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Newspaper Page TextTHE mercury. PUBLISHED EVEBT TUESDAY notice. (rAU eommtmlMUona tntandad tor Urii p#p4r ma«t b« aooompanlsd with the Ml Bl mt of th# writer, not heoasaarUy tor pnbU. mUon. bat u k faarantoe of cood kith. w , . r . m no way roiponilbli for tho tUwi iroploloni of corrktpomlknlo THE MERCURY. A. J. JERNIGAX, Proprietor, DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. VOLUME V. SANDERSVILLE, GA., TUESDAY, APRIL 7. 1885. $1.50 per Annnm, NUMBER 50. THE MERCURY/ Entered a# Moond-elMi mottor M OM darsvlUt PaotoOck, April ft, lMh Snndemllle, Washington ComtVt Mfc niunn bt A. J. JERNIGAN, FBOraiBTOB ABU rnuiuh Bnbuorlrllon....__„ ....IIM por Thf 3N MITNIOIPAL, Mayor. Wu. Gallahbr. Aldermen. Wu. Rawlings, A. M. Mayo, W. H. I/AWSON, R. T. Walker, Morris IIapp. Clerk and Treasurer, G. W. It. Whitakm. Marshall. J. E. Weddon. TOWN OF U-ICNNILtjK. Mayor, John C. Harman. Aldermen. P. J. Pipkin, J. F. Mrrkrr'On, J. N. Rogers, AV. J. Joyner. Clerk. 8. H. B. Massey. A far-ill ii I', ,1. C. Hamilton. E. S. LANGMAUt, Stto^ey kt I(kw BANQKRSVILLE, GA; S. O. KVASS, IK. EVANS & EVANS, Attor»io.v« At Law, BANDKIIBVILT.E, GA. R. I. HARRIS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, HANDEnsVJLLE, GA. Will practice in all tho Court* of Die middle fireuit, nnd in tlio counties nurronuding Washington. Special attention given to com mercial law. F. H. SAFFOLD, ATTORNEY AT I,AW, BAUDERHVILLE, GA. Wi'l prnet’c® in all tho Coiiils of tho Middle < «nit and in tho counties purrounding Wishing! n. Special attention ^iveu to com- im n- .1 Ihw, 0- 0 BROWN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BandanvtlU, Oa. /. K. Hi aim. O. H. RodBB* HINES & ROGERS, Attorneys at Law, SAN Dims VILLB, GA., Win practice In tin conn tie* of Wanhlngton, Jefferson, Johnson, Kinnnuel and Wilkinson, nnd In the 17. tt. Coui te for the Southern Dis trict uf Gcoigln, Will hot ha iirente In buying, selling or renting Rent Kntate. omce ou Went aide of Fnbllo Square. Ocl il-tf H. N. 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Ti ^ ,ow “ r »»0liir. ?obS tnfi nS» Dot fonulna. ®* t ' n,on ' ,,B or r *P ort « of cases which are n , Wit. D. KELLEY. Member of Congress from Philadelphia. . 14 T. 8. AURTHUR, ^'fblliddplda. " ■' AHr,hnr,# ****** ... V. L. CONRAD, Kditnr Lutheran Ohaer?#r,” Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Pa., Juno l, im. *JjL2} #rl i 0 meets natural inquiry in regard loom proffwHnnnl and personal Ntmuling, and to give In- I confidence in our atatemrnts and in the gen- , ’‘V"' r teetlmoniala and reporta of raaea, we , ' , ‘ , » b V v .^ c V ! d , fr,,,n «•*»*••*"»«•» well ~ J -•’* *- n *»•<> of the highast personal chnracte ,2"L '7n.V«■" OwsDonnd Oaygen’• containing a iBt« r» of tho discovery of and mode of action of this •markable curative agent, and a la,go record of g„ r . pnaiog curca In Oonanmptlon, (Catarrh. Neuralgia. . Un iiclntia, Aathma, etc., and a wide range of chronlo •hf-cRM*. will bo aent free. * Address huh. htakkky a pai.en, I toil mill 1111 Olrnrd Hi., Plillmlelplila, Pm. music, MUSIC GO TO— JERNIGAN Bows,' Strings, Rosin Boxes, Etc- BUY YOUR SPECTACLES, SPECTACLES, FROM JERNIGAM, Em genuine without onr Trade Mark. On band and for eel a, SPECTACLES, nose GLASSES. ETC. 0. W H WHITAKER. DENTIST, DR. J. II. MAY, SANDERSVILLE, GA. Offers his services to the citizens of Sanders- ville and adjacent country. All calls, day or night, win bo promptly responded to. Oflire nt Inn residence on Mrs. Pittman's lot, corner Harris and Ohurcli streets. jaul5-1884tf. J. S. WOOD i BRO., tail Ctmisiii Mala®, SAVANNAH. GA. No commission or other expenses charged on consignments of Wool, Highest marktt price guaranteed at time of B«lo. sop2’84-ly Machine Needles, Oil and Shuttles, r OR all KINDS OF MACHINES, foreal*. l will aim order parta of Machine# -hat get broken, for wliloh new plecee are wanted. A. J. JEIINIOAN. Watches, Clocks And JEWELRY THE NATIONAL GAME, At Columbus, Ga., ladios are admitted free to nil gnmo.s WniTNKY, of tho Bostons, is acknowledged to bo tho best batter of the league pi tellers. Of 8(5 games played hot ween league nnd American clubs in 1SSI, tho longuj> clubs won 68 and two were drawn. Tub Southern League teams are showing up totter th in expoetod. The attendance ut tho games bus been wonderfully largo. The clubs of tho National league, Ameri can association and K istern leaguo. will each piny 112 championship games this sea son. Thompson, of tho Indianapolis team, is ono of the largest men in the profession. He stands six foot two inches, and weighs 183 pounds. Under tho now league rule tho Ditcher’s liability to balk begins when ho takes his stride ready to pilch the 1 all. He must do all his throwing to bases boforo that time. There nro seventeen players in tto Phila delphia National longue club, which is more than are competed with any other club. Five nro pitchers, tour catchers, live inilold- ers mid four out Holders. League batsmen haven 0x4 foot box to ca per in this season, while I ho American asso ciation have t<> keep within hounds of the old stylo tixd foot square. In the league the moil can stand within six inches of tho corner of the plate. American hatsmon must keep a foot away. The salary lists of the American associa tion toll clubs aro said to bo as follows: Pittsburg, $‘.£1,000; liouisville, $20,000; Bal timore, f-6,000; Cincinnati, *28,000: Brook lyn, $27,0 Ml; Metropolitan, $83,000; Athletic. $80,000. Beside tho above Pittsburg paid $(1,000 bonus for tho Columbus players. James H. Garfield, son of the late Presi dent, lsa monitor of the Williams college nine. President Garfield was himself once an amateur player and was always a great ad mirer of tho game. Governor Crittenden, of Wisconsin, is a baseball enthusiast, while United Btntes Senator Gorman, of Mary land, was the first president of tho national association of professional baseball players. The National leaguo was organized in 1876 with eight clubs, viz: Chicago, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Boston, Louis villi*. Hartford, Philadelphia, and Mutuals, of Brooklyn. Tho pennunt was won that year by tho Chi cago, with fifty-two victories and fourteen de feats. Boston won it in 1877 and 187h. Prov idence in 187fi. Chicago in 1880, ’81, *82. Bos ton in 1883 and Providence in 1884. The chibs entered for tho pennant, this year are: New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Providence, Chicago, St. Louis, Detroit and Buffalo. Tho Cleveland nine, of lost year’s league, is re placed by St. Louis. Mnnalcd by im Kxploslon. A twenty horse power boiler burst Thursday afternoon in tho Pinoviile saw mill at TituB- ville, Fa., blowing a man working near a dis tance of thirty feet, his body passing through a two-inch oak hoard ceiling, mangling him in a tcrriblo manner. When picked up life whs not yet extinct, hut the sufferer cannot pomibiy live Patent Medicine Vender—Did yon ever try my infallible preventive for coughs and colds ? Stranger—-No, sir, I never tried it my self, but a friend of mine did. p # V.—Yes? and how did it work? Stranger—Beautifully. He took two bottles of it just before the cold weather set in, and he didn't have a cold or a cough the whole winter. p # jyi, V.—That’s the way it always works. There’s nothing like it—nothing like it, sir. Stranger—Always works that way, eh ? I'm sorry to hear that. My friend, yon know, died five minutes after finish ing the second bottle.—Boston Tran- script. unntia w JERSTICSAW. Believed It.—Bill Nye says: A friend of mine at Sing Siug onoe wrote mo that from the moment be got hold of ray book he never left his room until he finished it. He eoemed chained to tho spot, he said; and if you can t believe a conviot, who is entirely onto! politics, who in the name of George Washington can you believe. NEWS OF THE DAY. Items of Interest Here, There and Everywhere. —Dispatches from London fitato that Tur- koy is to Rond 6,000 troops to Hnakim to relieve the English Guards, who will ho sent to India. —Forty men wero imprisoned, and all of them were instantly killed by an explosion of flro damp iu tlio Domhrau-Ornau Mining Com pany’s oolliery at Troppan, in Austrian Silesia. -Fifty-six miners wero killed hv an explo sion in the mines owned by Daren fiothBchlld, at Asti an. —Wesley Gib>on, tried for tho murder of his nndu in Lincoln county, Mo., and ac- oulttod, has slnco oonfoased that ho committed the murder, assisted by tho deceased’s wife and a negro accomplioo. —Mayor Ewing, of Rt. Louis, has been ro- nominated for tho office by tho Republican Convention of that oity, —A railroad transfer sleigh, containing flvo passengers, broke through tlio ioo opposite Poughkeopsie, N. Y., on Thursday cveiling. Only a ducking resulted. —Tho tee in tho BuHquchanna river is twenty* eight inohee thick. —A dispatch from tho City of Mexico says: —“Sixty-oiio thousand dollars have been col lected in Mexico for the rellof of tho earth quake sufferers in Spain.” —An unknown vessel was discovered on flro at soa by tho steamship Bchiedain, of tho ltor al Netherlands lino. Thcro wore no traces of (ho crow to ho seen. • —Tho Mackey-Bennott oahlo roports a seri ous renewal of tho Parisian demonstrations against MUo. Van ZandL —In Han Francisco social circlos are stirred by the marriage of a wealthy man of seventy and a young woman of nineteen. —Tlio losses of the British in Egypt from July, 1882, to March, 1884, according to tho official figures, ate as follows: Ikitnhiirdmout of Alexandria, 5 killed, 27 wounded; Kassas- sin, 16 killed, 162 wounded; Tol-ol-Keblr, 70 killed, 387 woundod: El Teh, 85 killed, 155 wounded; Tamar, 10? killed, 110 wounded: othor skirmish* s, 10 killed, 08 wounded. Total, 255 killed ami 015 wounded. Of tho woundod. 65 havo died. Sickness carried off 871 and sout 4,405 homo to England. —Tho Chincso forces gainod a victory ovor tho French at Langson on Friday. Tlioy car ried tho key of tho position and'tho intrench- ments. The French troops retreated beyond Dong-Hong. They aro falling hack on tho Longkoi.. Tho French loss iu inon and guua is unknown. —General Joseph E. Johnston, of Virginia, has toon appointed Commissioner of llailroads. —Tlio now Commissioner of Agriculturo Mr. N. J. Coleman, is favorably known to agricul- tinintH throughout tho West. At the recent con von I inn of cane growers and others inter ested in tho inaimfacturo of sugar it wuh in tended to recommend Mr. Coleman for tho position of Commissioner of Agriculture, hut at tho suggestion of a friend the resolution was not oflerod, Mr. Coleman preferring not to appo*r as a candidate for tho office. —Tho findings in the caso of General W. B. II ax on wero filed nt the War Department on Saturday. Tho Goneral is found guilty uud sentenced to a reprimand to ho admiuistcrod by tho Secretary of War. —Tho U. H. man-of-war Swntnra lias arrived at Now Orleans from Livingston and Tort Barries, Central America, with a numbor of sick and destitute railroad latorors. She took on hoard 78 men, all suffering moro or less from malarial fover. —Clark W. Handers, who killed Emanuel Carr, was sentenced in Montpoller, Vt., to twenty years in State prison. Sanders shot Carr because of his alleged intimacy with tho former’s wife. —It is roportod that fcx-Frosideivt Soto, of Honduras, who is in Now York city, is plotting to overthrow tho government of that country and to break up the alliance with Barrios. A strong war feeling against BarrioB oxUts in Mexico. —Important facts havo been brought to light tending to connect Cluveris with the ter- rihlo murder of Miss Madison, at Richmond, Va. —The Cheyenne Indians are becoming rest less over tho excitement on tho Oklahoma question, and General Hatch behoves thero will bo troublo if tlio Oklahoma lands aro thrown opou. Tlio Indians say that when tho lands were sold to the government it was with tho express understanding that they should ho usod for Indians and that no white man has a right to a single acre under tho treaty and hill of sale. —Secretary Whitney lias decided ttiat all em ployees in tho Navy Department shall porform tho specific duty for which they are carried on the payrolls. It hnH boon tlio practice in Home instances to detail watchmen and lahorniB for tho regular performance of clerical dutios. —It is said that a proposition has been sub mitted to President Cleveland by Dr. do Meza, on behalf of the United States of Colombia, having reference to tho aennirrment by the United States of Commercial supremacy in tho South Aineiican States. —Tlio Nova Scotia Legislature passed an amendment to the resolution for tho repeal of tho union, stating in effect that tho IIouso would consider tho advisability of severing Nova Scotia’s connection with Canada if better terms are not grauted by the Dominion gov ernment —Charles Bobo, a negro, was sentenced to .thirty years’ imprisonment in tho Peniten tiary Thursday in the St. Louis Criminal Court for tho murder of John Ingraham. In two provioiis trials ho had boon sentenced to bo —Sarah Newell, a poor orphan girl of New York, has fallen heiress to a $75;000 fortune. —Liitlo Mario Lubi. of New York, whose father tried to sell her for $1,000, will he adopted by Mr. Blakeley Wallace. —Joseph Nadino, an inmate of the Phila delphia almshouse, wtio testified before tho Coroner that Schroeder, one of tho attendants, had given him the match to set fire to tho building, in eourt denied his former story, and said he anew nothing about the act of incen diarism. —Frederick 8. Winston, president of tho New York Mutual Life Insurance Company, died in consequence of a paralytic stroke in Fernandina, Fla., iu the sovonty-fourth year of his age. —Captain G. C. Parkor, of Winthrop, Mass., was arrosted on a charge of having purposely wrecked his brig, tho Mary Celeste, off liayti. —The lithographing establishment of Helm- ! macher A Ettlinger, on Bleecker street, New York, was burned, involving a loss of $275,000. A terrible gas explosion occurred in Mine No. 7 at McAllister, 1. T., killing eleven per sons, all who were in tho mine. About forty workmen were employed in the mine. Tho men were quitting work for tho day, and tho greater number had como out of the pit, or the loss of lifo would havo been greater. —Mrs. Mary Ireland,wifo of Robert Ireland, tho piper, tho story of whoso kidnapping to Canada and his arrest as a deserter from the British army lias been told, visited the Stato Department to see what could he dono to 80- cure her husband’s release. Mr. Edwin B. Hay prepared a formal statement of tho case, inclini ng Ireland’s certificate of naturalization and Mrs. Ireland’s petition, and presented it to Secretary Bayard with a request that prompt measures be taken for the return of the piper. MALVADOK INVADED. NUIrinlftlilnff Between the Outposts of the Opposing Armies. A dispatch from La Libertad, San Salvador, snvs: The war which lias toon thought inevit able for some dayB past has already become an actuality. , , . _ The forces of Honduras and those of San Salvador have already come into collision and several skirmishes have occurred. The armies of Guatemala and Honduras are acting in harmony and are now confronting the forces of San Salvador. Active measures are being taken by San Sal vador. Nicaragua and Costa Rica to protect themselves against tho revolutionary schemes of President Barrios. On the 25th of March an alliance, defensive and offensive, was form ally entered into by these three States, ar^.d ar rangements wero perfected for putting an ef fective force into the field. ' San Salvador, whose territory is most threat ened, takes the leading place in this alliance. She will put Ler whole army mto the field. Nicaragua will provide 4.000 men and Costa Rica sends 1,000. Costa Rica a*, the same time contributes $100,000 toward tho expenses of tho war. - ■ _ , . President Zaldivar, of San Salvador, will assume the chief command of the allied forces. President Cardecas, of Nicaragua will be sec ond in oommand. and General Eoto, of Costa ( Rica, will probably take the third place. WAR IN TIIR NORTHWEST C nnndlan Ftrrei Drfrntrd, wtlh Loss, ,,v the llnlf-llreedn. A dispatch from Winnipeg, Blau., sayst Hostilities havo toon commenced in earnest, and alarming reports havo been recolvod from Fort Carlton. Tho suhstanoo of theBo roports is as follows: Tlio rebel army, which numbers about fifteen hundred men, surrounded Fort Carlton nearly a week ago and besieged it. Major Crozier and a garrison of 126 men held out as long as possible, and when their supplies bocamo ex hausted tho major resolved to dash through tho enemy and make for Duok Lake, where a supply post is located and whioh was held by the rohels. With fifty picked tnon tho gallant Major sud denly rode out of tho fort and daubed south ward toward Duck Lako. Tho enemy was completely surprised, hut quickly sprang to arms and fired on tho polico. Tho latter re turned tho firo, and for somo time, amid tho wildest confusion, tho engagement was kept up. Tho larger portion of tho polico succeed ed in breaking through tho ranks of tho enemy and galloped off toward Duck Lake. During tho fight, according to the first report, eight mounted police were killod and fifteen of tho enemy. Captain Moore, who was among tho police, is reported to have been shot, togothor with six of his men. THE 0AU8BB OP THE OUTRBEAK. For nearly two hundred years the Hudson’s Bay Company exercised supremo authority over tho Canadian Northwest. During thnt timo only ono monitor of tho staff of tlio com pany was killed by tho Indians. The company wan tod nothing hut furs from tho Indians, and loud disputes wero uuknown. In 1869, now- ever, a change cauio. In that year tho Cana dian Government tonight tho groater part of tho lands owned by tho Hudson's Bay Com pany for $1,500,000. With this puronaso of the lands tho Canadian Government acquired all rights and privileges which tho Hanson's Bay Company had previously exercised, and scam after tho Northwest became a part of tho Canadian confederation. All that was left to tho company wero grants of laud around cacti trading post, which amounted to about 50,000 acres, and one-twonticth of all tho land iu tho great fertile belt of tlio north and south Sas katchewan. Tho Indians and half broods of tho North west did not, at first, opposo tho change. At that timo each half breed's farm fronted oil tho river. Tho frontages were narrow, and they run a long way hack, often two miles, as custom all ovor tho French-Canadian PRESIDENT (’LEVELAND'S NOMINEES. List of Soule of the Moat Prominent Federal Officer*. they i is tho settlements along tho St. Lawrence, tho Ot tuwa, or tho Saguenay. When tho surveyors wero sent to tho Northwest, by order of tho Canadian Government, they commoncod to survey tho country in squaro blocks, paying no attention to the river frontago system. This was tho first cause of quarrel. By tho now ar rangement old associations and family ties wore threatened with disruption and tho ten ure of land becamo uncertain. Ono duy, as tho Government stirvoyor, Col. Dennis, and his men wero surveying a haro line through somo properly, Riel, followed by a party of unarmed half breeds, put his foot on tho chain the surveyors wero using, and or dered them to quit work, which thoy did. Dur ing tho fall of 1809 ho took possession of Fort Gurry, now Winnipeg, and armod his followers with the 390 Enfield ritlos ho found in tho stores of tho Hudson's Bay Company, From thero they issued their Bill of Rights. Bln tho face of this attitude, takei naif broods, a counter insurrection was at tempted by tho loyalists, nnd on* Scott, nil English Canadian, was sliot by tho order of R!el. All tlio leading English Canadians at Fort Garry wero taken prisoners. Colonel, now Lord, Wolseley in tno following spring took an army against Riel. Ho had about ono thouHAiul men in tho expedition, and a portion of tthom, tlio Sixtieth Ritles, wero regulars. Riel and somo of Ills followers crossed to the United States, and an act of Par liament was passed banishing him for five years. WIkju his term of hnnishinent expired lie returned to Manitoba, and was elected to represent the olectlvo district cff Provenchies in. Parliament. Threats wore mado by tlio loyalists that if ho took his scat ho would be shot for murdering Scott. Tho day Bell entered the Homo of Commons a company of soldiers were secrotcd in an anteroom, and it was gen erally fearod that a riot would take place. Roil took hi? scat, hut when the opening prayer was concluded lie left and never rcturncu. THE LEADED OF THE 11KBELLION. Riel, the loador of tho insurrection, was horn within five miles of Fort Gai ry in 1844. When quifco a young lad lie was scut by an eminent ecclesiastic to ho educated in Mon treal. Although a half breed, ho docs not pos sess tho usual characteristic* which distinguish tho half breed from other nationalities, Among those who do not know him he would pass for a thoroughbred European, having fair hair and light bluo eyes. He has much native shrewdness and craft, and lias a suavity of manner which has a tolling effect on his copatriots in the Northwest. He studied for the priesthood, hut ordination was refused him. During tlio threatened Fcuiau raid from Pembina, Manitoba, lie paid a secret visit to Gen. John O’Neil, and offered to loin tho invaders if tlioy could bring sufficient force into the province to overthrow tlio Government and mako tho movement suc cessful, Roil evon going to the length of mak ing terms with O’Neil with regard to tho dis tribution of the spoils and land, putting in a strong obligatory clause in favor of tho half breeds. Archbishop Tacho, whoso protege ho Ivas sinco tho rebellion of 1869-70, has fre quently expressed regret that he was (lie means of placing education within Beil's reach, as it gave him very great weight and importance in the eyos of the half breeds. Lntor advices stato that tho authorities at ‘Winnipeg had received nows from Humboldt of another engagement between the mounted police and the Prince Albert volunteer cor|)s nnd a force of about 300 rebelf near Duck Lake. Thirteen volunteer and polico were killed, nnd the rebel loss was very heavy. Tlio volunteers and i iolico were coming down tho trail fr ... ?ort CaTleton to lluck Lake to secure sup plies. Tho rebels in large numbers wero ly ing in ambush, and when the'polico were in a piece of thick underbrush, at a signal tho rohels rushed upon them. Firing was kept up for some timo with riblo effect on both sides, large number of Indians were with tho rebels, and their war whoops wero hoard above t ho noise of tho ritlos. Tlio polico and volunteers finally fought their way through nnd retreat ed upon Fort C'arleton, which thoy reached in safety, leaving a number of wounded be hind. At mounted police captured Louis Genville, an emissary of Kiel, who had boon sent with let ters to the Indians and half hroo Is of Broa 1- Oak Lake nnd Bail SL Paul. Tlio prisoner said he loft Kiel six days previously, and that he had then six American cannon and 1,500 men, and that ho was being joined by American Indians. At Montreal a stato of intense excitement prevailed, owing to tho alarming news con cerning tho liioi rebellion. The Bixty-litth Battalion, a French regiment, was culled out for activo service, and tho othor city regi ments wero ordered to hold themse vos in readiness to proceed to tho front. Ainu-s meeting of citizens was held at the Victoria Rifles armory, ut which addresses wero de livered by tho mayor and leading citizens. Colonel Iryino burned Fort Carleton to pre vent tho rebels from occupying it, and re treated to Prince Albert. A scout who was present at tho Duck toko fight says that at least forty rebels wero kiilod by Mayor Crozier’s force of seventy- five mounted police. IMPORTAHI NOHNATIuNS, On the day following the announcement of tho French defeat 11101*0 was a stormy session ot tho French chamber of deputies. Long toforo tho hour for tho convening of the nnmbortho streets in tho neighborhood were acked with crowds of excit**d men, nnd soon became evident that troublo brewing for tho govern ment. A strong forco of military was on duty to prevent a riot nnd preserve order in tho chamber. Notwithstanding this precaution, the galleries were crowded with men who plainly showed their irritation over the defeat at Langson by keeping up a noisy discussion and hurling denunciatory epithets at the various members of the cabinet and their supporters as they entered tho chamber, somo shouting, “Resign! resign!” nnd “Down vith the ministry!” Iu tho midst or tho lurmoil Frontior Ferry rose to announce the decision of tho council of ministers. He was greeted with a storm of hissoss from alt parts of tho chamber. When silence was restored he presented tlio rovonintent’s request for a credit of $10,00).- >00 on uccount 01 tho military operations in Chinn. He then moved for tno n'pitoiutmont of a committee to exnmino and report upon tho credit, nnd domatided tlmt the motion to given priority. Ho ha l barely concluded his remarks whon a numbor of deputies of tho right sprang to their feet, yelling “Down with tho wretch!'’ while ahovotho din could ho hoard tho voicoof M. Clomenceau os I10 fairly scremnod “Trai tors l” mid pointed in the direction of tho for mer supporters of tho government. It was somo time toforo order was restored, nnd had it notto*ou fortliopreoencoof tho troeqm there is Imrdly any doubt tlmt violence would havo toon dono. During this scono in tlio chamber the crowd outside became a howling mob,nnd marie several attempts t > pass the guaixls and enter the I mi Ming. M. Ferry’s motion was rejected by n vote of 808 to 101, and In* immediately announced tho resignation of the entire ministry. This wnt greeted with wild mi l tumultuous ap plause, and t he chamber was then cleared. Prior to the vote M. Korry rend the des patches regarding tho Langson affair. Ho added tlmt tho retreat of the French hud been effected in perfect order. The troops had found themselves confronted by the Chincso forces whose uumto*rs it had been im possible to foreset*. Tho French generals lnid been obliged to re-enter the Red river dolta end to maintain the dofensivo. General Ncgrior, who was wounded at Langson, has toon promoted to he gonorul of division. The /’iV/nro says says 1,200 of tlio ich troojw wero killed or wounded in tlio engagement nt Langson. Further official despatches made public at Puri* show that not only Lmigmm, Imt nil tho strategic positions in Its vicinity, havo been recovered by tho Chinese. The President sent tho following nomina' tlons to tho Henato on tho 30th: To l.o consul-generals of tho United Htates: Thomas M. Waller, of C'onnuc ticut, nt .Ixmdon; Frederick ltnino, of Maryland, ut Berlin; Edmund Jussen, of Illinois, nt Vienna, Austrin. To bo ministers resident of tho United States: Isnne Bell, jr., of Khodo I-laud, to the Netherlands; Rufus Magee, of Indiana, to Sweden and Norway; George W. Merrill, of Nevada, to the Hnwaiinu Islands. To ho ministers resident- and consuls-ge-iorAl of tho United t ite*: E hv.ir I Parke ('ustls Lewis,of New Jersey, to Portugal; Rasmus B. Anderson, of Wisconsin, to Denmark. To to consuls of the Unite l .States: A. Haller Gross, of Penimlvnnh, ut Athens, Greece; Evan P. Howe.i, of Georgia, at Manchester, ^ Lnglun 1. To be envoys extraordinary and ministers Plenipotentiary of tho United Htates: Thomas J. Jarvis, of North Carolina, to Brazil; Alexander It. Lawton, of (hmrgin, to Russia; Anthony M. Koilly, of Virginia, to Italy. Alexander McCuo, of Now York, to ho solicitor of the treasury. David Kettle, of North Carolina, to to marshal of tho United Biatos for tho western listrictof North Cato!inn. Joseph E. Johnston, of Virginia, to tie com missioner of railroads. towis Mullen, of New York, to to appraiser in the district of New York. William Caldwell, of Ohio, to ho surveyor of customs, port of Cincinnati, Ohio. To to collectors of internal revenue: Nathan Gregg, of Tennessee, for tlio second district of Tennessee; Islmin G. Searcy, of Texas, for tho third district of Texas; Clement Dowd, of North Carolina, for tho sixth dis trict of North Carolina; John O. Hender son, of Indiana, fop tho olevonth district of Indiana. To ho postmasters: Myron II. Peck, jr., at Batavia, N. Y.; Andrew D. • Morgan, at IUon.N. V.; Erostus F. Babcock, at Elmira, N. Y.; Michael J. Dougherty, at Gales burg, III.; Wilbur F. Horn, at Idaho Springs, Col.; Palomon Wiloy, at Central City, Col.; Ansel Watrous, at*Fort Collins. Col. Captain William J. Volkmar, Fifth cav airy, to to major nnd assistant adjutant-gen eral. Captain George II. Burton, Twenty-first infantry, to to major and inspector-general, Brown, Hhlploy & Co., of 1/mdon, England, to to special fiscal agents of tho navy depart meat. Rasmus H. Anderson, of Wisconsin, noini uated to to minister resident and consul-gen eral to Denmark, is a Scandinavian scholar, and is the author of u number of books upon Scandinavian folk loro and mythology. ” is a proftssor in a Wisconsin university. Tho name of Mr. Coleman, of Missouri, to to commissioner of agriculture, did not ap pear in tho list, as had been expecta4. Army of the I'otomnc. The annual reunion of tlio Society of tho Army of the Potomac will take place at Balti more, Md.. on Wednesday and '1 hursday, tho Gtli and 7th of May. 1885. Tho oration will ho delivered by General Calvin E. Pratt, Justice of tho New York Supreme Court, and tho poem by Major De Witt C. Sprague, of Washington, D. C. The head quarters of the society will ho at the Carroll ton House. Railroads havo agreed upon liberal rates for transportation. Thero will bo tho usual public meetings, a parade, excursion and banquet. Tlio President a:id Cabinet, Generals Sheridan and Hancock and othor distinguished officers will he present. Tho officers of the society for the current year are General U. 8. Grant, United States Army, president; Brevet Major General M. T. McMahon, treasurer; Brigadier General Horatio C. King, recording secretary, and Bre vet Major General George A. Sharpe, corre sponding eccretary. An offensive and defensive alliance has been made between Salvador and Costa Rica. —Quiet has been restored at Panama. -Thirty-five miners were killed, and thirteen wounded by an explosion of coal gas ip gome Chilean mines. MlcetcheN of llie NomliieeM. Thomas Waller, who receives the consul- generalship at London, is tho ex-governor of Connecticut. Fred Raines,of Maryland,who is appointed consul general at Berlin, is tlio editor of the Deutsche Correspondent, one of the leading German newspapers of Balti more. Edmund Jussen, of Chicago, who Is appointed eomql general to Vienna, is an other prom incut Gornfiui-American. Ho is tho brother !u-!uw of Carl Bchurz, Ho has been active in politics, lie was once collector of internal revenue at Chi ago. In making tho appointment two German-Americans at these irnpor taut posts tho administration iu some re spects has made u new departure. Thomas J. Jarvis, of North Carolina, appointed min ister to Brazil, is tho- Governor Jarvis who was a candidate for a cabinet position. Alexander It. Lawton,nominated for tho mis sion to Russia, is a prominent lawyer of Hu vnnnah. He was horn in Houtb Carolina, was educated at tho \Vest Point military academy, served in tho army a number of years, resigned, studied law at Havan nah. and engaged in tho practice of his pro fession there. When the civil war broke out ho entered tho Confederate service ns a brig- adier-gonornl and subsequently became qunr termoster-general of tho Confederacy, the close of the war ho return d to his 1 tico at Savannah, and soon afterword was appointed attorney for tho Central Railroad and Banking company, of Go lgin. described as a lawyer of dEtiiu ti» n, a posses sor of considerable wealth, and about sixty years of age. A.M. Kelloy, who was nominated ns minister to Italy, is a lawyer in successful practice at Richmond, Viu Ho hn: boon mayor of that city, was for several years chairman of tho Democratic funders’ comm i tto j, taking an activo and prominent part in tho contest against the Roadjustvrs, and is also well known as 011c of the counsel for tho Virginia bondholders in their prolonged litigation. Edward Parke Custis Lewis, the nominee for tho mission to Portugal, is a resident of Hoboken, N. J. He is said to he distantly re lated to Bcoretary Bayard, and has torn a member of the legislature, a presidential elector and a member of tho State Duno cratic committee. Isaac Bell, Jr., nominated to to. minister to the Netherlands, is a woalthy citizen of New port, R. I., a prominent Democrat, and lias several times been the Democratic candidate for governor. Ho is the brother in-law of James Gordon Bennett lie was the Demo cratic candidate for tho United Stale: Ken- ate at the last senatorial election iu tvs Stuto. Rufus Mugoa.of Indi • no. who was nominated as minister to Kwed -n and Norway is a resi dent of Logatisport. a law yer aud * State sen ator, a man of local prominence as an active politician, and an especial friend of t r- Senator McDonald, THE MACKEY ROMANCE. [From Ills AiiRUnta OoDKrogallonallak] Some twenty odd yours ago there dwelt iu California a family ot three per sons, fattier, mother and daughter. The latter was a mere ohild. All were young. The father was a physioian. Unfortu nately he injured his not vory extensive jractioe by intemperonoo. His habits leoamo so dissipated that the poor wife, despairing ol his reformation, and also of the possibility of independent notion on her own part to secure support for herself and ohild, proposed a separation. The man agreed to it; but ho was not pat out like Hip Van Winklo. He was assured that while bo lived she would never oease to help him, and that when ho rnendod his ways their old relations should bo restored Ho departed to eure himself, if possible, and beoomo worthy of the woman who, sorely beset, undertook tho maintenanoo of the family. Enoouraged by hia wifo’s prayers, lotters and horoto conduot, the dootor redeemed himself. At least ho thought so, and his poor wife was more than willing to bolieve it. He returned to her homo and heart, warmly welcomed book to both. Unlnokily ho had either mla- oalcnlntcd his will power, or the demon of indulgence was simply asleep and by no means dead within him. He went baok to his oups, and very soon the skel- eton Auger of poverty was laid upon his domestio affairs. The devoted wife, un willing to undertnko an experimental separation, nnd unable to remain where she was, determined to try what change of soeno would do for tills miserable man who natursllv kind, tslonted aud wholesome, seemed to bo insanoly aban doned to tho devil of strong drink. Jnsl at this 01 Isis rumors had reached Cali fornia of the Comstock Icdo discovery and thither many of tlio mining popula tion drifted. Aoross tho Sierras to Vir ginia City this llttlo aud most wretohed asniiv journeyed. Thu dootor pulled himself together for a while and did somo business, but bis health was gone and very soon he died. Widow aud orphan wero left in the very depths of poverty. The gouerons miners had olnbbed together to bnry tho dootor. They mado a purse for the mother and ohild-from timo to timo nnd thus saved both from utter deprivation of food, shelter and raiment. Thero was at that timo, snperintondent of one of tho mines, a sturdy young Irishman, who, from the lowest rounds of the ladder, had begun to push hia way to fortuno. Ho waa not then moro than moderately well off, and little droamed of the Monte Crlsto cas ket in store for him. He usod to oarry the woeklv or monthly stipend to the widow anti his visits to her booamo moro and more frequent. At last he married her, and her daya of fear on the aoore of poverty were over. She possessed a well-to-do husband, who was tho master of his possessions, and oertain to make his way in the world. A young pbysi- olan at Virginia Oity, who lmd reoently graduated in Franco, Informed her that if site would visit Paris and pat herself implicitly under the onre of his old mas ter tbero,a onre for a disoase from wliloh she snffered could be guaranteed, Whllo the husband remained to uncover, with tho prosout junior Senator from Nevada, the riohest silver deposit tho world has ever known, thn wife oroased the seas and submitted to a rigorous medioal treatment. It was suooessful after many months of ondnranoe. Moan- whilo tho famous California aud Consoli dated Virginia mines were penetrated by the husband aud tho world-renowned bo nanza, of whioh ho was principal owner, made him at leust forty times a million aire. Tho wife in Paris, now pertcotly cured aud blooming, at onoe rose into prominence and oolebrity, for how oould the marvel-loving Parisians help adoring a woman whoso talents and beanty were matched by snob fabulous woalth so ro mantically discovered. For years this lady, who is no other than Mrs, John Mackey, has boon a silver qncon in tlio most sploudid capital of Europo. She lias lived in palaocs. Noblemen and men of genius have paid oourt at her shrine. Now all Paris, and therefore all the universe, is in a ferment over the mar- riago of Miss Maokey and the Prtnee Oolouno. Little did the widow of the wretohed dootor of Virginia Oity imag ine that slio would fairly roll in wealth, dwell in palaces, be oourted by Church and State, be familiarly assooiated with the proudest names of the descendants of the crusaders, and finally become the mother-in-law of a Prince Colonna, whoso nobility dates book almost to the timo of Saladin. Tho family name is as famous os any in history, and the heir of tho Colonna family at 27 years of age weds the daughter of tho poor doctor who fell by tho wayBido in Nevada, and sleeps his last sieop in that stony desert. A REMINISCENCE OF >4S. President Polk’s ntnve Canek -learner l> Waahlnalon. [Interview with Col. Mooro, of Kontnoliy.] '■It was after the middle of February and travel to Washington was brisk, and when we stopped at Wheeling we fonnd a large gathering ot notables awaiting accommodations to the inauguration. Among them was James K. Polk, Presi- dent-eleot, on his way to Washington, and tho Western nnd Southern Congress men and many politicians wero having a fine opportunity to make their demands npon him. There were two stage tines running from Wheeling to Cumberland, Md., and travelers had to take tbeir tarns. First booked, first taken, waa tho motto, and we had to wait two or three days for seats in the stages. In the meantime a magnificent coach, up holstered In red velvet aud drawn uv six horses, arrived to oarry the Presi dent-elect across the mountains. It had been constructed especially for Uie oc casion by the Democrat* of Newark, N. J., and sent to meet Mr. Polk. It was in charge of a oommittee of throe, and they tendered Mr. Polk a seat in it with more finish and formality than the com mittees of to-day make use of in ten dering hotel and parlor railway ooaohes to Preaidenta. It (O happened that onr party scoured transportation the name morning that Mr. Polk and the oommittee were to ■tart. Both stage lines left at tho samo time and I will never forget that start. One line had leu ooaohes aud the othor six, making sixteon, besides the Presi dential coaoh, and wo formed a gay partv as we rode out of Wheeling to the mnsio of the sixteen stage horns, Eaol) stage waa drawn by six horses and ouoh passenger was as happy as a lark, heoanse wo had the President-oleet along. It took ns three days and a half to travel to Cumberland and thero wo struck tho railroad, bnt it wonldn't pass for a railroad nowadays. Tho rails were simply flat iron ban spiked down to atringero whioh rested on cross-ties, and tho greatest foar of aooidents was caused by the danger of spike* in tho ends ot the ban getting loose and drawing ont. The engineen called them 'snake heads' when they stuck up three or fonr Inches and koot a sharp lookout for them. We reaohed Washington in safety during the latter part of February and waited for Maroh 4. It oame, and with it an immense orowd of people from all parts of the ooantry, who witnessed and high ly enjoved the inauguration ceremonies. It has lioeu forty years *inoe I witnessed snob a sight, and I wonldn't miss see ing Cleveland inaugurated for $4,000." An Old Trick Revived. mu WAT SOUS PEOPLE MAKE SIX BANK NOTES OUT OP ONE. There is an old swindling device which consists in cutting bank notes iu strips and then, in putting them together, savo enough from enoh to make an additional note. This ingenious process, techni cally known ns "sweating," has been ap plied to the United States silver certifi cates. • Tho discovery was mode at tho Now York Sub-Treasury, by Air. Marlor, who has charge of that department. A batch of ten dollar silver certificates was re ceived from a Wall street bank aud was redeemed. It was found that several of the notes, which on a cursory handling appeared to be accidentally torn anil afterward pasted together, had iu reality been subjected to the "sweating" pro cess above olnded to. Tlio law permits the Treasury De partment to rodeem a mutilated bill at its toco value if three-fifths of it remain. The sharpers havo taken advantage of this law. The certificates were first cut in five pieces, nnd then, by taking ono picco from five different certificates a sixth certificate was made. Thus tho five genuine certificates would eaoh lack onc-Ufth, but the sixth, or bogus certifi cate would apparently havo enough pieoes pasted togothor to make it corn- plete. Ail the certificates wero there fore, until the triok was discovered, re deemable at their faoe value. Unfortu nately for the swindler, tho ten dollar cortiticatos havo the numbers of eaoh engraved in vorions places on the note in very small figures. Of course the doctored notes wero made of fragments containing numbers which did not corre spond. It was this discovery which ex posed the fraud. A Predlcllon About Railroads VADR OVltn PIETY YI'AIlfl AOO, AND VERY AUUBINO BEADING NOW. The New York Gazette of Beptcmnor 20, 1839, gives the following humorous argument, which, it says, was used by a oanal stockholder in opposition to rail roads; "Ho saw what would bo tho effeot of it; it would set the wliolo world n-bid ding—twonty milos an hour, sir I Why, yon will not bo able to koop an appreu- tioe boy at his work; every Saturday he must tako a trip to Ohio to speud the Sabbath with his sweothonrt. Grave, plod-ling citizens will bo flying alKiut like the oomets. All iooal attachments must be at an end. It will cncourago flightiness of.intolhot. Various people will tarn into the most immeasurable liars; all their conceptions will be exag gerated by tho munificent notions of dis tance—only a hundred miles off I Tut! nonsense, 'I'll stop across, madam, and bring your fan.' ‘Prny, sir, will you dine with me to-day, at ms llttlo box at Alleghany?' 'Why, indeed, I don’t know—I shall be in town nutil twelve. Well, I shall bo thero, but you mnRt let me off in time for tho theatre.’ And thon, sir, there will be barrels of pork aud barrels of flour nnd chaldrons of ooals, nnd even lead and whisky aud snob like sober things, that havo nlwnys been usod to sober traveling, whisking away like a lot of sky rookets. It will upset ull the gravity of the nation. If a ooi.ple of gontlemon have nu affair of honor, thoy have only to steal of! to tho Rooky Mountains and there no jurisdic tion onn touch them. And then, sir, think of flying from debt. A set of baliffs, mounted on bomb-Bhells, wonld not overtake an absconding debtor— only to (jive him a fair show. Upon the whole, sir, it is a pestilential, tepsy-tarvy, harum-scarum whirligig. Give me the old, solemn, straightforward, regular Dntoh canal—three miles an hour for expresses and two for jog or trot jour neys—witn a yoke of oxen for a heavy load I f go for beasts of burden; it is more primitive and soriptural, and suits a moral and religious people better. None of your hop, skip and jump whimsies for me.” Divorce Easy in California, Melbourne, Ark., with a population of 200, has fonr churches, any one of which will bold the entire population. The Ban Francisco Chronicle says;— During tho past year moro divorces have been granted in the Superior Courts of this county than for any of the fivo years preceding it. Since 1878 the divorces grauted in San Franoisco have been continually on the iuorenso, and, os tlio record shows, if they con tinue to augment in the samo ratio, this oity will Boon rival Ghioago in its fumo for suuderiug the solomu bands of matrimony. During 1884 the Su perior Judges rendered 392 deorees of divorce, thus allowing 781 people to again enter upon n search for a con genial spirit. This number is an in- caeaseof 50 over 1883 and 20 more than the number granted in the previous year. Iu 1881 there were 863 divoroes; in 1880, 333 and in 1879 only 323 oouples wero separated. Desertion seems to be the most prevalent assigned oauso of divorce, although intemper ance, cruelty, and failure to provide also figure prominently, while convic tion of a iolony is given as the ground of action in soveral cases. The prin ciple of women's rights seems to have permeated tho women of this community, for of the 392 divorces granted a large majority were ostensibly for the benfito of the weaker half. A Tobacco Centre. Baldwinsvillo, Onondaga County, N.Y, State, is a groat contro for the cultivation and shipment of tokaoco. The annual t roduotion is 15,000 to 20,000 cases or •ome 300 to 400 oar loads. Lost year went off lively at 20 cents a pound, one about $1,000,000 oash was distributed among the crowers within fifteen miles of the village, this year, though the crop is unusually fine, buyers are offering only 8 to 14 oents, and farmers are holding on for a rise.—Buffalo Express. THE JOKER’S BUDGET. WHAT Wit FIND TO f1illli.il OVMI IN TiiKiuiimmnvs columns ofouk KXCIIANUKSt. A Western Don—A CnnrilttanalOITfer—Me*, lout Adrien hr Trlephinie—An Acre** inent—Whnt she Would llnve. Sic., Klc. ran food dog. I rented a house from a man In Wau kegan soveral years ago, and when L« moved ont ho left his dog. He said it was au amazin' good watoh-dog, and fet me to look him into tho kitchen night*. Bo the fnst night I looked him in, and oh I he jist howled and tore ’round that kitchen like all possessed, and in the mornin* I see he had gnawed a hoi* pretty near through the door, tryin’ to get ont. So I thought if lie would ruther stay out than in, I waa willin’, aud the noxt night I looked him ont And all night long thnt dog run ’ronnd the house, and howled and whined and soratoked and made a tarnnl ins*, and in the mornin' I’m darned ef ho hadn’t jnnwed a hole a-most through the doof while tryin’ to git in, and I eaya to myself: "Yon informal fool I won’t uuthin’ satisfy you ?" So the third night I left tho kitoken door wide open, eo’a he oould pluaso himself, ’bout stayin’ ill cr stayin’ ont, aud dorn me, ef that do* didn t set right in tho doorway all night aud howl about nuthin’ 1—Chiomgo News. MAIUTAD RXPENSM. Sam Porkine, ot Hearne, Texaa, la eomewhat of a philosophor, and ie al ways giving good ndvioe to his friend*. He is somewhat oynloal on the enbjeot ol matrimony, having had samo sad ex perience in that line, Not long Binoo his nephew, Sam Stlnohoomb, told him that Im intended to marry Mary Bartlett. "Has she got any money?" asked Sam. "No.” "Havo yon got any?" "No." "My dear boy, don’t yon know that it takca a great doal of monoy ,to oarry oo war 7"—Texas Hiftlnys, DIFFERENT EFFECTS OF RELIGION. Wife—"What a number ot ladie* than was at ohnroh this morning wearing sealskin sacques I I counted no lam than 27.” Husband (who won’t see the point)— "Do you think that is the proper way to ooeupy one’s mind whilo at enoroh ? I didn’t notice a single one.” Wifo—"No: one oan soarooly be ex pected to notice suoh things when one’* ssXaep."—Philadelphia North Amer ican. BEST HE SHOULD REMAIN IE DOUBT. Captain Jerome, while visiting Col onel tliggiusou, took a derringer from the table and oskod: "This thing loaded ?" Bnt before the Colonel eonld reply the weapon waa die- oharged, tho bullet tearing away one of tho fingers of the visitor. Then the Colonel, who is widely known on ee- connt of his extreme politeness, bowed gracefully and rejoined: "Not now, my dear Captain,”—Ar- kansaw Traveler. WHAT sne WOULD HAVE. Thero was a sound of revelry by night Iu a mansion down in shanty town. The banqueting hall was filled with ladies fair and galluuta brave. "Jildetia, wot will yez hov?” asked the hostoss of hor beautiful first-born, who was occupying a scat at the front table. Mother, dear, I'll have some qtud' on toast and ohnmpagnysance.” "Yez will, wifi yo ? Well, yez’ll take pork and beanB like the rest av tliim, or ire’ll git out sv that au’ giv yer sate to Mary Ann. That's wot ye’ll dku."— Winnipeg Siftings. A CONDITIONAL OFFER. "I will give you a conduotorskip on the road on one condition,” saia the saperin tendon t. Whatoonditlonis that, sir?" asked the applionnt. "That when yon got ready to buy • house uud lot you buy of me. I have • llttlo place iu the suburbs that I know will suit yon." THE GAS METER. "Bo you think yonr meter doesn’t register properly ?” I am sure it does not." Woll, we are so busy now we oan’t attend to it. We wifi send yon a man up about the middle of next month." "I wish you would. I am sure it does not register more than half the ga* I burn.” Eh 1 Just wait a minute. I’ll send a man right up with yon now to test it 1”—Chicago News. NO TROUBLE ABOUT IT. A member ot the Select Committee of the Senate, appointed to find oat the bteel-produoing powers of foundries aud (aotorios in the United States, met Travers nt Newport. “How do you do, Senator ?” said Mr. Travers, "and what are yon doing nowadays ? Still at work ?” "Yes,” said the Senator. "We *re trying to find firms that oan prodnoe steel enongh for big guns, and platings for cruisers.” Mr. Travers has a little stutter. "N—n—o troublo about that, I sup pose; o—oapaoity for steal always great enough for a government oontraot.’’ THE RETORT COURTEOUS. “Well, Mr. Smith,” said a large soap munnfaoturer at a fashionable evening party to a journalist, who was there a* u gnesl nnd not as a reporter, “I sup pose yon will write up a full acoount of tho affair to-night for yonr paper ?” "Fossibly,” replied the journalist, foroiug a smile. “And by tho way,” he added, “I wish you would juBt book my order for a couple of oases of lanndry soap.” TIME TO CALL THIS IN. “Mrs. Sharp, oau’t you find anything else to do than blow me np continually, whenever I say that Dinah isn’t a good cook, and yon should discharge her and get another ?” “Well, John, if you don’t like the way I take it, I’ll find some other way to ‘blow you up,’ as yon call it," "How ?” “Well, Dinah might, for instanoe." AN AGREEMENT. “I am tired of life,” said a young fellow. "I havo met with nothing bnt continued disappointments, and I can see no use in prolonged existence.” "I don’t see why you should live,” rejoined an acquaintance. "I don’t know that you have ever done any good in the world, and oan’t see why yon want to live." "What I” exclaimed the disheartened man, who had been looking for sym pathy. "Don’t see why I should live? Confound yonr ugly picture, I’ve as muoh right to live as you have.” There are times when it will not do to agree with a friend,— Arkansaw Trav eller. $$H§E§1

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Mercury. (Sandersville, Ga.) 1880-1???, April 07, 1885, Image 1