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Newspaper Page Textthe mercury, published evert tuesdav notice. communications Intended tor this pnper mast b* aoosmpanled with the fall p«me of the writs*, not neoeeearlly for publl. Mt ion, but u » guarantee of good faith. yf t u» in no way reeponelble for the Tlewi H opinion* of eorreepondenla. MERCURY. A. .T. JERNIGAN, Proprietor, DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. $1,50 per Annnm VOLUME V. SANDERS VILE E, GA„ TUESDAY, JUNE 3. 1884. NUMBER! THE MERCURY/ denvtllo Postofflos, April 9, Saademllle, Waahlngloa CmVb rmnm ww ■ a. j. jbrnigan; raoraiwron in rum ■■■ Bn beerlptlon.p» Wm* E- S. LANGMAOE, Attorney at Law, BANDER3VILLE, GA. MAYORS O. H. ROGERS. CLEEK <6 2XUASUHU11. D. E. B, WELLS. MA HSU ALL. J. E. WEDDON. ALDJ21tMUA\ W. II, LAWSON, Wm. RAWLINGS, S. (t. LANG, A. M. MAYO, M, II. BOYER. 'Jon n of 2ennilte. Mayor—John (J. Harman, Aldermen - W. I*. Divio, J. W. Smith, P. J. Pipkin, T. J. Beck. Clerk—S. II. B Massey. Marshall—J. C. Hamilton. MUSIC, MUSIC JERNIG-AN THK rOIlKTOWN MONUMENT. Work la progressing on the Vorktown mono, mont. A wharf has been built to land the ma terial, and a temporary railroad track la being oonatruetod from thero to the aito of the mon ument. DEMOCRATIC (STATE CONVENTION, The New York Democratic State Convention will bo lield the middle of June. An effort will be made between now and then by the State Commtttee to learn whether or not Gov. Til- den would accept the nomination. PLENTY OF noun. Already arrangements aro making for the ahipments of gold to this country on account of heavy purchases of gtock for foreign ac count. .There never was ao much monoy in the country aa tlioru is to-day, and a dollar will buy moro of almost anything than at any pe riod in tho last ten years. WOOL UHOIVGKS, Tho wool-growers of the United States met at Chicago tho other day in "national mass- meeting." The gist of a long string of resolu tions adopted was "wo will not support any party or political candidate until it or ho has clearly dcllnod its or his position in favor of tho roitoration of said tariff." — 1 ■ FOR ■- Bows, Strings, Rosin Boxes, Etc. 0- 0- BROWN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Bundenvllle, am * Will pract ice In the Stats end United MeW Courts, Office In Oonrt-honee, Watches, Clocks And JEWELRY REPAIRED BT jrERXTXCAIT. Dr. H. B. Hollifield, rsniGMH AID SIMM, Having recently graduated at the Univer sity o 1 Maiylanil and returned home, now eflers tils protesalonal aervloea to the citizens of Hamlersvllle and vlolnlty. Offloe with Dr. H. N Holllfleld, next door tofMrs. Bayne's millinery store. secrets, and this one locked in tho bosems of manufacturers, from whence wild horses could not tear it A ehap in Davonnort wu lucky enough to tickle the popular paiato with ms brand, made np with that speculative inten tion. He cleared a very oomfortablo fortano in a few months. A Chicago firm Binco thon has risen into competency from next to noth ing in the same way, In faot, tho wholo busi ness is full of instances of sudden risos into wealth. The present largest manufacturers in this country of cigarottcs—which, by tho way, are not selling so enormously—began business six or seven years ago in a moat humblo way and are millionaires to-day. Tho chief owner of the biggest faotorv in the world down in Virginia, was a struggling peddler half a de cade ago. QUERN OK HANOVER. Tlio Queen of Hanover lias just a dozen "front names," as Artcmua Ward would call then,. Tho full list, as attached to tiro recent royal decree announcing her sixty-eixth birth day, is: Alexandria Mariah Wilholmlna Cath- crino Charlotte Thcrcssa Henrietta Louisa i’auliuo Elizabeth Frederica Qcorglua THE HHAN8IIOPPEU. It has frequently been stated that the South has to import everything it needs, hence it ig cheering to hear that in Alabama, a nativo grasshopper is doing groat damage to the crops. Ho is said to bo an improvement on the im ported Itocky Mountain locust. Homo iusti- tutioug should be encouraged. OI.KOMAKUARINK. The Boston Journal says that tho weekly »»lc* of oloomargarlno in that city amount to 100,000 or 150,000 imunds, that ail the regular Jobbing stores down town keep it for sale for Just what it is at prices ranging from twelve to twenty cents a pound. A choice article can he bought for fifteen cents, and it is largely con sumed in manufacturing communities IIU KINO ENG. A recent meeting of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society in Philadelphia was made unusually attractive by tho presence of a very pretty young lady from China, Miss Hu King Eng. Dressed in tho amplo flowing robes of silk, all exquisitely embroidered, and silk slip pers of the Celestials, tho young lady wag lookod upon with pride and delight by the el derly Methodists as a very precious convert to Christinnity. Miss Hu King Eng, who is only 18 years old, comos to this country to enter the girl's department of tho Ohio Wesleyan Uni versity, at Delaware, O. AUSTRALIA AH A HEALTH RESORT. Except for thoso who may havo wealthy friends living in tho interior in a favorable locality, Australia has been practically found not to iio a suitable place for invalids. Any ono who has made acquaintance with a bush hotel would bo slow to recommend it as a resi dence, even to a man in health, and would cer tainly adviso an invalid to avoid it. Ilia moat eminent physician in Molhourns lias rcontly stated that out of hundrods wiih weak lungs who had consulted him during a period of twenty-flvo years, not ono of them who had remained on the coast had materially im proved. TUB WORLD’S GREAT DELLS. Russia is in the lead in the lino of bells, some of her manufacture being the most famous of the world. It is said I hat in Moscow alone, before the great fire, thoro were no fewer than 1,706 large bells. One calleH the Giant, which was cast in tho sixteenth century and broken by falling from its support, and recast in 1654, iras so largo that it required twenty-four men to ring it; its weight waB estimated at 288,000 pounds. It was suspended from an immonse beam at the foot of a bell-tower, but it again fell during the Are of Juno 10, 1700, and was a Bccond timo broken to fragments, which wero used with additional materials in 1732 ill cast ing ,he King of Bells, still to be seen in Mos cow. Some falling timber in the lire of 1737 broke a picco from its side, which lias nover been rcplaoed. This bell is estimated to weigh 443,732 pounds ; it is nineteen feet three inohes high, and measures around tho margin sixty foet nlno inches. Its valuo in meta' alone is estimated to amount to upward o 9300,(100. St. Iran's, also in Moscow, is forty feet nine Inrhea in circumforonco, sixteen and I tiorilixld ^lfiy'20^ i'77.’>] one-half inches thick, and weighs 127,830 pounds. The bells of China rank next to those of Russia in sizo. In Pekin thoro aro seven bells, each of which, according to Father LcCompt, weighs 120,000 pounds. The weight of tho leading great belie of tho world may be soen in tho following: King of Bells (Moscow) 443,732 St. Ivan's (Moscow) ,127,880 Pekin 120,000 Vienna 40,000 Olnuitz (Bohemia) 40,000 Rouen (Franoc) 40,000 St. Paul’s..... 88,470 "Big Bon” (Westminster) 80,350 Montreal 28,600 St. Peter (Rome) 18,000 NEWS OF THE WEEK. Eastern and middle States- Onic mnn was instantly killed, and six more wero injured l>y a collision between two trains at Wheeling Junction, forty miles from Pittsburg, Penn. Ferdinand Ward, of tho suspended Arm of Grant & Ward, was arrested on complaint of J. Nelson Tanpmi, chamberlain of New York city, who cunrged him with obtaining 1320,000 on false pretenses. After a continuous run of several days tho Penn hunk, of Pittsburg, I’oiiu., closed its doom. Fiftv thousand children took part in tho flfty-flftli anniversary walk of tho Brooklyn Bunday-Bchool union. Ex-Judge Wei co ot R. Beebe, seventy years of ago, tho oldest practitioner In tho United Slnlcs district and circuit courts, was struck by a locomotive near Plainlield, N. J., and crushed to death. Ferdinand Ward was taken to Ludlow Street jail, New York, and installed In the quartoi-s once occupied by William M. Tweed. Five now bishops were consecrn «1 at the Methodist Episcopal General conference, in Philadelphia. Chahi.es A. Hinckley, paying teller of the West Hide Imnk, of New York, dlsap- I.cared from his desk and homo, Investiga- '.ion by tho bank officers showed t-lmt there was good reason for Hinckley's disappear slice, ns ho hud stolen 980,000 of tho institu tion’s fluids. By a collision between two trains at a crots- Ing near Rochester, N. Y., seven sleeping cam wero thrown from the track, and twenty per sons wero injured, including Prince Yarnn. shinn, a Jnpancoe youth of sixteen on his way to study in England, niul cloven of his suite South mill WoM, TnE British ship Syria has been wrecked at tho Fiji Islands. Seventy of her passengers all coolies, were drowned. Ten men caught trying to wreck trains in Mexico wore summarily shot by tho authorl* ties. News comes from Rt. Johns, N. F., that a French brig, with sixty-two souls on board, has been lost at sea. Floods have great ly damaged property in Rtviin and drowned about twenty persona. Renators Pendleton, Hampton, Butler, Vance mid Hansom, and Representatives Dowd, Evans and Bennett wero present at Charlotte, N. (J.. whore Hoimtor Pendleton delivered an oration on the ouo hundred aiul ninth anniversary of the Declaration of Inde pendence, signed by residents of that neigh- SUMMARY OF CONGRESS. Billsjwore passed as follows: For a nubile building nt Jacksonville, Fla., 9175,00.1: ono at Vicksburg, Miss., 9100,000; one nt Cliut- Tiie late Cyrus II. McCormick, of Chicago, eft nil estate valued at $10,000,000. Eighteen boys after playing ball noar Har- rodsburg, liy., started in search of wild parsnips, but got hold of tho deadly hemlock Instoiui. Tho Ixiys wore taken violently iU. Two of them died almost immediately, five wero not expected to live, and tlio others suf fered severely. A woman nnd her three children were drowned, and two young moil were injured by tho fall of a bridge across tho Bcioto river at Portsmouth, Oliio. Washington. A Run-coMMimtE of the Houg: comm if lea in naval affairs has reported a bill providing for tho appropriation of $10(1,IKK) for tlio re lief of tlio officers and crews of tho United States sloop-of-wnr Cumberland and the United States steamer Monitor, engaged In action with tho Confederate steamer Merrimao In Hampton Bonds on March 8 and 0, 1862. The state do|iartment has received word from our minister in Mexico that tho Mexican government appropriated $101,000 for the purpose of taking part in tlio World’s Indus trial nnd Cotton Exposition at Now Orleans next Decomber. At n meeting of the House committee on tonooga, Tenn., 9100,080; one nt Opelousn, I military affairs, Representative Slocum was ),0')0; one at Troy, N. Y.,$175,(KX); I instructed to report fr G. W H WHITAKER. DENTIST SanderevUle, da. TERMS CASH. Office at Ills Residence, on Harris streak April W. 1880. H. N. HOLLIFIELD, Physician and Surgeon, ■aadenrvUis, •*. Office next doer to Kid Bayne* Millinery store on Harris streak BUY YOUR SPECTACLES, SPECTACLE^, FROM JERNICAfJ, Hone genuine without onr Trade Mart, On hand and for sale. bpegtaclkh. nose glasses, etc. Machine Needles, Oil and Shuttles, For all KINDS OF MACHINES, for Bale. I will also order parts of Machines that got broken, for wliloh new pieoea are wanted. A. J. JERNIGAN. QUEEN VIUTOniA. Queen Victoria is ovidoutly tlio mother-in- law of tho story and tlio play. Tlio Crown Prince of Germany seldom if ever visits her, becanso they don’t "get along." Princess Al exandria, only by her sweetness of temper managee to kocp affairs tolcrablo. Tlio Duch ess of Edinburgh, tho lato Czar’s daughter, had a row with her about precedence in less than a week after her arrival in England, and the Marquis of Lorno was snubbed out of his boots and led a dog's lifo until ho escaped to Canada to get away from it. Her dissolution of her son-in-law, tho Orand Duke Louis’ mes alliance with the Russian woman and hor com pelling him to fulfill his contract with hor daughter Boatrioo, is further proof that she is a mother-in-law whom it won’t do Nr a man to fool with. TIIK PEST OF FLIES. An Iowa lady writeB to an exchange: “For three years I have lived in town, and during that time my sitting-room has been free from flies, throe only walking about my breakfast tablo, while all my neighbors’ rooms are crowd ed. I ofton congratulate myself on my escape, but novor know tho reason of it until a few days ago. I then had occasion to.remove my goods to another house, while I remained on for a few days longer. Among other tilings removed wero the boxes of geraniums and oal- colarias, which stood in, my window, being open to its full extent, top and bottom. The boxcB were not gone- half an hour whon my room was as fuU of flios as those of my neigh bors around me. This, to me, was a new dis covery, and perhaps it may sorve to encourage others in that which is always a source of pleasure, namely, window gardening. Mig nonette, planted in long, shallow boxes, placed La.,9'10, ono nt Portland, Oregon, $250,0 K); ono at Sacramento, Cal., $1(10,000; ono nt Axlio- villo, N. •(!., $100,000; ono nt Saratoga Springs,N. Y., $100,601; one at Dayton, Ohio, $160,000; one at Springfield, Ohio, $101,6(11. Bdls were also passed appropriating 9'*,000 for tho oroction of a public building on govern ment property at Fortress Monroe, and $3 500 for tlio erection of necessary buildings, i eluding a gymnasium on the government res ervation at West Point, N. Y....Petitions wero presented with regard to government oiitrol of tlio telegraph both advene an t fa vorable. Tlio Senate debated without action tlio jjill to establish a bureau of labor statistics — A bill was passed making tlio Cantilever bridge over tho Niagara river a post route—The pension appropriation Dill was reported, with amendments... .The hill provides for the ro- appropriation of tlio unexiiendod balnnco of the appropriation for invalid |x-iisious for the current year (estimated nt $66,000.0 0) and for the appropriation of nn additional 926,000,000 for tho payment of pensions: $50),( 0 > for fees of examining surgeons; $336,200 for the pay and allowances of pension agents, and tl i.UOJ for tho contingent expenses of pension agen cies. The bill for the establishment of n bureau of labor statistics was passed. As it camo from the House it provided for a separate bu reau. independent of any department, some what in the manner of the department of ag riculture. In tho Senate an amendment offered by Mr. Aldrich, hi the nature of a substitute, was passed. This substitute makes the bureau an appenduge merely of the interior department. It provides for tlio appointment of a commis sioner of labor, to servo for four years, at a salary of 93,030 a year, lie is changed wit', tlio collection of information regarding labor, its relation to capital, tlio hours of labor, the earnings of laboring men nnd wonion, etc. The total exponsesof tho bureau are not to ex ceed 9-25,( 00 a year... .Tho Senate passed the invalid pension bill as reported from tho com mittee. House. Aftora stormy dobnto the House decided the *■ K. Hines, O. H. ROOM* HINES & ROGERS, Attorneys at Law, 8ANDER8VILLE, QA., Jfffi practice In the oountles of Washington »n^ e . rBon , Johnson, Emanuel and Wilkinson, toot n' U ' 8 - CourtB lor tb * Southern Dls- iJu! 11 ® ot assents In baying, rolling o» ®wl Estate. °_»on r Waat aide of Publlo Square. isn't favorably his bill provid ing that honorably discharged soldiers or tailors shall lie preferred for ap|X)intiiient to civil offices when they are found to [xissoss tlio necessary business capacity. A htatuk of Martin Luther was unvoilod in Washington, a few ilnys since, before n great throng. Supremo Court Justice Miller I iresided, and tlio opening oration was do- Ivered by Senator Conger, of Michigan. Tim House committee on, agriculture de cided to report aducrsoly a resolution niipro- S rioting $ .5,603 for the purchase of seeds for Istribution among tlio sufferers by the over flow of tlio Mississippi river and its tribu taries. A MORTGAGE by General Grant to William II. Vanderbilt, on the general's two houses in Washington, lias been filed. The mortgage is to Rx-iiru the sum of $150,0(0, loaned to Grant by Vanderbilt. The House committee on pensions agreed to report favorably a bill providing for the payment of a pension of $40 |xu- month to the widow of Captain De Ixing. The secretary of the' treasury lias issued tho 128th call for the redemption of bonds Tlio call ’a for $10,0 0,000 three por cent ixnids Issued uial -r the net of Congress approved July 12, 1882. Notice was given that tho principal and accrued interest would bo raid ut the treasury of the United States on Juno 30, 1881, and Mint tlio interest on tho Ixmds would cease on that day. George H. Levis opened n banking nnd broker's ofllco in Washington a year ago and was remarkably successful, many government ofilcials putting their surplus cash with him for investment. A few days ago ix-vis disap peared, mid his customers uro out about $200,- 000. TnE report of tlio Sonata committee on postoffices ami post roads, prepared by Sena tor Hill, oil tlio subject of the postal telegraph has been finally adopted. The eommitteo is ap parently in favor of building a government line, and sots forth tho advantages of such a project. Mr. Corcoran, tlio AVashington pliiinn- MISCELLANEOUS. —Tho Presbyterian General Assembly, at Saratoga, adopted a report on Sabbath observ ance, in which, among other things, Sunday newspapers, Sunday travel and taking mail matter from tho Post Ufllco on that day were disapproved of. —In tho General Conference of the Method ist Episcopal Church, at Philadelphia, a report was adopted favoring a complete legal prohibi tion of tho liqnor trafllo. —It is bolieved that the recent warohonao fires in Liverpool wore of incendiary origin. —Two anarchists wero expelled on Sunday from France. One was a l’olo, the otlior an Italian. —The quarrel between Nopani and Thibet lias now bocome so embittered that war is im minent. —’The American Lacrosse team scored a victory over their British opponents, tho gamo being played near Liverpool. —The town of Boi-Bazar, in Asia Minor, was burned down. —Two hundred robots bombarded Ruakim, tho attack lasting ono hour. Two inhabitants were wounded, and tlio rebels succeeded in stealing 1,600 sheep. —Five sf the Harlem Railroad Company’s ear shops at Tremont, N. Y., wero burned on Bunday. Tho loss is estimated at 9200,000. —Tlio Chickasaw Indian National Council are about to pretest against the bill in Cun- gri as to mako iho uogio half-breeds on their ro- servo logal Chickasaw*. —The treasnror of Marlon comity, Ind.,was arrested In Chicago etiarged with dcfa’calion —Railroad- iu Kansas arevufforing ftom in juries inflicted by a waterspout. —A sad end to an elopemont. took place in Oreoabrlar comity, Va. Tho fugitives wire caught on the river by tho girl’s father anil In the straggle which followed the fathoraudtho lover were drowned, —Boxing Is to form part of tlio gymnastic exercises of French anil English soldiers. —Cairo advices state that tho preparations for tlio Khartoum expedition for Gen Gordon's relief include equipment* for 18,000 man, 40 •team launches, 400 shallow dranght Imats and several thousand camels. It il doubtful whether tho expedition will ho ready to start before tho end of August. Tho officers of the army of Egypt aro getting furloughs until the end of July. —Tlio Shore end of tlio Oommorelal Com pally'* new cable wo* enthusiastically rooolvod at ltockport, M .s*. The town enjoyod a gen- oral holiday, with boll ringing, oaiinon firing and music playing, closing with a banquet iu the evening. —Mail communication with Mexico will here after ho through tho Mexican Central Railway. —Ill tho Indiana contested oloction cane tho House voted to scat Mr. English by a vote of 130 to 12'. —John Oeliman.hia wife and a grown daugh ter wero burned in their farm four miles from Portsmouth, Ohio. —In Philadelphia William A Prioe was con victed of passing flve-dollar notes wliloh wero so cut ami pa tod that thirtoon wero made out of twolvo. -The wool spinners of Licgnltz, In Prussian Silesia, have brought their strike to a success ful termination, hilt tho strike among tho building trades in Leipsio still continues. —A largo flowing well of petroleum has Just been struck at Hwantow, Pomerania, which yiolils fifty per cont* of pure oil. Tho nearness of this locality to tho Raitio sea affards cheap and abundant transportation. —The statements that the Trincoof Wales is receiving the olose attention of tlio Fenians during lii* stay in Paris aro declared to bo un true. —Fourteen Spanish officer* have been tried by court-martial for desertion. —In the Jeannetto investigation on Satnrday Captain Do Long's journal was reforred to in the argttmenk Mrs. Do Long and hor little daughter, ten or twelve years old, were pres ent. At the reference to the Journal the Tomer, art* had been iu dally attrodauee at the committee’s meeting, was uffWtcd to tears. Judge Arnoni described the finding of the book, and cloqnently spoke of its last ontry: "Mr. Collins la dying." He con tinued, "Captain De Long was found frozen bofore the remains of a fire, leaning upon ono hand. The other hand rested on his side and tlio palm outtumed behind him. Tho book hail fallen from his hand when tlio last pathetic entry was mado in that lonrnal that will stand e a monument to the dead official's heroism. —Mr. and Mr*. Smith attended a ieetnro given at Monroe, N. Y., and returned homo about 10:30 o’clock p. m. As Mr. Bmlth was putting up his horse he was attacked by a tramp. Mrs. Smith was killed by a pistol shot and Mr. Smith robbed of 9250. —A fight is expeoted In the groat Northwest, as tho Indians aro indignant at numerous broken pledges. —Tho will of C. H. McCormick, the Chicago reaper manufacturer, disposes or an estate of 910,000,000. —The Methodist F.plsonpal Oenoral Confer ence eleoted oflleer* and passed • a resolution icoommeiiding tlio establishment of evangel izing agencies among the Roman Catholic* in tills country. —Miss Rebecca Jones, tlie witness who was committed to Ludlow Htroet jail for oontempf of Conrt in refusing to answer certain qnos- tions in the Hanioraley will case, declares she will remain in prison nntll the resurrection be fore slio will testify. —A locomotive was started north at Meehan- iesvlllo, on the Delaware and Hudson road, by some unknown porsou Monday night. It soon mot a south bound oxpross train. Both en gines wore demolished aud several train halide seriously injured —Tlio ohiof feature of Interest In the Presby terian General Assembly, at Saratoga wu tlio reception of delegate* from tlio Southern Pros- bytoriau and Reformed churches. —Tlio third animal exhibition of bottlers’ machinery and supplies will bo hold In Olncin nati from November 4 to 8. —James W. Crystal lias recovered a venliot of 98,000 against tlio Troy A Boston Railroad Company for injuries sustained by Ills omul, who was crippled fur life at Uuualok Falla. —A London oorrospondont has Innrviowod Mr. W. H. Vanderbilt, who said ho was not nirpriscd at tho Wall Htroet panic and that it was merely tho result ofxivordoing business, TIIKel'FNMION LAWN. Preposed Chnnaea In be Made by the United Mime* ConareM'. WIT AND WISDOM. Indiana contested election case of English I ^hropist, ; ins mskisi Congress to erect a monu- against Poelle,tho sitting member, -m favor of I mont Piorro E’Enfont, tho French engineer the former by 130 yeas to 127 nays. A rosolu- I j laid out tho city of Washington. t; nn .... mir,.lii,.,„l l.v Mr Havnn omnower- I , ,, General Hhkridan advocates tho concen tration of tlio greater part of tho army to cer tain central posts, from which troops can easily bo sent wherever they are Deeded tion was introduced by Mr. Bayno empower ing tho committee on rules to report wnethcr or not AViffiam H. English, futher of tho successful contestant, had not violated tho privileges of tho floor. Mr. Hammond offered nn amendment Mr. Bayne’s resolution, intrusting tho inves tigation to a select committee ot' seven mem bers, to be appointed by tho Speaker, anil re quiring it further to inquire whether nny ox- member employed as agent or attorney in any contested election case, or for any railroad or itlier corporation having any claim pending, nas, during this session, abused tho privileges allowed him under rule thirty-four, anil re port who they are and how they have abused the privileges. Adopted. * Mr. Kollogg offered a resolution reciting that in tlio investigation ns to tho prosecution of the star re-uto cases before tlio committee on expenditures in tho deixirtment of justice, evidence lias been given which reflected ujion his character, nnd directing that com-* mittee to investigate the subject of . his alleged connection with tho the window sill, will bo found excellent for route service, and whether ho received this purpose.” TOBACCO as a speculative medium. Does anybody know that tobacco is one of the greatest speculative mediums? Probably fow outside of the trade know that any little manufacturer of cigars runs a chance of strik ing a lead that followed up ends in a fortune in a remarkably short period. It is in this wise: Every maker is on the hunt all .the time for a leaf that has either in flavor, color, strength, or some other point an individual identity among the rest in the bale. Having found it-and it Is no ea B y ta B k to do so-he works it up into cigars, and under as good and catching a name as his fancy will*, puts them on tho market. If the dear public find the Whatevor-its-namc-is brand to its liking, wby generally tho hit is a great one, and the happy manufacturer can’t turn the brand ont fas enough. Carping cynics might say it doesn t matter at this state whether the original brand money for services rendered in a matter pond ing before one of tho departments of tho gov ernment, or whether bo paid monoy to any officer on account of or in connection with said service. Upon motion of Mr. Hammond the resolution was referred to the committee on tho judiciary. Forty-six pension bills wero passed at tho evening session. Saves an Express Tra'n. A prravel train on the West Shore Railroad ran off the track near the Port Jackson sta tion. The engineer, Henry Lasher, or Hope- well Junction, Dutchos* county, was killed, and the conductor and brakesmen seriously hurt. Before dying the engineer made a superhuman effort to wave a ehirt to stop the express, which was accomplished. Some 300 feet of trace yat torn up. Floods In Hpein.. Murcia is the prinoipai oity damaged by the flood* which have'been prevailing in the south eastern part of Spain. The roads throughput the inundated district are impassable. Bridges have been "destroyed and travel on the rail- roads suspended. Twenty persons are mlssiug fnh*nco is used or not—the name sells the an d it is supposed that they have been c!g«! True onough i end every trade it. * drowned, The flood, ex. gradroUy subatdmg. Foreign. A serious collision took place in Linares, Mexico, between government troops and officials and tho jxjoplo. The Spanish cortos was opened by a speech from the throne in which Kin;; Alfonso said that hereafter the representative at London would have tho rank of minister instead of ambassador. George Peters, a laborer li vine at Hhar- bot Lake, a villago in Ontario, whilo dnink threw a lighted lamp on the floor, nnd the next instant his frame house was on fire. Peters, a Miss Brogdcn anil Ellon Peters, ail eight-year-old girl, w^ro burned te death. Mrs. Peters mid her sister Maggie were injured beyond hope of recovery. Many houses have been destroyed by a fire in Kief, Russia Imhense damage to property has been done by a cyclone in Burmnh. Several ve.ssols were driven ashore and a lighthouse disappeared. A Rio Janeiro (Brazil) dispatch says that tho emancipation of the city is moving ac tively. Every two or three days the covering of a street with loaves, tho waving of lings from windows, tlio discoursing of more or lass sweet sounds from bands, a course of speech- making, and tho equally inevitable vivas nnd rockets announce to the passers that some street or square lias cleared itself of slavery. The excitement among the slaves is great: nothing is heard among them but the talk of the freedom they expect to re ceive atoneo, and on tho plantations,although the excitement is less openly displayed, it is intense. A religious festival in celebration of the five hundredth anniversary of the death of John Wycliffo was inaugurated yesterday in England. Naval and military expeditions are being prepared in England for the relief of Khar toum. Hanlan, the champion American oarsman, defeated Lnycock, the Australian champion, bv half a boat length, in a match «t Sidney, New South Wales. —King Leopold gavo a grand banquet Wed nesday night to King William and Queen Emma of Holland. Tlio King of tlio Belgians drank to tho liouiih or the royal gnusU. King William, returning tlio compliment, drank to the greatness of Belgium. He xaid it wo* tho first timo the two king*, who wero born in the iiime city, had mot in their birthplace end ex changed goal wishes. —Messrs. Milncs’ wood yards at Aberdeen, Scotland, wero destroyed by lire Wednesday The loss is i!50,U00. —'The Spanish Chamber of Deputies elected Count Toreno President by a vote of 24U to 10. —A definite rupture i* said to liavo occurred between Prince Jerome nnd Prince Victor Na- poloun. —French grain duties, with tho oxcoption of wheat, arc to bo increased, and the duty on cattle and slieep is doubled, —A terr.flc cyclonp ban occurred at Akyab, Britixli Bin-mail. Oyster Reef Lighthouse lias disappeared. Sovcral vessels wore driven ashore, but American Insurers are not sup posed to bo interested. Immonse damage to property i* reported. —Emancipation i* progressing in Rio Janeiro, llio city ward*, one after another, voting to abolish slavery. —Severe shocks of earihquako were felt throughout tlio Peninsula of Oyziens, Asia Minor. Bcvera' villages were damaged. Many houses were destroyed and twenty poisons were killed. —At the close of tho Wyoliffe celebration the Earl of Shaftesbury dcltvored a milogistio speech on tho lifo of the great refornaor. —Mr. Foster, M. P. for Bradford, refused to attend the Bradford demonstration in favor of tlio Franohiso bill. —Tlie English government has no intention of proposing a revival of the dual control over Egypt. —Tho Anchor lino steamer Castalia wont aground off Denia, Spain. —Soventy coolies were drowned in the wreck of tlio Syria ot tlio Fiji Islands, —A reward lias beer, offered for tlio discov ery of the author* of tlio fire in tlie Liverpool cotton warehouses. —Tlio death of Salomon Louis Hvman, tho distinguished Belgian litterateur anil publicist, is announced from Brussel*. The cattlo plague lias reappeared in tho Odessa district in the most virulent form. Tlio greater portion of tho town of Akyab, in British Burniah, struck on Wednesday by a terrilio cyolono, was destroyed. —Tlio French aro throwing troops into Madagascar anil making othor preparation* to crush the Hovas. Mr. Corcoran lias asked Congress to orcot a monument to Pierre L'Enfant, tlio French engineer who laid out tlio city of Washington The Senate passed tlie Invalid Pension bill as reported from the Committee. —A mixed train on the Pan Handle Railroad collided with a freigiit train at Wheeling Junc tion, forty mile* from Pittsburg, l*a., Wednes day morning, killing ono m*n anil injuring six other*. The mixed traiu, consisting of eight freight car* and a passenger caboose, was back ing to a side track ami a flagman hail been sent buck to notify tlio freigiit, but owing to a fog the ci gineer did not roe him in time to avert tlie accident, and tho freight crushed into tlie engine and caboose. —Fordinand Wsril, of the firm of Grant A Ward, Was arrested lato Wednesday afternoon by Deputy Sheriff James Brown and brought to Now York city. The arrest was mado on a civil process, but it could not be ascertained by whom tho warrant was issued. Tho bail was fixed at 9300.000, and Ward was unable to fur. nish sureties. —The Indians in the great Northwest are calling a general gathering of the tribes to ob tain a redress of their grievances. — Fifty thousand children were in line in the light flivi-lons of tlie Sunday-school parade in Brooklyn, N. Y., on Wednesday. -^General Grant, it is announced, lias de' ilined to reot ivo back the property he tinned over to Mr. William H. Vanderbilt in payment ot the loan of 9150,000 made before Grant A Ward failed. —The Penn Bank, of Pittsburg, Pa., closed its doors at half-past twelve p. ot, Wednesday. Senator Witoliell reported favorably to the Bcnate from the Committee on Pensions, witli amendments, the bill inlnsliiced by him early in tlie session to provldo for tlio amendment, of tlio pension taws in con formity with tlio suggestions niado by tlio Commissioner nf Pensions in his last aim mil report. As modified, the bill provides that ull female iinr.es who served for a period of ninety duy* ill the late wnr, shall be un titled to' receive a pension of 98 per mouth, and that ali snob nurses who wore disabled in such boi vice .hall bo entitled to receive a pen sion at I lie aamo rate a* is now paid to private soldiois who incurred a like disability. It oxtcmla tlie provisions of tho pension laws, so as to include a* their bonefl- ciaries scouts and certain quartermasters’ em ployees wlio rendered hazardous sorvico dur ing tlie late war. It provides that tlie com mencement of tlio increase of pension slml! in cases in which the disability is perma nent dato from tlie time of filling tlie appli cation therefor, instead of as uow from the dato of the ctn tificalo of tlio examining sur geon. It also provides that iu case of tlio dentil of an invalid pensioner, or of any per son entitled to an invalid pension, who bus an application for sueli pension ponding, the ac crual pension duo at the data of tlio death of such person shall lie paid to tlie sur viving relative or relatives of Hticli poison, but shall not bo considered a part of tho assets of tile deocased nor subject to application to tlio payment of debt* against his estate. It pro vides, however, (hat such accrual ponsion may bo assigned by a pensioner prior to hi* death. DO aHKigneu uy u jioiiniwuur jmui hj hid uuuwi. with tlie knowledge of a pension agent and tiuder tlie rules of tiie Pension Office; aud that in siioli case payment shall b* mado to tlio legal representative of tlie pensioner. it provide* that tlio act of March 3, 1877, which provided for tho removal of the dis abilities of those who, having participated in tiie rebellion, have since enlisted in the army of the Unital Stab s and become disablod there, shall be amended so as to include those who undor like circumstances have enlisted in tiie navy or the marine corps of the United States. It also provides that tho act of Jane 17, 1878, shall be so amended as to provide that all perso s who havo incurred such permanent and total disability in the line of duty as to re quire tho regular personal aid and atteudanoe of another person sliall be entitled to a pension of 972 per month; with arrearages from June 17, 1878, il such total disability existed at (bat date. Tlie bill also provides for the creation of a comnussion for the purpose of soltling accounts now existing between tlie United States and agents for tho paj ment of pousions and for tlio extension to Unitod States pension agouts of tlie privilege of the poualty envelope. The kenue Vales for n Labor Bureau The Labor Statistics Bureau bill passed by the U. S. Senate was Mr. Aldrich's substitute for tho House bill, and is as follows: So it enacted that tlioro shall be estab lished in the Department of tlio Intorior a Bureau of Labor, which sliall bo undor tho charge of a Commissioner of Labor, who sliall lie appointed by tlie President, by anil with the advice and consent of the Senate. Tlie Commissioner of Labor sliall hold his office for four years, and until his successor shall lie ap point' il and qualified, nulesB sooner removed, and shall receive a salary of 92,000 a yea' . Tho Commissioner shall collect information upon the subject of labor, its relations to capital, tiie hours of labor, and the earnings of laboring men and women, and tho means of promoting their material, social, intellectual anil moral prosperity. Tlie Secretary of tlie Interior sliall appoint a chief clerk, who sliall receive a palary of 92,000 per annum, and such other employees as may he ncces sary for the said Bureau. Fran led that the total expenses shall not exceed « 25 000 per annum. During the necessary absence of the Commissioner, or when the office sliall become vacant, tlie chief clerk shall perform the duties of Commissioner. The Commissioner shall an nually make a repoit in writing, to the Secretary of the Interior of the informa tion collected anil collated by him. and contain ing such lecommendalions as he may deem calculated to promote tlie efficiency of the Bu reau. _ Mlxtj-two Live* Lost. The French brig Scnorilie sank on the east ern ledge of the Great liauks sometime in the first week of May. Au English trading schoon er, which recently arrived, brought in a por tion of her wreckage—trunks, bedding, and clothing—all identifying the lost vessel Senor- inc. She sailed from St. Slalo, France, Maroh 6. bound to St. Pierre, Miq., laden with a gen eral cargo. The crew of nine men, with fifty- three passengers, all perished In an ovation at a hotel an inn-ov*» tion? Wiiat Is It to bo wise ? ’Tls but to know how little can be known, To see all othors' faults, and feel otnr own. Hr that calls a man nngratefnl sum* np all the evil that a man can be guilty A Dradwood mob recently lynohed a man because he said the town was nn* cultured. People seldom improve when they have uo other model but themeelvM to copy after. An Irish lover remarked: "It’a » very giro* pleasure to be alone, especially when your sweetheart is wid ye,* It is now believed that Courtney la the author of that beautiful elegise poerq be- ginning: "Ailliotion’s oar long time he boro.” Hrnbk shines with a double luster when it is Bet in humility. An able and yet hnmblo man is a jewel worth a kingdom. A New York paper says shoes have gone np ilvo cents a pair, wholesale. We suppose this means about fifty oenta e pnir retail. iNQUiBrnvK .nooplo are the funnels of conversation; they do not take in any thing for their own use, but merely to pass it to another. A man has no more right to -ay an nn* oivil thing than to sol one; no more right to say a rude tiling to another than to knock him down. No, Alfred, we don’t know why they call it the quarter deck, unless it ie bo os u ho the enptnin walks back and fro and two nnd fourth on it. If a man him n right to be proad of anything it is of n good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of ft. Doctors say that people would be healthier if they ate more onions. Un doubtedly thoy would. It would keep them from going ont nights. Stuanob that tho Cincinnati newt* papers did not take advantage of the Hood and olaim their oity as the heat *caport iu these United States. Ask a nownjmpor proprietor whioh he considers tho handsomest types of American beauty, nnd he’ll answer those used in display advortisemeuts. A colored barber in Idaho has drawn the color line; he refused to shave In dians. - He evidently thinks himself bet ter than the American Government. It is imiiossihle to make people un derstand tlioir ignorance, for it requires knowledge to percoivo it; and, there fore, ho that cau peroeive it bath it not, Bauy said to his mother, |who had false teeth : "Mamma, yon are very lucky.” "Why, my denr?” "Because, your tooth ache you can pull them out at once.” It is said that every human being is accnmpnuiod thronah lifo by a good and bad angel, who strive for mastery over him. How lazy somo person's good nugols Ruera to be. A Quaker's advice to his son on his wedding day; "When thee went a- courting I told tlioe to keep thy eyes wide open. Now that thee art married tell thee to keep them half shut.” A Philadelphia mau compels his augliter to oat onions evory night for upper, nnd Uiub assures himself that he an shut the house at 10 o'clock with out locking in a strange young man. "Can you steer tho maiumnRt down tlio forecastle stair ?" iwk a sea oaptain of a now hand. "Yes, sir, I can if yon will stand below and coil it up." Cap tain didn’t catechise that man any more, Washington men must be very fttngy. At the grand receptions there very many of tlio ladies wear dresses which show very plainly that the makers did not have material enough to finish them at the top. In tlie xprinR tlio good wile’s fancy turns to JiotlKliil M tiiiiiigiitH of cicnning lioiiao. In tliopiiog tlm dainty maiden diggoth greens and catotli sniiso; In tlie spring tlio young man tliinketli—would I lind a little wi'e I But lie Kcontctli not tlio troubles that must wait on man led life. The worst pun of the season; "So yon pay your husband loves you, Mary?” "Oh, bo dotes wildly upon me.” “In deed; but he'll soon get over that.” "What makes you think so?” “Because mnn generally soon get oversowing their wild ilotos.” linjtossible to 8>ee Uie Doctor, Tho othor day a Uismnrck gentleman was coming up from Standing Book, and stopped to see a man who jives uear the Cannon Ball River. In response to a knock nt the door he heard n shrill, sharp ’’Ciimo in!” and, on entering, found a sharp-faced, nngular woman sit ting iu tho room under an open scuttle hole leading into the loft above, with a shotgun on her knee. "Is the gentleman of the house in? be asked. "Yes, sir; be air. "Can I see him a moment ?" "No, sir; you can’t see a hide nor a bnirof’im.” “Why can’t I, madam ? I would bke to speak to him on business.” “IT you was a (lyin’, aud Jim war the only doctor in Dakoty, yo’ oouldn’t sot an eye on him till he gives in an’ talks decent. At dinner, a while ago, he told mo to pass 'im the apple soss, an’ I tol’ him it wasn’t soss, but sass, an’ he said he knowed better, it was boss, an’ I tol him that w’en he tuk a notion that a lit tle apple sass’d feel soothin’ to his stom ach to say so, an’ he said he’d have that soss or die. Then I tol' him I’d defend that sass with life, an’ made a break for the shotgun, an’ he made a break up through the scuttle inter the Joft. When his senses come to him, an’ ‘he gives in that sass is sass, he kin cam down; bat if he makes a break afore that, oflf goes the top of his head. Thar sets the aasa, stranger, an’ thar’s Jim np in the loft, an’ that’s the way matters stand jist now, an’ I reckon you’d better mosey along an’ not get mixed inter the row." As the gentleman moved away he heard her voice saying: "Jim, w’en you get tired o’ yer dura foolin’ an’ want this sass, jes’ squeal out 1” And a gruff voice from the darksome garret replied: "Boas I"

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Mercury. (Sandersville, Ga.) 1880-1???, June 03, 1884, Image 1