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MUSIGAL AND DRAMATIC. ’
Beethoven ha« bflYmade the hero of a
French comic opera.
“Lotta" (Mias Crabtree; is to retire from
the stage in May, 1891.
Mrss Kate Field will lecture in New
"York city on California wines.
Bill Ntk is writing a farce comedy for
Lizzie Daly, the famous dancer.
Women professional whistlers are jumping
up everywhere throughout the country.
A box in the Metropolitan Opera House hi
New York was sold recently for $23,000.
The Campanini Concert Company, after
an unsuccessful tour, has been disbanded.
This first day’s advance sale for Mary
Anderson's engagement in Boston, reached
over SOOOO.
Mobjeska, the Polish actress, will make a
tour of Texas and the South, playing mostly
in one-night stands.
Emily Soldi: ne, the famous burlesquer,
was recently hissed on the London stage
during a benefit that she was taking.
Mux. Albani leaves England shortly for
a concert tour in the United States and
Canada.
Three are 12,000 actors out of work in
this country at the present time, according
to careful estimates.
“Yirri va” is the name of a new opera to be
produce; 1 in San Francisco in January at the
Tivoli Opera House.
John F. Sheridan, of the old firm of Sher
idan & Mack, is in Shang-hai, China, play
ing Con in the “Shaugkran."
Marik Waznwrlght is to make her ap
pearance before a New York audience as
Rosalind in “As You Like It.”
Miss llowk, of Boston, is the latest addi
tion to the bevy of American songbirds who
are captivating the connoisseurs of all the
European capitals.
Mary Anderson will probably continue
under the management of Mr. Henry E. Ab
bey next season and make a tour of this
country, which will take her as far West as
California.
The proposed Thomas orchestral concerts
in New York city will include four evening
performances and six matinees. Distin
guished artists will take part in almost ail
the concerts.
“Le Petit Dec” has been revived with
great success at the Eden Theatre in Paris,
and the principal female character is again
played by Mile. Granier, who “created” it
ten years, ago.
Jenny Lind’s monument, to be erected in
London by her husband, has just been com
pleted in Glasgow. It is in the form of a
beautiful cross, about ten feet high, cut from
Swedish granite.
Mrs. Scott-Siddons, the “Tragic Muse”
of years ago, is still a very beautiful woman
and an easy, animated talker. When she is
speaking her large, brilliant, black eyes
light up her face aud give it an appearance
of youth.
The appearance of two professional burg
lars upon the stage of the People’s Theatre in
Chicago, has evoked a great deal of criticism.
The burglars crack a safe in a melodrama in
a highly professional way, and the audience
seem to enjoy this bit of realism.
The final retirement of Sims Reaves, the
great English tenor, is at last at band. Ho
will make a farewell tour of England, begin
ning in March and ending at Newcastle in
December on the fiftieth anniversary of the
date of his operatic debut as Gypsy John in
“Guy Mannering.” which was made in that
town.
Made a Fortune Out of Matrimony.
Mrs. Betsev Bradley, of East Haven,
Conn., who died recently, leaving au
estate of $350,000, made a fortune out
of matrim ny. She married John Brad
ley, seventy-five, when she herself was
fiftv-two, receiving $20,000. She asked
$25,000 when her lover proposed and
was refused ; but ho went home and
counted over his $300,000 or more, and
the next day came and told Betsey ho
had decided to “ split the difference,
and was accepted, Tho married life of
this strange pair was without event un
til Mr. Bradley suffered a “stroke,"
and a lawyer was called to make his
will. Mrs. Bradley had verbally given
given up all right to her share tho
estate when she was a fiancee. Soon
after her husband died, and she received
$125,000 as her share of theestate. no
will or other written agreement being
fonnd to prevent it. A life of the great
est economy has increased this to
$350,000, which she has willed to St.
Paul’s Church. She did not love her
relatives. Once she built a fence twelve
feet high between herself and brother—
who she said was prying too closely into
her affairs -and bought a fierce bull-dog
to keep guard. An effort will he made
to break the will, however .—Springfield
Republican.
Age of Orange Trees.
That tho orange tree frequently at
tains afcrent age is certain, and it is a
well ascertained fact that many of those
which are known to bo at least one hun
dred years old appear to be in their
prime. It. is even alleged that in the
Azores there are trees which have pro
duced fruit after their third century.
We n ay take it, however, that as a gen
eral rule the orange is at its best up to
a lmiidr. d years, and alter that time
begins gradually to decay.
Tnr granddaughter of Abraham Lincoln,
the daugbttJ of his son Robert, wilt make
her entrance into -Society-’ thi waiter, Mi»
Lincoln is a lilt e above the in. (Imm height,
anil has a well-rounded figure and bnght
Cir.idi face, in which there i- no trace of the
rugged features of h r ■ real ancestor.
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THE NEXT CENSUS.
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.SLY ATE COM MITT it:,
KNi iiu.il rrf ('ohl of tlie Work and SubjeelN
lo In* Tn':iU'«l.
A bill providing for the taking o£ the elev.
enth census passed the House of Representa
tives at its last session. As the date ap
proaches on which it is proposed the census
shall be taken—June l, 1890—the Senate
Committee is receiving frequent commuaica
t-'ons suggesting amendments to the House
bill. The principal ones suggests! relate to
the provision authorizing an enumeration of
the survivors of the late war and the Inser
tion of a provision for ascertaining the re
corded mdebtedneas of the people.
( Senator Hale, Chairman of the Consus
Committee, is in constant communication
with persons acquainted with census work,
several of whom have requested a hearing
before the committee. The committee has
been authorized to employ a stenographer
and take expert testimony. The bill creates
a new officer—that of Disbursing Clerk: in
creases the salary of the Superintendent from
SSOOO to ffiOOO, and increases the maximum
number of Supervisors of Census from 150,
in 1880, to 175. There is also a difference in
the pay of the supervisors.
Section 17 of the bill proposes that the
schedules of inquiries of the eleventh oensus
shall be the same as those of the tenth census,
with such changes of subject matter, emen
dations and modifications as may be ap
proved by the Secretary of the Interior, it
being the intention to give the Secretary full
discretion in this matter. A provision is
made, however, in this section, that the
Superintendent of the Consus “shall cause to
be taken in the same schedule of inquiry the
names of those who served in the army, navy
or marine corps of the United States in the
M ar of the Rebellion, and who are survivors
at the time of said inquiry, and the widows
of soldiers, sailors or marines.”
T wenty-two volumes, besides eompendiums,
were the outgrowth of the census of 1880.
The House bill, while, as before said, it gives
to the Secretary of the Interior discretion in
the matter of schedules of inquiries, limits
the publication of the volumes to seven, as
follows: Population, and social statistics re
lating thereto: Products of manufactures;
Mining; Agriculture; Mortality and vital
statistics; \ aluation and public indebtedness;
statistics relating to railroad corporations,
express, telegraph and insurance companies.
The House bill limits the expenses of the*
census to $(1,000,000 as the maximum cost,
exclusive of the printing, engraving and
binding. The last census cost the Govern
ment $5,862,750; but this included the entire
cost of delivering the work to the public, fin
ished and complete. It is thought that the
sum of $6,000,000 will be necessary for the
work, on account of the increase of popula
tion, although the schedule of inquiries is
limited to seven. It is belies e l by experts
that the population will reach 64,000,00(1. an
increase of 14,0:'().00;i over that of 1880.
Another feature of the House bill that is new
is that allowing the Superintendent of the
Census the privilege of furnishing to any
city, town or municipality a list of the names
in said city, town or municipality,at the rata
of 25 cents for each 100 names so furnished.
Pitman Pulsifer, the committee clerk, has
prepared a table showing the time each
census was taken, from the first down to
that of 1880, the date of publication, the en
tire cost of the census, and the number of
volumes in each. The table is follows: 1730,
one volume, published in 1702, $44,377; 1800
one volume, published in ISO], $66,600;
1810, twovoluraes. published in 1813, $178,-
445; 1820, two volumes, published in 1823,
$208,525; 1860, on - volume, published in 1832,
$378,548; 1840, four volumes, published in
1841.8833,874; 1850, four volumes, published
in 1859, $1,829,027; 1860, four volumes, pub
lished in 1865, $1,922,272; 1870, four volumes,
published in 1872, $3,826,511; ISBO, twenty
four volumes (including compendium', pub
lished in 1888, $5,862,750.
LABOR NOTES.
The use of petroleum as fuel seems to gain
ground slowly.
A struggle for shorter hours is appre
hend; d by English employers.
Helen-A, Montana seems to be a good
place for carpenters out of work.
The number of full-grown men out of
employment iii Georgia is incredible.
The first assembly of the Knights of Labor
was founded in Philadelphia in iB7'J.
Tiie Glen Rolling Milt, at Allentown,
Penn., has been idle for over ten years.
Natives of Alsace an 1 Lorraine at Cleve
land, Ohio, have formed a benevolent society.
Peddlers in a S’t iibenvUre, Ohio, mill
have accepted £5.50 per'ton for scrap work.
NorniNG booms a city like having p enty
of Work for the laboring men and mechanics.
Less than one-tenth of the wage workers
of the country are organized in any kind of
association.
The Boston stove trade is said to be mov
ing t .ward Alabama, where the raw material
is close at hand. .
The Chinese in New York city have de
manded higher wages since the passage of
the Chinese Exclusion bill.
The paper-making industry ranks four
teenth in this country in the matter of labor
employed and capital invested.
The latest statistics from London show a
marked increase in the number of women
employed in tho different trades.
A German patent has been issued for the
preparation of wood fibre for spinning.
Strong fabrics are made from the product.
A new Lehigh Valley passenger engine,
with a boiler sixty inches in diameter, is be
ing built at the South Easton (Penn.) shops.
Fifty thousand English miners have de
manded an increase of wages. They base
their claim on the fact that times are getting
better.
The National Amalgamated Association
of Iron and Steel Workers was formed
August 4, 1816, with 111 lodges and 3755
members.
The Knights of Labor are expressing op
position to Air. Williamson's plan for estalt
fishing a school in Philadelphia in which boys
may learn trades.
It is a fact that women are more persistent
strikers than men and marri d women )>ar
ticu arly. in the telegrapher’s strike in 1383
the women held out to the end.
The annual report of the National Associa
tion of Stationary J mincers, which was or
ganized in New York city in 1382, shows a
membership of nearly 2>,0 0 men.
It is proposed in Kansas to petition the
Legislature to make a law providing for the
weeklv payment of wages to employes of
municipal and private corporations.
The Secretary of War has awarded the
contract for furnishing i1,500,0ti0 worth of
Steel forgings for 8, ID and 12- neh bigh-power
tuns to°the Bethlehem iPenn.) Iron Com
pany. *
The first yard of cotton cloth ever woven
in lowa was turned out recently at lies
Moines The null has a capacity of 10,0 0
yards a day, and will employ from 150 to
, viO men.
DEVOT fiVELOPM3SNT OF THE RESOURCES OP DtADB COUNT 1
TRENTO d. GA„ Fill DAY- JANUARY i, 1880.
NEWS summary.
Eastern and Middle States.
A fire in Lynn, Mass., destroyed the P.
■Lennox morocco factory; a four-story
wooden building in the rear, occupied by
Harvey Brothers, morocco manufacturers,
and the adjoining two story wooden build
ing. Five dwellings were badly damage*!
Ihe total loss by the tire is estimated at
$250,000.
The Presidents of mn*t of the prominent
railroads of the country, representing aiwut
$2,000,000,000, at a meeting in New York,
signed an agreement to restore and maintain
freight rates, which have been in a disor
ganized condition for a long time, and have
resulted in great losses to the roads.
John T. Trainor, a railway employe iu
Hoboken, N. J., threw himself before a loco
tive and was killed, rather than allow it to
simply cut off his leg.
Henry D. Schoonvaker, a prosperous
young business man, killed himself and
wounded his wife fatally, at their home, in
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Mrs. Kowolski, of Port Kennedy, Penn.,
was accidentally shot and killed by her
daughter at their home.
George W Tucker, aged thirty-three
years, while chopping wood in the Buttker
Hill district, near Water bury. Coni)., was
struck by a falling limb and killed.
Henry and John Van lYormer, brothers,
aged respectively fifty-five and fifty-eight
years, were killed at Oneonta, N. Y. The
west-bound train ran over them, mangling
them in a horrible manner.
Mrs. Henry Hepple, a widow seventy
five yeans old, was burned to death at New
Haven, Conn. While making dinner her
clothing took fire. She jumped into bed to
smother the flames. The bed took fire and
she was roasted.
A fire occurred at Forest City, Penn.,
which destroyed the home of Mrs. John
Priestly. The woman and her grandson
were caught in the flames and burned to
■•oath.
South and West.
A construction train on the Arizona and
Southern Railroad, with some sixty laborers
on board, jumped the {track near a coke
siding and rolled down a high embankment,
killing eight of the men and wounding sev
eral others.
Some fiends by exploding dynamite under
a store at Wichita, Kan., killed two persons.
A boiler burst near Frankfort, Ind., and
killed two men.
Hermansville, Mich., a lumbering settle
ment of about- 400 inhabitants, has been
totally destroyed by fire. There is great
distress among the homeless people on ac
count of the cold weather. ,
Factories, dwelling houses and other
property, covering three acres, were de
stroyed by fire in Cincinnati, Ohio. Total
loss, over $300,000. ’ .
The steamer Lief Erickson, burned
Alki, Washington Territory, and was a total
loss. Seven lives *pre lost.
At the Ohio Coal Company’s dock, Duluth,
Minn., one of the bins, holding 000 tons of
stone coal, burst and buried John Jackson
and John Oleson under the mass. Both were
killed.
A BOIXER explosion occurred near Gold;
Hill. Col..which resulted in the instant death
of four men and the scalding of another.
Washinarton.
Commodore Schley, Chief of the Bureau
of Equipment and Recruiting, appeared be
fore the Naval Committee and made an
argument in favor of increasing the number
of enlisted men in the service to 10,000.
Quarters have been engaged at the Ar
lington Hotel, Washington, for General Har
rison and (party prior to the inauguration
ceremonies. There will be in the party
General Harrison and wife, Russell Harrison
and wife, J. R. McKee, wife, and two chil
dren, ex-Senator Saunders, of Nebraska,
and wife (parents of Mrs. Russell Harrison).
E. W. Halford, private secretary, wife and
daughter.
The President and Mrs. Cleveland spent
Christmas quietly at the White House.
Foreign.
Victor St a n wood, %U ni ted States Com
mercial Agent at Andakobe, Madagascar,
was recently shot and killed by Captain
Duverge, master of the American schooner
Solitaire, whom he had placed under arrest.
Dispatches to the Congo State confirm
the report of the arrival of Stanley and
Emin on the Aruwhimi.
The British have decided to build perma
nent forts before withdrawing from Suakim,
Egypt.
The Turkish marines in the arsenal at
Constantinople have revolted because their
wages have not been paid.
(The British Parliament has been prorogued
until January 31st. The Queen’s speech was
of a pacific tenor.
Henry A. Blake, whose appointment by
England as Governor of Queensland, was
opposed by the people of that country, has
been appointed instead Governor of Ja
maica.
A DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.
The Business Part of Marblehead,
Mass., in TC.iii ns—A Heavy Loss.
The entire business part of Marblehead,
Mass., about, twelve acres, has been burned.
The fire was discovered in the house furnish
ing store of D. B. H. Powers on Pleasant
street, at about 10 o’clock P. M. The first
warning was a loud explosion of naptha in
the store. The building was of wood, and
was rapidly consumed. The buildings sur
rounding the structure were mere shells, and
it seemed everywhere a spark fell a fire
started. In fifteen minutes the entire busi
ness section was burning. The entire shoe
manufacturing district, the principal busi
ness of the town, was burned. Thirty-seven
buildings were consumed^
The estimated loss is $8t),000. with 1000 or
more men thrown out of employment, and
many families rendered homeless. Though
the boundaries of the fire wore almost identi
cal with those of the big fire of dune, 1577,
the losses are nearly double those by that
one.
For a while there was a panic among the
inhabitants, who packed their goods for re
moval. Charles Choate, who broke a leg by
jumping from a second story window, is the
only in jured person rep irte.i.
The heat on ail sides was intense; curb
stones were cracked and crumbled, car rails
were twisted out of shape, tall chimneys
fell with terrific crashes, and boilers exploded
with the force of cannon. None of th ■ manu
facturers think it possible to rebuild this
wint* r. and ther ■ is a general feeling of de
pression in the town.
A REGTriiATiox has been adopted in
the Michigan State Prison by which
hereafter convicts may earn the right to
we ir plain gray suits instead of the
prison stripes. Men who obey tho prison
rules for six months may discard the
stripes, but if after that period they
become unruly again, they must once
more don the objectionable clothing.
SEWSY GLEANINGS. •
A great Match Trust is tho latest.
Indiana is about to borrow $2,000,000.
There are-5000 Hebrews in Minn apolis.
Diphtheria is decidedly on the increase.
The use of tobacco is on the increase in
this country.
There are ‘3038 owners of Percheron horses
in this country.
Oregon has doubled her population during
the last ten years.
The late -t syndicate is one formed to force
up the price of silk.
Americans used 875,811 pounds more
snuff in 188 e than in 1887.
Tin;hr are ROOT women in charge of post
offices m tho United States.
The Pope has abandoned the propos'd
European eongTess 011 slavery.
New Jersey will derive $1,340,431 in
taxes from railroads during 188 V.
Maryland oyster pirates number nearly
60'X) armed men and have 801) vessels.
Warner, N. H.. with a population of over
1.500, has not had a death in five months.
The tonnage of the United States in the
foreign trade continues to slowly decrease.
China has not been without a rebellion in
some portion of the empire for over 120 years.
At Los Angeles, Cal., coal was from $2-5
to S3O per ton last year. To’-day it costs sl4.
An experimental shipment of Alabama
coal is to be made from Pensacola, Fla., to
Cuba.
The damage done to summer resorts along
the Atlantic each winter is estimated at $2,-
000,000.
Orders have been given for a large in
crease of the Russian artillery force in
Poland.
Canada’s trade with England has fallen
off about $4,000,000 during the last ten
months.
In eleven months thirty-twomen have been
taken from Northern and Western jails and
hung up.
The Empress Augusta, of Germany, has
offered a prize of $2500 for a portable mili
tary hospital.
Florida alligator-hunters say that the
saurians will be looked upon as curiosities
ten years hence.
The Government grant per pupil, reckoned
on the daily average attendance for England
and Wales is $4.18.
Southern quail introduced into the State
of Maine are wintering well and becoming
easily acclimated.
Over $8,000,000 was invested in roller
skating rinks during the craze, and most of
it psA'ed a total loss.
The number of streets in London is now
upward of 28,000, and new ones are added at
the rate of 300 per year.
Them: are now 40,000 scholars and 4000
teachers in the London “Raggod Sunday-
Schools,” and these n uniters are fast increas
ing.
Mr. O. H. Alexander, Charlotte. Vfc,
claims the name “Ben Harrison” for a new
seedling potato which he considers of great
promise.
It is believed that during the coming ses
sion of the Canadian Lfeuliament the Govern
ment will enact legfaL, pu restricting Chi
nese immigration.
During one year the American O'eau of
Animal Indus.ry has inspected 274,55.5 cat
tle and slaughtered -2310 animals affected
with pleuro-pnenmoaia.
More than $16,000 in cash has been paid
out in the search for the murderer of the
Millionaire Snell, of Chicago, and no real
clue has yet been struck.
At the Danville (Va.) Tobacco Exposition,
1800 samples of all grades of tobacco, Vir
ginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and
Tennessee, were displayed,
IN one year the Chambers Street Hospital
and the New York Hospital, both of New
York city, used for bandages 136 miles of
bleached muslin a yard wide.
The bronze group of Washington and La
fayette, presented to the City of Paris,
France, by Joseph Pulitzer, of New York
city, has been formally accepted by the
Municipal Council.
A TRAIN “HELD UP.”
Two Mashed Men Rob the Central
Pacific Express ol'Bagsol'Money.
The east-bound Overland train on the Cen
tral Pacific, from Sacramento the other
night, was robbed by masked men near
Clipper Gap. The express-car was ransacked
and many packages were taken. Two men
with masks suddenly appeared while the cars
were running slowly through a long snow
shed. They broke the glass in the upper part
of the ex press-ci r doors and covered the two
messengers with revolvers. Then, while one
stood guard over the men, the other wont
through safe and packages. He secured
considerable pluuder, but, strangely enough,
he passed over one sack containing over
SIO,OOO in gold coin, and he also left behind
several small sacks containing lesser
amounts.
When the train neared New England -tills
tho robbers dropped from the door. They are
described as young men, but they were so
well masked that, no description of them
could be obtained. Detectives were at once
sent by special train to tho scene of tho rob
bery. Tho railroad comoanv claim that the
robbers'only secure i sSoi\ but other reports -
say that they got from SIO,OOO to $20,000.
Excruciating Cruelty.
A New London (Conn.)paper tells how
a load of mackerel was served at a dock.
In the centre of the sailboat was a well
half full of water, into which had been
thrown the fish as they were caught to
keep them alive and fresh, and where
they swam about until taken out to be
sold. Over the well sat a boy, whose
duty it was to keep a man in a rowboat
near by supplied with fish as fast as he
could string them. The boy took one
fish out of the well at a time, and while
the fish was struggling in his hand, he
inserted his forefinger beneath the gills
and drew tho insides out, tossing them
into a pail, aud then tint wing the fish
into a heap in front of the man in the
rowboat, where it lay quivering until he
picked it up and drove a needle, to
which a string was attached through
both eyes. He kept this work up until
he had a quarter’s worth of half live and
half-dead fish on his string, which If a
sold to the first comer for that sum.
The old Doty tavern In Canton, Mass.,
where Washington and Lafayette dined and
a rough draft of the Declaration of Inde
pendence was drawn up, has been burned.
It is estimated that the Boston stockholders
of two great. Western railroads have lost
$' s 2,ooo,DOo'by the shrinkage in the value of
i their securities in the last fifteen months.
LATEST NEWS.
Bx-CoNGiieasMAN William L. Scon
has effected one of the most important coal
deals ever made in'tlie Monongahela Valley,
of Pennsylvania. He secures coal lands
valued at $10.5,000 in the centre of a larga
tract of valuable lands.
A hall at East Prospect, Penn., collapsed
with a party of .about three hundred per
sons, and the ruins took fire, but all were
rescued with no more serious damage than
broken legs.
Michael Manning, employed about the
Cooke Locomotive Works, in Paterson, N. J.,
was whirled about a shaft until he was
killed.
A boat containing Leta Raumhuugb,
Flora, Clara, Harryand Ranmol Smith was
capsized in the river at East Brady, Penn.,
and Flora and Clara, aged twenty and
eighteen, were drowned,
• The four-year-old son of E. T. Lei del was
burned to death at Milwaukee, Wis., while
lighting candles on a ( hrisl mas tree.
White Cap outrages are reported from
Martin's Ferry, Ohio.
The banking house of W. R. Morse, at
Clarks, Neb., has closed its doors. The
liabilities are placed at $80,000; no assets.
John Peabody, Jr., teller in the Mer
c bants’ and Mechanics’ Bank of Columbia,
Ga., has committed suicide by shooting him
self through the head.
The Denver Gas Company had 100 men
employed in excavating a ditch, six feet
deep, along tho side of and underneath the
track of the cable car line, when suddenly
the track for an entire block fell, crushing
the life out of four men and badly wound
ing two more.
John Bryan, the little son of a farmer,
died like a hero near Nebraska City, Neb.
The house caught fire. The father, mother
and five of the children escaped. One little
girl was left in the house. The brave boy
went into the burning house and brought her
iont safely. Then he rushed back to secure
some clothing for his mother and the chil
dren who were standing almost naked la the
snow, lie wag overcome by the flames and
died.
A boat containing a party of holiday
merry-makers was capsized in San Fran
oisco (Cal.) Bay, and three men and three
women were drowned.
The remains of the late General John A.
Logan have been removed from their tem
porary resting place in Washington, where
they havo been for the past two years,
.guarded by United States soldiers, and
placed in the mortuary chapel, which has
been built by Mrs. Logan, at the Soldiers)
Home.
The act placing General Andrew J. Smith
on the retired list of the army, with rank of
Colonel, has been approved by the President
Congressmen Lodge, of Massachusetts,
Farquhar, of New York, and Bayne, of
Pennsylvania, have announced themselves as
candidates for Speaker of the Housa
The Abban Flour Mills at Waltham, Eng
land, have been burned. The loss is $450,000.
The death of General Loris Melikoff, the
well-known Russian officer, is reported from
Nice. General Melikoff was born in 1824.
Deserters from the rebel force at Suakin,
Egypt, report that there are many wounded
Arabs in Handoub. Osman Digna, is send
ing his women to Erymeit preparatory to
retreating to the Nile. The friendly Sheiks
strongly urge the British authorities to ad.
vance upon Handoub.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Senator Chandler never smokes to
bacco and drinks ice-water.
Mr Parnell lias half-promised to come
to America again this-year.
Emperor Willtay*>i:is resumed his jour
neys through the German Empire.
Spurgeon, .the English divine, has been
greatiy benefited by his visit to tho Conti
nent.
Sir William Frederick Pollock, of
England, formerly Queen’s Remembrancer,
is dead.
Lawrence Olyphant, the traveler and
writer, died recently in London of cancer of
the lungs.
Canon Knox-Little, the eminent Eng
lish clergyman, usually woais gloves when
he preaches.
Senator Ingalls is an inveterate theatre
goer, and is especially fond of Shakespeare
and comedy.
Lord Coleridge has already collected
$35,000 for the widow and daughters of
Matthew Arnold.
Mrs. Waite,wife of the late Chief Justice,
who has been ill with pneumonia, is pro
nounced out of danger.
Munemitsu Mutsc, the Japanese Minis
ter at Washington, is becoming a fluent
conversationalist in English.
Richard Henry Stoddard had a poem
published in Harper's after it had been
fifteen years in the publishers’ hands.
Fenimore Cooper’s only daughter still
lives at the old home ot the novelist at
Cooperstowu, on Lake Otsego, N. Y.
Lord Randolph Churchill, the dis
tinguished English Tory, leader, will in a
short time start on a visit to South
America.
General Lew Wallace is said to have
receive! in royalties from his “Ben
Hur.” His “Fair God” has also netted him
handsomely.
Hadji Hassein Ghouli Kahn,the Persian
Minister to the United States, is loDesome,
as there is but one person in Washington who
can st eak his language.
The sister-in-law of France’s present politi
cal idol. General Boulanger, has dwd in
New Orleans in abjevt pover ty. Hi r hus
band was a brother of the gallant General.
Mrs. Humphrey .Ward, the author of
“Robert i.lstnere,” is an Australian. Her
father, Mr. 'i homas Arnold, held an educa
t.oual position in Tasmania for some years.
The German Empress wears an apron at
home us a token rh it she attends to toe chil
dren and tbe tv ok, and doesn’t meddle with
social and political questions, nor seek to win
a place in the intellectual world.
NUMBER 44.
Cliff DiBECTW
COUNTY OFFICERS.
Ordinary J. A. BenueU
Superior Court Clerk S. H. Thurman
Sheriff W. A. Byrd
Tax Receiver Clayton Tatum
Tax Collector • Thus. Tittle,
Treasurer B. P. Majors,
School Superintendent.. .J. P. Jacoway.
Surveyor. W. P. Ta-ylor.
TOWN COMMISSIONfRS.
B. P. Majors, B. T. Brock, J. P. Bonds,
J. A. Cureton, J. B. Williams.
J. P. Bond,. President
B. T. Brock, Secretary,
B. P. Majors, Treasure*,
J. T. Woolbright, City Marshak
COURTS.
Superior Court
J. C. Fain Judge.
J. W. Harris, Jr Solicitor General.
Meets third Mondays in March und
September.
Ordinary’s Court
J. A. Bennett Ordinary. '
Meets first Monday in each month.
Justices* Court, Trenton District
Meets second Saturday in each month.
J. A. Cureton, T. H. B. Cole, Justices.
Rising Fawn District meets third Sat
urday in each month.
J. !Vf. Cantsell, J. A. Moreland, Jus
tices.
MASONIC LORE.
Trenton Chapter No. CO, B. A. M.
9. H. Thurman, H. P»
M. A. B. Tatum, Secretary.
Meets second Saturday in each month
Trenton Lodge No. 179 P. and A. S
J. A. Bennett, W. M.
T. J. Lumpkin, Secretary.
Meetings Wednesday night on and be
fore each full moon, and two week.*
thereafter.
Rising Fawn Lodge No. 298 F. ai *
A. M.
S. H. Thurman, W. M.
J. M. Forester, Secretary.
Meetings Saturday night on and befi_
each full moon, and two weeks thereat,
ter, at 2 o’clock p. m.
CHURCH NOTICES.
M. E. Church South.— Trenton Cir
cuit, Chattanooga District—A.- J. Fra
sier, Presiding Elder; Rev. J. H. Har
well, Pastor in charge; S. HL Thiumaa,
Recording Steward.
Trenton services secoo-l and fourth
Sundays in each month, at 10.30 o'clock
a. m. Prayer meetings every Sunday
eight.
Bthd’s Chapel. —Service seoond and
fourth Sundays in each month at 3
Tclock p. m. -
Rising Pawn —Services first
Sundays in each month, at 10.30 o'clock
a. m. Prayer meetings every Wednesday
and Sunday nights.
Cave Springs.— Services first ai
third Sundays in each mouth at 3o’e!o
p, m. Furnace at night.
EOiFD OF EDUCATION.
B. F. Pace, President; G. A. R. Bible,
R. W. Acad, "W. C. Oureton, John
Clark. s ,
ILTOTIOIE.
Any additions to bo made to the abon
changes or errors, parties intereates.
would confer a great favor by notifying
us of the samo.