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THE MERCURY.
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A. .1. JEKNKJAX, Proprietor,
VOLUME V.
J
DEVOTED TO LTTKHATUKE, AGHrOULTlJttE AND GENl’.llAI, INTELLIGENCE.
SANDERSVILLE, GA., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER <), 1884.
1? 1.50 per Annum,
NUMBER W.
THE MERCURY.
Entered m second-cl am matter at the Baa
Uemvllle Postofflce, April 27,18M.
Snnrtersvlllc, Wflsliiaslon County, Ga*
FUBLIHHKD BT
A. J. JERNIGAN,
PmipnirroH and l-CHUSHM.
Hubsorlrtlon II.SO ptt Tai
c. C BROWN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Bandersvllle, Qa.
O. IT. Roger*
HINES & ROGERS,
Attorneys at Law,
SANDERSVILLE, QA.,
Will practice In the counties of Washington,
Jefferson, Johnson, Emanuel and Wilkinson,
and In the U. H. Court* for the Southern Dis
trict of Georgia.
Will net ‘«h a.'cnU In buying, iolllng ot
renting [teal Estate.
oince on West side of Public Bquare.
Out ll-tf
II. I». KVANH.
II. D. KVANH. Jl?
EVA-VuS & EVA1VS,
Atti>rm>,vH t I.mv.
SANDKIlHVlI.r.E, ti.V.
Fi ll. SAFF0LI)~
ATTORNEY AT .LAW,
SANDERSVILLE.
>\ill prm't CO in all the Gnttrls «»r th Middle
< i ■ '»it and i i tin* mmitiis hummmling
W.i liin^toii, Spf ciitl nUi ntion given to coin.
i i ■ o il law.
I?. 1, HARRIS,
AT TORN KV \ ITVVV,
HANDGUSViU.K, OA.
Will practice in all tin, Cmirt- of tlic inM.II
circnlt, mill in tic cnnnti'.i siirrum tin ■
Hpivial ntt! Ilium glvi II III Cl 111-
tncrcinl Inn.
DU. J. II. MAY,
SANDEIISVli l.i:. (1A.
I >.'• IS his *-'fv ires to tin citl/cni of Hand r
' ill* and a.IJftccnt coiinti y. Ml .mIU day - j-
ni^lit. will In* prom] tlv n upiuuli I to. oil ,
•>' • > * iv i.l,, ,i„ Mm. Pittman's lot, com, i
II mia and Chinch at.,• U janl'.-lHSItl.
MEDIC AL.
I ,'c»pcctfiilly infirm the pulilic Hint I nm
Pi'cpnrcil tu nil,.r i,iv piul'i-..iniinl rviccn t„
t ■.•in, mi l n.A nf 111,• 111 .i imtiiinnc .
Olfl <n I h liu .. Injun l’ii agio's ntnri.
"Iicrc I nm. It i mil I rlaj 01 night.
ANimmV .i. lit win. jr. n.
tnml rn.il!'-, (. Mulch. Ini.
H, N flOLLIFIELD,
Physician and Surgeon,
tfanilrrartlln. O.
otift not (h or t« Jtnu Raju«*« wtidneiy
Dr. !l. B. Hollificld,
m iiueoi,
Having recontly graduated st the ITnlver
iP.v <d M .iyl .nd and returned homo, now
«•/!,-in his pi,.;t*HKloiial soi vices to th#* citizen
ol HamloiKVllle and vicinity. Olllco with
Dr. 11 N HollltleW, next door to|Mia. i/.iync'-
milIIticry stole.
0. w. H. WilirAKER.
DENTIST,
Bumlersvllle, Ga.
T/SJtMS CASH.
Savannah* Ca.
ft ft
I conceded to ho tin most comfortable ai ,1
by far tlu-boat conducted Hotel in Kavnnnnli.
Rates, S2 00 Per Day.
JEItNIGAN
ijiim, m/uui.ni,uiu j
Bows, Strings,
Rosin Boxes, Etc-
Watches, Clocks
And JEWELRY
REPAIRED BY
JEniTiGArr.
I! I V VOI lt
SPEIT1CLSS, MM,
FROM
J E R ft I G A n ,
Non© genuine without our Trade Mark
Du hand and for sale*
SPEcr.V'!’N. NOSE GLASSES. ETC.
Machine Meedlos,
Oil and Shuttles,
ro, . ! -A !• I. KINDS OF MACIIINI'H, fur tile.
* Will also order parts o' M-chines
that get broken, for which new
pieces are wanted.
A, -F, .TA-JHIVIOAIV
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Paper Hhlrtn.
Tap^r shirts aro a new invention. Tho
0801,1 of this novel garmont consists of seven
layers, of which one can bo torn off every day,
on tho blotting-pad principle, exposing a clean
while surface in its place. A still more enter-
prising inventor is now trying to perfect a
plan for printing installments of a sensational
novel of thrilling interest on tho hack of cacli
Of tho layers, lie shrewdly expects that, hav
ing once commenced tho talo, tho wearer of
tlio pad-shirt will be unable to wail a day fof
tho next installin' nt, and so lie tempted to peel
otl tho successive layers of his shirt‘front at
moro frequent intervals.
TFmv n C ounterfeit Cnn he Detected.
A circular i*Mic<| by the United States Treas
ury •biinVrfcit Detector status that tho new
con nt orbit tcn-dollar Treasury note, which
' VflR recently reported as of tho series of 1878,
is of 1876 instead. In some respects this coun
terfeit is very well exccutod, while in others
the work is very bad. All Treasury nob s of
tho series of 1875 aro printed on the flbro paper
itnoun as tho Wilcox patent. Tho flbro has
the appearance of coarse black hairs scattered
through tho paper, without regard to regular
ity, and may readily bo seen in the open panel
cm the hack of tho note. Tho counterfeiters
could not got this paper, but an attempt has
been made to imitate it by printing black lines
ou tho surface. Tho difference between tho
black lines and tho flbro can be readily detected
by the use of a magnifying glass or by tearing
the paper across ono of tho fibres. In tho
border at the top of the genuino note, tlioj
Words ^ “This note is a legal tender for ten
dollars,” ore distinctly separated from oach
other. In tho counterfeit tho letter “a” and
word “legal” form ono word as do tho two
words “for” and ten.” Tho last four letter*
of tho word “printing” in tho lino below tho
one referre i to aro in italics in tho counterfeit,'
wiiilo the bolunco of tho lino is in Roman.
Tho red ink used on tho counterfeit is poor
and of Urick-rod color, whilo the ink on tho
original is of a bright carmine. Tho geomet
rical latho work in tho upper left hand corner
of the counterfeit surrounding the “X” is
good, whilo that on tho upper right hand cor
ner is very poor, and tho lines in tho work can
not bo traced ns they con in the genuine hills.
On tho back of tho counterfeit tho word “This,”
beginning tho phraso 'This note is a legal
tender,” etc., is printed “Tma.” There aro
other slight errors in tho printed law on the
buck of tho counterfeit, There aro no coun
terfeit# on tho serios of 1809, lb78 and 1880.
S ITnw tipnnfrn nr* Taken.
J. Tlio vessels engaged in this business vary In
iizc from live to sixty tons. Those vessels ara
supplied with small boats or “dinkies”, ono
boat to every two men. Thero is ono man
extra who cooks for the crew and takes charge
of the vessel whilo tho small boats aro spong
ing. 'J ho outfit of a small boat consists of a
fpongo hook attached to tho end of a long
polo, water glass (this is a wooden bucket with
the bottom removed and a glass inserted in its
place), sculling oar, otc. Ono man takos
ckargo of the sculling oar, and propels tho
boat, whilo tho other is In the bow of tho boat,
with his breast lying over tho gunwale a littlo
to one side, looks through tho wator-glnsi with
his head in the bucket, which floats upon the
surface of tliu water. Tho water beneath tho
gift** is calm, and objoota aro magnified ao
that one can seo distinctly all objects upon tho
bottom in water six or eight fathoms deep,
and over an area that will cover a quarter of
an aero at ono view. Tho sponges aro usually
attached to rocks upon the bottom. When the
man looking through tho glass sees one, ho
plunges tho polo with tho hook attached, to
tho bottom, fastens it to tho sponge, tears it
loose, raises it to the surface, and places it in
tho l»out. If, after being severed from tho
bottom, it is dropped from tho hook boforo it
reaches the surface of tho wator, it sinks and
is lout; but once reaching tho surface and com
ing in contact with the air, it floats for a time.
Each sponge is enveloped in a thin, dirty look
ing membrane, and the sponge itself is full of
animal life, Jcily-liko in appcaranco. Those
aro placed upon tho decks of tho larger boats
until a sufllciont quantity is obtained; then
they are placed in pens or krauls made in shal
low water. Here they remain from four to
ten days,according to temperature,preparatory
to tho cleansing process, which is accom
plished by thoroughly beating tho sponge with
a club, and af erwards carefully washing all—
by this time—tho filth out of them. They are
afterwards strung into bnnohos averaging
about one and a half pounds. They are put
upon the market in this condition. Key Weal
buys about eight-tenths of all that are taken
in Florida waters. They usually bring about
ono dollur and fifty cents a pound. Thero are
supposed to bo about three hundred sail
vessels engaged in this business upon the va
rious spongebars in Florida waters.
A Year of Plenty,
The crops this year aro unexampled. In
abundance, variety and excellence they aro
without parallel. Jt is truly a year of plenty.
In cotton, grasses, coi n, fruit, vegetables th#
yield lias boon enormous. Will the surplus we
havo made bo prudently gathered and care
fully husbanded ? We fear not. Tho south
ern farmer is not a great saver. Tho very
affluence of his soil and the mildness of his
climato lias made hint careless and lavish. It
is hardly too much to say that millions of
bushels of peaches will rot on tho trees in tho
southern country this year, and millions of dol
lars bo sent out of tho states next winter to
buy canned and preserved peaches from the
north. Rich and succulent grasses will wasto
by tho thousands of tons for tho lack of curing
and our stock be wintered on western hay at
$2U a ton. Even corn itself will bo fed lav
ishly or wasted, and next year tho farmer will
buy corn of his commission merchant and pay
forty per cent interest on tho nuney. There
is no computing tho value tlie rich crops of
this year would bo to tho south if they vera
prudently used and the surplus carefully put
away. Many a farmer will make enough corn
to do him two or three years, and fodder, that
if cured properly would bo sweet and whola*
eoino food for bis cattlo four years hence. If
there wore ensilage pits on each small farm/
they might bo filled this season and enough:
f< rage laid away at a nominal cost to entry
forty or fifty cattle through tho winter, If
our surplus peaches, pear#, tomatoes, berrlog
and vegetables were preserved or canned or
pickled, we would keep millions of dollars at
home next winter that iu now sent away for
tho refuse of other markets. If our grasses
were cured and packed, wo should not hr,vo
train loads of western hay draining our farm
ers’ pockets and impoverishing our stato nextj
fail. Tho barn is the important feature in
southern farm economy this year. The hay
rick, tho ensilage pit, tho fodder-stack, tho
preserves’ closet, aro the points to which tho.'
farmer should address himself. Tlio crops aro
assured iu exceeding fullness and variety. Man
and beast cannot possibly exhaust them. It is
a simple question as to whether tlio enormous
lorplui wti}bj trntod or WVjd* R it Ja i*v$d£
it will stand an a resource against tho possible
short crops of two or threo years. If wasted,
this grand harvest that providence seems to
havo exhausted itself on, will result in simply
a short season of lavish extravagance, and
then empty barns, poor Btock, and another
season of dependence. That man is the be no
factor now, who leads tho way in saving tho
surplus of tho season’s richness, and who
makes plain tho methods by which tho pro-i
duco not needed for the present, can bo stored
away cheaply and safely, to supplement tho
harvest of tlio poor seasons that must follow
this wonderfully rich ono.
Cnmplior Drop* for Cholern.
As tho season is upon us when nttacks of
cholera morbus and kindred diseases aro pre
valent, we publish a simple remedy which was
issued in handbill form by tho Ilibcrninn lYinU
ing C*fflce, Dublin, Ireland, during tho severo
visitation of tho cholera in 18:10, and was tho
means of saving thousands of lives. It was
also used with valuable effect in 1848, and wo
would advise its uso again should that epi
demic visit our shores. In any ease, however,
no harm could be done by having it in tho
houso during the warm months : "Dissolve
ono ounco of camphor in six ounces of spirits
nt wine and give a small bottle* of it to any in
telligent person in your neighborhood who
will undertake to administer it to his poor
neighbors when they aro seized with cholera or
any of its symptoms, without deviating in tho
slightest degree from the following instruc
tions: When any person i# seized with symp
toms of cholera, such as vomiting, purging,
sudden weakness, coldness, cramps or spa-ins,
do not give him brandy or whisky or any kin I
of medicine whatever, put him to bed ut once,
covering him warmly, but not overloading
him with bedclothes, mid as boon an you pos
sibly can lot tho patient take two drops (not
more) of the camphor mixHiro on a little
pounded sugar in a spoonful of cold or iced
,water. In live minutes after let him take a
second dose of two drops in tho same way, ami
in five minutes more repeat tho same thing.
He is then to wait ten or fifteen minutes to me
whether or not thero is a sense of returning
warmth, with a disposition toward perspiration
and manifest decrease of sickness, cramps, etc.,
etc., when, if necessary, ho must tako two
drops, as before, and repeat tho dose every five
minutes until twelvo or fourteen drops havo
been taken. In administering this remedy you
must particularly observe that if tho patient
takes anything of any sort or kind, i xcept cold
or iced water while tho medicine is intended to
operate, its whole effect will bo destroyed, for
tho least foreign modicino neutralizes tho cam
phor, which is given to cheek vomiting and to
produco a free, warm perspiration. The uso of
cold or iced water is given on the advice of the
late celebrated and successful Dr. Piddock, of
London, who always allowed his patients to
drink cold or iced water, as it tends to promote
free perspiration, and also the abundant dis
charge of yellow bile.” Tho patient must not
bo allowed to rise and expose him or herself to
tho slightest degree of cold and should not l>o
tormented with baths, steamings or rubbing
of any kind, but permitted to lio still, as ho
will full asleep when perspiration comes on,
and after some hours will, with God’s assist
ance, awake well, though weak and languid
and perhaps a little feverish, in which caso ho
may get a dose, say a tenspoonful of Gregory’s
powder or rhubard and magnesia, with a littlo
peppermint water or weak sal volatile and
water to wash it down, but must be kept quiet,
taking only a littlo soup, broth or gruel for a
day or two. Lord Ponsonby, writing to his
brother, tho Bishop of Derry, stated that to
his own knowledge these camphor drops had
proved to bo a certain cure for cholera, both
in Franco and Germany, whenever taken in
lime, and tho cure is generally effected boforo
it is possible to procuro a physician—that is,
In lees than an hour.
LATER MWS.
Four Hungarian*—two inc\E and their
wives—worn found with iheirakulls fractured
in a shanty near Dubois, Pnnn. Robbery was
tho motive of tho crime.
A kihe which broke out in n stahlo at
(’yuthinim, Ivy., resulted in the death <>f one
man—u stable hand and thirteen blooded
horses valued at $25,0 >0.
A hehious negro uprising was reported to
Atlanta from Dawson, Terrell county, Ga..
and tho governor of Georgia ordcre l sevoral
companies of militia to tho scone of Histurb
anco. A train com. ying tho military to
Dawson was wrecked near that town by oh.
struct ions that lmd boon placed upon the
track. Tho trouble grow out of a dotennin i
tion on tho part of tlio colored people t» pro
vent tlio hanging of u negro who had born
sentenced to deatli for assaulting n whit
worn- n.
Tin: Jh nk <>f V.... U r, nt Windsor, \
has siisjx :. led, bu thodep Min:a will u
ably bo paid in full.
Investigation shows that millions of acres
of the public domain in the West have b»cn
illegally fenced in by cattle companies, whil ■
additional millions have boon framin' i'i
entered at the government land oMWs. and
thus been taken possession <>f. In many «:.s ••
entire counties have boon illegally fenced in or
fraudulently entered.
A world's convention of tho Young Men’s
Christian associations has been held in Ber
lin, about sixty dologatos from America at
tending.
Advices from Wcs'.eru Africa say that
smallpox is raging at (.'■oom.assie, in \-h m-
teo. Tho king of tho country recently died,
and 800 subjects were killed nttlio funeral in
his honor. A now king hns been appointed,
and tho Aslmnteo chiefs hawa.sk d that the
country bo annexed to tho English possessions
because of his notorious cruelty.
Cholera is on the increase in Italy, numer
ous deaths and many new caste being re
ported in v ark m places daily.
Tiie Chinese arsonul at Foo-liaw was do*
gtroyol nftera three hours* bombardment by
Admiral Courbet’s French squadron. Tlio
firing began at two o’clock in tho afternoon
and ceased at eight I*, m. Seven Chinese,
gunboats were sunk and two escaped. Only
one Chinese battery replied to tho French
fire, but did no damage. Tho European set
tlemcnt was undisturbed.
A KIKE in Rnwa, Austria, destroyed 800
houses and rendered 8 000 |>coplo homeless.
Fire hns also destroyed 114 dwellings and 887
farms in and nlxrnt the large market town of
Rozwadow, Austrian Galicia. The harvest,
which had just been gathered, was all con
sumed.
—Oct many and England have another causo
for quarrelling in regard to tho appropriation
of territory in West Africa.
—A Gnutella mare correspondent cables that
there is an alarming increase in Italy in num
ber of cholera cases.
—Soldier* from Berber report that 030
Egyptian officers and soldiors aro in the hands
of tlie rebels, who treat them as slaves. Tho
rebels pray for tlio Mnluli instead of for tlio
Sultan, and declare tho Turks heathen who
aru to be killed or expelled.
—R. Weinnch, a large sugar dealer and re
finer, of Vienna, lias failed for £4,000,000.
Overproduction of beetroot sugar, which lm*
declined ten shillings per ton, i# tho cau#o of
lb Weiuriob'i uubQn'&wmeut,
LATEST NEWS NOTES.
Happenings of Interest to All,
At Home and Abroad.
—Tho Nebraska Republican State Conven
tion nominated James W. Dawes for Governor
With a full State ticket.
— Ex-Senator S. C. l’nmoroy, of Kansas, who
war nominated for President of the American
Party, at the Convention held in Chicago on
Juno 20 and 21, has withdrawn in favor of St.
John.
—^Tlio Anti - Monopoly Greenback-LaIku
Party of Illinois nominated Jesse Harper lor
Governor, with a full State ticket.
—Gov. Ireland, of Te xas, was no. nrrested
bv a United States marshal, an proposed, be
cause the latter found bis warrant inoperative.
—Tho Second National Rafik of X**nin, Ohio,
succumbed to tho effects of speculation in
Brain.
— Richard Tweed, son of William M. Tweed,
of New York, died iu a madhouse in Paris,
lie left no property.
— A negro named Jones was lmnged at Daw
son, (in., for a criminal assault.
—Messrs. Rt. John and Dnnioll, candidates
of the National Prohibition party for President
and Vit e-l’n rident, were formally notified of
their nomination, ut Cuba, N. Y.
~The payments from tho U. R. Treasury
(luting August amount to $25,000.000. Tills in
cludes about $10,000,000 on account of pen
sions and about $2,600,000 on account of
awaids made by tho Court of OommLesioner#
of Alabama claims.
—Tho doty in which Traynor expected to
cross the Atlantic is now at Rt. Pierro, Micuuo-
Ion, badly smashed.
—The school at Mnrkdale, Out., was tho
Rrene of a dotiLlo tragedy, tho principal shoot
ing the second tenelu r and himself.
—A bond call for $10.000,0(H) was issued
fiom the United Rtates Treasury Department.
—Commander Merry’s official report of tho
sinking of the Tallapoosa is published. Ono
of her uu n William Jones—reported lost was
saved on the Gato City. Effort* will bo nmdo
to ruisu tlio steamer.
—Tbo Peoplo’s Rank, of Ht. Paul, was robbed
of 10,000 on Sunday.
— A Norwegian vessel from New Orleans put
into Pensacola Bay with yellow fevov ami was
sent to Rhip Inland.
The American consul ot Marseilles reports
n pitiable condition of destitution in that city
from tho effect# of the cholera, and appeals
for aid fiwiu tho oltir.ens of the United States.
I'lonositUms have been presented by tho
United Telegraph lines t<» the Postmaster Gen
eral in view of tlio plans for the establishment
of a postal telegraph system.
—Tlio Boss Builders’ Association, of Now
York, informed tho Bricklayers' Union that if
the Union would work ton hours a day until
March next, the Association would promise to
ncci pt nine hours as a day’s work after that
time* Tho bricklayers will accept this propo
sition and it is thought the strike is over.
Two young ladles wero drowned at Bull s
Maud, N. J., by their team backing their car
riago into a canal feeder.
Captain Ilealy, of the rovenuo steamer
Corw in, lately cruising in Behring Beu and tlio
Arctic Ocean, confirms the r< ported loss of the
schooner Alaska, with all ln r company, six-
tee i men, whilo on the voyage from Godwin
Ray to San Francisco luct October.
- At Topeka, Kan., tho Rtate conventions of
the democrats and roHubmisHion republicans
united upon a Stato ticket.
—The leaders of anew sect of Fail Mata at
Ghioago wore arrested for cruelty to children.
- -Gomez, tho cook of the Julia Baker, whoso
captain was murdered at sen, arrived in New
York on tho Cieiifuegos from Nassau lie inis
a family in New York ami was coming home.
—The United Rtates frigato Powhatan ar
rived at tho Brooklyn Navy Yard, having on
board the remains of J. A. MucUahan.
—Ensign Gftpeh irt is oonvaloscing and no
'second caso of yellow lever hai appeared nt
Key West.
' —The U. S. Bccrot service division is in pos
session of a new counterfeit ten-dollnr note.
Tho note is on the Third National Btuk of
'Cincinnati. Ohio, nml made its appearance iu
that city Monday night. ft is of the serit of
1882, with the brown or ohooolato colored back.
Tlio vignettes on the face of the note have a
very coarso, scratchy anpi aranoe, but tho back
( is well executed and calculated to deceive.
—The U. H. Treasury Department decides
that the supervising architect in planning
j'tiblio bui dings must be limited ns to cost by
the amount appropriated by Congress.
—A contract to furnish tho Post Office De
partment with envelopes has keen annulled,
• because the articles delivered woro of inferior
quality.
—Lieut. Grcely 1ms boon invited to attend
tbo meeting of the British Association for the
Advancement of Science to be held in Quebec.
—At West Point C'udut Logan, tried by court
martial on a charge of unl-ecoming conduct
while on guard duty, was acquitted and lias re
turned to duty.
—Advices from Washington set forth that
millions of acres of public domain in tho West
have been arbitrarily fenced in by cattle com
panies, whilo additional millions havo been
fraudulently entered at tho government land
offices, and thus taken possession of.
—At a meeting of tho Central Labor Union,
In Now York, protests against inviting General
Butler to review tho Union Rqusro labor
parade were pr« sented on the part of several
labor organisations. It was decided not to in
vite General Butler.
—Fifty Indian children from Albuquerque.
N. M., aro now eu route to tho Indian school
at Carlisle, Pa.
—Tho Webster County Bank, at Marshfield,
Mo., was compelled to suspend by reason of
too heavy speculations in grain.
—Tho wives of neatly five hundred strikers
arrested in tho Pennsylvania bituminous coal
district for conspiracy domand support from
the authorities ou tho ground that they aro
penniless.
—Tho Dominion government lias refused
permission for Wyoming cattlo to be. shipped
to England through Canada.
Ifcavy frosts havo taken plane in New
England and Western New York, and much
damage to crops has been done. Buckwheat
has suffered severely.
—During a fight between Italian laborers at
Dixon, 111, several were wounded.
—A will was admitted to probate iu Phila
delphia that disposed of $1,000,000 in just
burned ut
—Many valuable horses
Cynthiana, Ky.
—The hog cholera, which caused such a
heavy loss in that section last fall, lias re-
nppenn d near Ifambuig, Pa. A largo num
ber of swine havo died already.
—A steamer camo in from the Mediterranean
and her master says no health officer came on
board to ask whether «>r not the ship had
brought tlio cholera with her.
—Captain J. W. Norman, ico master of tho
Thetis, of the Greely relief squadron, denies
that he ever told any person or lod any ono to
believe from bis conversation that cannibalism
had been practiced by Lieutenant Greely and
his command, newspaper reporters to the con
trary notwithstanding.
—In Middlefiold, N. Y., a farmer named
Clayton, while suffering from tho effects of in
temperance, took his two-year-old son from tho
house into tlio yard nml shot him through tho
head.
—The Foo Chow arsenal, in China, was de
stroyed aft r a three hours’ bombardment.
The French fleet sustained no damage. A
number of Chinese gun boats were sunk.
—Thirteen peasants in tho village of Andre-
jewkft, near Odessa, havo boon attacked with
symptoms similar to those of the rinderpest.
Two of live patients died. Troops have formed
a cordon around tho village.
—An outbreak has occurred at Kutais, in
Transcaucasia, owing to a report that the Jews
had stolon a Christian child. Tho mob as
saulted tho Jo wish quarter and made threats
of a general massacre of tho Jews. The rioters
only desist d when the child was found.
—Tlirco thousand nine hundred and ninety-
two is tho number now given as that of tho
victims of tho cholera iu France.
No advance was attempted on tho city of
Foo-Chow itself. Tho French floet cannot u»>-
ccnd tho river any further.
In the English account* there is no mention
of tho loss of tho two French ironclads ro
porfccb
—'Hie spread of the cholera in It dy is caus
ing riots among the peasants and lower ehv^
of townsmen.
—The Russian government is thinking ot
establishing polar stations at tho ]K)iiits
touched by tho crew of the Jeannette.
• The loss of China at the bombardment (.f
Foo Chow is estimati d at 1,000 killedand 8,0( 0
woundod.
- General Wolseloy is to command tho relief
expedition iu tho Roudan.
--A spy reports that General Gordon has
gained a considerable victory ut Khartoum.
— \ h-boom-r onmo in rollMon with tho
United Rtates stunner Tallapoosa on Thursday
. iglit off Cottage City, Maas.; the latter imme
diately sank; the schooner was damaged;
four peisons belonging to tho Tallapoosa were
drowned, ono officer and threo of tho crew.
, —A costly memorial shaft in eonrso of < no
tion oyer the lotnh of the late Governor E. 1).
Morenn. * Hartford, (’ un.. was completely
ruined l>y tho wooden structure which en
closed it inking flro,
A dispatch from Shanghai to Reuter’s Te’e-
prnm Agency says: The French !'•-* in the
iNimhardm -nt of Foo Chow wa« 7 killed nml
14 wounded. The Chitie-e loss is ratiinnD d nt
1,000 killed and 8 000 wounded. The Chinese
Innn-of war Yarguri was exploded by a torpi do
alter it had find a broadside at a lVeneh tor
pedo bout. The boiler «.f tho latter wns ex
ploded by means of hand grenades thrown
from tho Yarguri, after which tho boat was
sunk by the Volta to prevent in- being captured
by tho UhiucHo.
A telegram received from Shanghai state*
that 80,000 Chinese troops, who had been
Bocretlv massed oil tie* frontier, suddenly in
vaded Tonquin, and, after desperate fighting
completely annihilated th.* French troops In
that province, the Chinese Ins'ng several thou
sand killed during the different engagements
which followed iu quick suec.-ssion.
According to the above dispatch the massing
of this huge force on the frontier of Touqum
had Icon going on for sometime, under th
supervision of experienced military leaders,
and so well did they conduct tho nffslr that
the French commanders wa re unaware of tho
proximity of any wcll-iegiilnted Chinese foroo
until the latter swept down upon them like an
avalam ho, with the above result.
Tho French troops, it is said, fought desper-
fttely and repeatedly ehargi d tho Chine o lines,
but «s fa*t os the latter wero broken into they
closed up again with remarkable military pre
cision, and many hand-to-hand encounter* cn-
ailed, the French finally succumbing to over
whelming odda.
Tho reports of the destruction of tho whole
Chinese fleet aro confirmed. The Flench lo-t
five men. Including an American pilot, who
was killed on board tin hea\ dy ur:e< d Fr< lu ll
war ship Volta. The l unch fle« t suffered no
damage. Admiral Uouibet’* next step
will be to destroy tho forts iu
tho Min River, lx-twceii tho oihoihiI nml
tho mouth or tlio river, lb will tie n, it is
thought, Join Admiral l.< p. s Iu-Torn Ki lling
and arrange with him foi tho oe< up.riion of
that plact. 1' i .i 1 o ■ ■ i\ li expedi
tion will bo rent fiom Tompnn into Yunnan nt
tho end of the wet Henson unless China accepts
Fiance’s terms,
Tho French are elated r.t the display of C|,i
liese pugnacity, beonii-e it will e n lu--t to pro
tranted hostilities, in whirl, ,. , my ihe rap
fine of IV-kin will ell, i luall.v end U,. war. Thu
efii A of tho situation i* t<-».nr— an eirnrimm*
increase in st, < k at llu: Kong and to genei
ally paralw. the import had.-. Night iraffle
on the t unton River i | i..hilritc<i Among i|,e
('liiiicse, who are who.U hh|t< pared torwi.r,
there is a bittei feeling. I hev denounce the
malpractice* of the pi.vim al Clovernors and
will hold them answerable 'or any collapse of
tbo national defences
Tho cholera i* decreasing in M;u . id.
Toulon, but i- iueienaiiig ,n (I,.- |.|..vm4
The Chinese Mini-ter to France has r. -
eelvt d his | -i oi l- and tin I , ... , • >, .,l
!’• Ion ha*, hauled d. v.n ids l! r>, . , hi
pointing to a war h- twv. n the tv • • >n.,ii i
Adviees from I'us' Alei -.i state that it..
nnriwM of n,e Zambezi country 1.. . It d
and Killed o*r wounded tin- intire I'nrtugn <
fore. . Reinf.-r.- im ids I i,v- 1 - en a ! ' •,'
Mr. O'Neill. British Vie, Con-ul. i* m, u,g.
MflOT, HUFF.I, AND I'I.A.Ill'S.
The Clilneso Fleet mol I'uo-tJiow Arnemil
Deal roved.
Dispatches from English Hitirccs confirm tho
news of tho French mu n , s at Fou-Ghnw.
Wln-n Admiral Courbet ordered his no. elu Is
to open tiro he was gallantly responded to hy
a squadron <>f tin Cldim.-o gunboats on the
River Min. These w« r. . (fie-r. d by Kurop. an-,'
and the Chinese gunners served their piece*
well, but tho ea Run of the guns wo.* too small
for the allot to iuflict serious injury ou tlio
French. Tho l»tt« r fired w ith terrible effect,
nml the discipline win pcrleet.
From tho in< mc.nt the French gun* got the
rango on tho CldneHo boat* u piiim.* rain of
iron was kopt up. in vain the Cldm^o craft
steamed hither and thither. .Ono by one they
went down with great gaping hoi * in their
sides, until seven of tho woll-f.»ught gunboat*
had sunk with tho dragon-flag nt ill Hying. Tlio
romsiiidor wero captured for want of' un
wound* d mon to serve the gun/..
Tho French fleet now moved up the river
and took position opposite the great arsenal of
Foo Chow. Its flanl;tug forts and water bat
teries replied ut first with some spirit; but tho,
French she Is were dropping beyond them iu
tho nraonul itself. A tremendous explosion
Hint shook tho earth showed that a French
• .ell lmd fallen into a p wder magazine. From
1 at im men! the CnincBO firing ceased,
lor throe hours the Finch guns poured
a storm of shell upon the ursonul,'
which was now on fire in several places.
Tho signal to cease firing was at length
Riven, and it was seen that the place was ut
terly destroy ed.
Toward nightfall several detachments of
pailors and marines landed without opposition.
Tne Ohinoso ba'.terios were deserted and tlio
place was in tho hands of thu French.
the fiianco-chink.sk wad.
The Herr* Ordered to Roitiliiird Foo-Cliot*
nnd Destroy Hie Ametiiil,
Admiral Courl>et, of tho French Navy, has
been instructed to bombard th*- arsenal at Foo-
Chow and to land a detachment of tr«*op- and
cl On troy tho war material and stores accu
mulated there, which aro of immense value.
This action is int.-mled as a reprisal f«»r
the action of the Chinese at Lang son. At tbo
same time tlio French off Kclung have been
ordered to occupy the port and tm* coal mines
■«h security for the indemnity demanded by
Franco. Tho indemnity, however, according
to the proMouneeim nt of a inemtM-r of ti.o
Gliincso diplomatic corps,who wi.s mb rv iewed,
the. Frenon are not liki y to got. This Ohinoso
attachee declared that Uio Fi k n governm* nt
would never recognize that it owed
Franco a sou us ind nuiity for the
Lung-*ou affair, which was a pure misunder
standing. The bomlmrdmoiit of Rolling and
Foo-Chow, ho said, had only tend, d to in-
b ; - fv the determination to resist Franco’s
•l< munds. Vicomte do Hematic, tlio French
representative at JV-kin, immediately utter
lowering tho French Hag at the legation,
started for {Shanghai.
COMMANDER SCIII.EY BREAKS.
The Secretary of the Navy and the Secretary
of War having b- en in consultation at tlio
Navy Yard, Brooklyn, witli (Vmmunder Schley
concerning the Greely i.-lief expedition, lroin
them tho following reliable statement relative
to tho recent reports of the treatment of tho
bodies of tho dead of tne Greely polar expe
dition is derived:
From tho revelation* made by exhuming
some of the bodies inferences have been drawn
Unit incisions had been made iu all the
bodies and that portions of the
flesh hud been used either for food or for
bait for catching shrimps. The following au
thentic extract from Commander Hehlev ’a report
now being prepared for the M oretnry of the
Navy, show's a portion of the remains lo have
been so treated, but that those of Lieutenant
Lockwood, Sergeant Israel, Sergeant Linn,
Private Schneider, Sergeant (Jrom and the
Esquimau, Christiansen, were absolutely whole
and untouclu d.
“In pieparing the bodies of the dead for
transporalion in alcohol to St. Joint it was
found that the bodies of six of them (Lieuten
ant Kislinghury, Sergeant Jewel 1 , Private
Whistler. Private Henry, Private Ellis und Ser
geant Ralston) hud been cut, and the fleshy
parts removed u> a greater or less extent. All
the other bodies were intact.”
Killed hv Flro Danin.
The burning of tho Buckridgo colliery^ near
Bhamokin, Pa., was attended by a frightful
accident, eight miners losing their lives. They
were digging a liolo from the Greenback
gangway into the burning mine, nnd tho un-
fortunate men wero killed by fire 4amib
SOUTHERN NOTES. LIFE AMONG THE LOWLY.
Vicksburg, Mis*., i* soon to Iisvo another
military company.
In portions of Mississippi thocotton is shed
ding for want of tain.
Kentucky has bent her beat wheat record
this year by 3,000,000 bushel*.
A pumpkin vino 00 fret loiiffi* growing in s
gard. n iu Bowling Green, Ky.
A Miss McCoy is in jail at Dardsncllc, Ark.,
charged with killing her infant.
A seven Ivon and a half foot shark has been
caught in Matanzas river, F’lorida.
An Issaquena, Mis*., county farmer baa
1,300 aeivs of cotton aix feet high.
Saloon keeper* who k< on open Sundays in
Atlanta are fined $50 Monday morning.
A Cleveland and Hendrick* pole, 120 foet
high, ha* been raised at Blackburg, Va.
A hot spring that units steam and siilphurlo
Tflpor ha* been discovered at Gayko, Miss.
Rum i* made from sweet potatoes iu Louisi
ana. Revcral barrels of potstoos yield a barrel
of mm.
Not folk, Va , packer* ami dealers aro mak
ing big preparations for tlio coming oyster
season.
A Jacksonville, Fla., applo measured eleven
and a half inehe* in circumference and weigh
ed seventeen ounces.
The taxable property of Harannah is fl9,-
6(11,814 ; real estate, f 12,516,202; stock, per
sonal, etc., $7,145,112.
Fiom one-eighth of an aero this sennon. Dr.
G. II. SymmcH, of Peru, Fla., gathered 2,500
pounds of crow-foot hay.
Whilo out hunting a few days agoMcs*rs. P.
W. Met'ants, Frank Glover and Ren Williams,
of Colleton, R. killed four bears.
Hit ton#, or 1,100 gallon* of honey woro
shipped from Itoek Point, La., to Hhrevcport,
a few day* since. It sold for fifty cents a gal
lon.
Mr J. W. Brown, who lives near Limonia,
Fla., made, on unfertilized light hammock
land, 7C0 bushels of good corn on forty-five
acres.
A Mississippi man ha* begun work under a
patent intended to strip cotton seed of its
husk nnd pack the kernel in a solid oil cako
for shipment.
A graceful dnneing master at Macon, Ga.,
nnnud Gorman, ungracefully burglarized a
private residinco, and was incontinently
uauced into jail.
A Georgia paper, viewing the oponing of
cotton bollB, cheerily rcmaiks: “Tho Houth’a
own fleecy snow* are beginning to whiten tho
hill-tops and plains.”
Work on tho Terrell asylum at Austin, Texas,
is progressing well, und the building will bo
completed as required by tho contract. Of
me t200,000 appropriated, 1112,000 has been
drawn out.
nt sit .nla.id Florida town lint week Indiana
wer.< present with their gaunt dress and tur
bans. and two or three Indian children. They
wero reserved and quiet, cutting moccasius
ami making bead purses.
Many Georgia farmers aro in distress, ow
ing to their inability to meet obligations
Incurred iu the past few years to big money-
lending compann s. Much of this money waa
borrowed at 14 per cent Interest.
Fort Sumter has literally fallen. It is now
only one story high, and haa hut half a dozen
gun*, not one of which could he used. Tho
Government pay* al*>ut $200 a month for
watchmen, who keep lights burning on tho
fort for vessels.
Charleston has received from Wlnnsboro a
piere of granite twenty feet long and three
feet square at tho base, to bo used for making
the shaft for the monument ordered hy tho
Charleston Light Dragoons, and will be erected
in Magnolia cemetery.
Mr. C. W. Wiecking. of Walhalla, fl. C. f has
this tu a*on sold from lii* vineyard, containing
12 tuns, 30,000 pound* of grope*, realizing
from six to ten cent* per pound. Besides, it
is estimated In* will make from six hundred to
eight hundred gallons of w ine. He will realize
$176 per aero net. The vine* aro three years
old and will Inicome more valuable.
General l.erov Rope Walker. First Secretary
in the Ji fferrton Davi* Confederate Cabinet,
and who gave the order for firing on Fort
Humter, died at hi* home in IluntaviUc, Ala.,
recently, after a brief illness. Gen. Walker
was President of thu Constitutional Conven
tion of 1876, which framed thu present consti
tution.
Prof. Stevens, of the Smithsonian Institute,
hns gone with a party of • xplorers to tho re
gion of the cliff and cavo dwellers to make a
collection of relics und curiosities to Ik- taken
to the New Orleans Cotton Centennial Expo
sition. The explorations will he made in
Arizona and New Mexico, and conducted, in
part, among villages never before vieitrd.
Mr. Ram Hing, a wealthy Chinese merchant
of El Paso, Tex., nnd a respectable Creole
young lady by the name of Miss Vrque, were
married at New Orleans tho other day. The
young lady, who is said to be really beautiful.
Was neatly attired, and tho happy husband
was dressed in a black broadcloth suit. His
long plat of hair was carefully coiled and
placi d on tho top of hi* head. Mr. Iling has
been located in business at El Psno for some
time. Iff furnish .'f supplies and labor to the
workmen on the Texas A Pacific Road at that
end. lie has amaasud quite a largo sum of
money.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Genera!. Ii. K. Buti.kk will Im sixty «ii
years old in November.
The Queen of Home line hair forty inehei
loii!;, and thick in proportion.
Governor Cleveland boa a sinter who
has been a missionary in Ceylon for thirty
years.
John R Gourjn was a singer of comic
songs in Now York boforo lie became a loo-
turor.
I.ili h:\ant Greely is thirty-nine years
old, is tall, thin, dark, with blue oyos nnd
bln li Imir, very near-sighted, but handsome.
\ M’Tcm llroo still retains the iuxl.it s of his
prime hy rising early, living abstemiously,
working only iu Ihe forenoon and doing most
of liis writing standing up at a high desk.
I'rlhihknt Arthur's stuto dinners, last
winter, aru said to havo surpassed thorn given
by any of his predecessors in costliness. The
nine lie gave )ud season averaged $su0 each.
Tm: great grandmother of George R Mo-
< lelian, Mrs. ,Samuel MeClelinu, planted
three elms in Woodstock, Connecticut, for
joy, when she hoard thu nows of the buttle of
l.exington, and they are now the finest elms
m the town.
In Iiis household exiH-nses, Jay Gould
H-ends fifty thousand dollars; Mr. Tilden, ai-
t'enigh a bachelor, spends more; August'liei-
"toiit’s expenses are a hundred thousand a
year, und W. II. Vanderbilt's are said to
amount to two hundred und fifty thousand.
A Mliorl Hull Crop.
lieports from iiUO hop-n owing towns in Now
Vnrk, Maine, und tlio Province of Quelicc indi
cate that tho crop is ut It list onc-lourth slioil
of the average, hut tins is holioved to bo . .
ulidor-cHtinmio. '1 lie uveiages for eucli Htutc
are ns follows; Maine, 78; Vermont, 80; Que
bec, 7.0, and New York, 70. flayers havo been
Prospecting hero nnd there, ollcring 26 to .'JO
cents u pound. Tlio growers, however, aro
genei ally confident of higher prices and are
disposed to hold for 35 to ;50 cents. Especially
is tins tlio ease in New York, wliero 40, and
even 50 cents havo been ofl'ered in a few in
stances for new hops, and where tho growers
aro well posted. Old Imps aro pretty much
out of tlio growers’ hands, only an occasional
email lot being reported in New York. The
new crop is of extraordinarily fine quality, lice,
wind, and rust having done very littlo damage,
except in Ktunstead county, Province of Quo-
bee.
A Project.—Tho project of having
policemen detailed daily to weigh coal
delivered to tho customers at retail and
geo that tho full weight is given, is now
agitated at bin Frunoisco,
[From tho New York nerald.1
ITcro is a picture of a New York teuo-
aiont; It. stands in a badly paved street
which is seldom clean. Tim monotonous
liuo of brick walls aud bare sidewalk fs
unrelieved by a tree or a break. From
avenue to aveune stretch long rows of
| bald, cheerless structures, each a copy
of its neighbor. Tho entrance is wedged
I ! n between a greeu grocer’s shop and a
beer saloon and tlio door is usually wido
open. Tho lmll is dingy, dirty nnd
tilled with noisy chiklrcn or loungers.
Tlio first floor is rented by tlio store
keeper, who sells stale vegetables, snnp,
kindling wood nnd watered milk in thu
front, nml who sleeps in the rear. Tho
dingy, contracted paBsnguwny, which is
a public thoroughfare freo to nil, ends
st thu back yurd, and In cold wuntlier
the draught is hitler. Children run to
and fro in noisy piny or with tlioir fuocn
framed by tho universal headgear, a
shabby or tattered shawl, carrying wood,
coal or tlio can or pitcher of foaming
boor. Idlers, mostly youths, lounge
about tlio entrance and gossip with
piiHscrs by. lint for tlio open doors the
hull would be dark ou tho sunniest dnv.
In rare cases it may be floored with oil
cloth, but usually that is too luxurious.
Ascending the steep stairway, wo reach
a narrow passageway on osoh Moor,
dimly lighted from tho roof und with
doors on either hand lending to each set
of apartments. Hounds are freely heard
Inrongh tlieae frail barriora,.whose fre
quent cracks admit jagged lines nf light
--shrill void's of women scolding, tho
whirr of sowing machines, thu rnttlo of
laundry irons, nml the scrubbing of
(Motlies; children’s cries of merriment
or shrieks of pain, and the gruiT or volu
ble voices ol mon; whilo tho smell of
Cooking, the steam from wash tubs and
Uin stench of rank tobacco, witli tho nn-
definable odors of unulenn humanity
and o sewer gas pervade tho building.
Tho banisters are broken in places or
wholly. Tho plaster hns fallen from
tho ceilings nnd walls. Paint is nhveut;
grime and dirt abound, Tlio stairs nml
Hours are worn Into knobs and holes hy
countless feet. The Uoor will some
times bo slimy with neglect, so that
nothing but a se.rnpor would removo tbo
accumulated filth. One floor is liko
nuollior, only as we nanond there Is moro
light. Filially a ladder or Blairs lends to
the roof aud wo reach fresh nir and tho
(- ght of heaven with a sciiho of relief.
Loro olothes are hung on lines mid the
tin or gravel roof is protected by wooden
slat floorings.
Jf wo knock nt any door as we descend
<t will bo opened by a slatternly boy or
by n frowsy anil wearied woman with
o: o or more children clinging to her
ik iris. Each Rut nf apartments is much
like its fellows. Thero is n living room,
wuere tho washing nnd cooking aro
dime nnd the meals oaten, with a dark
'isiilo bedroom opening from it. Tlio
floor may bo carpeted when thero sro
other signs of comfort und prosperity,
but it is usually bare. A small tnhln, a
stove and u few clmirs, with n hurcnti
and perhaps n cupboard or lounge nnd
one or moro cheap chromes or litho
graphs of n religious tone, and n clock
aud some china vases constitute the
furniture. 1 havo rarely seen a tene
ment witlinnt seme attempt nt ornn-
mentation, and the cheap, gnuily cards
distributed by storekeepers are pinned
np by the dozens. A sewing lunohlno,
bought hy installments or loaned by
Romo olmritnblo society, will often bo
met with. Wash tubs nro common
among tlio Irish and negroes.
Ah thu means of a family dcclinu
their worldly possessions are fewer, until
one finds nothing but a stove or a elmfr,
with the lied on the floor. I recall many
respectable families wliero this was the
extent of their furniture, nnd dispensary
physicians say they often find pnticuts
lying ou the Imre floor. In the average
ease there is only a Hinglo bedstead, and
I lie family is divided on lounges or on
temporary beds made on olinirs. Old
fashioned mahogany bureaus and oup-
hoards, with rows of cherished crockery,
speak of thrift or are relics of post
prosperity; but, as a rulo, I Imre are few
signs of comfort. The stock of extra
clothes is small; there is no place to
ctoro fuel or food; bookB Ol papers or
toys nro not visible; but among the
Germans, flowers, especially geraniums,
are found in ninny windows and thrive
wonderfully under their constant and
loving care. Tho Germans are note
worthy also for cleanliness, and they fill
Ihe open windows iu line weather with
bedding to let tlio sun got at it—such
sun sh (here niny be.
Every little while ono eoniOR upon an
invalid in bed or sitting up iu a rooking
ebuir or on a iouiige, Crippled or scrof-
nlous children and aged or decrepit por-
sonn nro common sights. In a rear
holme on Mulberry streot a German
family, uuinbering six or seven in all,
occupied threo rooms. Tho husband, a
b.vber, bad just come out of the hospi
tal, and on tlio sofa, covered with any
thing hut clean looking bedding, lay n
crippled boy of twelve, who oouiu not
stand alone and who required constant
care.
Hero in a dozen rooms nro as ninny
characteristic groups. First there is n
thin, nervous looking mother, woary
with lmrd work and tho care of a teeth
ing bnbo. Next door is a bright, buxom
German woman, with eight honltliy,
wide-eyed children, iler husband is n
cabinet ninker nnd earns good wages.
Go the floor above is a family of Jews
eating their nndday meal iu comfort aud
cleanliness, und rising politely ou the
visitor’s entrance. On tlio top door is
an Irish virago and Blutteru, u washer
woman in an old gown and bare feet,
who is ut first impudent und then ioqua-
cions when she learns that the visitor’s
object is to inquire about had smells, A
butohor’s wife, healthy aud buxom, is
iu tlio next flat. Then cornos nn Italian
and his young Irish wife, with a party
of brigandish comrades playing cards,
while cans of slain beer aro served ns re
freshment, Hard by, in a wooden tene
ment, is a negro wench, with her mother,
a withered crone seated in a rickety
rocking chair and looking us if acoiitmy
old, A half tipsy widow with a young
er red-haired woman aro next visited,
their tawdry dress and leering lookH aud
the bottle standing liauililv on a shelf
showing their truo clinrnctor. Lastly,
we descend to tho ground, and in a rear
collar, four feet below,tlio street level,
como upon a woman and uix children.
An adjoining stable ibis the ah- with
stench; the sun is shut out hy high
walls, yet they do not complain or ap
parently suffer.
No. 11!)} Willett street presents more
characteristics than any other tenement
I have visited. It stands sixty or more
feet back from tho street aud is ap
proached by nn open court so that it is
surrounded on nil sides by other build
ings. Tlio front is only a few foot from
tlio adjoining honse walls, whilo at tlio
rear there is a narrow alley less tlinn
three feet wide, nt one sido of which a
high woodshed liars nil tlio light from
tho eight lower rooms, so Hint on tho
sonniest. day they aro dismal, dark aud
damp. In ono of these rooms I found a
middle aged German woman, without
kith or kin, sitting all nlouc oloso to the
window for tlio benefit of her feeblo
Hight, msking rag carpels, by which she
earned twenty rents a day. Who bad
been threo mouths an invalid and was
pnrtly supported by charity. On n
second visit I found licr knitting stock
ings, by which slio was ublo to earn
tlio sum of seven cenls a day I Tho
housekeeper gavo her nn unexceptiona
ble clinriietor, aud her appearance sns-
Inined thla record. The room wsh clean
and the thick feather bed (a family
lioirloom probably) was licnt nnd tidy.
On tho other sido of the hall from this
poor creature was n family of a different
type. On my first visit n man suffering
from rheumatism and unable to speak
English lay on a lounge, with several
bright-eyed children playing around
him. I afterward learned that ho hud
gone to the hospital, nnd tlmt the
mother of tlio children lmd readily re
placed him by another "protector.”
Hho lmd seven children, four of tlrera
living. The oldest, n girl of fourteen,
worked nt paper box making and earned
forty couts a day, but could not rend,
and tho neighbors snid slio was entirely
ignorant. From three to four rnnlo
lodgers were taken in at night, and they
usually got drunk, I was told, nnd
cronloil an uproar which kept the
neighbors awnko. Tho moral effect of
such surroundings on tlio children can
bn well imagined.
Continuing my search, I entered a
room on tlio other side of the partition
of the ono just described. Hero wero
three women, n lumber and two daugh
ters, living with a grown up son and
sometimes a girl of twelvo, now ut ser
vice—all in ono room nnd an inside bed
room, tlio Inttcr being used for storage.
Every inch of nvnilnblo space was piled
with rubbish, nnd it did not seem pos
sible to outer. I have not seen such a
den of dirt aud confusion. The bed
was ns black ns tbo lloor nnd the gloom
liko night. Ou asking one of the wo
men why they did not keep tlio plsoa
cleaner, slm promised to do so, Ou
fnillior inquiry 1 found that her two
ehlldren, ono four and tbo other twelvo,
lmd died Inst summer from typhus fever.
Tlint result might havo been expected
in mieh surroundings. This information
nroused my indignation, nml I said to
tho woman, "If you don’t linvo this
place cleaned up nt once I will send the
Hoard of Health and mnlto you do it."
'J'liiH threat had its effect, nnd tho wo
man, who was nil intelligent German,
followed me for some distance, promis
ing tlmt tlio pluco would ho nmdo right
if I would not complain.
The last room on tho row was ocen-
piod hy n curious pair. A young wo
man of nbouttwenty-two lay half-dressed
in lied, witli her foot bandaged nnd rest
ing on n olmir. A frowsy-bonded, drag
gled old orono, looking liko an ngod
Topsy—whoso face was battered us if
just recovering from a long continued
drunk, nud winy nhatted with great vi
vacity, nnd grinned so ns to show tlio
whole of her toothless gums—moved
about tlio disordered room preparing
some sort of food at the riiHly stove.
Thero was so littlo light tlmt it was dif
ficult to sen anything. A movement
under tho bedclothes suggested a baby,
lint to my snrpriso a largo terrier dog
presently popped out nnd joined another
at play on the lloor. These the younger
female called "my pots." Sho said she
was suffering from rlienmaliam and
could not lio on onu side ou aceonut
of the pain. Her doctor, who had just
left, said tlio place wns unlit lo live in,
us any ono would ngreo. The open
door of tho overflowing closets wero
only two feet from tlio windows nnd in
summer, she said, tho stench wua fright
ful.
Looking Into Eniply .Muzzles.
Ou tho way down from Natchez to
Now Orleans tlio bout rounded to at a
landing on the Louisiana shore to tnko
ou n lot of cotton-seed. Hho lmd just
made fust, and thu mnto hud stepped
ashore to "IiuhIIo them niggers," when
n middle-aged man, closely resembling
tho typical Southerner, suddenly stepped
out from behind the sacks, presented a
revolver within a foot of the mate's face,
aud cried out:
"Throw up your bauds or you are a
dead man I"
There wero fifty of us with our eyes
ou the two men, aud wo held our brontli
ns tlio mate slowly raised his arms above
his head, no didn’t change color iu
tho slightest, and those wLo took iu tho
details noticed that lie chewed away at
liis plug tobacco with the snuie regular
motion—neither faster nor slower.
“Now, tlion, down on your knees aud
beg my pardon, or I’ll send a bullet into
your eye I”
Tlio mnte’s legs wabbled, bout, and
down lie sank and remarked that lio was
sorry if lio had offended tlio other.
"All right," growled tho man with
tho pistol iiH ho shoved it into his hip
pocket. "After thin you Vie a little more
careful whom yon iling your impudence
at.”
As ho turned away ho made a dive
with liia right hand, and up came a der
ringer, out shot tho arm, aud in a voice
of thunder the mate cried:
"Hall! Throw up your arms I Down
on your knees or I’ll blow your bruins
nil over this plantation 1”
The tallies were turned. Up wont
tho arms, and after a few seconds tho
mail wont down on his knees and Hald ho
had tho highest respect for tne mate’s
moral worth. When ho roso up tho
Captain and others had reached the
pair, aud in teu seconds more they wero
disarmed.
“Close call that!” said ono of tho
passengers as tho Captain handed the
weapons to tho clerk to keep until tho
boat was ready to leave.
“Humph I Neither one of them
loaded 1” replied tho old mail.
Buch was iho notHal fact. Two empty
and harmless weapous had humbled
two men who meant to shoot.
M, Quad.
Dr. Keuben Garter writes us that as
long ago ns 18G. r i l.o made nn effort to
establish in Washington, D. C., an in
stitution in which ihe teachings o/
Heredity should have a permanent place:
then, again, in tho '.vinter and spring ol
1879 in Philadelphia ho undertook to
organize a society for ihe purpose ol
awakening attention to the subject ol
Heredity. Ho says lie hns been much
pleased with the reports of. tho pari >i
meetings duiing the past winter, uni
tlio moro so, because twenty years ago
ho was considered fanatical,"cranky and
crazy for advancing precisely the snun
views,—Dr. Foot's tmlhly,