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* ■■■■ JOHN Ii. HODGES, Proprietor. DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROGRESS AND CULTURE. PRICE: TWO 1)01.1 VOL. XX. PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1890.' vr/A HOUSTON SHERIFFS SALE. £ will sell before the court house door in the town of Perry, Houston connty, Ga., within the legal hours of sale, on the first ICnesday in February, 1890, the following described property, to-wit: Lots of land Nos, 181, 182,197, 198, 273,224, and the east half of lot No. 240, all in the 13th district cf Houston coun ty, and containing 1/500 acres more or less, and known as the late Thaddens U, Holt plantation. Levied on to satis fy a fi. fa- issued from Houston Superior Court in favor of J. W. Coomha vs. B. TT Kingman, administrator of A. J?. Holt, deceased, and returnable to the April term, 1889. GRANDMA'S NEW YEAR'S TURKEY, j. “Who was here last night, Mol- 1 Jy?” pa asked. n.T 0 ata- aC ..m ? ,ni». j <.j fc was Terry," she screamed. We all went to Grandma "North's; “It’s him, the tkafe, that’s got me for our .New Year’s tfinris*. She; money! We counted it, and he (p-d neatly m a white silk shawl— dined with us on Christmas, and | says as how there was enough to Molly’s only piece of finery, we always spent New Tear’s with ] get married on after New Tear, her. When 1 say all of us, I mean Have him arrested, Misther North, she howled, “in me chisr, wrapped | Why Woman arc Fascinating, in the silk shawl me grandmother; lift met’’ The power qf. fascination inhe- Tbere it was, sureTeuougb, wrap; Also, at tbe same time and place, that certain dwelling house, and tne real es tate upon which it is built, of BE Smith, in tbe 13th district of said county; about 20 -yards of store-house of said Smith in the forks of the connty line and Snow roads; said lot containing acres, more or less. Also, one tenement house, and the real estate upon which it is bnilt, of B E Smith, in tbe 3rd district of Dooly bounty^ on - lot No. 47, containing 60 acres, more or less, about 400 yards aonth of said store-house, both forming one tract of land. Levied on as the property of B E Smith to satisfy a fi. fa. in favor of Baker & Lawrence, vs. B E Smith. Returnable to January term, 1890, of Houston Connty Conrt. M. L. COOPER, Sheriff. Jan. 2nd, 1890. J GEORGIA—Houston County: pa and ma and Helen aDd Alice and myself (Boberfc), the only boy m the family, and I can tell you being tbe only boy, with two older gisters ordering you round, and nagging and making fun of yon, isn’t a delightfnl position. Pa is grandma’s only child, and that’s the reason there’s so few of ns when we come together at a family dinner. To be sure, we have other relatives, but they live ’way up North, and I haven’t seen half of them, and couldn’t even tell yon half their names. Grandma lives on a farm about two miles from the town of Shel ton, and though she’s a very old lady, she’s as spry and active as if she was young, and manages the farm by herself just as well as for the howly Ysrgin’s sake.’ “But bow did he get the keys? pa asked. “How can I know?”she groaned. “I had awful dhrnmes all night of walkin’ and climbin’ and I was that sore this mornin’. He’s got me money, some way;” and then she began to howl again. Pa went to the town, 'but sure enough Mr. O’Brien wasn’t to be fomfS, and the man where he worked said be had gone off on the north-hound train, but said he would be-back in a day or two. “An’ where did the dirty thafe get tbe money for his ticket?” cries Molly, “whin niver a red cint did he have in his pocket?" Pa told her he had put the po- The return of the commisionera to set apart a Vi months support for Mrs. Sarah E Means and 4 minor children from es tate of M H Means, deceased, having been filed in this office: This is therefore to cite all persons Concerned to appear at the February i term, 1890, of the Court of Ordinary of said connty, and show cause, if any they have, why said retnm should not be re ceived and made the judgment of this court. s ■Witness my official signature this January 2nd, 1890. J. H. HOUSEB, Ordinary. Gdopgia—Houston County: T. N. White, administrator of the es tate of D A King, has applied for dismis sion from his trust: This is therefore to cite all'persons con cerned to appear at the April Term, 1890, of the Court of Ordinary of said county, and show cause, if any they have, why said application should not be granted, Winess my official signature this Jan. 2nd, 1890- JH HOUSER, Ordinary. Geobgia—Houston County: The returns of the commissioners to set apart a twelve months support for Mrs. Alice L. Bragg and two minor chil dren, from estate of J F Bragg, deceased, having been filed in this office: This is therefore to cite all persons ■ -concerned to appear at the February term, ' 1890, of the Court of Ordinary of said l oounty, and show cause if any they have, ’ why said return should not be received and made the judgment of this court. Witness my official signature this Jan- 2nd, 1890. J. Hi HOUSER, Ordinary. GEORGIA—Houston County: t \\ T. 33. Means has applied for letters of A) administration on the estate of M. li. iM Meausjof said county, deceased: r ; T-u’s is therefore to cite all parsons concerned to uppear at the February term, 1890, of tlfe Oourt_ of Ordinary of said comity, aud'showT ause.if anytbey have, why said application should not be -granted. Witness my official signature Ibis Jan. 2nd, 1890. •T.H. HOUSER, Ordinary. GEORGIA--Houston County I ff Taylor, guardian for Cora L. Woodard, has applied for dismission from his trust: This is therefore to cite all persons concerned to appear at the February term, 1890, of the Court of Ordinary of said county, and show cause, if any they have, why said application should not be granted. H Witness in; 12nd, 1890. iy official, signat are this Jan J. H. HOUSER, Ordinary. MONEY TO LOAN. In sums of $300.00 and upwards, to be secured by first lieuson improved farms. Long time, low rates andeasy payments. Apply to DUNOAN & MILLER, Nov. 20 th, 1889.—tf ' Perry* Ga. MONEY LOANS ' On Houston farms procured at the low- ost po3sib le rates of interest. As low, if not lower than the lowest Apply to W. D. Nottingham, tf Macon. Ga. ... . ftmsiM, j work* «•••» J v»int Ox* nfttosia _ i Wnlity ca» —— .Xta&fiESa&ass saes^r'asewwa u, -lit. WAiUl*; fiSTSTSSi and thut w« mn r»p«id. Wo pay all yea knew all. If you would uko lop IUdmii^Co*.lk>x IIy>rtl«ili Malifc , - ... , J , ... lice on his track, and that quieted grandpa did when he was living. S0Bhe ma ed to |g| j| We live so far-from Pine Grove —that’s the name of the farm that we always get there a day or two before New Tear’s. I mnst say for grandma there isn’t any thing stinting at her table, or winking or frowning at yon not to take two helps of this or that, and when she catches ma or the girls doing it at me she calls out: “For goodness’ sake, let Bob eat as much as he wants to. Where’s the sense of stinting a boy of thir teen in his eating? I like to see young people eat as if they enjoy ed their meals, and not mincing and dallying over tbeir plates. Let the boy alone, Maria.” Grandma has a cook; an Irish woman named Molly MoShane, just as jolly and good-humored as herself. She’s lived ten years at Pine Grove, andshe’s as glad to see ns all as grandma is. She’s no beanty, Molly isn’t, for she’s short and squat, and has no more figure than a cotton bale, and her face is broad and red, and her nose looks as if it had been mashed flat. She isn’t young, either, but for all that she's got a bean named Terrence O’Brien. A worthless young fellow he is, 'grandma says, wb-, wants to get- a| Molly’a ■ ag of savings, -.ltd if-he can cajole her j managed ner, batshe cried qnarts between times. That was the day before New Tear, and after dinner grandma took os into the pantry to see the things. bh;L couldn’t begin to tell yon what loads of pies and cakes and froite and candies there were, but we hardly saw anything for looking and wondering at a monstrous’ turkey that hong from a hook in the ceiling. It was mammoth, and grandma said that old as she was, she had never seen anything like it. It was of a big breed to begin with, and had been fattening in a coop for a year. “For two months,” grandma said, “that tnrkey has been fed on pecans and walnuts, and just look at the fat! Hit isn’t delicicions, then Pm no judge of a fine tur key!” Even Molly got up her spirits over that tnrkey, and told ns how she wbb going to staff it with truf fles, and such gravy! After that she had another crying spell, and took herself off to bed. The next morning after break fast she took the keys out of her pocket and started off to the pan fry. I %vent along,, bnt she was ahead. She opened the door and out: Of litem withouTiaraJing M SI 8 K III ^ cried 0ut ’ * & “Where s the tnrkey? “The tnrkey!” cries grandma, springing up.- “What does that he’ll do it; but if he can’t, he’ll make her Mrs. O’Brien, and get away with the money. But Molly keeps a tight grip ou her bag. She and Terence count the money over every two or three monthji, hut she holds on to every nickel; and he can’t get one of out of her. Pa tried to get her to put her money in a savings bank, but she hooted at him. “No, sor, I’ll niver be that silly to put me money where I canuot; see it whin I want. Banks break, and if I had all the goold and sil ver and jools av the world, no hanks wonld'see ’em, and swaller em np. Sometimes I dhrame av me money, and thin it does me all the good in the wurld to open me chist, and see me hag all safe.” “Take care, Molly!” pa said, laughing. “Since Terry knows so well, where yon Keep your treasure, some bright morning yon’ll wake np and find both bag and sweet heart. gone.” Molly got red, and cried ont: “An’do ye mane to say sor, that Terrence O’Brien, what comes av the good old shtock,—why, the O’Briens come av the kings ay MnnBther,—that he would demane himself to beja dirty thafe? Ah, niver!” “Very well,” pa said, still laugh ing. “HI were you, Molly, I’d change my hiding-place now and then. It won’t do any harm.” She didn’t answer, but went abont looking troubled until gr and ma had to scold her for being so absent-minded as to put sugar in stead of salt into the soup, and burned the chicken to a crisp. “What is the matter with you, Molly?” says grandma. “It’s the evil one that’s got into me, I think, ma’am,” Molly said. “I’m just dazed, and I feel as if some great throuble was cornin’.’’ That was at night, and the next morning there was the greatest hullabaloo you ever heard. Molly’s bag of money was gone from her chest, and she was in hysterics. The strangest thing of all wbs, she always wore the key of the chest ou a string around her neck', and it never came off, day or night The key was in itB place, and the cheat locked as usual, but when she opened it the money bag waa gone. girl mean?” “It isu’t there, grandma,” I said, and then everybody ran to the pantry. Molly waa sitting on a chair, looking scared to death, and gasping for breath. “It’s gone! it’s gone. 1 ” she hol lered, jumping np and clapping her hands; “It’s- goriSj like me money 1 - 'The -dhoor was a locked; ahd thfh key in me\ pocket.’ - The windows"is barred, ‘ look! They haven’t been touched! Howly saints, bntit is bewitched the house is!” Well, it was just as she .said. .ii Every one looked at each other, and graodma lifted Molly’s head, and slapped her hack, and made her drink some water. When she came to herself she was white and trembling like a leaf. Toil couldn’t hire her to touch the tar key, for she said the witches had been moving it, and ma and grandma had to stuff it and put it to roast. Pa said he was sure that Molly had put the turkey in the chest, may be when she was asleep. _ At any rate we made* a splendid dinner, though Molly said she was expefet- ing us us to drop down dead, or ran raving mad after eating it. That’s the way she said bewitched things sefved the folks in the old country. We sat around the fire late that night, talking over^thipgs. Just as we were going to bed Jim, the hired man, came to the door, and said: “I don’t know what’s the mat ter with Molly. She’s walking in the yard barefoot, with just a night gown on, and it’s freezing hard. I spoke to her, and she never turn ed her head, but jnstkepton.” “Just as I thought,” pa said, jumpingup, “tirewoman is a som nambulist, a sleep-walker. Ton must not make a noise, or wake her suddenly.” We came upon her at the bars. She polled ont one as well as I could do, got through the hole, and then moved swiftly toward the hen-honfe, which was in the hack- lot. We followed her there, and she was fumbling in tne straw and moss of an empty nest She drew something out, and as the moon was as bright as day, me could see that it was a white bag. “It’s her money, snre,” whisper ed pa. She took the bag to another nest, and covered it there carefully, and then marched ont of the hen-house, not seeing ns, though we were al most touching her. She went straight to her room, and pa said we must leave the mon ey in the nest, and we could tell her, and let her get it herself. Ton ought to have seen’her the next day when we took her to the hen-house, and showed her the lost treasure. She hugged the bag,and kissed it, and cried over it, as if it were a lost child; and then she hol lered about her injustice to her dar- liut Terry O’Brien, and how she would send for him, and marry him that very day. I am glad to say. “Misther O’Brien” didn’t have the spend ing Molly’s earnings. He had been concerned in a burglary, and the police were after him, and that was the reason he had left town in such a hurry. He never came hack, and Molly still lives with grandma. ^retjSan-.women may, moreover, be divided into two kinds. All of ns have seen the old lady, generally white haired, with kindly, pleas ant features, on which time has set unfriendly marks; who still re tains all her attractiveness. Note how the hoys and girls adore her. They will go to her and confide their sorrows, their hopes, their bright ambitions, even when they would not breathe a word to" their mothers. The kindly, loving in terest evinced in a lad’s affairs by such a one has time and again first implanted the impulses in his heart which eventually led him on to an honorable career. Quickly, almost by stealth, the good work is done by such, and the good seed sown which will ripen after a time into a rich and abttn dant crop. On the other hand, we have most of ns seen, perhaps in real life, certainly on the1 stage, tbe fascinating adventuress who by her thrilling beaute de diahle, enslaves men’s souls, and leads them (on the stage) to dare all for her sake. This is directly opposed to the sweet old lady in her old fashioned chair,and thes etwo form the opposite poles between which the women who fascinate vary. Types differ, and any. one you may select has some position be tween these two opposites. Take for instance, a’pretty and maybe witty woman who, hardly of her own free will, makes every man fall in love with her to a greater or less degree. She may be inno cent of all evil intention, but her position on the scale is not far re moved from that of the melodra matic sorceress. Or, again take instance of the pretty young ma tron, -who, while devoted to home, husband and children, Jet has sev eral intimate friends-of the male persuasion. But her influence is all foi^good. Her fascination is exerted in a worthy cause, and she has found out a great truth—that there is no friendship so lasting, so pleasant and so true as one be- Jtween persons of opposite sexes, where a’ true feeling of bonne camarraderie exists and there is no pretense t'- love-making Such a women, if she iiv^s long enough bids fair to develo.riuto a snowy haired old lady on whose friend ship the children will rely. Roils in the South. Th-_ .... Editors of .northern and eastern Th.nje who kiv v Wd’ u A papers afe prone to aggravate ev- d-rsoti, d r ery difficulty in the South betneeu Hotel, sayo :ii- O;ouiia :.t ,>io; ; negroes and whites as acts of de- j can, are familiar with his habit of j liberate wrong to the negroes, and | talking in rhyme. Upon every fa- | thus make political capital for the : vorahle occasion,' and frequently i repnbean party. ■ when it is least expected, he pats There were several riots in Geor- t| le commonest' form of c mversa- j gia and other Southern States tio ,. ^ ,f jh^li,,,, s •..»->■ ; j Christmas day and in some, drunk- an d often says some clevm- h .i en negroes were the instigators, Yesterday -he tried- this upon a i resisting arrest and causing death.” i gRest named Charles MeGrew, j The following from the Chicago J f rom St. Louis. MeGrew, who has j Herald is fairer chau the usual known Anderson for several years,! R it r\ IN S J. H. HERTZ, l \ L urnfs}i The dawn begins to flicker over another United States, in the Everything was: in' its place, 1 the southern hemisphere on the other H ■-—■-“-• - J - side of the globe. “The project of consolidating the Australian continent into one powerful state,” says our British contemporary, the Spectator, “has tsken a great step forward.” The movement to ward such a union of the Austra lian colonies has been in existence some time, led hy the colony of dnoks and geese and mutton, and not-a singlepie or cake had been tpnehed. The thief, whoever it Was, only’ hankered after the big tnrkey. “But who could have taken it?” says grandma, looking hard at McJlyr “I don’t suspect you, Molly, for you have been with me for ten years, and I’ve neyer miss- ed a pin But did yon have visit ors last night, and did yon give theinn peep at the turkey ?” “Me have visitors!” Molly cried, “and me pore heart broke entirely at lorin’'me’ money, and Terry’s rascality. No, ma’am, I cried; till the slape came, an’ thin I dhramed of the tnrkey. Tes I did, and it was alive ah’ flj in’, an’ I runnin’ afther it.” Well, it’s no use moaning,” ndma said. She’s a sensible old lady, and Bhe never cries over spilt milk “We’ll go without any din ner if vou don’t go to work, Molly. I am sorry about the turkey, but I reckon we must make a shift with out it. Where’s the sage and on ions for the goose stuffing?”- “Here’s the onions, ma’am, but I clean forgot the sage yisterday when Jim went to town for the things. But I remember I have a bag of sage in my chist, I keep for gargles. I’ll run and git it.” We heard her lumbering up the stairs, and then she gave a screech which sent ns up there in a hurry. There she was lying flat on her back, pounding her heels on the floor, and howling and laughing like one of the lsnghing hyenas you see in the shows. “It’s the tnrkey! the tnrkey,” Victoria, and resisted principally by the colony of New South Wdles. There are 1,400,000,000 people on the earth, and all these, as some one cbmpntes, could be gathered in a field ten miles square, or in 100 square miles of territory, and every /last man of them reached with one telephone. Who, exclaims the Detroit , Free Press, says the world is over-pop- ulatedi-when one book agent may address such an audience? The breeding of fast trotters and pacers, peculiarly an American in dustry, is assuming large propor tions. There are now in the Union nearly 5,000 horses that can trot or pace their mile in 2:30 or less time. Friday. Lee surrendered on Friday. Moscow was burned on Fri day. Washington was born on Fri day. Shakespeare was born on Fri day. America was discovered bn Fri- day. Richmond was evacuated on Fri day. . The Bastile was destroyed on Fsiday. The Mayflower was landed on Friday. Queen Victoria was married on Friday. King Charles I. was beheaded on Friday. Fort Sumpter was bombarded on Friday. Napoleon Bonaparte was horn on Friday. Jnlins Caesar was , horn on Fri day. The battle of Marengo was fought on Friday. The battle of Waterloo, was fought onFriday. _ The battle of Bunker Hill was fought on Friday. Joan of Arc was burned at the stake on Friday. The battle of New Orleans wbb fought on Friday- The declaration of independence was signed on Friday. K people would cease laying to cultivate each other it would dis close their own needs, which would keep them busy cultivating themselves, A knowledge of right and wrong is embraced with the senses, and no one needs teaching more than he who feels able to instruct oth ers of what right or wrong is. A prominent negro politician in Atlanta has been convicted in the city court of stealing, and was sentenced to pay a fine of $1,000, or serve twelve months on the chaingang; He stole lumber by lature. the car load, and rented a lot from the sheriff of the enunty on which he stored it. A barrel factory will be estab lished at Bainbridge, Ga., some time the present month by Mr. E. C. Lamb. The New Tork grand jury re cently made a presentment in re gard to electric light wires; it says the business of generating and dis tributing electric currents should be investigated by the next legis- newspaper comment from that quarter. This comment refers to the affair at Jessilp, Ga. “The ‘race war’ iq Georgia, like most of the others reported in that quarter, appears to have been a fight between a party of drunken desperadoes and a marshal’s posse. It is true that the drunken despe radoes were blacks and the law of ficers were white, but this appa rently had no more to do with the origin of the fracas than the fact that some of the men involved wore stiff hats and some of them soft hats. Of course the episode will he made the text of many hppocriti- cal essays in the bloody-shirt press, but all such fulminations will avail nothing. The obvious dishonesty of the partisan who sees nothing but race and political hatred in Southern lawlessness, and who ex cuses Western and Northern vio lence of the same sort on other grounds serves to defeat the very objects i^hich it is sought to ad vance in that manner.” A I travels for a coffee and tea house I in St. Louis, and he was -on the j lookout for Anderson to make a I crack at him in rhyme. -* j JL^EI.CLSX'NaT'SS.j.. Soon after breakfast. MeGrew J To at abovthrao j^aa.orttalatest appearechat the desk and asked for ..... L II UEE- .TTn-cler- National Education 'Bill. The Blair Educational hill, as reported to the Senate, has several amendments. Among them are the following: L The quota of any State which shall he refused by the Legislature, shall be. covered into the Treasury, instead of being divided among the rest of the States. 2. The requirement that copies of school hooks, authorized by the school hoards, shall be de posited with the Secretary of the Interior, is stricken ont; also the section giving the respective Leg islatures power to ^distribute the funds apportioned to the various Territories. 3. It is explicitly stated that the training of persons of different colors to become teach ers shall not be required in the same schools. Mr. Blair gave no tice that as soon as possible after the close of the holiday recess he would call the bill up for action. It was placed on the calendar. A third bill, containing the outlines of a national-school law has heen introduced by SenatorTngalls. It provides for the appointment of a national board of education, con sisting of one member from each State and Territory and the Dis trict of Columbia, who shall have charge of all the machinery of a school system, the districts of which shall be established where- ever the parents of twenty-five children ask for the appointment of a teacher. All instruction shall be in English, the age of pupils may be from four to twenty-one years and the curriculum shall in clude the arts and sciences.—Na tional Democrat. A hand organ manufacturer has no special cause to be proud of his business, and yet he is continu ally patting on airs. Neuralgic Persons And tboee troubled with nervousnew resulting from ear® or overwork will be relieved by taking Proton’s Iron Bitters. Goralno ’ bU tnuf mut Mid crossed red lines on wrapper. Stanley’s work in Africa is of higher value the more one hears of it. It appears that among the things he has settled are these: The Congo traced from the sea to its head: discovery of the water shed of the Nile and the Congo systems: almost absolute proof that Lake Victoria is the largest body of fresh water in the world; and that the ancient “Mountains of the Moon” have their equivalent name in the modern Ruwenzore, the highest peak of which he esti mates to he 18,000 feet in altitude, and which is entirely snow-capped for 1,200 feet. There are many people alive yet who want something for nothing. About fifty are in Sioux City. A man named R. A. Sears of Minne apolis sent ont offers to give three pieces of elegantly upholstered furniture as an -advertisement - to all who would send 90 cents to pay for boxing. Many sent the money, and-got three cate little iron toys with plush seats and pretty finish The recipients were surprised, and yet cannot claim that they were bably swindled, Tor they got all they paid for. In Vienna practical philanthro py takes the shape .of cheap eating houses for poor people. There are ten cooking kitchens throughout the city that feed an average or 1000 people each and every day. The average cost of a dinner is 8 cents, and a supper 4 cents, both meals comprising about the varieties the common eating houses furnish. the key to his room, which was No. 42, and it was then'that Anderson met his match at rhyme-making “A man by the name of Charlie MeGrew ran off with the key to forty-two,” said Anderson, as he threw the desired piece of brass upon the desk. “When Anderson used to live at DesMoines he paid his debts with spurious coin,” chimed in Me Grew. “In a search for liars you’ll find bnt few that can hold a candle to Charlie MeGrew,” retorted Ander son, withorft a moment’s pause, “Satan had a son who would not work, so he hired him out for a hotel clerk,” came the second in stallment from MeGrew. “The devil himself threw down his fan, and went on the road as a travelling man,*’ shot off the hotel rhymester. ♦“The devil’s son was a little raw, but a better hotel clerk I never saw,” continued the travelling man. “And the devil said: ‘Now, let me see, T believe I will peddle some coffee and tea,’ ” suggested Anderson. “When Anderson takes a real bad spell be ifiakes one think of a breeze from—well,” said MeGrew, as he wnlkpfl over to the cigar- *stand. “There was a time when Chari—” But the porter put a stop to tbe poetic dialogue by yelling in sub bass: “Passengers going east over the Builingfcon, Rock Inland, Chi- Minneiipolis andSt. Pint, all aboard!” K, HLF »74 and 576 Che MACON, fry Street, GA. |IF. YOU WMT - FIRST-CLASS groceries, >, Siloes, CONFECTIONERIES, Fruits in Season, Ci gars, Tobaceo‘Etc. .rtftrmine my stock before purchasing. Besides a full stock of STANDARD GOODS, X will always have on hand some Specialties, at remarkably low figures. Xiookout for changes in this ad vertisement. 3.L SPEIGHT, PERRY, GA. J. Off. BEMER. Opposite L; n.’or, MucoiJ, Ex-Gov. Kellogg, of Louisiana, says he is wholly ont of politics, and that, therefore, he may ex press opinions which otherwise He would not. As a private qjtizen, with no desire for political nower, he predictedprepnblican defeat in the Third Louisiana district, and in Ohio, New York and Virginia. Now he predicts that in the next congressional elections tbe demo-’ crats will re.egain control of the. House. He says that the new navy yard is certain to be established at New Orleans. In the postoffice building there are 800,000 European postal cards,. Ten years ago Postmaster' General James ordered 1,000,000 oto these cards, supposing that they would probably be used in a year or so, for they could go anywhere in Eu rope, and cost only two cents. In ten years only 200,000 of them iiave been sold. Pennsylvania is going to present a claim of §3,000,000 to congress for losses inched in border conn- ties of-that state daring the inva sion of Confederate troops. The state has advanced at different times §900,000 for the relieE of people who sustained losses, and congress will also be asked to put that amount in the-state treasury. Pennsylvania is not at all mod est A Chicago'paper says “it was - a green Christmas at the North, and a bloody one at the‘South.” The Northern papers show, how ever, that there were ten men killed in the North to one in the South. 1 Scrap of Paper Sure. ITgr I.i re. It wa3 just an ordinary scrap of wrapping paper but it saved her life. 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