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Newspaper Page TextThe Mercury. Entered an second-clans matter at the Sander settle Postoffice, April 27, 1880, SANDERSVILLE, WASHINGTON COUNTY, GEORGIA. —POBUSIIED BY— A. J- JERNIGAN, rnOPUIETOtt AND PUBLISHER. Subscription $1*60 per Year THE MERCURY. A. .1. JERNIGAN, Proprietor. VOLUME VI. DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. SANDF.RSVlIil.E, GA.. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1(1, 188(1. *1.60 per Annum. NUMBER 42. The Mercury. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY. MOTZOat ••“ALL COMMUNICATIONS in tended for this paper must be accompa nied by the full name of the writer, not necessarily for publication, but at a guarantee of good faith. Wo arc in no way responsible for the views or opinions of correspondents. tsity of Sandem’lli. Manor. J N. Gilmore. Aldermen. W. I!. Thigpen. 11. I'. 1!(/Ikihion. ,1. it. 1 omiins. A. M. Mayo. S. G. La NO. CM. C. C. UltoWN. Treasurer. J. A. Irwin. Marshal. ,1. E Wf.diion. Town of ennlllt. Inteiidant. John U, Harman. A Uicr men. J. F. Merkison. J. D. Franklin. J. M. Drown. J. H. Pritchard, Clerk. s. n. n, marbit. Marshall, 3. 0. Hamilton. A. C. WRI6HT~ ~ ATTORNEY AT LAW, 105 Ray St., Savannah, fin. tarWiU practice in all tho • ourta* II. |. DARIUS, 0- 0- BROWN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ■andamvlUa, Sa. HINES & ROGERS, Attorneys at Law, SANDERS VILLE, GA., Will praotlc* lu J>o oountlea of Washington, Jefferson, Johnson, Emanuel and Wilkinson. »ntl in (he U. 8. Court* for theSouthern DUh trlctof Georgia. Will «ot ms upents in buying, selling or renting Hen I Estate. Offloe oh West side of PnbUe Beoere> Oct ll-u H. N. H0LLIF1ELD, Physician and Surgeon. ■udoavUla, aa. I).. >1. B. Hollifield, tsnitiii mu imm, Having receully graduated at the Unlver- "i Mmij Uiiu and returned home, now 0 ,ei * Ids profeNSionnl services to the citizens l' 1 Wandersvllle and vicinity. Office with Or. H n Holllfleld, next door to|Mrs. Bayne’s millinery store. 0. w H WHITAKER, DENTIST, SandsrsTllls, da. TICK M3 CASH. Oflloe at lila Realdenca, on Harris strast. Avrll M, lug. UR. J. H. MAY, SANDEHSVILLE, GA. vtlfis i,j 8 services to the citizen* of Sanders- iii( and adjacent country. All culls, day or 1 Y‘ { ' wi) l bo promptly responded to. Office ms residence on Mrs. Pittman's lot, corner oanis and Church streets. jaul5-1884tf. BUY YOUR SPiTlCLKis, SPECTiCLES, FROM JERNIGAN, I. mil no without our Trad, Hark On hand and for s.i;e» HTECJTACLE8. NOSE GLASSES. ETC. Watches, Clocks And JEWELRY RRPAimn BY Jbsriticaxt. MUSIC, MUSIC ao TO— JERNIGAN llliu, Bows, 1 Strings, Rosin Boxes, Etc. Machine Needles, Oil and Shuttles, FOll ALL KINDS OF MACHINES, for sals. I will also order parts of Mnonlnes that get broken, for which new pleoes are wanted. A., J. JEHNIGAN. COll WEATHtR IN tARNEST. JlMlirn ANnniHON, ITINtl WINKS AND KNOW Itltlt'TH TilHOIT44 IIOCT 1 UK COUNTKY. • Im* Inti Late of Macon, HARRIS & ANDERSON, A11 orne.yM At l.aw, HANDERSVII.I.E, GA. Will prnctice in tlm Middle Circuit, and in tlio ••‘•until « MirroiindinH WnHliington, Special atteiiiiou given to Commercial Law. (jun23-ly Tl. LANGMAUF, Sttoi^ey i\t SANDKKSVILLK, (}\ ; h. i>. mans. «i. »>. kva.*8, :a. EVAMi A l VA V8, Af torno.y « At I ,nvv, BANDE1IHV1M.E, OA. F. H SAFFOLDr ATTORNEY AT LAW',' 8AN1JEH8VIU.E, OA. Wi'i Pincl ce ill nil the Courts of tho Middle .! ’i 1 ” in Dio connfirs furiouuding " i gi n. Hpecinl at ten I ion j veil to com- men .1 Inw. O. H. Flos BBS nil Hitler ('old Hollowed In finny !*lnren by n Warm Wove. Tha snowstorm which prevails 1 the other day in many sections of tlio country was at tended by intense cold, in uorno regions tho severest of tho season. Tho followiug dis patches from various points indicate the su- verity of tho weather: Now York city: The driving snow storm that begnu at 10:45 a. m. Wednesday kept up, with aii intermission of three hours early yes terday morning, until shortly after 1 o’clock In the afternoon. The fail was 4 0-10 iuches. and all night long the wind scattered it all over. At 5 o’clock in the morning the mer cury droppod to 2 5-10 degrees aIkjvu zero.the coldest temperature during the winter, and ut no time did it rise above nine degroos, ac cording to the signal service thermometer. Winchester, Va.: The snow is fifteen inches deep and the weather is,very cold. A high northeaster is prevailing and the snow is drifting badly to-night. The present blizzard is almost ns severe ns the last, all country roads being eomnletoly blockaded. Washington: An nge lcolored couple named George and Mary Mason were found by the police this morning i i their h >uso in the Buburlw of this city frozen to do it h. Lynchburg, Va.: Snow has fallen since Wodnesduy noon, uud is now twelvo inchos deep. Advices from tho scut Invert (Million of tlio State indicate unparalleled snow storms and report snow from two to tliroo foot (loop. Baltimore, Mil.: The snow, which liegun to fall at 1 oVIook yoiterday morning, con tinued up to 11 o’clo k to day when thero was tho first indication of a change. The fall was about seventeen inches, the heaviest since 1850. Trains from every direction are delayed, and the navigation on Chosajxtak# Bay and its tributaries were entirely sirs* ]tended. The snow is driftiug badly in posed situations. Wilmington, Del.: About fourteen im-lief of suow have fallen lu re an I il is now drift* ing badly. Advice* from down tho iKmitf Hula report a generally hcavi.*r storm than at this place. The ten»|»ernture was four d#» gives above zero at 7 o’clo .vt this morn ing. The country roads arc almost impassable. 1*01*80118, Ivan: The late fall of snow was much the heaviest known in this locality. Is Indian Territory it is said to lie much heavier than here, having fallen there to the depth of two feet on a level. Rep irts from West* Kansas indicate great human suffering and great losses of stock. The farmers in this vicinity have oxj>erienced coiiHideruhlo loss of stock, princijKilly in hogs and sheeps Wagon reads aro com pie t -ly bio ‘kudo I. Nyaok, N. V.: This was Hie coldest day of the soason here. Tho Hudson river is again frozen entirely over this evening. Through out KockJun 1 county to-day the mercury ranged from 5 t > 11 degroos b*-lo\v zero. Now|>ort, it. J.: Ncw|K)i*t is ex|»eriuncing tho heaviest snow •.torm for ssveral years. Hiuco ysstorduy afternoon from ten to twelve iuches of snow havo fallen and have drifted badly. The thermometer fell to within a few degrees of zero this morning. Toronto, Out.: Fair cold weather con tinual throughout Canada. Tho temperature varies in ()uturio from I t > 35 degrees lielow zero, and in (Jueboe from 11 to 25 below. In New Brunswick it is from ti d 'gives abovo to H degrees lielow, and in Nova Beotia from 8 to li degrees above. The weathor is moder ating in the extreme northwest provinces, but continues very cold in M mitoba. The storm wont out to sea and hovered off the coast, being central hotweon Atlautic city and Norfolk, high winds prevailing all along the coast f r« >in .la* *kson vil le. Fla., to East- port, Mo., uud blowing from tliirty-flvo to forty-six miles an hour. Tho velocity at Sandy Hook was thirty-seven at 8:30 r. M., and forty-six was the maximum. It was cold and storm)' along tho lakes, tho temperature being down to zero at Buffalo. Erie and Fort Huron, 5 below at Oswego, 1 below* at Rochester, mid 8 below at Alpina, Mich., at 8 i\ m. Dispatches received at Now York stated that the thermometer at Moorhead, Minn., tho coldost place in the United .States, grew over a dozen degrees warmer in as many hours, opening tho day at 82 below. Fort Garry, Manitoba, rose from 21 to 7 below, an l St. Vincent, Minn., also grew* 17 degrees warmer. In the West, whore the warm wave started there was a de ided improvement in the weather, and at Dead woo. 1, which lias been frozen up all winter, it was 10; Helena.Mon., 48. and Choyonne, Wyo., 50 below. FURS AND 8KIN*. A Healthy Condition of the Alarkrt In All Kinds of Hklns and Furs Reported* Latest report* state tli i for furs and skins iu tlio New York market there has been a good demand and price* are ruling higher and firm on most kinds: North, West South and No. I quality and Fss*. Soutlnve. t. Fisher p no «»?io no ootnM on BImcu Hour ri mi o *20 no s Onto * n Cub* and Vuiirlinir* 4 o.ilo S 00 i n.iro r> oo Otter, each 4 ft I > S 00 8 0 I o 5 0) Hnivor, par lb !l 0 to 4 00 *2 O ho *2 5 i Mink 441(0 1 00 SOI » Si Hod cox 1 mo 1 7-'» 8iH>* I 0 • Grey Fox 1 .SHo 1 75 80to 1 8» Itnccoon, e irh .. TSto 1 00 40to U.i Skunk, b nek 1 ‘25to l :t ) DO.o 1 15 Skunk, nalf-strlpcd 7f*to 85 55to 70 Skuns,striped 40 n 45 35 o to Skunk, white 15;o *20 |-j r 15 Opo^flum (frn<li rn‘ .. T.ito 17 0.. l; Muskrat, M .... utn \> i p, a DEATH OF DEN, HANCOCK, ’N Tin* li!N 1C OF PROMOTION. ilfllrers Who Kxpert to Profit by (tenoral Hancock’s llratli. Tho death of General Hancock and. tho re- fin ment of Pope, which will take effect on tho Dth of March, will cause two vacuncios in this ip*ado of general officers, and promotions all along the line. Thero is already considerable speculation in regard to tho principal vacancy. The general impression now is that Howmd and Teriy, who are first and second respective ly, in tiio* line of seniority, will be made m *jor gonerals, hut tho friends of Crook and Miles feel that their chances sre equally good. Tho following officers a> e applicants for promotion to tho gia le of brigidier general: (Monels RngeiyEighteen It in'mtiy; Otis, Tw. ntieth I infamiy; Alenin, l*if.li o.i\a ry;Carlin, lourth j infant.v: Hatch, Ninih cavalry; Carr. Sixth j cavalry*; Bradley, Thirio.-uth infantry; Biocke, Third infantrv* McCook. Sixth infantry; Wil cox, Twelfth infantry; Black. Two ity-tlurd in- fan try; Potter, Twenty-fourth infonty; and Ayres, Second artillery* Most of these appli cations were filed iu anticipation of the relieve- uent of Major General Pope and before tho death of Uoneral Hancock, Till-: Git HAT *OI.D| l(|t CALLED TO HIM FINAL UKMTING PLACE. The .Sudden Demise of the Senior Dlnjnr Genernl of tho (lulled Mtntes Army. General Hancock’s death was the result of a malig nsnt carbnn 1 • on tho hack of Ida ueck, which had confined him to bed for sovoral d‘.vs. No serious alarm was folt, however, until shortly before he expired. In front tT No. H Governor's Island, an or derly on . uesday was pacing to and fro. It was the late residence of Major-General Win field H-ott Hancock, who had died therein at 2.35o’c’ock. If the getier.il had lived until the 14th day ,of tho present.month he would have completed his sixty-second year, having bet li horn at Norristown, Pennsylvania, hob- rtiMiy Mill, 1824. In the recond story froll iooiu, furnished with soldier-like simplicity, lay Dis remains of a general who,as the guards remarked, had led tho troops to more bat tie i tlinn any of his military cvntetnpoitries. Tho death of General Hancock was a surprise 10 his family—it was a shock to them as to his friends. .Twenty day* ago he Carted on business con* nected with the department of the Atlantic to Pliil-tdclphia, where lie remained two days, and Dk n proceeded to Washington. In Wash ington a boil devoloprd on Die hack of hi• neck. 11 was lanced on January 3 )th, and as tho general was much inconvenienced by its pres ence, ho roturuod to New York several days mu ner than lie had designed. During tf>e first week of February the boil developed into a malignant carbuncle, whFli prevented rest or sleep. Dr. Jaucway was called in attendance, and it w> a not until marked wcakneai had resulted from the presence of the carbuncle that the surgeon discovered that General Htnoock was uffeiing from diabetes. Dr. Janeway called iu consultation Dr. Hutherlatid, medical di rector of tho department, and I)r. I). M. Htiin- ■on, of New York. Tho medical men conclu ded Monday that thocaso was as-liming a very a 1 rious form. At 10 o’clock Monday night, be fore going away, Dr. Janeway found his pa th nt in good spirits and ah e to nsdst hints* If, and liu left him apparently Improved and in charge of Hospital Htoward ll'binson. At 6:45 Tuesday morning Mrs. Hancock dis patched an orderly for Dr. Jam-way, as *sho feared Die general was sinking rapidly. The doctor came apt eddy, and found the general in s coaiatoss state, with fcoblo pulse and all tlio premonitory symptoms of death. The doctor summoned the two physicians alroady named. Hypodermic injections of brandy and ether, amt of carbonate of ammonia and brandy, wero administered. Those, however, only alle viated tho suffering of the soldier, who gradu ally hh111» hw.i.v until death was touche l at 2:31 p. in., an stated. THE IIOUK OF DEATH. In the words of l)r. Jmiowav. “Die general went down to ths close of his life liko a person descending a flight of stalls." When death came three physicians and the hospital stew ard « lily were present. Mr*. Ifdicock was tlu-n in tho adjoining room. The general leaves his widow ami three grandchildren, two girls and one hoy, named Mara, Ada and Gwyune, tlio issue of the g( m-ral’s son Bussell, who died December 26, 1HS4, slid whoso loss the general lias ever since mourned. Major- Genrral Whippl ■ wdl assume command of ths department, supported by Lieutenant-Oolonel Jackson, until tlie pmddtiit shall appoint Gen eral IIHiicoek’s successor from Generals Heho- flold, Terry or Howard. llie tel*gram anmmiiciiig Die dangerous ill- ness of General Hancock waa received by tlio president about 1 p. iu. Tuosda.v, and was read to the cabinet, then in session. Just aft er the cabinet adjoinned, a second telegram was received «t Die white homo convey in 4 tho int*dligence of hi* death. I lio p o-i lent was infonmei and the fl.tg 011 tlio white lmuso was placed at half mast llie presid ut so<>n alter i-sn d the following ox cutive older: ExmrrivR Mansion, Wasiiinoton, February 9, 1886, 4 o’clock p. 111.-The t.diiiga of t. e death of Winfield He itt Hancock, senior major general of tho army of the United .States, has jm>t l>een received. A patriotic and valiant defender of hi* country, an able and heroic soldier, a spotless ami accomplished g*nDe- man, crowned alike with tin- lauri Is of military renown and t ic liigheat tribute of his fellow- countrymen to Ins worth us a citizen, lie hsa gone to his reward. It is tilting Diat every murk of public respec , should he paid to his memory. Therefore, it is now ordered by the president that the national flag ho dbplayed at half mast upon all buildings of tho executive departments in this city until after hi# funeral shall have taken place. Danikd H, Lamont, Private Secretary. PERSONAL MENTION. General W. T. Bukhman bus decided to to move to New York city. M. Pastedii’h latest notion is the com pulsory inocculution of all dojjs. Mas. Hendhicks is putting lu-r husband’s pa}>era in shupc for Ins bio^raphor, who is st.li to bo selected. Governor H<k;skk, of Montana, is one of the richest mou in tho West. His income is said to he f.'AKJ a day. Secretary Robert Howard, of the Spinners’ Union, r op rose ate Fall River in tho Massa -huHutte Seuate. The now address of General Secretary Fred Turner, of the Knights of Labor, is No. 500 Locust street, Philadelphia. Ex-Sknator Davis, of West Virginia,has giveu $10,000 for tho establishment of a high school at Piedmont, in that Htate. Congressmen Reed, of Maine, and Ixmt- it, of California, were once respectively school teacher and blacksmith in the same California village. Thaddeus Fairbanks, the veteran in ventor of the Fairbanks scales, still lives at St. Johnsbury, Vt., where he recently cele brated his ninetieth birthday. The late Bonnet Smith, of Hulifux, was the richest man in Nova Scotia. Ho was a miser, and cut off his son Tom without a dol lar, and loft twenty dollars a mouth tc sup port his family. Captain Louis Croat, who recently died in New Orleans, was the oldest steamboat mail in Southern waters, his river career hav ing commenced iu 1818 on one of the first boats run by steam. Senator Sawyer, of Wisconsin, one of the great lumber millionaires of the United States, says tho line pine forests of tho Northwest are being rapidly cut away, and that llie best of them will bo used up within twenty years. General Wesley Merritt, the cj.n- mamlautat West point, is a tall man, w.th .-1 round, red face and a light silken musta ..e. Ho stands as straight a• his cadets are in structed to do. He has a form, however,that defies his erect stature iu tho rouuduess of its contour. S. A. Kino, the aeronaut, of Philadelphia, has been appointed balloonist in the office of tho chief signal officer of the army uc Wash ington. Mr. King will make balloon ascen sions occasionally to take observation-; of ths weathor at elevated points. Ho will also write up aerial navigation iu connection wiih the weather reports. Thomas Sexton, member of parliament for South Sligo, Ireland, whoso recent sp o -h has made friends for his cause, is a printer and journalist. It is said that he posses.-o; a sonorous and graceful style which, while iti- .-•tiuotively literary rather than forensic, novel' fails t > fascinate. He talks easily and is never at mult for precisely tho word or phra-o ho wants. Two Men Killed. At tho Mecklenburg ironworks in Charlotte, N. C., Wednesday afternoon, J. Springs and Will Austin, both colored, were instantly killed by the fulling of the elevator, and S. Browu, also colored was badly injured. .'Smiles are not only the moat becon. • "K of all adornments, but also the leas’, expensive, TIIK NEWS. Inlprcsling Happenings from all Points. KASTUKN AND MIDDLE MTATIM. ▲ cutter belonging to the ooeon staam- •hlp Donau was run dowu by a tug in the North river at New York, and the eleven men in the small boat wore tfcrown into the water. Midshipman Kernel], the officer in charge of thocuHsr and five seamen wora drowned, The Connecticut lower house has paseed a resolution appropriating $10,000 for a monu ment over the gruvo of the revolutionary hero, General Israel Putnam A dynamite magazine at a shaft on the new New York aqueduct exploded the other nisht- with terrific force. A watchman was killed, and much damage was done to prop erty within a radius of a quarter of a mile. Hamuel Willi a mr, a f armor, and his wife were burned to death in their dwelling at Trenton, N. Y. The New York horse car conductors and drivers have been successful in a strike for a reduction in the hours of lnbor to twelvo hours a day. A train at Rutlcr, Peun., dashed into a sleigh containing (Thnstinn Daubenspock, his wife and n Mrs. Harper, smash ing the vehicle to piocos and fatally tujuring all throo occu pants. Jam eh Clarke, a refractory prisoner in the Riverview penitentiary, Pittsburg, stab- lied and seriously injured three of the keep* Federal Figures. STATEMENT of THE NATIONAL DKIIT DURING JANUARY. The following is n r.capitulation of tho national debt statement issued for January: Inteirut-bearing Debt. Bonds nt 4 1-2 per cent $350,000,000 00 Bonds nt 4 per cent 737,747,600 00 Bonds nt 3 per cent 104,190,500 00 Refunding certificates at 4 |>er cent 217,800 00 Navy pension fund at 3 per (*eht 14,000,000 00 Pacific railroad bonds nt fi percent 64,023,512 00 NOUTII AND WENT Afire at Jackson, Miss., destroyed the principal hotel, tho bank and several store houses, involving a loss of $100,000. A knowhlide near Broekouridgo, Col., buried three men uuder a hundred loot, of snow and rock. The flames have consumed a large railroad freight house, together with much freight and twenty-five or thirty cars, at Grand Haven, Mich., causing an estimated lorn of $250,000. William Oates, with his wife and six- moutbs-old baby was attending a religious ravival iu a hall at Dora, Iud., when ho was snot dead hv his brother-in-law, Charles Pavey. Iu the confusion Mrs. Oates dropped her baby, and it was trampled to death. The Ilitzinger Brothers’ bank,a private in stitution at Indianapolis, Ind., has failed for about $450,000. Many of the depositors are poos Gormans. In a collision between two engines near Btaunton, Va., Fireman Hillings was instant ly killed and four other men seriously in jured. The Deadwoed and Rapid City (Dakota) moil stage was robbed near the latter place and the registered letters carried off. Bolling Parker, of Nansemond county, Va., whilp insano killed his sister and fatally wounded his wife with an axe. A rabid dog in Parsons, Kan., bit several pel-sons, young and old. a few horses and many dogs before it was killed. Write workmen on the Pacific coast are Itoycnttiug ('hiaene labor so effectually that thousands of Chinamen have been discharged. Preparations to fend large numbers of unem ployed Chinamen back to China are under wav. Mikh Louisa Perkins is suing E. J. Bald win, the California milPonaire. in the Ix>s Angeles (Cal.) courts for $500,000 for breach of promise of mnrriago. The alleged discovery of Rilver on a farm at YattavUle. Ohio, has produced great ex citement in that neighborhood, and land has doubled iu value. WAMIIINHTON. The Presideut mid Miss Cleveland and members of the cabinet with their wivos ac companied the remains of Mrs. Bayard from tho lamily residence of Secretary Bayard to the railroad de|>ot, whence the casket was putupon a train for removal to Wihniugton, Del., where the iutormeut took place. General David Hunter, of tho United States army (retired), died a few days since iu Washington, aged eighty-four years. Tub Supreme Court of the United Htatas 1ms granted a writ of error to review the legality of the conviction of a prisoner —the defauliiug cashier of an Illinois hank—who had been Kidnapped in Peru. Chief Geronimo, tho notorious Auache chief, has surrendered to tho United States troops. The commissioner of pensions suys the es‘ tinmted cost of pensions for tho noxt fisca* year is $75,800,000. James H. Hough, a member of the United States secret service detective force, shotund instantly killed himself at his rosidenco in Washington. No cause was assigned for the act. A Washington dispatch says that “the decision of the House committee on expendi tures iu tlio department of justice that it hai no authority under the Hnnlmck resolution to go beyond the simple question of the gov ernment’s expenditures in the telephone eases will lead totue ordering of another inviwtiga- tion. It is proposed by some members to go into tho entire history of ull tho telephone coses, the Bell, Pan Electric,and the rest, and ascertain how far officers of the government under the present and preceding adminis trations have been involved.” The House committee on commerce has agreed to report favorably a bill for the ap pointment or a comniissio 1 of three to visit Mexico, tho Central Amoriean states ami Brazil for the purpose of investigating the methods pursued in these countries for the protection of the poople against yellow fover. Foreign. A mutiny occurrod among the boys on board a reformatory ship nt Liverpool, the lads at u signal attacking tho officers with firearms and other weapons. Eighteen boys and two officers wero wounded before the mutiny wau checked. George L. Lorillard, a noted Auioricnu sportsman, died a few days ago nt Nico, F ranee, aged forty-thre j years. There are fears of a revolution in Hpaiu. The Frmci chamber of deputies have voted that too crown jewels shall be sc’ J for tho benefit of aged laboring men. Geronimo Caves In. ' I’.U IIIM IIII F AND II1M FOLLOW- BUM t UK I KMIKIt. Additional news from the seat of war con firms the report of tlio Apache chief (jeron imo’s unconditional surrender to the United Slates troops. I he rur lias been iu progress since may, ISSfi, and troop* have l>eon in the Southwest Hold smoothed*! of that month It lias been ono of the hardest wars on tb > regular service Unit ever occurred in ths est. None but those acquainted wiDi the country can realize tho hardships. file Indians wero lullr equtpiw l, and wh < i their I, irses’ root bocum* tender on long in i -'lie. liny made raw-hide shoes, almost as ilu-ajle a, iron, uud wore thus enabled to I stm -ct 10 'lunuingcavalry Being familia -v/iui the wii ly llie Indiaus Iral tlio soldiora n weury and mi -orla- i cliaso They divided into small bunds and raided in all dirocljo-H. Ceiling- to a ranch, tli -y would kill tho settlor an I family, mutilate the victims beyond ro -og li.fju, steal provi sions und drive oil’all tin li c-ses. Chief Oero- nimo was tho first to g > on the war-oath with Ills bind of l»u Tny - were Chiri -iiaba Apa-lies, t ie r-c n- nantof Clnichisi's celebrated lighter, fr .m Ban Carlo; n.;eney, in Arisen ’ The tribo was always warliuc. It invor lived on tlio reservation prop v. but iiu i-;r tho control of tlio agency. Tin (Jhiriruli.iu, worn s altered til rough the mountains within the limits of the rcsorvai, in it. it wa i imnoisilile to toll the exact number. l-Vom a i ac ountt there must have tieen nearly a hundred. Ciu-diui c .i. -nlaee rli * mi uberof tlioaa who wero kibe I by then ileid. during their last raid at 17(1 Many or the killed wore wo ii--,i h ., i ! • id-lily i- -;ii ■ -b d conn-* -tious in tho luist. If tli»people o Now Mexico un.l Arizona are nv-iittoa to hive their way, Geronim y i . tV|w« w it fiange 1. The New Cui'idnaL Archbishop Corrigan, • f Now York, has a cablegram fr in R*>:u . mm u .ring that Aroii- bishop Gibbon.. .,( Bi i nn><- . »vili bo create.l cardinal at tlu- co:uJj,g cnuaiatorv. Principal $1,260,770,412 11 Interest 8,283,980 11 Total $1,909,063, Debt on which intoreat has comcvI since maturity: Print-ipal ... 8,334 Int4*reet 301, Total $8,525, Debt Hearing no Interest. OM demaiul and legal tender notea $346,788, Certifleatea of deiiosit 14,590, Gold cert I flea tea 115,2-84, Bilver certiflentea 80,761, Fractional currency, loas $8,375,0-54, (-stiniftted aa loflt or dmtroyed 0,959, ,755 26 179 83 984 59 ,690 00 ,000 00 ,951 <M) 1109 00 153 77 Principal $578,834,401) 77 Total Debt. Principal $1,837,438,577 011 Into rent 8,465,109 44 Total $1,845,023,686 47 I^ess caeli Items available for reduction of the doht 231,451,551 B Lee» reserve held for re demption of United Htate* uotes 100.000,000 00- 881.4-51,551 33 Total debt lean available cash items 1,514,472,135 15 Net rnah in the Treasury.... 70,689,863 24 Debt cash in the Treasury February I, Ikmii 1.434,783,273 91 Debt loss cusli in thelVeasury January 1, 1886 1,448,454,826 73 Decrease of debt during tho month (Vis.'i in the Trhtst Available for reduction of tho public debt: Gold neld for gold certifi cates actually outstand ing Silver helil forsllvercertill- (•at<*H actually outstand ing United HtAtes notes held for certificated of deiioait actually outNtandiug .... Cash held Tor matured debt and intercut mi | a id Fra ti( $8,672,553 81 115,284,051 00 89,701,009 00 14,500,000 00 11,809,864 70 5,120 03 Total available for mliiction of debt $331,451,651 33 Deserve Fund. Held for redemption of United Htatas notes, acta Jail. 14, 1875, and July 13, 1882 100,000,000 00 Unavailable for reduction of t he debt: Fractional «iRel com $39,013,093 71 Minor coin.. 531,948 86— 26,545,943 57 Certificates held as cash 58,399,476 00 Net rush balance on band.. 79,089,869 24 Total cash iu t!:eT- \i r.iry as nhown by Trcamr- er’s general account.. $418,986,839 13 The following is a comparative statement of the receipts and expenditures of tho Uni ted States. RECEIPTS. January. Since Source, 1886. July 1. 18S5. Customs $14,492,954 90 $110,322,399 37 Internal rev.. 8,214,131 9 1 67.038,070 95 Miscellaneous. 9,930,771 00 14,152,508 86 Total $24,737,857 80 $101,513,808 48 January. Since 1885. July 1. 1881. Customs $14,522,102 15 $107,093,931 54 Internal rov.. 8,095,816 40 65,910,533 97 Miscellaneous. 3,794,650 25 16,540,854 70 .$35,873,12-8 80 $168,551,319 27 EXPENDITURES. Sim lH'Mt. , $12,378.«03 48 .. 1,257,940 91 ,. 9,210,421 8) 53,131 19 Dinar//. 1HS5. Ja .$11,379.1 .’ 9,212,V) . <21,1 VU.*1 iJ $154,170,938 84 July 1, 1885. $89,309,634 HI 34,843,846 58 34,354,541 50 $151,401,622 89 Since. July 1, 1884. $90,273,290 00 29,000,087 98 34,901,054 86 Total. Ordinary. lVnd ns., Interest.. Ordinary.. Pen dons.. Inter -st... Total MUSICAL AND DBAMATIC Mmb. Nilnron has just refused $30,000 for fifleoBi concerts iu Russia because it is so cold. Mims Kate Field has l>een giving a very successful series of lectures aud readings in tho West. M. Lasnkli.k. the great baritone of the Paris Grand ()pera, is ubout to quit Paris on a tour through Europe. Hol Kmitii Ruhhki. has l>een doing a good bnsiiKsi on tlio real this season with his new comedy, “Felix McCusick.” Friends of music iu Boston propose U» build mi opera house iu which grand ojiera may lie adequately represented. Edwin Booth is playing on engagement at the Fifth Avenue theutre.aud I^awrenceBar rett nt 1he Star theatre, New York. One of Kate Chase Sprague’s daughters, it is reported, is to l>ocoine an actress. It is the eldest, and she is reputed a very talented girl. Fanny Davenport says that after a week’s playing of tho arduous part of “Fedora” she Is perfectly prostrated aud “tumbles all to pieces.” Hacked evening concerts prevail exten sively in German churches now. just ns ora torios are frequently to be lieurd in Euglisl churches. Miss Nettie Carpenter, the youthful Amoriean violinist, ufter an extended aud highly successful tour in the larger cities oi England, has returned to London. Lester Wallace has iu preparation a new comedy which ho will produce ut his' theatre iu New York later on iu the season, in which he will probably appeur himself. Herr Albert Niemann, tlie great Ger man tenor, will represent Herr G.udehus as Tristan in the Bayreuth festival plays next summer—a part iu which he roumins un- equullod. Mmk. Judicwos the cause of a duel be tween two editors in tlio city of Mexico ou the occasion of her recent visit to the capital of the sister republic. They disugroad us to the merits of the actress. No little seMsutiou hus beeu created iu the musical worlc by the violent protest of Cardinal-Archbishop Caverot, of Lyons, against Massenet’s grand opera “Herodiade,” ou the plea of its lieing u travesty of the Scriptures. The youngest performer iu the Loudon theatres is th* Want that takes part in the baby song in tb* lust act of “My Sweetheart.” It is eighteen months old, and is tho fourteenth child of a working gunmaker in Edinburgh. It.isputio lied every afternoon ut four, is brought to tii ? tho Rr - at nine, and is in bod again half n i hour liter, earn n^ for this duty, it is said, more tunn its father. A Mail Out in Two. Henry Thiolau, a farmer iving at Oiseyvilie, Ul., on Wednesday steppo 1 mto a planing mill and sat down on a raised counter covering a buz. saw, which was not running at the time. While sitting, conversing with hoiuj frionds, the saw started aud a few moments afterward i the oounter moved to its customary position, llie saw flashed up through Dio slit in the i counter and cut Thiolun in two. Ho died in stantly. . 1 A SONG OF THE FOUH SEASONS, When tipring conies laughing, by vale and hill, B v wind flower walking and daffodil— Sing stars of morning, sing morning skies, sing bine of speedwoll, and my love’s eyes. When comes the summer, full leaved and strong, And gay birds gossip, the orchard long— Sing hid, sweet honey, that no bee sipe; Hing red, red roses, and my love’s lips. When autumn scatters the leaves again. And piled Rhenves bury the broad wheeled wain— Hing flutes of harvest, where men rejoice; Hlng rounds of reapers, and my love’s voice. But when comes winter, with hail and storm, And red fir© roaring and ingle warm— Bing first snd going of friends that part; Tbon sing glad meeting, and my love’s b eart. — Austin Dobson. PINKIE’S REVENGE. ItY II KI.KN .IACKHON. 1 ‘What a perfoct ihnmo that alic got hero to-day!" "Sh eh—, sho might hear you!” "Notteenee! Bhc le down in the re- coptlou room. I don’t suppose, If sho is from tho Imckwoods, she 1ms got cars that can hoar through doors.” "Girls, 1 nm nshsmed of yon. Mow j cost loss than $1,000. can von bo so unfeeling townrd your own "Yes,” said Pinkie, nonchainntly. cousin! ' ^ J “Ma likes ’em host of all she’s got. “I don’t cnee, irnimms; sho is sure to Thoy’re ma’s. 1 liko flowors better. I’m bo uwkward_ and dowdy, llow can wo great on aitificlal flowors; always wonr 'em nvnrv rlio know I can. It will teach them a good lesson. But I’ll have to work like a Trojau to get the dress ready. Lot mo see what I hnvo got that will do, 11a! I have it! That old tableaux dross will ho just the thing.” "How lucky I brought It!” olio chuckled, as sho shook out tho folds of the white muslin of the most nntiquated country fashion. "Now I can go to alcop, and rest oaay for an hour. ‘Awk ward and dowdy,‘—that is what I will bo,” and In flvo minutes mischiovous Pinkie Bent was sound asleep. "Anxioty and vexation bad mado Car rie ill, and it wna with a most unbecom ing flush on her harassed face that she appeared In the drawing room a few moments before the dinner-hour. Them •at the cousin from Knnsns? Was over such a figure seen in a New York draw ingroom before! A plain will to muslin, mado in tho ahophordesa style, very full and very short, scarlet stockings, a broad scarlet sash, and worst of all, bn tho hend a turban of white muslin, with a scarot poppy flaunting in front! This is what the malicious Pinkie had dnno with horsolf, whoso trunks wero full of exqulsito French gowns such as her cousins had nover owned and not often seen. Mio knew at least that tho opals on her soft whito nook would command a certain sort of respect, oven front inhospitable relatives. "Thank noaven she woro thorn! That will show people she nt loast has money. That ncckiaco couldn't have have her at the dinner table to-night! 1 shall die of mortification to havo to In troduce her to Mr. Morris is our cousin.” "Perhaps alto will be loo tired to come down to dinner after such a long ride. It is a little nwkwnrd to add another to a set dinner pnrty.” 'Oh, mamma, bless you for tho em ovory day. The guests wore already arriving, Mr. Bent himsolf among thorn, ho having, according to the fashion of New Y'ork business men, arrived homo only in tlmo to dress for dinnor. His heart was so full of affectionate welcome for his niece, whom he remembered well as a bountiful thought! You can toll her thnt she la child of ten, only half ador.on years ago, too tired. ^ ou can arrange it, I know." that he did not at first note anythingIml "Well, I I) try." tho lovely upllftod oyes and thonlfcction- Tliese weio the soutencoa which fell on tho ears of Priscilla Bont aa she sat alone, waiting to see the aunt and cousins whom she had come ejl the way from Kansas fo New York to visit, of whose' welcome sho folt as suro as if she had known them all her life. It was by a blunder of the servant that sho had been shown dl- reotly up stairs into tho drawing-room, which communicated liy folding doora ate voioo. As tho dinner progressed, even unoh. servant Mr. Bent became aware that his nioce's attire was not what It should bo, and that hor voice was too loud. "But tho women folks can soon straighten that nil out, and the child's as pretty as a picture.” So alio thought the Hon. Mr. Morris, who, to C'aiTie’s vexatipn, on being told by hor that tho young lady in white was with tho room whom woro sitting niotlie,- » cousin, who had arrived most inoppor- nnd daughters. timely from Kansas, had exclaimed: "Pinkie! What a name I" continued , "From Kansas! llow delighted lam, the first speaker. "Who evor heard of 'i That is tho Slate of all others I nm most such a name, except for a dog!" ' interested in sooing. 1 am going out "Her name is Priscilla," replied tho there In the spring. If alt Kansas ladies mother, “but Pinkie was given to tier by . hive so wonderful a complexion as your her father, when sho was a little girl, on conaln, that is another reason for visiting account of her pink chocks." 1 the region. I’rny, present me to hor, "Well, I will call hor Priscilla." will you! I should like to ask hor many "And I too.” questions. Perhaps, ah”—ho stammered "Your father will not liko ir," said 1 muiorc of dlmdunce Mrs. Bent. "But we must go down.” nnd audacity ono often sees In linglish- A swift rush of three women dowu (he men, "perhaps your mother will he so staircase, three loud cxclumatlons of very good as to let mo have tlio ploasuro dismay nt tho sight of the empty rocop- of sltling by hor sldo nt dinner—that is, tion room, looks of dismay and a smoth- if it will not disarrange your plans.” ered whisper of voxalion. "I am quite sure mamma will not rc- “How stupid of Bon! Do you auppoio liquish tho ploasuro of having you chiof- shn heard?” ly to herself during dinnor,” quickly re- Thcso wero the opening scenes in the spondod Carrie, her heart full of auger •wift little drama which hero began so nnd mortification. Nevertheless, several inautniciously under Mr. Silas Bent's times in the course of the dinngr, Mr. roof this morning. And next to these Morris heard the shrill voice, nnd followod one which seemed almost n thought to himself, "What a pity tho i 'ustillcation of nil that the Misses Bant American voice is so high-pitchod!" ad said in regard to their cousin. When tlio gentlemen joined tho ladies Slowly rising to her foot, grasping her in the drawing room Mr. Morris looked umbrella firmly in her left hand, rose • oagerlv for the Kansas cousin. Not see- tall, au excccdiug tall young woman, ing her, he accosted Mrs. Bent with truo who exclaimed In a nasal voico, "Woll, j Kngllsh bluff ness: "I do not see your I was jest a cornin’ to look yo up. I niece from Kansas; I hope sho has not didn't know us that line black gontlcmaii gone; I was counting on talking with o’ vourn had condeicended (o let you her all the rost of the evening. ” know I was here. I’m most tired to With mingled resentment and coufu- doath, I toll yon; four days an' four sion, Mrs. Bent replied: "Mv nioco nights in (he cars is onough to kill an went up stairs immediately nftor dinnor." ox. But I'll be all right as soon's I get In truth, Mrs. Bent was in a stato of my coffee. I reckon break fast's all clcarud norvous bewilderment. AVithout fora away by this time, but 1 don't want moment suspecting tho real reason of much, only a cop of coffee, if the cook Pinkie's withdrawal, sho had perceived ain't thrown it out. I’m real glad to that tho girl was greatly niovod as she •oc you. I s’poso uncle got my letlor, came quickly to her whou they wero on- didn’t ho?” And pausing in her breath- taring tho drawing-room, less speech, pretty Priscilla Bent lookad "Aunt, I must nsk you to excuse mo. sheepishly into the feces of hor equally , 1 am going up stairs to change my •hamc-faccd relatives. If they had not 1 dress; 1 nm not dressed as I should havo been too guiltily disturbed in their own been,” mindi by fears of having bocn overheard “Novor mind, child, novor mind.” in their inhospitahlo comments, they Pinkie was gone might havo detected a strange leok on It did not tako her long to finish hor their Kansas cousin’s fnco, a mixture of transformation touches. The dainty twinkle and terror. But they saw or : white surah silk, with billowy roaches of heard nothing except what so thorough- whito lace from belt to hom, the soft, ly corroborated tholr worst fears. Kven clinging gloves to the shouldors, tho Mrs. Bent herself, who had resolved bo- onal bracelets, the white ostrich feather forehand to l"o thoroughly kind to the fan, the white satin slippers—all wero in child of hor husband's favorite brother, readiness. But at last Pinkie’s hoart was thrown off her balance, nnd, in 1 failed hor. spite of herself, the welcome she gave - "It v.'M a shameful trick to play on was curt and cool. them. I shall cry, I know I shall; and But nothing appeared to daunt the < Pd rather die than cry. before thnt Kng- terribio Pinkie. Radiant good humor | lishman.” shone in her face, her longue ran like a At last she stole dowu slowly, hesitat- clappor, aud when the dinner party was ingly. Black Ben caught sight of her mentioned, Pinkie cried: ' first, and reeled back with excitement. “Not much I ain’t too tired! I’ll just It was an unerring instinct that led bunk down, nnd by (i o’clock I’ll bo as Pinkie, on entering the drawing-room, fresh as n rooster! Wc don’t often get to glide swiftly to her uncle's si le, and • chance to a regular dinner party out in putting both hands into his, say: Kmporia, and I don’t mean lo miss one "Dear I’ncle Kilas, won’t you make my this winter. Say -shall I wear mv ve y peace with aunt, nnd ask your friends best! I’ve rend about tho kind of here to forgive me for masquerading at clothes you New Yorkers wear to dinners, vour dinner !” But I’ve got some A No. I gowns, I tell Before she had bnlf.finished speaking, you. Now, you just show mo my room the company had gathered close around and I’ll go straight to heel an’ stay there hor. till dinner-tiine. You lot your black “I must say,” began Sirs. Bent, in an raau bring me up a tumbler of’milk, will angry tone. But Pinkie went on reso- you, along nbout 1 o’clock, and u lutely: doughnut or hard tack. Pm used to “1 could not resist llie temptation to oatin’ heartily in the middle o' the live up to tlio New Yorker’s idea of n day.” Kansas girl, just for an hour or two. When the door was finally shut upon You know that I was exactly (he sort of Pinkie her aunt aud cousins exchanged ; person you all expected to sec from the looks. West.” bhe gathered courage as she "Horrible!" cried the youugest saw smiles. "Yes, you all know it,” daughter, Carrie, “It’s worse than I embracing the group ia her appealing aver conceived. How could pupu send glance, “aud wc out West all know it. for her?" ! Than, forgive me. You ask them to “Ho lias not seen her since sho was forgive me, dear 1,'hcle Silas, won't ten years old." said Mrs. Bent, dismally, j you!" "Of course lie could not dream she But L'ncle Silas was laughing loo would be like this, lie has always said heartily, lie bent over and kissed her her mother was a charming woman, und jorehead. they lived in Kurope for several years "I ask them all to forgive mu for when she was little. It is horrible, kirsing you," lie said. "A cupital joke, girls!” Pinkie l’ 1 - "Bunk down!" ejaculated I he eldest ' “The best bit of acting 1 ever saw,” daughter, Sophia. 'cried lion. Mr. Morris; “quite clever; “Fresh as a rooster!" echoed Carrie, j very ncal. I'p-ui my word, though, 1 “Mamma, 1 shall go to bed myself and ! do not think now, really, Sliss Bont, 1 be too ill lo appear to-night. I don’t bo- '■ should not have seen through it; I lievo Mr. Morris will ever cress our don’t think you could have deceived threshold again.” i me.” "Then bo is welcome to stay away,” "I should not have tried, replied suid Mrs. Pent, hotly. ’ ' Piekie, very simply. Yet there was a They sounded her as far as they dared. But they never found out. To only onq person did Pinkie ever tell the whole. That was to the Hon. Mr. Morris, nftor she had been for soma weeks his wife. "I thought it was so unjust in thorn, Frank." she said—"so cruet. I'd just give them a lesson, nnd lot them see that manners may bo only skin dcop—easily put on or off. Hut I’d novor hnve dona it, Frank, If I’d Rcon you first—never. I wanted to run out of tlio room us soon as I saw you look at me." "You needn’t havo done so," ropiicd Hon. Mr. Morris, "for I thought as soon as my oves fell on you that I nad novor seen so lovely a fnco bofore.” "Did you, really?" asked Pinkie. "Really,” answered tho lion. Mr. Morris. Animals on tlio Track, "Dogs aro queer animals around loco motives," said an engineer to a New York Times representative. "Onco there was n dog at Milton thatnlwnvs watched for tho train, nnd Whoh it camo had a race with-it, 1 That dog ran alongside thn engine. It was too smnrt to got on tlio track. Ono dny ho started as usuat, but it wns a llttlo further from tho sta tion, and he was running with all his might looking up at the cars trying to I bark, when tho train went over a culvert, and ‘bouse’ went the dog head first down in thu mud nnd wntor several feet. That dog must havo imagined tho train did it, because ho nover after thnt would run a race with it. Onco whllo running at a very fast clip, 1 noticod two llttlo boy* near a house, with » big hull dog. Tho dog was an old bruiser, roady to fight anything. .lust as tho locomotive camo near, tlio boys clapped their hands Bnd shouted to tho dog to 'Go for him.” 1 Tho dog did go for tlio locomotive. The pilot caught him, throw him cloar over iho smoko slack, and when ho camo down ho struck with his back on tho valvo stem, rolled off in tho ditch, and ran for homo without being hurt.” "Isn't it n littlo extraordinary, inquired the reporter, thnt tlio dogxvas not killed?" "Oh, no!" said tho enginocr. “I havo soon chickons on the track run over by tho locomotivo and thoy would come out under the driving wheel without being killed. The wind must have caught them somoliow aud thrown them like a puff ball around without hurting them. When you strike a big object then It il . different. One night a big bull got on tho track. When it saw tho light of the locomotivo ho pawed nnd curled his tall and bellowed, bond down,'ready for bat tle. Wo had no lime to shut down, and the only way to do is io strike such ob jects full force In order to knock them away from tho Irnek. If thoy fall on the : track they nre liable to get under the wheels and throw thocnginc off the rails. So I gnvo hor ‘a few pegs,’ and the ma chine fairly raised from tho track. When it struck the hull it was squnro on the head. Tho big animal was thrown ; twenty or thirty foot, and then rolled down a steep ombnnkment nnd went out of sight. Once in a while a dog will bo thrown with groat force. I saw a dog struck ono day nnd ho socracd to bo nU rolled up. lln wont liko a cannon ball away from tho locomotive, striking a board fence. It broke the board in two i with a crack, nnd that was tlio last we saw of tho dog." A Comanche Chief's Burial. Tho Comanche chief Yellow Bear, wns suffocated recently by gas in a hotel in fort Worth, Texas. As soon as tho body of Yellow Rear could bo taken from a train nt Hnrrold, tho Indians took chargo of it nnd boro it to their camp in the Indian Territory reservation. Tlio friends nnd relatives went through tho most shocking ceremonies at the burial. The squaws slashed their laces nnd bodies until thoy were covcrod with blood, and uttered the most unearthly wails and shrieks. Tho bucks danced tho death dance and chanted tho death song to the departed. Ia theso songs they told of his virtues nnd deeds of vnlor, hut it sounded raoro liko the howling of demous. The bucks who aro nearly related to the dead warrior cut their bodies and faco9. Tho squawa nnd bucks nil cut their hair off short and covorcd their heads and bodies with ashes or earth. Thoy clothed tho dead warrior in the host garments at hand, and dug a grave on a knoll in a secluded place. In the gravo they plnccd all tho necosaary war and hunting implements that the brave is supposed to roquirb in tho happy hunting ground, with soma provisions aud the particular things that tho dead man fancied during life. After filling the grave vines were piled on it, according to the standing of the deceased warrior, in this ease very high. Five ponies wero killed on the grave. The ■addlo and bridlo of the warrior were broken and cut to pieces and placed thereon. Tho members of tho family of Yollow Roar destroyed everything he hnd, including clothing and utensils, and hare gone into seclusion. They will continue a year in mourning. While this d stressed consultation was goincr on between Mrs. Bent and her daughters, 1 inkio, sate looked in hor room, was hol ling one with herself— tears sparkling in her oyes, but her face was full of mil-ill. "I will!" she lmtt-red. “I will do it! It will be good euough fur them. 1 certain indefinable something iu the tone which made the Hon. Mr. Morris change color. There are no words in which to de scribe the embarrassment of Mrs. Bent aud her daughters. “Had Pinkie overheard what Jthey had said about hey?” The Abchasinus. A queer people, the Abchasiaus, says Dio Lewis. Whenever one of them is drowned, his friends carefully search for his body, but if this is net found, they proceed to capture the soul of the de ceased by 9trciehitig a goatskin bag, xvlth ' the mouth wide open, o.er a hoop, look ing toward the river near where the man is supposed to have been drowned. Two cords aro then stretchod from the spot across the river as a bridge on which the soul can conic over. Yea els containing food aud drink nre then set around the skin, and the friends of the decoatod come aud cat quietly, while a song is sung with instrumental accompaniments. The soul, attracted by tho ceremonies, is supposed to come over tho bridge and go into tho trap set for it. As soon a* tne bag is inliatcd by the hreoze they con clude the soul is in, and quickly close the opening, and tho Img is lakon to a p nee of burial where ugrave has already i been prepared. The bagis held with its i opening to the grave., the strings are un tied, tho soul is squeezed out of tho 1 Img into the grave, and the burial ia afterward completed. Spoiltaiioous Hydrophobia. Dr. Dojardin licamnetz has read be fore the Hygienic Society of Paris a paper on what he regards as n well es tablished case of “spontaneous hydro phobia” in n man ngod twenty-nine. Not only did ull tho symptoms which characterize that malady declare them selves, but the matter taken from the patient’s body when he died con^puni- catcd it to rabbits inoculated therewith. The patient declared on entering the Hotel Diou that ho had not been bitten . or scratched by a dog or any other ani mal, nor been in any sort of contact with one. Tho body wns minutely oxamlued bofore nnd after death and the skin was everywhere intact, — London Xtia,

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Mercury. (Sandersville, Ga.) 1880-1???, February 16, 1886, Image 1