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m the meroury. PUBLISHED EVERT TUESDAT NOTICE. A MTAll oommunloatlone Intended tot thli r aper mnat tie accompanied with the foil came ot the writer, not neoessarlly for pnbll. eatlon, bnt u a guarantee of good faith. We are In no way responalble for the vltws ■er opinions of correapondenta. MERCURY. Entered aa aeoond-elaaa matt* at the I dsrtvlUe Poatoffloe, April ff, Saademllle, TTaihlngUm Coutft A. ,1. JERMIUN, Proprietor, VOLUME V. DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. $1.50 per Annum. A.. J. JEENIGANi Paoranrroa add Pubuodh. SANDE&SVILLE, GA„ TUESDAY, OCTOBER T. 1884. MUNICIPAL, Manor, W»r. GAM,AUER. Aldermen. Wji. Rawmnos, A. M. Mayo, IV. II. Lawson, R. T. Walker, Morris Happ. Clerk and Treasurer, G. W. II. Whitaker. Mars/tall, .1. E. WnonoN. TOWN OH' THINNILLFI. Mayor, •oiin C. Harman. Aldermen. P. J. Pipkin, J. F. Mehkkh on, ,1. N. Rogers, W. J. Joyner. Clerk. 8. II. Tt. Massey. Mar r hill', •I- C. I'lAMIl.TON. E. S. LlNGMtDE, . A11 ov ticy kt Law ANDKRKV1LLH, GA. &VANS & E.VAK8, Attorneys At I^nw, SANDEHSVILLE, OA. R. I. HARRIS, ATTORN KY at LAW, HANDEllHYlLLE, OA. Will practice m nil the Coiirta or the middle circmt, ninl ip tl,o enmities surrounding Wnhliiiiclo", Special nit on t ion given to cum- mereml aw ?. H SAFFOLD, Attorney at law, KAiU>I dsVILLE, OA. Will l.i-nrt co in nil tint Courts of tho Middle «!'!. ' n * 'V Static* MirroundinK • uii L’t n. special attention f ven to com* nit i r t law. c. c BROWN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, HnndertivlUe, Ga. HINES & ROGERS, Attorneys at Law, SANDKRSVILLE, OA„ Will practice In tlo countlci of Washington. JeqcrHon, Johnson, Emanuel and WilkitiNon, *nd In tho U. W. Court* for the Bouthern Di»- trlctof Georgia. Will act mh uirenta In buying, eolJIng or renting Rea) Estate. Offioe on WmI aide of Public Bauer* Oot 11-Lf H. N. flOLLIFIELD, Physician and Surgeon, DandsrxrUls, Oa. Dr. H. B. Hollifield, ■Ity of Maryland and returned home, now offers hid professional services to the citizens of Bandersvllle and vicinity. Office with Dr. H. N Hollifleld, next door tolMrs. Bayne's millinery store. G. W H WHITAKER, DENTIST, Ssndersvllls, Oa. TJCRMS CASH. Office at lita Residence, on Harrla street. DR. J. II. MAY, SANDEHSVILLE, GA. Offers his services to the citizens of Sanders- 'illc and adjacent country. Ail calls, day or ni^ht, will bo promptly responded to. O’ffice Jt his residence on Mrs. Pittman’s lot, corner Rarris and Church streets. janl5-1884tf. J. S. WOOD * BRO., G«1 Ct!iiissi#ii Menials, SAVANNAH. HA. No commission or other expenses charged on consignments of V. T ool, Highest market price guaranteed nt time of »ale. sep2’81-ry Savannah, Ga. Ir conceded to be the most comfortable and far the boat conducted Hotel in Savannah. Rates, $2.00 Per Day, M. L. HARNETT. Machine Needles, Oil and Shuttles, F °B ALL KINDS OF MACHINES, for eale. ‘ WU1 also order purls of Machines that get broken, for which new pieces are wanted. A. J. JEHNIGAN. editorial notes. av ,v v' r r ° r Vl tHn '" 0n WP*- appear . . ar 7 lie Kmun( , whldl 110?ris » i( , s i' ll ? dwithtli 0 remain, of soldiers. Z drived fromtb* and . „ "' lM ,hef0nn *laudanum and paregoric. So, r , in !oaWnhv"n r ^r’" , '' ,n "'' R, “I LablcB put Mm d, ° f ' Wn ' vl ‘° foU ln Invnntlnb. '• Uxcrett, a cabinet maker an^ in- nlor, of l'ldiadelphli, "h„ , 1!u) ^ , . 1 ' ' ,r ,,lir, - v dOfcnenl patents for mcclian- rffr 1 "**' on an Invcn- .cblliat, if imcc«anfiil, may oompleloly revo- I..Hm,ia„ per,,, M „, lai , wnv (l . avel Thinls nothing oi, 0 than the rednpllcatfon of steam rower. Ho liaa designed a steamlmat which by mcaiiaofaa.iooo.alon of paddles beneath IP water, may attain „ speed of thirty knot. , Hnnd l.nngungc. U'-Op'o should M.V<ro (lie habit of wore, awaking ami writing, „,d abandon, a. arly aa > ,oaal ,l , . 1 ,„j, , 190 of slang words and pmnrcs. Tho longer you put this off, the moro diillciilt tho acquirement of correct Ian- Kuage will lie j and if the golden age of youth. U.o proper aoason for the acquisition of Ian- 8 "’f > ^ Paaaed in It* „ac, tho unfortunate , ' m wllt n,0,t probably bo doomed to talk Blang for life. You havo merely to use the language which you road, Inatead of along w . eh yon hear, to form a tasto in agreement With tho boat speak™, and poet, in the conn, try. Sleep. Men who arc tho faateat asleep when they »re asleep, are tho widcat awako when tlioy aro awake. Great workers must bo great restore. I'.vorj nian who has ole, ka ln hli employ ought to know what their sleeping habits aro. The young man who is up till a, 3 anil 4 o’clock In the morning, and muat put in Ida appcaranco M tho bank or store at Oor 10 o’clock and work all tho day, caunot repeat this process many days without a oertaln shakinesa coming Into Ills system, which ho will endeavor to atoady by aomo delusive atlmulua. It la in this way that many a young man begun ilia comae to rntn. ne need not nocoasarlly havo been In had company. Ho has IobI Ida aleep, and loe. ing aloep la losing atrength and graoo. The Ylrloua Character nr,he Tallow Candle, The air of a room lighted by gas la heated twenty times as much as if it wero lighted to an equal catont by incandescent oloctric lamps. When arc-lamps aro used, the comparison la •till moro in favor of electricity. You will bo surprised to know that ottr old friend the tallow candle, end even tho wax cnndlo, la far worso than gaa ln tho proportion c.f air vitia ted and the heat produced ; and yon will be disposod to dlobellero It. But tho fact is that, no long as candle* were used, light was so ei- permivo that wo were obliged to be'content with little of it; ln foot, wo lived in a state of send-dai knoss, and in this way wo oTaded tho trouhlo. It is only sinco tho general in troduction of gns and petroleum that we hare found what an evil is. A Hnperalltlon ol the Isle of Man. A legend exists of tho Isle of Man to tho effect that a fairy who exerted a baleful In fluence over tho island was pursued by a knight, and only escaped in a moment of ex- tremo danger by aasumtag the appearance of a wren. Io conacqncnce of this, on the spccilio anniversary, tho islanders devoted their ener gies to tho extirpation of the fairy, and the wrens were pursued, pelted and fired at with out moroy. Their feathers were presorvod with great care, there being a anperstitions belief that they possessed the peculiar charm of preserving against drowning or from death by Bhipwrock. Any fisherman going to sea without such a safeguard was looked upon as exceedingly foolhardy. Every year, after Christinas Day, boys go about the Islo of Man carrying a wren in a cage, suspended upon a pole, and tlioy pluok out hor foathera and pre sent ono to every liberally minded poraon who pays them for their song. A Gum Game. The finest grades of crude rubber come from Para, the tree, being tapped and tho asp gath ered by moans of paddles which are dipped in the tub of sap and held over a smoky tiro that tho coating may harden. This process is re peated until a cake of gum ot the size and shape ot a squash 1b formed when the paddle Is cut ont and the lnmp is ready for market. The scraps and droppings from this prooesa aro carefully colleotod and sold aa an inferior grado. American rubber manufacturers make as much oomplaint of the rubber gatherers aa English manufacturers of Amorloau cotton packors, and oven with moro reason; for rub ber being snob an expensive raw material affords a groator profit to tho wily nativo, who Increases his gains by stuffing the rubber with stones, wood and dirt. Tlicse adulterations are of course charged back from nianufaclurcr to dealer and from dealer to im porter, but the original offendor is seldom reached. ’* IHInil as a flu,.” “Blind as a bat" is an old saying so mnch tlio roverse of fact that It is not easy to ex plain linw it ever obtained curreuoy among peoplo who had soon tho animal. Novorthe- icss, bats aro not dependent Upon their eye sight for a moans of getting about in Uicilark. Tlioy are able to fly with great speed and ac curacy, to avoid obstacles, and to enter small boles without making tho loast mistake. Ex periences havo shown that this singular power of direction is due to a remarkablo dovelop- opmant of the sense of toneb eipoeiaUy to bo found in their great expanse of wing. Fur ther, thoso animals possess largo ears and curious nostrils, some Of which aro loaf-like formations of the raoBt extraordinary descrip tion. The skin growths aro all supposed to havo roforenco to tho skill with wbioli the eroaturos wing their way in the darkest caves. Most bata feed on insects which they catoh on tho wing; aomo of them eat fruit, and a few enjoy a bad name because they suck the blood of other animals. Of tho last aro tho so-called vampire bats, respecting which it need to be said that they fanned their victim with their wings while they anckod its lifeblood, bat that part of the talo le altogether fabolona. The Wisdom anil Feollsbness ofDatblng. Our modem habita have mado the bath room a most importaat part of thehonae. Every one bathes. Tho batli baa been so long and so industriously trumpoted as a panacea for almost everything that even those who shiver after a cold bath or feel like fainting after a warm one will regularly take either the one or the other. He who does not take a morning bath in these days scarcely dare own to the fact, for lie feels that lie will bo regard ed at once as v uncleanly person. Yet there is no racesoiry connection between cleanliness and total immeralon of the body for a greater or less period. The batb, aa ««w understood. Is, as ii well knoW’A to many physicians, too rndo'k lYoatmont for many persons of a sensi tive temporamout. It is not every organism lhat can stand the chill of k plrtfige in cpli water and tho shock o’f k aliowcr upon the bvitd. if reaction Is swift, kb'A ail the organa vf tho body aro ip good working order, cold and shower bathe may ofton bo beneficial i bnt If tho tono of tho system it low tho reaction will not tako place and injury will result, tt would bo well if we would trwnt nur kensatiotie more and follow our wills less. When a person does not ’Tcp) like’’ tailing a ilitb, ^-ot will takolt, hois simply uslnf-fok will against liim- Bclf.^ CleOnlM*'-*. cUn tio satisfied by washing pOrtfoWhbt tho body separately so as not to onill tho entire surfaee at onoe. In rt*’i tho benefit of a cold bath cbWco trom tho re action and most to secured by friction, fol- lowed by active exertion, not by sitting or Handing In currents of air. Tht Alarming Inrrense af Dear Mules. Throughout tho sessions of tho Bclonfo As sociation, Oho of tho subjects that hAs como lip most frequently has feech tlio Lest way of deal ing Willi deal ihutes. An interesting disctis- MUh oh tlio subject took place in tlio section on Wlth’rb’pology. Whetlior it is because “the chief study of mankind is man,” this section is always wsll attended, and, from tlio first, moro ladies havo attended it than any other section. Tho eliiof interest of tlio (leaf mute discussion was the part taken ln It by Prof, A. Orahara Bell, the tclophono Inventor, whose wife, aa la woll known, Is e dost mUto, end was Instrumental, It II laid, th Ms making the discovery that hoe brought him famo and for- tmio. Mrs. Bell, who la able U> toll all that ll said by watching tho lips of tho speAkcrs, wal present and sat hear her hnaband. Prof. Bell’s father, Who has given the eabjoct con siderable attention, and devisod a method by which tho dnmb mav lie tanght to speak, was also present. Prof. Beil la violently opposed to tho existing arrangement concerning the deaf And dhmbln this country, which makos them a separate dais, and especially objects to tlio oontinnal marriage of d6af mntes, which, lie claims, will ovolre a raoe of deaf mutes ln this oountry. In one family, he aaid, he had fonnd ninety deaf mutee In fonr generations, connected by blood or marriage. Of deaf mntes forty per cent, merry, end with each succeeding generation the tendenoy to the in firmity (ncrcaaea. Of the forty-five per oent. of deaf mutee who marry, eighty por cent, marry deaf mutoe. To remedy the evil he said we mnet separate the deaf mnte ea mnch ns pnsslblo from the other deaf mates during tlio time either he or ehe Is being educated. Tlioy should not be eent to asylums; they slionld 1>o taught English Instead of the elgn lnngusgo. They should essoelete, during play hours, with olilldren not similarly affectod, and they should be taught here, as they ere ln Germany, la enumerate artificially. Deaf mulclsm, the speaker declared, la increasing hero at an alarming rate. LATE It NEWS Isaac Newton, chief engineer of tho Now York department of public works, committed suiddo by cutting his throat with a razor. Mr. Nowton is 1 oliovod to havo killed himself in a fit of dosjxiudoncy caused by longsicknoss and posuniary difficulties. Ho was tho chief engineer on board tho Monitor nt tho time of her ex)lobrated fight with the Morrimac. Mrs. Nellie E. Huiuiakd, tho divorced wifo of William Shepard, and tho daughter of ex-Govomor Richard D. Hubbard, of Con’ necticut, has boon married privately to Clark Smedloy, a Now Haven businrsi man. Mr. and Mrs. Sm eel ley will dwell in Now Hnvom whero her divorced husband, who it will be remembered was her father’s coachman, with whom kIio eloped a few years ngo, still lives. The first marriage, which created a great sensation, was an unhappy ono. Mu. Blaine mado short speeches at soveral agricultural fairs in Now York on his tour westward. At Buffalo thoro was a largo pa rade in his honor, njany campaign clubs from surrounding towns participating. A fire at Pittsburg, Penn., dostroyod Abel Smith & Company’s extensive glass works, a largo machiiio shop, five frame dwellings and other property, causing an estimated loss of $200,000. From 75,000 to 100,000 poople wero reported prosent at a Democratic demonstration in Columbus, Ohio. Clubs from surrounding towns participated in a torchlight parodo; speeches were mado by Messrs. 1 lend ricks* Bayard, Pendleton, Payne, Thurman, Car lisle, Governor Iiondly and other Demo erntie leaders, and a letter regretting his in ability to be present was received from Gov ernor Cleveland. South Carolina Republicans, after u stormy all night convention nt Columbin, nominated a Stato ticket headed by D. T. Cor' bin (white) for governor and D. A. Straker (colored) for lieutenant-governor. Tub bodies of two horso thiovos were dis. covered susiiended from a tree on Poplar river in Montana. This makes thirty-soven thioves lynched by vigilante in that region this season. Hundreds of convicts were killed during n sunguinary out break in tho jail at Mandalay* tho capital of Burmuh. The ravages of tho cholera aro again in’ creasing in Italy. King Humhkrt, of Italy, has been com plimented for his heroism in visiting tho cholera-infcctod districts by tho president of tho French republic. General Diaz has been eloctod president of Mexico for four years from December 1 next. Three Pullman cars attached to a train running between Toronto and Montreal left tho track, broko from tho other cars and tumbled thirty-five feet down an embank ment, ttftor which they caught fire. Forty or more i>ersons were injured, twenty of them quite badly. 'The Newfoundland fisheri** this season havo been a failuro, and the Labrador fishers are starving. —The cotton, peanut and late corn crops in Virginia and North Carolina have been seri ously injured by tho drought. —It was learned that Rabbi Bilbciman mar ried He-nrv C. Friedman to Sarah Scheuer. the runaway daughter of the New York million- naire, in the Metropolitan Hotel, in the pres- mco of a few strangers. —The steamahip Lord of the Isles, loaded with tea, consigned to Moslo Bros,, arrived in New York from Yokohama. On Aug. 23, off Cape Guardafire, Africa, she rescued 306 per sons from tho French tiansport Avyron, which had Just been wrecked. 8bo lauded them at Aden two days lator. —Two little girls were held in Ottawa, Kan., for murder in killing their half brother, six years old. —Potatoes ahow a smaller acreago and mnch lighter yield than last year in Now York State, New England and Canada. —The employment of a gang of Italian and Hungarian laborers in Washington, D. C., has caused much indignation among the resident oolored laborers, and trouble is threatened. Illnlnete Nworii ConfesMlou. In the Blaine libel suit at Indianapolis, Mr Blaine’s attorneys fileil the answers to tho in terrogatories propounded by the SentineCa at torneys on Sept. 5. The answers were em* braced in full in Mir. Blaine’s letter to Mr. Phelps, given elsewhere NEWS SUMMARY Vaatertt fottfule Klelse Mirk Sadie Ixobinron, tho thirteon-vear- old daughter of wealthy residents of couth Framingham, Mass., has created A sensation by secreting a valiso belonging to her mothei* nncl containing sixty thousand dollaM’ WoHh of jawehvy* poouVitieA find mttn©y. .Tile eirL Who ft pimjr aha weighs nedrjy 200,, pounds, Was ihiklfig prepl^aVions To oloi>c wIUlS young; whpt^ she bad mpt clandestinely. The valpnblGp were recovered. , MR. Blaink’8 visit to Philadelphia wai jnado tho occasion of a roeoption to him by tho Union League club, and a torchlight pro cession of uniformed Republican clubs, com prising about 25,000 men. , The total equalized valuo of real and per* 8onal property in New York State is returned as $3,014,521,372. At tho DolaWnre Democratic convention In Dover Congressman Lore waa renominated by acclamation, presidential blecfcoHi Werh tftotien and Cleveland and Hendricks w«ro en dorsed. GENfeh^L jduTLKH’fl fdjiowera iniiaisaehu- (totts, at ,tho Btuto convention of the “Poo dle’s pajdyy’ hjBld in Worcester, nominated McCalTerty for governor, and a full Btute tickot. Iiloctors at largo wore also chosen. After the convontion Butler ap- I>enred and hold a reception and mado a spcoch to tho delegates. Mr. Newton is believed to have killed himself in a fit of dospolldeiicy catishd by Ibng sickfiosa and i>ocUniary difficulties. He wtte tho chief engineer on board the Monitor at thb time df hor celebrated fight ddth thb Merriinda Mrs. Neli.ie E. HuruIrd. the divorcoti wifottf William Shejwird. aud the daughter of ox-GCvcrnor Richard I). Hubbard, or Coii- nccticut, has bcctjjnarriod privately to Clark ~ ” ‘ vortbUslncAi man, Mr. Smedloy, A Now ilav, and Mrs. khnodloy Will dwell in Now Haven; whore her divorced husband, who It will be romoniberod wds her father s coachman, wita whom she oIojhnI a few yonte ago, still livo*. Tho first marriage, which created a great sensation, was an unhappy one. Mr. Blaine made short siiocchos at several agricultural fairs in New York on his tour westward. At Buffalo thero wna a largo j»a- rado in his honor, many campaign clubs from surrounding towns participating. A fire at Pittsburg, Ponn., destroyed Abel Smith & Company's oxtensivo glass works, a largo machine shop, tlvo frame dwellings and other property, causing an estimated loss of DutiiEo a Hopublican flag raising at t'affc- villo, Conn., tho flag-staff loll, killing Mrs. Paul Tctrault and fatally Injuring unothoT woman. At tho annUnl session of the National Bi ennial Conference of Unitarians, hold ln Sar atoga, N. Y , thero wore present 2,000 persons representing 212 churches and thirty-throe conferences and associations. The session lasted fivo day a ttetitli and West* Portland, Oregon, bus hud a disostrouil fire, which destroyed a whole bldck, including tho Esmond House, tho loading hotel in the city. The total loss is about $125,000. Tub Newcomb-BUchanan company, of I/ouisvillo, Ky., the largest whisky house in the country, hnc gone into bankruptcy. Two years ago tho company fnilcd for $1,500,000. By a ci llision between two froight trains near Now Cambria, Mo., throe men were killed aud two others fatally injured. Fire dostroyod ten buildings in Eureka, Nevada, including a hotel anil a bonk. Loss about $75,(XX). An important land transfer in New Maxi- lias been mado to Now York partiea through tho deiMirtmcnt of emigration of tho Santa Fo Railway company. The grant I way company. The grant comprises 20,(XM acres, and thopurposo is to found an Episcopal colony of Eastern people in connection with which an oducation&l in stitution will be established. Texas straight-out Republicans hove put a State ticket in tho field, headed by Judge A. B. Norton for govornor. Drought has seriously injured the cottoa. rennut and other crops In large portions of Virginia and North Carolina. Two young girls— Cm rio and Bessie Water- man, a^e<l twelve and fourteen years, daugh ters of Jarncs Waterman, a farmer living near Ottawa, Kansas—tied a rope around tho neck of a half brother, six years old. dragged him about and beat him with a stick until he waa dead. The girls stated at the coroner’s in quest that they hated the child aud wanted him dead. They were held for murder. From 75,000 to 100,(K)0 people wero reported present at a Democratic demonstration in Columbus, Ohio. Clubs from surrounding towns participated in a torchlight parade; speeches were made by Messrs. Hendricks, Bayard, l’cudluton, I’ayno, Thurman. Car lisle, Governor J loudly and other Demo cratic leaders, and a letter regretting Ids in ability to be prosent was received from Gov ernor Cleveland. South Carolina Republicans, after a stormy all night convention nt Columbia, nominated a Ktato ticket headed hy D. T. Cor bin (white) for govornor and D. A. Straker (colored) for lieutenant-governor. The bodies of two horse thiovos were dis covered susi>6ndod from a tree on Poplar river in Montana. This mukes thirty-sevon thieves lynched by vigil.mts in that region this season. Incendiarism is rampant at Cleveland, Ohio, several attempts having been made ever sinco thoyecont largo fires to burn down sonic of the finest business blocks in tho city. Miss C. I. Welton, a wealthy young lady from Now York city, recently perished in a snow storm while descending Long’s peak in Colcrudo. Bhu wus frozen to deuLh. {Simmons & Sewell, millers, of Virden, 111., have failed. Liabilities, $206,COO; assets. $16,000. Mr. Blaine was welcomed at Cleveland* Ohio, by a largo torchlight narado, which ha reviowod in company with Gonoral Logan. iYnuliingtou. Payments from tho treasury on account of pensions during September wore $650,( 00. Over $10,000,000 was paid out for pensions in August. The acting secretary of the treasury has issued the ono hundred and thirty-first call for tlio redemption of Ijonds. Tlio call Is for $10,000,000 of the three por cent, loan of 18J*2. Foreign* The British war department has for warded $500,000 in gold to Ceneru] Lord Wolsoloy to defray expenses incidental to his expedition to Khurtoum. Suspension of warlike operations by tho French troops in China is suid to bo duo to Germany’s mediation. Li Hung Chang, tho famous viceroy of Poe Chi Li, and leader pf tho peace party in China, has been reinstated in all the offices he formerly held. King Humbert, of Italy, has been com- plimontod for his heroism in visiting the cholera-infcctod districts by the president of tho French republic. General Diaz has been elected president of Mexico for four years from December 1 next The decline of receipts ut the custom houses of Italy,owing to the prevalonco of cholera,is ettimated at $8,006,00a A desperate conflict took place at. Bonn- die, in tho province of Bnrabov, between several of tho German inhabitants and Rus sian peasants who were visiting tho annual fair. During the row eleven persons were killed, including one gendarme, and’ thirty more were wounded. A tremendous flood is reported from Bue nos Ayres, South America Many lighters foundorod and the shipping was extensively damaged. A disastrous conflagration hus occurred at Zoitoun, in Syria. Tho bazar and 400 houses were consumed. Hundreds of convicts were killed during a sanguinary out break in the jail ut Mandalay, the capital of Burmah. The ravages of the cholera are again in- reusing in Italy. The damage done bv Wednesday’s cyclone in Clear Lake and vicinity will reach fully $25,000. Hardly a house remains unscathed. Threo persous in the town were killed and at least six others cannot survive the injuries they sustained. The loss of grain to tho farmorn is very severe, and many of them will bo ruined- THE CHOLHU SCOURGE March or tlio Dreaded Pestilence In Europe. ‘Total Nnmbflt; of Deaths Sinoe the Outbreak, A BpoelAl cqblo dispatch from London says Hint up to midnight on Thuralny tho total number of dentils ln Europe from tho cholora since the outbreak In Toulon wns 14,133. Of these Italy hud 7,974; France. 5,708, and Spain, 300. Tho nctun! totals, says the corre*|)ondent, may lie higher from the two causes of ofilcinl cod* OeatmeHt and bad report ing, hilt 1 hnvo etory death tthich louud its way Into nrijj hoport, local or gonerni. The rroviiKo of NntJlea has now furnished nfcrq depths than the whole ot Franco, tho total being 5,023> of which only 800 or so bolong outside tho city. Noxt In Italy comes Qonoa, with 033, two-thirds of which come from little Spozla. Tho dlseaso hits now, howovon got a firm grip on the city of Genoa, do- splto the ridiculous cordon kept around Hpezia to save the marble city. To this barbarous measure, which lit- chilly Scared and stilrvod tho, HpOzidns Into the (liwitac, niny btj ascribed tlio fHghtfUl mortality that has provallod there. A goii- tjenmti Just arrived front Geneva tolls trio the bark (lUnrtoni tliei-o are very dii-tt, anil that tho epidemic is likely to lluvo ninny Hundreds of .victims, Tlio Province of Cunep has had 4<H deaths, half of thorn ■olng !h tl;o city of Uuscn, whirl! ltkowlsb line been a martyr to a mcdin-vnl cordon. I lie otlior provinces whirl] lmvo htul over 100 deaths nh> Bergamo, with 30fi; Mniwa Cnh rnra, with 148; Pnnna, with 113; Turin, with 108, and Cntnpo Basso, with 101. In tho hut threo the plague sooms now to have diod out, but It Is raging in now fields. In all, 41 pro vinces in Italy have boon infected. An Italian friend of mine who Is n inendier of a ltepubllean socloty in Italy tells mo tho curious fnct that his latest circu lars from headquarters annuunco ncvos- slons by the hundred* from membership, Including somo of tho licst mui in the socloty, owing to tho admiration for the king’s courage in visiting Nnplw. Tlio (iaiil)ahiians from Milan who yolUnteored to nurso tho sick at Naples, and wllo wear red shirts, hnd are to a mail Hadlcal. Wore mot In tlio slupts tho qtliet dny by Cardinal (San Fo- e other dny , _ Heo. Tho. prelate, shook hands with nil of them, and thanked them Warmly, Tills fact lias done more for tho Dial Unification of Italy than It is easy to beliovo. lit Franco there are now twenty-tfiroo do- pnrtmonts whore cases have been reported, and nineteen that havo had deaths. The stricken communities number 1£1T. Mar- willies has had 1.788 deaths, Toulon, 981; Arles, 383; Perpignan, lull; Aix, 103, nnil (’/irr/LKsniilUV If MI Tim fnnliim t\f .Is Carcassonne, lot). Tlio fonturo of tlio week has boon the spread of tho dlsonso Into Bowdo- imrtmonts—bicre, Gcrs and Contol—and its anpoaranco in tlio norlheni suburbs of Paris. Fivo different suburbs hnvo bail deaths sinco tlio 1-ltli. The Klvor Bolno at Cllchy aud Nt. Eonfs is in a horrililo state—so bad. In fnct, that a ;mrty of scientist* who made an examination yesbirday were mado violently ill by tho stench. It will bo no innt- tor for surprise if tlio genuine Aslntlc cholera break* out thero and Invades tho Bollovillo and Grenclle quarters ot Paris before mnny days aro nnssnL PROMINENT PEOPLE, Fiuncis Mij ant v )m< boon holding tein- porauca meetings in St. raid. Dn. NonviN Giik.-n, pruildont of the UV-it- •rn Union Telegraph company, Is a great sugar oqlor. Ex-Unitbd States Sknatoii Nesmith, of Oregon, has bticomo insane anil lias boon placisl in an asylum. Mui.ky Hahsan. til- emperor of Morocco, call rend and write, and is the only subscriber to a newspaper in tile empire. The International Forestry oxhibltion. at Edinburgh, hns nwarded n gold medal of tlio Hist class to Professor Riley,of tho Department of Agriculture of Washington. Uenerai. Pleasanton hns not abandoned his “blue-glass" tlioory. Ho says lie lias three-yonr-old colts roaro I under blue gluss that nro as large os livo-yoar-olds raised on Kentucky blue grass. Noiidenhkjold, tlio famous Arctic ox- B lorer, is said to bo anxious to try his luck in tie South, nnd lias made plans for an expedi tion to the South Polo. He is writing ids experiences in tile Arctics. Poor Carlotta, ox-ompross of Mexico, spends only a few thousands a year in her mad-house, nnd tho accumulated intorost of her immense fortune hus become enormous. Hor heirs will bo her brothers. Alokhnon Charles Swinburne, tho English poet, detests tobacco. “Jnnics the First," ho said recently, “was a knave, a ty rant, a fool, a liar, n coward, but I love lilin. 1 worship him because lie slit tlio throat of thnt blackguard Raleigh, who Invented this flrthy smoking.” Eijward Kino thus writes from Paris of two noted men: “Victor Hugo and Marshal von Moltko wore both at Kaggatz in Switzer land recently. I tldnk it would lie difficult to Hud in America two such vigorous old men of eighty as the famous Prussian general nnd tho celebrated French poet. Nolthorof thorn seem to have any intention of dying for tho next quarter of a century. "Oklahoma” Payne, tlio man who lias mado himself notorious by his Incursions Into tlio Indian Territory, is doscribod ns an ordi nary-looking man, who jioscsses n strong mag netic influence over his followoin. Ho Ts about six fiat high, sttongly built, wears a moustocho and full chin board, Is of dark complexion and lias dark eyes. Cnptrln Pavno sneaks with rnnrsn flimnr*v nt>.i Payno s;leaks with conrso fluency, ami am peals to tlie'passions lo accomplish ids ends. Senator Wade Haui-ton stands ut tho bead of the sportsmen of the United stales Senate. His sjiecialty Is fishing, and In- is said to lie ono of the best nmatour fishermen 'll tlio United States. Tho Into Senator An thony w-ns also a capital fldicrmnn. Senator Vest loves to hunt and fish, whilo Senator Beck lias hunted everywhere wortli mention ing in tlio United Stalos and Scotland. Like his prospective colleague, Mr. Blackburn, lie is passionately fond of good horses NEWSY GLEANINGS. It is said that only ono small herd of buffalo remain in Texas. It cost fifty million dollars to pick last year’s cotton crop. Mexico owes English creditors $60,000,000 and Americans $20,00:),(XX). Thirteen States have labor bureaus. Mas- ncliusetts set the example in 1860. In some parts of Kansas grain remains un harvested for want of the nocessary laborers. One gold mine in Utah has never ;evicd an assessment, and has paid $5,00J,000 in divi dends. Indiana employs 5,400 men and $2,000,000 in getting 2,500,000 tons of coal of 206 mines yearly. From one squirrel killed by O. W. Fleckler, near .Santa Cruz, Cal., 891 kernels of wheat were taken. A VISIT TO A JAIL, . Four PrikonerN Taken Out by a lflof and Lyn.liedi A special dispatch from Brookhaven, Miss, says that 11 a mob of forty men visited the Franklin county jail, overpowered the jailer and took out four nogro prisoners and lynched them to trees in tho court house yard. Opo was charged with an at tempted assault Qn a white girl, two with the murder of other negroes and the other with arson and robbery. Four other prisoners were in jail at the time—one charged with criminal assault, tho others with arson—but ~J le y wore unmolested. The mob informed tho juilor that unless the circuit judge cleaned out the jail this term they would return and make a clean sweep. 'I ho affair is greatly deprecated by a largo majority of the citi- zen * 2* county, where six men havo been sacrificed by Judge Lynch in eighteen months TEtS NEVS. TKI.RGRAPIIIO HKPORTB OV WHAT M TKANMPIHING OP IMPORTANCE IN T1I1M COUNTRY AND BI.SKWHIU. —The nsttte of ex-8ocroi*ry McCulloch 1* how mentioned m tho sfichessffr of tlio lata Secretary Folgef. —Tlio monument to General Reynolds waa tinTeliad with beoomlng oeremonics at Phil adelphia. , , , j. i, . —A marshal, whilo sorvlng a ilUpoflscw war rant in Albany, N. Y.. waa killed by tho wife of tho tenant by being thrown over the banutora. -It is stated on authority that Postmaster General Gresham will be appointed Judge of Circuit Court, to tuccocd tho United Htatea Judge Drummond, wlio baa tendered hi* resig nation. Thq Italian government will bring In • bill to dbolloii the slum* of Naploa. —General Gordon tolegrajflif to tho Khedive ami Hir Evelyn Baring that lio expect* 30.000 Tnrkt.li troops a( Kliuftonm and want* money. He had sent a fettering jforoe to ^ Berber, and ordered tho town to lie burned. —Two men engaged In repairing a tower in Pittsburg were suffocated by gas. —Tlio stookhnlders of the Northern Railroad declared a division of the (1,590,000 mirplua accumulated by tho road. —A Hebrew girl of ninoteen, falling to pasa her examination in New York city recently, wrote to bor parents that the oould no longer beer to seo them slave for her, and disap peared. She was found working aa a servant girl In a family in that all/, —-Tlrb finding of » naval oottrt of inquiry lh*t all the blame fot Sinking the Tatlapooaa lice with tho master of the schoohof has been dpprpvod by the Naty Department. , —Three iteamlioat*. Including the relief boat Lily, wore huriied at Oinoihnatl, one ih Boston harbor and another in Delaware fiver. At the latter flro ono life waa iosi —A new vault io hold fifty million ailrer dol lars lias boon Completed In tlio TtoaaUry build ing at Washington. —Tlio dlroovory of the. body of jamee Waln- wriglit, pierced with shot, ln a orook among tho woods near Tom’* River, N. J., led to the arrest of a prominent resident of the Tillage, anil also of scvoral members of hla family, —Fonr lnoendlary fire* wero started tn Cleve land. Two of thorn caused great damage. —At Stamford, Conn., a gang of about sixty boys, organized for pnrposoa of petty tliofta, etc., lias been discovered and some of the members arrested. —A Spanish sergeant and aeven privates on the northeastern frontier of Spam do-erted from tlielr poll Tuesday ami. taking tho treasure ohosl of tholr roglntoni with thorn, crossed into France. Shunting "tire Zorllla/’ They Were placed under arrest and deprived ot their arma. —Lord Lyolts, the English Amhaaaador to France, has msdo an appeal to tho Frenoli government for work for the suffering work men of Pai ls. -Preparations aro golhg on for a general Uprising ln Cuba during (he oomlng winter. Tlio negroes will bo urged to loin th. Insurrec tionists, and that portion of tlio programme most concerns tlio government of the island. —Twonty-ono persons have been arrested ln Vtouiia as anarchists. —The Now York clothing trade waa startled by tlio failure of Rlndskopf Brothers It Co., wholesalers, with preferences for over (HUH,- 000. Tlio house suspendod to proteot ba friends. Orerprodnotlon is said to be tl* cause of the failuro. —Mrs. Moroalnl’s recent Illness was duo to threo attempts at aulolda. She lias gone ■broad with her two daughters. Victoria will go upon the stage and Ernest will become a Cathnllo. —W. H. Payne’s flour mill In Ifsrlem, N Y., ra* burned down. The Ism la (40.000. —A tromondons flood Is reported from Bnenos Ayres. —Military movements have ceased ln China pending rumored German mediation. —Thomas A. Fawcett, a private banker of London, Ontario, lias failed. His liabilities, at a rough guens, aro (8(10,000 or (900,000. —A disastrous conflagration lias occurred at Zeitoun, in Hyria. Tho biizsar and 400 houses were consumed. Tlio fire lias occasioned much Buffering among tlio residents of tho town. —A dri.porato conflict took placo at Ronndlc, in tho provinco of Haratov, hotwoen soveral of tho German inhabitants and Russian peas ants who were visiting tho annual fair. Dur ing tlio uioloo eleven persons wero killed, in cluding one gendarme, and thirty more were wounded t —As many aa 4,600 of tlio Frenoli troops ln Tonquin nro reported Bick, and it la assertoil also ihut tlio Chili'so troops havo spread ovor the northern portion of tho province ef Quany You, in northeastern Tonquin, where they are levying contributions upon the inhabitants. —A gang of plckpockots who had worked tho fair grounds at Worcester, Mass., took E asssgn on the same tram with James G. Union and robbed tho crowds gatliored nt tho stations on tho route to greet tlio Republican candidate. —Lively oarthquake shocks were oxporloncsd in Iowa. Indiana, Ohio and Michigan on Fri day. No damage is reported, bnt there wan considerable alarm. —A husband wna killed by a Jealous wifo near Clearfield, Pa, ■Many lodges of the oath-bound Molly Magniros exist in tho Pennsylvania coal dis tricts, whore tho Jives of prominent citizens aro threatened. Tho murder of one Hun garian and fatal wounding of another aro charged npon theso Mollies. —A Virginia huntor shot and killod a boy who refused to oarry a beor keg for him. —Two men were killed at Ashland, Pa., by being accidentally thrown down a colliery ■haft Tns British gunlioat Wasp has boon wrecked off 'Tory island, on tlio northwest coast of Ireland, Fifty-two of the men on board were drowned. Among tills ntimbnr all the officers were included. Only six |»r- eons were saved. On tlio rocky coast whero the disaster occurred it wns imjMissibie to uso small bout*in tlio attempt to rescue the ship's crow. The Wasp had a registered tonnage of 4U5 tons and carried four guns. Gillie Leigh, n member of the British pnrjiainciit, lost Ids life in Montana ny fulling over a precipice. Six vessels wore lost on tlio Labrador coast during a recent easterly gale. In Dm Wlii'e Bay district tluoo thousand persons are starv ing. Two Paris editors have fought a duel, one receiving a wound ill tho arm. --Tho Gormans are sending corvettes to th" west coast of Africa to protect thoir in tcrosta —A Varna correspondent says that all the Powers aro now united in resisting the offorta of Turkey to emancipate herself from inter national eontroi. —Tho Belgian Education bill has boon pub lished bearing the royal assent. —Thoro have been oleotion riots at Agram. —Theodore Ronlean, aged eighteen, and nortense Paro, aged slxtoon, botli French CauadiaiiB, while walking homo from a ball at Rochester, N. H., Tuesday night, were over taken by a thunder storm and both struck by lightning, ltouleau was instantly killed. Miss Paro's hair, ono arm and band wore badly burned, and she bat iost hor reason, wldoh, it is fearod, will not be restored. —The president and secretary of tho New- comb-Uuchanan Distilling Company, of Louis ville, Ky., aro said to havo fled, and extensive frauds by means of duplicated warehouse re ceipts havo boon discovered, —The Logan National Bank of Wost Lib erty, Ohio, lias closed its doors. —In tlio White Bay district, Labrador, threo thousand pereonB aro starving. Commander French, of the war ship Olorido, and passing vessels rendered temporary assistance, and Commander Frenoli lias forwarded a strong appeal for aid to the Newfoundland govern ment. —Two mon wero liangod for murder in Pennsylvania on Tuesday. —Tho total and equalized value of real und personal property in New York State is re lumed os over throe billion dollar*. Peace In Furore. A Berlin correspondent leiegraphB as fol lows: I hear from tho best source that whi n, at their last meeting, the Czar, Kaiser and Emperor Btood together the Czarina said to Frinco Bismarck: “Could not we be always so. Would it not bring happiness to tne world?” Prince Bismarck ropnoU: “As long as I am Chancellor it will remain so, and when it cannot be «o it will be my time for giving in." NUMBER 25. „(lJ(yw YMV BMisrs Tiro KsnoiNos. He Anya he W*» Secretly Mnrrled In 1(00. n«t Onnhtlnw the Validity cf the (In* emany hnu It llenented, Tlio Hon. William Walter Phelps gives lo the f iublio the following private letter addressed o him by Mr. Jamce O. Blaino: Auocbta, Sept. 0,1884. Mt Dear Mn. Pitr.t.rs: I have your favor of tho 4th advising me lhat "the continuous in vention «tid wjdo simulation of evil reports render It advlsaliio (Iff yotir Judgment) not to wait tho slow procosB of the law, tint to spoak directly to the publlo In my own vindication.” In tiiia Opinion mnny others on wlioeo Judg ment I rely oontfff. f, shrink inallnctlrely i, although 1 feel suYJ I from tho suggestion, _ could strengthen tho confidence of all Who feel friendly to mo by bringing to viow tho simple thread of truth whloli is concealed ln tills end less tlssno of falsehood. Yon can inmgino how inexpressibly painful it must ho to discuss one's domeslto life ln the press, although I think with you that under tlio circumstance* I could count upon tlio generosity of the public 10 Justify a statement which ollierwlsa might seem object to liable. I can, In any event, safely onmmit tho f.ltft to yon for per sonal communication to those friondn who have taktm n dcMoato and so considerate nil Interest in my affairl Tho leisure hours of to-day, when our tampaign is ctided and wo wait only for tlio oleotion, give* me tlio opportunity for this prompt roply and for tho following e«w«- tlal details! At Georgetown, Kj., In tlio spring of 1818, when I was hut 18 years of age, I first mot tlio lady who fur moro than 34 years lias been my wife. Our acquaintance resulted at tlio Olid of six months In an engagement, which, without tho prospoct of speedy marriago, wo naturally sought to hoop to oursolvos. Two years laior, In the spring of' 1860, when I was maturing plans tn Icsvo my profession in Kentucky and establish rriyscM elsewhere, I was suddenly summoned in Fenfisylrafita hy tho deatli of my father. It being vorj doubtfnl if I conld return to Kcntuoky, I was throstonod wllli an indefinite separation from her who possessed my entire derh'tiftn. My ono wish was to Seen Vo her to ifivself by su iiidlssnlubiu tlo against over? pomlblo con tingency in life, and, on tlio SOtli day of Juno, I860, just prior to my doparturo from Ken tucky, wo word, fn tlio presunco of clvisen and trusted friends, united by What I know was, In my nativo Btato of I’ennyslvaftla, a perfectly legal form of marriage. Cn reaching home I found that my family, and especially my bereaved mother, strongly discountenanced my Imslnoss plans, mi tnvolylnir too long a separation from homo and kindred, I com plied with hor wish that I should resUtne, at least for a tlmo, my occupation in Kentucky, whither I rottirnoil in tho latter part of August. During the ensuing winter, lnducod by mis. givings under now responsibilities—misgiving* lions—I which wsro Increased by legal oonsnltati ' ‘ ‘' a doubt might bo thrown lieoatue alarmed lest npon the validity of our marriage hy reason of non-oompllaiioe with tlio law of tho Htato where It had occurred—fur 1 had learned that the laws of Kentuoky mado a license certifli d by tlio Clark of the County Court, an liidlsiK'ir. sable requisite of a legal marriago. After much deliberation, and witli au anxious dnsiro to guard in tlio moat effectual niannor ugalnst any posslblo embarrassment resulting from our positlon-for which 1 alono was responsible-- wo dcoldod that tho simplest and at tlio aamo tlmo tho surost way waa to repair to Pennsyl vania and havo another marriage service per- formed. This was done, in the proaonce of witnesses. In the city of Pittsburg in tho month of March, 1861, hut was not utlierwtso mado pub lic for obvious reasons. It Waa solumnizad on ly to secure an lndlspiitahlo validity, tho first marriago being by my wifo and myself always held sacred. At the mature age of 54 1 do not defend tlio wisdom or prtidonoo of a secret marriago suggested by the ardor and tho lnex- porienco of youth, hut Us honor and Its purity wore inviolate, aa I believed, ln tho sight of Cod. and cannot bo mado to appear othorwiso hy tho wioked devices of mon. It brought to mo a companionship which has been my olilef happiness from boyhood's yours to tills hour, and has crowned me with whatovor of sucoess I havo attained ln life. My eldest child, a sou, was born in his grand mother's house on tho 18th day of Juno, 1H5I, ln tho oity of Augnsta, Mo., and died in hor arms three years lator. HU ashes repose In the oometery of his nativo olty, be neath a stone which recorded his liamo and tlio limits of his innocent lifo. That stone, which has stood for slmost'an entire generation, lias boon recently dofscod by brutal aud saod- logious hands. As a candidate for tho Presidency, I knew that I should encounter many forma of calum ny and porsonal defamation, bnt I oonfusB that 1 did not oxpoot to bo called upon to doroml tlio name of a beloved and honored wife, who 1* a mother and a grandmother, nor did I ox- peot that tho gravo of my little child would bo cruelly desecrated. Agolnst such gross forms of wrong tho law gives no adoquato redress, and I know that In the end my most rffectii o appeal against tho unspeakable outrages which I resist mast bo to tlio noble manhood ami tlio noble womanhood of Amerioa. Your friend, very aiuccrcly, Jambs G. Blaine. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. Macklin, tlio actor, playoff Shylock ut ninety-five, and dieff nt 105. The oldest actor living nwiffes in St. Louis —N. M. Ludlow, eighty mjvoii. The New York Actors’ fund has had seventy-four funerals in four years. Lai»y ushers *»t llaukin’s Third Avenue Theatre, New York, have proved a success. Tine mounting of M. Surdou’s now drama at tho Torbe Haiut Martin, I'uris, will cost upward of $(X>,(XX). Mme. Magda Irsciiick will make a torn of the United States this season, supported by her own company. M. Coquetin, tho elder, the eminent French actor and dramatist, will take a four months’ vacation in America in 1885. Verdi, now seventy-three, white-haired and bearded, calmly stands on a column of 125 operas of his own comi>osing. Owing to tho deatli of her father, Madam Trebelli has resolved to postpone her return to tho United States until October, 1885. Emma Abbott has purchased a new opera by the author and composer of “The Twelve Jolly Bachelors.” It is called “Don Filibusto.” Langtry has notified several American managers to cancel her dates. They threaten to make it warm for her if she returns to this country. Harry Dunman, the tenor, hns l>een en gaged by Henry Irving for tho tinging parts in the lutter’s repertoire. He joins the com pany in Quebec. Harry Courtaink, who was a few years ago one of the most popular of young Ameri can uctors, has been reduced by drink uutil he is now a raggod beggar. Mahsim, tho new tenor, wants his oxpensea paid and $.20,000 u month to sing in the United t'tatos. Moreover, ho stipulates that he will sing.only eight times a month. Dan Rice, tho once famous circus clown, deliveraLwliat ho called a lecture in tho Ma sonic Temple theatre in Louisville, Ky., on a recent Sunday evening,in the course of which ho displayed many of his clown tricks, sung a comic song and danced a nogro break down, The audience was very small, ho far as the traveling company could see in tho opera house at Murcelomi, Mich., but a funny pas sage in the play raised laughter, which evi dently came from the outside, and on ilivesti- f ation it was found that ladders uiroinmo- at ing a hundred i>orsons lmd been placed at the windows. The first negro song ever sung before an audience in a theatre was by an actor named Herbert. He had been a cook in early lifo, and was famous for his pot-pies; therefore ho was famil.a-ly tallel “Pot-pie’ Herbert. The song was entitled “ The Battle of Platts- burg.” Herbert.made his first effort in Al bany, N. Y. It was in tho year 1815. Ho painted his face with black paint, tlio u se of burnt cork boing unkn nvn at that time. 11a sat in a chair before tho curtain. A. Journalist Elopes with the Wife of no Knirllxh Nobleman. An English paper says that a \fl5ll-known journalist, who is a corret-pondenfc of several newspapers in America, has eloped with the young wife of an Euglish nobleman. The de tectives have tracked the fugitives to Brus sels, hut the scent was lost in that oity, and it is believed they have taken passage to tho colonies. The lady is said to be one of tho most beautiful women in Europe, and tho elopement is considered very incomprehensible by her relatives and friends The journalist is old enough to be the father of the lady. The names of the parties have pot yet been made publlo, SOUTHERN NOTES. Paper peaoh-baskcls aro used in Maryland. Watermelons six for a quarter at Canton, Texas. Three hundred Cubians arrivo at Kcj West moutl^y. A lot of horso stock left Ban Antonio for Alaska lately. Mississippi has tho third host State library ln tho country. A full grown cocoa nut tree will produce sixty nuts annually. Tho Louisiana rico crop aggregates 250,000 barrels tide year. Virginia has shipped a lot of Jorsoy stock to South America. This year’s cotton crop in the South is fig. tired at 6,700,000 bales. An electric light company Is being organzlcij at Blierman, Texas. A Delaware farmer has plowed undor 40,000 horrings ns a fertilizer. Tito ltomo, Oa., cotton factory will shortly ho enlarged and improved. A valuable mica mine has been discovered four miles from Macon, Ga. Boo keeping in South Florida is attracting much attention from boo mon. Immense quantities of charcoal are being shipped from Stonow&U, Miss. A fish canning and a guano factory are talked of for Charlotto Harbor, Fla. Largo bods of anthracite coal havo just been discovered in Northern Mexioo. Tlio Han Antonio driving park is being put In flrsl-elasB slinpo for the fall race*. A mini in l’ntnam oonnty, Fla., hat killed sixty-eight alligators in ono wcok. It is estimated that tho nut crop of th* South tide year will lie worth (3,000,000. Englishmen, residents of England, own 20,• 000,000 acres of land in tlio United States. Virginia will this year harvost one million ono huudiod thousand bUBhclt of poannts. It is computed that the forests of Texas will anpply the whoto country with timber for years. Plko county, Ark., will send a thousand pound block of gypsum to tho World's Expo sition. Nearly a thousand barrels of cotton seed oil wero shipped from Madison. Fla., during th* year past. The Atlantia Coast Canal, from Daytona to St. Augustino, is oxpootod to be flniehed by November. Augnsta, Ga., lias gained in population 21,- 182 Hi nee 1870, 14,080 of whlon hie come ln Blnco 1880. A negro at Athens, Ga., bonnd ont his olilld fur ono year to got money to go on an excur sion with. Island 10, below Memphis, where In ante bellum days 5,000 men were stationed, has now entirely disappeared. ( South Carolina tea, cured in a fruit evapo rator, has been pronounoed by experts to b* equal to Imported tons. Apalachicola hopes soon to sconre hor for* mer importance os a cotton shipping port. Capitalists aro at work thore, A palmetto factory for the manufacture of palmetto into fibre for brushes ts soon to bv iu operation In Sanford, Fla. It Is estimated that ten million dollars worth of grass is annually consumed by the prairie dogH in Northern Texas. A rcscut dlsoorery has been made of sn im mense deposit of sulphnr, one hundred feet thick, in Tom Orocn county, Texas. An Anniston, Ala., paper reports that works capable of turning out 125 locomotives a ye tr, are to bo built at that plaoe. Jack Daggart ran a base ball olub In Fort Wurth until ho amassed (800 of collections, and then was suddenly called away to other fiolde of usefulness. Grange peel Is now said to be collected, dried in ovens, and sold for kindling wood. It burns readily and with groat flerosnoss, aud is safer then kcrosono, , A report comos from Brevard oonnty < ( sugar cano eighteen feet high, and weighing as many pounds. And yet Florida Is lie; known ob a sugar producing State. A Ban Antonian aues a druggiet for (5,000 damagos for selling him s poisonous porous plaster witli whloli he droeeod s wonnd and poisoned his systom last March. It is stated that a now company with a capi tal of fivo hundred thousand dollars are guing to open a new cool mine at Jollico near tho Tennessee and Kcntuoky state line. , In Florida tho strong fibre of the leaves of a species of cactus i» turned into rope, its Juice into a pleasant beverage, and its trunk, after tlio removal of the pith, into pails. Over one hundred now buildings aro now being erected in Oainesville, Fla., and two hundred moro should bo in courso of erection to supply tbo demand fer houses to rent. Tom Green oounty, Texas, whioh le about tho size of Massachusetts, though it has no towns, has an assessed valuation of (5,000,000 and a population of GOO,000 sheep and cattle. Many of tho best posted among our cattle men say that comparatively few cattlo will ha drivon out of Texas another year ; that tlioy will bo shipped hy rail. A Texarkana girl objected to being hugged by a follow named Ivy, bccauso she said she hoard that ivy .was poisonous and she didn't want any of it climbing around her. . The largo shops at Meridian, Miss., of the New Orleans and Northeast Railroad, to ba completed Sopt. l,jvill bo supplied with the' latest machinery. Four hundred men are em ployed upon it. From 130 trees growing, on 1% acres of land, W. W. Thompson, of Smithvillc, Ga., shipped 200 crates of LcConto pears; bosidcs these forty bushels wero blown off by tbs wind nnd not shipped. The name of Lake Tnhopekaliga is Indian, and was dorivod by them from tho immense number of blackbirds from around tbo allures of tho Jake at all soasons, and whose song re sembles it in syllabio pronunciation. Few cities in this country contain- so much beauty within their limits aa Savannah, Ga. Twenty-four parka, or equares, eaoli with sev eral acres of tall trees and smooth lawns, adorn different parts of tlio city, and give breathing-places for tho inhabitants. MR. FOLGER’S SUCCESSOR, I'osluiriNler-Oi-ueral Circsliaill, Secre tary of tlie Trea-ur;-. 1'ostinastor-Genoral Groshara received iv telegram at 11. p. M., from the President, \vho : hod been stopping tho past fortnight at Sec retary Frolinghuysen’s home near Eoinet- ville, N. J., inforinlnj him of his appoint meat os secretary of he treasury. Judge Gresham immediately qualified, and sont lo the President his resignation as postmastor- genoraL At 10 o’clock the next morning Mr. Gresham went to the treasury departmc.’t with Secretary Chandler. His appointment from the President was given to him by Mr. O. L. ITuden, assistant private secretary to the President, and his commission by Third Assist- a icaiuDiiu, uuu uu Luuiimaoiuu uj xuuu naniai- ant Secretory of State A, A. Adee. The two assistant secretaries of tho treasury, Messrs. French and Coon, wej e preseno, and tenuered him their congratulations. Tho now sec-e- tary left in the afternoon to consult with the President Under tho law, First Assistant Post- umstcr-Goneral Hatton bccarao acting post master general for ton daya Three Pullman cars attached to a train cunning between Toronto und Montreal left the track, broke from tho other car^ and jumbled tnirty-flvo fesb down an embank ment, ufter which thoy caught fire. Forty m °ro persons were injured, tweuty ot them quite badly,