
nrge to tho national convention were elected,
and. district delegate* and elector* were
chosen. The platform adopted favors "a
tariff for revenue limitjd t > the necemltia* of
tho government" and “the abolition of
the Internal revenue system of taxea
and such adjustment of the
existing tariff duties as will tie consistent
with three principle*denounces “thoelec
toral fraud of 1K7I4-7,” opposes centralisation,
monopolies, subsldiea, etc., and declare* that
“ tSanmel J. Randall is the choice of tho De
mocracy of Pennsylvania a* the candhlate of
their ]MU-ty for President.”
A man suffering from trichinosis ho* been
admitted to Bellevue humiitol, New York,and
his coho is tx'lng watched hv all tho doctors.
A piece of musculur tissue about tho size of a
|>ea taken from his arm wa* found to he
■worming with trichlnm.
The British schooner George Calhoun en-.
coun erod a Gloucester, (Mam.) schooner at
•cu in a sinking condition; and while trying
to transfer tho latter's crow of five fishermen
to tho former vcmel the boat waa swamped.
Tho five fisharu en anil a sailor belonging to
tlio George Calhoun were drowned.' After
ward tlie George Call bun was wrecked, and
her remaining crew of four nieu were rescued
by tlie schooner Zcnobln and taken to Mocton.
Joseph Agate, a retired merchant worth
about 000.000, chiefly in real estate, com
mitted *ui 4de In a New York hotel by shoot
ing. He was a resident of Yonkers, N. Y.,
and left a note stating that he waa suffering
from nervous prostrat ion, and had not had an
hour's natural sleep in four month*.
Aster the lapse of nearly a month four
teen of tho one hundred and fifty odd miner*
killed by tho catastrophe at Po ahonta*. Va.,
were toitnd, partly decomposed and dis
figured almost berond Identification.
Washington.
The House committee on judiciary adopted
ReproM'iitativo Maylwrry’s odverae report on
the joint resolution pro]>o*iiig a constitutional
amendment to give women tho right of suf
frage. Mr. Dorshoimcr was of opinion that
it would he advisable at some future time t
give women tho right to vote.
A majority of the Hounn committee on
f niblic lands have hdojitcd a report declaring
lie unearned portion of the Northern Pa.
cific land grant forfeited.
Mn. Newcomb, naturalist of the Jeannette
expedition, appenred before tho House invre-
tigation commlttno and testified as to tlio
tumble on the vessel during the ill-fated voy
age.
The sub-commlttae of the House committee
on tho judiciary lias agreed upon a Joint reso
lution proponing a constitutional amendment
relating to tho currency. Tho propoeod
amendment, isos follows: “The legislative
S ewers granted to Congress by the Constitu-
on shnll not bo construed to Include the
power to pnss any law making anything but
f old and silver coin a tender in payment of
ctits cxccjt after a declaration of war, or in
case of rebellion or invasion, when the pifblio
safety limy demand it"
Inspector Woodward, of tlio postofllce
department, nppeared before the House eom-
mltteo of invc'tignUon and explained tlie
good results which lm<! followed tie star
route prosecutions in a reform of tho service.
General Adam Badeau, who has been
United Btatas consul general at Havana for
• wo years, has forwarded his resignation to
tho state department at Washington.
The Beiinte in cxceutivo session passod the
resolution authorizing tlio President to rec
ognize the Al'ricon International as-nx-tation
os the ruling powor iu tlio Congo region.
0obtli and Wut
Joseph Medii.l, of tlie Chicago JYiftune,
made an argument before the Sonata com
mittee on postoflices and |x>st roads in favor
of tho reduction of the present pound rah-s
of postage on newspapers issued from tho
office of publication.
David Kei.lar, pilot of the steamer Rctota,
which collided withthoJohul-omusnt Mingo,
Ohio, on tho night of July 4, 1882, has lxvn
sentenced by tlie Federal court at Parkcinburg,
W. Va., to two years’ Imprisonment and to
pay a fine of $600 for manslaughter. Tho col
lision resulted in tlio loss of seventy lives.
seventy
Cleveland’s municipal election resulted
In a Republican victory by about 3,000 ina
jority.
B. T. O. Hubbard, cashier of tho First
National bank of Monmouth, 111., lost $100,-
000 of tlio institution’s funds by speculation,
and conqK'llod it to suspend.
All amusements have been seriously affect
ed in Cincinnati by tlio recent riots, stranger*
keeping away from tlie city, ami women he
ing afraid to venture out at night.
Reports from Ohio, Indiana anil Jllinois,
show tlio condition of tho wheat, clover, timo
thy and apple crops to lie favorable, and the
pencil crop unfavorable.
Thirty buildings, mostly framo structure*
occupied ns stoics and dwellings, were do-
•troyed by fire at Hamilton, Va.. liisulting in
n total estimated loss of $100,000. Several
S i-sons were injured. This is the third timo
ampton lias boon swept liy tlio flames.
Eleven negroes were In a skiff on flio river
at Vicksburg, Miss., when their frail craft
upset, and six of them were drowned.
A material advance in prices for wheat
and ]K>rk 1ms taken place in Chicago.
James Fleetwood nnil his wife, an aged
couple living near Raridan. III., were found
dead in their bod with their throats cut. The
house hod been ransacked. A hired man war
arrested.
The secretary of tlie California Ktato Ag
ricultural bureuu predicts an unexampled
wheat crop for the t actile coast
Members of the House committee on publla
lands are of opinion that a bill will be re
ported to repeal the pre-emption and timber
culture acts, and to amend tho homestead
act.
Complete returns of tho postal revenuea
for tho first and second quarters of the pres
ent fiscal year and estimates for the third
quarter givo the following; results: Gross re
coil ‘
com I
mated for tho quarter ending March 31, 1681,
$10,760,H14: estimated for tne quarter ending
June 30, 1884, $10,737,349; total estimated
revenue for the waij $43,262,440; total reve
nue for year ended Juno 30, 188), $15,508,693;
falling off in the revenue for the present year
62,240,240.
Foreign.
Premier Gladstone made o powerful
speech hi Hie British huiiseof commonsm sup-
jxjrt of tlio franchise (•ill. He iluiendcd the
extension of tlie franchise jj] Ireland 4*an
of right and justiqj, ^
A revolt Ita* broken out in Mexico, a
the merchants In tho republic closing their
Moras and protesting against thin tbs enforce
ment of nn obnoxious stomp act. President
Gonzales insisted upon the collection of the
•ox at all hazards.
A trior against the employment of female
labor has occurred at Kidderminster, Eng
land.
Prince Bismarck has withdrawn from the
Prussian ministry, but will still keep n watch
ful eye over the affairs of Imperial Germany.
A Fin* at Uraogan, n small place in Mora-
eio, destroyed fifty liuuscn. Ono Woman and
two children were burned to death.
Great doinago has been done by floods in
Armenia.
One-half of Mandalay, the capital of Bur-
mah, a city of 90,000 iieople, has been destroyed
by fire. •
A positive proof of the connection existing
between the anarchists of Europo and their
alleged confederates ln the United Htatoa is
•aid to have been obtained by tho Swiss
authorities.
Captain Hchoonhoven, of the wrecked
steamer Daniel Btainmaim, made at Halifax
his formal statement of the terrible disaster.
He said that he had overrun his reckoning in
the fog, and, till fatally too late, mistook
Bonibro light for that at another point. He
thought tf min* had been fired by the watch
ashore ho might have been warned In timo to
escape the peril.
Five French missionaries and thirty cate
chists have been mnssacred at Thanhoa, a
town In Tonquin.
General Gordon shelled the rebel camp
near Khartoum and killed forty of tlie
enemy. In several engagements tietween
General Gordon’s troops and tho Aral* the
latter were defeated. The rebels about Khar
toum are estimated by Uonlon to number
fi,000.
A. M. Gillespie & Co., 1-ondon mer
chants, have failed for $1,$60,001).
Tiie Dutch authorities Imvo blockaded a
portion of the Acboen coast (Sumatra), with
a view to exercising pressure upon tho rajuh
of Tenoin to font) him to release the crew of
tlie wrecked English steamer Niaoro, hold
captive since last November.
Five nations—the Italian, Amcr'onn,
Freuch, Gorman and English—are demand
ing it demnlty from Hayti for damagee ■..»
tain, d in tho recent rebellion.
An expedition under General Aguero has
Invaded Culm. Advices from Havana any
that General Aguuro ln landing met With no
resistance, and That ninny factions joined him
on the march to the interior, swelling the party
t ) several limidra I followers, 'i ney non sov-
ir tl encounters with troops, the result of
which was that tho troops were obliged to
retreat. The government tins telegraphed to
Spain requesting that additional troops be
sent
Omari,eh Reade, the noted English novel
ist, died a few day* ago in London at the age
oi seventy year*.
Great excitement waa created in Birming
ham, England, by the arrest of a man named
Italy with a number of dynamite bombs anil
other explosives in ills pockets. HI* arrival
in England hod been discovered by the police,
and tlio man at whose house he boarded wu
also arrested as on accomplice.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
General Grant Mill hobbles about or
crutches.
DvsrEPMA and neuralgia t rment Unite!
States Hoimtor Edmunds.
Rosa BoNHEun’s pictur e are always sold
long before tlioy are ]xiiutad.
The youngest son of General Robert R.
I«e. Boh, is a quirt fnnn-r. Ho live* near
Richmond, on the Jamra river.
General Fremont's health Is not bad, al
though several newspaper reports have repre
sented that lie ia failing. Mrs. Fremont, who
i* ln Washington, Is in excellent health.
D. O. Mills has been glvm a vote ot
thanks by tho California legislature for h i
gift to tho Btute of a piece of statuary repre
renting “Columbus before Qurcn Isnliolln.”
Mn. OEonoK Ashworth, of Lowell, Mass.,
b said to be o ‘lost Odd Follow living ln thi*
country. He is more than eighty years old,
and has belonged to tho Order sixty-on#
years.
Mrs. Rogers, tlie Texas cattle quron, is
fifty years old. Her htishnnd, twenty-three
y a -s her junior, gnvo up preaching; hut shti
C -rmittod him to lie elected to tho Texas leg-
laturo.
Governor Murray, tho enemy of Mor-
monism in Utah, wns born in Kentucky, and
is n lyilf-hrothor of Governor Crittenden.
He is six feet threo inches 111 gh. lie was a
brigade commander nt th > ago of nineteen
and n general at twenty-one.
Mrs. JamesG. Blaine is tall nnl net slim,
and she Is grave aril dignified in manner.'
Burn in New Englnn 1 and well educat'd, aim
met Mr. B’niiiein Kentucky, and was his first
love. Her companion nnd i O’.m n Is Miss At t-
ga.l Dodge, the “Gail Hamilton" of litera
ture.
Henry George, author of “Progress a ia
Poverty," began lifo a printer; later he be
came a sailor, then a reporter on tho Bncra-
niento liecord, the owner of t he Bun Francis
co Post, and afterword a lecturer. Ho is forty-
five. His wife is of Irish parentage and Aus
tralian birth.
George William Curtis, the editor ot
Harper's Weekly, was asked by an Inter
viewer recently: "Are thore any new authors
on either sido of the water of special prom
ise!" His reply was: “Ni t one; and there is
no important literary movement of any kind
underway.”
John Briqht is described os “perhaps tho
only living n;aa in whom are united tlie su
preme gifts of the orator—the most brilliant
imagination, tho most exquisite sensitiveness,
tlie finest humor, tho surest judgment, thi
most upright conscience, and t lie most eli>
guilt, pure, nnd vigorous language.”
W. Jenninos Demorest, tho iwittcrn mer
chant of Now York, laid the foundation in
tissue paper of wliat has since grown to tie an
immense fortune. He now o.vns on Four
teenth street in that city property valued nt
over a million dollars, with real estate elso
where in New York worth u* much more.
A Crow’s Intelligence.
The sentinel system of the crows is
very complete. Their guards display a
remarkable degree of judgment and in
telligence. They will raise a cry for s
man with a gnn loDg before he gets in
range of them, and they are equally
wary of a man who creeps toward them.
Bnt a team may pass dose by witbont
disturbing them, and they will even let
a man on foot pass unnoticed if he
hasn't a gnn and goes boldly about his
business. I had a curious example of
this when I first began to study their
habits. I commenced by trying to Bhoot
them, bnt thongh I had passed them
dose enough before, I oould not get
near them after I began oarrying a gun.
I went out with my gun every evening
for weeks. I crept behind tenoes and
lay in wait in the bashes, but could
never get a shot at them. One day,
however, I struck upon a plan which I
have sinoe operated very snooeesfolly.
I held my gun ploee to my side, the bar
rel running down the side of my leg,
and walked boldly down the road with
out taking any notice of them. With
their nstiaT disregard for travelers, they
let me pass dose up to them, when I
turned suddenly and fired. Now J p§jj
iboot ft prow whoever J want to,
SUMMARY OF CONGRESS.
Meant#.
Consideration of the Blair educational bill
was resumed. Mr Hoar’s amendment wm
'adopted providing that the amount to be dis
tributed in the flrsl
first, year lie 17,000,009, iu tlie
•round year $10.(4):),(100, and in tho third year
•16,ooo,001, and tlie appropriation to ho then
diminished at tlio rate of $2,000,090 yearly
Until tho expiration of the eighth year, when
the appropriation shall cease... .Another
amendment offered by Mr. Hon)’, Mint
equal opiKjrtunity of education lw given
to all children was adopted. Mr. Hheminn
offered an amendment, which was adopted,
I providing that the money shnll lie limit only
or common schools not sectarian In diame
ter. Tho hill was filially passed by tJilrty-
throo to eleven. It appropriates ♦< 7,000,(8Kl
to be distributed among the States in propor
tion to their illiteracy, on the basis of tho
census of 1880, the payments to extend over
eight, years.
The hill for t he relief of Oenerl W. W. Av-
erill was reported favorably. . • Dills were
passed authorizing the construction of two
bridge* over tho Rio Grande river... .Tho
naval appropriation bill was considered and
amended.
Mr. Hill, from tho committee on postoflices
and poet roads, reported favorably tothoHen.-
ata ail original hill to establish a postal tele
graph system. Mr, Hill remarked that tho
committee were unnnlmous ns to tlie first ten
•actions of the hill, which rotates to doili" tlio
work by contract* with existing comt>niiio*,hu6
that a minority ot the committee were op
posed to the sections relating to tho construc
tion of purchase of lino* by the government
....The 1>H1 to promote Captain Thomas (4
Corbin, now on the retired list, of the navy,
to tlio rank of rear-admiral on the name list
was postponed indefinitely....Tho naval ap*
preprint ion MU was drluited.
Tne naval appropriation bill was further
ills -ussed and amt ntled.... A 1)111 was Intro
duced to provide for tlio protection of railroud
employes engagisl in inter-state commi-ivs
....Tlio committee on foreign relations ro-
portisl a substitute for tho hills to appoint a
eommiHHiontoviiit the Mouth American isnin-
trics, and to authorize the 1'resilient to invite
Mexico nnd tlie Central and Houth American
countries to send delegates to a convention In
Washington. Tho substitute, which wns
framed by Mr. FroUnghuyten, with the ap
proval of the President, appropriate*,
through nn amendment to tlio consular diplo
matic util, ftlU0,<K 0 to enable till) President to
compensate a eommlsHlon to be ap|K>intad to
examine anil report upon the relations of
tlie United Htatoo witii the countries in ques
tion, and u)Min tlio Is'.st modi* of securing in
timate national and commercial relations,etc.
■Is
Mr. Converse, of Ohio, (retired the floor
•ml moved to suspend the rule* and pass the
bill restoring the duty of 1876 on wool. After
tlio thirty-minute debate allowed by tho ruli>*
the motion was lost by a vote of 119-
ycoH to 196 nay*....Mr. Springer Introduced
a resolution looking to preventing the con
fiscation by tho Italian government of the
projs'rty of tlie American college in Rome
.... A bill was introduced by Mr. I/Overing
E ting a pension of $7 a month to all United
ns soldier* and sailor* who served sixty
during the late war The House
adopted a resolution declaring it unwise for
the pnwent Congress to abolish or reduce the
tax on spirit* distilled from grain.
A hill was pasteddrolnringthntthesupreme
i>ry Territory shall consist of n
court of every
chief justice and thrqc associate Justices anil
providing Mint every Territory slmll be ill'
vldoil into four judicial districts, and a ilfsl
trict court *hall lie hold ill each liy one of tb*
justices of the Hupnuiio court... .A bill wnl
IxihhciI requiring the governor* of the Terri-
torii-s to Is- rcHideiit of the Territory to which
he Is np|K)iutod at least two years proceeding
apisilutmeiit.
A hill wns imssnil for th* adoption of re-
vim'll internal regulation* for preventing col
lision at sea.... A 1111011111011 was Introduced
and referred, providing for an investigation
of tho present system of railroad trunsporta
tion of live stock.
Mr. Eaton reported a substitute for th<
Presidential eli'cfor* bill, which was referred
.... A bill was introduced by Mr. Bowen to
provide for the protection of employi's of
railroad corporations engaged In inter-Stnt<
commerce and in tho transportation of freight
hy railway in the District of Columbia and
the Territories of the United Stales.
After a short debate tho Hounn [mmo l th«
Senate resolution offering n reward of $25,•
OX) for tlie rescue of th 1 Groely party. Thu
reward, Mr. Ellis explained, is expected t<
stimulate tho seniors and whalcr.i who go
north early in tho season, so that they will t e
on tho nh'it mil take pains to explore tho
lays, const* nml islands and soeli for traces ot
tho Groely party I11 committee of th*
whole tlio pension appropriation bill was con
sidered. Tlio hill appropriates $20,684,400
anil roapproprinte* nil amount estimated nt
$1)6,(100,(XN). Tlio appropriations for t.hu cur
rent year were $ 126,000,000, of which only
$25,6)3,000 wore oxi>ciidetl during the first
half of the year.
NATIONAL EDUCATION.
Tlie Blair Bill a* It Passod tlio
linltod Mate* Mounts-
The important points of tho Blair Educa
tional bill, as it passed the United States Son
ata, and went before the House, are as foL
lv»:
That for eight year* next after the passage
of thi* act there shall bo anuually appropri
ated from the money in the treasury the fol
lowing sums, to wit: The first year tho sum
of $7,000,000, the second year the sum of
of $10,000,0(X), tho third year the sum of $15,-
000,000,the fourth year the sum of $13,000,(XX),
the fifth year tho sum of $!l,0'J0,O9(), the
slxUi year the sum of $9,0. 0,090, the seventh
year the sum of 07.000,00.), tho eighth year
the sum of $5,000,000, which several sums
shall be expended to secure tlie lienolits of
common school eaucatioil to all tlie children
of tho school age mentioned hereafter living
In tho United State*; that such money shall
annually lm divided among anil paid out in the
several States and Territories, in that pro
portion which tho whole number of persons
In each who, being of tho age of ten years and
ovor, cannot write, bears to tho wholo num
ber of such persons in tho United Btute*.
Much computations shall be iiiuile according
to the census of 1880.
No money shall bo paid out under this act
to any Btato or Territory that shull not have
provided hy law a system of free common
schools for all of its children of school age,
without distinction of race or color, either in
the raising or distribution of school revenue
or in tho school facilities afforded; provided
Mint separate schools for whito ana colored
children shall not ho considered a violation
of this condition.
That the instruction in the common schools
whereon these moneys shall bo expended shall
include the art of reading, writing and speak
ing the English language, arithmetic, geo
graphy, history of tlio United Btntes and such
other branches of useful knowledge as maybe
taught under local laws.
The money appropriated and apportioned
unite r the provisions of this act to Mie use of
any Territory shnll bo applied to tho uso of
common and industrial schools therein by the
secretary of the interior.
No greater part of the money appropriated
nnder this act shall be paid cut to any Btato
or Territory in any one year than the sum
expended out of its own revenues in the pre
ceding year for the maintenance of common
schools, not including the sums expended in
the erection of school building*.
A part of the money appropriated to each
State or Territory, not excelling ono-tenth
thereof, may yearly bp applied to tho edu
cation of teachers lor the common schools
therein.
No port of tho educational fund allotted to
any State or Territory shall bo used for the
erection of school homes or school buildings
of auy description, nor for rent of the same.
Tha moneys distributed uiulur the provis
ions of this net shall be used only fop (.'yimnoft
teboois not xectariftn in character,
THE JOKER’S BUDGET.
A HATCH OK QL'AKLH CffY KUN AND
niiNoiujtr.
[From tlie Philadelphia Evening Cal] ]
1 ■ • -l
•OCTAL AHENTTIHfc
“Yob,” Raid a Now York girl, “1 can
take my pick from half n dozen wealthy
yonng men in tho city."
“You ought to bo able to,” replied a
rival belle sweetly, “yon aro oertouily
old enough to pick.”
A BTTTTAtlTjR MOKNAMR,
"Isn’t 'Collar Button’ rat her-an odd
nickname to give yonr borf asked a
gentleman of a friend, who had just ad
dressed his sou by that title,
"Wail. I d«ft know,” applied the
father, laughingly 1 . ; “Jft Diky sound n
little enrious, bnt it anile the boy first
rate."
"Why do yon ihink thrr fffckname
‘Collar Button’ suits the boy ?”
“Beoause,” was tho reply, ‘“when he
slips out in the evening I am never able
to find him.”
an APT rurHi, ,
number—“So you wonld like to loan)
onr trade?” »
Boy—"Yea, sir.”
Plumber—“Are yon good at frlthme-
Uo ?” . r
Boy—"I nover had mtiofi r iNiBoolin’.”
Plumber—“How mnoh ■ ore 9 Dud 2 ?”
Boy—“in.”
Plumber—“If I work nt a «pipe three
hour* at five dollars an hour,- bOw mnoh
will that make ?”
Boy—“$126."
Plumber—“You’ll da**
A SAFR rUl%
Country Editor—“Wuii, air, what can
I do for you ?” -
Stranger—“I want to find » place for
my boy. Ho to n flue acooeatlt, and I
hear you need a bookkeepat.”
Editor—“You, fwaut some one at a
small salary to keep my hooka, oolleot
bills, and look altar tl|e aafo when lam
Stranger—"He eon do all that. He
to the beat bookkeeper in the State.”
Editor-"Is hfi thoroughly reliable?”
Stranger—“Well. tbo.toetJs, ho ia a
kleptomaniac. He dm been m the peni-
tentiarya great many timaa fw taking
money out of safes, but beyond that ho
ia all right, and that is why I want to
get him a place with yOu."
Editor—“With me, eh ?”
Stranger—“Yes, where he wul bo out
of temptation.”
Bomeetle -Heclpcs.
A delicious nnd new way to make ft
filling for a layer cuko is to chop somo
figs very fine; set n half n pint or two-
thirds of n pint of thick sweet cream
whero it will got very cold, then whip it
light, mix it with tho chopped figs aud
spread on the layer of enke.
Au old-fashioned pudding snnoo that
oau be made in an instant is simply milk
sweetened and flavored with grated nut
meg. This is really palatuble with corn-
starch aud lilauc- mmige.
If the bread of which yon sro to make
stuffing la squeezed dry after it has
soaked in hot water it will bo much
nicer. It will not bo so likely to bo
soggy, bnt will bo light. For veal or
for iamb the stuffing should be seasoned
highly; a little onion anil pnrsley with
the pepper and salt aro decidedly appe
tizing.
A nemianry precaution when roasting
a largo aud fat loin of mutton is to cover
it with a papor during tho earlier stages
of its rousting; otherwise tho fat will
burn, or at least will lie scorched, and
impart a bail flavor to the gravy.
Codfish is much nicer if it is picked in
very small bits and then soaked for an
hour in cold water than if put into warm
water or scalded; in tho latter ease it
becomes hard and does uot mix lightly
and well with the dressing.
A good cracker pudding is made by
breaking or rolling two largo crackers
fine; add the juice of one lemon anil the
grated rind of two, half a pint of thick,
sweet crenm, a large tablespoonful of
butter, the yolks of four eggs, sugar to
the taste, Mako a puff paste for a deep
plate or a small and shallow pudding
dish. Bake the crust until it has com
menced to harden slightly, then pour the
above mixture in, taking care to pierce
the crust in several places with a fork.
Bake for nearly on hour.
Clubfoot In Cabbage.
“I have yearly cultivated about one-
half acre of cabbages tha past few years,
some years with success nnd others en
tirely failing or. account of olubfoot and
the worm. My attention waa directed
to the raising of tlio plants to get them
free from disenoo if possible. My seed
bed was mado last spring where thero
wero chips nnd accumulations of an old
wood pile that had not been used for
years. The ref uso waste of the wood
pile hail been raked together and burned,
leaving the ashes on the land. The
eced-bcd had the benefit of - the ashes
thus made, also tho decayed ohipa which
escaped the fire; this plat was well
spaded and the cabbage seed sown. A?
soon os the plants appeared above ground
they were sprinkled with wood ashes for
a number of times to protect them from
the small black fly. About June 10,
when the plants were Teady to set, we
marked tho ground, and with a dibble
mado for tliat purpose made the holes
for.tho plants aud had tho ljoles fill g,
with liquid manure from theream-yarai
The plants were then set. "This wetting
the holes insures their living, even if tho
ground is dry at time of setting. We
cultivate with a horse and cultivator, to
keep the ground free from weeds. Last *
season we gave the oabbago a sprinkling
of brine by diasoljing as much salt in a
pail of water as would dissolve before
using. This we did as a preventive of
injury by worms. By this method we
raised the finest orop of cabbages ever
raised on the farm. The only drawbaok
was that tlie full^ was so fine and warm
that many of thSilteads burst. Whether
we can raise another crop 1>y managing
in tho snmo manner, with equal success,
ti©o will toll.—/, TaMi, tytrio, tf, ¥,