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EDITORIAL NOTES.
A few years ago a measure was
aclopted providing for the gradual man,,
mission of slaves ,n Cuba. Ihm worked
exceedingly 2«5,00oS„e.U„. well indeed, and u der it
already lieeii pence
lull. liberated, will, eaiire.afafacU™ ta
the owners. J here are now hardly more
than 100,000 slaves on the island, and
most of them will be set free during the
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General John Newton, who has
made a study of modern explosives, says
that no agent can supplant gunpowder
for the principal requirements of war
fare. In blasting rock tho higher ex
plosives may be employed, except where
the rock is weak in cohesion, when gun
powder is preferable. In coal mines the
higher explosives are too destructive iu
their action. Dynamite as a destructive
agent for unlawful purposes can only be
applied on a limited sea e, and with
nearly fruitless results, as time, money
and elaborate preparations are required
for effective woi k.
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The World s exposition at New Or
leans, will devote 247 acres to lakes and
gardens, showing the rarest tiees and
plants of Mexico, Central America
Mondft • 1 and i foreurn r • • „ Horti- ■
countries. x
cultural u iii, hall will •„ be 1 GOO by 184 feet.
Ul Mr. . t, P. J. T Berckmaus, t> i of Augusta, . ,, (ia.,
has bee appoint * $. 3d i special • , .
i a commis
Honor to . confer . with ... \ European T ,
various
Bocieties . x. reference n x to At the fruit and
„ in
plant display. 1 he collective Mexican
exhibit win be an immense thing, oecu
pyiug a building 1,400x900 feet. Ac
. this ... exhibit ........ will be Mexi- at
companying _ •
a
can band i and battalion , .. of f Mexican
a
troops, . rl i he , .. will ... lib- ...
exposition receive
era! encouragement from the . leading ,.
countries cf the world.
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Beer as an article of diet has been
discontinucd in at least 27 pauper lunatic
asylums iu England, with the result that
in no instance iiu the apparently impor
tant change led to any sort of physiologi
cal inconvenience. Many of the super
intendents, in whose asylums the modi
fication was made, and through them
many of the patients testify cordially to
the benefits derived from the change,
The question, says the Journal of Mental
Science, is not one of teetotalism, or oven
primarily of a financial order, but one of
pure expediency and good management,
In all probability the disuse of beer ns
an element of tlie diet of pauper lunatics
in English asy urns will be more ex
tended aud will Vie watched with in
terest.
The la'est estimates place the popula¬
tion of the globe at 1,433,800,000, indi¬
cating a decrease in the last three years
of some 22,000,000, though, as a mattei
of fact, there has been au actual increase
of s me 33,000,000. 1 his apparent dis¬
crepancy is accounted for by the fact that
the population of China lias heretofore
been largely over e timated. In reference
1 1 our own country the statistics show
that no country in the history of the
world over had such a composi te popu¬
lation, leaving but four cent from otliei
countries, and from white races of other
typ«, and thirteen per cent for those oi
African descent. Probably no other
country on the face of the globe can show
such a diversity and at the same time
such a substantial unity of race and
descent.
The recent discovery 8f tin ore at
King’s Mountain, North Carolina, is at¬
tracting considerable attention. Several
scientists visited King’s Mountain a few
days ago, and foun t quantities of tin ore
scattered over the ground all through
the town. Striking a hill-side several
ditches "were dug, but without running
across a vein of ore. The discovery was
made in a singular manner. Several
specimens of black looking ore were sent
to the Boston exposition, and marked
“unknown.” An examination showed it
to be tin oreof t’ e ricked quality, yield¬
ing 75 per cent of tin. There are only
three tin-bearing mines in the world and
there is a standing reward of $50,000
offered for the discovery of one in the
United States. Following the announce¬
ment of the North Carolina discovery
comes the report cf the finding of vast
tin deposits within three miles of Santa
Fe, New Mexico.
Soudan is the name given to the vast
extent of territory in upper Egypt that
stretches from Nubia to the confines of
Abyssinia and from the Bed Sea to the
Lybiau desert. This vast and dreary
territory is inhabited by some thirty or
forty millions ef Arabs of various tribes.
The proposed control which England is
preparing to exercise over the Soudan is
WRIGHTSV1LLE, GA.* SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1884.
sot in the nature of the recovery of a re¬
volted state nor the chastisement of a
refractory people, nor ivea the suppres
sion of the 8 , aTe twd but H renew9 tho
okl contlict between Chri8tifln civiliza * .
.. “““aTf; ,,, , , , b ,
" T ‘ ' Keb " dl j r ? ? sram - Th ”
Mi slem fanaticism. , The hatred of the
Mahommedan , r , , against , the C.nstian _ . . and
’f “ na * “ d irre '
press 1 We. This hydra headed 1 monster
*s not dead, and when it is quiet it is
only dreaming of Alhambra tnd the
0 f Vienna, and of overrunning one
q a y n le civilized world.
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The cigaret.e is a harm s lookiug
thing, but in the opinion of in ;uy well
posted peop e it contains about as much
l ,oisou to the Hl l uare iu( - l ‘ a « an J one ar
ticle that could be named. The cigar
ette busiue 8 8tarted ia tUis country
ab out fifteen years ago. American cigar
ettes were nove tiea > and attracted favor
able attention from the start. The rapid
growth of the business and its present
magnitude will be better understood
when it s stated that in 1882 600,000,
(K)0 cigarettea were mftnu£actm . ed in this
„ ount of which New York furnished
44,092,867. One n . hundred . , and ... eighty
two different brands of cigarettes ° have
, been* manufactured „ . i m the last fifteen
Of _ these .. seventy-one varieties
years. : J
have . had , their . . dav . and , ceased .
to exist,
The original American cigarettes . .. , had ,
mouthpieces . . .... of Al the Euro- _
in imitation
***“**«■ . . Thetprice was then twenty
C ° nt ? a but smce “ outhpl ces
went out of fashion the , price dropped , to
ten cents. It is ass rted that the tobacco
used , m . A1 the manufacture r of „ cigarettes . „ is .
of r a meaner grade , than „ that , used . . m the
cheapest , . . Jt T1 . adulterated . .. . , with , A1
cigars. is
9flltlJ f , el ' to . ^ lWeut . fabling ... aud ... tins
use oi saltpeter is said . by medical men
to be highly injurious to the \ itul fuuc
tions. lhe oil of the cigarette paper
wrappers is said to be eren more poison
oug than the oil of tobacco. Themajor
ity of cigarette smokers are very young
people, principally boys, and not a few
girls. Physicians spe ify the following
as among the evils spring ng from the
habit: palpitation of the heart, indiges
tion, catarrh in the head, asthma, pneu
monia, bronchitis, morbid craving foi
(lriuk, destruction of the nerves of the
eyes. In New Jersey a law has been
passed making it a penal offense to sell
cigarettes or tobacco to minors under
sixteen years of age, and a similar bill is
now pending iu the New York legis a
ture. There is a disposition everywhere
to suppress or check as much as possible
the habit of cigarette smoking. The
vice leads to re ults as injurious as any
produced by the use of alcohol, and the
physical, mental an moral decay occa¬
sioned by the practice cannot fail to fill
our hospitals, asylums, jails and cemete¬
ries, unless a halt is speedily called.
ITEMS OF NEWS.
The movement in Germany for the
better obs rvation of Sunday is growing
rapidly.
A census just concluded in New Zea
lan I gives that far-away land a popu a
tion, European and Chinese, of 032,000.
The old fields and bush undergrowth
around Mobile that sold fo- a song five
years ago command from twenty five to
three hundred dollars an acre.
The total income of the Salvation
army for 1883 is reported at $1,509,000.
The army is now publishing sixteen' ‘War
Cries” in various countries.
At Miss Clara Cushman’s mission
school in Pekin the feet of the girls are
not allowed to be bound—the only
school in China where that is the case.
Russia, which has an area in Europe
two-thirds as large as the whole United
States, with a population of more than
70,000,000, lies almost entirely north of
St. Paul.
There were 1,676 accidents last year
in the Pacific coal mines, 323 deaths,
making 153 widows and 5)2 orphans.
There was one death to eve-y 90,000
tons taken out.
The bank of England has a floating
balance of $100,080,000, and the bank
notes, if stretched ti^ether 12,520 end to miles. end
would reach a distance of
The Egyptian war will use up a few
miles of this money.
The “Confederate rose” is the name
of a new flower which is white in the
morning and red at night. Four of
them have been planted around the
grave' of General Albert Sidney Johnson,
in the state cemetary at Austin, Texas.
Cremation is to be tried in France,
permission having been given by the
prefect of police, on the recommenda¬
tion of Drourdel, to burn the remains of
hospital subjects, provided a satisfactory
apparatus be constructed iu one of the
Paris cemeteries.
Speaker Carlisle wields tlie gavel
with some listlessness. He pounds as
though he was afraid of making too
much noise, in this lespect he differs
from Xeifer, who made the splinters fly
over tlie devoted heads of the clerks be¬
low him. He is a smoothly-shaven man
with two bulging bumps of intellectual¬
ity over liis eyes, a ratlior narrow fore¬
head, and when he speaks his voice
comes somewhat weak and a severe
frown ornaments or, to put it better,
disfigures his brow.
HEWS OF THE WEEK.
Eastern and Middle States.
The steamship State of Nebraska, from
Glasgow, board arrived in New York, having on
the ninety-two men comprising the
officers Hill, and crew of the steamship Notting
York. running lietween London and New
The Notting Hill haii-beon struck by
a huge iceberg and injured so badly that she
had to be abandoned.
Six convicts—five colored an l one white—
were tle, Del. whipped a few days since at New Cas¬
Much damage has lieendone by floods aud
Ice near Harrisburg, Penn. Four bridges,
valued at more than $80,000, were crushed
and carried away. Three dams were washed
out and the mills connected with them so
badly injured as to prevent their running
until repaired.
Mayor Edson, of New York, received
many telegram* from the mayors of flooded
towns on the Ohio river, appealing for ahl.
various Copies of the telegrams were sent to tlie
diate exchanges for of the city, and imme¬
act on the relief of the sufferers
was taken.
Thomas Kinsella, a prominent journal¬
ist, for many years editor of the Brooklyn
Kai/le, Is dead.
Miss Jennie Almy, a handsome young
wounded woman, a Victor private (J. teacher, Aiulve shot twenty-one and mortally
old, also private teacher, in crowded years
a a sta¬
tion of the New York elevate 1 railroad.
Then Miss Almy shot and killed herself. The
two had been engaged to be married, but it
Is asserted that Andre, who had come to
this country six months ago and been ad¬
mitted to the b 'St society, had betraye 1 am)
then refused to marry the girl.
South and West.
A DESPERATE shooting affray at not
blers—three Springs, Ark., brothers bet ween named two factions Flynn, of gam¬
who
wore in a hack at the time, on one side, and
seven men on the other side—resulted in the
driver, killing of one 'of the Flynn-and the hack
tlie mortal wounding of another
shooting Flynn and two innocent bystanders, and the
away of part of the third Flynn’s
band. The men who fired upon the Flynns
began hostilities, and wore arrested. The
affray grew out of an attempt of two fac¬
tions to control the gambling “ business” of
tlie town.
The estimated total loss by the floods in
Wheeling, W. Va., and vicinity, amounts to
$17000,(00. W heeling, An apfieal for aid, issued from
states that, the suffering there and
at points above and below is intense, and
that more than 10,000 people of the city “are
dependent and will be so for weeks.” There
clothed are probably from Wellsburg 20,000 jieople Moimdsville. to be fed aud
lo
The county jail in Wausau, Wis., was
burned early in the morning, and McDonald
and death. Cary, two desperadoes, were burned to
The Platteville bank, of Platteville, Wis.,
has suspended, with liabilities of $150,000.
Eighteen drunken men captured a coal
train at MillorlgviHe, Ohio, fatally beat a
and brakeman, drove seriously him injured and compelled the conductor
away, the
engineer his to life. cut his engine loose from the cars
to save
Great destitution is reported from tlie
overflooded banks of the Ohio and its tribu¬
taries, and many upiieals for relief have been
sent out. Thousands of inhabitants belong¬
ing driven to numerous from their villages and towns were
homes to the hills for
refuge, and wore with compelled to eampout with¬
out food a id insufficient clothing. The
rivers before, were higher than they affairs had ever been
and the slate of among the
people was described as appalling in the ex¬
treme.
Fort Sully, in Dakota, has been burned
out. The soldiers there were compelled to
camp out, with the thermometer at twenty
five degrees below zero.
Washington.
Representative Townshend, of Illinois,
who represents in Congress the Slate con¬
taining most exporters of pork and ther
hog products, expresses in an interview only remedy the
left opinion that retaliation Is the
which us against the foreign the governments American
hog are their shutting out
from markets.
A Chinaman Washington who appeared the in the district of be¬
court at for purpose
coming a citizen of the United States had his
application refused.
The House committee on labor ordered a
favorable report establishment on Representative of department Hopkins’
bill for the a
of labor statistics. The measure commissioner, provides for
the appointment of a who
shall acquire all useful information ujion the
subject of labor, its relations material, to capital, social, and
the means of promoting the
religious laboring and intellectual and prosperity The question of tho of
men women.
contract convict labor was discussed without
reaching a conclusion. «
joint The resolution House of authorizing Representatives the secretary passed of a
war to issue rations for the relief of desti¬
tute 1 persons in the district overflooded by
the Ohio river and its tributaries, and mak¬
ing an appropriation The resolution of $800,000 to then relieve sent
the sufferers. was
to the Senate, and that body passed it at
once.
The Senate, in executive session con¬
firmed the following nominations: John M.
Langston, minister-resident and consul-gen¬
eral to Hayti, to be also charge d’affaires to
Santo Domingo; Henry F. Wild to be consul
at Concepcion del St. Oro, Mexico.
Governor Ordway, of Dakota, addressed
the House committee on Territories in favor
of the admission of Dakota as a whole into
the Union. Judge Brookings and Mr. Tripp,
also of Dakota, favored the division of the
Terrritory.
Returns received by the 1883 director of the
mint indicate that during the amounted total pro¬
duction of gold in the United States
- 000 , 000 .
During foreign.
tives a fight between whites and na¬
in the province of Angola, West Africa,
an explosion of gunpowder killed forty of
the latter.
clared Parnell, the Irish home rule leader, de¬
in an amendment to the Queen’s
speech, proposed by him in the house of
commons, that England’s policy in Ireland
had failed to tranquilize the people, wantonly
prohibited sthfe public meetings and incite ! ill
will and between the different classes
of the country.
A procession of 15,000 striking Weavers
at Blackburn, arutacturer England, with carried the effigy of
a n the intention of Imag¬
ine it in front of his residence. They were
/nd by the police and several persona
were injured.
Miss Clara Barton, president of the
American National Association of the Red
Cross, accompanied by Doctor Hubbell, the
specinl field agent of the association, lias
gone flood from along Washington the Ohio for to the scenes of the
the purpose of af
fording relief by distributing supplies to the
sufferers.
r nn/i u,-n« ....... , .. ° f . a
’ f been mtioduced solai ,
in H the present session of Congress.
Great dissatisfaction has been created
throughout Great Britain by the govern
ments vacillating Egypt, As policy concerning the
crisis 1 eople in one dispatch I puts it:
cannot unaevstan a policy of in
difference to m issa res in a country where
England rules, and of indifference likewise
to the defeats of armies which Englishmen
officer.
A band of 800 Indians murdered all the
principal residents of Omitlaii, Mexico, and
plundered the town.
At a banquet given m Paris to leading
members of the scientific press, M. de Les
seps stated that the scheme for creating a
transform sea in the great he arid Sahara sand into desert, fertile in order to
t a country,
would shortly he commenced.
Mr. Bradlaugh, elected to the British
house of commons, but refused permission
tolakobisseatbecan.se he declined to take
the chamber prescribed oath for members, entered the
during a session and administered
the oath to himself. Upon motion he was
excluded from the precincts of the h use.
It is announced from Sicily that Mount
Aitna is in a state of eruption.
Thomas Chenery, editor of the Loudon
Times, is dead.
Whh e a wedding party was crossing the
River Tlieiss, near thirty-five Domrud, Hungary, the
ice broke and members of the
party were drowned.
The French bishopin Tonquin reports that
one priest, twenty-two catechists and 215
Christians have bein massacre i, and that
108 mission houses have boon destroyed.
. Q i ken Victoria m has just published , a . book .
containing a record of uer life tor the past
twenty years, describing and her personal emo
tious and Elate affairs fauiily limiters,
and highly eulogizing her late body guard,
John Brown.
Binkat, in the Soudan, lias # been
by El Mahdi’s rebels and its force captured of
6 0
Egyptians under Tewfik Bey cut to pieces.
A motion to ensure Gladstone’s govern
rnent for its vacillating British policy house in tlie Soudan
wus passed in the of lords by
1*1 yeas to 81 nays.
A violent earthquake lias occurred at
T "'“* *—■*«
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Bradlaugh „ , has given . up the ... long strug
gle for possession of a seat in the British
house of commons, ami a new election in hi*
district hus been ordered.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC
Mmu. Pauline Lucca will undoubtedly
sing in this country next season.
A movement is on foot to establish a con¬
servatory of music in Peoria, ill.
Lott a is announced to open the new Casino
theatre in Washington next autumn.
Mr. W inch, the American tenor, is sing¬
ing with success in oratorio in England.
Fannie Davenport is playing “Fedora”
on the road to average weekly receipts of
$0,000.
Kistori, the celebrated Italian actress, is
coming to this country principal in October, and will
make a tour of the cities.
Mrs. Langtry will not, after all, says au
English paper, go to Australia, but will have
a London theatre after the termination of
her American engagement.
Edward Milliken, of the “Jalma” com¬
pany, has written a new drama in five acts,
which is purely American, and contains some
novel scenic aud mechanical effects.
George Alfred Townsend, the New York
journalist, has written adramu called “Crom¬
well,” which deals with the history of the
protector up to aud including the protec¬
torate.
Mrs. W. G. Noah, one of the great ac¬
tresses of fifty With years ago, who Kemble played rival
engagements Fanny and Forrest, and sup- still
ported the elder Booth is
living in Rochester, N. Y.
Edwin Booth, who recently finished a very
successful engagement in Philadelphia, de
cliried an engagement in Pittsburg upon a
guarantee of $10,000 clear for a single week,
He preferred to go to Boston.
“The Marchioness,” as played by Lotta in
London, of tlie novel, is a new by adaptation Charles Dickens, of the incidents has
who
merely arranged his father’s “Old Curiosity
Shop’’ into a series of of the disconnected word, scenes,
not, In any sense making a
drarna
The New York Orchestral society has an
orchestra leu of amateurs composed as follows:
violins, on « viola, one violincello, two
double basses, two flutes, one oboe, three
clarionets, probably), one saxophone, horns, two trumpets trombones, (oor
nets two two
one piano and two drams,
The Modjeska (DU, ranch has out commenced in California, yield
which cost her *00
ing a profit, bringing looked the actress $5,000 “luck the
othci day. and which invested she tiara upon as and
money, it 111 a ear
rings to wear as a sort of mascotte in Mau
rice Barrymore s new play.
iHEDaM Mall Gazette notes an interesting
. fact with reference to the well-known song,
* A ri ? ?, m J ’™ ar n3 Vj ^ w ^f °° m :
posed , by Mr. Charles , K. Salamon, who, not
recognizing the hit all. he had The made, present sold holder it for of
£8, copyright and from the In
that right derives it nice little
come of £800 a year.
Mr. T. Slater Smith, manager of
“ Ranch 10,” has purchased the a first new play, in
which will be produced March for 17. The time
Philadelphia “ Kentucky Belle,” on which applies not title only is
to
the heroine, but to a celebrated race horse
that has been named after her. The play
has a number of sensational effects, a novel
fire scene, and a reproduction of a race
course.
“Hacked to Death” is suggested as
an inscription for the tombstones of
visitors who die at Niagara.
SUMMARY OF CONGRESS
Senate.
The chair laid before the Senate a com¬
munication from the secretary of war trans¬
mitting, tion of in compliance with a recent showing resolu¬
the Senate, a statement the
number of soldiers of the late war who served
one year, how many two years, and how
many three years, and the amount of money
required to equalize the bounties of those
who served In said war....Mr. Pendleton
presen ted the credentials of Henry B. Payne,
Senator-elect from the State of Ohio, for the
term beginning March 4, 1885. The cre¬
dentials were read and ordered to be filed.
... .The committee on naval affairs reported
favorably a bill for the relief of the survivor*
of the Jeannette expedition aud of the
wid °T s a nd children of those who perished.
•.. Mr. Riddleberger , s resolution providing
for a joint committee to inquire into ro
movals and appointments of Senate and House
em l’ lov ” s the subject of a long debate,
participated in by Messrs. Vest, Riddleber
gerand the House Conger. announcing A message that that was received body was from still
unable to agree to the Senate amendment to
the Greely Relief bill, requiring that the men
s6nt After on that expedition Senate should be receded volunteers,
some debate the from
its amendment by a vote of 29 to 22.
A oill appropriating $.'00,000 to commence
the construction of a building for the ac
commodation passed by of the of 85 library of 6 Congress nays.___Mr. was
a vote yeas to
Voorhee- asked and obtained unanimous
consent to introduce, out of the regular
order, a bill to prohibit officers and employes
of the United States government from con¬
tributing debate, money for political purposes. A
•Hawley, part'eipated Beck, Dawes in by Messrs. Harrison, Voorhoes,
and fol¬
lowed. The bill was referred to the commit¬
tee on the judiciary.,. .A bill was introduced
by Mr. McPherson to suspend the coinage o/
the silver dollar.
Hons*.
The House adopted the report on the new
rules alter a two days’ debate. Mr. Randall
reported the naval appropriation bill, and
gave Tuesday. notice that it would be called the next
It appropriates $14,208,000, being
$S,802,IH)0 less than the amount estimated
for, and $1,021,000 less than the amount ap¬
'Willis propriated for the current fiscal year.. ..Mr.
introduced a bill temporarily provid¬
ing tor the support of common schools. It
provides for an annual appropriation of
from ten $10,000,Off) tlie appropriation to $1.000,Off) for be the reduced next
years, to
introduced $1,0(H),000 each bill succeeding year... .Mr. Bayne
domestic a tobacco... repealing .Mr. all internal taxes
on Goff introduced
f joint esokitio u appropriating $105,000 for
the relict of the sufferers by the overflow of
the Ohio river and its tributaries... .Mr. Fm
erly uf Illinois, ofteml a resolution (leclar
mg that the House ‘‘laments the death of
\\ Phillips as a national bereavement.”
Mr. Eaton ob ecled and the resolution went
OVf ,,.
Hills introduced: By Mr. Belford, to facil
State the settlement of private land claims;
by Mr. Oates, restoring to the pension rolls
the names of those uroppe 1 therefrom on
account of disloj ally; by Mr. Bisbeetoim
pose duties on cocoanuts, bananas and
pineapples; by Mr. Tqwushend, a resolution
proposing a const itu’iona! amendment pro
Tiding majority for the election of of President by a
of tlie votes tiie iieople and the
of the electoral college and regu
few
son, providing national for the hanking i-sue of circulating
mites for associations;
by Mr. Poland, providin > that before regis
tration in Utah and Idaho a voter shall take
an oatli that heiloes not lieioug to the Church
of the Latter Day Hu nts.
On motion of Mr. Stewart a resolution was
adopted directing the committee on expendi¬
tures in tlie department of justice, in mak¬
ing investigation prosecution into the expenditures on
account of of persons charged
with frauds on tlie government, and
especially service, inquire iu the into Star Route n ail
to the maimer iu
which such prosecutions are being conduct¬
ed, f aith and of into a’l olfl-ials the e induct, efficiency iu the and good of
or \ eraons pay
the government in connection with such
prosecutions, and whether guilty parties
have been duly prosecuted.... The House
went into committee of the whole on the
naval appropriation bill.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Vanderbilt. —Careful estimates place the
value of William H. Vanderbilt’s outfit,
when he drives, at $160,000.
Huntoon. —Colonel Nathan Huntoon, of
Unity, world, N. H., is been the oldest itiated Free Mason in the
having ii in 1808.
Palmer. —Ex-Governor John M. Palmer,
of Illinois, was in early life a clock peddler.
He studied law by the advice of Stephen A.
Douglas.
Whittier. —John G. Whittier, the poet,
is about the last of the influential Abolition¬
ists belonging to the Philiips-Garrison era
left alive.
A3' _ Urofessor . AlpheusS. ... „ _ Packard, .
ofBowdmn K 3 H1> ' college who is now in his elghty
that he has neV6r ^ 111 ft
* ' '
Villard.-—H enry Villard is . not a very
P 0 ™' mau after all. It is given out that he
will wreck manage of fortune. to save $1,000,000 from the
his
Blackburn.—-S enator-elect J. C. S. Blaek
burn, of Kentucky, shouldered is forty-six and years old, and
J® features ta! b square are handsome, and large, sinewy. blue-gray His
e .7 es l°°k out above a heavy brown mus
tache.
^ 0 ^' aW
Afterward he tex-ame a sailor, then
>, ter on th0 Sacramento Record, next
wner of the >San francisco Post, and later
, Irlsh ie took to lecturing. and Australian His wife birth, is a lady of
* parentage
MethodFst leader Geore-ia re^
cently the great celebrated his golden of the wedding South,
^. at
H pferce, „ ar The bishop’s father, Rev. Lovie
was the great apostle haif of Georgia
Methodism, has followed and for vigorously over the a century the by
the son father ecclesiastical leader. path set
as an
Wheeler.—A n intimate friend of Miss
Ella Wheeler, the poetess, now in New Or
leans, says that young lady is to be married
j g n car jy spring that to a Miss Mr. Wheeler Yorke, of this city,
ke a ] g0 says is twenty
six ^paid years old, for and lovely with Utile her pen home, has in earned which
a
she resides with her mother and a younger
sister whom she educated.
Bradlaugh.— Charles Bradlaugh, the infi¬
del member of the British parliament, has a
brother who is actively lattei^dlsclaims engaged in evangeli¬
cal work. The any differ¬
ences with his brother, except in religious
opinions, and though there is no fraternal
companionship lie tween them, he says he
loves him as much as ever and confidently
looks for his conversion to Christianity.
We believe it was an astronomer who
first said, “Can such things be and
comet o’er us like a summer cloud.”
NO. 42.
EOCMTEICT SUICIDES. '
Louis Walters, hole of Akron, while intoxi¬
cated, cut a in the ice and drowned him¬
self.
A De Kalb county, Tenn., man cut a tree
until it was ready to fall,and then let it crush
him.
A San Antonio man cut his throat be¬
cause a lottery ticket he had purchased
proved a blank.
Mrs. Thomas Paxton, of Howard Lake,
Minn., against killed will. herself because she was married
her
Mrs. Joseph A < Youngs
town, Ohio, cut l u the
death of her son.
Jane After Becker, injuring her thirteen, knee in jumping a rope 1
aged of Heading, hung
herself from a b dpost.
While suffering from inflammatory rheu¬
matism, Mrs. threw Benjamin herself Watson, of Bloom¬
ington, drowned. Ill., iuto a cistern and
was
Mrs. Ann Stump, dog, of Columbus, Ohio
pois rned her pet fearing it might out¬
live her. Remorse at the deed caused her to
kill herself with strychnine.
Lemuel W histen, near Enterprise, tied a
halier around his neck and hitched himself
to his wagon. He then scared the horses and
made them run. Whlsten’s young wife had
died but a few weeks before
Henry F. Millwaru shot himself after
participating Held, Some in a mo:k weeks tragedy Mi at Spring
(ihio. ago 11 ward, as¬
sisted by a bundle of friends, constructed a
dummy out of u number of towels and pil
h.ws, and laid it on a lied in the Arcade
hotel in that city. The room was carefully
darkened, and the dummy covered with a
painted sheet. A pasteboard head attached with grotesquely
features was to the body,
so as to be in plain sight when the sheet
should bn removed. When all was ready,the
report was circulated through the city by
the jokers that a drummer had committed
suicide at the hotel. The report attracted
hundreds of citizens, including the coroner,
who were killed piloted up to the room one by one.
Millward himself in the same room.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
The Texas legislature has made fence cut¬
ting a felony.
Kansas last year produced 107,550 pounds
of cotton, valued at
Sixteen Chinamen who dwell in Worces
ter, Mass., attend (draco church.
A seven-year-old girl is one of the fast¬
est type-setters at New Hartford, Conn.
A RACE-PONY, thirteen hands high, was
recently sold at Sealy, Texas, for $1,000.
A pearl found weighing the nearly 200 grains has
lately been on line of the Panama
canal.
Rhode Island savings banks have $52,-
400,265 intrusted to their care by 120,482 de¬
positors.
The Montreal ice palace, built of large
blocks of ice, is in size 100 by 150 feet and
cost $2,000.
An eleveu-year-okl su'eide boy in Corydon, Ind.,
committed because his parents re
fused to let him eat at first tuble.
Salmon fishing on and the Sacramento river
is now very active, is going on day and
night, more than 2,000 men being employed
iu it.
There have been only two known cases of
female lynching lit) in this Donnevilie, country. The mining first
occurred in I at a
camp iu the Bodie district of California, and
the victim was had a Spanish woman and robbed named Inez
Faria, who murdered The a man
in her husband’s saloon, second and
last case is the recent lynching of Mrs. Cud
dingham in Ouray r , Col.
Senator Frye’s Bank Account.
“I see,” said Senator Frye, of Maine,
“that a Washington paper, in a very
complimentary notice, sets me down as
a poor man, not worth over $25,000.
‘That’s too much,’ ” said Mr. Frye.
“But the fellow who wrote that does
not know the reason I am so poor. It
came about in this wise. I was brought
up in a Quaker I family, and when, in my
boyhood, got a chance to go up to
Boston, my Quaker grandfather gave me
live dollars to spend. I did not know
any hoys in Boston, and I could think
of uo way to have live dollars’ worth ot
fun without boys. When So I kept the home money
in my pocket. I got my
grandfather asked me how I spent the
five dollars, and I, with the air of one
who had done a virtuous action, said
‘I did not spend it at all, grandfather; I
saved it and have it in my pocket.’
Whereupon my grandfather said: ‘You
may give me back the money, William.
I gave you the money to spend at Bos¬
ton. ’ Ever since that,’’ said the Senator,
“I have known better than to save
money.”
He Was From Oshkosh.
There entered the front door of a car
on tlie Northwestern Railroad a tall,
stoop-shouldered chap, who looked as
though he might have been a deacon of
some church in Wisconsin. He held be¬
hind him one of his hands in which was
tightly grasped the neck of a suspicious
looking black bottle, and after glancing
through the car with eager gaze, he
quickly asked:
“Is there anybody in here who comes
from Oshkosh?”
For a moment no one answered, and
then a clerical looking young man
looked up and-nodded his head. The
tall young man, with his hands still be¬
hind him, shuttled slowly down the aisle
and stopped suddenly by the side of the
modest man who said: had mutely replied to
his query and
“Be you from Oshkosh?”
“I live there,” was the quiet answer.
Stooping down and placing his mouth
to the young fellow’s ear, the old man
hoarsely whispered :—
“Say, stranger, just lend us your
corkscrew, will you ?”
Of course the, entire audience roared,
an ! the Oshkosh man went silently into
the smoking car and put the corkscrew
where it would do the most good.— Mil¬
waukee Sentinel.
Remarkable transformation of color
—When the white stag turns to bay.