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Newspaper Page Textthe mercury. PUBLISHED EVEBT TUESDAY NOTICE. jo-All eommuntsatloni intended tot thll paper must be eoeompanled with the tall name of the writer, not neeeeearlljr for pobll. ettlon, but u e »o»rautco of good faith. yft are In no wap responsible for the Tlewt M opinions of correspondents. RCURY. A. J. JEUMGAN, Proprietor, VOLUMIs V. DEVOTED TO LITF.RATURU, AGRICULTURE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. 8ANDERSVILLE, GA., TUESDAY, JANUARY 27< 1885. $1.50 per Annnm. NUMBER 40. THE MERCURY. Entered as asoond-olasa matter at the I dertrllle Potto nice, April *7,1UA SnndemUle, Washington County, 6a, rtmusHitD nr A.. J. JERTSTIGrA-I^r, PaormuTOB aro Punusnan. Subscription — 11.(8 pet Tent MUNICIPAL, Mayor. Wu. Gallatikb. Aldermen. Wm. Rawlings, A. M. Mayo, W. H. I AW80N, R. T. Walker, Mourns Happ. Clerk and 7'reasurer. ■ G. W II. Whitaker. Marshall. J. E. Wkpdon. I'OWN OP’ TENNILLE, Mayor, ohn C. IIabman. Aldermen. P. J. Pipkin, J. F. MkrkkiuOn, J. N. Rogers, IV. J. JoYNBn. Clerk. B. II. B. Marshy. Marsha !\ J. ('. Hamilton. E. S. LANGMADf, K'ttoifyey ht I(kw K ANDKIIS VILLK, GA. r. I'. JIVANi* B. I>. EVANS, n, t VA Y S at r VA’“8, Attorneys At I ,aw, nAnpeuhvit.t.k, oa. If. 1 HARRIS, AT I ORN KY AT LAW, HANDiaiSV LI.F,, OA. Will prnclicf* in nil tlio Courts of the middle niriit, mid in tin- counties Hurronudiiui V. Special attention given to eotu- nitri ini (tt\v.- F. H SAFFOLD, A I TC >Ii N F.V ATT ,A.W, SA;?J)EiWVILLE, GA. V-ri v’ni't re in nil tlio Courts of the Middle < i* i .’ l m ill.* count io* Muiounding v< n. Hpeoinl attention f lveti to oom- 0* C BROWN, ATTORNEY AT EAW, BandenrrUle, Oa. & * United Bte f. K. Rinks. O. H. Itoena HINES & ROGERS, Attorneys at Law, BANDKRSVILLE, OA., trlotof Oeorgln. Will set hs uf.nts In baplng, telling or renting Real Estate. Offloa on Weal side ef Pnblls Bgnara, Oot ll-tf . H. N. HOLLIFIELD, Physician and Surgeon, ■andsrsrtUa, an. Dr. H. B. Hollifield, nmtui to soon, Haying recently graduated at the Univer sity of Maryland and returned home, now oflers ble professional aorvlcea to tbe citizens of Bauderavllle and vlolnlty. Office with Dr. H. N. Hollifield, next door tc|Hra. Bayne’s millinery store. 0. w. H. WHIT ARE B, DENTIST, Bandera yllle, Oa. TERMS CASH. DR. J. EL. MAY, SANDERSVILLE, GA. Offers his services to tbe citizens of Hnndcrs- villi' and adjacent country. All calls, day or night, will bo promptly responded to, Ofllce i»t hi» residence on Mrs. Fittmau’s lot, corner Harris and Church streets. janl6-1884tf. j. $. woodTbro., Gcner 1 Commission Mg chants, SAVANNAH. O’A. No commission or other expenses charged /hi consignments of Wool, Highest market price guaranteed nt, time of sale. sep^Sl-ly Savannah, Ca. Ih conceded to be the most comfortable and ky the best conducted Hotel in Savannah. ftates, $2 00 Per Day. M. li. HAItNETT._ Machine Needles, Oil and Shuttles, ,0 ? ALL KINDS OP MAOHINFB. fbr sal*. 1 will .i.o ordar part, of linahlnaa that got broken, fbr w filch new glaeea an wanted. A. J. JEHNIO AN. NEWS SUMMARY rn.trrn and Itllddlo store*. M^ r v A ’^ ^AtAff RYNDuns, well-known In ,' v , y°, rk , ns '" 1 ” 0,11 Democratic war horse ,|,o,i thnt city a few ,lay» since. Ho was eighty yenm old, voted for Jackson In i;/ » a, l V‘. nmu y yoara ago was a power in city iKilitics. 1 Hi nn explosion in n soda-nsh works near wvracuso, N. Y„ one of eight immonso dis- uiMng tanks was blown seventy foot high and landed thirty feet away. It weighed 10,00) pounds. Eight inon were injured, the case of two of tliom being considered hojieloss. Pbofkssoh Benjamin Silliman, of Yale collogo, one of the lending American scien tists. is dead in his seventieth year. Shortly liofore his death the Into ex-Gov- :\ h :: r S n } nm \ of Msilno, "as swindled out of $•4)0,600 in railroad securities by a conspiracy of Boston sharpers. Uathor than prosecute tho rascals Governor Coburn pocketed tho Gregg & Son, boot and shoo manufao turers (if |ti n ^],, ,, n t° , i t N. Y., have failed, with liabilities of $180,000. Two men were burned to a crisp and three more injured by nn explosion of dynamite at I , “ ™’ , , ncrF0 ‘ Chemical works, * Somerset, I cnn. The factory buildings were completely wrecked, the jwunlnry damage lieing esti* muted at $100,00.). The Now York State Dairy commissioner nnys in his annual ie|H>rfc that nt least 80 1KT cent, nt tho illegal traffic in adulterated butter has been broken up. Gkoroe K. Thavish was hanged at Wells- boro, Penn., for tho murder of Martha Syl via. His victim’s burned body was found In the ruins of a barn shortly ufter ho had paid her fifty dollars for three cows, and ho it r imposed to have murdered her to got back his money. Traviss denied tho crime to the last. A hill has been Introduced in the Penn sylvania somite to inflict corporal punish- jshmont on any man convicted of having boaten a woman. Tin banking house of Amos S. Henderson at Lancaster, Penn., haa gone under; liabili ties, over $2»'U) 0. New llEDKoBn, Mass., reports 1,000 cases of measles, an average of one case to every thirty persons. Five men were killed by tho explosion of s sawmill boiler nt GoockSpring, Penn. South mid West* Thk Karl of Ayleiford a large property owner in Toms, died at bis ranch in Ilig Springs. IIo was a prominent English nobio man. whose life Imd toon cloudod by bis do mestic relations. His body was embalmed and will be sent to England. A HODY of 5.00grinders in the Oliver Chilled Flow works at. South Bend, Ind., struck and, armed with iron rods and clubs, marched to the othor departments of the factory and forced the other employe* to quit work. »\ hero t in men refused to do so they were lieatcn. The belts were cut and the strikers finally went to tho engine-room nnd forced tho engineer to shut down. Tho next morning tho strikers, who nro prin cipally I’. ’es nud Hungarians, attacked nnd badly injured a number of men who tried to gain ndmitiance to tlio works. Considerable property w as also destroyed. Governor Gray ordered out a military company from Elk hart, and by its aid quiet was restored for the tiino lieing. A steam saw mill, near Smithflcld, Ohio was blown up, killing three persons, fatally injuring two others and wrecking tho build ing. Joseph Dinm.i:, a farmer, sixty years old, living nt Osceola, Mich., was married re cently, nine weeks after tho death of his first w ife. Ho was given a charivari party, and the other night the sorenado was repented. Home ono from Dibble’s house llred into the reminders, killing one man and wounding three others. United States Senator Jones has lieon re-elected by the Nevada legislature. William F. Heniiy (colored) was hanged nt Kdwardsville, III., for tho murder of two colored men; nnd at San Francisco, Cal., on the same day, Wright Loroy suffered a simi lar Into for the murder of a rich man named. Kkorrett, robbery being tho motive. * A heavy snow storm reaching from North ern Iowa to Northorn Texas, and from Cin cinnati, Ohio, to Kansas City, Mo., blocked trains on many roads and seriously delayed the mails. AFiRKnt Fayetteville, N. C., caused a loss of £11ft,000. A desperado named Perry Pleasants, ar rested in Albion, Idaho, tired his revolver with fatal effect at Deputy Sheriff Butter field. who was guarding him, receiving sim- ultuneoiftly the contents of the latter’s shot gun, which killed him instantly. A host of friends were present at Schuyler Colfax’s funeral in .South Bend, Ind. Gov ernor Hendricks, Governor Porter, Governor Gray, Hon. W. li. Calkins nnd other promi nent Indian in ns who were to serve ns pall bearers were snow bound and did not arrive in tiino. A krkrii railroad war lias broken out-, and emigrant passenger rates from New York to Chicago have boon reduced to one dollar. Ni’MKitot’R towns in Oregon have been cut off from communication with tli? outside world by immense snow drifts. Five Kiowa Indians were found frozen to death in Indian ^territory. Wnnlilngton. General IIazen’s charges against Adju tant General McKcover have been returned to tho author, and it is understood no ollicial notice nil lie Liken of them. The President lias nominated William A. Richardson to !>e chief justice of tho court of claims, vice Mr. Drake, reigned, and John Davis to l)o an associate justice of the court of claims, vice Mr. Richardson. John Davis is the present assistant secretary of state. The National Swine Brooders’ association have had a two days’ session in Washington. Colonel F. D. Curtis, of Now York, presided. The association passed resdlutions approving tho inspection by tho government of hog products iutundod for shipment abroad. The chief of the bureau of statistics re ports that in 1*84 there arrived in tho cus toms districts of Baltimore, Boston. Detroit, Huron, Minn., Now Orleans, New York, Fas- samnquoddy, Philadelphia and San Francisco, 453,088 emigrants. These arrivals comprise about ninety-seven per cent, of the emigra tion to the entire country. The arrivals in 1888 n mi) bored 5(10,106. The annual report of the department of agriculture makes the record of corn pro duction for the year 1884, 1,705J'00 000 bush els; that of wheat nearly 518,000,000, nnd of oats, 588,000,000. These aggregates are the largest ever recorded. Tho rate of yield is 25.8 bushels for corn, 13 for wheat and 27.4 for oats. These are the figures for permanent record. The Senate committee has reported ad* vorsolv on the bill giving a pension of $30 a month to Mrs. DoLong, widow of tho Jean nette commander. The Senate lms passod a resolution direct ing that a marble tablet bo placed in the room in which Vice-President Wilson died, record ing tho fact and the date of his death. At a meeting of the House committee on military affairs, Mr. {Slocum was authorized to enll tip in tho House at tho first opportunity the first bill introduced in the Scnnte of the present Congress providing for tho placing of (.tenoral Grant on the retired list. At a sub sequent mcefing of the committee a motion authorizing him to call up tho Edmunds bill passed by the Senate, and having for its object tho retirement of General Grant, wa> lost by a voto of 8 to ‘l. The consular anil diplomatic appropriation bill has been passod by the House. MUTINOUS MEXICAN SOLDIERS. They Kill their Captain nnd Fire—Onr Sol diers Watch fur them on the Border. The Mexican soldiers stationed at & point in Mexico 85 miles Bouth of San Diego, Cal., mu- tmud on Friday night, murdered their captain, his wife, and several other persons, and tliou fled in a body, taking arms and ammunition with them. Tho band numbers forty. Application whb made to Capt. Bailey, of the ElKUty-fliffhUi United States Infuuiry to tor- tVH.d imoli uaisUuce na would prevent depro- Utioim tdong thu bouodary line, and tliiB re - oueat was promptly granted. The Mexican omvseua are greatly alarmed, aa the mudneert ar.1 known to be a desperate lot. ol men. In telligence hue bei n received that the mutineers have pa Bed near vlampo, and are making foi United States territory. RIVERS AND HARBORS. Principal Ifctm of Appropriation bj tho House Committer. Tho House committee on rlVors nnd harboi has completed consideration of tho river nn i hafbor appropriation bill for tho next fiscal year. The bill appropriates $11,809)200. Tho estimntos ns prepared by tho engineers in charge of tho various improvements amounted to $31,507,630. Following are some of tho appropriations for harbors : Massachusetts—Boston. $50,000. Connecticut- New Haven harbor arid breakwater, $420,000. New York—Buffalo, $75,000; Buttermilk Channel, $10,000; New York Harbor (for re moving obstructions), $5,000, Caunrsie bay, $5,000: Charlotte, $3'),ooO: Flushing bay, $10,000; Great, Modus bay, $16,000; Gowanus bay, $5,003; Grcenport, $5,000; Little Borins bay, $10,(HK); Saugcrties, $5,000; Ogdensburg, $10,000; OsWogO, $5,000; Rouse's Point Breakwater, $10,000; Rondout, $8,000; H heaps head hny. $5,000; channel between Btatcn Island «nu New Jer- sov shore, $7,500, Now Jersey—Rarltan Bay, $15,000. Pennsylvania— Erie, $85,000. Delaware—Delaware Break water, $100,000. kiaryland— Baltimore. $75,000. Yiiginia—Norfolk and approaches, $50,000. Bouth Carolina—Charleston Harbor, $150,- 000; Georgetown, $2,000. Georgia Cumberland Bound, $75,000; Sa- vannnh, $8 *,(>()». Alabama— Mobile, $120,000. lion siaua—Now Orleans, $150,000. Texas—Aransas Pass, $100,000; Sabine Pass, $125,000. Illinois—Chicago, $75,000; Waukegan, $15,- 000. Wisconsin—Milwaukee, $75,000; Bholioy- gan, $ ‘0,000, California—Humboldt, $100,000; Oakland *75,000. Oregon—’Yagulna, $10,000. API’Rni'RIATlONH FOR RIVERS. Following are appropriations for riven*: Now York—Hudson, $20,000; Now town Creek, $20,000. New Jersey—Passaic, $10,000; Raritan, $15,000; Shrewsbury, $10,030. Pennsylvania—Delaware river, $125,000. Maryland—Potomac, at Washington (pro vided title is good to reclaimed laid), $150,000. Virginia—.Tames. $150,0 0; York, $17,000. West Virginia—Groat Kanawha, $175,000; Little Kanawha, $22,600; Monongauela, $48,000. N«>rth Carolina—Ca))e Fear river, $70,500. Florida—St. John’s river, $155,<*00. Louisiana—Re 1. -.05,ono. Arkansas—Ouachita, $20,(XX); White, $12,* 000; Arkansas. $82,000. Tennessee—Cumberland river, $112,500; Mus u *'l Sllnttlj. $ 150,000. Kentucky—Kentucky river, $200,000; Ohio river, >::*»<),000; Falls of the Ohio, $125,000. Mic’.lgan—Detroit, liny J>ako channel, $125,0 10; Saginaw, $5o,ooo. Indiana—Wabash, $50,0 0. Illinois—Illinois river, 8100,000; Hennepin canal, $20),000; Mississippi from 8t. Paul t“ Dr.sMoines Baplds, $200.0)0; Dry dock, DosMoines Bapi ls, $65,003; Mississippi from Do.Moinns Raj.ids to Illinois river, 200,O K); Mississippi troin Illinois river to Cairo, $I0),'KK): Mississippi t'i Carlo to head of i'ass ■•«, $2 son,OtH); surveyor ths Mississippi, $15,1*0'); removal of snags in the Mississippi, $50,000; lit ting up snag boat, $50,000. Missouri—Missouri river, $450,000; sur veys ol th-' Missouri. $50,000. < )regon—Canal a'. Casern las, Columbia riv er. $121*1.000. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC, Twenty thoitresiu Europe are in rocoipt of state aid. Henry Irvino has been playing to “big business” in Chicago. Kiktori was a failure in New York, tho audiences being wretchedly small. On his fiftieth birthday tho municipality of Vienna declared John Bfrauss free from all local rates for the rest of ids life. Toe two oldest artists on the stage are Mrs. Keely, aged seventy « igiit, nnd old Chipn *n- dale, ngisl eighty-lhroe, both now in Ixmdou. John McChi.loi’oh, tho actor, is steadily regaining health othI all id'-aof p!a -ing him under the control of guardians has been aban doned. It costs $300 a night to light tho grand opera house in Paris. The fuel is $U,030 a year, and the expense of sweepiug nnd dust ing $7,000 a year. The largest organ in tho world is said to bo In the cathedral of Riga. It is thirty-six left wide, thirty-two feet deop and sixty live feet In hoight. It has 6,826 pipes. Laura Honey, daughter of the famous comedian, George Honey, is dead. She had written and adapted several p ays in her life time. She died at Oakland, Cul. Sarah Bernhardt says she never studies a part. She thinks it, over and it comes to her. When it is obstinate she reads it hoforo going to bed, dreams of it, and she has it. Three great musical festivals will be hold in the provinces in England this year —that at Birmingham at the latter end of August, one at Hereford in September and another at Bristol later m the year. The Italian theatres nro the finest in tho world to hoar and sou in, though tliev do not compare with ours for decoration. They are oval instead of horseshoo in shape, and as flivproot as all theatres are said to bo till they prove to be otherwise. Many managers have visitod tho Now York Thalia during the past week to see “Nanon.” Ail agree that it is a most charming opera. A waltz aria running through the entire ope ra, which is t in- work of G n.v, tho composer who orchestrates nil of Strauss’ operas. English music is attracting at present con* sidcrable interest, thanks to tho growing in dependence of young English composers. The latest indication is tho commission for ail opera for tho Stadt Theatre, at Hamburg, by Villiors Stanford from Manager Pollini. In tho marble memorial to Shakspeare in tho Poet’s Corner in Westminster Abl>oy, the bard, ns is well known, lias one arm thrown carelessly over a pile of bound volumes of his works. When David Garrick, the great ShaksjMu enn actor died, he was interred under neath the floor in the Poet’s Corner, and a few days afterward it was discovered that the forefinger of Shakespeare’s etligy pointed di- rectiv to Garrick's grave. It was purely accidental, yet nothing could be more appro priate. DEATH OF SCIIUYLHlt COLFAX. Ex-Vice-Presidont Schuyler Colfax dropped dead at the Omaha rif pot iu Mankato, Minn. Schuyler Colfax was born in NfW York city on March 23, 1823. Ho removed to Indiana iu 1880, and was for some lime a clerk iu a coun try store. After studying law and working as a printer and newspaper reporter, ho estab lished at South Bend, iu 1845, a Whig newspa per oalied tho tit. Joseph Volley HeguUtr, of which ho remained proprietor until 1«50. He was Secretary of tho Whig .National 0.in ventions in 1848 and 1852, and in 1850 ’a mem ber of the State Constitutional Convention. Ho became a Republican shortly after the de struction of tho Whig party lie was elected to tho Thirty-fourth Congress from tho Ninth Indiana district, which ho continued to ropre- i ?nt till 18C9. For two terms he was Chairman of Me House Committee cm Post Oflicos and Post Roads. He became a prominent figure on tho Republican side, ami was elected Speaker of the Hou e iu the Thirty-eighth Congress in 1863, and was twice re-electod. In 1808 he wa^ nominated and elected Vice- President on the Republican ticket with G« n. Grant. In 1870 he give notice of his inten tion to withdraw from public life at the end of his term, but he was 'gain a candidate tor thu nomination for Vice Presiri nt in the Republi can National Convention iu 1872, and received 814)^ votes against 331^ Tor Henry Wilson, who got tho nomination. ffpnutinjc (III. Armstrong Well No. 2, at. Bradford, Pa., is still keeping up a flow of 8,0u0 barrels per day. Tho gauge of tho well for 6ne hour was 300 barrels. The Fisher woli when ei^ht feet in tho sand was gasing and spraying with all the indications ot a good well. After drilling about Seven feet more, the well started to flow at the rate of 1,000 barrels daily. The well lias an excellent quality of sand, and it is thought that deeper drilling will materially improve It SUMMARY OF CONGRESS RciiAtr* ^ Mr. Hnwlev’s resolution calling for the Shernmn-Davls papers was again discussed and finally carried bv 52 yeas to U) nays.... Mr. Dolph rejiortori favorably from tbe com mittee oil public landfe the House bill, with amendments to ro|x*nl the piv-omtion desert lands and thnl nr culture laws, and to amend tho homestead law....The Bi-nate further considered the Inter state commerce bill, and Mr. Vance’s amendment that no railroad naiiy 1)0 allowed to charge a higher | r >- portlonute rate for the carriago ot small than of largo parcels was agreed to. Mr. Edmonds called Mr. Frye to tho chair, took the floor, and called lip the bill broviriinz that tho President may apjwlnt to tile retired list ono person who has occupied tba4>osiUoii of general commanding any of the armies of tho United States, or general-in-chief of tho Unit'd Stab's army. He moved to amend it by adding, “with tho rank nnd lull pay of tucli general Or general-in-chief, os tho cn.su may l>«\” Tho amendment was agreed to. Mr. Cockrell desired to record his vote Against the bill, not knowing whether tho yeas and nays would Is) cal ltd < li It. The Vetoed list* ho said, was not tho place for private citizens, it w as created for otUcors w ho, being still in the service, hud been rendered unfit for duty. There was neither just ire nor propriety ill placing private citizens on such a list. Gen eral Grant was now enjoying the receipt of $15 ,000 a year, which was enough for the nip- port of any American citizen* Mr. Ed munds said ho concurred in the gen* eral principle laid down by Mr. Cockrell as to tho retired list, that it 'was not the place for private citizens. Ho (Mr. Edmunds) was on that point a Democrat of Democrats. But n< a Senator and cit izen ho wns glad of the opportunity to ask tho passage of this bilk General Grant had served his country faith fully nnd irnllniitly in tho Mexican war while n young lieutenant. Ho became general of the armies of tho United States on nn occa sion of very considerable importance nud in terest, General Grant biul been removed from tho ofllco of general of tho armies of tho United States from which ho would have boon retired when he reached the proper age nud put on this very list to assume again command of tho nrmi s of the United States as com mander-in-chief under its constitution. Ho had not sought it. Ilo had obeyed tho call of duty, That removed him from the technical place that ho had hold in tho army to a higher place as tho constitutional com mander of the United States under the law. When his term expired ho became a private citizon. Iu that sinte of the case nnd under tho circum-tances whi h all knew, and in view of the honor, the respect, the gratitude nnd the duty that wo owo him ns primus in illustpius In’tjio history of this country, Mr. Edmunds would glad to have a unani mous vote for tho bilk Tho debate wm brief, and tho bill was passed, yens 40, nays 0. Among tho Democrat.' Messrs. Maxoy, *voor- licrs, George, Gilson and Jones spoke also in its favor. Tho Senators who voted nay were Mom*s. Beck, Cockrell, Coke, Harris, Pendlo- ton, Baulshury, Sinter, Vance and Walker. Mr. Hale reported favorably the bill for tho relief of tho Kuiforei’8 of the wreck of tho United States steamer Tallapoosa.... Mr. Miller, of California, intro duced a bill to inert aso the pension of Mrs. Frances L. Thomas, widow of General George H. Thomas, from $363 to $2,060 a year—the same as the pension already granted to tho widow of Admiral Fnnagur. In executive session tho Senuto discussed tho reciprocity treaties with Spain nnd Nicaraugun. A petition from 8,01*6 cigar makers of Plill: tle’ph a was presented, setllu ; foi t ’i that rat ill :iti.n of tho pmuliiig Spanish tnuty wouM throw out of employment more citi zens of tho United Stall's than there are in- hal Hants of Cuba and Porto Rico, and pro testing against ratification dr. Reek in troduced n bill to authorize tlm accounting ofiirers of tho treasury to sr-ttla and adjust tho claims of any Slate for ex)*ons« sincurred by it for the purpose of supnro-idng the late insurrection in tho United States Tho in. tor-state commerce bill was further discussed. There was passed a hill limi Hip fhe time for the presentation of bounty uuu hack pay claims to three years from the passage of this act, of all other claims, except pensions, to rix years, nnd providing that claims hero- nitoi arising must be presented within six ? r ouiH from the time they originated.... Mr. Irowne announced tho suudoii death of Schuyler Colfax, once speaker of the House, nnd late V 7 ice-Presidont, nnd out of respect to his memory the Housoadjourned. The French spoliation claims bill was passed by 181 yean to 71 nays. This is tho third Hmosuch n bill has passod tho House since 16oa. The amount of the claims to be present'd is variously estimated at from to $13,060,600 without any allow ance on account of interest....The Chinese indemnity bill—a bill to return to China $588,403,()0 i«.ft over from an indemnity fund paid by the Chinese government to Americans to repay them for losses to property sustnined through lawless bands in China more than twenty-five years ago—was passed Upon notice of Mr. Randall tho sum of $1,500 wns appropriated to send a special mossonger to Iowa nnd Oregon to obtain tho certificates of the electoral votes of those States, such certificates not having befen received oy the president pro tern, of the Senate. The McPherson Funding bill was discussed in llio House. Mr. Wilkins, of Ohio, said that its purpose was to increase tho circula tion of national bank notes from ninety j»er cent, of tho bonds deposited to secure it to 1 3 per cent. Mr. Yaple, of Michigan, main tained t hat the measure would not necessarily add one dollar to the circulation o tho coun try. Messrs. Hewitt nnd Potter also opposed the bill. A motion to adjourn, which practi cally shelves the bill, was carried by laOyeas to 112 nays. Tho Indian Appropriation bill was report ed from committee. The estimates upon which tho bill is based call for appropriations amounting to $7,328,040, against an appropri ate n of $5,850,402 for tho current fiscal year. The Appropriations committee has reduced tho estimates to $5,664,135... .A hill was passed authorizing a bridge across tho Mississippi at Memphis Mr. Robin son, of New York, from the committee on pensions, reported a bill granting a pension of $5 ) a month to the widow of Commander S. Dana Green On motion of Mr. Cobb tho Senate amendments to the Oregon Cen- ral Land Grant bill wore non-concurrod in TWO BIG FAIL T JBES. Well (teoun Haulier* and a Groat lion E Irnt MiHpciul. Two big suspensions on the same day—one in New York and the other in Pittsburg—hav® startled tho business communities of the East. In Now York tho widely-known banking house of John J. Cisco & Son wns obliged to close its doors and make nn as sigument. Rumors affecting tho financial soundness of the firm caused such a run upon its funds by alarmed depositors that it final ly wont under, Tho effect of tho rumors was naturally quickened by tho general dull ness of business nnd tho persistent deprecia tion of railroad securities, with which the firm are said to be heavily laden. Tho lia bilities of the insolvent firm are estimated at from $2,600,000 to $3,000,000. At Pittsburg, Penn., on the same day, the great wire and steel manufacturing firm of Oliver Brothers & Phillips, and tho Oliver <fe Roberts Wire company, (limited,) issued the following card to their creditor:': “We are today compelled to suspend pay ments, and propose calling immediately a meeting of those interested, to whom wo believo wo can show assets amply sufficient, with somo indulgence, to pay every dollar of our liabilities.’’ 'i he report of the embarrassment of Oilvei Brothers & Phillips, the greatest Iron Ann in tlte city, ilcw like wildfire and set tho town agog with excitement. Such an event was rocogrilz/ d as a catastrophe unequaled by any previous failure. Tbe firm had about 4,000 men iu it. employ, and owned more than 100 puddling furnaces. A failure to meet some fiouvy notes is said to have been tho Immediate cause of its suspension. Harry W. Oliver, jr., is the Dost Known member of the firm outside of Pittsburg, by reason of his candi dacy for United States Senator in 1881 and his membership of the Tariff commission. He has been known as ono of the Stalwart Re publican leaders in the Slate and a liberal contributor to campaign funds, but has never held any local office. The firm’s lia bilities ere placed «t $4,000,000, and it is ns sorted they J * itors in full ROASTED AIM Terrible Dentil in n Illnzing In sane Asjulm. Many of tho Bedridden Inmates Burned to a Crisp. A Kankakee (III.) dispatch says that the south infirmary of the Illinois Eastern Hospi tal for the Insane was burned this morning at 4:25 a. it. tho fire originated In the fur nace room rind lmd obtainod ri hthonjl head way before it was dlscovefed. the wdcxi work being of Southern pine, it burned very rapidly. The building wns occupied by forty- five ]>nttents, six attendants and a night watchman. Seventeen patients in all nro missing. All of tho patients were infirm and incurable Tho bedriddon ones were rescued flrtt, and those who wore able to help thoiasolves did no(i realize tho danger in time, and they perished. Tho attendants narrowly escaped with their lives. One of them had to tie bed clothes to gether te escape from a window to the ground There were no facilities for putting out the fire, the Strtte not having made any appro priation for tltO purpose. The building was n new ono, and cost nliout $10,000, The fol lowing are the names of tlioso whoporishod: Henry Brown, Rock island: H. W. Bolden, Galesburg: Goorgo lionnott, Morris; Joseph Cnlbort. Uliicngo; Orlando Ellis, Pontiac; J. 5V. Galloway Macoupin; Thomas Hlckoy, Springfield; Matthew Hague, Chebanse; T. Jlachncr, Stevenson county; Thomas Herely. Chicago; John Johnson, Vermilion; Michael Jordan, Chicago; J. Nathan, Chicago; A. Runynr.l, Winnebago county; C. Strotz, Chi cago*; J. \Y\ Tyler, C hicago, nnd F. Wey- tnouth, Putnam countv. It was 12 degrees below zero When Watch* man Cobb discovered srtioke issuing from the floor above the furnaces. Hont once aWoko tho attendants. Smoke wns drawn through tho hot flues nnd along the halls and stair ways to all parts of tho building. Tho fire spread so rapidly that all efforts to save the building were in vain. Attendant Reid bo- enn dragging and carrying out patients. Many patients clad in night clot lies only rushed from tho bitter cold air back Into the building. Reid struggled on till twenty-one patients were rescued, when ho became exhausted, ami was carried away. On the second floor attendant Rose and his wifo heard tho alarm nnd escaped down the btairway just boforo it fell. Attendant Brown, sleeping on tho same floor, wai awakened by the smoko, and at tempted to save a patient in nn adjoining room, but failed, nud, sliding down by tho nid of n sheet from his window, jumped to tin* ground. Superintendent R. S. Dewey, with ladders, climbed to tho second-story windows, ami wns able to rescuo somo of tho pntionts by tnis moans. Almost all tho patients refused to co operate in tho efforts being mado to Tavo them, and wore only rescued by being dragged from tho flames and held from re turning. A marvelous oscajM) wus that of an inmate who fell with tho second floor, strik ing the burning debris above tho furnaconnd bounding through a window to the ground uninjured. Tiic reiimlns of tho bodies of twelve pa tients hnvo boon Liken from tho ruins, bumod to fragments. A coroner’s inquest was hold, at which Superintendent Dowoy testified that he lmd asked i lie legislature two years ago for $.\5d0, to proto -t those dotachod wards from fire; that. $!,«:()» whs allowed, all of which was used iu mains and hydrant#*. Ho g;iv two reasons for tho great number of deaths; first, tho patients wore almost all suffocated by smoko before they could bn rent lied, and second, the insane wore unable or unwilling to help themselves. Tlio remains of Iho bodies, with ono excep tion were simply handfuls of charred ashes H. W. Buldon, aged fifty years, of Gales burg, tlio only victim whoso remains pre served oven tlio somblanco of a human being, was a prominent man in his part of tlio State. He was on tlio second floor, was an invalid, and was unable to help himself. Su perintendent Dewey placed a ladder to his window and broke the glass with his hands bn lieing liuablo to break the sash descend cm for somo implement to break it with Meant into Bolden’s shrieks for help w^ro loud nnd agonizing, but us Dewey r ascended his cries diod away. Tho smoke and flames poured from the window so that no help could bo givou him. Dr. I)cwey, hear ng rails for help f rom an other window, hurried to tho re-cue, anl dragged a ISO-pound pntiont through tie window, ami boro him safely to tho ground Attendant Harry Brown, who was sleep ing on tho upper floor, escaped I 1 tving his bed sheets togothef, lo ting himself out of tlio window and dropping fifteen feet to the ground, wi h out receiving any injury. All the twen'y one inmates on tho firs: floor, except In\ were Hrivori. Patient lingua, who lost h life on tlio second floor, refused to follow t\\ of his companions down a ladder, and an In stain later • i-aopeared fro n sight, oveivom by suffocation. It is probable that all th victims wore first made unconscious by sulVo cation. PROMINENT PEOPLE, General Butler denies the recent story that lie has engaged to write a book. Mrs. Garfield, mother of the lAto presi dent, lias 1)088ed her eighty-third birthday. The Tiehbnrne claimant has made arrange ments to come to America on a lecturing tour, Mrs Gladstone, wifo of the English pre mier, is a groat worker among the London poor. The 8th of January the Prince of Wale* eldest son, and, therefore, heir to the throne, came of ago. Although still weak from the effects of his illness, General Grant is said to be rapidly improving in health. Editor M. II. De Young, who was shot by Adolph ripreckolsin the San Fr ucis< r (t/n on- iota office, is attending regularly to husintsa again. Ex-Vioe-Prkhid.'cnt William A. Whj el- j ER is in feeble lioulth, wifeless and child.ess, at his old home in Malone, Franklin o;; ».y Now York. Governor Kinkead, of Alaska, says it will bo impossible to build railroads in (lint country. Alaska is larger than all tho l nited States cast of tho Mississippi river. Theodore Tilton is living in Paris, where he is described us giving good dinners to good per- -us, writing a volume of poems, and mingling in urti.siiu socioty, including lhatof Surah Bernhardt. Adji tant General Drum is said to agree with G jrral O. O. Howard in tho opinion that deserters from tho tinny ought to bo branded. He s-iys that during the last five years 10,601 soldiers have deserted from the regular army, or nearly every other man. It is stated by Harper'* Weekly that “Mr. ITayes was the only President of t^e United States since Mr. Lincoln who did not smoko tobacco. President-elect Cleveland is a smoker, os wen* Presidents Johnson, Grant zmd Garfield, an l as is President Arthur.” A movement has boon started to keep Eruncis Murphy iu Pittsburg as the minister of n “Church of Gospel Temperance.” A fund of $5.puti lias already been raised in its support. During his late campaign of eight weeks in that city Mr. Murphy obtained 18,000 signatures to the temperance pledge. Citike Justice Waite’s family physician at Washington is a Indy homeopathist named Mrs. Winslow. During his present serious attack of erysipelas she has attended him faithfully, nnd everybody trusts that she will soon bring him through safe and sound. The chief justice has l>eeii absent from his official dulio* for the first time in ten years lanlu Ryndcr* Dead. Oapt. fsaiali Rynders, known us the oia Demo ratio war hor >o, died suddenly at his rooid-- nee in New Yoi k city. Capt. By priors was born in Waterford, Sara toga county, N. Y., on Sept. 18, 1804, and at an early age went to New York. He came into pruiniiienoo in connection with the Democratic Empire Club. He voted for Jackson. He was United Statea Marshal under Buchanan. Wher Lincoln woa elected tna captaiu sent in hit resign nt ion. Lmcoln wished to retain him, but Die captain refused, saying that ha ooula uot be both for and against a man. After that date he held various small political offices, bat uo longer held hit old prouiiuouce. LATER NEWa A stcaM saw mill neiir Hmithfleld. Ohio, was blotfb up. killing throe persons, fatally in juring two other*, And wreaking the building. —John B, Jervis, the entfinefcf #bo built the Oroton Aqueduct, died in Bostou. Ilo ri.is 60 years of age. —The Ohio Wool Growers’ Association adopted resolutions calling upon all industries of the United States to oppose the Spanish treaty, cm ths ground that it would destroy the sugar, rice and tobacco industries, and calling upon tho wool growers to unite in a de- maud for the restoration of the tariff of 1867 on wool. —Gov. Stockley. of Delaware, Issued a proc lamation saying that oontagious pleuro-pnon- nionia exists among the cattlo of that State, and ordering that all diseased animals bo quar antined. —A tank of ammonia blew up In Syracuse and eight tnou wore dug out of the ruins; oue of them was fatally injured. —Republican member* of tb® Connecticut Legislature in caucus nominated United States Senator Platt for re-election. —A mass meeting hold at Barrington, N. 8., adopted a resolution urging tho Dominion gov ernment arid Parliament to scouro without de lay a reciprocity treaty between the United Btatce'and Canada. —United Btatoe Senator Jones was ro-eloctod by the Nevada Legislature. ■r_Tho Fort Wayne strikers rofuso to allow freight trains to movo under tho douhlo- liearier system. Ail switches have boon spiked. —Mayor Orace, of New York, reappointed & Henry Lacombo to the position of uouido! to the Corporation. —A bill has been Introduced In the Ohio Legislature making it a penal offonco to in timidate anv pereon who enters Into tho em ploy ef another. —A terrible dynamite explosion occurred at •ome chemical works noar Somerset. Pa., on Wednesday, by whioh two men wore burned to doath generally by the tornado in Alabama Clnity. A number of lives wore lost. —Tho Democrats, with the aid of ono Re publican, elected Schouok President of the Now Jersey Senate. —Tho Boston Board of Health havo forbid den tho storing of old rags or paper within any dwolling. —^Tho grinders in tho Oliver Chlllod Plow Works, at South Bond, Ind., struck. Arming thamselves they forced tho other employees to qnitwoik. Win n iho men refused to do so they were attached and beaten The licit* wi roout, and the rioters finally went to tho engine room and forced tho engineer to shut dowu. —A man named Dolahanty, who was occupy ing a farm at Kilhcggan, in Wcstmoath, Ire land, from which a tenant had boon evicted, was shot dead Tuesday night. —Mr. Itumpff, Chief of Police at Frankfort- on-Main, was killed by anarchists tn front of his house, on Wednesday. —M. Ferry nmdo a spoech in the French Chamber, announcing that tho whole of Ton- quin was to U definitely occupied. NEWSY 3LEANIN03. Tnr. Standard oil company employs 1)3,000 m )ii. I o .woolsfor fuel bring $1.50 a load in Nc-brufika. Train robbing is punishable by death In Arkansas. There were 1,500 roller-skating rinks built during 188 It 18*1,418 miles from New York to Now Orleans by rail. Utah’s mining output for 1884 is valued at $5,257,021.44. Sixty-nine army officers will retire during Mr. Cleveland’s term. The porninnont population of Washington is put at about 312,000. During 1884 tho *lx faculties of Franco produced alwjut 1U0 doctors. The highest-priced pew in Grace church) Now York, is $3,060 per year. A pearl hn« be n found on tho wostern Australian coast, valued at $3 LOO). The Danes formerly imported nearly all their sugar; now they raise it from boots. Of tho 82.000 Indians in tho Territory of Dakota, 30,003 speak tlio English language. The value of tho agricultural products of the (Juitori States for 1884 is estimatod at about $!,(K)0,000,000. The olive crop in tho southern counties of ( alifornia hns been heavy this season where tho trees have received proper care. Next to California, Kansas is tho largest wheat producer of toe States 'Ibis year’s crop is probably In excess of 40,000,060 bush els. A colored silversmith of Georgetown, Ken tucky, mado a miniature steam cugino which attracts a great doal of attention at New Or 1 can*. An Omaha paper can connt 145 deliberate murders which have occurred in Kansas, Nebraska und Colorado since tho first of last August. There will be 12,000 tickets, at $5 each, issued for the inauguration ball. Tbkt will make $00,000, an amount that will probably a grout deal more than pay the expense*. Larue numbers of colored people, who em igrated to Kansas a year or two ago. now find the climate too severe, and are reported to bo leaving for Now Mexico and other points in tho Southwest. A Panama letter says: In the celebrated Muzo emerald mines, situated at Boy non, an emera’d has been found weighing in the rough over one pound. This splendid speci men La btliovod to be tho largest ever discov ered. Within four year* past, in Tnzawdl. Ru sell and Wa-hington counties, Virginia, 1,50) men nnd 8,14)6 horses have Iwen engage l in the walnut lumber trade, bringing into these counties $1,506,60 >. One walnut tree realized $600. An elephant seems to lake a cold of his own size, when he takes any, and his curative dose is sized accordingly. In Cincinnati, a short time ago, five tubluls pf whisky, mo lasses and ginger wore given to each elephant in a show, and the mixture was apparently enjoyed. Mrs. IIopkinr, widow of Mark Hopkins, tho late California millionaire, lias decided to build a mansion in Gn at Barrington, Mass., which will cost, with the grounds, $5,00),006. Tho house is to lie built of “ bluestono from a quarry which she owns, and work will begin as soon as spring opens. The work at tho quarry will be carried on day and night. Tbe elect ric light will be used for the night opera tions. Ono thousand men will be employed on the work for three years.” TKURIFIL DYNAMITE KXFLOSIUN. A Ked Hot l*oher Ionites tbe Works-Two Men liiirncil to n Crisp. The Somerset Chemical Works, two miles east of Somerset. Pa., where mtro-giyccnns and all grades of high explosives are manufac tured, was tho sceno of u ternblo explosion Wednesday. Five men wore at work -in the packing house, when the dymnmite was ignited from a red hot poker with which ono of tho men wus boring a hole in the door. In a second tho entire building was in flames, and tho men, with their clothing all on fire, started to run, a .d wer- but a short dis unco from the building when 500 pounds of dyna mite, packed and ready for shipment, lying outsido of tho building, exploded with u terrific noise. Two of tho mon were found about *ixty rods away burnod to a crisp. The other men wore not seriously iuj red. The shock was so great that people in Somerset ran into tho street thinking tueir houses were fulling down. Window glasses wore broken in housos half a mile from the scene of tho accident. The Pillule Land*. The United States Senate Committee oj Public Lands reported favorably the Houh* ! bill making ch iiiges i i the land lav/s. The firBt section provides for tho repeal of the Pre emption law. This repeal, however, is not to affect tho rights of any person whioli are ac cruing on the passage of tlio aot. The committee is of opinion that the time has come to limit the acquin mont of govern ment land by ono person to 160 acres. If set tlers are restricted to 160 aorta of laud it will be but a comparatively few years before ull public lands suitable for homes will be ox- nans tad* THE COST OF A WEDDING. DrtnD* of llm Fxponsr nnd iho ItrldCKroo L’Matly Array. [From tho N. Y. Tribune.] Tlio expenso of a fashionable wedding may be likened to matrimony itself iu that nothin* i3 known of it save by ox- perliTiCi’, t’ho os^nwtM nro for nv- otflgo Fifth nvciitiii ohtuC’ 1 weildiug, win .e n large cotn(mnj in invliea l? H>o olmrcli mid iiubseqiieiitlj cntertidu id at tlio lii>mo of the bride, nil. tho ftppoint* metitB lieing on a liberal but not ex Ira t- ngnnt sente. The e.itiumto is for six bridesmaids nnd Hix Ushers, a rcoeption mid colliitiou with wine for 500 people, floral decorations, etc. The total oast Is calculated to he a little over 85,000 for the bride's father and 81,000 additional for the bridegroom’s clothing, brief bri- dol trip, oto,, leaving <mt his, [nofient of diamonds, ulo., lo the bride. Many of tho Hems In tlio expense of a wedding depend entirely on one’s liberali ty. For instance, tlio reotor of u fash ionable olinrch receives a variety of sums iu marriage fees, but ho oxpoots 850 from rich people, nt a church wedding, espcolaliy. Vet it iH not always the rich est people that pay the most. The foes run from 810 to 850, sometimes reaching 8100, but rarely over that. The bride groom :s expected to pay this, and gives iho mounv to his best man for that pitr- poso. Different churches olinrgo differ ent amounts for the use of the building for weddings. Sometimes linlf goes to tho church and half to the sexton. In othor oases tho whole fee is a perquisite of the sexton, gas, etc., being paid for by him or by tho persons hiring tho use of the elmreh. When chimes nro rung iih additional charge is mudo of $5 or 810. The man who calls carriages, unless engaged with tho collation, is an extra expense nnd costs from 85 to 810, or more, according to tho size of the wedding, the time lie works and the number of iiKsiRtants ho lias. Canopies arc occasionally dispensed with in pIciiHant weather, but oven thou they protect guests from tho gnzo of by standers nud so nro necessary to a well- appointed wedding. It is well to bavo the carpets of tho pnrlors nnd refresh ment room covered with crash nnd the steps outside should ho carpeted to pro tect ladies in slippers or I bin-soled shoes from the cold. Camp chairs must bo hired for Beating poopb. Tlioy take up littlo room and are easily moved. Tho cost of refreshments depends entirely upon tlio quality of tlio viands, the ex tent of the bill of fnro, the timo of year, prieo of delicacies, etc. Most of Hie del- iouoies ot the season, hot and cold, will bo servod tn tho host stylo for 82 ahead, nud from that the price goes down to 81 for a plain luuoheon. A table tastefully dooorated is usually set in tho dining room and tho viands distributed by tho waiters. The guests sit about on camp ohairs or stand if they cannot get a seat, Hebrews sit down to a regular dinner nt their weddings. Chnnipaguo is usually an extra charge, though thu estimate for the eollation occasionally includes wine. The wedding invitations being 1,000 in number, there will usually not bo over 000 gnosis remuining to thu recep tion. Often, for good ronsous, the reception iH limited to a few of the nearest relatives nud intimate friends, who alone receive cards. lint whore anything like a lurgo company is enter- taiued at the house it is likely to cause dissatisfaction if all invited to the church do not also hnve cards for tho bouse. Six pieces of music are not too many, though a less number is sometimes got along with. Somo woddings hnvo as many us ten or twenty pieces. A piano, violin, cornet, flute and bass viol are desirable. Floral deoorntious may bo of any degree of costliness. For 8100 oue can have the elmreh ohunool sot with palms and ovorgreens and tho parlors and hallways decorated with plants, tho mantels banked with rosos, a wedding hell hung over the brido and groom and floral devious and smilax to deoorato doorways, windows, etc. The bouquets for tho brido nnd bridosmnids are usually purobased by the bride groom und cost from 850 to 8100, or more, according to the prioo of roses. Wedding invitations cost 815 for tho first hundred and $5 for every additional Imudred from tho engraved plate. They aro generally delivered by Bpooial mes sengers. It is a common custom to get a detec tive from the Central Oflloo to wntch the presents when they aro displayed. Certain oflicors aro always detailed for such work. A policeman to keep order on tho sidewalk is another necessity. Extra servants to oitend to tlio door, wii-h dishes, eto., are supplied by the caterer, lint several extra servants are usually needed to look after the com fort of gnests in the dressing rooms and wait ou tho family at church nnd at tbe bouse. Hairdressers nro kept busy on somo (lavs going from lionso to bouse attending to the coiffures of brides. The largest item, of course, is tho bride's trousseau. As many young ladies aro nut content with less than a dozen drosses, costing from 850 to 8500 apiece, it is best to put a generous esti mate on this expense. Indeed, there is no limit lo it except the parents’ purse, for trousseaus some’imes cost tens of thousniids of dollars. The brido, in some eases, gives the bridesmaids their dresses, though they generally buy them for themselves. Being usually composed of surah, or nun’s veiling, or other comparatively inexpensive mate rial, they do uot usually oust over 850 to 81()0 each, Tho hill for a bridal toilet . of white satin embroidered iu pearls or brocade velvet, with point lace, not in frequently reaches 8500. It is not always the case that the bridegroom gives a dinner to his ushers and host man, but they usually give him a dinner. Tf he is a mnn of wealth, however, the dinner for tho young men is customary, and so are gifts of scarf- pins or ciiffdmttoiis for souvenirs. Tho sum of 8500 is moderate for a short bridal trip, whilo if the fair brido longs to roe tlm Rhine, the Alps, or the Nile, the mini must he multiplied many fold. It will easily be seen why it is that soiu people are well off and yet too poor to marry, why so many young men remain bachelors and so many fathers ■re only sustained in the trying hour of weddings by tbe thought that the out- 'ny will not hive to he met again. KXI'KNBfB or A CHUnOU WEnDIMa AND RKOKF- TION. CIso of church $ 25 rVx'on u dns istants 25 Carnage supurialondont 10 Grass 1st. 10 Teh carriages 40 Trv>> canopies 1G ", Cr: eli i r parlors 7 Camp elialra, 100 10 IhTreKhrnentH, 5IJ0 people 1,000 I'lmnipagnu 300' O g as 50 Muse, ix pieces 50 Floral decorations 400 Wedding invitations, 1,000 GO Delivering invitations 30 Folicoman tt Dotcotiro to watch presonta S F.xtra aorvants 25 JtridoBinaidB' drosses 500 Bndo’s troussoftu 2,500 To bn paid by bride’s father $5,055 fill IPE(1 room’s expenses. Clothing $ 250 Bride’s and bridesmaids’ bouquets.. 60 Ushers’pins 60 Ushers* dinner 90 Minister’s foe 50 Bridal trip 500 Total $1,000 TflE GOOSE WAS AVENUED. AKfrif by a Trap. Ir On in nrr. a We«»»l. Tlirrr llavvk.. Two Skunk*. .W»«t » Wildcat. Dwellers e.long tho Willowomoo, iff the Bcaverkill region of New York, liavo lost nraoh poultry from their prem ises recently. William Hohoonmnkef found one of his gecso dead in bis barn yard. Marks on it showed that it bad been killed by a weasel. Using tho gooso for bait, Sohoonmakor set a tr.ap for future intruders. Tho first night he caught a woasel. Tlio bait was still good, nnd tbe next night a skunk fell info the trap. The gooso still held ite own, nnd Bohoonmnker sot it ngniu. Nothing wns caught that night, in the forenoon of the third day, however, two lnrge lien hawks foil victims to tho tempting bait, and in tlio afternoon a third swooped down upon it and stayed. Tho fourth night tho gooso did service in the trap—it enticed a rod fox to tho trap’s olosu embrace. Tho fifth night another Rknnk took tho clinnccs on get ting away with tho gooso, nnd was added to Hohooumnkor’B collection. Then a neighbor's dog was wcok enough to oast a longing eye on the goose, nnd Belioonmnker had to enll his owner over to tnko him out of tho trap. Tho sinth night the trap disappeared, lint tho gooso, looking as though some thing had handled it roughly, wiw still on tho promises. After a bunt in tbe adjoining woods tho trap wns found In » tree, hanging to the fore leg of a wild cat. A load of buckshot recovered the trap and increased Behoonmakor’s stock of fur by ono wildcat skin. Tho soventh night the goose was still in condition to tako its old placo in tlio trap. That night it oaptured ono of Sohoonmnker’s own oats. Tho noxt night it took in ■ neighbor's cat. The ninth night ono ol Behoonmnkcr’s dogs so fnr forgot him self ns to stop n)> and dally imh the alluring bait, and when his owner went out in tho morning tho trap held Towser by the jaw. Thou Bohoonmnker mode up his mind that the gooso was ahull., dantly avenged, and bo cast it in the sty to tho pigs. Tho gooso woe a gander. "It. was kind in that weasel, though,” said Belioonmnker, “to select that gooso. I might have killed it for Christmas nud invited n lot of friends to dinner, and wouldn't I liavo folt cheap when I went to oarvo it ?” Stories or the War. Tim STAMPED!! ITIOM Till? ITEM) OF THE FiiiHT nunc. EON. From tho "Recollections of n Private, 1 ' iu tho November Century, we qnoto tlio following: "That was the fault of tho officers who allowed tho baggage-wagons to come to the front instcud of iicing pnrked at Ceutrevillo. Tho stampede ana confusion began among them llrst. Why, tho men wore so lit tie frightened when they began to fall back in gronps scat tered through tho fields that I saw tlnjm stop frequently to pick blackberries. Freightened men don’t not in that way. At Oub Run, between tho Btono Bridge and Uontrovillo, the irresponsible team- stars, with the baggage-wsgotis, were all crowded near the bridge, and were in a desporato burry to cross. A Rebel battery began dropping shell in oxnoug them,'und tlms demolished some of Iho wagons and blocked the wny. Tho eou- fusion nnd hurry and excitement then began. Tho drivers on she south Hide, Unding tlioy couldn’t eroHH with their wngons, now began to out their tracea and mount their horses nnd hurry away. Those who drove baggage wagons on tho safe side of Cub Run then began to desert them and cut the I races and shout nnd gallop off. The infantry, seeing this confusion nnd not understanding tho onuso of it, quickened their pace. Soon tho narrow road became tilled with flying troops, horses, baggage-wagons, and carriages. Then the volunteers, began to throw away their muskets aud equipments, so as to stand an ovoffl chance in the race. Here and there, all. along the route, nbamloned wagons laid been overturned nnd were blocking the wav. One whitehended citizen, an old man, looking very sorrowful, stood directing the soldiers o.u their wny to Washington, saying: ‘You'd bettor hurry on, or the cavalry will out off your retreat I’ The houses nil along tho route were illlod with wounded men, while the nmbnlances were tilled with officers hastening to Washington. Sol diers hero and there marched iu groups, and sorrowfully discussed the situation nud its onuses. The expression heard on every side among them wns: Why were not tho reserves brought up from Cen- trevillo to help ns ?' ‘ Why didn't tlioy bring up tlio troops from Fairfax Court House ? ’—questions, it seems to mo hard to answer, even if they did come from private soldiers running away from the field of Bub itim I" A Costly 1'air or Boots. Tho Austin Dispatch tolls this little story of tho days of tho war: Iu the last lew weeks of the war, a Confederate,, serving under Lee, wrote home to his father that he wus almost barefooted, nnd completely discouraged. As soon as tho old man reoeived the letter, he mounted his mulo tiud sot off at a gal lop, but wau hoou halted by on acquaint- anco, who oalied out: “Hollo! has there been another fight?” "Not ns T've heard of, but I’ve o>ot « letter from Cyrus.” "What does Cyrus say ?” "He’s out o’ butes aud elean disk conraged.” "And whore ye going?” “Down to Abner Hmith’s to borrow. 8700,000 to send to Cyrus to get a cheap pair of shoes, aud we’re going to write him a long letter and send him a box o’ pills, und tell him to bang on to the last; for, if Cyrus gets low-spirited imd be gins to let go, tho infernal Yanks will be riding over us afore we kin back a mule outer the barn.” "That’s so—that’s so 1” nodded tho other. "I kin let you hnve tho money myself as well as not. 1 was a saving up to buy three plugs o’ tobacker and u box o’ mutches all to onee, but the army musu’r go barefut when it only takes 8700,000 to 8800,000 to buy a purty good pair o’ shoes. ”

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Mercury. (Sandersville, Ga.) 1880-1???, January 27, 1885, Image 1