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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.