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MERCURY.
VOLUME V
devoted to literature, agrioulture and general intelligence.
E- S. LANGMADE,
Attorney at Law,
SANDERS VILLE, G|.
mayor.
o. H. ROGERS.
CLEXK 27tEASlTltE!R.
D. E. B, WELLS.
MAfi SHALL.
J. E. NVEDDON.
AL'DE'RMEJV,
W. H. LAWSON,
Wm. RAWLINGS,
8. G. LANG,
A. M. MAYO,
M. II. BOYER
2own of 2cnnitte.
Mayor—John C. Tltirman.
Aldermen - W. P. Davis, ,J. W
Smith, T. ,T. Pipkin, T. J. Beek
Olerk— S. II. B Massey,
Ainrsliall—J. C. Hamilton.
MUSIC, MUSIC
00 TO—
JERNIGAN
Bows, Strings,
Rosin Boxes* Etc-
C. C BROWN, /v
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Bandcrerllle, Oa. i
Will practice in the Hint* and United Btatas
CouriM. (juice In Court-houae.
Watches, Clocks
And JEWELRY
It EPA msD NT
JE HIT I GAIT.
Dr. H. B. Hoilifield,
i
Having recently graduated at the Unlver-
illy ol Mmylnml and relumed home, now
nllem lilt prnlesMlonul servlets to the citizens
pi SiiiHlciKVllle end vicinity. Office with
l)r. H. N Hollllleid, next door to|Mrik Uuyne’a
millinery alore.
O. W H. WHITAKER,
DENTIST,
Banderavllle, Oa.
TJCliSIS CASH.
Office nt Ilia Residence, on Harris street.
Anvil 8.1.1880.
H. N. HOILIFIELD,
Physician and Surgeon,
BanderavLUa, Oa
Office neat door to lira, Bayne’* millinery
•tore on Harris street.
DU Y YOUlt
SPECTACLES, SPECTACLES,
FROM
J E R N IC A ri ,
Non# genuine without our Trade Mark
On hand and for sale,
SPECTACLES. NOSE GLASSES. ETC.
ine Needles,
Oil and Shuttles,
ro, j ALL KINDS OF MACHINES, far sale.
1 will a]mi order parts of Machines
that got broken, for wltlcb new
plcocs are wanted.
A. .T. .TEHNIGAN,
*• K. IliARS.
O. H. Boos
HINES & ROGERS,
Attorneys at Law,
Will
8ANDERSVILLE, GA*
jVfrUP rnot . lc “- 1,1 u ' 8 counties of Waal
"■•VtSa 11 “ “*'•*»
01 hUi) Sgnarft
SANDERSVILLE. GA., TUESDAY, MAY G, 1884.
|l.tO per Annum
NUMBER 3.
THE MERCURY/
CURRENT COMMENTS.
At C-conr d’Alene, say. a traveler who
arrived at Denver, everything 1, very
dear. It ooste twonty-flvo cent, to get s paper
J mall and fifty conta for a lettor. Nothing
considered lose than a quarter. Shaving is
* quarter,hair cutting fifty cents, and any kind
of a moat cost. $1, and eggs fifty cents extra.
Xou can t get a place to sleep for less than (1,
«Tin though you bunk on the floor.
„ Mdskmo ^ Miclj., justly claim* pre-eml.
hence as the greatest lumber producing city in
the world. The total product of Muskegon
during 1883 was 086,070,284 feet, exceeding the
Fro «ct of the Sagtnaw valley b, several bun-
drod millions. She produced during the same
period 189,854,160 lallia, and cut 810,481 shin-
gjes. Ona-fourth of tlio vessel traffic of Lake
Michigan j, transacted at Muskegon, and over
3,000 vessels woro cleared from the port Iasi
year.
After all, Mr. Matthew Arnold Is a very sen-
..Woman Ilia criticisms of America were not
• 1 against us. Ho declares that our ladies are
charming. The young ladies he found very
engaging. While many of the gentlemen have
the tone of feeling and spoech of English get),
tlcmen, he considers our ladies better informed
and more attractive in oonveraation than tlioir
Lnglish Bisters. Mr. Arnold says that America
holds the future. Refinement will come after
this commercu 1 century, and with enormous
* ? n ‘ ore ana Wisure, a grand and bone-
fleiont civilization will | >0 sure to como.
m * ni * for luvosting in cattle ranches
•till rages among our English and Scotch cous
ins and a. heretofore, it is peculiarly affected
by tho notabilities. The latest Joint stock cn-
torpriso of this naimt) prc.euts .stringof
titled nsmes, the capital stock is fixed at $3 -
760,000( and the vendors or promoters agroe
not to receive any dividend, on their shares in
the first three years, unless tho common stock
cams 8 per cent. Entei prises of this class havo
practically superceded our railroads and, in
deed all othor American dovices to secure the
•id of English capital in developing the hal
cyon West.
Otm slater republic of Moxico is running too
rapid a sohodulo. Hlio has embarked in an
ambitious scheme for establishing linos of
steamers to European ports on the subsidy
plan, and concessions havo been mado to an
other company with a view to establishing a
Pacific service. At a time when the Moxican
treasury is empty, and tho government is mov
ing heaven and oarth to borrow a few millions
abroad to enable it to keep out of bankruptcy
and meet its subventions to the new lines of
railway, it is folly to recklessly plodgo its credit
for tho promotion of visionary speculative
projects. Without more economy our neigh
bor will bo compelled to mako an assignment,
and in that event Undo Bam will be the as-
tigneo, .
Dn. Path. Vo* Skdoewitz, in a recent article,
lakes tho position ’that tho mind, like the mus
cles and otner physical organs, is strengthened
by excrciso, and that there is no culture within
tho roach of tho human intellect sufficiently
extremo to overthrow tho reason. That there
aro physical and montol degenerations ho ad
mits, but lie is not willing to attribute thorn to
tho cxccsb of mental culture. On tho contrary
ho beliovcs they aro caused by physioal agen
cies, bucIi as alcohol, tho various forms of nar
cotic drugs, and psBsibly tobacco, tea and cof-
fco. Those thingB aro now within the roach of
all classes, and they are moro extensively used
than cverboforo. This fact would soem to
bear out tho doctor’s view that the increase in
mental disoasos is due to physical rather thau
to puroly intellectual causes.
If wo denude our hills and slopos of the for
ests which form their natural protection, in
loss than fifty years we may expect to see half
of the south Atlantic states reduced to a sterile
area. Tho rain will wash tho soil from the
hilltops first, and then from tho slopos. The
naked rocks now oovered with loam and clay
will bo laid baro, and will rcfloct the rays of
the Bim and increase the summer heat; storms
will blow unobstructed over tho country, and
overy chango of tho wind will causo an abrupt
change in tho temperature. Tho rainfall will
bo diminished and becomo irregular. Periodi
cal freshets will carry away tho best part of tho
soil, oven from the valleys. TIiobo unavoidable
results of tho further devastation of timber
are pointed out by all writers of forestry, and
history is full of warning examples
Wr. may Bay what wo plcaso about a literary
•tylo. but it must be admitted that women aro
far ahead when it comes to lottor writing. Tho
letters of such famous women as Mme. de Se-
vigne, Mino. Itccomier, Mme. Roland, Lady
Mary VTortley Montague, Miss Russell ami oth
ers aro unrivaled and unapproached by any
existing efforts of malo pons. Women of or
dinary intellectual capacity writo charming
letters, witty, Jaunty, dashed with tho individ
ualism of the writer, and characterized by the
vivacity, piquancy, tact, grace and personalty
common to tho gentler sex. Fortunately logio
has no place in letter writing, and a woman
may bo as fresh, natural anti goBsipy as she
pleases. Of late years it lias been remarked
that the women who succed in journalism are
generally correspondents. Tho lottor will al-
waps be an important feature in 1 terature and
in Journalism. It is conversation on paper,
and allows full play for egotism and arrogance,
Tlioro aro no rules of composition to hamper
one. There is simply an expression of facts
•nd opinions in the most natural way,
Tse horrible performances of the fanatical
soot known as tho Fonitonts, wlion they cele
brated Holy Week in New Moxico, baffles de
scription. That such cruel solf-tortures should
bo permitted in a civilized country seems
iucrediblo. On Easier Sunday the Fenitcnts
initiated a neophyte, a boy eighteen years old.
The boy wub firet rammed into a pair of tin
pantaloons. A sharp punch was then used to
perforata tho tin liko a grater, driving the
tin into tho flash at each blow. After this the
victim was stripped to tho wais’, dressed in a
pair of cotton drawers and marched through
the streets. Ho was flogged all the way by a
stalwart Penitent until the blood ran down his
back. But this is nothing. A short time ago
the Fomtents of Rio Arriba county tied ono of
thoir number with his own consent to a block
of iron and threw him into the river where he
was drowned amid shouts of frenzied delight
from his friends and relatives. In Taos oounty
la 1380 * fejiiWBt . cr«oiR©a bpSiwM
begged to die la that way. The religion!
freney of these people is simply Insanity. The
Catholics of New Mexioo are endeavoring to
Stamp out the Penitents, but they are sot
mooting with much success. It is supposed the
eeot originated in Spain, and was driven out
at tho time of tho revolution
At Cabsnca, Sicily, tho most colossal crlm-
Inal trial of modern times is now in progress,
Three hundred prisoners are on trial charged
with being members of tho Maffia secret society,
an order supposed to combine brigandage with
anarchism. About 1,600 witnesses have been
summoned for the proseention. The defend
ants, many of them, are wealthy and Influen
tial, and they have engaged 112 lawyers to de
fond them. The government finds that It baa
no publlo buildings sufficiently large for tho
trial, and the Benedictine ohuroh has been
•cloctsd as tho temporary courthouse
A mAcmOAb Joker may not tie a crane, ovs»
he Is fully as dangerous and Just as muoh of a
nuisance. He is always shooting people with
unloaded platols, and frightening women into
fits by playing ghost, and in short thoi 0 is no
end to his idiotic freaks, Some idea of the
extent of tho practical Joko business may ha
formed when it is stated that a Now York cigar
house keeps several hands constantly busy
making innocontlooking cigars with their Inte
riors charged with gunpowder, so arranged as
to cause an explosion after tho smoker lias on-
Joyed two or three puffs. These cigars are
ordered from Maine to Texas, from Booth Car
olina to California. O’Donovan liossa’s boast
that he had sent to England a lot of explosive
cigare to blow up Gladstone and his cabihot
may not bo an Idle ono. There is no telling
what damage might result from a box of cigari
all charged with dynamite.
SUMMARY OF CONGRESS;
Men late.
In the Somite Mr. Jonas, of Lotislann, Intro
duced a bill to appropriate 11,000,000 in aid of
the world's fair at New Orleans. A similar
bill was introduced in the HoU«e....Air.
Logan, from tho Judiciary committee, re
ported favorably on the bill teamen I the Con-
o’itution so its to empower tho President to
Veto one or more items of ail appropriation
Li 1 while approving the remainder of the bill.
... .The bill to provide a uniform SyBtom of
bankruptcy was amended and passou.
The bill was passed providing for tho gov
ernment and control of the Balnte Marie
Falls canal, which was given to the United
Sbites by ths State of Michigan, and also the
bill protecting Indian reservations from the
unlawful cutting of timber.... Tho Houso bill
providing for the establishment of a bureau
of animal industry and the extirpation of
g leuro-pneuntonla among cattle was substt-
ited for the Senate bill. Mr. Coke severely
criticised the department of agriculture for
spreading false reports of the nature of the
disease among Amorican cattle.
1 A bill wna reported favorably for the ad
mission of Tacoma os a State of the Union;
also the bill authorizing bridges across the
Kill von Kull....A bill was passed providing
for the disposal of abandonod m litary reser
vations— Tho bill wns passed amending the
revised statutes relating to trespassers on In
dian lan ls. It ad is imprisonment to tho fine
nlrcnd v provided for The Rebate continued
tho debate on tne bill to provide for a bureau
0° annual industry and to suporess cattlo dis
eases.
Homs,
’ three messages woro received from tho
President. The first recommended the ap
propriatioii of (886,620 to settlo the awards
made by tho French and American Claims
commission. The second recommended the
appropriation of $86,000 to pay tho ex|>cnses
while in this country of tho embn&sy from
Kinm which is soon U) arrive hero. Tno third
recommended tho appropriation ot $10,000 to
pav the oxpons s of the approa-hing Inter
national conference nt Washington to fix a
meridian proper to bo employed as a common
zero of longitude throughout tho globe.
The messages were referred.... '1 lie
bill to istablish a bureau of
lnlwr statistics wns amended and passed.
It provides for the establishment of a bureau
of labor statistics in charge of a commis
sioner nt a salary of $3,603, who shall acquire
nil useful information upon tho subject of
labor, its relation to capital, and the means
of promoting tho material, social, intellectual
atm moral prosperity of Inboring men and
women. He is authorized to employ such
employes ns he may doom necessary tor the
working of the bureau, provided that the
total expense shall not exccod $86,000 por
annum.
Mr. Mutchler moved to pnss a btllrepealing
the sections of tho revised statutes restricting
the terms of certain Presidential appointees
to four years. '1 h • appointees referred to are
district attorneys, territorial Judges, survey-
ors-generul, registers and receivers, collectors
n: d surveyors of customs, and presidential
postmasters. Tho motion, after considerable
debate, was losi A bill was passed creat
ing a bureau of navigation in tho treasury
department A bill was passed providing
thut all persons who have served throe
months or more in the military or
naval service of the United States
in nny war, and who, by reason of injuries
or disease originating ill that service, are un
able, in whole or in part, 1o earn a living by
manual labor, shall D> entitled to a 1 tension.
.... Bills were introduco.1 lor tho creation of
a silk culture bureau; to reduce the tax on
brandy distilled from fruits; granting a jien-
sion to (lie widow of Commander DoLong-
to tax tho manufacture and sulo of oleomar
garine: to promote education by carrying all
newspapers free of postage.
Tho naval appropriation bill and the post-
office appropriation bill, with .Senate amend
ments, were reported back from tho commit
tee on appropriations; non-conourrenco was
moved in ea h case nml objoctod to, and
both bills woro referred to tho committee of
the whole Tho Kansas < o.'itcstod ole tion
case of Wood against 1’eters was decided in
favor of Potors, tha sitting member.
Four reparts were submitted on the pro-
po ed woman’* suffrage consti; utional amend
ment, the majority report b jin' a lvo so...
The House concurred In the Senate ordnance
amendments to tha naval appropriation bill
and refi.sad to con ur in othor Scant) amend
ments Tho Senate amendments to tna
postoffice appropriation bill were non-co.i-
curred in
A Hot Region,
One of the hottest regions of the
earth is along the Persian gulf, where
little or no rain falls. At 11 fibrin the
arid shore has no fresh water, yet a
comparatively numerous population con
trives to live there, thanks to the copi
ous springs which burst forth from the
bottom of the sea. The fresh water is
got by diving. Tho diver, sitting in his
boat, winds a great goatskin bag around
his left arm, the hand grasping ite
mouth; then he takes in his hand a
heavy stone, to whioh is attached a
strong line, and, thus equipped, he
plnnges in and quickly reaches the bot
tom. Instantly opening the bag over
the strong jet of fresh water, he springs
np the ascending ourrent, at the same
time closing the bag, and is helped on
board. The stone is then hauled np,
and the diver, after taking breath,
plunges in again. The souroe of these
copious submarine springs is thought to
be in the green hills of Q8JBM1, flOflJO
600 or 000 wiles to twit, -
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Fa* tern and Middle Itatil
Fifteen out of the sixteen district dele-
fates to the Republican national convention
elected in New York are for Arthur.
An ocean steamship—the Oregon—lias Just
made the voyage from Queenstown to New
} °rk in six days, ton hours, ten mihutos, the
fastest time oh record.
A lack factory, the only one of Its kind In
the l-nited States, is about to be started at
»* ilkosbm-re, Penn.
TijEsocond annual exhibition of the Wo
men h Kilk Culture Association of the United
states was Owned m Horticultural hall,
Philadelphia. 1 he display is a great improve
tnent U)>on the association's first exhibition.
A PARTY consisting of Jacob Keefer and
his young son, George Hilllker and wife nnd
Nathaniel Wright, wore drowned while flail
ing for shad from a rowboat in the Hudson
near Verplank Point, N. Y.
There was a dotermi ed struggle between
the Arthur and the Jtlainu factions at the
New York F.epul lienn Ktato conventton,
hold In l.tico. Finally, hy a coalltlunle-
tween the Arthur and the 1 11 nullJs 111611,
fOurdelegatcS nt litrge favorable 10 I'.dmumli
Were el -ctellOfbu 1 alloual convention I y
votes ran ;mg trom 26 i to 4 72. Fenalor Mit-
hr roodvi d 243 voles, five less than a
majority of tho convention. Judges Andrews
(Republican! and Uapallo (Demnoratl, weie
renominated for Judges of tho court of ap
peals without a division. Presidential elec
tors were chosen, and a new Ktate committee
was nt)| minted. The latter Is divided hotwooU
tho blalnu and Arthur nu-n. The platform
approves tho administration of Fresi lent
Arthur, advocates protection, 0|,|>os b further
silvor coinage, und fuvors Federal aid for ed-
uea tonal purposes,
New Jersey UreCnhnrkon, nt their State
convent kn in Tronton, elec.ed four de'ogntes
nt large and foul torn d stri -t delegate' to
the Natirnol Greenback convention, field
in Indinnop ills May 28. All the dologatos
favor Uomral But or for l'rosldent
Umnrtructed delegates to the national
convention Were clioien by the Connection*
Republ.can Ktato con) en ion nt Harford,
anil resolutions were a lopteil praising 1 resi
dent Arthur, and do daring that if oc osion
should arise tho delegation would moot the
unan mous sentiment of the Republican par. y
ot the Hate by pr sontlng tho name of bene-
tor Hawley as candidate for President.
John H, Deane, a Now York lawyer, and
the largest builder of housei in the c ty, h.K
failed lor (..oj,uoo, lie bus erected over
1,000 buildings in the tin; er part of the city,
end 2,000 men have been employed at one
timo on his structures. His ns, eta aie
thought to bo larguiy in excess of his liabili-
tirs. Mr. Deanu is prom nintly identified
with the BnptiBt church, and has pre.srniodlo
institutions connected with that denomination
ovor $.600,000.
The Kngllsh sloop-of-wor Alert, presented
to tho United Ktates by the BHtl-h govern
ment, has arrived nt th) Brooklyn navy
yard. Ki.e is the stron.-cst vessel ever built
lor the English na< y.and in 187.6 went lurtbor
into the Arctic regions than any other vess 4
had over been. The Alert will a compuny
the othor vessels-tho Thetis and the Bear—
as a simply ship in the search for Lieutenant
Groely's Areti ■ ex|)edition.
Maine Grecnltt kers ni-emblrd In Ktate
conven'ion nt L- wi ton. nominated a fall
ticket headed by Dr. H. II. Eaton, for gov-
ernor chose fo r delegate'at large to the
lint cnal 1 oti' onti n in Indianlpoliq adopted
are-o.i.tion la.orlng the nomination of Gan
ernl But or for 1 roudent, nnd reaffirmed the
p nlform of tha Chi ago conv.-ntioa of 1HK0.
One of lh) large Fall River (Mass ) cotton
mills—Sagamore Mill No 1—lias been
l urne I to the ground. The fire is supposed
to havo been of incendiary origin. Kagauiore
mill wan a brink structure 2.60 foot long,
eiglitv foot wi le, nnd was live stories high.
It had 2.1,000 spindles and 050 looms. There
were about OOo t ales of cotton and a large
amount of finished cloth in tho basement.
Tno mill and u.anhiueiy were valued a*
$600,00'.
Governor Cleveland has sign-d the t 111
C ass d by the New York log stature prohibit-
lg the manufacture of oleomargarine.
Foreign.
Queen Victoria is again a grandmother,
her daughter-in-law. tl.o Duchess of Edin
burgh, having been delivered of a daught.-r.
A steamer containing 4-60 refugees from
Shendy, bound for lierber, Egypt, ran
aground on a sandbank nnd wns soon sur
rounded by swarms of rebels, who massacred
everybody on board.
Advices state that Kassala, Egypt, is sur
rounded by 0,000 rebels, who lire into the
town nightly. Usman Dignn, with 2,000 of
the False Frophot’s followers, is repoited to
bo again threatening Suaklm, and if he at
tacks that town numerous neutrals wifi Join
him against the hated Egyptians.
Men. women and children to the number
of 2,000 were ma-sacn d by El Mahdi’s Arabs
when they captured the town of Khendy.
Intkrviewh ore published with loaders of
the Irish fa tions in Paris. Patrick Casoy
advocates tlio dynamite war, James Ktevens
proposes an armed revolution, J0I111 O’Leary
favors opon rebellion against England, and
Father ilogan, of tho Catholic College of St
Kulpice, condemns the use of force and thinks
that hom i rule will bo tho panacea for Ire
land’s grievances.
While a performance was going on at the
Bidali cir.us in Bucharest, tne ryof of the
structure fell in upon tho spectators. Tho
lights were extinguished by tho crash, ami
a terrible panic ensued, which was increased
by an outbreak of fire. Five dead bod es
and 100 wounded were carried from tlio spot,
and many ]>eople were reported missing.
Huoo Schenk and Karl Hclilossnrek, who
murdered twenty servant girls, were hanged
in Vienna. Robbery was the incentive to the
murders, the victims lieing in every case in
duced by Kclienk, under promise of marriage,
to accompany him with their savings to somo
lonoly spot, where they were quietly put out
of tho way.
Widespread consternation, several fatali
ties, and great damage to property have ro-
sul ed from a sovere earthquake shock in tho
eastern countios of England. in a do.eu
towns people rushed from thoir houses in ter
ror as buildings, steeples, towers and chim
neys woro sent < rasliing to the ground: the
earth treinb'.o I perceptibly for milts around,
and in one town—Colchester—several stree;s
were rendered dangerous to traffic, so Ladly
had the buildings Ix-on shattered. The
shock was distinctly felt in London.
Washington.
Tne House committee on reform decided to
report adversely the bills for the repeal of the
civil service laws and to reduce the salaries
of tho President, cabinet officials, judgos of
the supreme court and Congresunen.
Representative Rosecrans has j repared
an amendment to tho pension appropriation
bill, providing that paymasters of the army
shall be detailed to act as pension agents.
General Hazen, chief signal officer, has
decided to establish a signal station in Ala-ka
at the head of Bristol bay. This will enable
observations to be made of tho great ti lal
waves that roll in upon tho coast at that
place, as well as of tho currents and the ordi
nary meteorological conditions.
Bv a resolutio 1 of the Senate tho commis
sioner of a'ri i.lt ire and the . ecretarv of the
Kmithsonian institute ha-.o been admitted to
the floor of that body.
By resolution of the .Senate the United
Ptate.5 has formally re ogni ed the African
International nswi tliou, which hy this act
become, lo this eo 11 ry one of th s estab-
ii hod governmeuisof tho world. This asso
ciation i ■ enga ed in opening up to commerce
tlie valley o: the Congo in Africa, and the
president is the king of Belgium, while the
chief exe.-utive officer is Stanley, the ex
plorer. It has already acquired much terri-
to Affi^
I The secretary of state. In a communication
to tho Kenate on tho production and consump
tion of wheat and other cereals, says that the
United States should tie drawn upon during
the present year for 177,000,000 bushels of
Wheat against 1118,000,000 bushels from all
other wheat-growing countries, ond that it
apnea!* that tho United Ktates, iitBtoad of
lieing controlled by, should be able to control
foreign markots.
The w< rk of laying stone on the Washing
ton monument hns been resumed nml will be
pushed to a completion during the coming
sea' on.
President Arthur has appointed Robert
D. Graham, of Koith Carolina, secretary of
tho civil servlco commission, vice William S.
ltoulhac resignol.
South and Weil
Governor Ordwat, of Dakota, has been
mm MONSTERS.
Younff Women Lured to their l)eatn>
.by Offers of Marriage.
Hugo Schenk, the monster in Human form
who murdered twenty rervont girls In Austria;
and his accomplice, Sclilossarek, have been
hanged In Vienna, Austria.
Bchenk, bis brother Carl and nchiossarek
for a long time pursued the calling of murder
as a regular trade and for the post three years
lived luxuriously on the profits of blood. Th*
Schenks, Silesians by birth, ore tho sons of a
Indicted by”the UnTteil HuSTSZa jSiTat 3 " dg °’ Who fl c “ u » od »» educated.
Yanktoti on a chargo of corruption in countv How ,he ^ firat 100,1 to tho occupation of mur
OteanDatioii. | der is not known, but the Vienna authorities
Julian Martinette. a circus clown, sixty- have discovered that they asnooiated them-
while performing in the* ring Lwfore'atenuSj * clv ® 3 with Sclilossarek, a confirmed crlml.
of people at Da^ tgn, Ohio, ’ “ J
About 200 fret of snow-shod on the Central
Pacific railroad near Truckoo, Cal., fell suil
donly. covering a working train and a num
ber of Chin's 'laborers. Six ( hinamen Wore
killed and five more s -rlously h.irt.
Bio oL wells havo boendis ovnro 1 noar Ma
rietta. Ubio, an 1 (-peculators nro flocking to
that sect;on in droves nml buying or leas
ing the laud for miles around.
Heavy rains caused a partial lmimlatlon of
Arkansas city, Ark,
Kalinkville, Ohio, is slowly sinking Into
tho earth. The town stands oil an immense
hill, which is undermined by several large
coal mines. A lew days since pooplo were
startled by observing their houses and yards
Sinking into tile ground, and hastily sought
taler quarters,
The bodies of tho 106 victims of tlio Poca
hontas (Vb.) mine disaster havo all bton re
covered.
H. B. HULnKRT.reoently deeea/od, leaves by
will over $1,000,(XXI to tlio city of Cleveland,
Ohio, for tlio purpo 0 of hullding an art
lery, and $;0j,^"
pltal.
lery. and $,00,000 to the Cleveland City hds-
The Mississippi Republican Ktate conven
tion at Jackson electod de.egales-at-large who
fas or Arthur.
Tme Mississippi Republicans, at their Ktate
convention in Jackson, elected unplodgod
delegates to the Chicago convention.
During a fit of insanity William Austin, of
Allen county. Ky., threw two of his littlo
children into the lire and stood by while they
burned to death. His wife seizou their third
child from its cradle and fled to tho woods.
The elecUpn in Louisiana lias resulted In a
victory foiffie Democratic tiorot, ht adod by
MeEnery'for governor, by a'oout 20,000 ma
jority.
Senator Mahonf. wns at the head of of
fairs in the Virginia Coalition convention,
hold at Richmond. The platform aduptod
declared emphatically for Arthur nnd pro
tection. and announced that tho name of tho
party hereafter would be the Republican
party, and that It would act in the luturo
with the Republican party in national poli
tics.
At the Iowa Democratic State convention
in BU: lingbon the ft ur delegates at large
chc sen for tlie national convention were un-
instmeted, but are understood to lie lor Til-
den. The platform adoptod eposes prohi
bition.
A fire in Cincinnati destroyed all but a
■mall portion of the Amori an Oak I,e ithor
tannery buildings, the largest cstibUdimrnt
of its kind in tho world. There Were 4.6,00.)
hide'in the factory, Four hundred per-ons
are thrown out of ctnpl .yinent and the pe
cuniary lore is ubout $40.1,000.
The Dakota Republican Territorial con
vention ole tod Blame delegates to Chicago,
and adopted a resolution in'tr..cting them to
veto for Blaine an 1 Lincoln as long as there
was a pcs Utility of their nomination.
At the Michigan Ripihlican convention,
held in Grand Rapids, delegates for nil tho
districts in the State were ele t il for tho Chi
cago convention. A11 but four of tho t\\ enty-
eiglit delegates aro for Klaino.
The Ohio Republican convention nt Cleve
land nominated a State ticket, four delegates
at large to tho Chicago convention, and
presidential electors. Tho delegates at large
are divided between Sherman and Blame.
The alternates chosen were all colored men.
Tlie platform adopted is outspoken for protec
tion. J. S. Robinson for secretary of slate
heads tho Ktato ticket nominat'd.
J. C. Burrows, of Michigan, who was re
cently nominated nnd continued as solicit r
of tho tr, asury, bus written to tiio ITesident
formally declining theollico.
APATHETIC JOURNAL.
I.stt Words of Dr. Ambler, of ths
Jeannette Expedition.
The journal of Dr. Ambler, mrgeon of the
Jeannette expedition, was introduced In evi
dence during Lieutenant Danenhowor's ex-
aminat'on before the House committee of in
quiry at Washington. 'J he doet. r s journal
was I ound on his body when tno iro/oi.
corpses of Commander DeLong and his coin-
anions were recovered by tlio search expedi
tion. Tho la.it entries in tho diary are at
follows:
Kijnday, 0th October, 18S1.—Yo tirilaj
without food, except tlio n.1 -ohol. The cap
tain spoke of giving the m m option to-day
of making thoir way as best they could; til ,t
he coul 1 not keep up. 'i his occurred in tlio
morning, when I10 had mode two miles Uial
wo had to retrace. I told him if he gqvo u 1
I took command, and that no one should
leave him ns long as l was alive. I then s ig
gested that we send two men ahead to try
and moke the settlement, and that wo mskc
the best of our way with the rest of 01.1
party. This wns dene. Nfndorman ami
Norosaro ahead. God give them aid and
wo aro getting ulong. Tlio captain gave mo
tlie option of going ahoul myself, bit I
thought my duty required 1110 to he with him
and the main tsidy rer the present. Leo is
about broken d ,w. 1. Alex:n has shot three
grouse by God’s aid and wo will have some
thing to eat
Wednesday, Octob r 12. 1841.—We have
been without food sine» Kuuday except one
ouneo of alcohol, one drum or give rine yes
terday and to day. Wo have made no 1 re
gress siiicj Monday up to 2 o’clock. W ind
nnd snow against u 1. We have been lying in
hollow in the liver bank.
October 18, 18S1.—Aiex® died last night of
exhaustion from hunger and expouire.
Thursday, October 20, 1881.
o Kdward Ambler, Esq., Markham l’ostof-
fice, Fauquier County, Va.
My Dear Brother: I wrote these few
fines, in the faint hope that by God s merci
lul providence they may rench >ou all al
liom“. 1 have myself now verv litt o ho ieol
suniving. We hive ben without food tor
nearly two wee'.s, with the exception of four
ptormegans among eloven o us; we’re grow
ing weaker, and ior more than a wo -k liuvs
had no load. We tan barely manage to gel
wood enough now to keep warm, and i:i a day
or twothit will be passe 1. 1 write to yoj
all—my mother, sist r, brother Cary and hit
wife and ’amily—to assure you of tho doef
love 1 now and nave al c ays borris you. ii
it had been God's will for mo to havo seei
you all ngain, 1 had hoped to once more.
My mother knows ho* mv heart hns beer
bound to hers since my larliest years. Goo
bless her on earth anu prolong, her life ir
peace and comfort. May His blessing rosi
upon you all. As for myself, I am resigned
and bow my head in submission to the Divim
will. My love to my sister and Brother Cary
God’s blessing on them and vuu. To all mj
friends and relations a long farewell, lei
tho Howards know i thought of them to tin
and her nieces were continually in mj
thought. God in His infinite mercy gran
that these lines may reach you. I write thoi
in full faith and confidence in the help of oul
Lord Jesus Christ, Your loving brother,
1 • h • J. w.
nnl, and with several other bad char
acters. It is not uncommon in Vienna
for servants who hare saved money to ad
vertise for husbands in the local papers, and
Hugo H.Jienk—a married man, living apart
from Ids wife—used to answer such adver
tisements, sometimes under pretence of being
an engineer in receipt of a good salary and
occasionally ns a wealthy aristocrat with con-
tempt for class prej idic-s. Ho would moet
tho girls by appointment, and, after paying
court ta them for a fowdoysor weeks, induce
the silly, trusting creatures to draw their
money out of the bank, anil, so provided, ac
'company him on a journey to get marrio 1.
HugoKchenk would get but at sjine roman
tic spot, where he had arranged that his ac
complices should bo in readiness, anil together
they wouh[ strangle or shout tlio girl, secure
her property, conceal her body nnd return
quickly to town, osdf nothing had happenel,
to (ilnn fresh murdo * nnd to carry out their
regular liusiue is of killing.
A man somewhat of Hugo’s stamp was ob*
served at one time, from a passing railway
train, struggling with a woman, not far from
l.unaontiUig, on the Northern railway of Aus
tria. Tho jinssongcrs were sure they saw tha
man in the act of raising Ills arm to stab tlie
woman with a dagger which he held in his
hand, but when the police arrived at the >p t
Indicated, both were gone, leaving not a tra e
behind. cV-henk afterward admitted that he
did murder a woman in that neighborhood.
There is littlo doubt that ho kinod a great
many women hreldo tlioso whoso disappear
ance has been reportoil to tlie tiolice. Two
are accounted for in May, dono todeathafter
four weeks’ courtship; ami at the f ine the
houso of Kclienk hail no fewrr than fifty oth
ers on (heir books, with all of wbom Hugo
corresponded ill lovclllco terms, whilolho in
timacy which wns to lend to their gravee, ri
pened. Hud these Austr an thugs continued
to conduct thoir frightful ond abominable
trnda with ordinary pnidinco the: mtgh' be
still at large: but cno of them, having lulled
a servant girl, had tho audacity to toko her
bank book to tho post-office, with the obj et
of drawing tho deposit standing to her credit.
Tho woman had been missed. Suspicion wns
naturaily aroused at tlie im«to lico, and the
throo principal members of tlie firm wore con
sequently arrested. The Kclienk broth ts and
Kcelossarek were placed on trial on the 12th
of lust month and convicted anil sent ‘need to
death. The sent n o of Carl Kch >nk, wbc
rooms to have been but a tool in tho hands of
tho two arch fiends, will probably bo com
muted to imnrlsoninent forlife. On tho trial
tho three murderers pi ailed "extjuuatng
circumstances.”
Tho method of executing murderers in
Austria isHouiowhat peculiar. Kixty persons
aro allowed to witness tlio execution, which
takes pln-e in u small courtyard Indilo tho
prison. A post ubout eight, feet, high is
erectod in the center of the yard. At the top
of tlio |x)*t Is a sm ill ho ik and nt tlie bottom
a pulley. The condemned man is brought
out at 7 o'clock In tlio morning precisely
anil placet with his back against one of tha
posts. He is not til'ndfot fed. In front of
him tlietroons and sport itors form an irregn-{
lar semi circle, while in tlie renter stand the
jiirlgoi of tho last court o'appeal, in ordinary
morning dress. Aft‘r so;re little time is oc
cupied by the rend ng of the senton'®, a slg*
nnl is givon by th 1 public prosecutor for the
oxecu ion to proceed. Two stops nre pin ed
nt tlie foot of n ) os’, which tho condemned is
hidden to mount, his linnds lieing then pin
ioned to bis lift thigh. Tho chief executioner
then mounts a la liter, and, taking out of his
no Wet 11 re; o with a loop at both unils, passes
It a: ound tho culprit's ho’k, and. securing a
knot under tho left, enr, tightens It. Meau-
wliilo one of ills assistants ties Id 1 leottige h r
with nnoth-r ro e. an I. pas ing it through
tho pi 1 ey, keeps the other end in his hand.'
Tho chief executioner then gives tho signal,
an 1. wi’h the aid of another as-lstant, the
condemned is Lf.o l by the rope attached to
ids neck about s x inches and hanged on the
hook at the top of tho post. The attendant,
holding the rope attached to his legs simul-
tancous y pinls with for e, while his chief
p arcs ills hands on tho f rlm'nnl’s mouth and
eyes. Kch n ,- and Bchii asnrek met til ‘ doom
in this uuuuiur.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC
John T. Raymond will act all summer,
Manitoba is his July objective point.
Koha France haa been ongagod by Law
fence Bun ett as soubrette ior uoxt season.
Hcalchi sang fifty tlinos this soaoon for
Abbey, oftenur thun any other song-bird of
his company.
Barrymore’s play, Nadjezda, will bo sent
on tlio road next season with a strong omi>
tional a-'tress us star.
Mrs. Charles Denison, a society lady of
Baltimore, will act at tlie Madison Square
theatre, Now York, next season.
Mli.k VanZandt, tho American prlma
donna, lias signed with Manager Mayor to
iiug in ojxira comiquo in London.
Gounod lias completed a now work, an
oratorio, which is entitled ’'Mora et Vita,”
and is a soquol to tho “Redemption."
The forest sceno in “May Bios om," per-
fonned at the Madison Square theatre, Now
York, lias a number of artificial birdj flying
nnd singing, all oporutod by wires in the
hands ot one mail.
Minnie Palmer was nrosentod to tho
Princo nnd Princoai of Wales durin ; tho per
formance of “My Kwo thourt” at the Royal
Ktiunii thoati'o, London. Match 21. Miss
Palmer tails for New York August 12.
All bora Bernhardt demands for an AmeiS
lean tour noxt season is $1'.00 for liei-solf for
each performance; also, all h*r oiponses from
Paris and back, and hotol and iravoling ex
penses, while here, in addition to tlie salaries
of the company. Tho inanagor to pay all
other expenses for theatre, advertising, ate.
American opera singers aro Just now on-
joying marked subcoss in Europe. In ad
dition to the triumphs of MUo. Nevada al
Purls in tho role of Lucia, an older favorite!
Mile. Albani, hns beau adding fro-h leaves to
her crown of laurels in G-trneny. In the
Traviata she has won golden opinions recently
at Antwerp, and Holland lies next m her path
of victory.
Fanny Horton, a once coleLrated octree-,
won her first aop’.anse in * so 101/hat singu
lar manner. During h»r i»-rfoinvince in a
j articular scene - hj was loudly biased, who’i,
advancing to tho footliglit-, she asked;
“Which do ^nu dis'iko-my playing or my
porson I"
. . „ tlo playing! was tne
answer from ail Darts of tin houso. “Well,’’
the returnod, “that consoles me: for playing
may be bettered, bnt my person I cannot
alter!" The audience were so struck with Pie
ingenuity of this retort that they immediately
ap ilaiidel as loud as they had the moment
„ before condemned hor, and from that night
last, and let Mrs. I eg ram also know that sh# Bho imoroved in her acting, and soon became
and her nieces were crmtinn*ll v in a fa *40rit0 with tho public.
It is said that Johu L. SulKyasi h von*
toad of goiiyj; to jpouad putfct T '
AorevlU* PoMoOUw, April V, IM»
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SudemlUe, Waahlo«(oa Comp* M
A. J. JERNIGANj
FBomam am Praunm
MmlytloBa —>*—
THE BANKRUPTCY LAWS.
Ijnoptls of the Kill Fatnbllstiln* m
Uniform fplem of Daenkruptcy.
The bill establishing a uniform system of
bankrupt 'y tlirougho.it the country ]MBsaJ
the Unit d State* Kenate by thirty-two yea*
to S)\ enteen nays.
The bill as pass d constitutes the so vend
distri t courts of tha United htatasand of tho
Territories and tho ftiprome court of tho Dis
trict of Columbia courts of bnukruptcy. For
tho purposes of bankruptcy the courts shall
be always opon
On the ap.ilii ation of any party interested
tho district judge may certify any question of
liw Involved to th > United btites circuit
court. Tho decision of the c rouit,court sha'I
not be reviewed by ths supreme court, ex -ept
u; on a < ortiUcatu of disagreement between
the tw.i circ lit .|u ti os.
Tlie bill authorizea the circuit court in each
judicial district to appoint commissioners
who shall have tho powers of the masterin'
clian. cry ; also a supervisor in bankruptcy
for each ju lie ini circuit to examine into the
admin Stratton of bankruptcy pro 'ceding* in
his circuit. Every 1 nrty 1 otitioning for
bankruptcy shall pay $60, and every trustee
shall pay ono per oont. of tha groan amount
ron i ed from the assets, nnd every debtor
miking a compo ition shall pay one-half of
one jior cent, oil tie 11 mount of Rurh coin[x>-
•iti jii. These I ocs nro to be paid by tlio (flerb
of the court Into tlio treasury of tho Unltel
Ktates.
Any person owing debts exceeding $306
•nd unable to pay may, by pulition, apply
to lie adjudicated a bankrupt, and tho tiling
of such petition snail be deemed an act of
bankr.io.oy. Any person owing debts ex
ceeding" $.',000 woe Laves his Ktate to avoid
bis creditors or conceals himself to avoid
arrest or we service of lagal process, or
makes • frxu ulont transfer of his property,
or suspends payment of his commercial paper
or open ac. aunts for thirty days after tho
same »re duo and payable, or who makes a
fraudulent pi ifernneo, shall be deemed to
have cu'.omitted an act of bankruptcy and
may ho adjudged a bankrupt on petition ot
threo or more of his creditors whose bill*
would amount in all to $200.
The bill excepts ami exempts in favor of tha
0(inkru;,t tho necessary and pron:r worring
apparel ot himsolf and family, and such other
property as may bo exempt 1 ruin attachment
by the laws of tho United Ktatei, or of the
Ktatsia which the bankruptcy preceding*
are instituted, and the court* may, from the
assets, allow tlie bankrupt a sum not to ex :
cee.l $800 for his support, pending the prof
ceedipgs, if his circumstances require It.
reasonable wages for any servicos rendered
his estate at tho request of his t- usteo and the
usual fees when attending as a witness
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Miss Parloa is giving lectures on cooking
in Detroit.
Mur Kartorir (Ncllio Grunt) will spmd
the summer at Newport.
Rev. T. DeWxtt'l’At.MAUE liaslio3npast')r
of tho Brooklyn Taliornaclo ten yeni-s.
John Bright says that, noxt to Milton, hi*
favorite reading is the poetry of Whittier.
Francis Murphy, tho tern mrance worker,
is about to attack the stronghold! of Mich
igan.
Mrs. Dubuyh, of i’ns. Christian, daughter
of General O. T. Hhermon, is the owner of
ono of the loveliest roso gardens In Missis
sippi. Hlie hns 2.60 varieties of roses in it.
Prehidbnt Arthur lias 11 cracker nnd •
cup of coffee for broiikfnst between nine anil
ten, and after that lie eats tear oly anything
until dinner lit eight. The dinner U always
good.
Mrh. Senatou Sherman is very quiet In
manner und Ins not any gray 4i iir, Ixflng
much younger th n hor husband. Sho is
fond of French literature, and hi religion she
is an Episcopalian.
Chief Justice Waite, of the United
States supreme court, is a short mm. nnd ho
wears a <(hinifhxl broad brim nod hat. The
face is a very i-treng ono. 'I lie chief justl e
turns his toes o it in a dainty way und
to iclics the ground with tlio wliolo Cat of tho
sole.
Henry Ward Beecher had a locture en
gageinciit at Kvnnston recently, und niissad
tlie train Irom Chicago. '1 he Chicago and
Northwi s'ern railwny offlcinD sent him to
Evanston on a sjieci 1 engine. Ho was on
hand at lh 1 lecture hour, but sulTored a mor-
tisyin; di-appointment by finding a small
audenoe-” ine smallest no has evor had,"
said his agont.
Caiiloh AuuKno, the Cuban revolutionar.
leader, is n imin liolow the medium height
and woighs only about 115 pounds. Holms
black curling hair, and a small mustache
which turns up at the ends. His smiles are
grim nnd there is a look of fierceness about
his face, but ordinarily lie is the most harm
less person imaginable in appearance. Ag-
uero belongs to u wealthy family in Puorto
Principe. He is not yet "thirty, lind 1ms been
in arms against Spanish authority in Cuba
almost continuously since lie was fourtoon.
It is narrated of Bismarck that ho has ac
quired French to a degree thut even tho high
er circles of society nt Genova or Kt. Peters
burg would hardly find fault with. Besides
this, lie knows sufficient English to come up
to ratiior high cxiiootntioiis, and understands'
enough Italian to linvo no difficulties with
tho newspapers of that country. With Polish
he is likewise acquainted, and Russian became
sufficiently familiar during his threo and
a half years' stay on the Neva to enable him
to converse in that language.
The emj re s of Austria, while recently at
a Wiesbaden hotel, spent her days in athlotio
training. I- ho seldom attended the concert*,
theatres, and tho other umusemeuts of the
fashionable watering-place, but a day rarely
pass' d wh ‘ii siio did not ride to some of the
suiTound ng chateaux or vfilages, avcom-
S Allied by her groom. Not content with
lose Ion ' rides, the empress devoted several
hours daily to fencing and gymnastic exer
cise , in which siio is suid to show more skill
and endurance than many a practised fencer
or gymnast.
The Bottom Sliding Down,
The Mississippi is said to be subject
to a new danger. Its botton is said to
be moving toward the Gulf of Mexioo.
Of oourse not the bottom for the entire
length, but the ooze and mud for many
hundred miles is sliding down, as it
were, and making the river shallower at
its outlets. Should this continue, and
man be unable to control it, the rivet
wonld in time be confined, as banka
would be formed at its month. This
wonld make a great lake out of portions
of Louisiana and Texas. Of course new
outlets wonld be formed, bnt in tho
meantime vast changes would occur in
the Mississippi Valley. Great cities
wonld be submerged. Lakes larger than
Superior or Ontario would oover regions
now occupied by farms and towns.
Still this need not conoera the present
generation. It wonld take many linn,
arsda, if not thousands of years to effect
these alterations, and then, perhaps,
meohanioal science and human resources
may be so developed as to enable man to
overoome, or at least modify, the slow
operations of nature.— Demorest’i
Monthly
A writer says: “For stimulant to
every faoulty, give me a strong enemy
rather than a weak friend.” Asa stimu
lant for one’s runninj; 'powers, oertalnly I
r&wnfMi f f I!