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The Mercury.
titered as iceond-olass matter at the
pai,rsvllle J’ottoflice, April 27, 1880.
gJtNDERSVILLE,
WASHINGTON COUNTY, GEORGIA.
-PUBLISHED BY—
. J. JERNIGA.2ST,
proprietor and publisher.
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viewa or opinion* of correspondents.
city of Sandariv'llt.
Mayor.
J. N. (ill.MOUK.
Aldermen.
W. It. I’moPKN.
B. K. ItOUOHTON.
J. JJ. Hoiikrts.
A. M. Mayo.
S. 0. I.aNO.
< 'lerk.
C. Btiowv.
7 reamrer. *
j, A IltWIN.
Marshal.
J, L WunuoN.
Town of lonnlllo.
Intcuitnnt.
John V, IIaiiman.
.1 lih:rii,rn.
J. F. Mkiikinom,
.1 l>. ’ I •. ,1 !
,1. M. lilt OWN.
,1. II. I'lt I [I'll A III),
Clerk.
S. fl. B. Massey.
Marshall,
J. C. Hamilton.
Henry W. Williams, president of the
Massiu'liusetts Bicycle Club, must be an
enthusiast. Since and including I8N0. ho
lias ridden 15,378 miles. lie took to
bicycling for liis liealth. and it lias made
a well mini of him.
The tenth census, -‘like a wounded
snake, drugs its wearied length along."
Thirteen large volumes have been puli
lished, mid others are going through the
pre»s, while a number of other reports
remain unpublished, including those by
J. It. Dodge, the statistician of the agri
cultural department, on fruits and or
chards, sheep-husbandry and wool-grow
ing and hop culture.
Moat readers of Shakespeare ure aware
that Juliet was a very sweet youngmaiden.
The thrifty citizens of Verona take mer
cantile advantage of the fact. They sell
“Juliet’s tears,” which are confections
resembling liquid gum-drops, or brandy
balls, The correct tribute to leave on
Juliet's grave is n gold-paper heart and a
dried rosebud, wrapped in a magnolia.
The Veronese tradespeople take great
stock ill the popular reverence for the
fair Juliet.
Leprosy is declared by the Lansing
(Iowii) Mirror to ovist to a considerable
extent among the colony of Scandinavians
from Northern Norway, now settled ir-ur
llie village of Spring drove, in Houston
county, Minn. Doctors who have exmn-
' ined the subjects, wlio are in three or
four different families (but are relatedt,
ire said to have pronounced the malady
undoubtedly leprosy.
Joseph Arch, who commenced a move
ment in favor of clevnting the condition
of farm luborcrs in England some twenty
yenrs ago, lias been elected to parliament
from the northwesterndiatriet of Norfolk
county. His opponent wus Lord Henry
Bcntinek. The business of Mr. Arch was
that of setting out ami trimming hedge
A. C. WRIBHT
attorney at law
105 Hay St„ Sarannali, (in.
•TWill priRulce in nil the Court** ; but hr obtained a national reputation an
n| I. HAITI*.
HARRIS A/ NDERSON,
|\ i toi iuy.yis A.L I \v,
HANDE1I8V11.I.E, GA.
I Will practice in the Midtllo Circuit, and iu
tie counlirs MunotindlliK WAHliiiiRtou. Special
»Mention give it to Commercial Law. (junii-lj
founder of the nijricu! turn I laborers’ un
ion. Farm laborers in this country are
not elected to Congress, or even to State
legislatures.
<ta
E. S. LANGMAUE,
[AHtoi^ey ht I<kw
8AND12RSVILLE, GA:
a. li. avAiia, .-a.
it VANS & 1. VANS,
AHoi-tic*.y« At I nw.
SANIiEltKVlM.K, GA.
A correspondent of tlm New drlenns
Medical anil Surgical Journal tells of a ro-
murkahlc result of the use of steam as u
disinfectant of ships. Tho vessel to he
treated was nnido tight fore mid aft, and
the steum turned on for the requisite
time. The hold was found to lie in good
condition after the cleansing, and the
disinfectors entered the cabin. But
they discovered thut the lino furniture
and ratlin work had fallen apart and lay
in a comprehensive heapon the floor. The
steam had melted the glue.
A Ht. Louis hairdresser lias invented
an apparatus which, if adopted, would
revoluntionize railroad travel. His ob
ject is to overcome delay caused by “top
ping a train nt various stations, and he
intends to have all trains speed on from
terminus to terminus. At every inter
mediate station automatic machinery
would remove the rear ear, containing all
those who wish to get olf there, and an
other car, containing passengers who
wished to join the train, would he sub
stituted without decreasing the speed of
tho train.
A Genoese gentleman has just disclosed
the fact that lie is in possession of the
chains with which Columbus was bound
after his discovery of America. The
gentleman lias owned the chains for
twenty years without telling. In 1805,
becoming nware that the chains were in
existence somewhere on this continent,
he eamc hither and secured them. Ho
was likely to have kept his possession
of them n secret for a still longer time,
but reading so frequently newspaper
paragraphs regarding the celebration of
the four hundrctli nnniversay of Colum
bus's discovery, his conscience reproached
him, and lie permitted the facts concern
ing the chains to become known.
PRESIDENT AND SENATE
I'OIINil. NTATt'.MK.Vr OF THI! MA«
JORITY OF TIIF. ( OHVir* F.K
THE NEWP.
Interesting Happenings Ironi all I’oints. I
Tin* Judiciary .ImmI h« llir
to .Hoad t» tlir 1'iealdfiil
Nrunlf’a ICifflif
for l*npern.
F. H SAFFOLD,
ATTORNEY AT I.AW,
RAifDEiMVILLE, GA.
| UYi prnct c# In nil tho Courts of the Middle
1 ' "it i». l in tho counties surrounding
fVid.ii it. Hpednl nttnitiou j -ven to com*
0- o. BROWN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
■aadwarlUa, Os,
O. U. Rooiaa
HINES & ROGERS,
Attorneys at Law,
BANDKHSVILLB.GAa,
Will preotloe lu tl a counties of WMhtBgtoa,
iJeffenon, Johnson, Emanuel and Wilkinson,
And In the U. 8. Court* for thaBouthern Dis
trict of Georgia.
I Will net MB urtnta In baying, sail lag si
renting Real KhUU.
i Offloe ou West side of Pabllt Igiurs,
Oct 11-1/
Kx-Prc'sUIcnt Arthur suffer* from in
Bomniu. Until recently lie bus been In
the habit of trying to rend himself to
sleep when in bed. “But not very long
ugo, M Hiiys J fur per'* Weekly, “having
placed a pitcher of ice water beside him j
ou retiring, lie awoke to find that lie bad
unconeiouHly upset the pitcher and emp
tied its chilling contents upon the bed."
The incident bus caused him to break the
habit of reading in bud, lest some time j
lie should upset an oil lamp in a similar
manner. ^_____
An exehange remarks that there is “a
disposition on tin* part of some of oiircon- ,
temporaries to get up a scare about
trichime, and have probably succeeded
in alarming any of their readers foolish
enough to regard this sensationalism us
enterprise. Nevertheless,the people con
tinue to eat pork, and very few of them
die of tricliiuiasis. It will lie noticed
that in all reports of such cases the names
of the victims show them to have been
German. The fact seems to lie that
trichime cannot survive great bent. If
pork is thoroughly cooked, as it always
should he, it may l>e eaten without fear
of contracting tricliiuiasis."
It is curious to look over the educa
tional records as given by the Congress
men, says the Washington correspondent
of tho Cleveland Leader. Bragg says he
was educated a lawyer; Smalls, of South
Carolina, was self-educated, and Houk,
of Tennessee, educated himself while
working at the cabinet makers’ trade,and
by reading by firelight at night. .Judge
Kelley got liis education as a printer und
proof-reader, and General Grosvenor was
trained in a country log school-house.
Pulitzer, the New York editor, had a
private tutor; Hepburn, of Iowa, was
educated in the common schools and the
• v e/iator Edmunds on tin* lath made a m
port to the United States Senate from the
Judiciary committee on the letter of the at
torney-general doclining to transmit to the
Senate copies of official records and (upon*
(oucemiug tho administration* nf the office
of district attorney for the Southern district
of Alabama from January 1, 1885, to January
25, 1880. The report recites tho suspension
on July 17, 1885, by order of tho
President, of George M. Durkin from tho
oflloo of district attorney of that district, the
designation on the same day of John D. Bur
nett to perform tho duties of the suspended
officer, ami the nomination to the Henate
ou December 14. 1885, of the Kamo Johu D.
Burnett hi tho said office, which nomina
tion was iu duo course referred to
the committee on the judiciary. The
report then declare* that it lias l>een the uni
form practice of the Judiciary committee,
since tho )>as.sage of the tenure of office act,
to call upou tho heads of de(>artiiieiits for ofi
“papers and information” iu the possession
of the dciMirtment touching th? conduct and
administration of tho officer proposed to bo
removed aud the character and conduct of
the person proposed to lx» appointed. In no
instance until this time lias the committee
met with any delay or denial in respec t to
furnishing such pa))crs and information, with
a single except ion, and in which exception
the delay ana suggested denial lasted only for
two or three days.
In the particular case under consideration,
the re|xirt says, the committee addresnod a
note to tho attorney-general in tho same form
aud asking for tho Kamo |inpcrs and infor
mation that it had been accustomed
to do. The attorney-general not com
plying with the ropiest, the cominht.’e. on
January 25, reported to the Non-
ato a resolution, which was ndopted
the next day, directing that officer to trans
mit to tho Henate the documents and pa|wrs
asked for. To this res l it ion tho ottorney-
f general replied on February 1, saying that lie
lad been directed by the President to say
that the papers and documents not alroady
transmitted to the Henate "having exclusive
reference to tho susixuisiou by the Presi
dent of George M. Durkin, the late
incumlient of tho office of district
attorney of the United States for tho South
ern district of Alabama, it is not considered
that tho public interest will l» promoted by
a compliance w ith said resolution.” This lot-
tor, tho report says, “as time* that tho at
torney-general is the servant of tho Presi
dent, and is to give or withhold copies of
documents in liis office a .von I tug to tiie will
of the executive, and not otherwise.” The
port add*:
RAMTEKN AND AUD DLL MTATKh.
The losses by freshets in Eastern Con*
necticut will exceed $1,000,000. Nearly the en
tire eastern end of the State was inundated.
Around Boston 10.000 people were rendered
temporarily homeless, and the losses are up
ward of $8,000,000.
A strike for Increased wages, begun by
the operatives of the Amoskeng mills, Man
chester, N. II., on the 15th, threw more than
5,000 people out of employment.
John B. Gough, tho well known temper
ance lecturer, was stricken with apoplexy in
Philadelphia on the 15th while delivering a
lecture.
The subscriptions for tho boucQt of
General Hancock’s widow up to lato date
hail reached alxmt $30,000.
At the National Agricultural and Dairy
convention, held in No.w York,more than fifty
delegates were present. Various papers bear
ing on agricultural aud dairy matter* were
read, anu n » ommitts* was appointed to urge
the passage of a bill by Congress appropriat
ing $15,000 to each Htato for ox)>eninent
stations.
EjC-Govkknor Horatio Hbymour’b fu
neral nt Utica was attended by Governor
Hill, Lieutenant-Governor Jones, a delega
tion from the New York legislature, numer
ous State officials, ami many others. From
tne Trinity Kpiscoiml church, in which the
exercises were held, the body w as conveyed
to Forest Hill cemetery. Memorial exercises
were also held in the’ Utica G|>era house.
Mayor Kiuuey presiding. Governor llill
end others eulogized the doeeasod.
A Chinaman was found In a Waterbury
(Conn.) lauudry suffering from leprosy.
WASHINGTON.
The House silver committee, by a voto of
seven to five, determined to report adversely
Mr. Blnud'n bill for the free and unlimited
coinage of silver. A proposition to report
favorably Mr. Waite’s bill for the immediate
sus|>ensiMii of silver coinage was also lost by a
We roto—six to six—one member Iwing ab
sent.
The House ways and means committee has
adopted a joint resolution directing the sec
retary of the treasury to apply tho surplus
abovo $100,000,000 to the liquidation of the
interest licaring public debt.
The committee on invalid pensions agreed
to report favorably the bills rejicaHtig the
limitation of time within which militiamen
can complete and present their claims, and
increasing the rate of iNuision for total deaf
ness of both cars from $14 to $20 a month.
The President has sent tho following nomi
nations of iNvstmasters to tho Senate: Chas.
A. White, nt Gardiner, Me.; George O.Guild,
at Bellows Falls. Yt.; Dennis D. Dinan, nt
West borough, Mass.; Joseph H. Wilder, at
Shelburne Falls, Muss.; William J.
Pousler, at Fleuiington, N. J.; M. O.
Bowdoiu, at Griffin, Ua.; J. W. Honfroe, at
Atlanta, Go.; Thomas J. Fraucisco, at Cuy
ahoga Falls, Ohio; Gorge Moore, nt Stoulxm-
ville, Ohio; Nathaniel H. Bates, at Hotisso-
laor, Jinl.; A. T. Bitters, at Rochester, Ilid.;
MOTHER'S MENDING BASKET.
Over and under, and in and out.
Tha swift little needle flies;
For always between her and idleness
The mending basket lies:
And the patient hands, though weary,
Work lovingly on and on
At tasks that never are finished;
For mending is never done.
She takes up the father’s stocking;
And skillfully knits in the heel,
And smooths the m ntn with n tender touch
That he may no roughness feel;
And her thoughts to her merry girlhood
And her early wifehood go.
And she smiles at the first pair of stockings
She knit so long sgo.
Then she speaks to the little maiden
learning to knit nt her side,
And tells her about those stockings
Uneven and shapeless und wide—
“I had to ravel them ant, my dear;
Don’t be discouraged, but try,
And after awhile you’ll learn to knit
As swift and even as I.”
She takes up a little white apron.
And thinks of the woeful face
Of her darling when she cauio crying:
“Oh, mamma, I’vo tom my lace.”
8o she mended the child’s pet apron;
Then took up a tiny shoe,
And fastened a stitch that wan broken,
And tied the ribbon of blue.
The maiden has wearied of working
And gene away to her play;
The sun in tho west is sinking
At the dose of the quiet day.
Now the mother’s hands nro resting
Still holding n stocking of red.
And her thoughts in tho twilight shadow
To the far off future have fled.
“Oh, where will the little feet wander
Before they ha%’« time to rest?
Where will tho bright hoods be pillowed
When the mother's loving hrwst
Is under the spring's blue violets,
And under tho summer grass,
When over her fall tho autumn loaves,
And the storms of winter passf"
And a prayer from her heart she utters;
“God bless them, my dear cues all!
Oh, may it be many, mauy yean
’Ere sorrow to them befall 1”
To her work from the meuding basket
She turns with a hoart at rest;
For she knows that to husband and children
She is always tho first and best.
—Abbe Kinne, in Ledger,
A FAWN THE PRIZE.
clump of bushes, leaped upon the neck
of a fawn that wni in tho roar of the
herd and dragged it to the ground. The
fawn gave oue or two piteous bleats,
when the teeth of the lion rent its jugu
lar uiul silenced it forever.
Being unable to sec the animals dl*-
tlnctly when they were on the ground,
on m-eount of a pateh of bushes two or
three feet in height, 1 climbed to the top
of the ledge of rock, which was about
ten feet high
rocky alope of the canon, and I saw it
no more.
Descending into the canon I found
the bear lying across the carcass of the
fawn.
I built a fire, before which, on sticks,
I placed to roast several venison steaks,
while I employed myself in skinning tho
hear, cutting up the meat and hanging it
out of tho reach of foxes and coyotes on
some alders, to be packed away the next
day, when I expected that Richards
I was now after the lion. When I 1 would be r.ble to assist tne. When I had
readied the top of the rock lie was in j taken the skin oil the bear I did not much
plain sight. lie was teering nt the neck j blame him for giving up the fight with
of the prostrate fawn. I was about to the two lions; indeed, I felt uot a little
! move a little further up the ledge in order pity for the poor old fellow, whose
i to get a shot at the lion’s fore pnrts, hunger had made him endure so much.
: when a large grir.r.ly hurst out of u patch , Their claws hnd scored him terribly. In
1 of chaparral on the opposldc side of the several places, particularly about the
little valley. With a snort and a growl shoulders, the cuts lmd gone quite
he made ai the liort. through the skin into the flesh. In fact.
The new arrival rendered the altuntion tho skin wns go nut up that I preferred
somewhat complicated, and I lowered nty to pack home with inc the skin of tho
rifle, concluding to await further develop- lion—which was a large one -und leave
meats. that of the hear to take its chances along
When the bear came up the lion re with the mrnl until the next day.
treated a few pares, and then stood snarl Richnrds cursed his luck high and low
ing nml lashing its sides with an angry when I returned to camp with the saddle
tail. The bear—which was evidently very of the fawn and the lion skin nnd told
hungry—paid no attention to the lion, him whnt n spirited nnd reinnrknblofight
but at' once began gnawing nt the neck I hnd witnessed. Ho declared that he
of the fawn. would not hnvo missed such n sight for
I supposed this was the end of the nf- $500 in gold coin. Indeed, hebccameso
fair between tho two animals, and was excited that ho forgot all about his
... , . , . -• ..ussell, nt Muacnlin», Iowa; Frank B.
‘Your committee is uuahle to discover, i Biuttb. at Wichita, Kan.; Hnnuiel K. Hiatt,
eltbor Iu tliu original net of 17«ti creating tho ; at Beatrice, Nob.
office of uttorney-genoral, or in tho net of
1871) creating tho ilepai tmunt of Justice, any i |,„ir nf ievnl , itf.
SfTh^Unltl Hrnim mly I »««1 ^ -"do. of tho Unit*. State,
H. N. H0LLLFIXLD,
Phyaioian and Surgaon
door to Mm Bays** mMMmmw
It will he remembered that a novel fea
ture of the Now Orleans exposition wu«
the exhibits which the colored people ns n
race were invited to offer for the purpose
of showing their progress in industries,
education, art, etc. The experiment
proved only fairly successful in the dis
play then made, hut it has home valua
ble fruit in arousing interest in similar
undertakings. As proof of this the New
Orleans 7'iinfe-Democrat says: “Excited
by the exposition, Mississippi held a col
ored fair u few months ago, which was a
thorough success; Tennessee has just
opened another at Nashville; South Cnro-
y oi MHiyiami smi reiurnsa nome. now ^' nu 800,1 u,,( ^ ^ seems
hi« prolesslonnl •eryio«s to th® oltlxeni highly probable that everv Southern
Hamtersville anil vicinity. Office with n • 1
Or. H. B. Hollifield,
PtlSICUS mi WQ1
I "ix o|
"del. tl
Dr. It N Hotun.ti, u.it door to)kra Unyn.’i
mllltu.rj nor*.
a. W H- W31 TAKER,
DENTIST
Bandaravlll*. 8a-
ritRMS CASH.
State will, sooner or Inter, have its col
ored exposition." We agree witli our
Southern contemporary, says the New
York Jfemhl, tliat these are encouraging
signs which betoken substantial benefits
to the colored people *ainl useful results
to the community nt huge.
At n recent gathering of medical men
in Philadelphia, Dr. \V. S. Jnniicy, lute
coroner of the city, made tin* startling
statement that “no healthy man or
woman ever dies in this climate from
cholera morbus.” He repeated the re
mark to tlm editor of the Mnlir.it and
tiunjical Jtejmrter, saying that the records
of tho coroner's office would substantiate
his words. He explained that by
“healthy" he meant a person without or
ganic diseases and of average strength
and vitality. “.Such a person," lie said,
“when dying with symptoms of cholera
morbus, always dies from poisoning iiisu
ally arsenic), and the ease is one ol sui
cide or homicide.” The ex-coroner first
examined into these eases when a stout
healthy man of liis acquaintance died
after an illness of thirty-six hours with
symptoms of cholera morbus, lie had
been attended by four reputable physi
cians, one of whom hud signed the death
SPECTACLES NOSE GLASSES. ETC. j certificate. Yet he instituted ait investi
gation, and found enough arsenic in the
deceased to kill a dozen men. He after
ward met with five or six similar cases.
Dr. Burtholow. iu a conversation with tho
editor of the Brparter. said that he had
not the least doubt of the correctness of
Dr. Jauuey’s assertion. Another promi
nent physician stated his belief in these
view*.
DR. j. H. MAY,
HANDE118VILLE, GA.
yfln s his services to tiie citizens of Handers-
* I’" am] adjacent country. All calls, day <>r
"‘Du, will be promptly responded to. Office l
f < liis residence on Mra. Pittman's lot, corner
'•arris ami Church streets. janl5-l‘i»ltf.
OU YYOLJB
mm,, spectiW),
FROM
JERNICAft,
**■>• a.nnluo without onr Trad* Hark
On baDd and tor sal*.
Watches, Clocks
And JEWELRY
vate schools. One hundred nnd sixty
four of the members of the present House
have had collegiate or academic educa
tions, and eighty put themselves down as
having been trained at the common
schools. Tiie urnjority of collegiate-bred
men come from small country colleges,
academics and seminaries, nnd many
of them states that they lmve grad
uated at some noted law school, such as
Harvard, Ann Arlan - or New York. Har
vard lias seven college graduates, Prince
ton, four; tiie University of Virginia,
four; Bowdoiu, two; Dartmouth, four;
Union, three; A ide, two; Amherst, two;
Brown, two; Ann Arbor, five; Jollersott,
two; Franklin, two, and Humorous other
colleges one.
“It is a fact well known to tiie medi
eal profession," said a prominent physi
cian the other day, “that much less harm
is done in New A’ork by those diseases
most feared by tiie public and the health
board than by diseases which cause little
alarm in the community. The so-called
plagues ure not likely to cause much havoc
in tins latitude, particularly in a city
where tho sanitary regulations are good.
No scourge is so much feared as Asiatic
oholorn, yet the deaths from that disease
in this city during the year of the great
est epidemic wore less in number than the
deaths from consumption last year. Yellow
fever has killed fewer people in New
York in this century than whooping
cough lias destroyed in a single year.
Smallpox, which is causing so much
alarm at present, kills fewer persons here
than does cither measles, croup, or
whooping cough. Tho deaths from
typos fever in this town lias been for
many years less numerous than those
from typhoid fever. These statements
may lie surprising to many residents of
the city, l>ut they can be easily substantia
ted by mi examination of tiie deatli
records, which are about the only reliable
records to l> ■ found in the liealth depart
ment. It would be well for the city, in
my estimation, if the sanitary officers
would spend more time iu investigating
those diseases which cause the greatest
mortality. It would be well, also, it
some of the newspapers would enll
attention to the facts instead of causing
useless excitement it; the public mind
about improbable epidemics of cholera,
yellow fever, or smallpox.”
Making H Plain.
A Georgian tells how a colored parson
in his State once made clear even to the
duliest of liis flock the difficulty of tread
ing the straight and narrow path as con
trasted with the descent on the spacious
highway leading in the other direction.
Before he was well started in liis dis
course he ran down the pulpit stairs and
led to suit tiie action to the word
JIv brethren," lie cried, "‘tiie road to
heaven is like this," and lying Hal on the
banister lie began to pull himself up. hand
over hand, as laboriously as a boy climbs
a greased pole. At last he reached tho
top and got on liis feet again, happy iu
liis Christian victory. Then, having
taken breath, lie exhorted his hearers to
look ill the road to hell, doubled one leg
under him and slid down the rail, in a
half sitting posture, with a rapidity and
grace thnt betrayed a juvenile familiarity
with this route.
Ncmkrocs Inquiries are living mode on ba-
zous whose slave, were an-
*».*»r»i | Had into tliu service i
..fsrsnnirsiuiwii, •’ ..,i no servant during the late war aa to their right
of or controlled h) the executive l„ the per- | t „ compensation „ueli slave., Uenernl
* that. thuHc claims are i>or-
i fund of $n.000 t 000
menu of state, of war, and of the Z7 U,u W»" nt of
navy it was provided in sulwtanu# ca *
that tho*) soorotarie. should perform |
such duties us should from time to time
cuueuieii IU luv common of ©r controlled liy tho executive In the por- • to riiinwnsuti it for Hindi
printing office; Oates wus self-educated, Autioa hupate.l to him by l Butler has declared that tt
in,. Tauibee and Bouteiie had pri- vJBSE^U.
The House committee UU coiuuge, weights
uni hv n vote of seven to six, bus
laid <>u the table the Will providing for arils*
| ousiou of tho coinage of silver.
At u caucus of Republican H jnutoinit was
resolved not to confirm the Piosidcnt’s nomi
nation* unless, when asked for, reasons for
suspensions ure Riven. Nominations are to
lie rojucted when papers are refused.
The President has sent to tho Kouate the
following additional nominations: Pendle-
ton King, of North Carolina, to be secretary
ance of duties wus only a HipuriuteudVnir i °/ ,h V legation of tho United Utah's at Con-
- , lI1(V 0 f stantinople; ox-Bonntor Jumes B. Groomo, of
pr
JBRJWICA1T.
The
etor of a 400-acre raisin
oropriet
vifloyaru in California employed a force
of 120 men to pick the grapes ooustitu-
tiiiff the last crop.
n jo Ined upon them by tho President, and
should conduct the husim ^ of their dojiurt
inent in su< h manner u * th • Pit** it lent should I
direct: hut the commit to > doe. not think it •
ImjKjitftnt to the main question unit r con !
sidorutiou that sti *h dire fcIon is not t > In
found in tho statute creating tho department I
of justice, for it is thought it must i
l>e obvious that the authority
intrusted by the statute iu these eases to tho
President to direct and control the perform
ance of duties wus only a Mipurinb
authority to regulate tho performance
duties that the'law’ require, und not to re
quire the performance of duties that the laws
had not devolved upou the heads of depart
ments, and not to dispouee with or forbid tho
jM-rformance of such duties (w ording as it
might suit the discretion or tho fancy of the
executive.”
The report then discuses the question
whether it is within the coust.itutionai power
of cither hon e of Congress to hive access to
tho official papers and documents in tho va
rious publi • offices < routed by themselves. On
this poiut it says “that from tho very naturo
of the powers intrusted by the constitution to
tho two houses of Congress it is a necessary
incident that either Hoiiko must hnvo at all
times the right to know all that officially ex
ists or takes place in any of the departments
of tho government,” and they have tho
power “to obtain in ono form or another,
complete information as to every paper und
transaction in any of the executive depart
ments, oven though such papjr.s might relate
to whnt is ordinarily an executive function,
if that function infringed upon any duty or
function of the representative bodies.”
A table is submitted showing that out ot
about 1,485 nominations rent to the SYnnto
up to January 5, 043 wore nominations of
persons to take tiie places of officers suspended
and proposed to l>o removed.
Tho committee in conclusion rejiort for
consideration and adoption the following res
olutions:
Resolved, Thnt the Senate hereby expresses
its condemnation of tho refusal of tho attor
ney-general, under whatever influence, to
send to the Senate copies of impers called for
by its resolution of the 25th of January, and
so forth iu tiie reports of tho committeo on
1h 3 judiciary, as in violation of his official
duty and subv» rsiveof tho fundamental prin
ciples of the government and of a good ad
ministration thereof.
Resolved, Tlm it is under thoao cireum
stances the duty of tho Senate to refuse it
advio aud consent to proposed removal* o
officers, the documents and (tapers in refer
ence to tli * sup(Kjsed oiliciul or ijersoual mis
conduct of whom are withheld ny the ex. n
tivo or any head of a department w»d :
deemed u.» r set ry by th * Sen it and call-I
for in eonedoring tli'* limit r.
Res dred. That the provision of sue i. .
1.754 of the u-vwd statutes declarin'
“That persons iionoral ly disA'hargcd from tie
military or naval servi *0 by reason of din
bility resulting from won in Is or sickness in
eurred in th** line of duty, shall be (irefonv
for appointm nt - to civil oMleos. provided
they are found to |> *>s.vs.s the business cupaci
tv necessary for the piujxT ilischnrgo « i
the duties of l Imt * o'llce" ought
to lx* faith! ully und fully put m
oxuL'utiou. c.nl thut Ij remove or pro
pose to remove any such soldier whose faith
fulness, conipetmey and character areab »ve
reproach, and to give place to another wh**
1ms not rendered.such service, is u violation
of the spirit of the Jaw and of the pru 'li *.»1
grutit i'le the |h* iple nnd government of i’ -
United State * "we to the defender of co i
rtitutional I berty und the integrity of the
government.
Mr. Pugh, of Alabama, from the iniuorit
of the eommirb**. said:
“1 desire t >slate ili it th* minuiiy ku-
; nothing of th • coat n! ; of the rofKU't not
rea l t.• th • comaiito* • this morning. The m
nority d'siiu to prep u-i* a rejsirt iu which
they ’will present. ihoir views, und to cnub!-
them U> do so tli*y have until Monda
week within which to prejjare ih
report: und it is unleistood lhai
the ina.’ority i*«**»*n un i th • resolutions n
company ing it will not be called up for eon
sideratioa until w* get leave to 111-* th.
minority r. jsu l . The time given us to do sy
is not-to exlen i iioyond next Monday week
The couside at on of tho re)>ort was jmst
pound iu order tliotthe Democratic me nb*; *
of the committee might have an opp i limit.,
to prepare a minority report.
The Western Christian Advocate of ( in-
cinnati, says: “The editor of this paper
has recently dedicated two churches in
towns where there is not si saloon, and iu
neither of them did he sec one rowdy,
while in both places all the money needed
to pay for the churches was sinned with
comparative ease,
Maryland, to bo collector of customs at Balti
more; I. Freeman Rnsiu, of Mnrlyand, to be
naval officer at. Baltimore. Frank I. Phelps,
of Wisconsin, to lx? survoyorof customs at La
Crosse, Win.; Alfred B. Jrdd, of Wisconsin,
to bo jnmsion agent at Milwaukee, Wis.;
William M. ('ampin*!!, of Minnesota, to lie
Tnn sub-committee of the House coinmit-
teo on postoffices, having charge of tho jiostal
telegranh question, agreed to report n h crsely
to the full committee on all propositions for
the building or purchase of lelogntph lines
by the government.
The eighteenth annual national con
vention of tho National Woman's Suffrage
Association lx*gnn in Washington ou the 17th.
Seventeen States and Territories wore repre
sented.
The Senate lias confirmed the nomination
of George N. Stearns to bo United States at
torney for the district of Massachusetts.
MOL'TII AND WEST.
A kirk at Flagstaff, Arizona, has laid tiie
entire business portion of the town in ruins.
Ono man ijorished in the flames. Aggregate
losses, $100,000.
Timothy Whelan, aged twenty-three
years, struck his father on the head with an
ax at Sun Francisco. Cal., killing him in
stantly. Ho then stabbed himself, probably
fatally.
Four small children wero tryiug to build a
fire on Tangier island in Chesapeake bay when
a can of kerosene exploded, and two of the
littlo ones wero hurnod to death and the
other two fatally injured.
A paksenoer conch attached to a train ou
tho Ohio Central railroad jumped the track
at Ton Mile Trestle, W. Va., aud plunged
into the Kanawha river. Several persons
were killed and half a dozen more seriously
injured.
The counties lying along tho Tombigbee
river in Alabama have ln*en visited by an
earthquake. Chimueys were thrown down,
crockery smashed, and families camped out
all night, afraid to re-enter their houses.
The great McCormick Reaper works,
Chicago, have closed down, throwiug 1,400
men out of employment. The suspension
wu.s caused by a threatened strike against the
employment of non-uniou men.
Reports received indicate that the loss of
cuttle iu Western Kansas and Eastern Col
orado by the terribly cold weather will
amount to 25,000 head.
The lxxly of a clergymau named Jesse B.
Brady was found floating with the ice
in tho Mississippi, near Bt. Louis. From
paiMirs found iu his posers don it was clear
that tho deceased hud committed suicide.
beginning to thing of putting a bullet or
two into the grizzly. This I might have
safely done from my perch upon tiie rock,
and with two or three trees at hand which
I could easily climb should the bear at
tempt to scale the ledge. But while I
was still considering tho chancee I ob
served the Hon flatten Itself to the ground
nnd swiftly glide round behind the bear.
Suddenly—luce a flash of yellow light
ning—the Hon bounded through the air
and landed on the buck of the bear’s neck,
raking him over tho face and eyes with
its sharp daws.
The bear gave a snort of pain and rage,
stopped eating, and for a time stood—
or rather sat up—on the defensive. While
tho bear was thus on guard, ready to
strike out with his huge paws, the Hon
stood off snarling and lasning its sides
with its tail;but the moment he attempt
ed to resume his meal the Hon quickly
circled about and again landed Qn his
back—bounding awav, however, as soon
as the bear began striking at him. Tho
fight hnd now become so Interesting that
I determined to await the result. Tne at
tacks of the Hon were evidently far from
painless to tho bear. Ho bawled lustily
under tho sharp claws of his agile enemy.
He soon grew cautions, and, hungry as
he was, endeavored to keep his head eon-
sprained ankle, and “natrolcd” in front
of me, when no could have heard my
story quito as well by remaining seated.
—Dan De Quille, in Cincinnati Enquirer.
White Africans.
David Ker, In the Now York Tim*,
reports an interview with Stanley, tho
African explorer, in which he saya:
Just nt this moment 1 improved the
? ;ood chance of getting some information
rom Stanley about the mysterious
“white Africans” who are said to exist in
tho interior of tho continent. Having
just written a novel about them, I was
naturally anxious—now that it was just
too late for any corrections—to find out
exactly how manv mistakes I had made.
“It was in Mtcsa r s country that you mot
those white Africans from Gambaragara,
wasn’t it f ” inquired I. “Do you really
think thero are a whole nation of them In
the interior, as some people say?”
“Indeed I do. Mtcsa’s officers told me
that thero were great numbers of thetn
settled upon the slopes of Mt. Gordon
Bennett (that big extinct volcano, you
know, to the northenst of tho great
lakes), and that they wero a very timid,
unwariiko set, more given to skulking
among the rocks tlmti coming out for a
. .. . . . , • „ £,?*}■ fair fight in the open. The four that I
I Jfnt y ‘“"I* 1 ow “ r<1 ll >“ i0, i- V) f>> tho Uffwda were toll, alcnder,
a rtoiiT 0KTWEEN a uiuzzt v am, . At i- 1 '° '‘."TS UDabl ° “' th ? long-llmbod fillowH, with brown, curly
ZOBMA LI™ "on Circled about him very xw tly, and hal * rathcr prominent iioaca, lip* somc-
tTnHnntwnHlVthA ..JtX i . crept ao low a* to b.i continual y ready wha ' t fu „ a ' ml thluk (though not all
, u i fur ‘ 'PfNr-. n « ld , e ,- wbll ° bcftr of tho African tpvo), and complexion*
r J!! th ,°"? b ! U " u,1 ' c " f 1 turning in one direction hi* more bU ( , arker \^ n „ mll | atto H in ollr
m ’n o wl it n mbl ° ^taKonUt would .uddcnly whir 8olltherll 8tntc *." "And do you really
as arc to be met with in the countries about, circle in the opposite way, and t ,.t nlr i nfM i«A Afrimii
through which be ranges, he neverthe- ! make his leap; and at eich leap he made “ft Mi ff Vt„’t^^hev
d!^nn^,al* d that U f«n th r ‘T-' ' 1 '"'"" ° f "v! y 1 ‘fe/ ur J/ u ‘ “ llv , cl >' „ . . , the first Pmtug,lose colonist, who settled
. l " - r uy , When the boar .topped eating and stood „„ thc cast African coast in the days of
doubt the so-called “monarch of tiie on Id* guard the lion stood off and v . * n„„y-
Blerras" Is often very meat-hungry. By »nnrled. Imt tiie moment he put his nose ,,«• I shoudln’t think that verv likely
stratagem ho may sometime, capturl- to the fawn his alert foe was upon him. ‘“J.' t portummso bVdointr
r'' a t n i !Tvl , ri'kc t d h " iS ,J 'Tl ,,ml 1 ' il !»"y the bear gave up tryin'g ,o cat, ^ TdSn'Uancy 0 ’gotwfa?
""7 , autoiopc, and lav .low., by the carcass, twisting inland M that . if. Wh more probable
hJ „ L 1,1 I ‘° me i" 1 n" ' l , ,n,elf i " t ,° iP° Mon thttt he ,m ' 1 thtttthey’roa tribe oi light colored Ethio-
. n ,t r„", '""- v the use of both of Ins paws plans, o> perhaps of Copts, driven down
wounded. Mountain men have often Had the lion then leaped upon tho bear } rom the north hv eonnuost Homo as
gri/./dy hear manages he would lmve found himself Inia death- [ ho Uganda told me, miwariiko^nd
to aubsist at that season of the vem-when hug. The battle now seemed to boa i.. on
:'r; i z M ; l rrT'n?, , ‘;r 1 '.'.' SZtSt sTSLSZ
rn, n , ! , " ■ . Thlil thu »««*«*» , t ! hl ' P rlj!B over which they wore faN „ le , seH of their8i nvo iding all contact
h i s ™ 1 ‘ fi h |' r " V ’ ° r t ” T: “!! e « lng ' with the fiercer tribe, around them.”
high Sierra robbery, w.ul be scon by what Matters were at thia pass for nearly five
is recorded of ‘
sketch:
In October last, in < 0111 puny with a fierce answering cry 1
lm at ^cbnrdH, I went main canon, and soon another lion came _ 8 „ me of thcm rhnpH no t fl0 dark.”
up into the high Sierras for a two weeks bounding up the ravine into the little „ And their l W( , r |, vcry handsome,
hunt. Me wont to hunt deer, bu were valley. The boar noted this accession to thcy not ?” “They were indeed-
weli prepared to encounter a gnzzly bear . the force of the enemy, and arose and handsomer than any that I saw elsewhere
or anything else shootablo that might | seated himself upon hi. haunches in box- in Afri ca, although some of the Uganda
ing attitude. The two lions then l>egan women w ’ cro vcrv K good-looking too One
circling about the hear, by turns dart- f m chle{ capt ” ins wftS m ” rrifld to
inrr iimm inm rnkintr him with thnir J , . .....
“fi, * , , . .... , . „ with tho fiercer tribes around them."
>er w,II be seen bv wbat Matters were at this pass for nearly five „ And , , hat „ BUggested 1 .. th oy
him in the following minutes, when the lion elevated his head wmdd ryc t J hcir ,f ght com ’ p i ex i 0 n
\ , “« d K“ ve ,W( ! or three » hri J l Kcrc ' ,,n, • ,. A ; unmixed.” "Just so; and a-. I tell you
w , v< 1 • “ ' I w,th ■ " ur . re 8nsw ering cry enme from across the th wore nQ darker „ ligh t mulatto
\Vc*t \ irginiatt named Richards, I went mam canon, und soon another lion came J
come in out- way. We hud with
a mule mi yvhit'l, to pack our blankets,
provisions and camp utensils, which latter
Richards, for some reason unknown to
me, always railed the "herring flxin's."
We led u regular camp life, which was a
reminder of our old prospecting days.
Richards declared tliat this was almost
f ood enough without hunting, but com
ined with minting it wus thc next thing to
being in heaven. As Richards can play on
no instrument except the jowslinrp.ne was
probably much more nt home up in the
mountains than lie will tie when he
pitches his tent in the New Jerusalem.
After spending a few days in the
neighborhood of Hope Valley, we struck
in West of Lake Tahoe, among tiie trib
utaries of the American river. This is n
region justly celebrated among hunters.
Along thc creeks, about the springs, and
claws, and then bounding away. It rc- way a ow ,r t h e with our expedb
minded me of two cat-birds persecuting In f#ct hcr ” hi , ( , wa9 born 0I * tho
lln owl - . march "
Presently, while the bear was wheeling 1 M
about to striko at one of the lions, the „ ow ^ A , o|( , Scnrg .
other made a rush nnd dragged away the* „ , . ...
carcass of thc fawn. He was hauling it, D Scars are always unsightly, says the
off toward the bottom of the big canon, , Rl'ringfield Republican,nnd nre often pa>n-
somc fifty yards away, before tho bear fu * or inconvenient on account of their
hud recovered from hi. surprise. Even ‘ l»ropensity to contract as they become
when lie comprehended what had hap- "lder. Dr. Ward, of New York, asserts
pencil thc bear did not dare to at once go « >“ t tllB y may bo removed by inampula-
to recover the carcass, as the lion that re- •«»». which he directs to be employed as
moined behind still circled around him, fpb°ws: Placo the end of two or three
crouching cat-like, and threatening to fingers on a scar,if it be a small one, and
n ' ’ /m tlwi mnrrrtn if if hn lurrrn un/l VIhrorn
spring.
In a short time, however, this lion also , # . f# . . , , . . , .
aa.vA.. H ...a, a,.v.wave, .a,,,,,.^ lU u <*,».„un, ■ left and went down into the canon, the surface itself is not to be subjected to
in the great dark canons, lire to be found I bottom of which I could not soe from my ( an y ^ rlc .t lon .’ * ^ 10 l00 ^ ,0 'J must be be-
perch on thc ledge. Tho bear looked ‘ween the integument and tho deeper
.... p . ... a . van rfc Thn npnlinn nf thn vihrarilp. mn.
on the margin if it be large, and vibrate
thc uurfacc on the tissues beneath. Tho
deer, grizzly and cinnamon bears, Cali
fornia lions, lynxes, and many number
animals.
Tiie day after we made camp in tlio
new place Richards was unable to go out
with me. lie having sprained liis ankle
the evening before in leaping across a
small stream,therefore I struck out alone.
I traveled for nearly three hours with
out seeing any game larger than a grouse
or a woodcliuck, when I came to a large
and deep canon thut led down toward th-
American river. Along this ennon were
thoroughly beaten, nnd, as I thought, not
n little ashamed of himself. Ho sniffed
about the ground where the carcass of
the fawn had lain for a time; then, ele
vating his nose, snuffed tho air in the
direction of the eunon, whither tho two
lions hud gone with thc prize. This prize
lie had held just, long enough to fairly
urouse liis appetite.
After snuflitig the uir and licking his
chops for a time the old fellow moved
slowly toward the canon. He did not
many lateral ravines und gulches, bor i advance as if he were going to awake the
parts. The location of the vibratile mo
tion shoutd bo changed every ten or fif
teen seconds until tho whole scar has
been treated, if it be of moderate size. If
tho ecar be tho result of a large scald or
burn, the margin only should be treated'
at first; the advances toward the center;
should be deferred until tho nutrition of
tho margin has been decidedly improved. ’
Only a little treatment should be applied
to any one spot at thc sumc time, but the
vibration should be repeated as many as
twenty times a day, but never with suf-
deriiig which were numerous small steep , battle anew. Both spirit and flesh seemed tiejent frequency or seventy to causo
valleys. In one of these dingles I pres weak. When within about twenty yards , P“ln- If the scar becomes irritable sus-
eutly saw among some low bushes 11 lie of tliu bottom of the cauou lie sauntered ] P ou “ treatment until it subsides.^ ^In^tho
of four or the deer, all quietlv feeding.
Byd cticcmliiig tho slope* of the mountain
FOREIGN.
i wo Americans liavu been ox|**Ile l fro*r
Holstoiu, Prussia, fur "having inmle them-
selves troublesome'to tho authorities."
The Dublin corporation has adopted reso
lutions demanding home rule for Irelund,
aud expressing reliance on Mr. Gladstone’s
ability to obtain it.
A revolution is in progress in Uruguay.
In Ireland 350 Presbyterian congregations* '
numbering altogether 328,100 |>en)ons, have j
adopted resolution* denouncing tho project of !
establishing homo rule in tho country.
The great Ursuline convent at lsoekeu, two j
mile* notn Brussels. Belgium, ha* been de- 1
stroyod by fire, but the thirty nuns und 105
girls who were scholars aud lodgers wero all
saved.
M. Simon Lock, a banker of Soleure,
Switzerland, has failed, with liabilities of
$400,000. Hundred* of small depositors wer»
rail ed by the failure. Lock was arrested on
& charge of fraud.
Mr. Gladstone has taken the office of
lord privy seal in addition to that of premier.
This is unu-ual aud proves thut Mr. Glad
stone is experiencing difficulty iu securing
tantnb’e colleagues in the British cabinet.
out upon u point of rock, sat upon his | coursJ u °f two or three weeks of faithful
haunches anu looked down toward where j treatment the surface of thc scars of
a few rods to a line or ledge of rocks the two lions were feasting. | moderate size becomes more movable and
that projected from the side of the canon There on tho rock he sat for so long will begin
I saw that T could get as near to the bend I u time—twisting about on his haunches,
as I cured to he--even nearer—for I j snuffing the uir und licking his chops—
would not again come out iu sight of the 1 that I became satisfied that he would not
deer until at the edge of the vale iu ! renew the contest. As lie sat there,
which they were feeding. wrinkling and twisting his nose, the
Moving cautiously along the edge of mark he offered me was too tempting to
the ledge of rocks, which formed a sort 1 be resisted; beside, he was liable at any i
of terrace on the side of the cannon, and moment to drop down upon all fours and | “Your uote on thc magnificent and ro-
carefully avoiding the starting of lose j make off. I leveled my rifle for his heart, j mantic mise en scene of the late Spanish
stones down the precipitous slope, I at and at its crack the great beast pitched , king’s-obsequies call to my recollection,”
last reached the bank of the little j headlong into the canyon and rolled to remurks a correspondent, “a visit which
ravine on which was situated, some j the bottom, causing a great crashing of ! J paid to the escurial in 1808, wheu Isa-
thirty feet below me, the dell wherein j chaparral aud carrying with him about n ; bellu was on thc throne, and the little
were the deer. I not only had the shelter ! cart-load of loose rocks. j ‘prince of thc Asturias’ a puny child of
uiv TUa ‘Pontonn’ iiihIpi 1 thp liifrli ftltnr
skin when pressed from side to side. All
these changes ure due to improved nutri
tion, consequent ou better blood circula
tion—tho development of ontirely new
sets of bloods in tiie cicatrical tissue.
One Shelf Left.
of tiie ledge of rock several feet in Tiie sudden apparition of tho bear
heighth, but also that of several small | coming in such a headlong and turaultu-
trees thut stood on the bunk of the ous manner evidently took thc two lions
ravine and grew out from among the I b,v surprise, and for the moment demor-
lower rocks. alized them. Both bounded into sight
With my Winchester in my hand, 1 , on tho opposite side of the canon, and
peered urotiml the corner of my sheltering ■ did not halt until they were ten yards
rock and saw the deer still feeding, und | nbovo its bed.
only about fifty vnrds awav. Among: Evidently the unimals hud not observed
them was a noble buck. His antlers j the crack of my rifle, or if they had ob-
spread like the brunches of an aged ee- served it they probably connected the re-
dar. He stood fin ing me. 1 could see | j»rt with the impetuous charge of the
every wink of liis eves. I raised my
rifle, uimed at the centre of liis forehead,
and was just pressing my finger to tin-
trigger when lie suddenly wheeled 1 about
g ave u snort and hounded awav
v all the others of the herd. •
bear, for soon one. of them leuped upon a
bowlder and begun stretching his neck
and peering buck into, the canon where
i the hear had fulleu. As he thus stood he
followe I afforded a tine mark, and..taking careful
j aim. I brought him down.
For twenty year* Mrs. Johu Gemmill,
not wai'In'accoun^o^'aiffniurv to*tile ' Before l hud time to even conjecture j Tliis time the rematuiug liou uudoubt-
• pinc. One bottle of St. Jacobs OH gave i what lmd frightened the animals—indeed J edly heard the rejmrt of my guu, aud
itlief ; ilie second etittb ed I)ev to wall
md cuv. d her,
simultaneously with their first bounds - I comprehended the danger of Us position,
• large California lion darted from a! fnr ■' bounded away down along the
six. Tho ‘Piintcon’ under the high altar
has beou described by Macaulay- iu his
account of the lust days of the idiot king,
Cliarles It. There, each on a shelf in the
octagonal grotto, stand ranged thc black
marble chests containing tne embalmed
bodies of the kings. My companions and
I pointed out to the iittcnuuiit verger
that thero was only one shelf left. ‘Yes.
suid thc man, ‘and we have ti tradition
thut when that is filled thc kingdom will
end.’ The tradition is not likely to be
forgotton, aud it will be curious if it does
not turn out one of those prophecies which
aid their own fulfillment.''—Pall Mall
Gazette.
A stutue of Ak-xankcr Selkirk, other
wise Selcraig, the more than doubtful
origiuul of Defoe's immortal hero Robin
son Crusoe, bus just been erected at Largo,
the birtlipluiT p’f tli.-it refractory seamnn.
r " ’ Stif (ft
tautou