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SANDERSVILLE, GA., TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 1884.
NUMBER 2.
£• S. LANGMADE,
Attorney at Law,
SAND BUS VILLE, GA.
MAYOR.
0. II. ROGERS,
CLE7tK <0 2 LEAS UHL ft.
D. E. B, WELLS.
MARSHALL.
J. E. WEDDON.
A L 7) Eli ME ft.
\V. H, LAWSON,
Wm. RAWLINGS,
S. G. LANG.
A. M. MAYO,
M. II. BOYER.
2own of lennilh.
Mayor—John C. Ilarrnnn.
Aldermen - W. P. Davis,’ J. W.
Smith, P. J. Pipkin, T. J. Beck.
Clerk— S. II. B Massey.
Marnlvnll—J. C. Hamilton,
MUSIC, MUSIC
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CURRENT COMMENTS.
AonERn seems to have known the temper of
Cuba, for hit, arrival in the island has fanned
tlio people into open revolt. The handful of
followers with whom ho landed baa swollen
into an nrmv ami his progress is a triumph,
i he Spanish forces are preparing to meet him,
however, and their superiority in discipline
may be loo much for his dash and enthusiasm.
Tiik falling off in the exports of breadstuffs
for the nine months ending March 81, as com
pared with the exports of the corresponding
nine lponths in the previous year, amounted in
value to Jill,474,085. In the light of this dif-
fernec the expert of gold needs no further ex-
plnuBtion, It is tho farmer we depend upon
to even up the exchanges for things we are
obliged to buy in foreign markets.
Oocoanut culture is to bo one of the indus
tries of south Florida. A New Jersey capitalist
hns started a plantation in Dade county, and
lias planted 100,000 seed oocoanuts imported
from South America. In six yesrs tho trees
will begin to yiold returns, and it is estimated
that in ten years tho grove will pay ten per
cent on a valuation of *2,000,000. A full grown
reowill mature about sixty nuts annually. The
tree is very beautiful, and the experiment will
bo watched with interest.
In Central AfricB, instead of tea coffeo and
whiskey, tho natives use a stimulant called
kola. This kola is a nut with a kernel about
two inches in length. When tho korncl is
perfeetlv dry it is chewed as if it were tobacco.
It sustains the system under great hardships,
ami even supplies the plaeoof food. Kola sells
at various prices, from twi n y cents a pound
to a dollar for a single nut. Tho Africans
bolievo that this stimulant is almost a cure-all
and wo may expect to hoo the patent medicine
men introduce it in various shapis into Europe
and America.
many dootors. In the United States the ratio
is one doctor to every 650 persons. In Eng
land the ratio is one to 1,800; in Franoe, one to
2,300, and in Germany one to every 2,000.
Now, this is out of all due proportion. The
trouble is that men are allowed to get through
the colleges too easily. With a higher stand
ard of medical education, and with the right
to investigate end cancel college diploma*
lodged in an independent board of examiners,
there would be fewer and doubtless better phy
sician* turned loose upon the world every
rear.
0. 0- BROWN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
RandenvUle, Oa>
Will practice In the State and United States
Courts, Office In Oonrv-bouaa.
Watches, Clocks
And JEWELRY
REPAIRED NT
JERXTIC AIT.
Dr. H. B. Hollifield,
Having recently graduated at the Univer
sity ol MiuyUiiil and returned home, now
oilers Ills professional services to tile citizen'
nl HiindcrHVllle and vicinity. Oflloe with
Dr. II N iiolltneld, next door to|Mrs. Bayne’s
millinery store.
<i. W- H. WHITAKER,
DENTIST,
Sandersvtlle, Go.
TKJiUS CASH.
Office nt hla Residence, on Hnrrls street.
Aerll 3d. 1880.
H. N. HOLLIFIELD,
Physician and Surgeon,
HnndenvUIn, Ok
Offloe next door to Mia Bayne* millinery
•tor* on Hants
Occasionai,hr we find in Amerioa vigorous
old men, who continue to be up and doing,
and obstinately refuse to lag superfluous. Two
such men live In Washington. They are Geo,
Banoroft, the historian, and W. W. Coreoron,
the banker. Few men over carried the sor
rows of eighty-flve winters on their hcadB as
cherrily and briskly as Mr. Bancroft. The old
gentleman not only continues his literary work
bnt looks after hts gardening, ride* on horse
back ovory day, and goos into society. He is
tho only private citizen in Washington who
enjoys the privilege of tho floor of tho senate,
and he is tho only gentleman President Arthur
will aeccpt a dinner invitation from, outside
of tlie official circle of cabinet officers, foreign
ministers and senators. Mr. Corcoran is equal
ly wonderful, lie is eighty-six, and Is halo and
handsome, managing hts cststo of a dozen
millions with perfect ease, and still finding
time to devote to the noble charities which he
hss so liberally supported for many yean.
These two old men enjoy mental and physical
health and the possession of all their faculties
because they liavo lived livrs of simplicity,
virtue and industry. The lives of such men
teach us many useful lessons.
OfT in tho Indian Territory the Choctaws
continue to administer Justice in their own
way. When an Indian o 'minits a theft lie is
given thirty-nino )a>hes on the hare hack. If
it is his second offence ho is given ninety-nine
lashes, and should It he his third offence they
stand him up and shoot him like a dog. The
fellow who is to unlucky as to lie condemned
to ho shot for stealing is permitted to select
his executioner, and ho generally chooses his
nearest and best friend. Tho victim is Htrijs-
ped to the waist and a black spot is made on
his brcsHt over his heart. The executioner
stands off six or eight paces with a navy re-
vi lver and sends a bullet crushing through the
thief's heart, The victim is never hound of
blindfolded. Hcatendsup bravely, without a
sign of flinching and in fact rather seems to
likojt. An Indian who is rente need to die in
this way knows that if he exhibits the slightest
sign of fear or makes his escape, he will ever
afterwards be regarded as a coward, and in
his eyes this is a more d eidful doom than
death itself. This being the case no attempt is
ever made to escape. No jail is needed to con-
fino a victim. Ho is allowed tho freedom of
the territory until tho day of hip death when
ho always turns np at tho appointed hour Hnd
place and takes his little leaden pill with as
bo found in seventeen ounces of broad. Eng-j unconcern as yon would a dose of salts,
fish beer is heady and stupefying. It may not
Thk United States despatch boat Dolphin,
Just launched nt Chester, Pennsylvania, is re
garded us the nvant courier #f our new navy.
The Dolphin will not only Ini serviceable as a
dispatch boat, but will be in every way availa
ble as a hlockader or a commerce destroyer,
and her vnlin in this respect may be illustra
ted by the fact that a few years ago when there
was n prospect of a European war the Hessians
purchased just such a stoamer at a price far
above its commercial value. Tho Dolphin is
25(1 feet long with a beam of 32 feet. Sho is
rigged as a three masted sehooncr, is well
armored and carries revolving cannon and
galling gnus. Her speed is fifteen knots.
Thk claim made by tho Hermans that beer is
both food and drink is not easy to sustain. As
Vienna beer is light and contains little dex
trine snd sugar, it is evident that it could not
sustain life. Thu darker, heavier beer, brewed
in Austria and Bohemia, is nourishing, but a
gallon contains only aamuch nutriment as may
THE WORLD’S NEWS.
tHtm mA Mildli Itotei
Fouty-orb trade organizations marched
In procession to Union Hqunre, New York city,
and held an opch-oir mooting in favor of aa
eight-hour Inw,
Two men were instantly ktllo 1 and seveml
seriously injured b.v an explosion of fire
damp in a (oftl mlne hcar Elizabeth, Penn.
Tiik Unite 1 States and Brazil Steamship
company s steam-hip Reliance, running be
two>n NeW Yoik anu Rio dj Janeiro, Brazil,
was Wrecked while on her homeward trip
from the la'ter place. She Was valued
at #35 0,000, and her cargo contained among
other thingi 7,000 bags of ciffce. All on
board, im Hiding Tliomns A. Osborne, United
(stales minister to Brazil, were savod.
John C. Perky, recently appointed chief
fiu tire of tho FUpr ni' court of W yonitng
Territory, died suddenly of apoplexy while
walking with his daughter in Brooklyn, N,
Y. Ho was Ixirn In Sullivan county, N. Y.,
In 1852, was a lawyer by pro'ossion, had long
resided in Brooklyn, and had served in tho
Now York senate and assembly.
AT tlie Pennsylvania Republican State
convention, held in IlaiTisbu g, Galusha A.
Grow j re. idl'd, General Osborne, of I.uzerne,
was nominated for ( ougn ssman at large, six
delegates ct large to tho national I'onventlon
at Chicago were elo ted, thrio electors at
large wos.i chosen, and n platform was
adopted which declares that James G. Blaine
and Robert T. Lincoln are tho choice of the
Republican* of I’onn ylvania for President
and Vice-President rise n tivoly. and that tho
delegates at large lie instructed to vote for
them so long ns their names shall bo before
tho convention.
Major Ruokne H. Wkirman, private
secretory to 1 resident Johnson during his
presidential term, dropped dead of heart
disease In a New York Intel. Tho discovery
of a loaded pistol and several farewell letters
in Ids pockets disclosed that he was about
to commit suicide when death from uaturnl
causes intervened.
Tiik Delaware Republican S'nte 'onventfi n
In Dover ee ted delogn'es at large t> the
Cni ago notional i onventiim nnd i asseil r> so
lution' favoring Blaine us the |>artys randi-
flat ■ for IT, sideut, but leaving Uiedu.ogution
uninstructcd.
IJninstructed delegates to the Chicago
nat'oral convention were elo ted at tho New
Jer, oy Republican Htato convention in Tron
ton.
A desperate fight lnstlng two hours took
plat eh tween th r,y or forty Ilungarnnsund
robs vmplo'.ed in steel works nt Braddoik,
l’enn. 1’btdls and kn'vos were drawn, and
when the fl ht wits finally quelled by an or
i onized body of citizens, it was found that
three men hail lieon dangerously wounded
anil a number of others slightly hurt
Memorial services in honor of theln‘e
Wendell Phillips were held in Boston, anil at
tracted ft notable audio ce, including the
governor ands nflf, mayor and city oilmen,
uprom e court and other jedg. s, etc. George
W illiam Kurds delivered tlie manorial ora
tion.
Theodore Hoeeman. twentv-three years
ohi, won hnngel nt White Plains. N. Y., for
the murler of a Hebrew peddler named
Marks with an ax, the m itive of theirime
being relit e •y.
Julia MircHEi.T.,ftcolored woman of Brook
lyn, N. Y., died a few days a„o at the ago of
10.1 yerrs.
Washington
have more ncohul in it tlmn the German beer,
hut it has considerable aldehyde. While beer
Is largely used in many countries, the brewers
of England arc tho only ones who have ever
ranked highly in tho social scale. Many of
them have been pious, sober people, of except
ional education and refinement.
Tiif. medico-legal society of New York dis
cussed the alleged poisonous properties of
canned fruit tho other day. In one ease of
canned fruit poisoning it was found that tho
lid of tho can hud been soldered on with muri
atic amalgam, and i.t was supposed thut some
of the acid dropped into the can, A physician
who read a paper on tho subject before the
society recommended tlie examination of tho
cap to ovory can. If two holes are found
punched in it tho can should ho thrown away.
Every can that does not Bhow tho golden lino
resin around the odgo of tho solder of the cap
should ho rejected. If there is any rust around
the cap on tho inaido of tho ean, it shows that
the fruit has form nted. A can without tho
manufacturer’s namo should he rejected. If
the bottom of tho can rattlcB when it is turned
up tho contents are unsound.
CHEAP BEDS AND BOARD.
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JERNIGAM,
None genuine without our Trnd* Mark
On hand and for ante,
SPECTACLE*. NOSE GLASSES. ETC.
ine Needles,
Oil and Shuttles,
Foil ALL KINDS OF MACHINES, for sale
* will oJso order p*rtfl of Machines
Urnt get broken, fbr which new
pltccH ure wanted.
A. J. JEHNIGAN
1 ■ K- Hines.
O. H. Rogers
Attorneys at Law,
SANDERSVILLE, GA.,
i„U, Ptoctlc* lu tl>e oounttes of Washington,
ana i rt0 .M' Johnson, Emanuel and Wilkinson,
trio, vt I 1 ” 11 . 3 - Courts for the Southern Dis-
W,u Gro, '6'u,
renii. i,H iq'.enU In buying, selling or
re H"e Beal Estate.
OWH-V 0 ') Vwt of P9bll ° l5 * uw *
More than half of a largo number of physi
cians, questioned by tlie British medical asso
ciation concerning tho contagions nature of
consumption, ropliod in terms well oaloulated
toexoito grave apprehensions. In 192 reported
cases of consumption believed to have been
communicated betwoen husband and wife, it is
distinctly stated l hat there existed no family
predisposition or tendency to consumption in
the parties who caught the infection. Many
other cases are cited of communication between
persons entirely unrelated. In many instances
there was Btrong proof going to show that
healthy persons contracted the fatal malady
from invalids in their familios. The chancos
are strongly in favor of tho idea that consump
tion is infoctious; that the gorms of the
bacilli” are conveyed to healthy persons in
the breath of consumptives. •
A oor.D coin Joses weight in consequence of
tlie wear and tear to which it is subjected by
active circulation. The treasury experts esti
mate that a $20 piece should continue current
fifty years, an eaglo thirty-five years, and $5
and #2.50 pieces each fifteen yearB. It may
not bo generally known that ttiis natural abra
sion lias been provided for by law. The statute
says that gold coins which have be'ome re
duced in weight by natural abrasion not more
than ono half one per centum below standard
weight, after a circulation of twenty years, and
a proportionate rato for a Iobs period, shall be
received it their nominal value at the treasury
and its offices. It is bolieved that some plan
should be adopted for tlie redemption of nn-
current coins. A short time ago tlie leading
bankers of the country petitioned the secretary
of tho treasury in reference to the matter, and
suggested a standard of value for mutilated
silver coins, but no action was takou, and it is
not likely that anything will be done for some
time to come.
Many Amorican physicians sre in favor of
empowering a state board of examiners, inde
pendent of mere collcgo degrees, to confer the
authority to practice. An eminent physician,
who advocates tho change, makes the point
that the medical profession is poor, very poor.
Doctore wtm talk of incomes of *20,000 to *25 ■
000 a year simply talk for eflect. Apracri
tioncr does very well if he collects one-tbird of
wb&t 4$ books, Undoubtedly Ww «*t9?
(■Inner* nt the l*«wrr-l*rlred Hentnnrnnit
hdiI IzoriicInir-lletifteM of a City*
Look into tho biggest lodging-house
in the Bowery, says a New York letter.
It in on a corner below Grand street. The
rooms aro let for twenty-five cents a
night. Yon enter at the end of tho build
ing on tho side street and at the head of
the stairs eomo to a little window at
which the quarter dollars of tho cus
tomers are exchanged for the keys of
the rooms, Tho keys whioh have num
bered bits of brass attached to them,
serve hr tickets of admission at the door
further along. Tho lodging-house con
sists of two floors, each as big as !he in
terior of an extra large Broadway store.
It presents to the eye of the visitor a
number of nnrrow passage ways leading
between partitions only seven feet high.
The ceilings are seven or eight feet above
these partitions. Seven feet apart along
these passage ways aro doors opening into
the little box-like rooms. The walls and
doors are white and clean. There is a
faint smell of enrbolio acid in the air.
Each tiny bedroom is furnished with one
chair, a cot, three clothes hooks, a bowl,
pitcher and a three-legged iron wash-
stand. The pillow and sheet on each
bed are white, the blue counterpane
looks neat, and the walla are white and
clean. The floor ia bare. Here and
there are to be seen rooms wherein oheap
ohromoa are pinned upon the board
walla. Their presence ahow that the
room ia hired by the week, but if you
look for a trunk or a aatchel belonging to
the tenant you are apt to be disappointed
nine times in ten.
On the first floor of this and all the
other big lodging-houses a large space in
front of tho rows of bedrooms is fitted
up as a lounging and reading room.
These are the rooms passengors on the
elevated railroads notice all along the
main avenues down town, where are al
ways to be seen many young men with
their feet up and their chairs tilted back,
smoking, reading or looking out upon
the street. Each room lias a big table,
and the newspapers, pens, ink and
checkerboards on these tables show how
the lodgers may spend that spare time
which most of them possess in abund
ance. . ,
In some of the ten-cent houses the
beds are not separated by partitions.
They are arranged in rows in big rooms,
just ns hospital cots are. Each lodger
hangs his clothes on the ehair by his
bedside. A watchman stands guard over
the pockets and property of the sleepers.
The biggest five-cent lodging-house in
New York is the old colored grammar
school building in Thompson street. It
is an exaggerated ship’s steerage, o r
rather three steerages one above another.
The walls of the former class rooms have
been removed, and each spacious floor is
now an immense room tilled with double
bunks bnilt close together. The bunks
are heavy wooden frames, and look like
one kitchen table set on top of another.
They are two feet apart. There are
eighty or ninety of these frames on the
first floor, the only one the'reporter
visited. No women are admitted to these
places. The floor had beet).scrubbed and
the walls were clean. Each lodger gets
a bed to himself nnder cover in a heated
room. The place suggested a catacomb,
but the price was only five cents,
We struggle with adversity, bijt filto-
fle$s disarms us,
Oeoroe Ticknor Curtis, before the Hous*
committee on the jndHary advocated
tho adoption of a c institutional amend
ment limiting tho jmiwoc of the government
to issue paper m >noy to times of wnr. Ho
criticised tho recent decision of the supreme
court declaring reissued greenbacks to be a
legal tender, and said that it was contrary to
views expressed tiy Justice Marshall, nnd
that the court's construction of the Constitu
tion was unwarranted. Ho i avored tho adop
tion of nn amendment declaring that t>x»
grcBS lutd not tlie right which th* supreme
court sold It had.
A DILI, hns liecn introduced In the Senate
by f e ia*or i-'atdn t) revive the grade of gon-
e nl of tho army.
Oomi’Thom.kr Knox, of the ITnttol States
treu ury, hn< accepted tho prcsldonov of the
Naticiul Bank of the Repuu i ■ of New York.
The House commltt o on elections, by a
vote of seven to lour, agreed to report a reso
lution providing for tho ieating of Terrell,
the contestant, in the V irgiuia olo -tion on o
of Terrell against I aul.
The treasury deportment hns decided that
a liq or dealer who sells at one time different
kinds of liquors to tho amount of five gallons
as to be considered a wholesale dealer.
Charlhh E. C'oon, of New York, has been
confirmed by the Senate ns assistant so -rotary
of the treasury in tho pinto of John C. New,
resigned.
Seamen Nindkrman nnd Noros and Fire
man Bnrtlett testified be'o.e the House co n-
mittce investigating the Jeannette expedi
tion. The latter st ited that it was proposed
am mg the Jeannette’s men at ono time dar
ing ;ha retreat from the wrecked vessel to
place Lieu en inf Cbipp moharge, as De Long
was too slow.
The Houne committee on foreign affairs
has rejiortod a resolution that “tho President
bo directed to bring to the attention of the
government of Venezuela the claim of
John E. Wbcelock, a citizen of the
United States, for Indemnity for gross
outrages and tortures Inflicted upon
him by an officer of sa d Venezuelan govern
ment, nnd to demand and enforce, in such
manner ho m^y deo n b *t, an inunediato
Fettlemmitof said claim. ” 1h>r port accompa
nying the revilution rays; “Your committee
is of the opinion that more vigorous meas
ures than dip omatie coiTOipandenoe are ii'ie-
essarv to secur.' justice for the citizen of the
United Stat-s th s c rievou-ly wronged.” Mr.
Wiioolock’s claim is for 650,000,
The secretary of the navy has issued a
proclamation otioring a reward of $'15,000 for
the discovery of Lieutenant Grooly and his
companions in the Arctic regions.
The House committee on public lands in
structed Representative Pnyson to report
favorably his bill to prevent tho unlawful
< c mpnncy of public lands. It provides that
it shall tie unlawful for any person to de
molish any fence win n it includes more thnn
640 acres of lund, or any agricultural land.
Foreign.
Infernal machines found on arrested
dynamiters in England ore sa d to have been
made in / meri a, end i lie English papers are
m ch exercised and tailing for the interven
tion of the American government.
At Naples, Italy, a drunken soldier fired at
a number of comrades rooming in the same
dormitory with him, killing flve of thorn ana
woundin ' threo.
President Barrios, of Guatemala, On-
tral America, was slightly wounded in an at
tempt to assassinate him.
The capture of Hong-boa by the French
terminates tho campai rn in Tonquin. The
financial question remains to be settled with
China Tlio French demand will he very
heavy.
An uprising against American residents
occurred at Kracasocas, Moxico. The popu
lace) burned railroad bridges and tore up the
track for miles. Troops were called out to
quell the disturbance.
The epidemic of smallpox continues to rage
with great violence at Madras.
An English lady offered £20,000 for the
rescue of General Gordon .at Khartoum.
The insurgents under General Aguoro are
reported to have been successful in seyerw
skirmishes with tho Spanish troops in Cuba.
Queen ViCToWTand Princess Beatrire
were received by a largo crowd upon their
arrivul in Darmstadt, Germany.
Ei, Mabdi, the False Prophet, is reported
to have been twice defeated by Arab tribes
who are opposed to hiin, and to be completely
smTotwidtr' 'r.' 4 '” ;
London newapapera are calling open
America to put a step to the dynamite war.
It in amertod that there i» a coalition of French
German, Irish and English dynamited.
A sand of forty-two Cuban insurgents was
attacked by Spanish troops and thirty-eight
of them killed.
Edward M. Smith, United States consu
at Mannheim. Germany,died a few days since
plexy While on a railroad train in
ad. He wm* bom in Rosheeter. N. Y.,
In Dei, and had served as mayor of that city.
General Aqoiro’s insurgent force in
Cuba has been Increased to 1,400 men.
Henry J. Byron, the English dramatist,
(•dead,
Tint French troops in Tonquin attached
the Tillages before Hong-hoa, and that town
was thereupon find and evacuated by the
Chineee.
loitk and Waai
Cbari.ee B. Wnt.aynon, seventeen yean,
old, convicted of his grandmother’s murder,
banged himself in the Portland (Ore.) jail.
A remarkari.e case of insomnia is report
ed from Wheeling, W. Va., where Joseph
Baulsbury, a ship carpenter, sixty years of
ace, lias not slept an hour at a time,nor more
than ten hours in ail, since January 1.
Otherwise he seems sound nnd healthy, and
works every day at his trade.
Eioht prisoners at Gainesville, Ark., as-
faulted tlie jailer, probably fatally injuring
him, and escaped. The citizens mot the o<-
eeping prisoner.- 1 , nnd after a desperate fight
stu eis ded in killing one and wounding and
recapturing three others.
Nine buildings, forming the principal
business houses of Ta s ina, Washington i or-
ritory, have been o< mpletely destroyed by
fire, resulting in an estimated aggregate loss
of $175,0,0.
Tiik eomtnissnry general of tlio army has
rn eivui a dispat h Irani Captain Whitehead
at New C rleans saying that lie had shipped
MI.0U0 rations to tlie recently flood) d r. glon.
He toys matters ore looking more lavnrahla
and promising.
Kitty masked men went to Jackson, Ky.,
at night took I •enry Kilimni (white) ami lien
t tnmg c.ilored) Irian tlie jail an I hanged
tiiem ’l he two men were imprisoned on the
charge of murder.
CTiaulkh Girhh, a negro employed bv a
farmer nnmed Moore, in Burleson county,
Texas, murdoml his i mployer’s wifo with iin
ax and lied. He was captured liy a crowd,
tied to a stake and barned to d -nth.
At the third annual banquet of the
Iroquois club, of Chicago, an organizat'on
ct nqHised of prominont Democrat-), Henntor
Pemi’ctou and others mado mlilresass nnd
letters were rend from Haniuel J. Tildon
and Penati r Bayard.
Nine thousind railroad employes from
Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota and
Dakota attendod the lunerai of Assistant
General Riqterintondent Atkins, of the Ht
Pant road, in Milwaukee. Hpecial trains
from oil parts of the Htato mentioned were
run to Milwaukee.
The Alabama and South Carolina Repub-
Ihans have held State conventions for the
punioso of elo ting delegates to tlie Chicago
national convention. Both delegations are
understood to bo solid for Arthur as first
<hoi q lor President
At tho Wcst V irgiuia Democratic Htato eon
volition, hold in Charleston, delegates to the
national convention at Chicago were elected,
a resolution, proponed by United Stales
Senator Kenna, whs adopted declaring that
Hamuel J. Tildon was the convention'schoiee
for President and the deloga oi were in
stnictod to coot tbe.r votes for Tilden and
Hendricks.
The Illinois Bepuhlh an State convention
at Peoria nominated a full ticket headed by
Ex-Governor Hi hard J. Oglesby for gover
nor, n nd ele ted delegates to tlie national con
vention who were instructed to present the
muncof General John A. Loganfor President
and give him their undivided support
Indiana Republicans, at their State con
vention in Ind.auapolis,elected an uriinstruct-
ed delegation, heeded by ox-Unitod States
Henntor Harrsm and ox : Hecrotory of the
Navy Thompson, to t'e Chi-ago national
(onvention. The dolagafon's flint choice is
unders ood to be Hai ri«m.
The Tennessee Republican Htato committee,
bold at Nashville, nominated a full ticket
beaded by Judge Frank T. Reid for governor,
and ch' sc an umnstruoted delegation nt large
for the national convention nt Chicago.
Tore Turner, about to be hanged lor mur
der at. Greenville, Ga, asked the sheriff to
leavo him ah no n few minutes so th it, ho
might pruy, nnd when tho sheriff returned to
I mt tlio law in’o execution his intended vir-
im had choked lniu-ielf to death with a silk
handkon liiof.
United States revenue, offi-vrs have been
raiding Kentucky moonshiners end making
many arrests cf men lor manufacturing iliici
whisky.
WHAtItHE BOyTaRE DOING.
A polo elnb has been organized at
Portland, Me.
A great bicycle meet will take place
at Hamilton, Ohio.
A tally-ho club bu been organized
at Toronto, Canada.
Thb 8t. Louis Gan Glab talks ol hold
ing a benoh ahow in April.
The bioyoliete are rigidly excluded
from the streets of Vienna.
E. A. Rogers skated 6 miles at Lon
don, Ontario, in 25 minntes.
H10H4M rode 286 miles on a bicycle in
twenty-six hours in Ban Francisco.
J. K. Simpson cleared 10 feet 3}
inches in a standing jump at Boston.
A match is talked of between Mervine
Thompson and Stoddard, of Syracuse.
The Y. M. O. A. gymnasium at Bos
ton has 800 gymnasts exercising in it.
One manufacturer made 1,315,000
base balls last year and over 100,000 bats.
The Milwaukee Baseball Club has
purchased grounds at a cost of $11,000.
The English University boat race will
lie rowed this year at 9 a. m., on April
5th.
Victory at New London next June is
new confidently iooked forward to at
Yale.
Joseph A. Byrnes cleared 100 feet
in nine straight jumps at Cobar, Aus
tralia.
There seems to be a revival of Shakes
pearean interest on the Continent of
Europe.
Daily, the Cleveland pitcher, will
pitch for the Chicago Union Club for a
salary of $3,000.
Miller and Victor wrestled in Syd-
nay, for $1,000. At the end of the
match Miller was victor.
Ella Doo trotted a mile on the ice at
Ticonderoga in 2:14. Bonner offered
$7,000 for her. Declined.
The American Fish Culture Associa
tion will hold its annual meeting in
Washington May 13,14 and 15.
William Sexton, the billiardist, has
issued a challenge to George F. Slosson
to play three match games for $1*000.
The National Trotting Association
began fourteen years ago wjth 70 mem
bers. To-day it has 217 turfmen on its
rolls.
Hanlan promises to get all the Ameri
can champion oarsmen in a string on the
Hudson when he comes bfipk from Alls*
tralift bpat U)M&»
SUMMARY OF CONGRESS-
Restate.
The naval appropriation hill was passed
rlth an amendment, appropriating
6”,'00,001 for tho construction ot now steel
cruisers: also an amondmont proposod by
Vr. Bayard requiring the secretaries of wnr
and tho navy and the gun foundry board to
report to tho next sossion of Congress plans
and eot mates for a gitn factory to complete
guns lmm six inches to sixteen Inches cali
ber. ,. .'1 he t enati took u 1 the bill to estab
lish a uniform system of bankr iptcy thro igh-
o tthiscountry. t ecttonsconstituting the dls-
tir.t eour.a o> t aukriiptcy, and providing
for the appointm nt of eonimiseioner* in
bankrupt y to have nil tho powers of a mat
ter In ehanoery, and supervisors in bank
ruptcy to examine into tho administration of
proceedings, were a -,r.o l to... ,The lxwtofltce
’ ' ’ bill was report.■d with n-arly
vu.u./u.ww uuued. Asamandod by tho Konata
committee it provided for a total appropria
tion ot $411,726,400, which is in ox-
cobs of the amount appropriated lost year,
and $ l,4UD.50(> in oxoess of thj amount called
for liy the bill When It l.)ft tho House.
A hill was reported favorably to provide
for a comniisiion on tho sub o.-t of tho nl o-
holicliquor traffic... .The House joint resolu
tion providing that loitaln boo’is b) fur
nished to the Cincnnati law library was
amended a id yassod.... Iho Bankruptcy bill
was further lousidorod and much progress
n as made.
Tho Senate agreed to tho resolution direct
ing tho judiciary committee to inquire
whether rail Htronnch, whoso nomination for
marshal of tho Middle and Southern districts
of Alabama was rejected by tho Senate, and
ho Is now porforming tho duties of that
Ilec, is entitled to occupy tho office!.
..Tho Honftto took up tho
bankruptcy bill. Amendments were
o'.or d by Mess. s. Goorzo, Hour, Ingalls,
Wilson, like, linn Ison, Garland and l n'l,
most of which were a;rood to. Tho bill wai
rend to tho end and substantially agreed to,
several amendments, however, Iwing indica
ted to be ma lo when tho bill is reported from
committee of tlio whole — Tho bill to pro
vide a portion of the groat reservation ot the
Sioux nati ns of Indian) into_sepnr.ito reser
vations and secure tlio relinquishment of tho
Indians’ title to tho remainder wns passed.
Mr. Wilson offered a resolution declaring
that it is competent for Congress, by law,
to prevent freight pooling agreements among
railroads, nnd by hts request it wns tabled,
in ordor that ho might nak unanimous con
sent cm c alling it up to make a speech Mr.
Slaters bill to forfeit thi unearned land
grnniRof tno Northom Fa file railroad, and
tl e bankruptcy hi 1 were both considered
without, a -Won, ox< opt tho adoption of a few
amendmont' to tho lat er — Mr. Co k ell in
tro luced a bill to provide for theappoin.ment
of a Missouri River 1 ommlssio 1, to c arry into
effort plans for tho improvement of tho river
to it s head waters.
The posto'Hco appropriation bill was pass’d,
Increasing tho appropriations about $:i,f.O ),-
000. As amended the bill increases the
amountallowo 1 for poetmastors' salaries from
$10,500,000 to *11,7.x),000, for salarieH of
clerks in iKietofllccs from $',776,(8)0 to$4,-
000,000, for |Miyments to 1 -ttor carriers and
expenses of the fro) delivery system Irom
$'1,600,000 to $4,000,000. Tho Senate strikes
cut the clause providing that periodical pub
lications. other than daily newspapers, when
delivered within tho city of publication
hall tn charged the samo pnsLvge os
•If delivered el ewhoro. For inland
mail tmusportoti n the ap. rop.riation
is ini r.-as. d from $11,701,000 to $1 *,750.090.
The appropriation for th > railway pin toffies
c r service is increi ed fro n klfiiliO.OOO t)
$1,625,000; and $ 8 ..(H) 1 is appropc at d for
ro.vssnry ai d p ci df o iti s on tru .klin s.
1 ho lnttjr i.» in is und -r toocl to b i for faster
mail orvice in th- South '1 ho ap roprlati m
for f tir 10 t -s is in r. a cod irom clp 00,0.0 to
$.5,0HI.OOO, b .t the list ilm.se re pproprla-
tln; th) “un-X! ended Inia'io.is" o.’ Inst y ai-'s
appropriatoi Is itriikon o.t....lr ch.-r-
man, from the com i.itto - o 1 the libr iry. nv
p r ed ndver ely the Newipapir .op ri ht
bill. It was, however, pla oi o.t the weUn
dar.
Haase.
Mr. Turner introduce 1 a bill reciting that
the bondholders and millionaire* have pai 1
no tax on in omes to support110government
for over twenty yeai s that taxos sh uld bo
imposed, and fimt there should tie no mvored
class: nnt prodding tbit an in -omo tax of
three per cent, on over $5,O K), (1 e jsjr cent,
ono.or $10,(KK). anl ten i>o.' cent, on over
$100,000 bo coll ctod.. ..A l> 11 was tntr-
du-od by Mr. Dorshdmcr anthoriz-in
tho 1 resident to appoint a"
retire John (.'. Fremont with 110
rank of major-general. A siintlur bill wus
Introduced in tho Senate by Mr. clierman....
> r. King introduced n bill to place agri ill
tural implements, cotton ties. Ilannels Plan c-
ets, knit poods, and s mo otln r articles on
the free list.... A r.-solution win pass > t di
rocting the < ommittee on agri ult ire to in
vest, gate tlio re.iorlol introduction of tha
foot-and-mouth disoa e in'o Maine.
'tlie intern t in.mifoftod in tho tariff I i.l
on the o;x n'ngof the d 4 a'e was not rcrow.-d
on tl e fo.'oi.d day of the discussion, li) et-
tondanjo in the gnl'.ories being s a 1. Mr.
Ru ■ li, of Mnssachus Its, spoko in opposition
to t io 1 ill, his remarks, like th >se of Air. Kel
ley in ho pr. vious day,bein; chiefly d-vohst
to tho p uiper labor of Eurrp). Mr. Blount,
of (3) orgia, suoke in suppo; t of the bill.
Consideration of the pension apj ropriation
bill was resumed. Ai tor an hour of general
debate the bill was read by paragraphs
for amendments. Mr. Goir, of W est
Vlrghiia. offered a proviso that no proof shall
bo re luirod either in pending cases or those
hereafterjflled os to the physical condition
of tho soldier at tho time no was nius.cred
into the service; and all claims heretofore
rejected on account of a lack of such proof
shall bn reheard. Against this proviso Mr.
Mr. Hammond, of Georgia,
THE dOKER’SjyjKiEr.
Randall and Mr. muninon", —
rnise l ]x>ints of order, and it was declared
out of ordor. Mr. Han -ock offered an amend
ment increasing from $’> to $10 per ono hun
dred vouchers, the allowance to pension
agents for vouchers prepuid and paid by
them in excess of $4,000 per annum. Agreod
to.
Quito a sezne occurred in the Home Mr.
White, of Kentuik/, in ip eking to a bill,
r mewed his charges against Governor Mur
ray of Utah, lie was called to order, and
the sp ak -r said he thought that tho remarks
of tlie gentleman were not relevant to tho
bill. Mr. Whit» said that the difference lie-
twoeii the Sivakar und himself was that
while he hud been endeavoring to defend
the rig'its of the pooie.t ] e jple in
his State, tlie Hpenkor liad been
endeavoring to got Ills bills through
Congress for tlie biggest whisky monopolies
in tho State of Kentucky. Mr. Miller de
manded that theso words be taken down ns
unparliamentary. The Speaker said he de
sired that tho words should not be taken
down, and that no notice should be taken of
them. This was received with applause; and
there tho matter rested... Twenty-eight pen
sion hills were oassed at the evening session.
Tn the Soudan.—In illustration of the
quality with which General Gordon has
to deal, it is related that in 1821 Ismail,
sou of Mehemet AJi, the oonqueror of
the Soudan, wns ordered by his father
to collect the tribute duo from the tribes
of Bedouins of Sbendy on tho Nile, half
way between Berber and Khartoum.
Ismail summoned a chieftain known as
the Tiger, and told him to furnish a
large amount of forago and fodder in
lieu of a money payment. Next morn
ing Ismail and his troops found with
satisfaction piles of the stuff demanded
placed around the camp, bnt their satis
faction was short-lived. The stuff ”was
soon set on fire, and those not burned
were picked off by men lying in wait be
hind the burning piles. Mehemet, to
avenge his roasted son, razed the town
of Shendy, but the Tiger made traoks in
good time iwto the fastnesses of jlie
interior,
WHAT XVK FINIS IN THK nfiBOMII* .
FAPKKR TO MiUU.K <5*1 Fit.
IN THE WEST. **
Stranger—*’I hear that Myra Olarlf
Gaines lays claim to this town.”
Resident Plumber—' r 'You don’t say
so !*’
Stranger—"Yes; and she says that she
can prove that she owns it.”
Resident Plumber—“She does does
sheT Just wait until my winters bills
are made out. Then see who owns the
town I”
plantation philosophy.
De wise man an’ de fool doon quarrel,
bnt two fools or two wise men kain’t get
along so well.
De man what marries a ’omau ’case
she's go mere sense den he has is nober
allowed ter lose sight o' dat faok,
De chile dat too soon shows signs o’
smartness doan turn out ter bo de
smartest man. De fust ootton dat opens
is never de bes’.
De gigglin’ girl ginerally turns out ter
be de woman what doan laugh muoh,
an’ lemme tell yer, marriage an’ a lot o’
ohillnn will take de chuckle outen do
moe' o’ ’em.—Arkanmw Traveller.
LEAP YEAR NOTES.
The first loop of a marriage knot is G
bean knot.
Girin, this is the year for yon. When
you give a young man slippers, give
him fits.
From tho combinations of lenp yoar
and a cold winter most every girl has
chaps on her hands.
Happiness. A enrtained, warmed
room; a little, little light; ono chair;
two lovers; night, and a disabled clock.
“Don’t give me away ’’ is a very com
mon expression, yet you won’t find one
girl in a hundred who iB bold enough to
say that to her pap.
A woman says that very few men
have the slightest idea how to hold a
baby. No, not until it gets to bo about
sixteen or seventeen years old.
Benjamin Franklin said, “Ho who
takes a wife takes care.” Wo think that
Benjamin was slightly mistaken, nnd
that he who takes a wife is more likely
to lose hair.
A glorious victory.
Chicago Editor—“Who will hereafter
deny the mighty power of tho Western
press ?”
Chicago Citizen—“What lmx j you
achieved now?”
Editor—“Yon know it was discovered
some lime ago that a man whoso picture
was in tho rogues’ gallery hml a i>ositi'on
under the oity government ?”
Citizen—"Oh, yes I and indignation
meeting*) wero held and the papers
ootnally thundered against tho diagraco.”
Editor—"Well, I have jnat received
intelligence that we liavo won, and
Chicago can onoo more hold np her bond
above all the world.”
Citizen—“Good; how was it man
aged ?”
Editor—“Tho authorities had to back
water, and they liavo taken his picture
out of the rogues’ gallery.’
IN A Bmo-A-RRAO HTOItB.
Customer—“How much iB that coat
of mail worth?"
Clerk—“This, sir, is a very rare ob
ject, centuries old; but wo will lot you
have it for $500.”
Customer —“All right. I will tako it,
provided, of course, it fits.”
Clerk—“Fits?”
Customer—“It looks a little too largo
for mo.”
Clerk—"Great Cicsor I yon don’t want
to wear it, do you ?”
Customer—“Oh, yes; I will put it
right on. Hurry up, for time is money,
and 1 ought to be at work.”
Clerk—“At work, and in a ooat of
mail! What in tlio world are you, any
how ?”
Customer—“ T ■'m * book agent, *
A LUCKY GIRL.
Mabel—“So Captain Paul Boy ton" i$
to be married.”
Edith—“Indeed ! Who to?”
Mabel—“A Cincinnati girl, I be
lieve.”
Edith—-"Lucky girl I”
Mabel—"Is Coptain Boyton auch a
groat catoh ?’’
Edith—“I don’t know that he is.”
Mabel—“Then, why is she so Inoky?”
Edith—“You said she lived in Cin
cinnati, didn’t you?”
Mabel—“Yes.”
Edith—“Well, it is a mighty lucky
thing for a Cincinnati girl to have L,
husband that can swim.’
IN TUB* V>B*oT*
News Editor—“Another railway disas
ter—broken bridge—many killed, otc.,
etc. What shall,I do with it?”
Managing Edi tor—“Oh, put it in th®
column of ‘Every Day Happenings.’ ”
HORRIBLE REVELATIONS.
Mabel—“Oh ! Edith, I have just heard
tho a" fnlest thing about the Blanks.”
Edith—“Goodness gracious 1 What ia
it?”
Mabel—“Their grandfather used to
keep a fish stand in one end of the mar-
kot.”
Edith—“Oh, it can’t be!”
Mabel—“But it is. Grandma says
she has often seen him cleaning fish for
customers.”
Edith—“How did grandma happen to
see him ?”
Mabel—“Why, you Bee, she was the
proprietor of an egg and butter em
porium at the other end.”
Miscegenation in Ohio.
The oftse of Robert Bailey, colored, on
trial for marrying a white girl, contrar,'*
to (ho law of 1840,which imposes a flue < (
$100 and three months’ imprison men 1
for a a white person marry ing one c.f
negro blood or vice versa, wus tried in
Toledo, Ohio. A demurier filed by tbn
defence that the law was unconstitu
tional under the Fourteenth Amend
ment, wns overruled. Bailey was foun |
guilty and given the full penalty of th.j
Jaxv. The ouly other case tinder tlinj
law was tried in Cleveland and dis
missed, the judge holding the law uu*
*’] couptitufional,