North Carolina Newspapers

THE CHARLOTTE MESSENGER. VOL. V. NO. 16. THE Charlotte Messenger IS PUBLISHED Every Saturday, AT CHARLOTTE, N. C. In the Interests of the Colored People of the Country. Able anil well-known writers will eontrib ote to its columns from different parts of the country, and it will contain the!latest Gen ♦rat News oft he Tint Messenger is a first-class newspaper •nd will not allow personal abuse in its col umns. It is not sectarian or partisan, but independent— dealing fairly by all. It re serves the right to criticise the shortcomings of public officials—commending the worthy, and recommending for election such raen as in its opinion ore best suited to serve the interests of the people. It is intended to supply the long felt need of a new-spajier to advocate the rights and defend the inter, sts of the Negro-American, especially in the Piedmont section of the Carolina*. SUBSCRIPTIONS: (Always in Advance.) 1 year *1 50 K months - - - 100 6 months - - 75 0 months - - - m 2 months - - 35 Single Copy - -5 Address, W.C. SMITH Charlotte NC Considering tho frequency of revolu tion! in Ilayti, and the utter disregard of neutral rights shown by its alleged rulers, whichever party is on top, it Seems possible, avers tho New York Telegram , that at least one American war vessel might bo kept in easy reach of the disturbed island with profit to the American trade. A recent letter from a gentleman vistt hg the Argentine Republic shows how little is known of the importance of that j American neighbor. There aie banks i in Buenos Ayres with a capitul greater than any in the United States und occu pying magnificent buildings. The Pro vincial Bank, with a capital of $33,000,- 000 and deposits of $67,000,000, does a business only exceeded by two banks in, the world. The official roport on the great Yukon River in Alaska shows that for 600 milea it is in British territory. This includes •bout 200 miles of the gold-mining regions, whero the chief mining camjis are situated. The men are earning $lO to S2O a day washing, but tho work lasts only about two months in the year, in consequence of the freshets and early frosts. The river is 2300 miles long, of which 2000 are navigable without a ■ingle rapid or portage. Its breadth is six to seven miles in places,and averages three or four. Rivers emptying into the Yukon are broader than the Hudson at New York. Little of the region traversed is fit lor agricultural purposes, although theie are valleys suitable for stock-rais ing. The country abound* with minerals, and the winters are not more severely felt than those of Central Canada. In nearly every iustauco of contagions diseases careful ini estimations have proven the existence of microscropic forms of life which have been christened microbes. These infinitesimal germs are not analogous in appearance. The pul monary consumption microbe isdificrcot from the Asiatic cholera microbe. Scientific theories have been formulated in the hope that some means might lie found to annihilate the power of these microbes. On this point some very sur prising discoveries of vast importance to medicine have been made. Vaccination has been tried to secure u neutralisation of the force of these germs. But this method lias not resulted satisfactorily. A number of eminent scientists are now experimenting in the clTort to devise some way to deetroy these germs which •re harmful to the human being. Eight years ago an English writer on Suicide announced lo the startled world that of the 60,000 Europeans who an nually took their own lives 2000 wore children. The youngest case theu re corded was that ol a boy of nine, who drowned himself for grief at the loss of hia pet canary. Sine* Ditto, says an ar ticle in an American magarinc, we have beaten the record many times. The num ber of suicides has increased enormously, , and America alone can point to more j than one baby of seven who has wearied of bit hardly taatod existence. From j twelve to sixteen, however, appears to be the age at which ehildrea are most prooa to eels dostruction, and if wo examine a few of the instances so per sistently brought before ihs public we shall see but too plainly bow links are wrought in the tad continuity of crime. Jost as one daring robbery or brutal mur der give* birth to a dragon|brood of sins, so each miserable piece of childish folly laavec behind it the germ of another tragic development ALL OVER THE SOUTH NEWS FROM EACH STATE. NORTH CAROLINA. The session of the Methodist. Confer ence at Ncwlierne has just closed. Information reached Asheville of the finding of the dead body of a man at Black mountain station, fifteen miles cast on the Western North Carolina road. The coroner summoned a jury and held an inquest. The verdict is that of mur der by paities unknown. The deceased, a young man about. 510 years of age, is a stranger, and has not yet been identified. The body was found in a small creek under th<* railroad bridge. No clew to thp of the dime. Detectives arc at workTn the case. He had a letter in his pocket addressed G. W. Barret, Dry Fork, Va., from .John Lankford, Clifton, 8. C. .ludge Settle, of Greensboro, was bur ied MnrdjAr. Tho flng was at half mast and a vast*concourse of people attended the cortege to the honored citizen’s last resting place. Dr. 11. M. Wilder has lieen appointed superintendent of the Court House, Post Office, etc., building at Charlotte, N. C. S. .1. Asbury, foreman,and Walter Brern, clerk, SOI Til CAROLINA. John Peter Richardson began bis sec ond term as Governor of South Carolina Thursday. His inaugural address was devoted largely to consideration of the relation of his State to the incoming Federal administration. / The prohibition election in Anderson resulted in the defeat of the temperance advocates by a vote of 165 to 44. The Southern Y. M. C. A. Seereta ries* Conference convened in Columbia last Thursday. The session closed Sunday night. The growth of the Young Men’s Christian Association in the South has been almost phenomenal during the past year. The most important bill of the session was introduced in the house. It is in tended to straighten out the township railroad bond decision of the Supreme Court, which declares over a million dollars of bonds invalid. It repeals all the laws under which the bonds were is sued, and proposes to refund to the tax payers the tax paid this year to meet the interest on these bonds. .After the pas sage of the bill, the Ixmdholders can bring suit of mandamus to com|>el the county treasurer to levy taxes to pay in terest through the United States courts, and thus bring the question up for adju dication in a different shape. Thus far none of the bondholders have instituted proceedings. The collection of taxes ha* l>een postponed thirty days for the purpose of giving the legislature time to devise away out cf the trouble. ALABAMA. Thciruitces of Judson Female College, at Marion, recently burned, resolved to rebuild it at once at a cost of $60,000. It was one of the oldest female institu tions in the South. The body of a young girl was found in Kast Lake near Birmingham Tuesday. The autopsy disclosed the sac t that the girl had been murdered bv u.eans of chloroform and the body thrown in the water. Bhe has been identified as Mamie House, a 12-year old daughter of R. T. House, a railroad engineer. Evidence points strongly to the father being the murder, and he has been incarcerated in the Birmingham jail. FLORIDA. The work of fumigntbn and disinfec tion in Jacksonville goes vigorously for ward. Since Monday morning about 475 houses have been fumigated and their infected bedding destrayed. TEXNK*SKK. News has reached Chattanooga of the robbery of James Farrell, of McMinn c ounty, ot# 15,000 by thieves who enter ed his hut in the Chilhowce mountains on Monday night and carried off the money. Fariell is sixty-five* years of age. Forty years ago lie sought the hand in marriage* of one of the most beautiful and cultured young ladies of McMinn county. 81ie rejected his suit and mar ried the son of a farmer. On the day of tl e wedding Farrell sought seclusion in the mountains and linn refused to nssoci ate with any one ever since. The money stolen was all his earthly possessions. 41KORU1A. Gen. Longstrect, of Atlanta, made Gen. Harrison a social visit Monday. The present Legislature contains more farmers than any of its predecessors. There an* 69 farmers in the House, against 40 lawyers. • (’apt. Robcit lx*page, of Savannah, was buried Tuesday afternoon. VIK6IAIA. The Baptist Congress which met at Richmond haa just adjourned. It was an interesting meeting. The Outlook Publishing Company has been chartered at Richmond with the privilege to print and publish m-wspa pers. with a minimum capital Mock of $25,000. The officers are well known Republicans, among them being W. G. KUm. editor of the Whig finder the Malione regime. The*. H. Warren, a resident of Nor folk, committed suicide Monday. The deceased belonged to a well known North Carolina family. There is a weather crank in Richmond who predicts that Harrisem will not live out his term. *H» J° •! Xiionvieddo |tnba tonivu aodn •uu*L.p faofif Ddkjf CHARLOTTE, N. C., SATURDAY, DEC. 15, 1888 TIPPECANOE IN A TEMPER. How Gen. Harriaon Made it Hot for a Newspaper Man. A northern newspaper published a story the other day that Lieutenant Gov ernor Campbell, of Ohio, had stated that Mr. Clarkson, the member of the Repub lican national committee from lowa, bad arrived at home from Indianapolis bear ing a message from Gen Harrison asking Senator Allison to come to Indianapolis, nnd that, after being closeted with Gen Harrison for five hours, Mr Allison had been prevailed upon to accept the treas ury portfolio in the new Cabinet. When the New York Herald correspondent called on Gen Harrison to ask weether the report was true, the correspondent’s experience was as follows: When Gen Harrison presented himself m the front parlor in answering to my card I started to ask him if there was any truth in the report, but before I had my question half asked he interrupted me with: “Stop right where you are, sir,” (and his manner was not altogether pleasant either.) “I have often said that I would not be interviewed and you need not ex hibit any enterprise in attempting to ob tain from me an interview in an indirect way. That is » hut it would amount to if I should undertake to answer whether a newspaper rumor was true or not.” “Hut. General, this is from a leading Republican paper.” “I don’t care what it is from. It is a newspaper rumor and the newspapers will have to take care of their own ru mors—at least, I shall not. I will at no time deny or confirm any of them.” Before I had reached the open door, which had been opened by the General's own hand, 1 asked him if the report that Mrs Harrison expected to visit Mrs Grant in New York was true, and he was much more calm ill expressing his reply than when I asked him if he had offered Alli son the treasury ]>oitfolto. He said: “Mi's Harrison has no plans with ref erence to visiting New Yotk, although it is possible that she may go there.” Paradoxes of Science. The water which drowns us, a fluent stream, can lie walked upon as ice. The bullet, which when tired from a musket, carries death, will he harmless if ground to dust before being tired. The crystal ized part of the oil of roses, so graceful in its fragrance— n solid at ordinary temperatures, though readily volatile— is a compound substance, containing ex actly the same elements, and in exactly the same proportions, as the gas with which we light our streets. The tea which we daily drink, with benefit and pleasure, produces palpitations, nervous tremblings, and even paralysis, if (sken in excess; yet the peculiar organic called theine, to which tea owes its qualities, may be taken by itself las theine, not as tea) without any appreci able effect. The water which will allay our burn ing thirst augments it when congealed into snow; so that it is stated by ex plorers of the Arctic regions that the natives “prefer enduring the utmost extremity of thirst rather than attempt to remove it. by eating snow,” Yet if the snow be melted it becomes drink able water. Nevertheless, although, if melted before entering the mouth it as suages thirst like other water, when melted in the mouth it lias the opposite effect. To render this paradox more striking, we have only to remember that ice, which melts more slowly in the mouth, is very efficient in allaying thirst. —lilackmxjd'n ihejaziue. Pomades and Perfumes. Pomades are made of purified lard and tallow, which have been placed iu an enclosed place where they have absorbed the odors of tho petals of dowers. Olive oil also absorbs odors in the same way and is used lor conveying them. To extract the odor from pomades and per fumed oils they have simply to be saturated with alcohdl, which absorbs the perfume. It requires a large amount of Powers to saturaie a pomade with perfume, and these must be renewed daily for months. Odoriferous essences are obtained by the distillation of Howcrs thrown into large copper retorts with water, hut only the stronger odors will endure the hest without deterioration. Tho “flower waters" are made by placing alcohol in the condensing tank used iu distillation, and this condenses and absorbs the odorous vapor until it becomes fragrant. Most of the popular handkerchief ex tracts arc made by skilfully combining the odors of several different flowers, and some inventors have made happy and profitable hits in this direction.— Graphic. ■ The It. A IPs. Annual Meeting. The annual meeting of the stockjiold' ers of the Richmond and Danville rail road company, was held at Richmond. A resolution was adopted looking to the issuance of $2,000,000 in equipment trust Ismds. The following officers were elected for the ensuing term: President, Gorge 8. Scott; board of directors, John 11. Innmn, Samuel Thomas, Calvin 8. Brice, John G. Moore, Harris 0. Fahne stock, Georga F. Stone, John 11. Paul, John A. Rutherford, Claries M. McGee, John 8. Harbour. J. C. Mahon anil Sam uel N. Ingram. The lease of tho Feor gia Pacific railroad by the president and board of directors was confirm) d. FOREIGN NEWS The population of Germany according lo the recent census is 46,855,704. Mail advices received from the west roast of Afrlci say: “A rumor has reached Bonny from the Upper Niger that Henry M. Stanley is prncieding at the back of the great oil rivers under the British flsg, aad that the nutjves are friendly.” CONGRESS CONVENES. THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. Work of the House and Senate. ' Society Gossip. 1 Long before the hour for the meeting es the second session of the SOtli Congress, the galleries of the Housk were filled with spectators. The Speak er’s desk was ornamented with a hand some floral piece and Lumerous floral , tributes to other Repreientativcs made ’ the scene a bright one. At 12, the fall of the gavel brought the session to order, and l>r Milburn the Chaplain, offered prayer. During the ' progress of the roll call Mrs Cleveland : entered the Executive Gallery. The call developed the presence of 230 members, there being 88 absentees. A committee was appointed to wait upon the President and inform him Con- 1 gress was ready to receive any message lie might desire to transmit. After a recess the President’s annual message was received and read. When at 3:15 the reading was completed, Mills of Texas, offered a resslution which was agreed to, referring the message to the I committee of the whole and providing for its printing The house then ad journed. Senate —lt was an unusual full Senale that responded to President Ingall's call to order at ISSo’clock. Many floral emblems were noticeable through the chamber. At the close of Chaplain Butler’s prayer, Senator Sherman offered the usu al resolution that the Secretary notify the House that the Senate is ready to proceed to business. Resolution adopt ed as was also the one offered by Sena tor Morrill for the appointment of a com mittee to notify the President that the Senate is ready to receive any communi cation he may have to make. At the conclusion of recess the Presi dent’s.message was .read, occupying an hour and twenty rtiinutes, after which the Senate adjourned. Tuesday—' The Speaker laid before the House to day the annual reports of the secretary of the treasury and the comp troller of the currency, which were ap propriately refcr.e d. On motion of Mr Sayers, of Texas, leave was granted to the committee on appropriations to sit during the sessions of the Ilouia. Mr Dingley, of Maine, called up his bill of last session for the erection of a monument to Gen Henry Knox, but Mr Kilgore, of Texas, and other opponents of the measure filibustered against it un til adjournment. Senate—Various annual reports, in cluding that of the secretary and treasu ry, were presented and appropriati lv referred. Numerous bills were also in troduced and referred, including one for the construction of two steels rafus to lie armed with heavy rifled dynamite guns, and puu for the construction of two steel cruisers to be armed with dynamite guns. At'l2:3o Senator Frye moved to pro ceed to the consideration of tile United Pacific settlement bill, but Senator Mitchell Opposed ' the motion oil the ground that he hail had no time to exam ine the report, and the motion was not pressed by Senator Frye, who said he would nsk to have the bill made the special order for next Tuesday, mid then the Senate proceeded to consider the tariff bill. On motion of Senator Vance the tariff bill was further postponed till to-morrow and the Senate adjourned at '12:55. Wednesday.—House.— Mr Springer asked for immediate consideration of the bill for the admission of Da kota, Montana, Washington and New Mexico, the special order for the day. Mr. Grosvenor, of Ohio, objected. The morning hour expired without action on the bill then brought before the House, —the Senate hill for the ad justment of the accounts of laborers, workmen, and mechanics, under the eight-hour law. At the afternoon session a bill wai passed to quiet the title of settlers on the Des Moines river lands in lowa. The speaker laid before tho House the annual report of the Attorney General and the House then at 1:30 p. m. ad journed. Senate —At 12:30 the Senate pro-; cceded to the consideration of the tariff j bill and the clerk began its rending. , Senator Vance moved an. amendment to the tobacco section reducing the limit j of tho claim from 10 to s—reject, d ; Senator Vanee offered ati amendment re- I moving from sll iateraal revenue statutes alt provisions fixing the minninimn of jieualty ayddeaviiig. the matter to the discretion of the court. yens, 17, nays 28. Senator Vance also ottered an amendment (rejected without divis ion) providing that no warrant shall lie j issued in eases of internal revenue officers ! except on affidavit, of the revenue agent. Various other amendments to the inter nal revenue statutes were offered bv Senator Vance and were all rejected. After recess Senator Vance offered an other amendment which was agried i to without division. It provides that when the health or life of a prisoner mi der.the internal revenue laws is endan gered by clnte confinement, the judge may issue an order providing for such prisoners reasonable comfort and well being. A vole was taken on Senator McPher son's motion to strike i ut all sections nr, to alcohol used in arts and manufacturers, and it was rejected— yeas 17, nays 24. Thdbsdav.— The House begat the discussion of the direct tax bill. The bill, if passed, will disburse $15,227,633 to, the various States. The Home at 8:30 adjourned. in the Senate the discussion of the tariff bill was resumed. Mr Butler introduced a joint resolution proposing a constitutional amendment enlarging the presidential term of office to six vears. Laid on tho table. The Senate then at 3 o’clock adjourned till Monday. Friday—House. —lt was ordered that when the House adjourns to day that it will meet Monday next. The Committee on Elections reported the Soutli Carolina contested ease of Smalls against Elliott in favor of Elliott The House then wbent into a commit tee on the whole to incorporate the i Nicarauga Canal Company. It went over without action and the evening ses sion was devoted to the consideration of private pension bills. WASHINGTON GOSSIP. Rose Elizabeth Cleveland will spend the winter at the White House. Mrs Cleveland is anxious that her sister-in law should he present at the social cere monies which will close the present Ad ministration. Mrs Cleveland is having a great deal of pleasure out of the recent arrival in the family of Private Secretary Lament. She visits Mrs Lamont every day and holds littb Margueritc'with great satisfaction. How to Save the Eyesight Next to sunlight the incandescent light gives the best illumination for reading, and all notions of the injurious effect on the eyes of the electric light are erroneous. The vast majority of people whp wear glasses can see well without them. They use them to avoid a constant strain on the eras. The act of focalization is a muscular one and uses up nervous energy. The oversighted eye, in which the focus comes behind the retina, has to perform this muscular act continually. The results are headaches, irritability and nausea. The only remedy in such cases is to wear glasses. The neat sighted child should wear spec tacles, because they are tno best prevent ive against increase of nearsightedness, and also because he loses a great part of his education in not being able to see more than a few feet away. For the eyes in a healthy state there is but one safe wash—pure cold water. When the eyelids arc inflamed the best lotion is a weak solution of salt and water. Never apply poultices to the eyes or uso “eye waters” without the advice of a physician. At the first symptoms of nearsighted ness spectacles should bci wotn. There is a great deal of populnr prejudice against spectacles, but there are two good reasons why they should be worn, and only two. One is that we see better, and the other that the strain on the eyes may be relieved. In reading the book or paper should be held nt a distance of from ten to fif teen inches from the eyes. The reader's position should be such that the light may fall on tho book anil not on the eyes. The light itself should be suffi cient. Noth ng is so injurious to tho eyes as poor light in reading. Sail Fisli Cnre Typhoid Fever. A beautiful young woman, over whose head hail passed but eighteen summers, and to whom life offered only the pros pect of unending pleasures, she being surrounded with all the comforts that loving hearts auil willing hands, sup ported by adequate means, could afford, was recently taken very ill with typhoid fever. Tho best medical talent that could be obtained was called in, but without avail, and a few evenings since all was gloom in the handsomest resi lience in Fordham, where she lay ill. Her physicians had departed at a-late hour.sayiug that before morning the end would come. An aged aunt from the country, who was on a visit, happened fortunately to remember that years ago, when the yel low fever prevailed in this city, a physi cian who had then but recently came from Ireland, had broken the fever and saved many, lives by applying salt tishto the feet of the patients. This suggestion was seized upon by the now hopeless parents of the girl, and salt mackerel, wliioh they happened fortunately to have in ihe house, were applied to the fair ; patient’s feet by .her anxious relatives | during tho remainder of the night. | When the doctors called the next morn , ing. ex| ei-ting to hear of the death of I their patient, they were astonished to | find that the lever had considerably I abated. To day the young woman who \ was “given up” by her medical advisers, is convulesceut.—An* York lelegran. The Paint Brush Duel. One of the commonest ordeals to ' which novices were subjected in the ! painters’studios in Haris was the paint [ brush duel. The two latest arrivals were stripped to the waist and perched on very higli stools face to face at arm’s length. They were then armed with big brushes tilled with color, one with Prussian blue and the other with crim , son lake, and the duel began. Perfect strangers to each other, and having uo insults to avenge, the combatants went very gingerly to work at the outset, iinvloua to keep their balance and avoid 1 lining ilaubed wilh paint. But, atimu ! t/rtedbythe sliQuta of the spectators, thev gradually warmed to thur work. A first blow was struck and returned; • revering, staggering ami writhing, tho ij pouents.with their bodies all splashed Klin paint, broke their brushes and tolled on the i oor, whero they exchanged their blue ami red sores in a haud-to ■ hand fight, which ended In the duelista fraternally soaping and washing each i j other’s wounds. Term $1.50 per Aim Single Cony 5 cents. MONGOLIAN FRUGALITY. SCIENTIFIC ECONOMY IN THN CHINESE EMPIBE. ? Abundance or Wholesome Food For a Penny a Day—Nothin* What soever Wasted—Culinary Skill. The Chinese are pre-eminently eco nomical, whether it be in limiting the number of wants, in preventing waste, or in adjusting forces in such a manner as to make a little represent a great deaL The universal diet consists of rice, beans, millet, garden vegetables, and fish, with a little meat on high festivals. Whole some food in abundance may be supplied at less than a penny a day for each adult, and even in famine times thousands of persons have been kept alive for month, on about a halfpenny a day ea h. "This implies the existence of a high degree of culinary skill in the Chinese; their modes of preparing food are* thorough and various. There is no waste : every thing is made to do as much duty as pos sible. What is left is the ver est trifle. The physical condition of the Chinese dog or cat, who lives on the leavings of the family, shows this; they are clear ly kept on starvation allowances. The Chinese are not extremely fastidious in regard to food; all is fish that come* to their net, and most things come there sooner or later. In the north the horse, the mule, the donkey are in universal use, and in some districts the camel also does duty. It must be understood that the practise is to eat all of these animals as soon as they expire, whether the cause of death be accident, old age, or disease. This is done as a matter of course, * and the fact that the animal has died of a epidemic malady does not alter its ultimate destination. Certain disturb ances of the human organisations, due to eating diseased meat, are well recognized among the people; but it is considered better to eat the meat t the cheapness of which is certain, and run the risk of the consequences, which are not quite certain, than to buy dear meat even with the assurance of no evil re sults. Indeed the meat of animals which have died of ordinary ailments is rather dearer than that of those which have died in an epidemic such as pleuro pneumonia. Another example of care ful, calculating economy is the construc tion of the cooking pots and boilers, the bottoms of which are as thin as possible that the contents may boil all the sooner, for fuel is scarce and dear, and consists generally of nothing but the stalks and roots of the crops, which make a rapid blaze and disappear. The business of gathering fuel is committed to children, for one who can do nothing else can at least pick up straws and leaves and weeds. In autunm and winter a vast army of fuel gatherers spread over the land. Boys ascend trees and beat them with clubs to shake off the leaves; the very straws get no time to show which way the wind blows before they are annexed by some enter prising co lector. Similarly professional manure collectors swarm over all; the roads of the country. Chinese women carry this minute economy into their dress; nothing comes amiss to them; if it is not used in one place it is in another where it appears a thing of beauty. Foreign residents who give their cast-off clothes away to Chi nese may be assured that the career of usefulness of these garments is at last about to commence. Chinese wheelbar rows squeak for the want of a few drops of oil; but to people who have no nerves the squeak is cheaper than the oil. Sim ilarly, dirt is cheaper than hot water, and so, as a rule, the people do not wash; the motto, “cheaper than dirt, w which the soap-dealer puts in his win dows, could not be made intelligible to the Chinese. To them the average for eigners are mere soap-wasters. Scarcely any tool can be got ready made; it is so much cheaper to buy the parts and put them together for yourself, and as al most every body takes this view ready made tools are not to be got. Two rooms are dimly lighted with a single’ lamp deftly placed in a hole in the divid ing wall. Chinese, in fact, seem to be capable of doing almost anything by means of almost nothing. They will give you an iron foundry on a minute scale of completeness in a back yard, and will make in an hour a cooking range, of strong and perfect draft, out of a pile of mUd-bricks, lasting indefinitely, opera ting perfectly, and costing nothing. The old wtfmtn, who in her last mo ments, hobbled us near an possible to the family graveyard in order to die, so as to avoid the expense of coffin bearers for so long a distance, wus ;i characteristic Chinese. — Nvrth China ILra'd . Our Sun's Cluster. In the sky on a clear night can be seen a belt of brighter stars which is very nearly a great circle of the sphere. This belt is plainly marked, and it is inclined about eighty degree-* to tho Milky Way, which it crosses uear Ca&tdopea and the Southern Cross. Taking all the stars down to the fourth magnitude I r. < ould shows that they are more symmetrically arranged with reference to this belt than they are with reference to the Milky Wav. In fact, the belt ha* 214 stars on cne side of it and 266 on the other, while responding numbers for tho Milky w y are 245 and 2M2. From ihis and other reasons it is concluded that this belt con tains brighter stars because it contains tbe nearest ntars, aud that this set of nearer and brighter stars is distinctively the cluster to which our sun belongs. Leaving out the brighter start which may be accidentally projected among the true stars belfoging to this cluster, Dr. Gould conclude that our sun belongs to a cluster of about four hundred stars; and it lies in the pnncipu plane Os the cluster isince the belt of bright stars is a great not a small circle , and that this sular clutter is independent of the vast congeries of st*rs which wc call ths Milky Way.