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The DeKalb News
DECATUR, GEORGIA.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
General Grant still hobbles about on
•crutches.
( ^States Dyspepsia and neuralgia torment Unite!
Senator Edmunds.
Rosa Bqnreuk’s pictures are always sold
long beSore they are painted.
The youngest son of General Robert E.
■Lee, Richmond, Bob, is a quiet the James farmer. He lives near
on river.
General Fremont’s health is not lwd, al¬
though that sewered newspaper failing. Mrs. reports have repre¬ wha
sented he is Fremont,
is in Washington, is in excellent health.
D. O. Mills has been given a vote ot
thanks by the California legislature for his
gift to the a .State of before a piece of statuary repre
venting Cohwabus Qneen Isabella."
Is Mr. George Ashworth, Odd Fellow of Lowell. Mass.,
said to be widest living in this
country. He is more than eighty -vyears (fid,
and has belonged to the Order sixty-one
years.
i Mrs. Rogers, the Texas cattle queen, is
fifty years old. Her husband, twenty^-three
years her junior, gave up preaching; hut she
permitted him to be elected to the Texas leg¬
islature.
Governor Murray, the enemy of Mor
monism in Utah, was bom in Kentucky, and
as a half-brother of Governor Crittenden.
He is six feet three inches high. He was a
brigade and general commander twenty-one. at tiie age of nineteen
a at
Mrs. James G. Blaine is tall and not slim,
and she is grave and dignified iii maimer.'
Born in New England and well educat 'd, she
met love. Mr. Hera Blaine companion in Kentucky, and and was his first
cousin is Miss Abi¬
gail Dodge, the “Gail Hamilton” of litera¬
ture.
Henry George, author of “Progress aua
Poverty,” began life a printer; later he 1 k
came a sailor, then a reporter on the Sacra¬
mento Record, the owner of tho San Francis¬
co Post, and afterward a lecturer. Ho is forty
five. His wife is of Irish parentage and Aus¬
tralian birth,
George William Curtis, the editor ot
viewer Harper’s recently: Weekly, “Are was there asked by an inter¬
any now authors
on either side of tha water of special prom¬
ise?” His reply was: “Not one; and there is
no important literary movement of any kind
under way.”
John Bright is described as “perhaps the
only living man in whom are united tne su¬
preme gifte of the orator—the most brilliant
imagination, the most the exquisite sensitiveness,
■the finest humor, surest judgment, the
most upright conscience, and the most ele¬
gant, pure, aud vigorous language.”
W. ,1 hnnlngs Df.more.st, the pattern roer,
chant of New York, laid the foundation in
tissue paper *f what has since grown to lie an
immense fortune. He now owns on Four¬
teenth street in that city property valued at
over a million dollars, with real estate el so
where lu NtAv York worth as much mme,
Cinbfoot in Cabbage.
half “I Lave yearly cabbages cultivated the about one
acre of with past few years,
some years success and others en¬
the tirely failing My on account attention of clubfoot directed and
worm. was
to the raising of the plants to get them
free from disease if possible. My seed¬
bed was made last spring where there
. were chips and sccnmnlfttr Oof j jr s of old
wood . * h. V,.sfe .
years. The refuse
pile had been raked togetherUndb
leaving the ashes on the land, e
eeed-bffil bad the benefit of the ashes
thus made, also the decayed chips which
escaped the fire; this plat was well
spaded and the cabbage seed sown. As
soon as the plants appeared above ground
they were sprinkled with wood ashes for
a number of times to protect them from
the small black fly. About June 10,
when the plants were ready to set, we
marked the ground, and with a dibble
made for that tyirpose made the holes
for the plants ana bad the holes fill
with liquid manure from- the barn-yard.
The plants were then set. This wetting
the holes insures their living, even if the
ground cultivate is dry. at time of setting. We
with a horse and cultivator, to
keep the ground free from weeds. Last
season we gave the cabbage a sprinkling
of brine by dissolving as much salt in a
pail of water as wonid dissolve before
using. This we did as a preventive of
injury by worms. By this method we
raised the finest crop of cabbages ever
raised on the farm. The only drawback
was that the fall was so fine and warm
that manjr of the heads burst. Whether
we can raise another crop by managing
in the same manner, with equal success,
time will tell.—J". Talcotl, Borne, N. Y.
An Interesting Insurance Case.
A FINE POINT INVOLVED—tVHO DIED FIRST
IN A SHIPWRECK?
that A dispatch to the Boston Journal says
an important law decision is just
announced. In August, 1880, the bark
Marion capsized at sea, and her master,
Captain Arthur Parker, of Winterport,
Me., with his wife and only child, were
lost. Captain Parker had a policy in the
Travelers’ Insurance Company, payable
to his wife if she survived, otherwise the
child. If both died before the father
the policy was payable to his adminis¬
trators, as part of the estate. The policy
was assigned by the wife to Harriet P.
Lewis as security for a loan to the hus¬
band. On proof of the death of the
Parker family the administrators claimed
the money assuming that in the common
disaster the husband survived both wife
and child. It was claimed, however,
that the wife and child as passengers,
were in the cabin when the Marion cap¬
sized, and that the father was necessarily
on deck, and that the latter consequent¬
ly the died court first. to decide The case both was law submitted and facts. to
The counsel for Mrs. Lewis raised the
point that the policy, being payable to
the wife or her assignees, unless the wife
died before the husband, the adverse
claimant was bound to show that she did
so die; and there being no evidence so to
show, the money belonged to Mrs. Lewis,
the assignee. The court took this view,
and gave the case to Mrs. Lewis, with
costs against the administrators. The
case has been pending for years.
Oct of 233 prizes given at the inter¬
collegiate athletic games since 1876
Columbia has won 62; Harvard, 47;
Princeton, 45; University of Pennsyl¬
vania, 27, and Yale 11
PnorLE of Polish origin should be
shining marks.
CURRENT COMMENTS.
In New York *nd Philadelphia tha cutting of
drug prices still coatlnnes. After several large
dry goods houses aemmeuced selling drugs at
about one-third loss than the regular prices,
many of the druggists lowered their rates and
accepted the situation. Tbs indications at
present point to a general reduction in drags
end patent medicines all over the country.
r Work on the pedestal for the Bartholdi Stat¬
ue of Liberty is progressing rapidly. In less
than thirty days the pedestal will te completed,
and then the masons will begin laying stone
for the column. By October 1 the pedestal will
be ready to receive the statue. Eight largo
iron rods will run down through the column to
PKsent the figure from being blown from tha
Am. Funds are coming in at the rate of
wf^it $4,090 a week, and there is now about
$80,000 on hand.
The supposed decrease in fee world's supply
of goldie not borne out by tbs facts of the case
A German writer says that we have now four
great gold fields: the western part of the Uni¬
ted States, Australia, Siberia and the section of
South America north of the Amazon. The
output of these gold fields is sufficiently large
to sustain tile view that means wiU be found
when the demand beoemes really urgent to fur¬
nish gold enough to meet the world’s monetary
wants for centuries to oome, if not for all time.
It is quite probable, however, that as oiviliza
tion advances gold will be used chiefly for pur¬
poses of ornamentation, and will form but a
very small part of the circulating medium of
the world.
It is quite possible that “Chinese” Gordon is
a crank. His religious convictions are pecu
a r. He believes that this life iB only one of a
series of lives which onr inoarnate part has
lived. Ha has little doubt of onr having pre¬
existed. In the present life he believes that
everything was settled from the very begin¬
ning by the Almighty. The doctrine of eternal
damnation arouses General Gordon’s intense
ndignation. He believes that everybody will
be saved, not on account of their worthiness,
but because of the infinite goodness of God.
The creed of this strange man is Baid to resem¬
ble that of Cromwell, but it is greatly tempered
by the humanitarian ism and catholicity of the
age.
The English prejudice against masqnerado
iballs is so deeply rooted that it will never be
removed. Public masquerades are not permit¬
ted in England. After the restoration no
attempt was made to restore the court masques
and the few publia affairs held in the Georgian
era were soon frowned down by publia opinion.
Of late years masquerades have been disallowed
hv tiie magistrates, and nobody regrets it. The
English say that intrigue and mystification are
essentials of Italian and Spanish masquerades,
and such amusements are, therefore, incom¬
patible with the spirit «f the English people.
In fact, the preachers and novelists seem to
agree in regarding a masquerade as the short¬
est possible out to Tophet.
Dr. Richard Jordan Gatlino, the tnveDtor
of the famous Gatling gun, has made some im¬
portant improvements in his destructive piece.
The gun can now fire on an average of about
2,100 shots per minute continuously, and t the
latest in zentionsotnaMe i# to be nri-q at any
angle. The doctor was first led to invent his
murderous gun by humane motives, He
thought that if a gun oould be invented that
would do the work of a hundred men and re¬
quire but a few men to operate it, the horrors
of war would be greatly diminished, and the
end would come very rapidly of every struggle.
The first Gatling guns were purchased by Ben
Butler and used by him at Petersburg. They
created consternation, and the news of them
went all over tho world. They are now used
in all wars, and are purchased in immense
quantities by foreign governments.
Thebe is no doubt that a gang of expert efia.
mond swindlers are now operating in the
country. A great many south African dia¬
monds of a yellowish or straw colored tint have
been sent to New York, where they are cut, set
aud sold for what they really are. These dia¬
monds are worth from one-fourth to one-twen¬
tieth of the value of tho white or bluish tinted
brilliants. Within the paBt year diamond ex¬
perts have discovered a process whieh removes
the yellowish tint of the African diamonds and
gives them the blue hue so highly prized. It
will be recollected that a few days ago a lady
offered some of the bogus diamonds for sale in
Boston and the fraud was detected. It is be¬
lieved that a great number of the diamonds
now worn are of the South African variety.
They look so much like the geuine article that
a test is required to ascertain their real value.
Eli Perkins has been examining the wheat
fields in the winter wheat belt from Philadel¬
phia to Emporia, Kansas, and from Toledo to
St. Joseph. He says that be has not seen such
a prospect for wheat in ten years: It is good
everywhere. Pennsylvania will raise 50,000,
000bushels this year. In Michigan, Missouri,
aud Illinois the crop is phenomenally good.
The effect of this great crop of wheat is being
discounted at Chicago. Wheat has been sold
for delivery in Liverpool at a dollar a bushel.
This will break up wheat raising in Europe.
They can’t afford over there to raise wheat at
a dollar a bushel on land worth $300 an acre.
After this year America, will raise wheat for
the world. This year’s yield will be 000,000,
000 bushels.
The guilds of London just now are the sub¬
ject of parliamentary inquiry. These guilds
are antiquarian relics. Startling at first as
political corporations for the protection of
their members they subsequently became direc¬
ted into religious and commercial organiza¬
tions. At present tbo only remaining func¬
tions of these guilds is feasting. Some of them
have accumulated vast funds, but nobody
knows what they do with their money. As the
guilds no longer attend to the business for
which they were instituted, it has oocurrod to
some of the progressive law makers of Brittian
that they may be in the imturo of monopolies
or public abuses, and it is probable that they
will be ciosely investigated. That such socie¬
ties should have so long outlived their useful¬
ness is remarkable—that is, if anything can bo
remarkable in a city where a fund is still in
existence for buying faggots to be used in
burning infidels.
Montana is looming ud as a great cattle
herding country. In 1880 there were 274,310
cattle in tho whole territory. To-day the Yel
lowstoue valley alone contains more than
double the number. Montana beef shipped to
eastern cities readily brings five cent* a pound
when brought into competition with Texas
beef. The difference is in the peculiar flavor
the meat obtains from feeding on Montana
grass. The main point in favor of Montanajs
the elevation of the country above Bca let-in
Good judges of cattle will say that the altitude
is the most important consideration. Thn alti¬
tude of Miles City, the great stock centre£f
the northwest, is nnt one inch less than 2,6®^
feet above the Gulf otf Mexico. In this wq$i
derful climate the cattle take care of thom
selves wiuter and summer, and glow while
their owner sleeps. With such advantages*
Montana is the paradise of the cattle kings.
Tire April returns of tb« Department of
agriculture make tha western wheat area 27,-
600,000 acres. This is nearly the breadth sows
in the protons crop, of which five aud six per
cent was subsequently ploughed up, leaving
26,400,000 to be harvested. Comparing with
the area harvested the presented breadth is an
inereass of five per cent. The present area is
Knitter than ftiat of the census year by m ,s
than 2,000,000 acres. The inereass is about
1.500,000 acres on thn Pacific coast, aud nearly
750,000 acres in the southern states. There is
a small increase in the middle states and a
slight decrease is Ohio. »
Mexko consists sf twenty-seven states,
federal district and ene territory. Thera are
even cities of ever 40,000 population. The
City ef Sls-xioo has 300,000 inhabitants, Pueblo
200,006, ond Leon 120,000. Civilization out¬
side of the large citiee is veiy primitive. Many
of the Indian villages are built of turf or of
cane stuck in the ground without a window,
without a table, chair, stove or bed. Yet a
village of this wretched appearance will have a
magnificent stone church with nave, choir,
chime of bells, fretted ceiling and resounding
dome, with a font of onyx or jasper, with a
marble pulpit and silver chancel rail. Outside
of the villages, in the country, every few miles
the traveler comes to a vast straggling one
story building, covering four or five acres,
with a tower in cue corner surmounted by a
bell. This is a Spanish farmhouse, or a had
CBda. There are 13,000 of these haciendas in
Meries and they own four-fifths of tha lan<J,
One owps 4,000 square miles and another owns
10,000 square miles. The proprietor of a haci¬
enda lives in a ducal state. He has soldiers
under his command, a physician to attend bis
tenants, and many of the peons on his place
are virtually his slaves,, because they are in*
debt to him and the law makes them his serfs *
so long as they owe him. Tho rapidly multi¬
plying railroads will gradually revolutionize
business and modes of life in Mexico, but for
generations to corns our southern neighbors
will be regarded as a peculiar people.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
Hme. Patti has decided not to rang in Lon¬
don this spring. 1
Mrs. Langtry returns to New York shorts
ly to play “Pygmalion and Galatea.”
D. D. Lloyd, the editor who wrote the play
‘ 1 or Congress,' has gone to Europe.
Mme. Modjeska has fixed upon June 7 aa
the date of her departure for Europe. -
The gross receipts of the seventeen per
fonnances of Mapleson’s opera company in
San Francisco are stated to have been $:.05j
Oto
'- 3 S'
summer is contradicted. He sails for Eiirope
in June.
Kate Forsyth, the a;-tress,lost several thou¬
sand dollars' worth of personal effects by the
New fire Monday afterntiin " in the St. George flats.
York.
Mr. Palmer, of tic Union Square theatre,
New York, told a ^»orter in Paris that ho
hod paid pal Bronson JjpWard more than $10,00)
for his author’s rights in ’’The Banker's
Daughter. - »
Gustav Amberg, the manager of the Thalia
company, American of New York, is negotiating for an
tour of the famous Meiniugen com¬
pany that made such a sensation in London a
few years ago.
At the Berlin Theatre Royal last year tilers
were twenty-seven representations of Shakes
pearean fled. There plays. Seven of his plays were
a of Gehiller and three were eight* Goethe. ei representations
of
When not acting, Joe Jefferson loads %
pleasant life on his plantation of ten thousand
acres in Louisiana in the region occupied by
the Acadians, fishing and jviinting, and sur¬
rounded by a colony of grandchildren.
An organization known as “The New Eng*
land Musical Charitable Association” has been
formed by the theatrical managers of BostoAi,
tlie its object profession being who to derive care for sick benefit memberjoJi: from alrf
no
other society.
There was a novel dramatic porformanc®
in London recently, when the members of a
deaf-mute mission presented ‘‘The School for
entirely Scandal,” and “The Sorrows of Mr. Snooks."
in tho sign language and to an an
■lienee of mutes.
negro L. V. minstrelsy, II. Crosby, recently one of died the origi^Bors at ^Biolds, ot
Ga. He first appeared as a minsCwfortv
years ago- He entertained President Polk
and family at the White house in 1846. Mi'.
Crosby was a bass singer.
Herr Anton Dvorak, whose “Stabati
Mater” has won for him a high rank among
musical composers, has had a curious history.
He was l>orn September 8, 1841. in an obscure
Bohemian town, of humble folk. At tha age
of sixteen he entered the organ school at
musical Prague, talent. ha ving exhibited At the previously of twenty-one marked he
played in the back age the violas the
row of at
opera house in the same city. Subsequently
both Brahms and Liszt, recognizing his ge¬
nius. became interested in his fortunes, and
then Joachim brought his chamber music
into prominent notice. Dvorak’s music was
first introduced to an English audience by
Herr Manus, who, in 1879, performed taJfiJSt
•tf his Slavonic dances. ’ ^
ODD SUICIDES.
David S. Rawlins, of Philadelphia, killed,
himself by beating his head with a stone.
Mass., Miss hung Mary herself Thompson, because of she South Abingdon,
from neuralgia. was suffering
After bequeathing her body to the doctors,
Eliza Fitzpatrick, of (Sandusky, cut her throat
with a handsaw.
Benjamin Buckwaltek, of Lancaster,
Penn., hung himself because he imagined ho
had wronged the Mennonite church, of which
he was a member.
Having had poor crops for several years u no
lost lanta, considerable became stock, James Vanvire.fCAi
with shotgun. discouraged and killed himself
a
After having married three hush, a
Mrs. David Dutcner, of Sullivan conn n.
Y., killed herself because, as she said, n lift; ot
thorn came up to her expectations.
It is estimated that the pine foredfc of
dnoed the four 12,000,000,000 Delaware Valley feet of countiosJfro- Inmb-r^be
fore they were exhausted. This was cut,
sawed, rafted and delivered in Philadel¬
phia and othej markets at thus an yielding average
price of $10 per 1,000 feet, of
an aggregate return to the operate* ~
$12,000,000.
THE WORLD’S NEWS.
Eastern and Middle State
One of New York's many- towering apart¬
ment houses—the St, George fiats, eight, of
stories high, occupied by thirteen families
means—caught fire in the cellar, and the
flames mushed with such rapidity through the
elevator and ventilating shafts that in a
short time the immense structure was gutted,
only the walls remaining. Several persons
were injured. The total loss is about $200,
(III.
Dr. L. IT. Beach, a prominent physician the Lu
of Altoona, Penn., was received into
tlteran church there, and the next day cut his
wife’s head off. Be was generally thought
to be insane.
The First National bank, of St. Albans.
Vt., desed its doors, being unable to meet its
obligations.
The New York State senate passed the bill
prohibiting nargarine and the and manufacture butterine. and sale of oleo
John Dillman was hanged at Easton,
Penn., for the murder ef his wife.
At the Pennsylvania Democratic State
convention in Allentown. Penn., General
W. H. If. Davis, of Doyiestown, was
nominated for Congressman at largo, tkree
presidential electors at large were
put in nomination, six delegates at
large to the national convention were elected,
delegatee and electors were
tariff for The platform limited adopted to the necessities fax-one “a of
revenue
the the government" internal ami “the system abolitiou of taxes of
revenue
and such adjustment of the
existing tariff duties as will be consistent
with these principles;” denounces “ the elec¬
toral b aud of 187o-7, opposes centralization,
monopolies, subsidies, cte., and declares that
“ Samuel J. Randall is the choice of the De¬
mocracy of Pennsylvania as thn eaudidato of
their jwrty for President."
A man suffering from trichinosis has been
admitted to Bellevue watched hospital. New York,and
his case is being by all the doctors.
A piece taken of muscular his tissue about found the size to of be a
pea from arm was
swarming with trichinae.
The British schooner George Calhoun en¬
countered a Gloucester, (Mass.) schooner at
in a sinking condition; and while trying
to transfer the latter’s crow of five fisherman
to the former vessel the boat was swamped.
Thg five fishermen anil a sailor belonging to
theGeorge ward the George Calhoun Calhoun were drowned. wrecked, After¬ and
was
her remaining crew of four men were rescued
by the schooner Zenobia and taken to Boston.
Josnrii Agate, a retired merchant worth
about mitted $'>,009,000, suicide chiefly New in York real hotel estate, by shoot¬ com¬
in »
ing. He was a resident of Yonkers, N. Y.,
and left a note stating that he was suffering
from nervous prostration, and had not had ail
hour’s natural sleep in four months.
After of tho the lapse hundred of nearly and fifty a month odd miners four¬
Trilled teen one
by tho catastrophe at Piy ahontas, Va., dis¬
were tound, almost partly beyond decomposed identification. aiul
figured
Sentli aud West.
Joseph Medill. of the Chicago Tribune,
made an argument before the Senate com¬
mittee on postofflees and ixxst reads in favor
of the induction of the present pound rates
of postage on newspapers issued from tho
effioeof publication.
David Kellar, pilot of the steamer Sciota,
which collided with the John I>oinas at Mingo,
Ohio, on the night of July 4, 1882, has been
sentenced by the Federal court at Parkersburg,
W. Va., to two years’ imprisonment and to
pay lision a fine of $500 for manslaughter. The col¬
resulted in the loss of seventy lives.
Cleveland’s municipal election resulted
in a Republican victory by about 3,000 ma
jority.
B. T. O. Hubbard, cashier of the First
National bank of Monmouth, Ill., lost $100,
000 of the institution’s funds by speculation,
and compelled it to suspend.
All amusements have been seriously affect
ing afraid to venture out at night,
Reports from Ohio, Indiana and Illinois,
show the condition of the wheat, clover, timo¬
thy peach and apple crops to be favorable, and the
crop unfavorable.
Thirty buildings, mostly frame structures
occupied as stores and dwellings, were de¬
stroyed total by fire at Hampton, Va.. resulting in
a estimated loss of $100,000. Several
persons Hampton were has injured. This is the third time
been swept by the flames.
Eleven negroes were in a skiff on the river
at upset, Vicksburg, and Miss., when their frail craft
six of them were drowned.
A material advance in prices for wheat
and pork has taken place in Chi cago.
Jamer Fleetwood and his wife, an aged
couple living near Raridaa, HI., were found
dead in their bed with their throats cut The
house had been ransacked. A hired man wav
arrested.
The secretary of the California State Ag¬
ricultural bureau predicts an unexampled
wheat crop for the Pacific coast
Washington.
The House committee on judiciary adopted
the Representative joint Mayberry’s adverse 'report on
resolution proposing a, constitutional
amendment to give women tho right of suf¬
frage. Mr. Doraheimer was of opinion that
it .would be advisable at some future time t
give women the right to vote.
A majority of the House committee on
tho public lands have adopted a report declaring
unearned .portion of the Northern Pa¬
cific land grant forfeited.
Mil. Newcomb, naturalist of the Jeannette
expedition, tigation appeared before the House inves¬
committee and testified as to the
trouble on the vessel during the ill-fated voy
Ji SC
Tiie sub-committee of the House committee
on the judiciary has agreed upon a joint reso¬
lution proposing a constitutional amendment
relating to the currency. The proposed
amendment is as follows: “ The legislative
powers granted to Congress by the Constitu¬
tion shall not bo construed to include the
power to pass any law making anything but
gold debts and except silver after coin a tender in payment of
a declaration of war, or in
case of rebellion or invasion, when tho publia
safety may demand it.”
Inspector Woodward, of the postoffice
department, appeared before the House com¬
mittee of investigation and explained the
good results which had followed the star
route prosecutions in a reform of the service.
General Adam Badeau, who has been
United States consul general at Havana for
rto years, has forwarded his resignation to
tho state department at Washington.
The Senate in executive session passed the
resolution authorizing the President, to rec¬
ognize the the African International association
as ruling power in thn Congo region.
A special camp fire, of tho department of
the Potomac of the Grand Army of the Re¬
public the was held in Washington Vicksburg. to commemo¬
rate Joseph operations Hawley against Gen¬
eral K. presided, and among
tho guests were 1 resident Arthur, General
Grant, i-ecretary Lincoln, and General Lo¬
gan.
M embers of the House committee on public
lands are of opinion that a bill will be re¬
ported to repeal the pre-emption and timber
culture acts, and to amend the homestead
act. >
Complete returns of the postal revenues
for the first and second quarters o £ the pres¬
ent fiscal year and estimates for the third
quarter givo the following ended results: Gross re¬
ceipts for the quarter Soptemlier SO,
1883, $10,595,8:17; for the quarter ended De¬
cember 31,1883. ascertained, $11,159,016; esti¬
mated for the quarter ending March 31, 1881,
$10,709,014; estimated for the quarter ending
June 30, 1884, $10,737,349; total estimated
revenue for the year, $43,202,446; total reve¬
nue for year ended June 30,1881, $45,508,092;
falling $2,240,246. off in the revenue for the present year
Foreign.
Premier Gladstone made a powerful
speech in the British house of commons m sup¬
port of the franchise bill. He defended the
extension of the franchise in Ireland asanacu
of right aud justice. the
Cambridge easily defeated Oxford in
annual eight-oared boat-race on the Thami’s.
Since the establishment of these college
races Oxford has won twenty-two times and
Cambridge eighteen times.
A revolt has broken out in Mexico, all
the merchants in the republic closing their
store.-) and protesting against the the enforce¬
ment of an obnoxious stamp act. President
(Jouzales insisted upon the collection of tho
kax at all hazards.
A riot against thn employment of female
labor has occurred at Kidderminster, Eng
land.
Prince Bismarck Ires withdrawn from the
Prussian ministry, but will frill keep a watch¬
ful eye over the affairs of imperial Germany.
A fire at Groegan. a small place in Mora
vio. destroyed fifty houses. One woman and
two children were burned to death.
Great damage has benn done by floods in
Armenia.
One-half of MandalaT, the capital of Bur
mah. a city of 90,000 people, has been destroyed
by fire.
A positive proof of tha connection existing their
between the anarohists of Europe and
alleged confederates in the United States is
said to have been obtained by the Swiss
authorities.
Captain Sohoonhotbn, of the wrecked
steamer Daniel Steinmaun. made at Halifax
his formal statement of tha terrible disaster.
He said that he had overrun his reckoning in
the fog, and, till fatally too late, mistook He
Sombre light for that at another point
thought if guns had been tired by the watch
ashore he might have been warned in time to
era-ape the periL
Five French missionaries and thirty eate
chists have been massacred at Thanhoa, a
town in Tonquin.
General Gordon shelled the rebel camp
near Khartoum and killed forty of the
enemy. In several engagements between
General Gordon’s troops and the Arabs tho
latter were defeated. The rebels about Khar¬
toum are estimated by Gordon to number
2 , 000 .
A. M. Gillespie * Co., London mer¬
chants, have failed for $1,250,000.
The Dutch authorities have blockaded a
portion of tha Achoen coast (Sumatra), with
a view to exercising pressure upon the rajah
of Tenom to force him to release the crew of
the wrecked English steamer Nisero, held
captive since last November.
Five natious—the Italian, American,
French, German aud English—are demand¬
ing indemnity the from rebellion. Hayti for damages sss
taiued in recent
An expedition under General Aguero hat
invaded Cuba. Advices from Havana say
that General Aguero in lauding met with no.
resistance, and that many factious joined him
on the mareh to the interior, swelling the party,
to several hundred followers. They had sev
iral encounters with troops, tiie result of
which was that the troops were telegraphed obliged to
retreat. The government has to
Spain l-equestiag that additional troop bo
suit.
Charles few Readh, days the in noted London English at novel¬
ist. died a ago the age
ot seventy years.
Great excitement was created in Biiming- named
ham. with England, number by the arrest of a man and
Italy a of dynamite bombs
other explosives in his pickets. His arrival
in England the had been discovered by boarded the piliee,
and man at whose house he was
also arrested as an accomplice.
Latest advices from Slaughni report a
serious publicly political degraded crisis at Prince Pekin. Kung Tho aud empress four
has
memb ra of the privy council. They of were the
stripped of all their honor.; because
dilatory manner in which they have dealt
with Tonauin affairs.
One of New York’s many towering apart¬
ment bouses—Ake ISt Georg® flats, eight of
stories high, occupied by thirteen families
means—caught fire in the cellar, and the
elevator Kunee noshed aud ventilating with such rapidity shafts ^through that in the
a
short time the immense structure was gutted,
only the walls remaining. Several persons
were injured. The total loss is about $200,
000 .
Dr. L. U. Beach, a prominent pnvsictan
of theran Altoona, church Penn., there, was and received the into day the cut Lu¬ his
next
wife’s head off. He was generally thought
to be insane.
The First Nnuoi.... «*.nk, of era. Albans,
Vt., closed its doors, being unable to meet its
obligations.
The New York State senate passed the bill
prohibiting the and manufacture and sale of oleo¬
margarine and butterine.
John Hillman was hanged at Easton,
Penn., for the murder of his wife.
At the Pennsylvania Democratic State
convention in Allentown, Penn., General
W. H. H. Davis, of Doyiestown, was
nominated for Congressman at large, three
presidential electors at large were
put in nomination, six delegates at
large to the national convention were elected,
and district delegates and electors were
chosen. The platform adopted favors “a
tariff for revenue limited to the necessit ies of
the tho government” internal and “the system abolition of tuxes of
revenue
and such adjustment of the
existing tariff duties as will be consistent'
with fraud these principles;” of 1876-7,” denounces centralization, “theelec
toral opposes
monopolies, “ Samuel J. subsidies, Randall is etc., the choice aud declares of the that De¬
mocracy of for Pennsylvania President.” as the candidate of
their party
admitted A man suffering Bellevue from trichinosis York,and has been
his is to being watched hospital, by all New the doctors.
case
A piece of muscular tissue about the size of a
pea taken from his arm was found to be
swarming with trichinae.
How to Reduce One’s Weight.
A woman physician weighing 200 pounds * called
on a lor advice. He gave hex
the following instructions:
1. For breakfast eat a piece of beef or
mutton as large as your hand, with a
slice of white bread twice as large. For
dinner the same amount of meat, or ii
preferred, fish or poultry, with the same
amount of farinaceous or vegetable
food in the form of bread or potato.
For supper, Drink only nothing.
SJ. when greatly annoyed
with thirst ; then a mouthful of lemonade
without sugar.
3. Take three times a week some form
of bath in whioh there shall be immense
perspiration. You The Turkish bath is best.
must work, either in walking or
some other way, several hours a day.
4. You must, rise early in the morning
and retire late at night. Much sleep
fattens people.
5. The terrible corset you have on,
which compresses the center of the body,
making yon look a good deal fatter than
you really are, must be taken off, aud
you must have a corset which any dress¬
maker can fit to you—a corset for the
lower part of the abdomen—which will
raise this great mass and support it.
She followed the advice for six months,
and trained herself down to 152 pounds.
Baby Farming .—Paris is almost child¬
less. Tradesmen wish their wives to
help them in the shop, and in order that
the wives may be free to do this the
children are put out to nurse in the
country. The same custom is general
among all working people. More than
50 per cent, of the children bom in Paris
die in the baby farmer’s hands.
CHRISTIANITY ON ICE.
DR. TALMAGE WANTS TO WARM THE
CHURCH WITH THE FURNACES OF
SYMPATHY,
“Who can stand before this cold?”—
Psalms cxlvii., 17. This whole land haa
recently been afflicted with Rev. depressed
temperatures, Baid the Dr. Tal
mage ; one of the severest winters this
land has ever experienced. These severi¬
ties find their echoes in the text. The
challenge of the text has many times
been accepted. “Not “Who can stand before
this cold?” we,” say the frozen
lips of Sir John Franklin and his men,
dying in the Arctic exploration. and his “Not
we,” answer Sohwatka crew,
falling back from the fortresses of ice
which they had tried in vain to capture.
“Not we,” say the abandoned, crushed
decks of the Intrepid, the Resistance
and the Jeannette. “Not we,” say the
long processions of Arctic martyrs this
moment on their way home for Ameri¬
can sepulture, De Long and his men.
The highest pillars en the earth are pil¬
lars of ice. The largest galleries of the
world are galleries of ice. Some of the
mighty rivers are at this moment lying
in the captivity of the ice. The greatest
sculptors of the ages are the gla¬
ciers, with arm and hand, chisel and
hammer of ice.
Now, this being such a cold world,
God sends out influences to warm it.
The question as to how we shall warm
this world up is a question of immediate
and encompassing practicability. In
this zone and weather there are so many
tireless hearths, so many broken win¬
dow panes, so many defective roofs that
sift the snow. Coal and wood, flannels
and thick coats are better for warming
up such a place What than tracts and Bibles
and creeds. are we doing to alle¬
viate the condition of those not so for¬
tunate as we? I want to have a great
heater introduced into all your churches
and your homes and throughout the
world. It is the glorious furnace of
Christian sympathy. How much heat
can we throw out ? There are men who
go through this world floating icebergs.
The hand with which they shake jours
is as cold as the paw of a Polar bear.
If they float into a religious meeting
the temperature below drops from 80 to about
10 degrees zero. Cold prayers,
songs, greetings and sermons. Christi¬
anity on ice ! On the other hand, there
are jteople who go through the world
like the breath of a spring morning. We
bless God for them. The Sisters of
Charity in 18G3, on Northern and South¬
ern battlefields, came to the boys in blue
and gray while they were bleediDg to
death. The black bonnet, with the sides
pushed back and the white bandages on
the brow, may not have answered all
the demands of elegant taste ; but you
could not persuade the dying soldier a
thousand miles from home that it was
anything in but Oh an angel that, looked him
the face. ! with cheery look, with
helpful word, with kind action, try to
make the world warm.
The Gold on Hand.
As a rule recently the Snb-Treasnry
of New York has been called upon to
'than pay put gold eoin gotfl to a greater amount ?'
its receipts of from the
in settlements. Saturday it was re
graded the as Sub-Treasury rather a noteworthy incident
at when a banking
house sent $75,000 to the government
vaults to be exchanged for gold certifi¬
cates.
The total amount of gold coin in the
Snb-Treasnry vaults on Saturday was.
$74,747,615. On October last, according
to the report of the Director of the
Mint, the gold coin in the United States
Treasury amounted to $144,446,786, and
in the banks and in general circulation
there was $400,065,978, making a total
of $544,512,699. The total of United
States currency, coin, including legal tender
notes and bullion, etc., was$1,730,-
697.823.
NATIONAL EDUCATION.
TTlie I£IH,3r Bill as It Pawed t!j«
United States Senate.
The important points of the Blair Eduea.
tioual bill, as it passed the United States Sen¬
ate, and went before the House, are as fob
Ws:
That for eight there years shall next annually after the appropri passage
of tliis act be -
ated from the money in the treasury the fol ¬
lowing sums, to wit: The first year the sum
of $7,(HI),000, the second year- tha rami of
of $10, (II), (III, the third year the sum of $15 •
000,000,the fourth year the sum of $13,000,(KXL tire
the sixth fifth year the the of sum $0,000,000, of $11,000,000, the seventh
year sum
year the sum of .$7,000,003, the eighth year
the sum expended of $5<000,000, which the several benefits sums
shall be to secure of
common school education to all the children
of the school age mentioned hereafter living
in the United States; that such money shall
annually- be divided among and paid out in the
several which States the and Territories, in that pro¬
portion each whole number of persons
in who, write, being of bears the age ol' ten years and
over, cannot to the whole num¬
ber of such persons in the United States.
Such the computations of 1880. shall be mode according
to census
No money shall be paid out under this act
provided to any State or law Territory system that of shall free not ha ve
bv a common
schools for all of its children of school age,
without distinction of race or color, either in.
the raising or distribution of Hcbool revenue
or in the school facilities afforded; provided
that separate schools for white and colored
children shall not be considered a violation
of this condition.
That the instruction in the common schools
whereon these moneys shall bo expended shall
include the English art of language, reading, writing aritluuetie, aud speak ■
ing the geo¬
graphy, history of the United .States and such
other branches local of useful laws. knowledge as may Ire
taught under
The money provisions appropriated of tliis act and to apportioned the of
wider the use
any- Territory industrial shall )>e applied schools tlierein to the by use the of
common and
secretary of the interior.
No greater part shifil of be the money appropriated
under this act in paid out than to any tire State
expended er Territory out of any its one year in the sum
own re von lies pre¬
ceding year for the maintenance of .common
schools, not including school the sums expended io.
the erection of the buildings.
. A part Territory, of money not appropriated exceeding to each
State or yearly one-tenth
thereof, may be applied to the edu¬
cation of teachers for the common schotSis
therein.
No part of the educational fund allotted to
any erection State or school Territory houses shall Iks used buildings for the
of or school
of The any description, distributed nor for rent of tho sumo.
moneys under the provis¬
ions of this act shell lie used only for common
schools not sectarian in character.
Fiction resembles pleases the more in proportion
as it truth.