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DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.
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Mayor.
Wf, OALLAHB*.
A Idennen.
Wm. RaWi.inm,
A. Al. Mato,
W. H. I AWBOH,
R. T. Walk**,
Morris Happ.
Clerk and lYcasurmr.
Q. IV. H. IVutTAKra.
Marshall.
J. E. Wkijdom.
town OK TBNI1ILI.K.
Mayor,
oirif C. Harman.
Aldern
CUrh.
H. II. R. Massey.
Marshal
,T. C. II AMU.TON.
E. S. LANGMAUf,
Sttotfqey kt Ifaw
SANDERSVILLE, QA.
p, p. EVAN*. B. I). KTAlff, TO.
r.VAS'lS & £VASY8,
Attorneys At I.aw,
KANDKH8VIM.E, GA.
Pelson Ironi Cr«*i>G Veil*.
The long, thtok crepo voil ia v ry injurious
to the complexion. Tho rough crepe rubs tho
ikin off and the potoonouH matter ia takert
into the circulation in that way, as well aa car
ried into the lnngs in breathing, Such a veil
worn for twno conaecutlvo years seldom fails to
prodtico evil reaults. Similar goods about tho
neck, and black ailk and black cotton goods also
produce bad effects. Paris has a feather dy
ers* disease, produced frottt the dye in which
the black feathers are dipped.
What H Cost to Clothe Them.
Tho bill for tho fur suits mado for the Qree-
ly relief expedition baa just been approved by
Tay Director Clark at tho Washington navy
yard. Tho entire cost of tho fur outfits, in
cluding the sleeping bags, is set down at $31,-
803. There were 1,500 reindeer skins used and
257 suite made of them, Tho skins cost $6,.
892.40, the freight from Stockholm 1523.91,
and the Cost of making was $2,937.50. In
making the sleeping bags 854 elk skins were
used. Each bag cost $31, and each fur suit
•41.
An Indian Agrtrultorn) t'nlr.
Tho first Territorial fair of Arizona closed a
few days ago. The fcaturo that attracted most
attention was the display mado by tho Indians.
Their exhibit comprised every form of vegeta
ble and cereal product eutefihg into their do
mestic economy, sUoh as dried green poppers,
dried fruit, Spanish bayonet, dried fruit of tho
sahuara, or tho giant cactus, buds and seeds
of the “careless weed,” a small brown seed
something like mustard, but smaller, Indian
wheat, corn, beans, etc. Tho Indian wheat
took the first and second premiums. Numer
ous domestic utensils, canteens, rattles, baskets
and all sorts of war toggery was rIbo exhibited.
Al
11.1. HARRIS,
l ORNEY AT LAW,
H ANDER8ViI.LK, OA.
Will practice in all the Courts of tbs middle
limit, slid in the counties surrounding
gtou. Special attention given to coin-
.::c
AT
F. H SAFFOLD,
TORNEY AT I,AW,
RANDEilSVILLE, OA.
i'l praet ci in all the Courts of the Middle
' i.n 1 in the counties surrounding
n. Special attention f Ivon to com-
0- C BROWN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
■enderevllle, da.
O. H. Roan*
HINES & ROGERS,
Attorneys at Law,
8ANDKR8VILLB, OA.,
Will praotle* In the oountlta at WfitriaftoE,
Jefferson, Johnson, Emanuel and w I lk in arm,
snd in the U. 8. Court® for the Southern Die-
utetof Georgia.
Will set ns urenta In buying, eelllng or
renting Real Estate.
Ofloe on Wont aide of Publlo Bqosra
Oot ll-tf
Tho Congo Uneln.
Tho Congo basin, as now defined, is based
upon the proposition mado by tho American
members of tho conference, and takes in a strip
of territory stretching from tho west coast
act oss tho continont to tho Indian Ocoaii, with
a littoral of 385 miles, i. o. from Ambri* to the
French Gaboon frontier, on tho Atlantic side,
and a coast front of thirteen degrees, or 780
miles on the Indian Ocean. Tho principal sido
of the question, however, in this discussion per.
tains, of course, to the Atlantic littoral, as
being the accessible one, and the natural geo
graphical avenuoof trado to and from Europe.
How to bo Entertaining.
Ono of the most important rules in the soi-
cnce of manners is that you ohsorvo an almost
absoluto silence concerning yourself. Flay the
comedy, some day, of speaking of your own
interests to ordinary acquaintances, and you
will see feigned attention swiftly followod by
indiflforenco and then by weariness, until every
one has found a pretext for leaving you. But
if you wish to group about you the sympathies
of all and to bo considered a charming and
I agreeable fellow, talk to them of themselves,
seek someway of bringing each into action in
| turn; then they will smile at you, think well of
| you and praise you when you aro gone.
) flow Men la nre Herveil In New Orleans
j Few set tablos. You aro served iu tho morn-
| ing beforo you get out of bed with a cup of
j coffee ns good as can bo found anywhoro iu the
| world, and some bread or little Croole pie-crust
cakes. There is no troublo about your meals.
There is a restaurant on every corner or so, or
you can havo your meals served hot, and at tho
moat reasonable rates. As a general thing,
however, they do not “go in heavy” for break
fast here. Your coffco is supposed to sntisfy
you until midday, when you tako a slight lunch.
Alwut 6 in tho evening you sit down to tho big
meal of tho day. Hupper there is none, unless
you drop in at tho theater, after which you eat
something light.
Enatern and Middle fttatee.
At the Now York Academy of pniMctlmm
was hold tho other evening it “Ghuul Lodge
of Sorrow, Ancient and Accepted Scottish
Hite of I too Masonry.” Tho ceremonies con
sisted of unique funoral services hold in
memory of seventy Freemasons who hod
died within tho last six years.
Km a ik l BiieikT, a wealthy farmer, was
shot and killed by his son Henry, aged
t\Venty-cne, iu a tavern near KUngerstown,
ionn. Mr. Breist reproved and struck his
son, when tho drunken boy drew a revolver
and shot his father dead.
Tiikhe wero 84,917 deaths, ilicliidblg M
suicides, 80,244 births and 11,020 umt riages in
New York city during 1884.
The turmoil in Now York city local i>olitics
culminated on New Year's day, when Mayor
Kdson, whoso first appointments of com
missioner of public works and corporation
counsel tho board of aldermen refused to con
firm. Mayor Kdson gave iij> tho keys of ilia
ofiicU at midnight, and Alderman Kirk, pres
ident of tlie old board of aldermen, and
Banger, tho newly ducted president of tliut
body, both entered upon the duties of mayor,
each claiming to hold t hat office until noon,
when Mayor Uraco w as sworn in. Thus the
city had throe mayors in ono day.
President-elect Cleveland held a pub
lic reception lasting two hours at tho Execu
tive mansion in Allmiiy on Now Year’s day.
11$ was surrounded by his military staff in
full uniform, and shook hands with a largo
number of visitors.
In a newspaper interview Mr. Andrew
Carnegie, of the Edgar Thomson Bleel works
at Pittsburgh. Penn., and many other indus
trial establishments, proclaims himself an
advocate of socialistic principles. When
asked. “Are you prepared now to divide your
wealth!” Mr. Carnegie smiled and said: “No,
not at present, but 1 do not spend much on
uiysclt. I give away every year seven ol*
oight times as tnUch as I spend for personal
comfort and pleasures. Working people havo
lily full sympathy, and 1 always extend a
helping hand. Speaking of the present posi
tion of tho workingman, I believe co-ojwra-
tion is his hone.”
South and Wcnl
Congressman BamuklJ. Randall mad®
a Bouthorn trip during tho holiday recess o*
Congress. At Louisville, Ky., his first stop
ping pi ace, ho was given a reception by tho
uusiues! men of tho city in tho board of trade,
and in a spooch state! that tile object of his
visit was to study iu detail the business in
terests of the South. Mr. Randall was ac
companied by Congressman McAdoo, of Now
Jersey.
The sum of $20,000 was paid ut Lexington,
Ky., by a Loo (Mass.,) gentleman for the
trotting stallion Alcyono.
ftiiKRiFv Terry, of Karnes cotinty, Toxos,
was shot and killed by Enimitt Butler. While
attempting to escape Butler, was killed by an
unknown person iu tho crowd.
A FIHE has dostroyod tlfo greater part of
Pierre, Dnkota. A fierce wind prevailed
during the lire, and as tho thonnom<«tftr was
at twenty-five degrees below zero, the pumas
wero frozen solid and it was impossible to ob
tain water.
1'lkahakt Anderson was hanged by oight
masked men after a mock trial near Blakos-
burg, Iowa. Anderson had been tried a year
ago for murder and acquitted. The acquittal
resulted in bad feeling among tlioao who bo-
iieved him guilty, und ei
od his i
H. N. HOLLIFIXLD,
Physician and Surgeon,
Saedanrrllle, a*
OOn n.xt door t« Mr*. Bays** eMJUner
•tor* on Uerrts street
Dr. H. B. Hollifield.
F57SICI&I ill I
Hnvlnj recently (mdnatod al to* Unlver-
•lly of Maryland and ratum.d noma, now
oflhra his professional aarrloM to toe oitlaeue
of SenderevlUe and vicinity. Omoe with
Dr. H.H. HolUfleld. next door topin. Bay na’a
mil Unary (ton.
O. W H. WHITAKER,
DENTIST,
Bandersrllle, <1*
TERMS CASH.
« at his Residence, on Harris street.
4. 1880.
DR. J. H. MAY,
SANDERSVILLE, GA.
Offers his services to tho oitixans of Sandors-
villo and adjacent country. All calls, day or
night, will bo promptly responded to. Office
at his residence on lire. Pittman’s lot, corner
Harris and Churoh streets. janl5-1884tf.
J. S. WOOD & BflO.,
Gernil Commission
SAVANN AH. <3-A.
No commission or other expenses charged
on consignments of Wool,
HighoaVinarkefc price guaranteed at time or
Bids. sop2'84-iy
Savannah, Ga.
Is conoeded to be the most comfortable an$
(, y the bast conducted Hotel in Savannah.
ftates, 82.00 Per Day.
U. L. HARNETT. _
Machine Needles,
Oil and Shuttles,
FOR ALL KINDS OF MACHINES, tor sals.
I will also order parts of Machines
that get broken, for whldh new
pUces are wanted.
A. J, JEimiGAN,
When to go to New Orlennn.
Undoubtedly March and April are tho pleas
antest months of tho year to visit Now-Orleans.
They aro tho months of roses, of mocking birds
and of everything boautiful and delightful in
tho far South. During thoso two months only
light clothing, such as would bo worn in tho
North in the summer, will bo roquired; but
spring overcoats and wraps will bo noeded for
tho evenings, and occasionally in tho day time
when the wind is from tho north. During
December, January and February Now Orleans
weather is vory variable. There is, of course,
no snow, but there is much rain and dampness^
mingled with an equal proportion of sunshine
and warmth. Occasionally “northers” send
the mercury down to the forties, and even into
the thirties; and flannel underclothing should
invariably be worn during those months. Now
Orleans is by no moans a tropical city, nor aro
its houses so well adapted to withstand cold and
damp as those of more northern latitudes.
The Japanese Lo!
The chief object of interest to tho traveler in
fezo, the island dependency of Japan, is the
remnant of tho Aino race, the aborigines of
Yezo, and not improbably tho whole of Japan,
poaceable savages, who live on tho coasts and in
the intorior by fishing and hu nting, and stand
in the same relation to their Japanoso subju
gators as tho red Indians to tho Americans. A
rough census of the Aiuos, made in 1873, gives
their numbers 12,281, and they are believed to
be decreasing in numbers. Tho “hairy Ainos,’»
as those savages havo beon called, aro stupid,
good natured, gentle and submissive. They
aro wholly a distinct race from the Japanese.
In complexion they lesemble tho people of
Spain and Southern Italy. The hair is jet
black, very soft, and on tho scalp forms thick,
pendant masses, oscasionally wavy, but never
showing any tendency to curl. Tho beard,
mustache, and oyobrows aro very thick and full,
and there is frequently a heavy growth of stiff
hair on tho chest and limbs. Their language
is a very simple one. They have no written
characters, no literature, no history, and vory
few traditions, and havo left no impression on
the land from which they have been driven.
The Gift of Expression.
Every grade of intelligence, from common
dullness to talent of tho highest and most
brilliant order, depends for its degree upon
the possession and use of this power—the gift
of expression. Expression is commonly asso
ciated with speech; we use it, however, in tho
more general sense of whatever tends to mako
public the inner life. Conversation, public
speaking, all writings, paintings and songs, in
ventions of every kind, and every act, public
and private, which goes to make up life’s his
tory* all these aro channels for the expression
of human nature. Genius, to be real, must
give forth true expression; audit is not genius
unless it meets with the stamp of publio ap.
proval. All may not be able to tell what is in
them, but all can recoguize the truth of what
is told. The utterances of genius may fal
temporarily upon dull ears, and the utterer
.ink, di.ooi.mged, into an obscure grave, for
geniu. cannot live without Ha compliment of
spprecia-lon; but in the progress of he race,
.point i. reached where the truth, his utter-
Mice crystalizod aro .eon to shine forth in al
thoir beauty, and theuoeforth hi. flame is can-
, Dnized.
mlod in his lynching,
lie protested his innocence to the last
A BODY of United Htates soldiers attempted
to arrest a number of mon who had invaded
the Indian Territory for tho purpose of seizing
tho land. Not wishing to resort to firearms,
ths soldiers used their lists uud clubs, but
were badly thrashed by tho would-bo colo
nists.
A train was thrown from tho rail near
Grafton, W. Va., and tho engineer and llr
man wore instantly killed, and several oilier
persons wore injured, The accident was
caused by some one who intended to wreck
tho entire train.
Eight persons wore lost and two hh ved by
the stranuing of the Norwogia i bark Isona,
loaded with sugar, on Hog Island bar, Vir
ginia. Vessel and cargo were a total loss.
Heavy rains followed by floods have don®
much damage in portions of Toxns and Ar
kansas.
The Gorman bark Llli, with live of her
crew, was loat off the California coast
Guards ut tho scene of the Hocking Val
ley (Ohio) mine troubles wero drive i i'i\.m
railroad tunnel, heavily tilliberal with solid
walls of coal, by an armed < rowd. Tho tun
nel was then fired at both sulos and
stroyed, causing a heavy los*. A number of
arrests were mado.
Rube Harrkl, n jealous lover, di-eiwirg
a shot-gun into a ballroom near Batchtow
III., wounding seven young peoplo-ti
fatally.
At Chicago a tugboat explosion killed IIv
persons. One of them was burled titty foe.
high against a grain elevator, whoro the im
print <»f his form was seen pressed in blood
(di the side of tho building,
Every fresh detail from tho districts in Spain
ill which the eArtliotlake shock wras severest
auds new horror to tho calamity. At Nerja, A
town of 5,000 people, in tho province of Malaga,
the earthquake was followed by a hurricane.
This finished tho dost ruction of many
houses which liad already beon brought
to tho brink of ruin by tho shock.
The inhabitants fled in terror and camped out
side the town. Much suffering has been caused
by tho scarcity of previsions. '1 wo lofty chim
neys, forming part of tl.o gasworks, fell to the
earth. Tho patients in tho ho pital wore so
terrified that they forgot their maladies and
fled to tho opoit air. The convicts In thft pnson
refused to outer their cells, and remained all
night in the courtyard.
Albania and Santa Cruz wero completely de
stroyed. Soldiers are at work clearing up the
ruin’s in search of corpses, which are fouud in
large numbers. Many of them are horribly
disfigured. Tho number or persons killed is
still Unknown. Them is no doubt, however*
that tho report which fixed the number as 900
is an exaggeration. Tlioro is rail h distress
among tho survivors, and people arc asking
for relief. .....
At Albunuolaa 2 JO persons roe ivod Injuries
more or lean serious. From the ruined houses
100 bodies have so far been recovered. Tlio
barracks at Loja, in tho provinoo of Granada,
were ruined. At Zaffarraya. a town not far
from Loja, fifty pnrsoiit perished. .
At l’riego tho shock* canlo while tho theatre
wom crowded. A torrlblo panic followed.
Many persons junipod from tho gallorios and
from the windows upon tile crowd below. Two
wore killed outright and forty wore injured.
Tho town of Vclou, Malaga, population
about 16,000, was half destroyed, aud many ol
the inhabitants killed.
The village of Alhuquero, near Granada, was
also half demolished and two hundred persoup
wero killed by tho first shock, which caused a
number of buildings to fall In beforo the occu
pant! had time t® escape.
Arenas del Boy was nearly totally destroyed.
Tho number of killed is as yot unknown, but
forty bodies have Slnoe been recovered from
the ruins.
Zafarranja was completely wrecked, and but
few of tho villagers escapod unhurt. Already
the bodies of twelvo men havo boon recovered
from the ruins.
Tho town of Canillas was al-o destroyed,
and the number of persons killed is as yet un
known, but 1b supposed to be large. Boveral
bodies have been taken from tho ruins.
The town of Ksteplna also suffered severely.
The dispatches from there mention tho fact
that tho handsome church and municipal and
other buildings havo been dost roved, but s iy
that the number of deaths cannot as yet lx
ascertained, but it is feared Will bo heavy, as
many persons are missing.
Madrid, Dec. 29,1884.— Official reports show
that 206 persons wero killed in tho provinces
of Ma’aga and Granada by tho earth
quake. The population of Granada aro still
encamped in the squares, and tho richer
clasaea aro lodging iu carriages along the
promcnado. The facade of tho Cathedral
was seriously damaged by tho shocks.
Many houses woro destroyed in Jimeua,
and a wl.olo family was killed in tho
village oi Cajar by tlio falhug of
a chimney. Over linlf of the inhabitants of
Albunuolai woro killed. Albania is mostly in
ruins. The province of Malaga suffered
equally as much damage a* did Granada.
Commerce is paralyzed. Two hundred homes
at Alfarnetejo woro damaged. The panic is
Mibsiding. Tho shock was not felt in the
n rtlioi n aud northwest provinces. The gov-
YVaaliiiigtoii.
General Hancock has been invited by
tho committee to act as grand marshal of tho
parade at President-elect Cleveland’s inaug
uration.
Sergeant Holtnorth, of tho signal ser
vice at Washington, is to bo tried by court
martial on the charge of conduc t unbecoming
an officer and a gentleman in having tnmi>or-
ed with tho private mail of Lieutenant
Ureoly.
Of forty-two retired officers of tho navy
now living in Washington, twenty-four, or
more than one-half are rear admirals. This
number is just one-half tho total number of
retired rear admirals, and almost four times
the number of rear admirals on tho active
list
TnE last cotton report ot the department
of agriculture indicates tho aggregate of yield
for 1884 to be 6.580,009 balos. Tho rato of
yield is much below tho average.
President Arthur’s New Year’s recep
tion at the White House was a brilliant af
fair, tlio ladies’ toilets elegant and tasteful
and tho attendance large. Tho President was
assisted in receiving the guests in the blue
room by his sister, Mrs. McElroy, Mrs. Fre-
liughuysen, Mrs. (Senator Edmunds, Mrs. Mc
Culloch, Mrs. Chandler, Mrs. Brewster, Mrs.
Hutton, Mrs. Teller and tho wives of some of
the justices of the supreme court.
During December tho national debt was
again increased, the amount for the month
being $641,384.71. This loft tho total d *bt,
less cash m tho treasury, at $1,418,548,371.40*
cash in tho treasury, $432,475,170.31.
The coinage executed at the various United
States mints in December was: 161,048 gold
pieces, worth $2,333,023.50; 2,798,060 silver
pieces, worth $2,425,905.25; 4,018,310 minor
coins, worth $90,429.30; total coinage, 0,977,-
418 pieces, worth $4,849,958.05.
Foreign.
Later reports put the loss of life through
out Spain by tho earthquake shocks at more
than 1,000. Many persons died of fright.
Severe shocks lmvo also beon felt in Austria
and Wales.
Important discoveries of fraud have boon
made in tho Russian treasury at St. Peters
burg,and some of tho officials have committed
suicide to escape disgrace and punishment.
Advices from Tonquin report that daily
encounters occur between the French und
Chinese outposts. China continues to pour
uoops into Toil piin and Form is u
During an election riot in a Hungarian
town six persons were killed.
A Cairo (Egypt) dispatch says that Gen
eral Wolseley reviewed tho British expe
dition to Gordon’s relief ns it marched out
of Korti. Tho column presented nil im
posing sight, being nearly 100 yards wide
and a mile long.
unnient has granted $5,000 from tho national
calamity fund for tho relief of the sufferers in
,ho province of Granada.
Still later advices show that 300 lives Were
lost at Albania, 760 houses and a ohurcb woro
destroyed and 30 persons were killed at Poll-
ana, tlio Town Hall und many houses were
damaged at Torrox and the inhabitants fled
from tho town | anicstrioken, It is now esti
mated that 000 perrons wore killed in the prov-
n. o of Malaga, including those killed at Al
ii ama.
According to tho official news of the earth-
quako 620 person * were killed In tlio provinoo
of Granaua and 100 in Malaga. At Albania
over 860 bodies have been recovered. At' IV-
rlana, a village in Adalusin, about thirty mil* *
from Malaga, great damage was done and
many lives were lost. Sixty bodies have so fur
been recovered. Many persons died of
fright. It Is reported that 900 persons
wero buried beneath tho ruins of the
buildings of Alhumiolas, and that over Half of
the inhabitants of tho town wero killed.
Three churches at Ant quera were left in a
tottering condition. The inhabitant! are en
camped in the fields. In Perlana 750 houses
and a church were destroyed’ and thirty per
sons wero killed. A fatal land slide occurred
in tho mountains near Peri an a. This de
stroyed many houses mul buried forty-
eight persons. Of these eighteen were
rescued alive Many houses were dostroyod in
Jimcna, and a whole fumily was killed in the
village of Cajar by the falling of u chimney.
Albania is mostly in ruins. Two hundred
houses at. Alfarnetejo were damaged. The
shock was not felt in tho northern und north
western provinces.
Tho convicts in tlio State prison at Seville
took advantage of tho excitement occasioned
by tho earthquake to creme a mutiny, with tho
hopo of escaping. Tlio disturbance was quelled*
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
General B. F. Butler has opened a law
office in New York city.
United States Senator Lamar, of Mis
sissippi, has just lost His wife by death.
General Hancock’s only son anil child,
Russell Hancock, a Mississippi planter, thirty-
four years old, (lied a few days since.
It is snid that George W. Cable, tho Now
Orleans story-writer and reader, is making
$50,009 a year out of his literary work.
Two distinguished Englishmen now so
journing in tills country lmvo announced the
possibility of their becoming American citi-
zens—Colonel Mnpleson, tho opera manager,
and Professor Richard N. Proctor, tlio as
tronomer.
The Ex-Empress Eugenio is building for
horse!f a beautiful mausoleum, not in France,
but in England, in the town of Furuborough,
whoso inhabitants are vory fond of her, partly
because she goes out shopping and is kind to
their poor.
Victor Hugo went to soo tho completed
statue of Liberty enlightening the world, by
Bartholdi, and smiled with gratification
when a bystander, seeing tho poet and the
.0 facing each other, exclaimed: “Behold!
Two giants are regarding each other.”
It is stated, on the authority of a Massa
chusetts friend of General Benjamin F. But
ler. Hi it ho has signed a contract with a Now
York publishing linn to write for them his
political reminiscences. Tho work is to bo in
two voluinos and Genera! Butler is to rocoivo
$50,000 and a small royalty.
Admiral Lynch, tlio Chilian conqueror of
_ jru, lias gone as minister to Madrid in order
to lmvo tho benefit of tho best surgical skill
for his loft eye and right hand, the use of
which ho lost m tho war. Ho Is, by the way,
tho first Chilian minister to Spain after nearly
twenty years of suspended diplomatic rela
tions.
Louis, of Bavaria, lately ordered that
some bronze statues bo sot up at his palace
gates, but as his majesty is nearly bankrupt,
tho keeper of the privy purse thought it well
to put up plaster imagos covered with bronze
paint. This worked nicely until Louis dis
covered the fraud and smashed tho statues
with a club. ^
TWO NKGROEN LYNCHED.
* Piuly of NiasUrd Men Tie lliirslnr* wltli
Chains mid Sink Thom In a River.
Tu foreits of Scotland yield 10,000 deei*
annually,
Des Moiihw, Iowa, la bankrupt, and Ite
Employes are unpaid.
The new aqueduct for tho extension df tlio
New York waterworks will cost $2,600,090.
The number of emigrants to this country
this year lias docroTso.1 36,000 from last yoar.
A negro women, proven to have Imoli 128
years old, died recently at Dennis Station, Ga.
Oshkosh, WIs.. has a factory which turned
Out last year 60,000 pounds of genuine Swisf
cheese.
Indians are used in placo of pack mule*
between Cueur d’Alenfl City/ ldfthoi and Mur
ray, Indian Territory.
The total production of cigars in thii coun
try, as estimated by ono of the largest manu
facturers, is about 3,00J,09J,0J0 a year.
There is a gold mine in Venezuela which,
under American inaimguuont, has yielded
lleurly $2;000/000 during the last six months.
It Ib estimated tiiatJ5;d9d rtlfttitl, rtre mit
of employment at Bt. Louis, nearly qll of
whom are skilled in some branch of industry.
People who disliko to havo their windows
frostod in cold weather can prevent it by rub
bing the glass inside and outside with glyoer-
ino.
Thirty thousand roller-skating rink* have
boon builtirl tlio united Btetas within tho niwfc
two years. Tlio rtunibor of btokdn heads is
not recorded.
The work of enlarging tho Dismal swamp
canal in Virginia so os to mako it a voritablo
ship catial will begin early this year. Six
years is tho limit fixed fdr it* completion.
The Now York elevated railways carried
96,702,620 passengers Inst year, aud had a not
profit of $289,097.24. They only killed twelve
people and injured eighty during tho yoar.
Every visitor to tho world's expoeitlon in
Now Orleans is required to de|>oeit a Bilver
half dollar in d gloss box lit charge of the
doorkcu|MM*H, no aduiissiou tickets Doing Sold.
Railway construction for tho past year
does not exceed 4,000 miles, although steel rail
is but $28 a ton, aud cars, locomotive and
othor material forty per cent less than two
years ago.
The BennottrMackey double ocean cable is
estimated to havo cost 87,509,000 already, and
since it was laid tho steamer Faraday, which
char,;os $5,000 a day for her services, has boon
grappling for breaks. It cotta $200,000 to
$800,000 to mend li break in An dofltlU cablft
-the sum or $100,000 is to be railed by bis
wealthy frlonds to pay ox-Ptesidont Grant’s
debts and save his personal property from be
ing Bold under tho hammer.
—Two teamstors perished in a snow storm in
Colorado. The story of thoir buffering is terri
ble. For throe days tboy lived on snow am*
raw venison.
—The schooner A. Qrant, Captain tilvto*-
ston from Halifax, bound to liaddeek, Capo
Breton, arrived off Canso in dia ross after a
tori ilde experience at sea. AH of tho officers
and crow wero so fiostbitten that thoy will
’sso their limbs.
—Judge Brown, of tlio Supremo Court of
jtew York State, lias rendered a decision that
a wife may to tho legal business partuor of a
person other than her husband.
—Hie proposed oxtra session of tho Iowa
Legislature is upi>oBcd by tho prohibitionists,
who fear tliut It might affect a repeal of the
prohibitory law.
—In Hamilton county, 111., a woman killed
her two children and also took her own life.
—The Canadian exports for Novomber
amounted in value to $19,991,622, of whioh
$9,213,700 wore goods tho product of Canada,
$717,822 were the produce of oilier countries
and $1,000,900 woro tho export of coin and bul
lion. Tho total imports or the month amount
cd in valuo to $7,322,729. of which dutiable
goods amounted to $5,010,005, free goods,
$2,201,705, aud coin and bullion. $104,029
The duty received amounted to $1,355,899<
—Gloucester (Mass.-) nstiermeu have formee
a union to oppose a renewal of the treatloi
with England about to expire.
—Puquot, the infidel who was recently para
lysed while denying tho dootrino of eternal
Lunisbmeut, died in tho hospital at Montreal.
—Among the arrivals at tho Now Orl< ans
Exposition on Saturday were 1,600 school
teachers from Ohio, Minnesota, Wisconsin aud
Nebraska.
—Tho three oofflna containing the charred
remains of the twenty-one orphan boys who
1< st thoir lives in thcBt. John's Home calamity
iu Brooklyn wero btiriod in ono grave on Hi/
mrday. The services were most impressive.
—Certain amendments to tho Spanish treaty
in tho interests of sugar refiners and cigar
manufacturers aro probable.
—It is said that if the Spanish treaty is not
ratified Cuba will again bo tho seat of anarchy
and rebellion..
—The oarthquako lti Spain lias caused great
loss of life aud a great destruction of property,
—MarqniB Tseng oliarges the English with n
breach of the neutrality laws in selling vessels
to Franco for tho purpose of transporting
troops to China.
—France lias sovored the last official link
with China.
—A fight is oxpocted in tho Congo region
between tho French and tho International Ar
sociation.
Gavei fior 4ffe^clnnd Define* III* Po*ltlori-
Jtnforccmeni oi the Im# Promised.
The National Civil Service Ri form Loagttd/
of which Geo. Win. Curtis is President, nni as
sociation composed of citizens of all par tie*,
Whoso solo purpose 1* indicated by its nmne,
Md Which takes ho part whatever in party
C6ntroVers^ Into addressed Gov. Cleveland on
the subject of Civil Service reform. Got.
Cleveland replie s as follows:— ^
Your communication, dated December 2vi
addressed to ine on. behalf of tho National
Civil Sorvioo Reform Lpsffue, fnto been received.
. That a practical reform in th$ clvfl s6rVi0o
is demanded la abundantly established by the
fact that a statute, referred to in your communi
cation, to aecuro such a result has boon passed
iti Congress, with the assent of both political
pfcrtifes, fcna by the further fact that a senti
ment it generally provaleht among patriotic
people calling for tlio fair and honest enforce
ment of tho law whioh has been thus ennoted.
I regard myself pledged to this because toy
conception of true Democratic faith and public
duty requires that this and all other statutes
should be In good faith and without evasion
efifptced, and because in many utterances
made brio* to my election as maident, ap
proved by tho rartv to which I belong and
which I have fib dMixyltion to disclaim. I
have in effect promised the people that thw
should be done. ....... ., ,
I am notunmindfnl of tho fact to which you
refer, that many of Or citizens fear that tho
recent party change in the national Exocutivo
may demonstrate that tlio abuses which have
gh>#n tip in the civil servico uto ineradicable.
1 know that they are deeply rooted alul that
the spoilt system has boon supported to be inti
mately related to success in the maintenance
of party organization, and i am not sure that
all those who profess to bo tho friends of this
refohfl Will.stand firmly among its advocates
when they find it rbetrnoting their way to pat
ronage and place. But, fully dppfeeiatlng the
trust committed to my charge, no such cbfisld*
oration shall cause a relaxation on my part of
i earnest effort to enforce this law.
There is a class of government positions
which afb nOt Within the letter of tho olvl
service statute, but which ere So disconnected
with tho policy of an administration that the
removal therefrom of present incumbonts, in
my opinion, should not be mado during the
(of which thoy wore a|ipoluto<l solely on
partisan Kmmifh athl for tho purpoae of out
ing tnthsir placea those wnoafolnpolhloulao-
oord wilh the ap(*lnting power, lint immit IlOW
holding HUoh positions havo forfeltoil all lust
claim to retention, because they havo used thoir
places for party pur|>osoB In disregard of thoir
duty to the pooplei and bocauso, Instead of
Iwlhg deoetit ptlbllo servants, thoy have proved
themselves offensive partisans and unscrupu
lous manipulators or local putty management.
The lesions of the past shohld he unlearned,
and such offlolula, as well aa tlielr meoosuorS,
should bo taught that efficiency, Ulnesa and do
ve t on to publlo duty lire tho conditions of
thoir continuance in publlo placo, and that tho
ritllct and unobtrusive oiorctso of individual
political rights Is the rsasonablo measure of
heir party sorvioo. ....
If I were addressing nono bdt party frlonds
I should deem It cutlroly proper to rerrtIUd
them that though the ooming admlnlsti atiou is
to be Democratic, a due regard for tho people's
interest docs not permit faithful party work to
he alwava rewarded by appointment to olllco,
and to say to them that while Democrats may
cxpcoi all proper consideration, sclootlons for
office not emorsoed within tho eivll sorvioo
rules will be basod upon sufficient Inquiry as
to illness, instituted by thoso ehargeil with
that dirty, rutbor than upon persistent impor
tunity or eelr-eoliclted rccoinmoiidations on
‘ chaff of oandidatos for appointment.
Yours, very truly, Quovan Or.EVU.aifD.
MUSICAL AND DIMilAT 11/
The title of Kin a’s new piny is " Aa Aaicri*.
can Countess.”
perfect ovolnncho of concerte ha®
visito 1 London, „„
Lawrence Barrett’i “Blot on tho 'Hcutr
ehoon” was a failure iu \Y. s i;u,,tou.
M. Alexander Dumas Hi* author and
dramatist, has U*ou mad j a commander ‘>f
*gibn of Honor.
It costs $3 i() a night to ligh tho Grand
Opera-house iu Paris and $7,<M0 u yoar to
dust and swoop it.
Henry Guy Carlkton’s mwust comic
piece for Mr. \Valla<*k is a li.;h*< play, to bo
christened “Personals.”
Harry Miner hnscug go! Yh fcoria M >ro-
sinl fora coiioert tour. Ifo will said her out
traveling with a company.
An estoomod Detroit ininht'jr a'tacks tho
s'ngo, and declares that, “dog fl'hts and
trngedioi should bo classed together.
Thi.R:: mo twenty-five legitimate theatres
in London, supplying the puli.L: with comedy,
ojiom, melodrama, farce and trugc ly-
The manager of tlio Italian opera at Lima,
Peru, has l*een fli o<l forty solus (about $12.40)
for not raising the curtain punctually at 8
P. M.
Mllk. Nevada, thoAmcrDan prima don
na, will return to Europe at tho close of tlio
season, having three offers to appear in Euro
pean capitals.
Lady Arciiiiiald Campiiell, who is ro
tated by marriage to tho Marquis of Lome
and the Princess Louise, is tho latest amateur
who intends adopting tho stage as a profos-
Cnllertlon* of Internal Revenue.
Washington, Dec. 29.—Tho co lections of
internal revenue for tlio first five month- of
the fiscal year ending Juno 30, 1885, v
as follows: From spirits, $27,975,032; from
tobacco, $10,846,806; from fermented liquors,
$8,358,489; from miscellaneous sources, $141,-
263, making a total of $47,832,190, as against
$51,817,926 collected during the same period
of the previous fiscal year—a decrease of
$3,995,736. There was a decrease of $3,642,
959 on spirits, of $586,893 on tobacco and
$199,170 or ini-sui llauoous articles. The only
increase wjim on fermented liquors, amounting
to $332,786. The uggregate receipts for the
month of November were $i,371|942 less than
for the same month of last year.
letter from if»« Ph^I^ih-FIbcI in
Ilcgard to Civil Sorvlr6 licfont*.
The following correspondence has passed
between rept'oAflfitetlvos of tho National Clvi
Service Reform leagu'd find President-Elect
Cleveland:
National Civil Service Reform )
League, Office No. 4 Pine sJJUJL (
New Your, Dec. 20, 1884. )
Thu Itoii. flttrtrr Clrtelaml:
SIR: We lmvo tfw hcRior toaddie^ you on
fcohtilf of tho National Civil ^^W(*o lUform
league, tin association composed of ‘t />mHOt
all parties, wh<*» *rte.PJjn o« «
its name, and which tukte no port whatevei
the number of !*rso«
cnmim-l in I bo civil service nnd the grave
mischief m*l danger. Arising from tho gen
efni proscription in the sorvlce which for
half n century lias followed a change of pmty
control of the national administration have
produced so proftAtod an inipressimi >'P^
tho publlo mind that tlio f.rH, ell.-ctl'c Mcps
toward reform woro taken with
lion of both i nr lion In tho passage of the
reform oot of January 16, ,
the fibnw* which that act seoks to oorroot,
nowever. are iO rtnmKly lntronclicv in tlis
tradition* and usages of both partial that
tlioro Is naturally widespread anxiety Im* the
nnrtv change ltl Ha. Batiounl executive of
l£etJd by the into election should »tiow them
to ho lnsuporable. Hut. believing os wa
do that the reformed system "innot
| K “ i,oM to I*) securely established
until It ha* safely pns*od tho ordeal
Of sneli a party change, and reenlliiig 'vith
satisfaction and conffdence your put-Ile ex-
prossions favbrablo lo reform, and jour
official nets n* tlio chief executive of the
Suite of Now York, wo conlldenUy cpiome'el
ihin « rum to your patriotic ROT in tho uxor- t
cWCttf Mis groat power with which tho Amer
ican people hav* intrusted you. Usspootfully
TOUI liitomin Wii.liaM Ounn*. l’roeldout
Wili.iam 1’oTTH, Hccreinry,
JoiinJav,
BoonriKi.n BTOWtr,
J. II. rf.KAS/*l*T«,
Vi. W. MoNTUoMrllT,
I*. WHKKIJtll,
THE MERCURY/
EnUrwt ■■ Meond-eito. aagto.
dsnsvlll. PoMoaes, April V, IM
Snndemllle, Wtelling ton ChWi
mum» ■*
A. j. jernigan;
Paormuxon Atis pyxi.tiit
WHAT WE FIND TO H9III.R OTBR Ilf
TUB IIUJIOUOtIB FAI'EttB.
I
K. (.'It iMWItl.b,
At Clayton, N. 0., two iiogroe* rolibed h
t ire and nearly killed tlio clerk. Moth wore
ivutod, und while on their way to the Jail a
I arty of masked men sprang out uf tho dark-
,ibs» and lcvc-linR revolvers at tlio heads of the
guards, demanded the prisoners and cook them
in their charge. It has now become known
that tho masked men plan, d the prison, rs on
l-orses and rode straight to Die Nuuso. itiver.
111-ee miles distant. Til re they wrapped
I teir prisoners with trace c ains, h aving the
liandsiill's upon them, and tlnew them into the
■Ivor. The bodies havo bocu recove.cd.
—Statistics of Lake Erie commorce show that
the canal hold its own during tho year against
six competing rail' oad companies.
Charles Tong Bing, tho Chinese steward
who accompanied tho Jeannette expedition to
the North Pole and was one of the few survi
vors, lias boon arrested on suBpioiou of rob
bery with violence.
-The women in the hat faotories at Boutli
Norwalk. Conn., have united with the striking
male batters and have formed a anion.
MAniaZ PiTtciiiS.
Csailuii IIcnclie of n Shipwrecked
Crew by a llrave Captain.
Tlio clogged determination and disregard
for thoir own lives displayed by sailors when
othei s are in peril and there is any chance
rescue them is graphically illustrated in the
story told by Captain Olson, of the Norwe
gian bark Onward, which has arrived at Now
York, concerning the rescue of the crew of
tho schooner Estelle Day, off Cape Uatteras.
Tho following is the story Qf the rescue
told by Captain Olsen:
“I passed tho Bermudas four days before,
after which heavy gales from tho southwest
continued without intermission. On tho
morning of the 22d, at daybreak, the wind
was vory heavy from tho southwest, finally
incensing to tho dimensions of a hurricane,
with frightful squalls of wind and rain.
When we discovered the wreck, the sea was
running mountain high and wo were run
ning beforo the wind under two lower top
sails—tho fore topsail reefed—all we dare
carry, one of them, as it was, being
blown to ribbons. Notwithstanding the
danger, I determined to save the
unfortunates. There wero plenty of
volunteers, but I sent for my mate, A. Nord
strom. ‘If you don’t go,’said I,‘I will go
myself. It must bo an old sailor to manage
tho boat in this sea.’ He was ready to go.
and selected tho carpenter, H. Evans, and
Seaman A. Itosquist from among tho volun
teers, to go with him. Tho first boat wo low
ered filled immediately and had to be taken
up anil emptied. Tho ship at the time had
her rail constantly Under water. As the next
bont touched the water a heavy squall struck
us and we lost that boat. It was three hours
b /foro wo got tho next boat and its crew away
from the bark. Before they left oach man
bade us ‘goodby,’ as neither they nor wo
expected them to coino back. Many a prayer
wont after them and they wero answered,
for by 11 o’clock thoy wero all safelv on board.
The rescued men wero nearly dead. When I
got them on deck they were iu a frightful
condition, the skin being peeled from their
legs, arms ami faces. For eight days wo had
to nurse thorn like babies before they could
stand alone. I have been fourteen years ut sea,
but I have never yot seen such frightful weath
er or such eitormouB waves, when the men
were discovered three of them wore lying
down, unable to move, while thoir compane
ions could only stagger to their feet, wav-
thoir arms wildly for a moment, and then
sink down again. The sea was full of enor
mous sharks, twelve to fourteen feet long,
ami it was undoubtedly one of them that
pulled Mato Curley down while ho was call
ing for help after falling through the planks.
One hour before his death, being a.most
crazed from hunger ami thirst, he called
upon his companions to draw
lots, declaring that one of l ‘ luI 3
must die so th'tt the others might have rood
and drink. That they wero not troubled by
fro.st is accounted for by tho fact that they
were in the middle of the Gulf Stream and
the waves breaking over them were warm.
The schooner is owned in Newcastle, Del.,
and is a total loss, there being no insurance
on her. Captain williams, who is from Del
aware Bay, lost his chronometer, gold watch
and chain and all his clothing, f ho crew,
two of whom were negroes, also lose every
thing th*y had.
e! >il
The successful young American author.
Henry Guy Carloton, will go to England next
Lion’s Mouth,” by the Irving company,
retains tho American right.
Colonel Maflehon has signed contracts
for ono year, with tho privilege of three
more, wiili tlio tenor Giannini and tho l-mjso
Serbolini, of tho Milan Grand Opera com
pany, two excellent artists, who will appear
in oi>ora in this country.
Miss Nellie Calhoun, a California girl,
who became stage struck iu the wilds of San
Bernardino, has just been appointed loading
lady at tho II ay market Theatre, London, and
on her appearance as Dora in “Diplomacy”
achieved a marked succoss.
Edwina Booth, tho daughter of tho groat
iragodian, is a prime favorite in Boston so
ciety. Her weekly receptions aro lurgely
attended by tho “ best people” of the llub.
There is no traco of the “ lamily melancho
lia” in this daughter of tho house.
Concerning Sullivan’s new opera, which
may be produced in February or March, a
London journalist writes that it is tine that
he has begun the composition of tlio lyrics
which have been handed him by Gilbert; but
the piece, for all that, is not yot written out
The subject is Japanese.
The recent first performance of Wagner’s
“Parsifal” beforo the king of Bavria, •‘com
manded” for 7 o’clock precisely, did not com
mence, owing to the non-arrival of tho king,
until 8:30, and was not concluded until 2 m
the morning. As is usual, the audieuce con
sisted of the king alone.
M. Wyman, Jr.,
Cam. Selin nX,
Hii.as W. Buivr,
A,H.MaUDONOUUH,
W. C. HANOKB,
Wm. W. Ainiin,
Exocutivo ComiMlttw.
iiyvf.Mion oi.KVKLANn'g liari.y.
Ai.maMY, Doc. 85, 18M.
77,„ (In,me. IF. Cam, President, 6c.:
liKAii Bin: Vour cniinuinli’ntlon <lat«i
Dsrembor 8(1, oililronwil lo ino on behalf of
tlio National Civil Burvlco Reform Immune,
hmt 1 m il rVKviVOil. |
Tlmt II practical I'nfol'lti In lliu civil nerv c«
is duiiituMW is abundantly CtnbltalKKl l>y tlio
fnct Hint « KtntdUi, referred to In your com-
municntlon, to secure Mich a result lins Iwcli
passed In Congress with tlio assent iff both
political parties; and liy tlio further
fact Hint a sentiment is generally
prevalent niiiong patriotic people eail-
Hnt for the fair and honest enforcement of
Iff” put iTliieli lias been thus enacted. 1 re-
Knrdiiivs. lt plddmal to this because my oop-
centton of true Democratic faith and publlo
duty nsiuires that this and all oilier Klalute.
should belli goad faith and without evasion
enforced, and beoniisu 111 many utterance,
mado prior to my election ns President, ap
proved by the i arty to which I belong, and
which I have no disposition to disclaim. I
have Iu offoct promised tho people that this
should Ik* done. .... ... ....
1 am not unmindful of tho fact to w men
you infer, that many of our citizen® fear that
tho recent prtrty chaugo in tho national **x-
ccutlvo may iiemonstrate that llm abuses
which havo grown up in tho civil service are
ineradicable. I know that thoy aro deeply
rooted, and that the spoils system has bc(m
suppoMKl to Ijo Intimately related to suc
cess in tho maintenance of party
organization, and I am not Hire that all those
who profess lo Im> the friends of this reform
will stand firmly among it* advocates when
they find it obstructing their way to pat
ronage and placo.
But fully appreciating tho trust committed
to my charge, no such consideration shall
enuso n relaxation on my pnrt of nn enniest
effort to enforce tills law.
There is n class of government positions
which are not within the letter of the civil
sorvlce stntiito, but which nre so discon
nected with tlio policy of an administration
that tlio removal therefrom of present Incum
bents, in my opinion, should not be made
during the terms for which they were ap
pointed solely oil partisan grounds nnd lor
tlie purpose of putting In Uwir places those
who are in political accord witli the appoint
ing miner.
But ninny now holding such ikisIUoiis havo
forfeited all Just dnim to retention, nconimo
they linve used tlielr places for party pur
poses 111 disregard of their duty to tlio peonle,
and llocalise, Instead of lielng decent publlo
servants, thoy have proved themselves of
fensivu mirtisane and mis< ru|iulous munipu
lalors or local party management.
The lessoiiH of tlio past should be unlearned,
am I such officials, as well aa their successors,
should lie taught that efficiency, lltnoss, and
dove,lion to public duty are the conditions of
tlielr continuance in publlo place, and that
the (inlet and unobtrusive exercise of individ
ual political rights is tho reasonable measure
of their pnrty service. .
If 1 were addressing none but pnrty iriomls
I should doom it entirely proper to remind
tliom that though tlio coming administra
tion is to lsi Democratic, a due regard for
tile people’s Interest does not permit faith
ful pnrty work to bo always rewarded
l»y appointment to olllco; and to say to
them tlint while Democrats mny expect
nil proper consideration, selections for office
not embraced within tho civil service rule*
will be bnsed upon sufficient inquiry us to IIL-
nus<, instituted by those charged witli Hint
duty,rather than upon persistent Importunity
of self-solicited recommendations on ii.lialf
of caudidntos for appointment. V ours very
truly, Onovnii Ci.r.vKi.AND.
I.UK* ol Idle by Fire.
Tlio Dlske Opera House nnd Imlel at Itncine,
a was burned to tlio ground, causing a Iosh
'.early $200,000.
Mr and Mrs. Riia-ell 8. Glover, who were
connected witli tliu Thompson opera company,
m risliod in tlio Haims. Many peraonH wero
re cncd from imminent peril, and it waa be
lieved that the few who wero missing would
s mu appear.
TM .Kssine l.tnk-The Old r ymn-H.w to
Get ltlch-A Father>*
I,cons nt Home—A Wife t« »• Fr*»»
or, Etc.* Etr.
mudb is onh’s mu.
■•Yoa," said old Farmer Jones to •
travoler who tvaa stopping with him over
night, “I’ve got os good a wife os ai»f
man in these parts, if f ide eay it.
“I am not marefca myself, said tn§
traveler, “tint nevertheless I oan i
eiato the pride whioh a husband mt|
tako in a good wife.”
"Why, stranger,” went on the olf
farmor, earnestly, "I’ve known that wo
man to git np at four o’olook in tho
mornin’, milk aixtoon cows, and oil
brealifast fer twenty men, an > have the
hull tiling done afore sunrise.
"You don’t eay bo,” exolaimed the
stranger. J ^
"Yea, sir, and not onoot only, HE
week in an’ week ont, an’ yon kin Bee as
well ns 1 kin that sho ain r t a strong wo
man, nuther.”
A imtN AS WIUTTXN-
" Weleonie, sweet day of rest,
Tiiat saw tho Lord arise)
Weleonie to tlilB reviving breast,
And llieso rojnioing eyes.
Atm as suno nv onn onoiB.
n Waw-kaw, swnw, daw aw waw,
I linw saw, thaw law aw waw,
Waw-kaw, taw, thaw, raw-vaw-vaw braw
Aw tlw« raw-Jaw-saw aw.” |)||i[t
TflBT ALT. ANSWBRBD AMDS.
A Texas mnu mado a liot that he could
yivont a question to whioh fifty peoide
wonld all give tho Barne anBWor. He
won tlio hot. The quention woe:
“Have you lieard that Smith has com
mitted suioide?”
Tlio answer in eaoh obbo was:
"What Smith?”—Teaks* Sifllnai,
LYINO AM, ABOUND.
“Wliore wore you when tho first shot
was fired ?” asked a lawyer of « femolo
witu'iss in a shooting scrupo.
"I was lying down on a Bofa.’
"Aud whoro wus your husband .
"Ifo woh lying down in tho back gal-
"And where wore your children ?"
"Tliejr woro all lying in the bed fast
W "Any other members of your family
WSJ'i kno. ol; M U «r
brotlicr had beon there ho would havo
boon lying down in tho Court .House.
Ho is u lawyer, liko you.' —Ark. irav.
TOOK T.KHSONS AT ItOitB.
"Don’t yon skate, Mrs. B—-?”
"No, 1 am only looking on.
"F.ver tried to skate ? Yon 11 enjoy
it when yon once learn." •
"Oil, I take lessons at home, l rpn
down tho basement stairs evory day. —
Detroit Free Ihrces-
WHAT 11B WAS AFTBK.
-So you liko Mr. Simpson?”
Yes, motkor. I love liim. Ho is a
man after my own heart.” .
"I’m afraid, my daughter, that he
doesn’t caro much for your heart. 1
think lie’s aft or your fathers money
principally. ”—Graphic.
DOMKSTIO TBOUBMSB,
JnBtice (to henpecked husband who
lias made it complaint against his wife)
—"Yon say yonr wife threw a billet of
wood at you?’’
Houpeokod husband — i«i y onr
Honor.” ,
Jnstieo—"Well, givo me the whole
facts of tho case. What did yon say?
Honpcoked husband (earnestly) —
"Judgo, as true as I’m settin in this
conrt-room. I didn’t do nothin but
dodgo.”—Sun.
TIICB TO MFK.
a Wolf Proposed to a Goat that they
go off on n Hunt nnd Wkaok up Even
on the Profits, and tlio Goat readily Ao-
copted. After Working in Company for
several hours tho Goat remarked:
"I liuvo not only Scared up nil the
Game thus far for you, but.you have
had tlio Pleasure of Eating it All.
-That’s not my Fault,” replied the
Wolf, ns ho Gulped down tho last of a
Haro "You should havo been Bom
with a tasto for blood and ilesli.
Moral: Don’t drop tho grocery busi
ness to bnok a faro bank.
why tiik SQOinn smiled.
A littlo girl in Hnrtford bud been given
some verses to commit to memory by her
Sunday school teacher Inst Sunday. She
told her mother about it on coming
home, and said they were tlio first three
verses of a ohaptor in St, John. Her
littlo brother, who was in tho room, at
once exolaimed, with u thump of his fist
on the tuble; "Pupa, don’t let her
learn them I That’s tho man who beat
Blaine 1” The squire smiled audibly.
STILT, AVTEB SWEETMEATS.
FALLING OF A TIlEATltK HOOF.
One Hundred nml Filly Persons tVonnded-
Hiniio Fatally.
London, Jan. 1. 1885.—A portion of tlio roof
of a theatre at Gliol t, a town in Franc-, col
lapsed daring tlio performance last night.
There were about 1,000 porsocs in tlio audi
ence. Tho liglilH woro extinguished, mid
screams and groans fillod tho air. About ono
hundred and llfty persons were wounded, some
oMhem, it is feared, fatally. Tlio theatre was
a temporary structure,
strained by recent storms.
which had beon
CUIIA AGAIN INVADED.
it a Flllbuslerlnn
.i* >I ill nn /.it m.
rassengers from Havana report the success
ful landing of a ttUbii t.-i ill; expedition in tho
immediate viciri te o:’ Matao/as, it ii under
the command of M ivmo Gomez, accompan
ied by Ida entire staff, and eft Nmv Orleans.
The S, cretarv of the Treasury ut WuBbing-
to District of Columbia, lias received a
communication from tlie Collector < f Customs
ut II. w Oi leans say ng that lie Is informed by
the Hpnnis . Consul ut Hint port that one Go
me/. recently left tiiat city for -nine point on
the Gulf coast witli a view, it is believed, of
lilting out a filibustering expedition to iho
i land of Cuba, to bo convoyed by tile schoonei
1 "luuiix.
Kuril,(fimke In Aiialrlu.
A severe earthquake sboik was experienced
In Carintbia Monday. Considerable damage
was done to many biiildiugs. Au oarthquaUe
was ala I mlt aL T.iiviu on Holiday night.
Violent shocks ut intervals of an hour were
also felt iu tho vieim y of tlio town. Tho in
habitants wero greatly alarmed.
A Tiger Hunt In Ohio.
AFTER OnBATINO IIAVOO IN SEVERAL
FARMS THE ANIMAL IS KILLED.
The farmers of Alexandersville, Ohio,
were aroused at night by nn unearthly
noise of a desperate fight between n
number of hogs in aponand what proved
to be a large and ferooious Bengal tiger.
Sevoral shots were firod nt him, when lie
turned noon Hie squad of armed men,
with loud and terrible roars. The party
all turned and fled, escaping from the
unimal, whioh afterward was seen ooolly
drinking from n spring. Then he ieisuro-
ly left the neighborhood. The men re
turned to tlio hog pen and fouud four
full grown porkers witli their skulls
crushed and their heads literally torn
from thoir bodies. This occurred in
the dead of night.
At two o’clock in the morning a posse
of men immediately sot ont to capture
or kill the beast. They again onme up
on him a few miles from where he was
first aeon, but the men were afraid to
attack him. The tiger disappeared in
tho woods and was not seen again nntil
nine o’olock this morning, when he was
found inau old building adjoining a flour
mill linking the wounds he had reoeived,
Before reaohing the mill lie had killed
I wo sheep in a pasture and eaten part of
their heads. While lying in the shed
William leisure, the man who lost the
hogs, crawled up to within one hundred
feet of the tiger, and, taking deliberate
aim, put a bullet through his skull,
killing him instantly, Since being killed
it has been learned that the beast
escaped from his oage while being tran
sported to Columbus. It belonged to a
cirous show whioh was on its way from
the South to its winter qaurters in Oo-
lumbns.
rlio boy who to Ills mother says,
As lie the pantry passes,
Anil sights tho templing syrup-cop,
“Oh, gimmie some molasnes l
Advanced to riper years, still oriel,
When wearied from his classes,
And lounging at some watering place,
“Oh. give me summer lasBes.
—Chicaqo Sun.
A Woman’s Stratagem.
A young girl and an elderly woman
entered a street oar together. Tho
girl’s eyes were swimming in tears
whioh soon refused to stay within the
prescribed limit, yet the thonght of let
ting all these strangers see her weep was
even bitterer than the sorrow that had
started her to weeping. The elder
woman looked troubled, but she had
strouger nerves. She whispered to her
companion: “Hold your handkerchief
to oue eye all the time, then everybody
will think that your eye, not your heart,
has been hurt.”
The young girl aoted on the sugges
tion witkont replying. She held the
kandkerohief in a wad over the right
eye, os though it could not bear the
light, and continued to weep without at
tracting attention. The other passen
gers saw nothing but a woman with a
disabled eye, und after a glance
or two ooased to look at her. The
writer was struck with the wisdom of
:ke sad littlo stratagem. A wound in
the eye was not a thing to be ashamed
of. It exoitod no morbid curiosity or
humiliating pity; but a wound on the
soul must be hidden.
Eating a small piece of soap at stated
intervals is recommended by a Berlin
physician as a better remedy for dyspep
sia and sour stomach than soda, mag
nesia, or lime water.
There aro twenty-four gaming-houses
and gambling clubs in Paris, and be
tween 830,000,000 aud $35,000,000 are
oomputed to have been lost there during
the last five years.
Chicago now olnimB a population of
630.000, of whom 456,865 are foreigners,
against a native American contingent of
143.000. Of Germans there are 209,631
and of Irish 114,005.