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sess- .. ... , . . t. - liEIDSVILLE ilMEB. ' i ' - i i ..." - . ' ' ' . i m wmmm mm i ; VOL. XIII. TEMPERANCE. Will You? ffilTyou tnAei tbe ruby cup? ' So w.i! not I. iii thinzs good for wine give up! So will not I. ajok n' t" on its brilliant hue, ' faith the Lord to tne and you. fan you. dare yon disobey fjjlyou do"it "1 en, you may; So will not I. - (fill you (urn from truth awayt So will rot I. erenl ' mirth life's priceless day I o win not l., ' ffa-.te the golden hours in sin, fc-ek earth's joy? alone to win, find at last at death1 dark gate Xbtt repntanco is too later So will not I. farter hoaven away for naught? So wi.l not. L ' Slight him who our souls has bought? So will net I. - Life eternal, end Ius. bliss. . , Love, find purity, and peace . '"'.,' Are too piecieui and too fuir To le squandered ; you may dara, So will not I. ' , Youth's Temperance Manner. Rum on the Congo. Bishop and Mrs. John P. Newman and )Ir. W. T. liomady, author of "-Hum on the Congo," appeared before the House Com mittee on Foreign Relations at Washington. Bishop Newman presented the memorial of the World's W. U. T. U. praying that im mediate and decisive tteps be talced to svi Ctbe liquor traffic in the Congo Fres, i and bnsiu of tho Nigr. The memorial gbows that durins 18-:5moi e than 10,000,000 eallons of the cheapest and vilest spirits ever manufactured were sent from the United States, Germany, Holland,- England, France md Portugal to tha natives of Africa. The quantltiek contributed by tbe , different nations were: I'nitod States, 737,650 gallons Germany, 7,&2J,U4s Karons; tho Nettierlands, .1,099,146 gallous; iranro ("pure aiconoi:), 4U0,V44 Salon9; En an l, .311,334 gallons; Portugal, i24 gHllons. .' ' ' Tho memorial, corttinti'ns, says that abun dant evidence; proves that this deadly rum tai developed in tho natives an alcoholic passion nlino-t without parallel, and has lunk them into a state ef degradation lower" ttwin they occupied before they had contact with our commerce ana civilisation. J he Barch of commerce will soon place the ram traders in-communicallon with over 5.0,000, 00 1 of savages, and un .es? tho traffic is totally iupprt"ed, the result wld be Imost disas trous to the cause of humanity, a reproach )V van Christian nations, and an outrage nfouionly to the slave traie itself. . 7ipfr.o.se8 of the memorial and of the utwreats) made bv Bishon Newman and Jfr. Hurimdy are to bring about such a re Vision of the' General Act of the terlin West Afriean Conference as 6hall cornp etelv sup press the liquor traffic in th? territory in qii'stion; to obtain a law from Congress pro Ubitiny;. the exportation of liquor from this country to any nort of Africa, and to per uade the United States Government to use Iti influenco to induce other Governments to cooperate. Hi hoi) Newman made a brief address, and then introduced Mr. Iloma iy, who spoke wjith great earnestness and impressiveneRS. "The United fctates Uovermviit,1" he said, "Stands to day as the obstructor of a most wisp, bumane, and ph lanthropio measure uudertaken by Gnat Britain three years ao, In which our co-operation was a.ked. V e stand to dny as. the champion and pro tector of the trading wretches who &ell dan gerous firearms and ammunition, end equally deadly spirits in the islan fs of tho Western ?aciflc.r VVe, occupy before the other civil ized nations a position which is indefensible lind humiliating m the last deprree. "Ihe liquor trunic in Arnca can oe itopped foever by an international agree ment suo'n as Gieht Britain very nearly effected renpectin? the Pacific Islands. The friends of humanity, aotonly in this country but all around tha world, ask through this immoriftl that tho Congress of the United States shall excrcisn its power toward the au-Hjihplisilimont of that result." Tfy 'e Voice. Natural Stimulant. . Tle New York Mrliaat J.'ecord. under th hea l of ''Natural Stimulantsi." savs: ' Mi.'k heated to much above 100 decrees Fahrenheit, loses for a time a dozree of its iweetness nd density. No one who. fatigued if over-exertion of body or mind, has ever cperienced the reviving influence of a tum bler of this beverage, heated as hot as it can be tinned. Will willins-lv fnrprrn a reeni k tn it tecarseof its being rehctered somewhat less acceptable to the palate; The promptness with which its cordial influence is felt is In dd surprising. Some portion of it seems to be digested and appropriated almost immediate ly, and many who now fancy they need aloo kolic stimulants. when exhausted by fatigue i!l find in this simple draught an equivalent that will bo abundantly satisf ving,. and far moie entiunng in Its etreclg. ihere is many tu ignorant, overworked woman who fancies ite could not keep up without' her beer: she nnstukes its momentary exhilaration for strength, and applies the whip, instead m nourishment, to her poor, exhausted frame. Any honest, intellierent physician dl toil her that there is more real strength nd nourishment in a slice of bread than ii a Quart of beer: lutit she loves Btiraulanta it ould l e a very useless piece cf information. u is claimed tnat some or the lady clerks in our own City, and those, too. who are em ployed in respectable business houses, are in the hahit of ordering ale tud beer at the iwaurants. They probably claim thai they tired, and no one who sees their faithful devotion to customers all day- will doubt tkelr assertions. But jthey should not mis- wke beer for a blessing, or stimulus for Jtrenfjth. A careful examination of statis tics win prove that men and women who do ot drink can endure more hardship and flo ttere work, and live longer, than those less tn pirate." e commend this hot-milk substitute for -er. revoaiipfncled by so good a scientific wuunry as the Mtclical Uecord, to tbose weary and exhausted people who are ac stomed to resort for fancied helD to an tcoholic stimulant. Xalioixal TemMrance Don't Treat. jt is said that the Anti-Treatinz Societies ne 1 in New York a ytar or two ago have thruk.n .i ..,..ttA. XUnitvl rn ita frdiiar.Mv Ihl-michnilH lllA ntrv? " J T inVlriiv Kal.it !a mitA crcm tiff fk( irnl throuzii our vic;ouslv absurd methods s,X'iui code to make drinking a part of convivial amenities of life, most 'men 1 1 nevtr think of drinking strong wbiskv iJrum, an v more than they would n t drinking kerosene or coJ liver oil. nu.zed to th whisky standard, is about r?ulva ent toaskin? him to take a social fc8?.0' hfnzine. Any nun's stomach will time learu to accommodate itself to "ge visitors. Mithridates trained him r Wtat puion. and there are plenty of thtJ countrv to-lay wLo publicly j wiuiu uiuu lis, on a u.uiier ui n.r ? do thls thy must etlucate their whisky drickerVlces. foor ' one w.u.eafor drink nauseous !!s ?r liquid unless it is th tashum to do Khi 'tv?there is 501119 impjrions social code thh y tma2i,ie must not Le broken. u ,tlt.' oating is just uca an icexora 2rom away this social eement gujT1 Cur drinking custom, and the youngei- juration, at least that part of it that is not tr. b" hereditary taint, will not-con-ret drinking habits at all. " lhfcn.oulJ we,l ior our generation ir Vv f i,rt,l'1,,8 ouvieiies fcouia muiti foci' ti not Pr":ticah-6 to form large jac-h Vn 18 Kina m anJ community; let y vrm nimaeu mto a society of one. nkte Bkufc--. SELECT SIPTINGS. Writing was pnzzling to garages. Indiana wai included la Ohio till 180L I ocks -were early used br the Eeypt- Morosco, a Cossack Chief, discovered Kamtschatka in 160. Du Cango mentioned locks and pad locks as early as 1381. The people of the United States uae about 100, OOf 000 lead pencils every year. Lock & Key were long familiar names over the door of a hardware store in Louisville, Ky. - . ; .. m . Crooked and Straight are the names of a pair of cleryi-an in charge of an English church. There is a dog at Seymour, Ind., -who trUl look at a clock and then put his paw on the exact hour as marlted .on a card. ; " , .' . " The number three was the perfect number of the Pythagoreans, wBo said it represented the beginning, middle and end. r The number nine, besides being re garded as a lucky one, Isr possessed of mysterious properties, intensified from its.beinff the nroduct ot tiireft-'-timc three, y . Insurance companies figuretou about so many grist .mills and planing mills being destroyed by fire each. yeat, and last year they hit the number just exactly. -. . . j ; . ' v Every French bank has a photograpK of every employe, and in the case of the rrore responsible ones they a e under the surreillanceof private detectives most of the time. . From recent arch ilogical -discoveries it appears that the Romans, at ttie height of their civilization and splendor, had no system of street lighting. &o trace of anything of the kind has teen dis covered. ... ; An engrossed copy of the Declaration of Independence, attested to be correct on August 2, 18;:C, by Charles Carroll, of Maryland, one of the signers, has been iound behind the shelve in the New York City Hall Library. It took James Bailey, an Iowa man, over eighty-three days to ge(t the last of the tar off of him after receiving a coat of fax and feathers. It w&s rubbed in for having married his second wife two days after the death of the iirfet. Two reputable doctors of Trpnton, N. J have made an examination of Will iam liiDg, the physical monstrosity con fined in the county jail there, and were surprised to find that the reports of the man's condition were about correct. King is said to have two hearts, and ribs that move up and down.' ' ' - The largest and most fruitful gourd vine yet on record is reported as haymg been grown by Frank Burton on bheriff Ed Maxwell's place, a few miles irom Oglethorpe, Ga. From ik. has been gathered 150 water gourds, with han dles averaging eighteen inches, and be sides the&e were fifteen or twenty gourds broken before they were ripe. A landslide occurred on Cumberland Mountain, near Bend's Hill, W. Va., which materially changed the appear ance of the locality. Between twenty five and thirty acres of land, heavily timbered, slid from the side of the mountain so as to lie across the valle at .the bottom. A dam was formed and a lake from ten to twenty-five deep and half a mile long resulted. ' Among the curiosities in the rooms' of the Delaware Historical Society in Wil mington is a piece of tie firfstpiecsof calico manufactured In this country. About one hundred years ago Archibald Hamilton Rowen, an Irish refugee, set tled on the banks of the Brandywine and started a little mill, where he made calicoes. When the troubles of Ireland became quieted he.returned to his native country and lived quietly on his estate. Dissecting an Elephant. The carcass of Big Chief, Adam Fore- augh'a elephant that had recently to be llled, will bo dissected at the Lniver sity of Pennsylvania. It will take three months to cut the carcass up, and it will be fully two years before a Teport of the observations will be made by the staff of surgeons who are to conduct the opera tious. A gang of workmen were busily ?en gaged after the execution In getting the body from the street in front of Biologw cat hall to the rear of tne macerating building, and, although the distance is but loO feet, it was long after dark when it was landed upon a floor of planks which hail been laid for its reception. Carpenters then began to build a large frame aboat the carcass, and when this was completed tackle was suspended from a big cros bar and the body raised into the air, hanging from ropes and a sling. It was necessary to do this in ordef that the process of embalming might be carried on successfully. When the dead elephant was raised in the air a shed was built over it. - : A number of barrels of embalming fluid were poured into the carcass. The heat of the lleih was so intense that large quantities of the fluid were absorbed, and in order to prevent the flesh from mortifying it was necessary to thor oughly saturate it. 'ihe dissection of this portion of the anatomy will be most interesting, as there exists an idea that the brute was insane, or aft ic ted with what is known in India as 4,must.w the symptom of which re irascibility of temper and ex treme viciousness. AVw York Cimr ciai Advertiser. Drink Made From me .va-Root. The kava-root of the Society and SoutbTSea Islands is the basis of the in toxicating drink of those regions. Wo men and girls are employed to chew the root, and when well masticated and mixed with saliva, it is ejected into bowls, mixed with coca-juice, and left to ferment. Both natives and whiter f the lower classes are very fond of it -"he native use it a some amonr. us do .wine, under the idea thaf it will help theirr aloDg in important undertakings. Popular Science A&mt U-;. ; ' It is calculated that there are over 200,000 lepers in British India, the ma jority of whom have places in alms houses and asylums, the others roaming over the country and subsisting on eharitr. In Kussia, eat trig and drinking takt up no small part of a man's existence. DEVOTED TO TBE ADVASCEXEITT OF SEIDSTILLE AND THE REIDSVILLE, N. C, ALL OYER THE SOUTH NEWS FB02X EACH STATE. NORTH CAROLINA. : Matt W. Hansom ia his own successor in the U. B. Senate. The Durham Farmer's Alliance Ware house Company have made arrangements to build a large tobacco warehouse. . The Democratic caucus has elected Josephus Daniels, "State Printer. Mr. Daniels received 98 votes; S A Ashe, 10. A Convention of Confederate Tension. ers of this State was held in Raleigh with two hundred veterans in attendance. They met to petition the . Legislature to increase pension appropriations.; The convention was addressed, by the Hon J 8 Carr, president of the convention, the Hon T C i uller and Governor Fowle. At Wade, near Fayetteville, occurred a most brutal murder. George Brewing ton (col.") entered the house of Miss Charity McAllister, a most estimable lady of about 80 years of age, and brutally murdered her. Her kinsman, Alex. Mc Allister, entering at the time, discovered him' and shot him dead in his tracks. A young girl was also injured by Brewing ton. He is suDDOsed to have been tem porarily insane. The coroner's jury ex onerated McAllister. , . . ; SOUTH CAROLINA... ' 1 - X United Statea Senator - Butler hjw re ceived so. many 'applications for garden snd flower seed that to facilitate an equal distribution of his quota of seed he has directed the entire quantity to be sent to A P Butler, commissioner of agriculture of South Carolina. , . ' The Farmers', Alliance of South Caro lina, met in Chesterfield and resolved not to pay present prices for commercial fer tilizers and to use fifty per cent, less than last year, because of their expressed be lief that the manufacturers here organ ized a comcination and advanced prices without cause. , s Mr John S "Scott, of Mars Bluff, in Marion county, who is well known as one of the most successful cotton pi ant i rs In the State, has sailed ' from New York for Moscow, Russia. When he reaches Russia Mr Scott will go to the district of Caucasus, one of the southern provinces of Russia, where he will eDter upon the discharge ef Ms duties, super intending and instructing the natives in the. cultivation of cotton, which is plant ed there in large quantities. Illicit distilling in northwestern South Carolina is increasing rapidly, and mooiit shiners who for some years meekly sub mitted to arrest now. make fierce resist ance. On Tuesdav a i aiding party of Gve revenue officers in the mountains were fired on by a body of thirty men, .but the fire wa3 not returned as nobody washurt. About daylight the same revenue ofhetrs were ambuscaded- o"n their way home. They returned the-fire !and charged on the moonshiners. Dep uty Marshal Hightower was wounded in the affray and one meonshiner was cap tured. . , ... TENNESSEE. A Scotch-Iiish Congress will assemble at Columbia, Tenn. on May 5th. The Nasnville Iron, Steel and Char coal Company has made an assignment. Assets $450,000; liabilities $170,000. , At Nashville, Tenn. a meeting of mil lers of Southern Indiana, Kentucky, Ten nessee and States South of Tennessee was held ; a daily output of 13,000 barrels being' represented. An organization was formed to be called the Southern Millers' Association. - Robert Day, aged twenty years, a high ly respected and prominent young man of Rock wood, was fatally shot near that place. He was at the' home of John Martin, when an unknown party knocked at the door. When Day went to the door he was shot in the right eye and face. There is no lew to the guilty party. ' . ! '" " The Tennessee River Convention met in Knoxville, delegates being present from, all the East Tennessee counties. Tomlinson Fort, of Hamilton county, was elected president. The object of the ; convention is to memorialize Congress to make an appropriation of half a million dollars to remove obstructions in the Tennessee river between Knoxville and Muscle Shoals, Alabama. ; VIRGINIA. A $50,000 stock company is being or ganized to start a paint factory in Lynch burg, Va. j" Professional robbers eracked the safe in the clerk's office at Martinsville, Va., stealing $175 in cash and $800 in securi ties. The people are much alarmed. A Winchester, Va. dispatch says - that fine inches of sno w, the first of the season, are resting upon ihe fields of the valley and farmers tire well pleased. William Musco vfho murdered police man Seal on Dece mber 31st last at Char lottesville, Va. , was convictei of munier in the nrst degree, and was sentenced to be hanged on II arch 16. Roanoke, Va. Much excitement pre vails here owing to tee reports of rioting among the miners 5n the West Virginia coal region. A fight occurred between the Pocahontas and Klkhorn miners, in which five white men and two negroes were kille 1 and several wounded. The conflict was brought about by the Poca hontas miners again suspending work and going to Elkhorn to induce a num ber of miner who had returned to work to strike. A refusal precipitated the fight. It is believed that the militia will be ordered out. The Ssars Construction Construction Company of Chattanooga. Tenn., have taken the contract to build a standard gauge railroad from. Roan oik e, Va., via New Cast !e, Craig county, to Ef 1 Rock, on the Richmond & Allegheny railroad, ia Botetourt county a distance 'of .'43 miles. The mad which will run through one of the finest mineral 'irctioris in Vir ginia is to be completed Ly 1SS0. Iron, marganet-e, slate and rrjarhle trc found along the route in the g,.vatet abundance and on Catawba creek there is coal. FLOR DA. ' ' Senator Quay, fnim PennsvlvaniA. is now in Florida. A colony of 130- persons from Als ic WEDNSEDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1889. Lorraine, Germany, arrived on Sunday by tha steamer La Champagna in New York, and were detained for an alleged breach of the law prohibiting the im portation of contract laborers. It was shown that they had violated no law and the whole party at one took passage oa the steamer Seminole which arrived at Jacksonville Saturday. The emigrants came here to work on tho tobacco plant ation of Straiton & Storm. - GEORGIA.: J Phosphate beds about 5 miles from Knoxville, Ga., have been purchased by a stock company who will develop it. Among new enterprises we find s Tneodore Famll and others have in corporated the Rome (Ga) Glass -Manu factoring Co. Capital stock $150,000. . The Macon Construction Co., of Macon, and the Americus !a vestment Co., of Americas, Ga., will build a cottoa seed oil mill and fertilizer factdrv in Cordele, Ga. The latter company have just in creased capital stock $100,000. An effort is being made to establish-a paper mill in Newnsn At the cit'uens' meeting Messrs Geo Jones, S W Murray, t ana n.n uarcaway were appointed a ... A I . i . F C I vummiibce to solicit suuscnpiions. bmjy- Sev- eral parties has subscribed. The amount required is $10,000. THE TOBACCO; MARKET. Financial Standing ' of tbe Three States. Weed in Richmond, VA.r The general market this week ; has been active, with early sales of divers lots of old, from the commonest fillers to finest wrappers in brights. Meanwhile we have had large loose, breaks with just that warm soft spell that brings it into market.- Prices, however, have ruled low, with 8 3-4 cts the best pnoe j paid this week, 90c' per hundred the J lowest. - Considerable dark tobacco, loose, packed in hogsheads, has been shipped from here to factories end other places. - Prices on old brights are firm er, and - wrappers are being w orked down to a small stock . in fine leaf, while medium and pood are in good supply. Good dark mahoganies are in demand. West Virginia blights are active whith salts up to 70c, while cutters still sell at 20 to 50 cents. . The best celor seen this year has been on West Virginia tobacco. While it has a greater proportionate spread than the North Osrolina crop, the cutters are very fine in color and texture also. : " ". . . .... - Clakksvitle, Tenn. Tobacco has not yet commenced coming in freely. Sales for the week are 219 hhda, ' show ing only a moderate sprinkling of new tobacct. There was rather more pres sure than usual on old leaf, and conse quently, pri '-es we.re.rojjre uniformly full, while old lugs remained unchanged. The stocks of old tobacco are . so nearly exhausted, and have been so thorough ly picked over, v that not much remains of dt c'ded character and usefulness, and soon we shall have little of it left ex -cept damaged and superannuated house keepers. A gwi deal ot he new tobac co that has appeared so far shows a con -siderable mixture of green and house- burnt, indicating a general carelessness and indifference In the assorting, Henderson. N C. We have had a eood season and, reciepts were full. Sales lasted all day Friday. Prices were well sustaim d on all colory stock, While i common grades were some easier. We look for fair breaks row. as the planters have been stripping the past two days. FOREIGN ITEMS, An earthquake, accompanied by a vi olent gale, has occurred at Athan, Mega ro and Arachova, Greece. The Spanish Government has issued a decree trranting amnesty to ail press and political offenders and to soldiers who took part in the rising in Madrid ; in 1880. - A special mission, appointed by the Sultan of Morocco, to congratulate Em peror William of Germany on his acces sion to the throne, has started for Ber lin. The mission bears valuable- presents.- M Goblet, French minister of foreijga affairs, has telegraphed to M Wadding ton, French ambassador to England, in structing him to ask . Lord Salisbury for an explanation of the seizure by Great Britain of two of the Tongway Islands. Advices from West Africa say that eleven native policemen, headed by a British officer, came in conflict with a party of Waboys at Sulymah, and kill ed 131 of the enemv with a Maxim gun, and that the rest of the party fled in dismay. Mrs Phelps, wife of the United States Minister to the Court of fit James was the recipient Tuesday of a beautiful bracelet, jpresented by Lady Salisbury and Lady Koseberry, on which is inscrib ed j ,Presented to Mrs Phelps on her leating England, as a token affectiorate regard, from some of her liiglish friends, January 22, 1839." . . mm Washington ota. V A delegation from the Tobacco Ex change of Petersburg, Va., headed by C)ngrman-electVenable, arrived Wed nesday evening. Representative Burnea, of Missouri, was stricken with paralysis whale on the floor of the House Wednesday aiternoon, and died shortly before 1 o'ciocjc Thurs day morning. ; " i , Col W L Trenholm, the Comptroller of C Currency, who is from South Carolina. has accepted tne position or rresiaent or the American Surety Company of New Tork, and will assume the duties of that position afrer March 4th, next. The BsnaU committee on claims authorized a favorable report upon Sena tor Pasco's bill authorizing the secretary of the treasury to settle and py the claim cf the State of Florida on accouct of erpenditcres made in suppresirg In dian hostilities, tmounting to $225, 0C0. President Cleveland and Secretary Whitney have each given. $25 an l Col Lamont $10 1 the fund being ra:s d by Savannah newspaper men for the family of the late Edwin Martin, who died dur ing the Jacksonville yellow fever epi- I daraig. STATS AT ZAltOE. WASHINGTON, D. C. HOUSE AMD SENATE. Orn National Iaw-llier Deliberate onHeaauxea for the Public Good. ' Monday Eocse Under the call of States filibustering began again, severs1 members introducing bills for reference and insisting upon having them read in full, which occupied the day. Senate The rice - schedule of the tariff bill was taken up and discussed, but was finally laid aside without action, and the wool and woolen schedule was considered until a recess at 6 o'clock. The night session -was slimly attended. Senator Vance recited a humorous "pas toral" commencing: 'Our Mary had alittle lamb, '- - -And her heart was most intent To make its wool beyoud its worth; Bring fifty-six per cent." Tcesdat The Horss went into a committee of the whole on the river and Harbor appropriation, but pending fur- tner action an adjournment was made. n . . . debate Among tne various memor lais presented was a ludicrous one pre senttd by Senator Vest, signed bv a number of dentists, asking that a bounty of one dollar per tooth extracted be al lowed to American dentists. in order to encourage honest industry, lower tho cost to patients and encourage the immi gration of dentists from other parts of the world, thereby makirjg a better mar ket for agricultural and other products of this country." Laid on the table. Senator Plumb moved to insert an ad ditional paragraph in the tariff bill creat ing snd establishing ia the treasury de partment a commission to be known as the customs commission. Agreed to without a division. j . An amendment reported from - the finance committee to pairsgraph 257 as to oranges, lemons and limes was agreed to yeas 89, nays 7. It increases the ratts per package, according to capacity, from 10, 20 and 40 cents, to 13, 25 and 60 cents, and from 8 cents every additional cubic feet to 10 cents. The date for the bill to go into effect was changed from February 1, 1889, to July 1, 1889. j There being no further amendments offered, the vote was taken first on sgree- ing to the substitutes and then on the passage of the bill. Both votes were identical yeas 82, nays 80. . '- Senate at 8 p. m. adjourned. Wedjtesdat The House immediately upon the reading of the Journal went into committee of the whole, Mr Dock ery, of Missouri, in the chair, on the sun dry civil appropriation bill and discussed it the efitire day.' but without reaching any vote whatever the House adjourned. Senate On motion of Senator Hoar the concurrent resolution for counting the electoral vote was taken up and passed." , The House bill for the relief of the State National Bank of New Orleans, formerly the Louisiana State Bank, was taken up and passed. ; Thtjbsdat A sombre pall hung over the House of Representatives when it met this morning. The desk of the lata James N. Burnes was draped in black j and a large wreath of oalla lillies adorned it. Chaplain Milburn offered up a prayer for the dead Congressman and his wid owed wife and fatherless children. As a mark of respect the H use then adjourned, after passing resolutions of sorrow. ;'. The remains of Mr. Burnes, accompan ied by the Congressional delegation, left in a special car over the Pennsylvania railroad for St. Joseph, Mo. There were no funeral services in the city. The Com mittee that accompanied the remains is as follows: Senators Vest, Teller and Coke ; Representatives Mansur, Stone of Missouri, Wate, Sayes, Bynum, Hender son ofjowa and MorrilL Senate After the adoption of resolu tions offered by Mr. Cockrell, expressing sorrow at the death of Representative Burnes, the Senate,', on motion of Mr. Vest, as a mark of respect to the de ceased, at 13:35 adjourned. Fbidat. The House to-day took up the sundry civil appropriation bill, and acted on several amendments. An evening session was devoted to the consideration of private pension bills. The Senate to-day passed the Pension, the Military Academy and the District of Columbia appropriation bills. Mr Allison moved that the Senate In sist on its amendments to the tariff bill acd ask for a conference with the House on the bilL Agreed to. Mr Sherman's anti trust bill was taken ud and discussed. Several amendments were proposed, among others one by 31r Stewart of Nevada, proposing to engraft uoon the measure his "gold and silver certifies te bill." The bill as amended was ordered printed. A. number of miscellaneous measures and thirty private pension bills were Basse d. and at 4:45 p. m. after a brief executive session, the Serrate adjourned. Fate of Phosphate TesseL Th thrM-maatad schooner renorted sunk off Cape Hatteras proved to be the Allie R Chester, of New York, laden with ohosDhate rock and bound from Charleston, 8 C, to Barren Island, N Y. Of her crew, Uapt lHomas logersoii, Mate WiluA, the cook and two kemmen were drowned. The secend mate, John Christmas, aad Seaman John Roach and T Anderson were rescued from the ilg- ging of the vessel by Capt J S Wealton, Jr, of the scnooner J nxuey. in. rescued men were put on board the Eel aev. bound for New York. Vt. Tancer. the faaag man, is-ces a cbaJ- lerge to any six o tbe "giants of :n, ber axdwhasiy tomt tatas fatarjgcr test, tbey to bav ail tLe Uqoor txy vans and be to bav on y water. EL Arumstine: " TTine-driEkicg is the tnather cf ail mischief: tbe root of crimes. tbe spring of vices, tbe wairiwind of tbe brain, the overthrow of the esse, the tempest of tbe tongue, the ruin of tbe body, tbe sbaaae of life, tbe staia of honesty end Uae plafna and compoca cz ue sou. SCIENTIFIC AXD ISBrSTIlUL. wiMMinsBassft . Vermont factories' turn, out 600. 00C Snowsboe!s per year, and New, Hamp shire aad Maine send tho figures up to 1,000,000. A Hartford (Conn.) belting house hM rdoced a leather belt, double, which 1 8 feet long, 0 feet wide and half an inch thick. One pound of paint will cover about four square yards of surf see, first . cost; snd about six square yards for each ad ditional coat. - - A test of bagging made from fiber cb talced from' pine leaves seems to es tablish the fact that a substitute of great value has been found for jute. , , - The scheme of filling bombs with asphyxiating gas, so that the enemy I wui lie down quietly and go to sleep on both sides after a short shower of bombs, is said to be the best that has yet been offered in military science. '- Lightning produces chemical chinges in the atmosphere, by eon verting' a por tion of the two gases oxygen and nitro gen, of which it is principally composed, into nitric acid. This acts very power folly in destroying the exhalations which arise from putrid vegetable and animal matters. .. - V. , A German electrician has devised An ingenious scheme for the regulation of dynamos. The. field magnet cores, in stead of being solid, ere made of tubes, in which a solid core is inserted. This core can be withdrawn by hand or auto matically, and the strength of current thus regulsted. A Birmingham (Ala.) steel company recently shipped some of their steel to a razor company in Massachusetts, the latter making it into razors and sending back word that the steel was equal in every respect to the best Eng ish cru cible steel. Other tests, it is claimed, proved equally satisfactory as to the quality Of the steel. - " ' A new scheme of ntiiizing the -sawdust of the Ottawa River in Canada, for the purpose of fuel is proposed. - it is claimed tint by a system of grinding the refuge Into a unriorm hneness, mixing it with tbe refuge gas tar from tne gns house and compressing the substance Into cake, a fuel can be made in every way superior to soft coal for open tires. " During a discussion of the ''lightning' rod question ' at the last meeting of the British Association, it was stated thit where there are special corroding agencies at work copper is to be preferred to iron as being less easily oxidized, but that in ordinary cases equally good se curity can be obtained, at much les ex pense, with iron. The question whether the rods reallv a lorded any security was not cbniidered. " . - ' An English electri ian has invented a material which he calls alterion for the prevention of corrosion in boilers. The interior is quoted wUh this and currents of electricity, are passed through tha boiler snd from time to time reversed. The formation of scale is prevented by a laerof hydrogen gas, which is deposited upon the inner surface oi the boiler. The reversed currents reforms the hydrogo into pure water, a thto layer of iur wa er being thus kept all around the boiler. ' A chimney 132 feet high settled until its top was three feet two inches out of the perpendicular. This was at the works ot Matthews 4 Suns, in loucester shire, England. A course of bricks was tanen out for five-eighths of the circum-. ference and replaced by a course ens and tive-eighths inches lest in height. As fast as the cut was made tne new course was laid aad iron wedges were driven in above it. When all was in place, "the wedces were driven out, and the ch co ney came back to within an inch or two of the perpendicular. Parasitic fisbes-extremely small be ings, . shaped like, an eel have tbeen recognized only for a relatively short time. Ten species nave teen distin guished in different seas and oceans. They usually attach themselves to some hollow part of the bodies of marine animals, preferably entering tne respira tory cavities of.star-flsh. They have even been found in tne interior oi tne 6hella of pearl oysters. They do not injure the animals w.th which they asso ciate themselves, tor tney ao not live upon them, but upon the minute organ isms whicn tne sea water orings to meir - . . cavities, so that tney are realty com mensals rather than parasites. ' ExploilTenesi.er Petrelenm, Since the recent explosion of a petro leum vessel in Calais (1 ranee) harbor experiments have been made to de tetmine what proportion of petroleon vapors mixed with a given amount of all will form explosive compounds. Is mixing ordinary lllumin at irg gas wits 1 air, it is louna mat one pars 01 gu u j eight of air gives the most violent ex- plosion, and with the vapor cf tbe volsv t ie portions of petroleum nearly th same observation is made. With ear part petroleum vapor to five of air noes-1 plosion takes place. With six parts ef air there is a feeble explosion, and with from seven to nine parts a very Violent one. With twelve parts of air the de tonation Is still violent, but with s xteea parts it becomes feeble, and with one part vapor to twenty cf air there is or dinarily no explosion. Ameriau Arihi fcL . . - ..-' ' She Eloped with the Coaehman. A daughter of Paul Van der Etch, rapenntendeet of Astonia Silk Mills, New York, eloped on Sunday with her father's coachman, William Sillers. Af ter their marriage the couple returned to Astoria. Mr Van der Each met them acd invited them to his residence. Mrs Van der Each, however, refund to admit them, and thy went to Siller's lodging, where they still remain. 3Ir Van der Each has given Sillers a good position in the silk milL John Wanamaker's Guests. . Mrs Harrison and Mrs McKce. wife and dauabtrr of President elect Hani sen. accompanied by John Wnmktr, arrived in Philadelphia fcWturday, where several dais will be spent at Mr Wan- - m - l mm W-T maker s lesiaence, aitrr wnicn rs ur r soo acd daughter will isit New Yrk dt v. as the iruests of Vice-Prtsidet.t- elect Morton-, - - The Emperor William's summer tour in Austria aad Italy is said to hare cost NUMBER 42. THEGENEI(AL news.- XTXII3 OF ; PtZirCST . OTJZXSX) ' -" sewers From Ail Courcca.-2Iorth, Eaat,BonU .. , The town of Springer," Oklahoma, hat grown from fifty inhabitants ' to 8,000 ia sixuendays. " -. A Vkktburg, Miss, dispatch says that Fred Hopkins and Jenkins that city, both colored labor : agents," had been caught in North Louisiana and lynched. , The Electoral College of Texas neg lect ed to make their returtV properly, and cow the vote of the State is In dsn it of being lost v vf -" It is - new estimated that the cottoa crop of 18i3 will be the largnt ever known; and will probably reick 78,500, OC0 bales. . v -L . - ' St Joseph's eonveat, At Looust Gap. Penn, was burned to the ground and Mother AUro Columbia and five Sisters, forming ths" communltyi fortnaately scaped unhurt. - . v '.' 1 A naaq in Philadelphia, wno enticed girls t9 retired ptrt of Fairmount Tark and assaulted them.' has been sentenced toweBtyvSine .years and ei$ht month! f A drayman in Chicago, enraged by a fight iwith another drayman,' mho ran away, attacked an innocent bystander and knocked htm down on railroid track, where ha was run over t nd killed by a passing train. . y ';: The'. South shipped to New York- during the , year 18S3 2.522,000 feet of yellow pine, about tha same quantity' the. previous year, and materially exceeding the cuts ef 85 and 1886. ; xt:w- v.v ' -; The Dsmocrstio majority of the ladl' ana Legislature has refused to rtcoga lie as a leg$l expenditure the salary-paid to ex-i-icuienans uoverppr uoorrtsoo, thus brioelntr tbe Question ai to whether he wss ever Lieutenant Gbvernorbefore tbe Courts. i1 About 2,000 fsrmeri snd others in tcrcsted in tabacco' raiding met at Brook" ervllle, the crtimty teat of -Bracker county, Ky, Monday, to organize Igalnst raising a erop in tie hurley district next asoa. Little of the crop of 1883 has been sold, snd a number are still hold ing the 1887 crop. j . . A Catholic colonization society, with a capital stock of $100,000, divided Into 4,000 shares, has Ur-n formed. The ob j- cts of the society is to ebtabUsh Catho lic colonies in the South, engage in manufacturing, miuiug. lurutxring, stock ruining, &c. Large tracts of suitable laud will be secured ia Northern Ge r girt arid Alabama and th C t tit tl stock may (.osnibly be increase i to ous million d.dl,.. ' - ' Tbe colored people of Virginia, -South Carolina and Georgia, a'r d 'her skmth era btates will set d a delegation to visit Gen Uarnscn to present their views of Southern questions The ; delegation Is to be beaie 1 bv John M Lmgston, of Virginia. . It will be in Indianapolis by the 1st of February. . It is said tnat the del gation will be composed of none hut reprstenutiTes of the race ia the Sjuth. ' . , December Msastsrsv . December Sd Advices received 'from Peru report 137 men, women and child ren kilted by the indiscriminate firing Of the troops during, the progress of a not at LaPezaT-- r December th The sfceriil of Blrmlag ham, Ala. fired into a mob advancing oa the jail with the intention of lyce:..: ; ft murderer confined therein,' killing tin persons and wounding 80. f . December 10th An official folic '.'.n gives the total number of deaths td d&ta from yellow fever in Jacksonville, Fla. as 412, and of cases 4.703. - December 24th- Fifteen persons lost their lives by the burning of a' woolen manufactory at Newmintter, Germany, , December IT Advices of heavy storms ih th- Department of ''Pyrenees, Italy, fioodicg viilages end. eatuing great 'lou Covered With Tar aad Yiforeusly Elsksd. ' Sim Sherman, aged 47, who boarded at Ciark King's houser in Tiverton, R I, paid too marked attention to Mrs King to suit the slews of the r ighbors, and Istt Friday about twenty ' men called Sherman out of tne bouf, cuubea him liberally with far, told him to run" until be dropped and started him off with a series of vigorous kicks. Sherman ran est! I he retched the engine ' house where te ' stayed until he could "get the tar cff. He will not return to Tiver ton. :'".' " v ' ' Plants aad Plaaov JL pisBO toner who says that pianos frequently deteriorate because they are allowed to become too dry. prescribes this remedy: "veep a growing plant in the room, and so long .as your plant thrives your piano ought to, or else there's something wrong with its Just try it, and see how much irmre water you'll have to put in the flower pot in the room where your plant is than in any other room. Some people keep a huge vase or urn with a eot"og vet sponge in it, ner or under the p ano, and ketrp it moitenei just ss a ctea dealer keeps hie atnek.. They keep the sd all the time the fires are on. Chased ft Fox Twe Days. A fox hound beloBgiog to Captain . Mark Percy, of xV Head, near ort Pophsm, chased a fox for t dsya The dog wa sn In pursuit of the iox , sereral times durieg the two days, and h?s drp baviag wafreqeoty heard, Finally tle'foi tifed 'it a d fe-l oa the prouod exta tted Th do;, know! g tht be h-d not suftic es.t sUenth leit to rlghr the fox, sat'dwe near h ro and wau bed him. in th e coedttioa tbv fox and the hound were foaed by a man who lived near, and the fox was so exhausted , that the man easily k lied hisx with a 1 s u. -1 i 1 ' . ' .,' ' r