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VOLUME V.
SANDERSVILLE. GA„ TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1884.
NUMBER 34.
THE MERCURY.
Entered ee teeend-eUn matter el (he I
denvllle Poetoffloe, April ft, IM
BanderiTllIe, Washlnctoc Coanty,
A. J. JERNIGAN,
reorautOB Ann Ponunn.
Bobrer1ntlon„.,_.— ... Y*M
municipal.
Mayor.
Wm. U a i,la hub.
Aldermen.
Wm. lVawi.lNOs,
A. M. Mato,
W. H. Lawson,
R. T. Walk**,
Morris Happ.
Clark and Treasurar.
G. W. H. WhitAx*»,
Marshall,
J. E. Wkddon.
town aw tiunnilIjHi.
Mayor.
«nn 0. Harman.
Alderman.
P. J. Pipkin,
J. F. Mrrkrrs«n,
J. N. Rookm,
W. J. Joyngb,
Clerk.
8. H. R. Massky.
Marshall,
J. C. Hamilton.
E. S. LANGMADt.
Stto^ey kt I(kw
SANDERSVILLE, GAi
r. 0. EVANS. B. I). EVANS, ISL.
t VANS & EVAN8,
Altorneys At Law,
SANDERSVILLE, QA.
R. I. HARRIS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
SANDERSVILLE, QA.
Will practice in nil the Court* of the middle
rinr.it, nml in the counties surrounding
V i ' iicton. Special attention given to com
mercial law.
F. H SAFFOLD,
ATTORNEY AT I,AW,
• ^ BA WDEB8 VILLE, GA.
Vi’l praefet in nil tlio Courts of the Middle
1 ' M'l in tho counties surrounding
v ,» n. Special attention plven to com-
i*n . i law.
C C BEOWN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Aamlariville, Gw.
d I
K. Ii iakh. O. H. ROOKM
HINES & ROGERS.
Attorneys at Law,
SANDERSVILLE, GA,,
Will prnrtir* in ti e oountlea of Waahlngton,
Jtrerann, Julmaon, Emanual and Wilkinson,
Hud In the U. M. Court* for the Southern Dla-
Irlctnf Oaoigla.
Will net h» uzente In baring, aolllng or
reining ft.nl E.tate.
Oflli'e nu Waal aide of Pnbllo Square.
Oct il-tf ^
H, N- HOLLIFIELD,
l J Iiysician and Surgeon,
Banders till#, Ga.
•Miner*
Dr. H. B. Hollifield,
snicui in mm
Having recently graduated at th® Unlver-
iitv of Maryland and returned home, now
offers hla professional aervloea to the oltlieus
of Handeraville and vloLnlty. Offlce with
hr. H N Holllfleld, neat door toplra. Bayne’s
millinery store.
0. W H. WHITAKER.
DENTIST
BanderiTllIe, OR
terms cash.
i Harris atreat.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
llalloon Trarrl by Nlghl.
A famous aeronaut says that no balloon has
ever roho over a soconcl sunset. Tho moment
I Im sun ROCS down, tho (jus oondonsos and you
got through tho night better than tho day. But
tho next day, in tho presence of tho sun, tho
gas expands and you mount to g.eat elevations,
but every mount the balloon nukes cripples its
power, and it is only a quostlon of hours, if not
mtnutoa, how long you can keep up. If an
aeronaut could havo forty-eight houra of night
ho could travel a great diBtauoo.
Frosted mass.
A mothod of ornamenting frosted glass for
those who cannot draw, is to ohoose some
pretty pattern of laeo curtains, lay It smoothly
on thin pspor, and with a ponoll traoo tho out
lines. Then, after making as many Isyors as
you require pattorns, out out the designs at ono
timo through tho several layers of tho paper
with a sharp-pointed scissors. Fasten tho pat
terns with tacks to the frame around each
pnuo of glass that you wish to dooorato. Tie
up a pioco of putty In a plooe of thlu muslin,
leaving enough of the latter to hold Instead of
a handle. With this, dshbio all ovor that part
of I lie glass which the pattern leaves bare.
When tlio putty is dry romove the paper and
varnish the glass.
llow Class Ryes Wear Out.
The most perfect eyes arc made in Thurin
gia, Germany, and Imvo a nioro natural ap
pearance than any others. The iris is ooverod
with eilrer and tho blood vessels with gold,
and, when properly insorted, they will move
almost as readily as their natural companion.
Of course much depends upon tno condition of
tlio socket and tho state of tlio muscles as left
by tho surgeon. Our groatest trouble is in the
matching of tlio eyes. Von seo, oyes wear out,
their lifo being about a year or a little- ovor,
though occasionally 1 soe ono that lias lastsd a
much longer time. Tlio salt and alkaline solu
tions of the teardnets, however, have an etfeot
on tlio surfaoo of tho glass, and eventually
roughen it, ao that a new eye is necessary.
LATEST NEWS.
DR. J. H. MAY,
SANDERSVILLE, GA.
Offers his services to the citizens of Sonders-
v *E«i and adjacent country. All calls, (lay or
uiElit, will be promptly responded to. Offios
UiH residence on Mrs. Pittman's lot. comer
IIurHa and Church street*. jaulo-1884tf.
J. S. WOOD & BBO.,
tar.l Commission Me tals,
SAVANNAH. G-A.
•No commission or other‘expenses charged
'n consignments of Wool,
Highest market price guaranteed at time of
bo 1)2'81-1 y
J
Savannah, Ca.
I* conceded to ba the most comfortable and
' r far the bast conducted Hotel in Savannah.
Katee, $2.00 Per Day.
L. HARNETT, _
Machine Needles,
Oil and Shuttles,
Fo, l l A >;L KINDSOF MA0HINF8. foreala.
1 wm ah»o order parts of Muebinea
Uiat get broken, for which new
ptcoes ana wanted.
J. JEHNIGAN,
Metal In the Illood.
Generally stated, blood is not a red fluid
coursing through the arteries and voins, but
consists of a fluid known ns plasma, whioh
contains inflnitoBimally small, yellow discs,
which are called blood corpuscles, cells, discs
or globules. In man their diamotcr varies
between 1-4000 and 1-2300 of an inch, and their
average thickness is 1-12400 of an inch. Tbsso
tiny cells arc by sumo thought to be organic
entities. Twenty millions dio at every heart
beat, and arc replaced by as many more. Tho
fluid known as blood consists of a variety of
silbstances—salts, gore, metals, soap, l’rof.
Barnard declares it contains enough iron to
mako a coin from, and soap enough to cleanso
tho hands of the dirtiest child.
Tlio Voice ns tin Iii*iniinunt of ,Music.
Shu who taught, the nigutuugalo to smg, she
whoso early hymn thu sweet lark warbles to
thu morning, she who pours forth thu full
melody from the deep throat of the thrush,
and gives thu little sparrow tho pleasant, tho
articulated harmony, sho also, when she gave
to man a throat and breath, taught him to
modulate. This is tho work of nature, iu har
mony with the laws of nature's God. Thus
far music is her gift. None of tho “swuefc-
tuued instruments" known to human inven
tion equals tuo natural voice in sweetness; they
are all harsh or they are rough, when com
pared witii the pure tone, thu mellow soituess
of tho throat. What was tho great praise of
Martini, hut that ho marie the hautboy emu
late the sound of tlio human voice? Nature
bus given to man thu lirst nml iluest of ail
instruments iu his own frame; the ancients
were employing their timo uselessly, when
they endeavored to demonstrate iu what coun
try music lirst saw its origin. It. is, doubtless,
cooval wtih the human faurio, and natural to
all countries where men have lived.
True ('ounitfo.
In all ages, courage on tho battlo-flcld has
boon tho thouao of orators and poets, yet tho
courage of the warrior is not only a common
and variable quality, but has often been sur
passed by that displayed by women. Native
valor, too, is sometimes inferior to that which
is acquired. Frederick tho Great ran like a
coward out of his lirst battle. Flying on tho
wings of fear, ho went a great distance from
the held, and, coming to one of his own strong
holds, reported that his army was destroyed.
What was his surprise and mortification to
learn that his men had gained a great victory.
He never forgot the lesson taught, aud over
afterwards was conspicuous for steady courage
iu action. Many instances might be given of
soldiers in the last war who, in their first tight,
were “lilly-livered,” but who afterward faced
with dauntless front tho gleaming steel; and,
on tho other hand, of some who were lion-
hearted till taught by the pain of a wound the
perils of a battle, and who then became nota
ble cowards. Bravery in action, though more
admired, is really not as groat as that displayed
in passive suffering. The woman who sticks
to her post in tho pestilential chamber is far
braver than Alexander charging at tho head of
his cavalry.
How to Test an Opera Ginns.
Tlio power of opera glasses is from two and
a half to five times that of the average eyo.
That is to say, if you are forty feet away from
tho stage, an opera glass will put you on the
same footing with those who are from eight to
sixteen feet away. There are several simple
tests of the power of tho opera glass. Tho
most convenient ono, perhaps, is to pin a card
on the wall and to look through the right bar
rel of the glass with your loft eye. Tho differ
ence between the actual distance as measured
by your right eye and tho apparent distanco aa
measured th tough tho glass, will represent tho
difference between your eyes and the glasses.
Of course, this is only an estimate, but a fairly
accurate and sufficient one can be made. The
field glasses which many people bring to the
theaters range in power from six to nine times
that of the eye
Growth of an Old World City.
It is not, wo believe, generally known that
Admiral Sir William Dowell, Commander-in-
Cliief of the English fleet on the China station,
is the officer who, as Midshipman Dowell, lirst
planted tho English flag on the Island of
Hong Kong, forty-throe years ago. It is almost
impossible to believe that, in less than fifty
years, a virtually desert islaud should have
boon converted into such a place as Hong Kong
now is. Tho present Governor of the colony,
Sir Georgo Bowen, in a speech which ho made
shortly after his arrival iu China, drew atten
tion to tlio remarkable fact that after London,
Liverpool and Glasgow, tho tonnage of the
shipping whioh visits Victoria Harbor every
yoar is larger than tho figure for any other
harbor in her Majesty^ dominions. Wo hear
a great deal of the wonderful growth of cities
aud the development of resources in the New
World, but we doubt whether the record of
Hong Kong can be surpassed anywhere.
The Clear Men Excited.
KkyWert, Fla,—Great exoitem'lit prevails
among the cigar manufacturers here, on ac
count of the provisions of the commercial
treaty between Hpain and the United States,
reducing the duty on Havana cigars. Petitions
are in circulation and meetings have l»cen
oalled,
Seven Prisoners Ilrenk Jail.
Helena, Ark.—Seven colored prisoners ana
convicts, confined in tho Phillips county jail,
overpowered F. M. Brickey, the Jailer, and
made their escape. Brickey, although stumied
by a Rivero blow, which knocked him down,
recovered in time to draw his revolver ana
shoot at tho fleeing criminals. His aim wan
correct, as two bullets struck Peto Walton, a
negro charged with rape, who was captured
shortly afterward, but will dio from tho effects
of tlio wounds received. All tho others have
so far eluded the large posse who are in pursuit,
Ths Public Debt Statement.
Wabihnoton, Dec. 1.—Tho debt statement
issued to-day showed tlio increase of tho pub
lic debt during the month of Novomber to bo
$747,124.13; decrease of tho dobt since June 30,
1884, $32,1432,49.11; cash in tho treasury $428,-
840,788.97; gold certificates outstanding $120,-
076,360; silver certificates outstanding $133,-
040,121; certificates of deposit outstanding$22,-
G06.000; refunding certificates outstanding
$203,160; legal tenders outstanding $346,681,-
010; fractional currency (not including amount
estimated as lost or destroyed) $007,420,030.
Mending Coal to Aepltnvnll.
Moiulk, Ala.—Tho schooner Henry Crosby.
Stubbs, master, cleared with seven hundred
tons of Alabama coal for Aspinwall. This
is the first shipment of the kind made by tho
Mobile and Ohio railroad company, and is done
as an experiment. President Duncan claims
that Alabama coal can be put into Aspinwall $1
per ton cheaper than any other country, and
this shipment is to practically demonstrate
tho correctness of thu claim, if successful a
lino of steamers will bo placed iu tho trado by
this railroad company.
TUB NKW OKI.ICANN EXPOSITION.
No Delay In the Day of Openlng-A Harvey
of ilie l.xhililtn.
New OnLEANB.—Director General Burke, and
the building committee of the exposition, after
a thorough inspection of all tho buildings and
machinery and the grounds of tho exposition,
have decided that there will bo no delay in tho
opening, which will take place December 16th.
’The exhibits have been arriving for twenty
days, and up to dato about one thousand car
loads havo been received. Tho exhibits are
now arriving, and tho director general esti
mates that 2,600 car loads will bo received be
fore the opening. All tho space allotted to
Great Britain. France, Russia, Belgium, Aostro-
Hungary, Italy Japan, tiiam, China, Turkey,
Mexico, Guatemala Salvador, Costa ltica, Hon
duras, Jamaica and British Honduras has been
located with exhibits, and will bo full. Tho
display of machinery from foreign countries is
very lino. Evory building is full to overflow
ing, and further allotments ran only be made
as exhibitors who have been allotted spaoo
failed to accept within tho proper time. Now
applications will only lie received subject to
location in case of vacancies occurring. Tlio
director general announces that intending ex
hibitors fuiling to send forward their exhibits
or bills of lading will forfeit their space. Ex
hibits will be received until the day of opening.
Commissioners from twenty-five states and
territories are now placing exhibits. Coco&uut,
India-rubber, pepper, grape-fruit, camphor,
banana aud palm trees are arriving from Flor
ida. General Diaz lias caused a ship load of
nnlms and the choicest shrubbery of Mexico to
be collected from the rivers and coast of Mexico.
He will send a collection of the rarest plants
from the Mexican garden.
Dayan's Mexican band of seventy musicians
gave the christening concert in music hall on
Friday.
SUMMARY OF CONGRESS.
Britain.
Tho second session of tho Forty-eighth
Congress openod promptly ln tlio Senate nt
noon. Iimnedhitely nlfr prayer, tho usiinl
resolution to notify tin. i’roaid-'iit nml House
of Hc'pnvv'iitfttlvea Hint tho Senate ww
ready tor business iron adopted. Then a ro-
cesH for one hour was taken. Kvon before tho
motion for it reeoss was adopted, tho Scnn-
torn left their seats and Ix'gau to exchange
greetings with enoh other. It wan no
ticeable that the Domocrata wero espe
cially cordial in their greetings to Senator
Lognn. Numerous lloral tributes orna
mented tlio desks of tile Senators. Mr.
Gorman, chairman of tlio Democ ratio exoe-
utivo committee, nppearod to ho an
ee|iodal fnvorito with tlmso who testify their
esteem through gifts of flowers. His dusk
was literally covered with lit linmothdesigns.
Two lingo roosters, composed of roses, car
nations and pampas grass, stood up as if in
the act of crowing. Rut tlio design which at
tracted most attention was a miniature ciiair
made of roses nml grasses, with nil inscrip
tion: ‘‘Itesorved for A. 1. G., 1887,” in im
mortelles. Tills signilled thnt tlio seat now oc
cupied by Mr. Gorman will ho reserved for
him at tlio lioxt Senatorial eloctlon in his
State. Senator Jonos was also romomborod by
his Democratic friends witli a lloral rooster.
Senators llnrrls, Matey, Voorlieos, Ingalls,
Lapbttn, Conger nml Sabin also received very
pretty floral tributes, Tho credentials of Mr.
Sheilleld, tlio Senator from Hhodo Island, to
succeed tlio late Mr. Anthony, woro road,
but lie did not appear to take the oath
At tlio expiration of the recess the Senate pro
ceoded to tlio consideration of the usual
morning business. Rills were introduced
ns follows: by Mr. Cullom —To prohibit hore-
nfter distinctions being nindo in tho military
service of the United Stub's against any olass
of American citizens. To enable officers of
tlio army, who wero promoted for gallant
and distinguished services in the civil war.
to bo rutirod witli tho rank and full pay of
tho grade to which thoy wero ao promoted.
To facilitate promotion throughout tho army
by retiring from active sorvice, upon their
own application, officers of tlio army who
served in tlio civil war. Ry Mr. Dqlpli
—To authorize tho transfer of one of
the vessels of the Groely relief expedition
to tho treasury department for a revenue
cutter, anil the retention of tlio other two for
use in the linvy Mr. Ingalls offered a reso
lution which was agreed to, instructing
tlio committee on public lands to re-
port such legislation as may bo neces
sn-'Y to authorize tlio secretary of tlio interior
. J nil {ll.orall..
to summarily remove all fences illegally con
strueted on tho public domain of the United
States On motion of Mr. Hawley at 12:55
p m. another roccss of half an hour was
taken. At 1:35 tlio President’s message was
roceivod by tlio Senate and its roading was ut
once proceeded with.
llouae*
When tho House section of tho Forty
eighth Congress was called to order nt noon
tlio galleries wero crowded with spectators.
Numerous floral designs ornamented
tlio desks of moinhers, among them
n handsome ship of state which
Mr. Cox, of New York, was tho
recipient An immense bed of chrysnn
themums covered tlio desk occupied by J. S.
Barbour, of Virginia, nml a tasteful basket
of flowers adorned the Speaker’s table. Tlio
mombers indulged in the usual greetings, . ..
changing congratulations on re election or
condolence on detent. The Republicans made
good-natured replies to tho equally good-
nutured chaffing nt tlio Democrats on the re
sult of the Presidential contest, mid no bitter
ness was manifested on eitlior sido. Promptly
at noon the Biieaker's gavel called tlio House
lo ordor. ln his opening prayer tho chaplain
gave thanks that the members hail boon
permitted to return in health and
safety to their legislative duties. The
Speaker then directed tho clerk to call the
roll. Tho roll disdooed the presence of 222
members, more then nquorum.and the Clerk
was directed to inform tlio Senate that the
House was ready to proceed to business.
Tlio speaker appointed Messrs. Randall, Cox,
of Now York, and Rrown, of Indiana, as p
committee to wait upon tho President in con
juuction with a similar committee from tho
Semite and inform him that Congress was
ready to receive any communica
tion ho may bo pleased to make. Mr.
Holman, presented.tho credentials of B. 1.
Shively as member-olect from the Thirteenth
Indiana District, to succeed W. H. Calkins,
(resigned). Mr. Shively appeared at tho bar
of the House and took the oath of office. At
12:35 the House took a recess for fifteen min
utes. After recess a communication was re
ceived from the President, and his message
was read. When tho reading of the message
was finished the House adjourned.
INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.
Tlio Annual Report of tho Secro*
tary of tho Interior.
Recommendations About the Indi
ans and the Fublio Lands.
Tho annual report of tho secretary of the
Interior has been submitted Much of it has
b >011 anticipated by the reports of heads of
bureaus already made public,
Tlio secretary reiterates the opinion ex.
pressed in his last annual report that it is qultt
possible, with wiso aud judicious treatment of
tho Indian question, to prevent the recurrence
of hostilities between the Indian and his white
neighbor thnt has marked nearly every yoar
of our history. Tho lost year has been ono of
E oncd ntnong tho Indians, and no outbreaks
live occurred.
Mr. Teller suggests that somo employment
should bo secured for the graduates of the
Indian schools, and thnt those who complete
tho regular course of tho manual labor schools
should recoivo tho gift of citizenship, without
Incurring risk of forfeiting their interest in
tribal lauds or funds. He declares that the
greatest agency for tho civilization of the
Indian is the manual labor school,
And urges that tho government should
pay up the four million dollars due
under treaties with the Indians con
cerning education. Ho renews his
fonuor recommendation thnt the Indians be
disarmed, and points out tho necessity of
legislation for tno punishment of crimo on
tho reservations. He praises the working of
the oourt of IikUau offonccs established in
1883, and suggests thnt the Indian judges
should l>o paid for their services.
On tlio subject of tho public lands. Mr.
Teller adopts the recommendation of the
commissioners of tlio general land office
thnt thu pro-eniption law lie repealed. He
says there is necessity for somo legislation
to oompel railroad companies which have
earned the land granted to them to take
A patent therefor, and to regulato lapsed
grants.
Tho roport of tho commissioner of pensions
shows that at the close of the-fiscal year 1884
thoro wero 3*22,760 pensioners, classified ns fol
lows:
Army invalids 918,950
Army widows, minor childron and de
pendent relatives. 75,830
Navy invalids 2,010
Navy widows, minor childron and de
pendent relatives 1,938
Survivors of the war of 1812 3,898
Widows of those who served in tho
war of 1812 .. 19,512
There wero added to this roll during the
f ear tho names of 34,192 now pensioners, and
,221 previously dropped were restored to tho
rolls, making in tho aggregate 35,413; and
10,815 wero dropped for various causes, being
a nut increase on tho roll of 19,098. The aver
age annual valuo of each itensioti at the doso
or tho year is $100,75, and the aggregate an
nual value of all pensions is $14,450,000.35, nu
increase ovor like value for previous year of
$2,211,407.92. Tho amount paid for fieiisions
during the year is $50,908,597.00, exceeding,
os will be observed, the annunl value of |xm-
sious several millions of dollars, which rep
resents tho Unit payinonts, generally in
new claims, and known as arrears of pen
sions. The amount paid during the year to
31,307 now }>eusionurs was $^1,411,815.10, and
them remained in tlio hands of the several
pension agents 7,203 coses of this olass un
paid, in which there was duo $4,949,090.05
After a review of tho report of tho com
missioners of education nn l his recommen
dation that some measures of Federal aid ba
extended to public primary education, based
on tho number of illiterates in the various
states, ns shown by tlio tenth census, tho sec
retary says: “ I fully concur In this recom
mendation, and, a* l havo iu former reports,
urge t he necessity of immodi ite and substan
tial aid on tho part of the general govern
ment. 1 am of the opinion that thu school
system of tho several States should not be in
terfered with by such aid, and that it is not
wise for tho genernl government to attempt
to build up a school system of its own, but
thnt all national appropriations for Kchool
purposes should be placod under tho control
of the .States, with only such guards as shall
secure its faithful application to tho purpose
for which it was appropriated. Such ma
terial aid should bo temporary .n its charac
ter, to cease when tho .Status shall have per
fected a system and made suitable appropria
tion for tho education of all children of school
ago. Tho ability of tho Htnto to do this will
increase as its number of illiterates disappear
and their places are taken by educated
ooople.”
H;mnking in conclusion of the civil service
act. tho secretary sayB: “At ths time of the
passage of tho act entitled, it was urged as an
objection to it that the examinations would
l»e of such technical character as to ox-unle
from tho public sorvioe all except those wno
Imvo had tlio advantages of a liberal educa
tion. Tho experience of nearly ono yoar and
a half has demonstrated that these fours wore
groundless, aud that tho examinations have
boon conducted on a sound and business-like
basis, calculated to secure efficient clorks
for the various grades of tho public sorvice.
Quito a number of tho employes of the gov
ernment, occupying grades Inflow tlio classi
fied sorvice, nave boon found qualified for
higher grades by tho eKainiuations of ths
commission. No call was made from the in
terior department on tlio civil service com
mission to fill vacancies occurring in tlio
clerical force until May, 1884, because at the
t’mo of tho passage of the art there wero om
ul oyovl in the census office a largo number of
trained and experienced clerks from which I
considered it a duty to tho public sorvice to
select to till the vacancies occurring in other
bureaus of tho department. . . The
classified service in thu department includes
all clerks of classes 1. 2, 3 and 4, clerks re
ceiving a salary of $1,000, and nil copyists re
ceiving a salary of $900 and $720.”
NEWSY GLEAN INOa
The Standard Oil company employs 93,000
men.
The value of this year’s crops in Kansas if
put at $150,003,000.
An international inventions exhibition will
bo hold in London next May.
The fruit cron of this country, according
to Marsh ill 1*. Wilder, of New York, is worth
$10,000,( 0 I a year.
The British national debt has been reduced
about $30,000,000 a year since 1880, and is
now $3,730,000,003.
The experiment of teaching sewing in the
girls’departments of the Philadelphia public
schools is being tried.
The total cranberry crop of 1884 is esti
mated at 330,030 bushels, which is about 70,-
0j0 bushels less than the yield of 1883.
A factory nt Stockton, Cal., is engaged in
making coffee from chicory. It is raised near
there. The crop brings at tho rate of &K) an
a'm
The first lord of the admiralty of England,
Lord Northbrook, urges tho necessity for an
addition to the English navy of 230 torpedo
boats.
A nine-ton lump of coal, claimed as the
largest ever mined, will represent tho coal in
terests of Birmingham, Ala., at the New Or
leans exhibition.
A whale sixty foot long aud six feet across
the tail was found on the shore of the Mos
quito river at St George, Me., recently. It
had drifted adi ire.
The crop of peanuts in tho United States
in 1883 amounted to 2,010,0iX) bushels, nearly
one-hall of which wore grown in Nirginia.
They net tho rnisjr $1.75 per bushel.
The average yield of the potato crop of the
United t4t.itoj during the past season is esti
mated ut ninety bushel# per acre, tho total
yield being about 191,0)0,030 bushels.
In her workshops the United 8tates em
ploys noarly 3,000.003 people, of whom about
90,000 aro in woolen goods, 40,000 in silk
goods, 130,000 in cotton goods, and 22,000 in
carpets.
—-A strange cpidom'c is spreading among
swine in the M hawk Valley.
—The efforts of the Colorado cattle syndi
cate to obtain posjessien of a p *rt of the Crow
reservation has aroused much feeling among
Montana settlers.
—Tho Federal Grand Jury, of Illinois, re
ceived the ballots in the disputed precinct, by
orde r of Judge Blodgett. They made the dis
covery that the Demooratlp claim is correct to
a figure, electing Brand tef tlio Senate, and giv*
| Gig the Legislature to th^ 3>um‘er^ta.
IMF™ 1111
NEWS SUMMARY
Itaatern nml Hfhlcllo fttntes*
A kike at Wnynosburg, I'cnn., destroyed
evernl business houses and tho Independent
hire.
Only tlir.v veterans of the war of 1812 met
ii New York to celebrate tho oue him-
iivd and first, anniversary of tho British
i\ Halation of tho city.
Hugh J. Jewett has l>oon succeeded as
•l e.-ddont of the Erie railroad by John King,
Jr. A now board of dirooL*im lias lmen chosen,
aud the wages of employes aro to be generally
i-Juced.
Daniel 8 ika, of New York, a bad-tom-
re I old man of seventy, quarreled with
»’rs. M ugar 'i Miller, a neighbor's wife, and
killed her with on.* thrust of a ponkulfe. Tho
old man was arrested.
Two starving sailors of tho pilot boat Tus-
v, who had been without food for sixty
hours, were picked Up at sea and brought to
Delaware breakwater. Thoy had been com
pelled to frod on tli» flesh of a dead comrade
and had suffered intensely from cold. The three
men had started for shore in a skiff after
putting a pilot on nn outward bound steamer,
and had been driven out to sea.
Intense e.vitonn-nt was caused at Middle-
town, N. Y..by the failure of tho Middle-
town National bank, organized under tho
State banking laws in 1839 and considered
ono of tli.' safest institutions in tho State
Tho failure is due to the president. Thomas
King, accenting drafts irregularly from Ben
jamin D. Brown, a Western grain speculator,
who failed' nml made assignments to the
bank.
Mary J. Brown, a Philadelphia colored
woman, fifty years old, is gradually turning
white.
Governor Cleveland has returned with a
polite note of deelinntion a lino Newfound-
and pup sent him by an enthusiastic Bfook-
lyn admirer. Tho governor has also declined
to attend a grand banquet nt tho Philadel
phia academy of music.
FEDERAL MANCES.
Receipts nn<l Expenditures in the
Lust Fiscnl Year.
Yearly Report of the United States
Treasurer.
Non tli and West*
John Chapin’s liquor saloon in Biodens-
burg, Ohio, was raided by a body of masked
men. tho liquid con touts thrown into tho
streets and tlio fixtures destroyed. Chapin
was struck on tho hood by a itono and
killod. The affair enmted the greatest excito-
inonL throughout tho county.
fire has noarly wiped out tho town of
Tnleott, W. Vn.
Two planters were killed and their residen
ces destroyed by a cyclone in Bt John’s
parish, J^a.
The official vote for President in West Vir*
Inin is as follows: Blaine, 03,090; Cleveland,
7,317; Bt.. John, 989; Butler, 810; Cleve
land’s plurality, 4,221.
Hon. James L. Pugh has been reflected
as United States Senator from Alabama.
Wink!eld N. Fritz, with his wife, James
Rafferty, his partner, and Joseph Raymond,
a hired man, were found murdered on their
ranch in Cohise county, Arizona. Two cow
boys committed thu deed in order to prevent
the murdered persons from giving informa
tion of tho lynching of a Mexican boy, of
which outrngo tho cowboys had been ac
cused.
Considerable alarm prevails among th®
white jH'opIo residing in Indian Territory
touching the action of the Cherokee legisla
ture, which rocontly passed a bUl excluding
all white persons from the Territory.
I)r. John Maxwell, aphysician of Spring-
field, Ohio, killed three of his four children by
means of chloroform mixed with aconite and
then nttonmtcd to take his own life by tho
method. The oldest child and tho father
wero resuscitated. Maxwell left a letter to
bis wife saying that ho was tired of ;>overty
and of life, and wanted to put his children
where they would not suitor.
Frank Casey, a colored man. was hanged
at Little Rock, Ark., for stabbing a com
panion.
TnK bank of Adams & Leonard at Dallas.
Texas, has failed, with liabilities of over
$300,000.
Official figures of the vote In Indiana
show that Clovolund has 214,992; Blalue.238,-
480; Butler, 8,710; Bt. John, 8,018, Clove
land’s plurality, 0,612.
Washington.
Tiie Central Democratic committee of the
District of Columbia has received a letter
from Bonator Bariium saying that a commit
tee had boon appointed from tho National
Democratic committee to take charge of tho
ceremonies at tho inauguration of Governor
Cleveland.
The annual report of Surgeon-General
Gunnell has been submitted to tlio secretary
of tlio navy. Tho ratio of mortality in t he
navy for the yoar 1883 was 4.55 per thousand
of force, a very slight, increiuu over previous
years. Tho estimates for the ensuing fiscal
year amount to $225,050, There were in thu
Hospital for tho Insane, nt Washington,
sixty-two individuals— officers and men of
the navy—at the end of the year, Tho ex
penditures from the naval hospital fund
amounted to $105,271, leaving a balance
band of $89,693.
The House committee on appropriations
met at tho capital to map out tliuir work for
the session. Chairman Randall and Messrs.
Ellis, Townshend, Foil* tt, and Ryan were
present, and Mossrs. Keifcr, Holman, and
Forney wore represented bv others. The eati-
mntes for six of the uniiual bills, namely, the
postoffice, Indian, consular and diplomatic,
army, navy and military academy bills, were
placed in tno hands of sub-committees.
AccoRorNO to the annual roport of tho
comptroller of tlio currency, it ap|>oars that
during thu year ended November 1, 188-1, 191
banks have been organized, with an aggre
gate capital of $10,012,380, and that circa
Fating note:} have boon issued to these now as
sociations amounting to $8,860,230. Eleven
national banks failed during tho yoar, al
though more than ono hundred bankers and
banks other than national failed during the
same period.
The annual report on the Lifo Saving
vice shows that tho disasters to vessels within
tho field of station operations for tho lust
year have amounted to 337. On those vessels
•were 4,253 persons, of whom 4,237 were
saved, and only sixteen lost Tho number of
shipwrecked pjrsons succored was 53:
whom 1,319 days’relief were afforded. The
estimated value of tho vessels involved in
these disasters was $7,075,975, and that of
Ylieir cargoes $5,154,0 0, making tho total
value of the property imperilled $10,530,025.
Of this amount $9 000,134 was saved, and
$1,439,891 l ist. Tin* number of voss
tally lost was sixty-four. There wero l<»2
casualties to smaller cralts, such as sailboats
rowboats, etc., on whi. b w fro 179 jiersous,
175 of whom were saved and four lust
The not revenu: of the Federal govorment
for the ln:-t fiscal year was$34S,519,809, being
$49,767,712 loss than tho previous year. Tho
net expenditures were $244,120,244, a decrease
of $21,281,893 ovor 188JI
An overhauling of the capitol building line
taken place during the congressional r*
Various improvements have been made, among
tho most important of these being the placing
of electric bells in every committee room in
tho Senato wing, with which Ij summon Sen
ators to the chamber.
Foreign.
Immense damage has ticca dono in M i lr; s,
India, by a c- i
A force of Black Flags and Chinese regu
lars entrenched near Tu-yen-quan, Tonquin,
was attacked by French troops under Colonel
Duchesne. Tho Chinese wero routed. Their
fortifications and three fortified villogos were
destroyed.
Riots among students in Madrid, Spain,
havo grown verymrio us. Hundreds of ar
rests have been ade and many persons
wounded.
El Maiidx, the False Prophet, has from
16,000 to 20,000 men entrenched around Khar
toum. The British troope are advancing to
Gordon’s relief.
A renin -ill Quarrel.
At tho opening of tho now hall of tho Frank
P. Blair Post, G. A. 11., in ist. Louis, General
Sherman addressed a gathering of old soldiers,
and iu the courso of his remarks took occasion
to pay his respects to Jefferson Davis, in which
ho said thut during th » w.ir Davis declared ho
would turn Leo’s army- against any State that
might attempt to secede from thu Southern
Confederacy. General Sherman said he had
seen the letter Davis wrote making this declara
tion. Davis denies the story, and says it is all
a false slander. General Sherman refuses to
be interviewed, and says that he and Mr. Davis
will settle the matte? without the aid of the
prew,
The annual roport of the treasurer of the
Uuited States, made to the secretary of the
treasury, shows that tho net revenue of the
government was less than that of 1883 by
$49,707,712, having been $348,519,869 in 1884,
while in 1883 it amounted to $398,287,581.
Tho doorcase in the receipts from customs
was $19,039,007, in the receipts from internal
revenue $23,184,296, nml in tho receipts from
miscellaneous sources $3,840,248. From the
Aggregate of these items should be deducted
an increase of $1,854,840 ln the receipts from
sales of public lnnds.
The not expenditure aggregated $244,126,-
244. a decreaso from the amount In 1888 of
$21,281,898. The surplus applicable to the re
duction of tho public dobt amounted to $104,-
893,625, a decrease of $28,485,811 from that of
tho previous yoar. The aggregate amount of
gold and silver coin and bullion held by the
treasury increased from $852,510,809 in 1883
to $396,210,297 in 1884,anincreaso of $12,705,-
487. The gross astots increased from 450,119,*
817 in 1883 to $.519,699,249.
Thoro was no change in tho amount of un
available funds of the treasury during the
fiscal yoar, $29,514,065 being still charged as
such; and tho unavailable funds of the post
office departtnent romain as on Juno 30,1888.
$37,277.
Thoro was collected during the fiscal yoar
from tho national banks $3,024,668 on account
of seiui-anuual duty accruing on their circu
lation. making tlio total collected on account
of sucu duty and that heretofore loviod on
capital nml deposits since tho organization of
the national banking system $127,300,143.
Thoro was outstanding at. tho close of the
fiscal year $302,378,680 of tho various issiioe
of United Htnt^ currency, and tho amount
rodoemod and destroyed during tho yoar was
$85 ,972,970, making a total redemption since
the first issue of currency of $2,453,805,693.
Silver certificates to tho amount of $52,280,-
000 were issuod during the year; $20,00.5,140
were lodeemed, making the total redemptions
$52,058,809. The amount nominally out
standing at the close of the year was $120,-
891,091,
The issues of gold certificates authorized by
the act of July 12, 1882, amounted to $11.-
470.000, and the redemptions to $21,507,410,
making the total redemptions $12,4023)40,
and leaving nominally outstanding $95,777,-
960. Tho total amount of gold certificates of
tho old issue redeemed to tho close of tho year
was $978,520,180, and the amount outstand
ing $2,014,709.
There wero redeemed during tlio year bonds
of tlio United States amount ing to $99,838,300,
of which amount $46,769,600 was for the sink
ing fund, and $1,329,250 of tho bonds contin
ued at 3>{ per cent, woro exchanged into 3
I>er cents.
Tho Amount of fractional currency re
deemed during tho year was $20.029,less than
one-half the amount redeemed during the
preceding year. Tim amount outstanding at
tho close of the year wits $15,355,099. The
treasurer says It is apparent that the esti
mates carried to the public debt statement of
$3,375,931 os lost or destroyed, will prove to
l>o far below tho actual loss or aostruction. It
is believed that the gain to the government
will not be loss than $14,000,000 by i*eason of
loss or destruction of such currency.
Tho amount of standard silver dollars
coined to September .*50, 1884, was $182,380,-
829. Thu amount in circulation was $39,KOI,
953. As usual, tho amount outstanding
reached the highest point in December, when
it exceeded $41,000,090, an aggregate never
before reached.
The increase in tho amount of fractional
silver coin held in the treasury was nearly
$2,700,000 in tlio year. The minor coin in the
treasury increased by over $ 109,090, childly in
five anu throo-ccnt nioccs. ()f the latter de
nomination more than 300,000 pieces found
their way back to the treasury, and it is be
lieved that since tho reduction of letter jiosfc-
age thoro is no good reason for tho coinage
and circulation or this coin.
There were detected iu romittancoj of
United States notes received for redemption
238 counterfeits, of the nominal valuo of
$ »,4S4, and in remittances of national bank
notes sixty-two notes stolen prior to regular
Issue, with tho signatures of tho bauk officers
forged thereon, amounting to t’679, aud 3,820
certificates of the uomin ii value of $1,695.
The number of counterfeit silver coins de
tected from Fobruary l, 1884, to Bcptember
30, 1884, in tho offices of thu treasurer and
the several assistant treasurers was as fol
lows: 1,564 standard silver dollars out of
$17,1:56.0 .8 received, 579 half dollars out of
$3,715,3!)9 received, and 192 quarter dollars
Ngufc of $2,737,719 received.
There woro issued during tho yoar, under
the provisions of tho act, of June H, 1872, on
deposits of United States notes by national
bunks, certificates amounting to 86,370,009;
there wero redeemed $27,820,000, leaving out
standing at tho close of tlio yoar $12,230,000.
LABOR’S TROUBLES.
rnB NEWS PRO HI TIIIC MILLS AND
TI1K 91 IN KM.
A Continued Reduction ol Wiifca In the 91111a
and 911 ii m of Pennsylvania mid Olilo—
Hundreds of 9Icn Trown out ef
Kmployment—The Proba
bilities of Mtrlkes, Ktc.
Long »fc Co.’s iron mills, at McKee’s rocks,
and Marshall’s foundry, in this city, have
closed down for an indefinite poriod on ao-
count of slack orders. About 600 men are
thrown out of employment.
Tlio glass houses of J. T. A A. Hamilton, A.
T. Hamilton A Co., Tilby Bros., and Wright-
inaii A Liddell, are working short handed
to-day, a number of journeymen in each fao-
toiy refusing to work at a reduction.
The iron mills of Oliver Brothers, and Phil
lips A Black, tho diamond steel works of Park
Bros., A Co., aro running as usual, the work
men having accepted the reduction in their
wages.
Tlio employes of tho Westinghans machine
company have been notified of a reduction of
10 per cent in their wages to go into effect at
once. There are 200 men affected by the cut.
Tho 10 por cent reduction in wages, which was
ordered by the Counullsvillo coku producers
syndicate recently, want into effect to-dav,
ami was accepted by all the employes through
out tho Conucllsvillo regions. About 8,000
persons aro affected by reductions.
A special to the Chronicle-Telegraph from
Cumberland, Md.,says: The miners in all the
mines went to work this morning at a reduc
tion. A atriko is not probable.
A special from Youngstown, Ohio, says: “Tho
Wi lium Anson Wood mower and reaper com
pany notified its employes to-day, that their
wages would be reduced 20 per cent.
Thu workmen in the Booth Miller A Co’i.
foundry have received notico of a out of 10 por
cent, iu their wages. The reductions go into
effect at once and will bo accepted.
4 he mineral mining and railroad company
which operates the Cambria, Lake Findlay and
Pennsylvania coke company, employing 1,200
miners, haB reduced wages 7 tu 10 per cunt.
No strike lias yet occurred. The men will ac
cept the reducion. Should tho men accept
tho new scale of wages, it’ is thought that a
similar reduction will be made in the wages of
all tho miners iu this section.
Thu Bethel iron company to-day discharged
150 workmen iu its steel mill, this being uni-
fo* ra reduction of the force in ail departments.
At the Lehigh Z no and Iron Co’s works in
Bethlehem, Pa., four metal furnaces were Bhut
down, and 250 men thrown out of employ
ment.
LATER NEWS
—A ffsemio resembling Asiatic oholora has
broken out in tho adjoining counties of Ken
tucky and Virginia.
—Six laborers on tho Old Colony Railroad
hitched their hand car to an express train.
The axle broke, tho car was thrown across tlio
track, and four of the men soyercly injured*
—Thu littlo steamer Belle of tho Wave, on
Winneposaukeo Lake, N. H., was burned.
—A steward on tho ateamor Alono, whioh
arrived at Now York from tho West I ml cm,
died In tho hospital of yollow fovor. It is
a mystery how ho parsed tho quarantine
office s. Thoro was no question about his
dir ease.
—As Mrs. Victoria nulskarap made her first
appearanco on tho stage at Htcinway Ball,
New York, on Thursday evening, her success
as a concert singer was admit toil by all the
largo audieneo present. Hho will probably
continue on tho stage.
-Thirty-three destitute colored peoplo ar
rived in Now York city from Galveston, Texas,
on tho steamer LatnnAsas on route for Libovia.
They spent the night ln the station house.
—Tho Mallory line steamship Gauds loupe
ran on the shoals off BnrncgAt, N. J., at ten
o'clock on Wednesday night. Thoro were
about sevonty passengers on board, mostly
German emigrants, who wer** going to Galves
ton, - Texas. All woro resoued by lifo saving
crows.
—It Is feared that Editor Do Young, who
was shot by Adolph Bpreokels ln Ban Francis
co, may die,
—The menhaden fishers of Tiverton, Mass.,
are about to try the experiment of fishing in
Bonthem waters daring tho winter*
—Texas bankers of Dallas havo suspended
owing to their inability to realize on hoavy
loans* Thoir assets aro $500,000.
—Borne \yorkmcn at Worcester, Mass., heated
atlas powder cartridges too hot; ono man’i
head was blown off.
—Virginia’s strange epidemic is prononnood
acute typhoid dysentery.
—An Arkansas husband beat his wifo on tho
head, cut lior throat and set tiro to the house.
Ho escaped; sho had lior feet nearly burned
off.
—Tho body of a bargo captain found im-
budded in tho meadows at Perth Amboy. N. J.,
bears sovoral wounds. It is suspected that ho
may havo been robbed aud murdered on his
way to his vessel on Wednesday night.
—Fifteen buildings weio burned by an in-
oendiary flro at Wilson, N. 0., on Friday.
—A Pittsburg, Pa., streot car, going down a
heavy grade, broko the brake on Friday. 'Two
horses wore killed and the twomy-threo paa-
songora injured
A. TERRIBLE PLAQUE.
Rail Wntn Cn-I... Miinilrd. •»
Dentil. In Virgin n nml KvMm KT.
The LoulBville Courier-Journal recently
■ont» staff corresdondent to investigate the
reported rnvngre of a dread disease in
Eastern Kentucky and Western Virginia.
The correspondent rends the following from
Williamsburg, Ky.
W C. Lester, n prominent attorney of this
place, lias just arrived from Mount Pleasant,
the county rent of Harlan where he lias been
for two weeks past at the court ns acting
prosecuting attorney. Mr. lister hns in for
mation of the prevailing plague, nnncipaliv
from Harlan, Letcher, Perry. Um\li and
Bell counties. Ho suys thnt in Iinrli
it appears worst. It is most fatal and pr
vails to tho greatest extent about the hem.
waters of the Fork and Clover creek, in the
mountains, nbou* twenty-five miles fro’ 1 *
Mount Pleasant. This large territory is lx
ing terribly afflicted, tlio people dy.ng vor
rapidly. . ..
In oue neighborhood twelvo persons dle<
ln a Mingle day in the latter part of las
week, and thoro were scarcely well peopl*
enough to mako t hem coffins and bury them.
On Brown’s Crook, which rises in Harlan an*|
empties into the Cumberland river in BeR
county, tho disease is raging with frightful
fatality, and there is no moaus of keeping
a record of tho (lend. All along tho banks oi
the stream people aro sick, and physicians and
medicines, outside of herbs and roots with
whoso curative propertied the natives aro ac
quainted,are unknown and unattainable. Tho
epidemic is rapidly spreading iu Harlan
county. In tho district covering
the southern portion of Letcher l and
Perry, the whole of Ijoslie, and the nortiionat
portion of Boll Countv the plague ha* ob
tained a foothold, but the reports ns to it*
virulence are very conflicting. Mr. Lester
thinks that tlio (b aths run up into tho hun-
dreds. w’liilo tho number of those attacked
cannot bo estimated. Tho disease does not
prevail nt Mount Pleasant.
Mr. Lester further says that no ono seemed
to know tho exact nature of tho postllencet-
Most of the people callod it “flux, ,r end it is
probably a very aggravated form of that
Uismire. It begins with griping wlna in
the stomach, followed by a debilitating
diarrhoea and swelling of tho throat, and if
not fatal in three or four days the patient,
as a rule, recovers. All reports agree as to
tho cause of the epidemic* it lioing attributed
to tho uso of impure water by tho native*.
Tho season has been unusually dry, tho
streams, ns a rulo, consisting only of
narrow threads of murky, foul
ing and foul tasting water,
corn crop in all
—The onse of Miss Forfcesouo against Lord
Oarmoylo was begun in London. Tlio de
fendant stated that he was willing to pay
£ 10,0G0 for his breach of contract.
—A vigorous attack was made by Tonquiuoto
troops on the B’rench gunboats on the river
Claire. It wus repelled.
—Mni“. Patti wifi appeal against the recent
decision of the Tribunal at Paris granting the
Mttiquis do Caux u divorce from her. Bhe
founds her appeal upon the injustice in refus
ing her a divorco and grunting onn to M. M de
Caux, as the decision entitles nhu to all her
propc-i ty in France,
PROMINENT PEOPLE
Mil Moody ha® l>oou holding revival ter
vice® ln Detroit, Mich.
Zachary Taylor turns up as a Congress*
man-eloot from Tennessee.
Mrh. McElroy will bo the mistress of the
White House again this winter.
Henry M. Stanley is lecturing in Eng*
land on the horrors of slavery in Africa.
Gladstone, Tennyson, Professor Black’.e,
Charles Darwin, Mrs. Browning and Dr. O.
W. Holmes wero all born in tho yoar 1899.
Mr. Gouau, in a recent lecture, said that
ln the course of fifty-two yoars ho had deliv
ered 8,0U0 addresses, aud had spoken at bnt
three political meetings.
Btraubh, the composer of waltzes, enioys
tho felicity of receiving many letters telling
him of mutrlinotiial engagements made by
lovers under tho spell of lib* music.
Frederick Archer, the leading English
jockey, arrived in Now York recently. He
lost his wife not long ago. Archer ro le the
American horse Iroqouls to victory in thu race
for the Derby.
Judge Albion W. Touhoee, tho author,
is boing examined in supplementary proceed
ings at May vibe, N. Y., io r an accounting of
iroporty. Ho is financial / in trouble, hav-
nglosta large sum of /aoneylu publishing
Our Continent.
E very hod v has heard of “Naaby* (Locke)
of tho Toledo Made, but few could imagine
bow ho looks. He is the shaggiest and most
uucouth s|>ecimun of manhoodtUat can well
be thought of. Ho is short and very broad,
and his face is a rod, red sun.
Daniel Lamo.nt, Governor Cleveland’s
irivato secretary, is a littlj man, w.t i a
irownlsb red mustache and a vory bald head,
iio was for a long time n reporter on tho Al
bany Art/ue, ana of late years lias reported
tho sessions of the legislature for that jour
nal, as well as wrltln ? occasional editorials.
He attracted thu uttontion of Mr. Tildou
when the latter was governor.
Bi ondln, the famous tight-ropo walker, i*
now sixty and slightly gray, but he is a 9
clover and daring as over on the rop». It is
now more than a quarter of a century since
he first cross® l the Niagara river, and he
looks back to thnt feat as tho greatest of his
life. His home is named Niagara Villa. The
ro|>o on which ho walks nt exhibitions is two
inches in diameter, made of hemp bound
around a core of steel, llis balancing poles
run from thirty sevou to forty-seven pounds
in weight, according to the height nt which
lie performs, which ranges from forty to 104
feet. Ho has never vet had n fall, and only
one slight accident. Ho was called Blondin,
by the way, on account of tho color of his
linir, his real name being Jean Francois
Gravel®.
MUSICAL AND^DRAMATIC.
Histori is said to have been addicted until
lately to snuff.
Blind Tom, the negro pianist, is playing
through the Houtli.
Mmk. Ristori’s daughter Bianca is a good
amatoar actress, and is over thirty years of
age.
Frank Mayo will retire from tho stago
after this season and devote himself to play
writing.
Miss Gertrude Elliott has mactea novel
feature of Shakespoare in “Tho Lights o’
London.”
Lotta has declared her irrevocable deter
mination to retire from the stage after the
present season.
Mllk. Valda, an American, has scored a
S *eat hit at the Paris Italian opera in “Un
alio Maschers.”
It is said that Miss Clara Morris will, at
the close of her presont season in this coun
try, sail for London.
Miss Genevieve Ward will remain in
Australia until next August, when she re-
i lrns home by way of China and Japan.
Mmk. Kistori has been playing in Chicago.
Tho papers of that city give high praise to
Her Elizabeth. It was compared to Irving’s
Louis XI.
Emma Abbott has ordered a solid gold
crown sot with ten large solitaires, to deco
rate her head when sho appears in “Bemi-
rainide.”
In a Philadelphia theatre one night recent
ly a lady in ono of tho boxes drew from her
finger a superb diamond ring and threw it to
Lotta, who was playing Musette.
Janisch is said to speak English better
than any other foreign actress on tho stage,
and yet she wus only three months studying
this most difficult of all tongues after the
Russian.
The Gorman comedy adapted by Mr. Au
gustin Daly for his theatre undor the name of
“The Wooden Spoon ” has also boon adapted
by a Chicago man, and it is said Mr. John T.
Raymond will produce it.
It is said that an opera founded on the
story of Noah, written by Halvov, and the
orchestration of which was completed since
Haluvy’s death by his son-in-law, Bizot, com
poser of “Carmen,” has boon discovered.
Mmk. Christine Nilsson will remain in
England duriug tho greater part of the win
ter. Bhe will appear next vear at Drury
Lane, in conjunction with Mr. Maplosoa’s
company in “La Juive” and several other
works.
The Gerster-Campanlni combination is
confidently spoken of as having determined
to make a tour of the United States early
next year. Beside the principals. Signor Ga-
lassi, the baritone, and Bignor Mirmi, the
basso from La Scala, Milan, are to join it.
Madame Gorster, it is said, wifi appear in
several new roles
Dion Boucioault’s new play, “Robert
Emmet,” will shortly be produced at the Now
Park theatre, New York. Dion has taken
the theatre for six weeks, and says tho pro
duction of the nlay will, cost him $15,060.
The character or‘the hero has been so writ
ton that it can be played either by Dion Ju
nior or Dion Senior.
smell*
Tho
tlio countio* named
above is good, and starvation and want only
oxist because the peoplo can spare no time
from the sick to gather it. No mills are run
ning on tlio smaller streams. My Informant
had no news, excopt in a general way, of tne
plague in Virginia and West Virginia
DEVOUIIBD DY WOl.VBfb
Bather and Daaabter Killed—The Mather
Dies ol Brlaht.
▲ tragic incident is reported from Eaatorn
Hungary. A clergy mao, with his wife and
child, wore driving ln a stodge from Krasnisora
to the neighboring village of Kis-Lonka. A
pack of rnvunous wolves punuoil them. The
moth* r was terror striokon and let tho child
fall from her arms. At that the fathor leaped
from tlio sludge lo save the child. Father
and oliild were at once fiercely at lacked by
tho wolvos. Tho father fought desper
ately and killed two of tho wolves, but
ho was at lust overcome and both ho and his
child wero devoured. Moiiiwhilo the horses
bad rushed onward with tho sledge, still bear
ing the agonized mother. Iu her agony of ter-
"or sho gave premature birth to a babe, which
was deuil when it whh born. Tide terrible
shock, with all thu rest that sho had suffered,
proved too much for the poor woman, ana
whon tho sludge reached Kis-Lonka she, too,
was dead. Bo the whole family perbhed inside
of an hqur.
A New Lake.
Within loss than one thousand miles of New
York city a lakn has been discovered rival
ling in magni udo tlio groatest of our inland
seas. It is larger than Lako Bupei or. It is
threo hundred mile- 1 from Quebec. Lake Mis
tassini appears ns hardly inoro than a speck
on our maps, yet it stretches away for hundred*
of mi os toward Labrud r. Its gr- at s zu was
developed by tho Canadian expedition. Tho
Hudson Bay Company have known of its ex
istence fur years.
A Filial Texas Affray*
J. W. Akin and his son Josoph wero killod
Friday evening in a pitched buttle w ith the
Hlicriff and his posse, at Bherman, Texas. Dr.
Bnrnes. who was witli the Akin party, but did
not take un activo part in tlio fignt, was
wounded, but not seriously. Officer Milton,
of the posse, wus shot through the left breast.
The troublooriginutud from the attempt of tlio
Akins to i> • int tho town red. Whc. called
upon by Officer Mellon to surrender they be
gan hostilities.
—Baltimore society is now very mueh ex
cited over tho report that the Pope is about to
crcato a new American Curdiual.
—Rhode Island authorities have given to al*
denominations tho right to visit Btate institu
tions and hold religious exorcises.
—Judge Barrett, of Now York decided that
“Becky’’ Jones was properly imprisoned by
order of tho Surrogate, and Becky must stay
in jail.
—Three veterans of tho war of 1812 met in
New York to celebrate tho ono hundred and
first unnivor»ary of tho British evacuation of
Now York.
—Tho annual roport of tho Attornoy Gen
eral of tho United cAate*, points out a number
of defects in existing laws, and rocommcnds a
number ef changes in tho interest of Justioo
and economy.
—James L. Pugh was re-elected as United
States Senator from Alabama.
—A defaulting bank cashior was shot at
Monmouth, III., by a man who had sustained
heavy losses through tho failure of tho bauk.
—A Loudon barrister has sued a son of Lord
Chief Justice Coleridge for libel, the libel aris
ing from tho barrister’s engagement to marry
a daughter of thu Chief Justice.
—Mr. Labouohere’s motion to reform Che
English House of Lords was rejected by 145
to 74.
—-The religious scruples of tho Mahdi will
prevent him attacking Khartoum during the
iUmadan.
—Senator Pugh,’ of Alabama, was renomi
nated by the Democratic legislative caucus.
—A cyclone occurred in St. John’s parish.
La., by whioh residences were demolished anu
two persons instantly killed.
—Nearly all of thu North Atlantic snuadron,
tinder tho command of Bear Admiral Joseph
E. Jouett, is to bo stationed at New Orleans
from tho opening of tho exposition, December
16, till about tho first of February next. This
squadron was also near Philadelphia duriug
the Centennial.
—A sixteen-year-old boy of Troy, N. H.,
while in a stato of somnambulism hanged him
self. 9
—Threo men fell from a bridge at Little Bock,
Ark., and two wero fatally injured.
—A driver for the Leltigh Valley Miuo, fell
down a shaft 300 feet and was killed.
—Mayor Edson, of New York city, nominated,
and thu Aldermen confirmoi, Stephen B.
French and John McClave to serve as Police
Commissioners for six years, the former from
May 1, 1883, and thu latter from May 1, 1884.
Mr. Frenoli succeeds himself aud Mr. McClave
succeeds Joel W. Mason.
Four Distinct Climates.
The Republic of Mexico contains an
area of 741,600 square miles, or 474,624,-
000 square acres, and a population of
over 11,000,000 souls, and enjoys four
distinct climates:
The tropical; from the coast to the
foothills.
The semi-tropioal; from the foothills
to the wide, level plateau.
The temperate; from the plateau to
the higher plains, such as the plateaus
of Anahuao, Toluca, Durango and Ohi-
chuahua.
The cold; among the mountain valleys
of the States of the interior, where hail
storms aro frequent, and where the in
habitants require artificial warmth dor*
ing the night.