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(3Flc (jjhatljam uroii BATES OF H. A. LONDON, Jr., KDiToit axi ntoriurroK. ADVERTISING. On. fctjuar., on. liiM-rtli.ti. one nuir,l li.nrU"ii, On. s'luuru, mho mjiih, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: I.I One enry, one yir, -On.oopy ,atx month -Ouswpy, tor. months l.no VOL. II. PITCSB()KO CHATHAM CO., N. C, FFJiRCAIiV ID, 1880. iNO. 2.i. dhatham Record. Aetata J II All To the Bereaved I Headstones, Monuments AND TOMBS, IN THE BEST OF MARBLE. Good Workmanship, and Cheapest and Largest variety in toe mate, lards ooruor morgan ana Bloani streets, below Wynn's livery stable. avaarees an communications to CAYTON & WOLFE, Raleigh, N. O, Steamboat Notice! Tie boats of the Express Steamboat Ooruna oy will run as follows from the first of October nutil further notice: Bteamer P. Ml'KCUISON, Capt. AloDza Gar rison, will, leave. Fajetteville every Tuesday and Friday at B o'clock A. M., and Wilming ton every Wednesday and Saturday at il o'clock r. m. Cramer WAVE, Capt. W. A. Roboson, will leave Fayettaville on Mondaye and Thursdays atHo'oloc'.- A. M. , and Wilmington on Tues days ann rnuavH a I o cioca l'.M., connecting with tho Western II -liroad at Fayettoville on i uui'nunjiD Bir.l .-MUII- ays. J. D. Hr..f.l.Vs A- VO. Agents at Fayettoville, N. O. 65 BUGGIES, Rockaways and Spring Wagons At Prices lo Null the Times, Hade of the beet materials, and warranted to give entire satisfaction. COXSILT l Ol lf OH X IXTEItEST, By giving us a call before buying. Also, a full lot of Hand Made Harness, A. A. McKETIIAN HONS, oc34uo6 3m Faucttevillef A. t JOHN M. MORINC. Attorney at Law, .llnrlng.YlIU', Clinilmm Co., '. ( . JOUK M. MORIMO, Of Chatham. AI.KHF.D A. MOI1IXO, Of Orange MORINC & MORINC, Attorneys At Xjaw 111 it h.m, x. r. AU business intrusted to them will reoeive prompt attention. THOMAS M. CROSS, Attorney at Law, riTTMiioito', x. c. Will practioe in Chatham and eorroun counties. Collection of claims a specialty, ding Certain and Reliable! HOWARD'S INFALLIBLE WORLD RE KOWNED REMF.DI FOR WORMS Is now for aalo by W. L. London, in I'lttsboro'. All those who are annoyed wilb those Testa are advised to call and pet a package of this valuable remedy. This compound is no hnra bog, but a grand success. One agent wanted in every town in the State. For particnlara. addiesa, enclosing S cent stamp. Ir. J. M. HOWARD, Ml. Olive, Wajua county, N.C. H. A. LONDON, Jr., Attorney at Law, iiXTknno'f s.c. $&'Sc oi.'.tl AticnMon PaM l- Coiloo'iii'j. NORTH CAROLINA STATE LIFE INSURANCE CO., RALEIGH, J. CAR. T. n. CAMERON,' 'Vnitfsn'. W. E. ANDERSON, Vin . W. H. HICKS, Ntt'y. The only Ilome Life Insurance Co. in the State. All Its fund loaned out AT IIOMF., and among our own people. We do not send North Carolina money abroad lo build upother Bute. It Is one of the most successful com panies of its ace In the United States. lis as acta are amply siilllcienl. AH losses paid firomplly. Kljfht thousand dollars paid in the Mi two years to families in Chatham. Il will coat a man aped thirty year only live cents a day to insure for one thousand dollars. Apply for further information, to H A. LONDON, Jr., Gen. Agt. PITTSBOKO', N. C. J. J. JACKSON, ATTOKNEY-AT-LAW, riTTSIlOlift', A', c. t9AU business entrusted to him will re eelve prompt attention. W. I. ANDERSON, rr.sld.Dt. P. A. WILEY. Cathl.r CITIZENS NATIONAL BANK, OF UAL.EK.II, X. C. J. D. WILLIAMS & CO., Groeers, Commission Merchants and Produce Bayers, FAYETTEVILLE. N. O. Helen of Tyro. vS hat phantom is this that appear) Through the purple mists of the yet ru, Itself bat a mist like these '( A woman of oloud and of fire, It is she, it la Belen of Tyre, The town in the midst of the seas ! Oh Tyre ! in tby orowded streets The phantom appears and retreats And the Israelites that sell Thy lilies and lions of bra, Look up a they lee her pass, Aod murmur 'Jezebel!' Then aiothor phantom is seen At her side, in a gray gabardine, With beard that floats to lis waist, II is Simon Magus, the Boer, He spoaks, and she pauses to hear The words be uttered in baste. He says : 'From this evil fame, From this lifo of sorrow and ebamo, I will lift thee and make thee mine. Thou hast been Queen Caudac, At d Holen of Troy, and shalt bo The Intelligence Divine!' Oh, sweet ae the breath of morn. To the fallen and forlorn Are whispered words of praise, For the famished heart believes The falsehood that tempts and deoeives, And the proniiso that hetras. Bo she follows from land to land The wizard's beckoning band, And as a leaf is blown by the gust, Till she vanishes into nicht ! Oh reader, stoop down and writo nun wronger in the dust. Oh town in the midst of the With thy rafta ef oedar trees, iny merchandise and thy ships, Thou, too, art beoome as naught, A phantom, a shadow, a thought, A name upon men's lipe. Henry W. Longfellow.- The Elf of Hohenheim. It was ou a Saturday night cn the Bowery I returned on foot at a slow pace from my cflice, intent npon the picture of bnsy life and confusion which sur rounded me, and which for years has never been so noisy and hustling as now. Slowly I advanoed amid all this bnstlo. admiring and in some measure facinated by this picture, ao full of coarse but intense and robust life. All of a sudden I stopped as if struck by lightning. What was this before me ? A ghost ? a horrid freak of my imagination ? or what elise ? That ashy pale face, that stooping figure, creeping along with difficulty and thrown from sido to side by the bnsy crowd like a broken reed where had I seen a semblance of them beforo ? This ghastly flguro was that of ft woman. By the band she held a child, a baby of some three years of ago, who seemed so exhausted that its legs refused service entirely. It did not even scream, and let itttlf bo dragged along by the woman like a lifeless corpse. I turned round and followed this wretched pair. I soon found out that the woman's walk was not purposeless. She staggered from on at h-barrel to another ; at each of these ornaments of our metropol itan thoroughfares she stooped down, plunged her bare arm into the heap of refuse and kept it there searching till she found some remnant of something which may have one day served as food to man or beast. This she clutched at with eager grasp ; the best bits she gave to the child the rest she devonrsd herself. Stepping to her sido I touched the woman's shoulder. She looked around with a wild and scarod expression, the light of a torch fell full on her face 'Good (iod I is it possible?' I screamed. 'Emily I' Her whole frame shook under the rage which half covered it ; she drew back from me, and with a groan of irrepressible terror attempted to run away. I held her fast, however. 'Oome no,' I said, 'whoever jon may be, think of your child, it seems to be dying. Let me jive it to eat.' She bowed her head in silent obedi ence and suffered me to lead her to a small hotel in the neighborhood kept by an honest old German on whose discre tion I could reckon. I engaged a room, ordered supper and a bottle of strong wine, and bidding the woman to wash and undress herself and the child, I went out to purchase in one of the Bowery stores a cheap but decent outfit for both, which on returning to the hotel, sent np to her by tho chambermaid. A quarter of an Lour Inter snppvr was brought. I knocked at the door, a feeble voice answered, 'Gome in,' and on entering I remained two or three sccouds standing motionless, speechlebs ut the door, staring at the apparition before me. The hasty toilet she bad made had wrought an extraordinary change in all the young woman's appearance. She sat before me with the child in her lap in all her wondrous, delicate, bewitch ing beauty tho 'elf of Hohenheim,' as we used to call her, but no longer tho wild, wayward elf left child, but curb as I bad seen her in my boyish dreams a beautifal, fairy-like womsn I Emily Ilschberg I' I whispered, when the ohamberm. ' had left us. 'Do you know me ?' She looked np at me and dropping her heaO in both her hands broke into a torrent of tears. After soothing and quieting her as boat I could, I insisted on her and the child eating the snpper I had ordered before entering on any t xplanations, After the last morsel had disappeared and the child which had already had fallen asleep whilo eating, been put to bed. Emily sat down by my side, and with many a sigh and many a tear told me her story. It was tho sad, old, old story. I was barely seventeen and had just entered the celebrated agrimUnral academy of Hohenheim no&r Stutgart, Wurteiuburs;, when I first made the acquaintance of Emily and hor uncle, the famous mathematician, Dr. Aloysitts Kechberg, with whom having lost her own parents, she then lived. Tho old professor's house was a favorite haunt for the boys. Himself childless, but yet fall of energy and animal spirits, the old man liked to be surrouudedby the noise aud bustle of youth. On some evenings in the woek, aud indeed not unfrequently during whole days, tho professor's house looked more like a student's kneipe (tavern) than like the abode of one of the first soientifio authorities of Ger many. Lit'.le Emily, the 'elf of Hohenheim, as wo had nicknamed her, never failed at these queer arsemblies. Indeed, she was the genins, the spirit of our band and a mad uncontrollable spirit it was, to bo sure I Scarcely fifteen years of ago, she was already as far advanced in her studies with her uncle as any of us. 'I don't want to make of the girl one of your insipid, hot house flowers which droop and shudder at everything, the old man used to say to us. 'Let her see, study and enjoy life just as it is. Ton are all of you a set of honest though excessively lazy lads at whose hands she has no harm to fear. So let her eujoj her freedom the only thing she possesses, poor thing I I trust her to you do not betray me, lads.' And Emily was indeed our friends, our comrade almost our sister. She felt so secure inside the domains of her adopted brothers that she wandered in summer and winter all alone through tho extensive woods of Hohenheim, con sidering them, as it were, a sort of para dise on earth in which no fatal tree or wily serpent could ever tempt her. Elf like she haunted the grounds around our academy climbing in the trees, imitating the singing of the birds around her, making the air resound with her clear, silvery laugh, shedding on all things the fairy light of her dear innocent presence. Such she had lived on in my remem brance these many years since our part ing. Snc'u, as a long-lost dream of youth and light, she appeartd at times to me amid the dark shadows and bitter realities of life. Who was the rascal who had darkened aud polluted this bright vision of lights who had made this of my littlo 'elf of Hohenheim ?' His name was. she told me, or at least was supposed to be, Count Lidis as Brodziusky, end he pretended to be a Polish nobleman oieemf mnse walth. Like all the rest of the students, he too had been received with the usual free hospitality at the professor's house, but had soon by hid manners exited the old man's suspicions, ne was forbidden the house but the mischief was already done; Emily was madly in love with him. Interviews went on between them clandestinely, tho wretch bewitched her more and more, until at length she con sented to elope with him to America whither, he said, important business matters called him. The pair fled first to Paris, thence to London, where they stayed uearly a week. While in that city Brodzinsky came homo one day seemingly in pray to a terrible agitation. Somebody is on our track, my dearest Einily I' ho exclaimed. 'I havo Iweu followed the wholo day. We cannot start from hero together. Yon mast go to-night direct to Quoeustown aud wait a day there for the boat which shall bring me from Liverpool. T.he people who are tracking me must see me get on board alone. Do you trust mo, my love I Of course she did, and obeyed lam guilelessly, confidingly. LLg before the steamer had boen sighted she was standing on the Queenstown dock, wait ing, straining her sight for tho streak of tmoko on the horizou. At length it came. The tug-boat took the Queens town passengerH on board the huge ocean steamer. Emily found li.-r cibin reserved for her, but no Ladislas Brodzinksy to meet her. Trembling, bewildered, she inquired if there was a passeugor of that name on board. Tho steward who had aeeompaniod her to tho cabin thought tliero was one and prom ised to inquire immediately. n went, and Emily remained in her cabin trembling, fearing sho knew not herself what, feeling as if each minute that passed became a century of sus pense. In the meantime the steamer had heaved her anchor, tue screw ! ad been put in and the ocean monster glidod majestically into the open sea. At last tho steward returned with the answer : No, miss, there is no gentlomen of that name on board I' On hearing these words Emily re mained for some time like one paralyzed with terror and despair. Then, realizing all of a sudden the horror of situation, sho rushed out of the cabin with a piercing cry and ran on deck, whence, had not the captain met her and held her fast, she would heve jumped into the Bea. She then began beseeching the cap tain in a frantic way to turn back, to put her on shore anywhere; the poor man had a good deal of trouble to rxplain to her tho impossibility of her demand, aud to quiet her so far as to lead her back into the cabin. She need but wait patiently, ho eaid ; in New York sho would bo sure to find a tele gram explaining all. She waited but in vain ; no message, no friendly word bade her welcome to the new world. The captain and sumo of the paBsocgers took mi interest in tho poor girl and accompanied her to the German consulate. There she gave her uncle's address, and the consul prom ised her to cable to him immediately. The next day she was to learn the answer. She came tho next dny. The consul led her to his private c like, and with a grave face invited her to take a seat. 'Have you other relatives in Gurmouy, Miss Bsohberg, besides your uncle ?' ho inquired. 'None,' she answered. 'I regret it,' rejoined the consul, 'for your undo is dead. Here is the answer I received this morning.' And he showed her the fatal message. Emily had suffered fo much during the passage that this new blow scarcely hurt but only stunned her. She sat there motionless, staring at the paper before her with vacant gaze. 'Do you wish, under the circumstace,' continued the German official, 'to return to Europe? I could facilitate your arrangements if snch should be your wish.' 'What for ?' she asked, dejectedly. 'Just as you please,' auswered the oousul. She rose from her teat, thanked him mechanically, and went out into the street. 'Oh, do not ask me,' exclaimed Emily, covering her fao9 with her hands, 'to tell you all that befell me here I It is a tale of shame and misery I will sparo you and me. Four mouths after my landing this child his child -was born. Some time later I received a letter from him, offering me money and explaining his treachery with perfect frankness. My love, he said, had become troublesome to him, for just then the possibility of a rich marriage with an elder and f xoes eively jealous woman had presented itself to him and thus he resolved to put me out of the way. How well the rascal knew me I In writing this lotter he placed a deadly weapon into my hand I He knew well enough I would not use it.' Tho night was far advanced wheu Emily had told me her snd story to the end. I took my leave of her, promising not to forsake her till a suitable position had presented itself for her. I camn, and returned tho next day aud the next, and so on for nearly three weeks nntil little by little the intercourse with Emily became the most engrossing occupation of my day, She became daily more beautiful, and daily I saw revived before me that fair image of the 'elf of Hohenheim,' of my boyish dreams, turned to a still more bewitching reality. Ouo day as I entered as usual the little German hotel, the fut host came to meet me with a letter in his haud. 'For you,' ho uttered laconically. I tore open the envolopo. It was from Emily and contained the following lines : 'My dearest, my only friend I I leave you, you who I have learned to love moro than my life. Aud it is just because of my great love that I go. Your life must remain as it is, pure aud free and noble. Your path must not be soiled by a creature like me. Farewell I God bless you I May every tear which falls from my cheek while I write this bring you years aud years of happiness I Do not grieve for me. I found honest work in a city far away. Do not search for mo and do uot forget quite your poor, loving 'Klf of Hohenueim. A year has passed, I have neither seen nor heard from her since. I a Colored Man a While! In the United States supreme court, the case came up of the United States, appellants, vs. Sauford Perrymau, ap peal from the court of claims. The somewhat paradoxical question present ed bv this case is whether a negro is a white person. The suit was brought by Perrymau, a C'roek Indian, of Arkansas, under sections 2151 and 2155 of the re vised btatntes, which provide that when a 'whito person' shall take or destroy property of a friendly Iudiau within the Indian country, and when such whit- persons, upou being duly convicted of the offense, shall be unable to make good to the Indiau the entire value of the property thus taken or destroyed, the deficiency shalt be paid out of tho Uni ted Slates treasury. Tho property of Perrymau, tho friendly Indiau in tho present case, was taken by a negro, aud when the latter, upon conviction, was found unable to make its value good, Perrymau brought this suit against the United States, alleging that the words 'white person' in the statute were intend ed to mean any person not an Indian. The United States, however, contend that the statute grew originally out of trouble between the state of Georgia and the Cherokees, and that the color line was purposely drawn to excludo both negroes and Indians, Hon the Sntnges Lire, In n recent lecture by Miss Jonephino Meoker, she stuteJ: Th I'tes live prin cipally on bio.id and meat. Wheu tlx-y can't get bread tliey live on meat, and when they euu't get meat tliey live ou bread. Wheu tliey havo a great quan tity of provisions ou haud (hoy eat it all up before getting any moro. The same is truo wheu they have a sirnll quantity on hand. They aro dirty. They are evou very dirty. Their meat is gcueraliy permitted to lio about on the ground or any place. Each Indian family pos sesses any Lumber of dogs from eight to fifteen, and these animals help them selves to meat. After they huvo satis fied themselves, aud when tho Iudiaus become hungry, they cut from tho sumo piece on which the dogs feed. They generally boil their meat, but sometimes they broil it, They put in water uud let it remain only a few minutes, just long enough to heat, wheu they take it out and begin to eat. They use the same water and the same pail for boiling over and over again, until the w iter be comes a perfect slimo of filth. One pot generally does Fervice for the entire family. Thi3 particular pot is a frying pan. When the Utes get out of their bed they wash their faces and bat ho the baby in it, after which they buko tho bread aud boil the meat. Then they eat out of the vessel, and then the dogs lick up the leaving. They clothe them selves with skins of animals or with blankets. They generally take a blanket or a skin and cut a hole in the middle of it and throw it over their heads, cutting armholes and fastening the garment at the waist with a wide belt, while they close up the neck with a buckskin string. When the garment wears out they cut the string and let it drop, but not before. Sometimes the Indians will wear as many as five of these garments at a time, always keeping the cleaned one on the outside. An Aiunsiiijr Scene, At. a prayer meeting in one of the leading churches a few evenings since, a gentleman, well kuown as an aotive aud earnest church member, whose remarks aro always listeued to with great interest, was m iking a most im pressive appeal to hie auditors. He was just proceeding to enforce a point by illustration, when a gentleman a few seats in front rose to his feet, and re marking that no one was occupying the attention of the meeting, asked that they join with him in prayer. The first gentleman, thus summarily taken off his feet, abruptly subsided; tho second gen tleman prayed fervently, and though the grave face of the pastor wits not illum ined with a smile, the auditors could with difficulty restrain from laughter. Both gentlemen who were the innocent means of producing the amusing scene, are very deaf; tho second one is also short-sighted, and, sitting in front o the brother who was speaking, was wholly unaware that auy one was occu pying the attention of the meeting. The first gentleman, though deaf, is not blind, aud the facility with which he sought his seat wheu his discourse was interrupted, was not the least amusing part of the sceno. Creditable Showing for lS7!t. The annual circulur of Duu, Barlow A- Co., coutains most gratifying proofs of the prosperity of resumption year. The number of failures dunug 179 was i,ti58; during the year beforo it was 10,- 478, tho decrease being more than oue third. The number of failures was smaller during 1S7'J thau during any year Biuco 1874. But the showing is still more gratifying upon a better b isis of comparison. Tho decrease in the total amount of liabilities is nearly sixty per cent; they drop all the w.iy from S'JIU.OOO.ODO iu 1M7S to 8'.l8,0n0,O00 in 187!). Tho report states this striking change for the better iu a vivid way by saying that tho total loss was 'lessened by over $'2,500,000 a week for the en tire year.' Comparisons with the year 1878 are somewhat misleading, it is true, owing to tho repeal of the bankrupt law iu that year, aud the r uiseqiieut accu mulation of failures. But comparisons with other years show tho sauio great improvement, though iu a way less marked, aud the statement of the steadi ly dimiuishing proportion of failures in the whole population tells the samo story, I'sing the Forces of Nature. An aitcle in Sc.rilmrr dolailmg Mr. Edison's tlTort to produce the elecliic light, ciHiclui'.es : Besides the enor.iious practical ahie f the electric light, as domestic illurainaut and motor, it fur nishes a most striking and beau'iful illustration of thee luvertiliility of force. Mr. Edison's system of lighting gives a completed cycle of change. Tho sun light poured upou the rank vegetation of the carboniferous forests, was gath ered and stored up, and has been wait ing through the ages to be converted again into light in the carbon horseshoe. The latent force accumulated during the primeval days, and garnered up iu the coal beds, is converted, after passing in the steam engine through the phases of chemical, molecular and mechanical force, into electricity, which only waits the touch of the inventor's genius to flash out Into a million domestic suns to illuminate a myriad homes. The .Mexican Bandits, A correspondent of the New York W'wld writing from Mexico, thus de scribes tho doings of tho bandits which infest that country: Two horrible cases of the abduction of rich men, held and tortured for hoavy ransoms, have ro cntly been published; iu fact, there nro three instances in which starvation aud maltreatment have injured tho gen tlemen beyond the possibility of entire restoration to health. Awhile ago a oirciimstauco was related to mo which savors strongly of the days of Claude Duval. A bund of robbers attacked a small hacienda near this city, and hav ing terrified the workmen aud servants by threats of iustuut death if they at tempted to defend thoir master, three of tliem proceeded to tho chamber of the owner, who met them pistol in hand, but before he could fire (or else perhaps his shot missed its object) the chief of the bandits shot him through tho heart. The wife of tho murdered man thought her last hour had come, and was com mending her soul to God, when the gallant leader said bluudly: 'Don't be alarmed madame; we are gentlemen, and would not be guilty of cruelty to the fair sex. You have enly to give us your keys and toll ns where your money and jewelry are to be fouud.' The keys were delivered to the bandits, and informa tion given regarding all valuables m the house. Whiie they were ransacking bureaus aDd wardrobes, the bereaved wife was sobbing ou the breast of her dead husband. As tho robbers were about to depart one of them, approach ing the sorrowing widow with a jewel box iu his hand said: 'Madame, our captain presents his compliments, and desires me to say if among these jewels there is anything you desire to retain ai a memento of the deceased, you are at liberty to do so; wo are gentlemen,' The only response to this polite offer was a glauce of horror and a gesture of contempt as the afflict ed woman again bent over the body of her beloved husband. A moment after she heard tho chief say, 'Madame, I have the honor to bid you adijn,' and, looking up, she saw the three masrod gentlemen, hat in hand, bowing them selves gracefully out of her chamber. Kavnges of the Hocr Disease. About twenty-five years ago a disease made its uppenrauce among hogs in some of tho great hog-growing states of the West. It attracted but little attention ut first, but as it continued to spread from one state to another, and seemed to become more fatal with eveiyrtcur nug year, farmers uud stock-growers, and tccasioniilly a physician aDd sur geon, would devote a littlo attentkn to a cursory investigation of the malady, but no definite results were obtained until very recently not until Congress made an appropriation to commerce and carry forward au investigation which should result in revealing the truo na ture and cause of this disease. The in vestigation has not yet been completed, but the infectious and contagious char acter of swine plague has been deter mined beyond question. For nvjral years past the losses from this disease have been estimated at from 520,000,000 to $25 000,COO per annum. Tho disease has prevailed in this country for near a quarter of a century, aud if we place the annual losses during the past decade at $ 15,000,000 per annum, we have a total loss, sustained prii c'pally by the farmers of the country, of gKO.OJO.OOO. For the other llfteeu years of the compara tive infancy of the disease the losses no doubt amounted to as much more, making tho total loss from this one disease of 8300,000,000. Ilenl thiol Cit in the I niteil States In the annual tables cif vital statistics, latoly published by tho health depart ment of New York city, urnoug tho ex hibits is the comparative death rate of various cities, Auierieau aud foreigu. The exhibit gives the population aud death rate of over three hundred and lifly cities in different parts of the world, of which sixty are Amerieim and the re mniuder foreign. It appears from these tables that the city of Burlington, Iowa, with a population iu 1875 of about 20, (MlO, enjoys iho pre-eminence for health, its annual death rate being only 4,8-1 deaths per 1,00.) pouts., Sloektoii, (Jul., stands lu ii, 7-47; but this is 02 per t'eul more unheal! by than Burlington. Tin-re are probably a few, but only a few, more fuvoted places; ihau the latter in nil the world. Tim death rate for New Yoik City is 2'1 IM per l.tlilll; New Orient's, 50.71; Loud. -il, 21 40; l,ris, 24 71. Among the chuttt I mortgages recorded at the register's lliee, New York, was one trom General iaspar Sanchez O.'hoa, iudiviiiually and us an aecnt of the Re public of Mexico, to Kuuuiel lii.miiftii, of Hull Francisco, It was made at San Francisco, September 2''., 18(55, for a loan for sixty days of 84'1,47H 2(5. It was a lien on 810.000,000 Mex eiu bonds, which were deposited at the time with the Bank of Commerce of this city as socurity. It has been recorded at San Francisco, and the reasou for recording it there at this late date could not bo ascertained. Paris is to have the time of day sup plied to it from i v observatory in the same manner as gas and water. ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST. One hundred and seventy-five persons were hanged in the United Slates last year, more erless satisfactorily. Ou Christ man day at 1'slatka, Fla., tho thermometer ngistered eighty-five degrees in tho shade. How iB that for high ? 'J 1 1 new freight steamer nansa, run ning from New York to Bremen, went a-diorc ou an island in the South Sea, and it is i xpecled will be a total wreck. Iu Mexico they tat salt with their orauges, both because they prefer the last so seasoned aud because tbey are considered to be more wholesome with salt. Tho lute A. K Hlmrtleff, of Portland, Maine, left 5,000 to the Muiue General Hospital, ?5,(I00 to the Aged Women's Homo, aud 85,000 to the Female Orphan Asylum of Portland. A colored woman known as "Old Aunt Hager" died at North Adams, Mass., at the age of one hundred and fifteen years. She had boen supported by the town for the lait twetty years. The late William Ripley, of Colum bus, Ohio, has bequeathed to the Wes leyau University, Middletown, Con necticut, 75,000, to endow a chair to be called the Ripley Professorship. Commissioner Le Due proposes to nsk Congress to establish a tea farm, where the plant can be raised without Chinese cheap labor and under the affectionate eye of a maternal government. A proposition has been made for estab lishing an experimental governmental tea farm at the South. The cultivation of tea in British India commenced with farms established by tl e British gov ernment. A gentleman and sister named Munoz, were arrested at three different points in Cuba, for alleged spies. At Havana, the last point wheie arrestod, they were re leased with orders to leave the island. The matter has been brought before our government. The Japanese make a very curious and uandsome kind of copper by casting it under water, the metal being highly heated and the water also being hot. Tho result is a beautiful rose colored tint, which is not affected by exposure to the atmosphere. Mr. J. C. Flood has just bestowed a pleasant little amount of pin-money upon his daughter, Miss Jennie Flood; he has registered $2,510,000 in United States bonds in her name. This gift provides for her an income of if 100,000 a year. The friends of Mr. Bancroft, tho his torian, will bo glad to know that he has not, as has been reported, been com pelled by failing health to forego his usual exercise ou horseback. On the contrary, he has just bought a Kentuoky thorough-bred horse, and takes daily rides upon the ahimal. The executive committee reported that of the entire estimated cost of the bridge connecting New York and Brooklyn, S13,708,02(!.CO; $ll,70C,457.f2 had been expended, leaving the estimated amount to complete the work 82,001,504.1)8. To this is to be added the estimate for advance in cost of materials, making the requisite amount 2,250,000. Malignant diphtheria is invading some of the most elegant residences of the city of Boston, and proving fatal to its in mates. According to local newspapers, some of the most aristocratio streets of Boston are upou 'maJe land,' which has been reclaimed from the ocean by filling in the bay. In consequence of bad drainage a pestilential miasma arises wheu the tide is low, bearing disease uud death to those who dwell iu costly homes. W. W. Nottingham appeared at the Central police station, Milwaukee, and asked to be taken into custody for mur der, lie stated that six years ago he shot and killed one John Gaylor in a sireet fight in Norfolk, Va., though the the shot was intended for auother man. Ever since, the face of the victim has beeu constantly before him, and he now wants to be taken back to Norfolk and punished for the murder. He will probably be sent to Norfolk. The cotton mills at Augusta, Ga., make a handsome exhibit iu the way of dividends iu closing up the year. The Grauitevillo Manufacturing Company declared a quarterly dividend of three percent, ou its capital stock of $(500,000; tho Augnsta Manufacturing Company dielared u quarterly dividend of two per cent, on its capital stock of $(500,000, and the Lauley Manufacturing Com pany has declared a semi-annual divi dend of four per cent, ou its capital stock of 100,000. Gun cotton in prepared by dipping cellular tissue, viz. : cotton, sawdust or printing paper, iu strong nitric acid (aquafortis). It is thea to be carefully washed and dried. 11 is not materially changed iu appearuuee. 11 explodes at tho heat of boiling water (212) de grees. It explodes with much greater violence aud suddenness than gun pow der, and for that reasou is more liable to burst a gun. See what a power sleeps in onr ignorance. Take a saw and out np a bit of deal board, a bit of dried pine board. Make a teacupful of dust. Steep this in a saucer full of aquafortis, and this single cupful of compound, filled into a tin vessel and inserted into tho basement wall of a building, will, wheu exploded, blow it to pieces.