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The news comes from Italy that the
authorities of that kingdom desire to dis
courage the emigration of the peasantry
to the United States or elsewhere.
If the whole of Central America should
become involved in war, remarks the
New York Press, it couldn't be very much
of a muss. The total population of the
li re Republics is less than 2,750,000.
Says the Denver (Col.) Field and
Farm: “The country pays too much for
its milling. We sell wheat at one cent
u pound and pay two cents a pound for
flour, the miller keeping nearly half of
the product of the grain to sell for
stock food. The miller’s family wear
better clothes than the farmer's.”
A. Montefiore, who has been travel
ing in Florida and devoting careful study
to the fruit-growing districts of that
vast State, calculates that the Americans
eat more meat in the course of twenty-
four hours than all the inhabitants of
Great Retain, France, Germany, Austria,
Belgium, Holland and Switzerland put
together.
According to the New York Commer
cial Advertiser, Chaplain Parks, who has
recently been on duty aboard the receiv
ing ship Vermont, is the first Roman
Catholic chaplain that the United States
Navy has had. Tie is said to have had
a far larger attendance at divine service
than any other chaplain who has filled a
similar position.
The Drovers’ Journal states that
“those who are laying out new industrial
towns in the South are very wisely giving
special attention to the houses of wage-
workers, allowing them more room. The
workingmen’s quarters in Southern cities
and towns will not be so crowded as in the
Northern cities, and will be in every re
spect more home-like.”
The Chicago Sun notes that ‘‘popula
tion is rapidly concentrating in cities. It
twenty-five cities in the United States
there are nearly 10,000,000 people,
which is an increase of almost one-hall
over the population of the same cities ter
years ago. The tendency to concentrate
in cities is on the increase because of the
attractions of city life.”
The arid regions of the West com
prise 800,000,000 acres, of which, asserts
the New York Voices, about 100,000,000
acres (equal to about eight acres for every
family in America) can be redeemed by
irrigation and made among the most fer
tile and valuable lands in the country.
Of this vast region about one-half is al
ready in the hands of individual settlers.
The other half is in Federal possession.
A cablegram from China says that a
decree from one of the viceroys imposing
a tax upon opium has been abandoned
because of the protests of Great Britain,
The British Government holds a monop
oly of the opium crop in India. Undei
this opium is sold to middlemen at a pro
fit of six hundred per cent. It is then
taken to China, but the Chinese are per
mitted to impose only a nominal tax
England holds it as a British interest in
India, and insists that it shall be so re
ceived in China. The revenue from this
monopoly varies from forty-five to fifty-
four millions of dollars a year, and with
out it England could not govern India.
The rapid increase of the wealth, busi
ness and prosperity of the United States
during the past ten years, says the Boston
Manufacturers' Gazette, is simply marvel
ous. According to the published figures,
the total wealth of the country is now
$71,459,1)00,000, equal to nearly §1000
per capita. This is an increase in ten
years of $18,000,000,000, or 4.2 per cent.
England’s wealth in 1885 is given at
$50,000,000,000. The average of wealth
per head in England is $1545, in Scot
land $1215, in Ireland but $565. The
total wealth of France is estimated at
$36,000,000,000. England exacts in
taxes $20 per head of population, while
each individual in the United States pays
but $12.50. America will produces
7,000,000 tons of iron this year, while
England’s greatest production is 8,600,-
000 tons.
The only genuine and reliable canni
bals in existence now are the natives of
Solomon Islands, a small group in the
South Pacific. To be sure cannibalism
is pursued in a desultory way elsewhere,
but its devotees would prefer kid, kan
garoo, monkey, cockatooand snakes, and
eat the human kind only when hungry
from the lack of their usual game. But
the Solomon Islanders will eat a tough
sailor, a hardened trader, or even one of
theirown tribe in a mere spirit of wan
ton gormandizing when they are far from
starvation and other meat is plenty.
They have just had a barbecue consist
ing, with the usual side dishes, of Lars
Nielson, a Norwegian trader, and his
three native assistants. They have eaten
six white men within the past few months
and are really transacting about all of
the genuine cannibal business at present
being done.
‘^ TO AN OLD APPLE-TREE.
Those maimed limbs plead thy story;
The wounds upon thy body speak for thee;
Thou art a veteran soldier sparred with
glory,
My brave old apple-tree!
Oft bast thou borne up under
Onset of storming wind and shot of hail;
And once a sword-lunge of assailant thunder
Slashed down thy barken mail.
Old age, disease, and battle
Have scathed and crooked and crippled all
thy form;
And thy Briarean bare arms clash and rattle,
Tost in the wintry storm,
I seem to feel thee shiver
As on thy nakedness hangs rags of snow;
May charitable Spring, the gracious giver,.
O’er thee her mantle throw!
She will; and sunshine spilling
From blue skies thou again shalt drink as
wine.
And feel afresh the rush of young blood
thrilling
Through that old heart of thine,
For in the season duly
Each year there rises youth’s perennial
power
Within thee, and thou then rejoicest newly
In robes of leaf and flower.
Ay, though thy years are many,
And sorrows heavy, yet from winter’s gloom
Thou issuest, with the young trees, glad as
any,
As quick of green and bloom.
The bluebird’s warble mellow
Returns like memory and calls thy name,
And, as first love, the oriole’s plumage yel
low
Burns through thy shade like flame.
Thou quiver’s! in the sunny
Tune mornings to the welcoming of song,
And bees about their business of the honey
Whisper thee all day long.
Thus thou art blest and blesses!—
Thy grace of blossoms fruiting into gold;
And thus, in touch with nature, thou pos-
sessest
The art of growing old.
—Coates Kinney, in Harper’s Magazine.
AN AWFUL TIME.
ST ANNA SHIELDS.
ft was an awful time. In the first
place, it was the middle of July, and we
had to move. Old Mr. Townsend died,
and every stick and stone that he owned
in Dolliver was sold. His heirs, two
sona (oh, how we hated their very
names, knowing no more of them), had
been abroad, had come home, intending
to divide their time between their New
York residence and the family estate at
Chester Grove, but they didn't want to
bother with a lot of rented houses in
Dolliver, and these were peremptorily
doomed to be sold.
Old Conway pounced upon ours at
once. Of course he did! Mrs. Conway
and her two homely daughters had been
hankering for our house for years, for,
though we did “only rent it,” we had
lived there for thirteen years, and, oh,
the additions and improvements we had
made to it! We had doubled its value,
I am certain. We beautified it, inside
and out; we lavished our artistic tastes
upon the panels; we adorned the walls;
we had the floor. puttied, painted and
polished, and Teddy bad actually paint
ed the most beautiful border and cor
ner-pieces of oak leaves and acorns
round the entire sitting room. And
now, to give it all up! Oh! those hate
ful Townsends.
What added to the distress was the
fact that the only house we could find
in all Dolliver to rent was a little two-
story cottage, quite a distance from all
the neighbors to whom we ha 1 become
attached, and in a locality we detested.
However, there was no help for it,and
as I said before, we had an awful time.
It was bad enough to know the dear, old
home was lost to us, and that the Con
ways were to enjoy all oar labors of love
on the wails and floors; it was sufficiently
exasperating to be compelled to take up
our abode at Jenk’s Corner, a locality we
abominated, but these were only the be
ginning of our tribulation s.
The day we were to move was hot—
oh, so hot! and the dear mother having
done the work of about three men, the
previous week, and weighing at her best
times about ninety-four pounds, broke
down with a blinding nervous headache.
Martha, a treasure of a servant, had
already laid herself up by spraining her
wrist, in moving a trunk, so there were
Teddy and Jim and I to “do” the mov
ing.
Teddy is my
Jim is Jemima
Thomasine, al
m
i' sister Theodosia,and
youngest sister; I am
bosom of my family.
called Tom in the
We are all young.
we are all blondes, we are all small, and
we are all pretty. We have incomes of
our own of three hundred dollars a year,
and the dear mother has about twelve
hundred a year, so we can live very
nicely, indeed, in a quiet place like
Dolliver.
When mother patiently fainted away
just as the first furniture van drove up
to the door, Teddy and I detailed Jim
for active duty in the hospital depart
ment, and promised to have mother’s
room made ready the first thing. In the
meantime, she was made comfortable in
Jim's room, and Martha undertook to
superintend the loading of the vans, while
Teddy and I scampered off to the new
house, to see to receiving the furniture-
It was clean as a new pin; that was
one little ray of comfort, and we hung ‘
up our hats, and put on the biggest of !
aprons and Lady Washington caps, and
were ready for action.
Even in my misery I noticed how un- i
usually pretty Teddy looked. Her .hair ■
is the purest gold color, and makes hun- [
dreds of little rings round her face, and -
she has a color like a wild rose on each
cheek. But on that day, the excitement, j
the hurry and the indignation combined ; Yes, it was “Bill;” and Teddy was
had made her blue eyes blaze, her cheeks I blushing, with drooping eyes, before
brilliant as carnations, and every little
curl bristled defiance of the Townsends
and our wrongs. But more was to come.
Up drove the first van with one man.
Both Teddy and I were at the door, and
exclaimed:
“Where’s the other man?”
“Sure, marm, he was sint for by his
old woman. One of the childer’s scalded
hisself, and it’s half over Dolliver I've
been thrying to foind somebody to take
the job, and niver a one is there doin’
nothing at all, at all!”
Here was a dilemma.
“Well,” said Teddy, “those things
have got to be taken into the house.
You and I can carry some of the light
ones.”
Neither Teddy nor I knew that we
had an audience. Not until long after
ward wyre we aware of the wicked trick
“John.”
“Would you please forgive us?” said
John, presently. “We had just come
over to Dolliver, and bed heard for the
first time that there was any personal
feeling involved in the sale of our fa
ther's property, which wo had regarded
as a mere business transaction. We were
coming up the street beside your house,
when we saw your distress, and, having
nothing to do, we took off our coats and
vests and hats, and rubbed a little mud
on our faces and hands and—”
“It was just for a lark, you know,”
pleaded Bill, as his brother paused; “and
you did look just ready to cry, you
know.”
“It was very good of you,” said Teddy,
looking very much as Bill* had just de
scribed her.
♦ ‘Ye:
that was at that instant devised. From
round the corner of the house appeared
two men in flannel shirts, minus collars,
neckties or hats; with hair in wild con
fusion and extremely dirty hands and
faces. In the richest of brogues one of
them respectfully addressed Teddy and
requested work.
I really wonder now that we didn’t
embrace them. But we engaged their
services at once, and how they worked!
They did a considerable amount of
laughing whenever they were alone, and
they required the most miniite directions
for everything they undertook, but they
put down carpets and put up pictures
and carried in furniture and unpacked
glass and china, in fact, worked with
might and main, leaving to the driver of
to and
the van only the tas
fro with the goods, which he managed
to load with' Martha’s assistance.
At noon we unpacked a Substantial
lunch, and as Bill and John, our new
help, showed no signs of going home, we
spread out a meal on the kitchen table
and sent them in to it. I never in ray
life heard men laugh so much over sand
wiches, hard-boiled eggs and coffee.
In all this time, you may be sure Teddy
and I were berating these horrid Town
sends at every turn. We called them all
sorts of names expressive of meanness
and selfishness, hoped their own house
would burn down and let then! know
how pleasant it was to be turned out of a
home they loved. We were sure they
were sour, grumpy old bachelors, and we
hoped they would never marry unless it
was to some old witch who would worry
all the year round.
All this we said in confidence to each
other, never hee ling those quiet, modest
young men who were sO meekly obeying
all our orders.
The house was really in very nice
order, and mother's room as home like
as we could make it, when at last the
carriage drove up with our dear invalid,
Jim and Martha; Mother was very pale
and propped up by pillows, and I was
worrying ever the necessity of her walk
ing upstairs, when out walked our two
hired men, without any orders whatever
raised her tenderly and gently, pillows
and all, in their arms, and carried her
upstairs as carefully as her own sons, had
she ever had any, could have done;
Jim stared, as well she might,and Mur
tha muttered “Holy Moses!” as she made
a dive for the kitchen.
Teddy paid the men; Jim and I did
the last few things necessary before rest
ing; and then we all gathered in moth
er’s room.
Such a chattering as followed, the dear
mother laughing and talking as merrily
asany of us.
“But, oh, what guys you two are!”
cried Jim. “Tom, you've torn yourself,
as usual, wherever there was the smallest
opening for a rent, and your cap is hang
ing half way down your back, while your
hair defies description. Teddy always
does keep nice, somehow; but now-
even Teddy will bear an application of
soap and water.”
“Same to yourself,” said Teddy. “I
guess you seat all the mirrors away be
fore washed your face. You've got what
Martha calls a ‘smooch right across your
nose.”
“Don't be personal, young ladies,”
said mother, in a tone of extreme gentle
ness, “but perform your ablutions, and
see if Martha can make out a tea.”
the new house, but we did not occupy
ourselves as of old, in beautifying our
home. We were advertising far and
wide for a house such as we wished, and
we hoped to purchase one. The price
of the one we had left was beyond Our
reach, but we thought we could hear of
one at a more reasonable rate.
During this time of waiting, feeling as
if we really had no home, we had gone
out but little. Mother was not Well,
and the licit was very oppressive, while
Martha's lame wrist threw considerable
of the house-work on our hands.
But one evening, there came an irre-
sistable invitation from mother’s dear
old friend, Mrs. Raymond, of Chester
Grove, to a garden party and a dance.
“You will stay all night, of course,”
she wrote, and I will send the carriage
for you at two o'clock. Be sure you all
come. I cannot spare one of you!”
But we did not all go. Mother was
not equal to the eight-mile drive, and
Jim stayed with her. We all wanted te
stay, and finally drew lots, and it fell to
Jim.
“I’m not really out, anyhow,” said
philosophically;
that
“an
youn
as you and Teddy seem awfully
slow about leaving the family nest, per
haps it is just as well that I am not
brought forward just yet.”
“The effect will ba oVerwuelniiiig
when you are,” said Teddy, laughing;
but secretly we all thought Jim the
beauty of the family, for, with the
golden hair, she had soft brown eyes and
I dark eyelashes.
It was with the utmost serenity that
Teddy and I accepted Mrs. Raymond's
I invitation to stroll about the grounds a
; little with her, and see some new neigh*
! bors only lately come to live at Chester
Grove.
I We were arrayed in the finest of linen
lawns, white, with a small blue figure,
with blue bolls, and wl
huts with blue bows,
knots of blue in our
trimmed white gloves
ite muslin shade-
Blue neckties,
curls, and blue-
constituted our
costumes; and I can answer for Teddy’s
being exceedingly becoming.
Strolling leisurely along, we met two
gentlemen in white linen suits and straw
hats; we heard Sirs. Raymond say:
“Allow me to introduce the Messrs.
Townsends, lately returned from Europe.
I Mr. John Townsend, Miss Theodoisa
I Brent; Mr. William Townsend, Miss
j Thomasine Brent.”
j I thought I was going to faint. I
I heard Teddy gasp.- I saw Mrs. Raymond
sail majestically away; and then I looked
we are very much obliged,” 1 jof typhoid,”
said, thinking of all they had heard us I
say about them, and wondering howl
much they remembered.
But, somehow, list then we all looked ■
up, and in another second the air was
filled with laughte'. It was irresistible.
The whole affair was too funny.
After that, we vere the best of friends.
The Townsends cane often to Jenk’s
Corner, and when firn comes out regu
larly; next winter, she will have no sis
terly compunctions about Teddy or me,
because there will be a double wedding
in about two weeks. Teddy and I arc i
going to marry “those horrid Town
sends.”— The Ledgtr.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
A deposit of beautiful agate and car
nelian has been found on Cedros Island,
Lower California;
Scientific farming in Italy is to' be un
dertaken this year by a company with a
capital of $20,000,000.
Coffee is boiled by electricity in a Ber
lin cafe, glass jars being used and plat
inum wires passing through them being
heated by the current.
Women are longer lived than men; a
woman of twenty may expect forty-two
years more of Ife; a man of the Same age
Only thirty-nine years.
An electrician says that just what takes
place in the human organism to produce
death from an electric current seems to
be an unsolved problem;
The result Of recent experiments with
the heliograph demonstrate the adapta
bility and vilue of that instrument for
to areatADStanCes.
SIS
The whitish, vapory belt popularly
known as the “milky way,” is a mass of
many millions of stars, the mingled light
of which makes a bright belt.
The water barometer in St. Jacques
Tower, Paris,has a glass tube over forty-
cue feet long, and about three-quarters
of an inch in diameter—the largest yet
made.
The board of naval experts found the
j eophone a very accurate instrument for
i locating the direction from which sound
1 comes, its value being of greatest im-
I portance in thick foggy weather.
The experiment of producing rainfall
by explosions of dynamite, has been pro
posed. An item has been included in
the Agricultural Appropriation bill, set
ting aside $3000 for that purpose.
Dr. Charles W.Dullas,a prominent phy
sician of Philadelphia, in a recent paper
on the subject of consumption, points out
that while in England half a century ago
I there were 55,000 deaths annually among
j 15,000,000 people, there are at pres-
[ ent in a population of 40,000,000 but
■ 14,000 deaths due to phthisis.
I It has been discovered that a current
■ of electricity passed through impure
I water, restores it to purity by destroying
I any livirig germs with which it may be
i impregnated. Aninialculse which escape
i the eye, and which almost elude the
[ microscope, can not escape the all-search
ing power of the electric flash.
A New York man hits invented a new
mode of rapid transit for street railways.
It is an application Of the archimSdean
screw principle to the cable systeni; Iri-
I stead of a wire rope in the conduit be-
I neath the track, is a wrought iron tube
i with a stout worm, and in place of the
1 grip is a shoe pushed forward by the
I worm and raised or lowered by a tod.
There are some philosophers wire
' maintain that longevity is becoming
more general than it was, even forty
i years ago; There is no doubt, but that
! during the first few centuries of the
, Christian era, the average duration Of
j life in the most favored classes was thirty
1 years, while in the present century, the
ayarage age of the same classes is fifty
years.
To Cure Consumption.
A great scheme has been inaugurated
at Philadelphia to establish the Rush
Hospital for the curd of consumption and
allied diseases. It will be conducted on
the same plan as the German and Eng
lish hospitals for consumptives, that is,
to give the patients as much rest
as
possible, to reduce the fever and tc
nourish the body. In those foreign
hospitals patients are kept in bed or a
room, or are carried out in the open ail
on cots, and, protected by clothing from
draughts, are left to inhale the fresh air.
This treatment has been found not only
to rest the patient, but at the same time
to improve his appetite and reduce the
fever.
In the second place the patient is in
troduced into a cabinet room, which is
an air-tight compartment, from which
the air has been exhausted. After th
patient is placed in the room, it is filled
with oxygen, or nitrous oxide, or any
vapor containing medicine. By in
haling this vaporous medicine the patient
is liable to be cured of the terrible dis
ease. As to nourishing the body, the
patients are given the most nutritious pro-
vender, chiefly beef, eggs and milk.
Medicine is taken at regular hours. There
is also a constant medical supervisior
over the patients.
This is the plan on which the Rush
Hospital will be conducted. Statistics
show this mode of treatment cures forty
per cent, of consumptives placed in such
hospitals. In fact the German and Eng
lish claim a larger percentage of cures.
“It is now an established truth in medi
cal science,” says Dr. Mays, one of the
trustees, “that consumption can bs
cured. When I make the statement I in
clude all kinds of consumption, whethei
inherited or induced by exposure or ex
cesses. The plan of treatment adopted
by the Germans and English cures the
average consumptive in six months’ time
This is remarkable, but it is a fact.”—
New York News.
Pet Chickens are Dangerous.
“Pot animals,” says Dr. F. Saum in
the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, “and even
chickens will often cause disease and
spread infection. Some people let dogs
sleep with them and see nothing wrong
about the practice, forgetting that the
favored canine may have smelt and even
lain upon infected rags and refuse dur
ing the day. Pet dogs and birds con
fined in sick-rooms with patients suffer
ing from infectious or contagious dis
eases frequently spread the disease tc
other members of the families. Careless
ness about chickens is also a cause of s
good deal of sickness at this season oi
the year.
“In the country there is nothing sc
healthy as a chicken, but when kept in
close confinement or allowed to range it
dirty stables and alleys they becomt
regular disease-spreaders. I know o:
several cases of serious malarial affection!
caught in this manner, and at least on:
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
WORK OF THE FIFTY-FIRST
CONGRESS.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE AND SENATE
BRIEFED—DELIBERATIONS OVER MAT-
TERB OF MOMENTOUS INTEREST TO OHB
COMMON CbtrNTBA;—NOTES;
The Breckinridge election case; frond
Arkansas; was taken up in the hopse
Tuesday and discussed at length. The
Case itent over until Wednesday; and Mr.
Cannon took the floor in a statement rela
tive to the appropriations made by this
session of congress. Air. Sayers, a mem
ber of the appropriations committee, re
viewed the financial ..situation from a
democratic standpoint. The speaker an
nounced the appointment of Air. Flick;
of Iowa; as a member of the Rauni inves
tigating committee, in place of Air.
Smyser, of Ohio, resigned. lhe‘ house
then, at 5:45, adjourned.
In the senate, on Tuesday, Mr. Evarts
presented a resolution of the Buffalo
merchants exchange favoring reciprocity
not only with nations south of us, but
also With that on the north. The house
bill in relation to lotteries was reported
from the postoffice committee, and placed
bn the calendar with notification by Saw
yer that he would ask for its considera
tion as soon as the tariff bill passed. Air.
Quay gave notice that he would ask the
senate Saturday, the 13 h, io consider
the resolutions relative to the dea 11 of
Samuel J. Randall. The tariff bill was
then taken up and the sugar schedule con
sidered. Air. Carlisle gave notice that he
would move to strike cut all paragraphs
relative to sugar bounties. Mr. Ha'e of
fered the reciprocity amendment of
which lie had given notice on the 19th of
June and addressed the senate upon it.
The senate at half past nine o’clock, took
a recces until 8 o'clock.
In the house, oh Wednesday, during
the absence of Speaker Reed, on motion
of Air, Cannon, of Illinois, Mr. Burrows,
of Michigan, was elected speaker pro
tern. On motion of Mr. Blount, of
Georgia, a bill was passed authorizing the
construction of a bridge across the Sa
vannah river by the Middle Georgia &
Atlantic Railroad Company, The house
then proceeded to the further considera
tion of the Clayton-Breckinridge case.
Among the speakers wa s Air. Kennedy, of
Ohio, who drew from the details of the
Clayton-Breckinridge case the conclusion
that a federal election law should be en
acted. He made a fiery attack upon the
senators who have been opposed to the
Lodge bill. His speech was the sensation
of the day. The Breckinridge case then
went over, and the house adjourned.
In the senate, on Wednesday, Air. Call
offereda resolution, which was referred
to the committee on foreign relations,
declaring that the murder of General Bar
rundia, on the steamer Acapulco, by the
authorities of Guatemala while under the
protection of the flag of the United
States, was an insult to the people of the
United States, and demanded prompt ac
tion by the government of the United
States for redress of that injury and for
security against a recurrence of such cases.
The tariff bill was then taken up, the sugar
schedule being under consideration. Mr.
Edmunds addressed the senate. Coming
to the question of reciprocity, Mr. Ed
munds recalled the history and practical
operation (injurious to the United States)
of the Canadian reciprocity treaty of
1854. Air. Morgan addressed the senate
in support of the amendment heretofore
proposed by him as a substitute for Mr.
Aldrich’s reciprocity amendment. It pro
vides for a duty of 3 per cent ad valorem
on corn, wheat, rye, barley, oats, hay,
straw; potatoes, cotton, live domestic
animals, and on asses, mules and horses,
and that when any of such articles are
exported a premium of 3 per cent shall
be paid on their value to the
owner; Air. Evarts was the next speaker.
He had several good words for the policy
of fostering postal and steamship subsidy
bills, and then went on to speak of the
various reciprocity amendments, and to
criticise them as being objectionable, un-
dirthe “favored nation” clause of inter
national treaties. At the clos; of Air.
Evarts’ speech a message from the presi
dent in regard to international arbitra-
tion was presented, r ad and referred
to th the committee on foreign relations.
Air. Gray consumed the remainder of the
time of the session in a peach, upon the
general Subject of the tariff. Air. Gray
closed his remarks at 5:30 o’clock, and a
recess Was then taken till 8 o’clock p. rn.
in the senate, on Thursday, imme
diately after the reading of the journal,
the tariff bill was taken up under the
agreement limiting the discussion on each
subject to five minutes for each senator.
Alter some discussion, the presiding offi
cer (Afr. Ingalls) announc d that the gen
eral debate oh the tariff bill had closed,
with the exception of the reservation of
a day when the final vote is to be taken,
and when two hours’ time is to be allowed
each side. The sugar schedule was laid
aside informally, and schedule I—“Cot
ton Manufactures”—taken up. All
amendments in this schedule were re
jected. Schedule J, relating to flax,
hemp, jute and their manufacture, was
taken up, and an amendment reducing the
rate on flax not hackled or dressed from
1$ cents per pound to $20
per ton, was agreed to.
The next amendment was to reduce the
duty on hackled flax from 4 cents per
pound to $40 per ton. Agreed to. The
committee’s amendment to paragraph 349
relating to bagging for cottou, reducing
the duties of 1 6-10 cents and 1 8-10
cents per yard to 1 3-10 and 1 5-10 cents
was agreed to. No other amendments
to the schedule, except committee
amendments, were successful. The end
of the dutiable schedule was reached
without a br. ak in the programme. The
sugar schedule and several other para
graphs which were passed over informally
remain for action. After a brief execu
tive session, the senate adjourned.
In the house, on Thursday, Alr. Cum
mings, of New York, rising toa question
of privilege, protested in a lengthy and
sarcastic speech against his “blacklist
ing” by the famous Cannon resolution.
Alr. Cummings was frequently inter
rupted by Alr. Kerr,of Iowa, and Mr. Dun
nell, of Alinnesola. At the conclusion of
Cummings’ speech, Alr. Lacy, of Iowa,
called up the Clayton-Breckinridge elec
tion c.se. Alr. O'Ferrell, of Virginia,
argued in favor of the contestec, and
paid a high eulogy upon the character of
the sitting memb r. Alr. McCarthy, of
New York, revived the testimony in sup
port of his view that Alr. Breckinridge
was duly elec'ed. He criticised the ac
tion of the subcommittee which had
been sent to Arkansis, declaring that a
majority of the members had gone to that
state with the sole purpose of unseating
the sitting member. Alr. Tracy, of New
York, also spoke in favor of Air Breck
inridge, and was followed by Alr,
MeRae, of Arkansas, who made an earnest
attack upon Powell Clayton. After , a
speech by Alr. Maish, of Pennsylvania,
in favor of the minority report, the case
went over. The house then adjourned.
NOTES.
The president,68 Wedfieslay transmit,
ted to congress the reconUfiettdafoons of
the international American, comWeBCe,
touching international arbitration, to
gether with the letter of transmittal from
Secretary BlAne.
Orders were issued by the navy ,de
partment Wednesday for the United
States steamship Kearsage, now at -New
York, to proceed at once to Aspinwall. It
is supposed that this action grows out of
the reports of the railroad strike at that
place;
The president,- o'n Wednesday; ami
nated John W. Ross to be commissioner
of the District of Columbia,- fo succeed
Alr. Hines, resigned. Mr. Ross is at
present postmaster at Washington; and
his acceptance of the commissionersnip
will create a vacancy in that office.
With the addition of the new member,
Alr. Flick,- of Iowa, to replace Smyser,
resigned, the special house committee in-
vesti "Ming the charges against Commis
sioner Rauni,' resumed its labors Wednes
day afternoon. The session lasted two
hours, and was devoted to a discussion
of questionsof procedure. No testimony
was taken.
Acting Secretary, Wharton on Wed
nesday,sent the following telegram to the
widow of General Barrundia in reply to
her message to the president Monday
evening. “The president desires me to
Say he has received- your telegram an-
notificing the death of vour husband,
General Barrundia. While deeply sympa
thizing with you in your affliction, he
awaits the official details of the occur
rence necessary to determine his action
iti regard thereto. The matter, you may
be assured, will receive the most careful
attention.”
NEWS OF THE SOUTH.
BRIEF NOTES OF AN INTER
ESTING NATURE.
PITHY ITEMS FROM ALL POINTS IN THE
SOUTHERN STATES THAT WILL ENTER
TAIN THE READER—ACCIDENTS, FIRES,
FLOODS, ETC.
The town of Cocoa, Fla., on the Indian
river, was nearly destroyed by fire Tues
day.'
A dispatch from Charlotte, N. C., says:
Captain 1 homas Clancy Evans, one of the
most widely-known editors in the state,
died at Reidsville Tuesday morning.
Sales of leaf tobacco at Danville, Va.,
in August were 1,118,820 pounds,or about
half the sales of August last year. Sales
for eleven months of the tobacco year
Were 23,927,000 pounds, a decrease as
compared with the same period last year
of 3,246,000 pounds.
Veterans’ day will be one of the great
est days of the Piedmont exposition. An
attractive programme has been prepared.
It will be on Thursday, October 23d. All
the great living Confederate generals will
be invited, and a large number of them
will be present.
For the cotton year ending August 31,
Montgomery’s cotton receipts were 144,-
045 bales, the largest of any year in its
history. The nearest to it was in 1885
when receipts were 143,544. Stock on
hand is 955 bales. Receipts of new cot
ton in August were 7,020, also the largest
for that month.
The stoffoldmg in a building in New
Orleans gave way Tuesday afternoon pre
cipitating five men to the ground, Har
vey, a carpenter, was instantly killed;
William Ray and Henry Albricht, paint
ers, fatally injured, while Leroy Smith
and Tom Peterson, also jainters, were
painfully injured.
A dispatch from Raleigh, N. C., says:
The injury to cotton by the rain is be
coming great and a reduction of the crop
will result. The rains of August hurt
the Crop which was forming during the
earlier part of the month, and that rust,
which attacked the crop earlier than
usual, has badly affected the top crop.
A dispatch of Wednesday from Nash
ville, Tenn , regarding the judicial elec
tion, says: All the counties have now
bum heard from on the official vote fol
supreme court judge. The total vote
polled was 202,317. This is more than
100,000. less than usual. The vote was
divided as follows: Lea, 132,294; Smith,
69,974; East, prohibitionist, 49 votes:
Lea’s majority, 62,271.
A Pensacola, Fla., special, of Thursday
says the Flomaton train robbery has pro
duced intense excitement there. Rube
Burrow was reported to have been seen at
Milton, twenty miles east of that city,
and at 2 o’clock a special train, with Su
perintendent Fisher, Route Agent Arnold,
several express company detectives, and
a possec of deputy sheriffs from Alabama,
have gone in pursuit.
A special from Mannington, W. Va .
says: Early Thursday morning a freight
train ran into the pickup on the Balti
more and Ohio, just east of Alannington,
causing a terrible wreck. Engineer Cor
dell and an unknown man were killed
and sixteen cars piled on top of each
other. The wreck took fire and the cars
and contents w.re almost totally de
stroyed.
The directors of the North Carolina
Steel and Iron Company was completely
reorganized at Greensboro, Wednesday,
and new arrangements have been made
and new plans formed. Contracts for
furnaces will be let and the work of
erecting them begun at once. New life
is to be :nthused into the company, and
the announcement of the organization
and the early commencement of work
will revive the boom at Greensboro.
A dispatch of Tuesday says: The col
ored citizens of Chattanooga are making
up a party of seventy-five of their race to
emigrate to Liberia, about November
15th. Meetings in the interest of the
movement have been held to work up the
scheme. Thomas Peek, agent of the col
onization society, who resides in Wash
ington, D. C., arrived in Chattanooga
Tuesday. The society expects to secure
at least. 1,000 negroes for the African
emigration expedition from Chattanooga
and vicinity.
ASLEEP SEVEN DAYS.
THE STRANGE RESULT OF DIETING ON
BROWN PAPER.
A dispatch from Moncton, New Bruns
wick, says:. Etta Simpson, aged seven
teen years, went to sleep a week ago Sun
day and has not yet awakened dr taken
any nourishment' Miss Simpson has for
some months had a mania for eating
brown paper, and would consume a large
bag, such as used in grocery stores, at a
single meal. She has eaten scores of
brown paper bags, and it is supposed this
mania has something to do with her ill
ness. About a year ago she slept for five
days, but was awakened while being bled
I by her medical attendants.
In proporfibif as nations get more corrupt
more disgrace will be considered to attach to
poverty and more respect to wealth.
TELEGRAPH AND CABLE.
WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE.:
BUSY WORLD.
A SUMMARY OF OUTSIDE AFFAIRS CON
DENSED FROM NEWSY DISPATCHES
FROM UNCLE SAM’S DOMAIN AND WHAT
THE CABLE BRINGS.
The strike of miners at Brussels,, Belt
giunl, ended Wednesday.
It was reported Thursday that tSere:
arc cases of Cholera in Madrid and:
Barcelona.
A banquet was given Thursday night,,
at Munich in honor of Dr. Peters, the ;
African traveler.
Henry George addressed ten delegates
to the one-tax convention in New York
Tuesday night.
Coal miners in Belleville, Ill., district
have g*>ne on a strike for 2 cents a bushel
for digging coal.
It is now reported that the liabilities of
Potter, Lovell & Co., of Boston, will
aggregate $5,000,000.
Memorial exercises of John Bosnia
O’Reilly were held in Fremont temple;,
Boston, Tuesday night.
The Panama strikers have returned. to>
Work, the company agreeing to pay th-«n.»
the former rate of wages.
The trades-union congress to session at:
Liverpool; Thursday, voted in favor of
an eight-h^r working day.
New York city will ask for a re-count
of the census, "^aiming that the enumera
tion fell short bj about 200,000.
Ex-Gov. E. T. Neyva dropped dead in
the court house at CiA^ionati Thursday
morning. Apoplexy wad the cause.
The sloop Petrel capsize:? outside of
the harbor of San Diego, California,
Tuesday and six persons were drowned-
The state board of arbitration o' New
York,on Tuesday, began its investig ation,
into the causes of the New York Cen tod
strike.
Suit is about to be brought against the*
New York restauranteur, Delmonico, tor-
violation of the game laws, in having*
partridges for sale out of season.
Since Tuesday last there have been,
forty-eight fresh cases of cholera at Altor,
Egypt. Advices from Mecca are to the;
effect that the city is free irom cholera.
A dispatch from Prague, Germany,
says: A bridge in this city over the Mol,,
daux, on which there were a number of:
persons watching the flood in that stream
collapsed Thursday. Thirty persssva
were drowned.
The state treasurer of Connecticutt has:
formally notified the selectmen of towns:
of that state th'^ the tax usually levied!
by the state oil twns will not be called ,
for this vent? owing to the flourishing
condition of the state’s finances.
By the explcYtou of a coal oil lamp,
early Wednesday Morning, a house in
Philadelphia was set- on fire and Mrs.
Sarah McIntyre, sixty Years old; Marnie
McIntyre, ten years old, aad Annie Logue,
seventeen years old, were burned to death.
A Chicago dispatch says 5 The great,
strike of the journeymen carpenters,
which opened Tuesday morning JS 1111
uncertain quantity. At neither th?’head
quarters of the journeymen nor bWes
was it known to what extent the orde* Co
quit work had been obeyed.
A Paris dispatch of Thursday says: Alex
andre Chatrain, the well-known French'
novelist, who wrote in colaboration with
M. Emile Erckmann,over the nona de plume
of “Erckmann-Chattow,” is dead. T heir
most famous work, “Le Clonscrit,” is a
classic in every language.
Sawyer, Wallace & Co., exporters of
breadstuffs and cotton, and coalers' in
leaf tobacco, at 18 Broadway, NeY York,
madea general assignment Thursdays It is-
estimated that the sum total of the nomi
nal assets will reach $1,700,000, and Chat
their chief losses may reach $1,500,003.
General Car Accountant Ewings, of the
New York Central road, reported Thurs
day, that the blockake which had exited
in the vicinity of Albany, on account ®f
the strike, was effectually raised, and that,
everything was now running smoothly on .
the Mohawk and Hudson River divisions..
The wicov and children of the late
General Barrundia, who was assaulted on
an American steamer by the Guatcmale-
ans, has sent a dispatch to President Har
rison, protesting against “the outrage of
which they are the unconsolable victW®-”
The president has referred the matte's." to
Secretary Blaine.
A Vienna dispatch of Wednesday,
says: The Mohlau river has flooded a.
portion of Prague, and has done much:
damage to the country between the--
Boehmerwald and the confluence of the:
Moldau and Elbe. Many villages in the
Danube valley are partially submerged.
The authorities are taking special pre
cautions.
The strike of the employes at the
Westinghouse works at Pittsburg, Pa.,
was terminated Wednesday by the men
returning to. the shops and requesting
their old places. This action is the result!
of a meeting of the strikers, where it was:
decided that, inasmuch as they could not
hold out any longer, they, had better go
back to work. The strike affected abort
1,200 men.
A Pittsburg telegram announces that a:
combination of window glass manufac
turers has been formed, which will con
trol all the factories in the western and
northern districts immediately, and all
the factories in. the United States ulti
mately. The pending tariff bill increases
the duties on window glass, and by pie-
venting importation will give the combi
nation a monopoly.
A Chicago dispatch says: Between:
300 and 400 men of the striking carpen
ters returned to work Thursday, and the
strike is practically at an end. Various
questions are mooted, however, among
the strikers. In some quarters, it is hinted
that the non-union men will be persuaded
to join the union in order to get bettei
wages, and that the fight will be resumed
within ten davs. _
A MATTER OF PRINCIPLE.
Cumso—I don’t like the idea of send
ing exploring expeditions tc the North
and South poles.
Fangle-—Why not?
Cumso—Because I am opposed to going
to extremes.
DATE RETURN FROM EVENING CHURCH.
“What kept you, my daughter, at service
so late?”
Sweet Imogene's father said.
“Whenever you go with young Repro
bate
You never get back to our garden gate
Till every one’s gone to bed.”
“The sermon was tedious,” his daughter
replied;
“The preacher was dull and grim.
Till the end of the service we had to
bide,
But the longest wait”—and sweet Imo
gene sighed—
“Was caused by the Darting him."