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A Family Hewspapen DeiitedUrome Iotest'Jand General lews. TERMS $2.00 Per Annum. JSf .- PUBLISHED ATfRUTHERFORDTON; : ft . C.,EfERY FRIDAY MORNING.-." P AT ', VSY 1 EDITORIAL If OTE8. - i. K Bkadlacoh, who hs' made himself famous -tby refusing to take the oath as a member of the Jritish Parliament, has been re-elected. !? Ik 1880 Tennessee ranked fourteenth in the list of iron-producing states, Alabama fifteenth, and Virginia sixteenth. , In three years these three states made a rapid gain, and in 1883, Tennessee stood ninth, Alabama: sixth, and .; Virginia seventh. ; ii, Is this country are 1 only two estashments fat which cannon can be made. One is at South I Boston, Massachusetts, and the other at Wesf f'Point New York, The Boston works, which hare Iain idle for six years, are said to be. fit to compete with foreign foundries. BrrwnrK W95apd 173Mt was customary to rtTVtttff&&of p4o4!eaU crow with the lt initial letters or the cardinal points of the com press N. E. W. 8., indicating intelligence from all quarters, and the name newspaper came to be applied to such periodicals. - Ths oil business has all grown up within the ; past twenty-four years. In 1860 seventy barrels : of oil glutted ths market. Now the world uses about 60.000 barrels a day. The amount of oil 1 r produced seems to be steadily increasing. Probably the oil supply will never entirely give V out, but it is beginning to be very evident that unless new oil fields are speedily discovered the price of oil will go to a high figure." ! Mbs. rfinBAOUT, the widow of Admiral Farra ji gut, receives in pension money f 5,000 a year. , There are 29 cases where the widows of Gen ? erals receive $50 a month, and 20 widows of ; naval officers are so rewarded also. Some of i;. the widows receive 'as high as $100 a month, while others are given $30 only. Tne . rate al j' lowed by the general law is $30, and the 100 cases where pensioners are paid more areicov- ered by special legislation. i. 1 . , - v AccoBDisa to the census of 1880, the total f ' i number of persons of both sexes reported as it' pursuing gainful vocations was 17,392,099dis- tributed among four great classes of occupa tions, as follows : , . Male. Agriculture . . . . . . 7,075, 983 Professional and personal servics.. 2,712,942 Trade and transportatian. 1,750,892 Manufacturing, mechani cal and mining , 3.205,124 Female. 594,510 1,361.295 59,364 631,988 A PBOFESSioNAii ventriloquist recently ad- mitted to a reporter that ventriloquism was nothing but a humbug. It iB generally thought f that the ventriloquist throws his voice in order - to make it appear to come from different direc . tions. - This is all an illusion. The only thing I requisite is to deceive the ear. It is well that the orga is eixigalarly inaoonrafce f in determining, the J direction from which a :? sound proceeds. The ventriloquist takes ad- ! vantage of this and by a little juggerly pro- duces the illusion. He gives to his voice such , intonations as convey to the audience the im- 1 pression of sounds heard from some particular jwinc at a greater distance. 110 uirecui a tuu same time the attention of his hearers to the point from which the Bound is to come, and thus .controls their imagination. The different kindrof dye woods used in this country are logwood and fustic, from the West Indies ; lima, from the shores of the "Pacific, and the bar and cam woods from Africa, The woods' mentioned, with the exception of fustic, which is yellow, are red,' but of various shades. Theasapponia wood, which is a delicate pink, comes from the East Indies, The costs of the woods in the rough are, according to the Provi dence journal, as follows : Logwood, from $20 , to $25 a ton ; the red woods, from $40 to $70 a ton, and the cam wood about $150 a ton. The latter wood comes from the interior of Africa, costs considerable for transportation and is becoming scarce. Cam wood is used mostly by woolen manufacturers in making their dyes. The wood is drawn to the markets in Africa by slaves, and very frequently staples and chains are for:i(l attached to the logs when they ar ,r5 vt in this city, and poisonous insects of that - clime are often found in the hollows of the j wood, which are speedily killed. 'Mb., 8. B, Cockbill, senior vice-president o - the Cotton Planters' association, has made, a number of interesting suggestions to Director Generaf Burke, of the New Orleans exposition. Mr. Cockrill wants a premium of 300 bales of cotton offered for a cotton picker . With iron fingers, so constructed that human fingers can be dispensed with. Under the new Bysterh, of -the 5,000,O00negroe8 in thesouth, one half will go to work in the cotton mills and the Other half will plant, clear lands and sow grass. Y .. Th8 progressive cot ton man concludes by say- j ingtfiat the basis of a great south is "a cotton 4 : b.ailk iu tlie tt9f'u3. belt ; cotton mills amid cot ; fielai 5 cotton planters' motto The cotton r;: picker optns the way for the mills." The I cranky, part of Mr. Cockrill's letters is his sug p .tionhat half of the negro' population shquld I 'be employed in the cotton mi Us. This is not ?iy o come to pass for some time. The late William Cullon Bryant made a strong . pteaa pcoreof rears ago for the preservation of pur forests. The poet called the atteution of . his readers nd of the government to the atal results which follow the stripping of a country of its forests. In all woodlauds nature has provided for retaining the moisture of rains. The earth under the irees is covered with a thick carpeting of fallen leaves, which prevent the water from passing immediately int the streams and hurrying to the sea. Part of the moisture thus confined makes its way slowly into the veins of the earth, rises in . Bprings aud runs off in rivulets ; part is gradu" ;ally drawn up by the rootlets of the trees, and given off to the air from the leaves to form the . vapors which are afterwards condensed into r. ihowers. Thus forests undoubtedly protect a ' country against drouth, and keep its streama constantly flowing and its well constantly fulL f Cut down the trees and the mrristnrA . showers passes rapidly off from the surface and V A x 1 - uMinui w iues ana ocean. Thb great Pnosphate industries of South . Carolina are loominer r,nwr,niWfTiii t -i. . phosphates the business in February last at tained unprecedented proportions. th ments exceeding 46,000 tons. The quantity pf fertilizers . manufactured in 1871 was 22,589 tons, which increased the next vear to 37 7M tons, and in 1873 to 56,298. The next year there was a slight falling off, and $he previous figure wb not exceeded until 1879, when the product reachedeO.OOO tons, ins product since tnen has been as follows: 1880, 80,000 tons; 1881, 102,525 tons ; 1882, 102,490 tons ; 1883, 132,464 tons. For 1884 Ma Willis estimates the pro duct at 136,000 tongpJhe product of the mines from Juhe l, 1876, to May tl, 1877, was 163,220 tons . The next year ii was 120,323 tons, which was not exceeded until 1880-81, when it reached 332,077 tons, 1882-83, it was 855,333 tons. From June 1, 1883, to January 31, 1884, it was 309,888 tons. New fields' are being opened and worked, and the factories in everz instance have been well kept up and are now in first-class order. UNUSUALLY OLD PEOPLE. John Rilex, of Frederick county, Va, is 107 years old. . -, W. J. Barlow, of Gak, Fla., is 103, years of age. l- Rhoda Howard. Owinisjrille, SLv., is 113 years old. Luther Holden of Waterford, Connl, is 102 years old. Amos Dennis died recently at Ridgeville, B. C, in his 108th year. Mrs. Martha Cbockett, of Liberty, Me., recently dledin her 104th year. Charles Fielder, a farmer of Clinton, S. C, has lived 10:j year?. He is a bachelor. Nichoeas Boley, a pensioner of the war of 1812, died recently at Bo ne, Ky., in his 100th year. A belle in Washington seventy; years ajo was Mrs. Jessie McGee, who ha just diei in Illinois, aged 101. Every communion Sunday" Mr. Annie Gordon, of Bluff ton, S. C, walks four miles to church She is 111. Christian Cooper, who lives in the housa formerly the residence of Robert Fulton, in Living.ston, N. Y., is 110 yeara of age. Mrs. Daniel Buck, of "VVethersfield, Vt ami Mrs. George Travis, of Canisteo, N. Y., have celebratefi their hundredth birthdays. After being blind for twenty years, Mrs. Josephine Lepatria died at Watertown, N. . , aged 1 0 1. Her husband recently died at tlie age of 100. At Blythtwood, eighteen miles from Colum bia, S. C., Andrew McClellan, aged 112, re cently married Martha Wilson, a widow of twenty-seven. Miss Sabra Phillips, of Norwood, R. L, is 100 rears old. She does her own house work, brings her fuel from the woods on her back and saws it herself, and reads without glasses Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are the names of triplets still living at the a?eof seventy- , two rears. They are the children of Catha rine Kile, of Richland township, Penn., who recently died, aged ninety-eight. Jacob Milliken, of Dunstan, Me., on the annirer?ary of his 100th birthday made a singular -confession: "I voted for Thomas Vfferson for his second term, although I fa - ked two months of my majority." B. De Prare, of JkTarshtleld, Wis., is 10ti years old. For fifty years he never slept undnr a r of. His father was a French fur rasier, and his mother an Indian. He was vii h General Jackson at New Orleans. WHIRLED 0 DEATH. ' A Vivid Tornado Scene Six Dead and Three Woundtd in One House. A dispatch from Jasper, Ga , describing the terrible effects of the tornado,' says that it came in sight seven 'miles to the right of that town. " It went over the mountains and out of sigh eightmiles from Jasper. It was iu sight five minutes. The -devastated route was from half a mile to three miles acros?. 'In its five minutes' trip over that fifteen miles strip of country twenty persons were killed. The scenes that the tornado left in its track are beyond description. One neec's to stand in the midst of the demolished forests and see the destruction of life and property, to form an idea of the extent of the damage. Near where the cyclons was first seen from Jasper three brothers have lived for years. Their names are John, Peter and Levi Cogle. They are all prosperous farm ers, owning good lands and running an extensive government distillery. They live within a stone's throw of each other. and have good, comfortable houses. Levi Cogle lived in a large two story house, sitting upon the crest of a hill overlooking the valley; Southwest ward from his house was an opening. No trees or hills were in the way, and the resi dence stood right in the pathway of the tor-. nauo. in tne nouse were nis wua auu 11 ve children and three hired men William Gro ver, William Herren and Alonzo Wright The tornad whisked over the mountain and into the valley, where, it paused to gather its. 10. ces. men, settling: down, . it whizzed tor ward the house of Levi Cogle, and literally tore it into a million pieces. There was a crash and a clatter, and the air was filled with flying timbers, pans, furniture, feath ers, corn, wheat, beiding, chickens, and, in fact, everything that the place held. Mr, Cogle was at the residence of his brother "ust outside the fury of the storm, and when ie saw. the tornado coming: he started to ward his house. Before vhe reached it he was forced to cline to the underbrush to keep from blowing: awav. As soon as the torna do had gone, he went to where a moment Be fore his house stood, and a heartrending spectacle met his gaze. His wife and two children were found one hundred vards away, dead. . Further on three other children, one a baby, eighteen months old, were pickea up in an almost dying condition. Two of them had been blown three hundred yards. Scattered about -in the wcods were the three men Grover, Herren , and Wright all dead, one with a huge, tree across his body. Thus in a moment in that house six persons were killed and three others dangerously injured. The5 distressed husband and father, in the midst of his demolished home and dead arid dying family, was wild with grief. The dead bodies and the miured children were taken to the house of Mr. Wesley Cogle, and one messenger went for shrouds for six, and an-; other went for sureeons for three. Such a' visitation rarely falls to the lot of oner man." PROMINENT PEOPLE. Boynton. Paul Bovnton, the swimmer. was married recently to Maggie Connelly at Chicago. Brown. United States Senator Brown, of Georgia, has four iron mines in the northern part of that State, in which he employs nearly 1.000 hands. Grant. Judge James Grant, of Daven port,. Iowa, president of the National Trot ting association, says that there are in the association 5,000 horses trotting below 2.30. Beecher. It is expected that Mr. Beecher will go to Europe on a lecturing tour in the spring or early summer. It is over twenty years since Mr. Beecher was in England, where he made many addresses upon the war. Barnum. P. T. Barnum being invited the other day to lecture before a temperance so ciety in New York wrote in renlv: " I. have finished lecturing forever in this world." Mr. Barnum is a frequent visitor to the Bridge port, Conn., jail, and often addresses the prisoners. Cox. Washington correspondents note th sprinkling of erav in Coneressman 8. 8. Cox' hair. Though one of the youngest members in appearance, he is fifty-nine years of age. and has been in Congress for a longer period tnan any democratic memrtnr. TCbIIav. nf Pennsylvania, only exceeds him on the no puuncan siae in lencrtn ot service. An evil thought in tha Wr a! a mo who Las a heart is about as troublesome aa a wasp ux uie ear. A WEEK'S NEWS. ZUistexn and XUddla Statosv . . . jf The International and Eastern Telegrapa, eompany, with a capital of $5,000,000, was incorporatk'd in Albany j;N, Y. Coksidkr a bt.tc ' interest was aroused by the registration of a ten-million-dollar mort gage in the offices of forty different town clerks in a direct line'' across the State of Connecticut by the, Bankers' and Merchants Telegraph company. J - Mukicipal elections 'iri - Pennsylvania re tulted in the. success of the Republioan can didate for mayor in Philadelphia, Harri burg, Pltt-burg, Allentown, Lancaster and' Allegheny City, and of tne Demooradc can didate in Wilfianisport,:Chester and Seran ton. Reaeiin elected twenty-eight Demo crats and twenty-three Republicans to ths common council. J . ,, ' Ftvb cases of suicide and several sudden deaths were reported the other day in New .Yrtrkcity. (..-'"--,?' LASTyeart coal product," as reported b the mine inspector of the Pennsylvania rnid dle district, was as follows: Lehigh Valley Coal company, &i,776,015 tons; LhighandWilkes barre company 175,116,735 tons; Delaware and Hudson, 135,781,055: tons; Susquehanna, 111,932,0:.'5; Wyoming j; Valley companies, 45,549,600 tons; miscellaneous companies, 234,46(5,660 tons. The number of persons ac tually employed in rmriing coal was 17,833. These figures show an excess of more than 600,000 tons and more than 3,000 employes oyer the previous year ' By an explosion of fire damp in a mine near Union town, Penn., nineteen miners were killed, and others had a narrow escape from mffocatiun. Ii - ( After being twice buried and twice disin terred, and after 11,000 iniles of stranare wan derings, the bodies of the ten heroes of the lost Jeamiette have once more reached the land from which- they went forth to death. The steamship Frisia arrived at New York with the remains of lieutenant Commander George W. DeLone:; "!'. Jerome J. Collins. meteorologist of the expedition: Dr. James M. Ambler, surgeon; Walter Lea, George Washington Boyd, Henry Hansen Knaactty Carl Augustus Gortz, - Adolf Dressier and Nelse Ivorson, seamen, and Ah Sam, cook. The remains of Collins were sent to Cork, Ireland, those of Boyd to Alexandria, Va., and those of Dr. Ambler to Philadelphia. The remains of the others were buried at Woodlawn cemetery, near New York. About 125 gentlemen more or less promi nently connected with ithe Republican party in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Maryland met m New York city for the purpose of perfecting an independent Republican organization having for its object the nomination of presidential candidates at the forthcomine Republican national convention jwhose record, would "warrant entire confidence in their readi ness to defend the advances already maHie toward divorcing their public services from nartv noli ties." UniSn motion nf Pjirl Schurz a committee was appointed to perfect an organization covering all tne States and to take such other action a may be deemed expedient. jj Thieves entered a jewelry store in Troy, N. Y.. .blew open the safe and carried away property, valued at $45j 000. Vbsskijs arriving at Boston report pass ing immense icebergs and ice packs. ' Some icVtergs were from a half to nearly three tru-as long, and from 100 to 300 feet high, Wasnlnffton. s Thx secretary of war received numerom telegrams showiu; riiost satisfactory prog-, r ss in the work of relief sto the flood suf ferers along the Ohio river and its tribu taries. ' - , , The President nominated C. S. Palmer, of Vermont, to be associate justice of the su premo court of Dakota; Max Weber, of New York, to be consul of the United States at Nantes; H. B. Trist, of the District of Columbia, to be consul of the United States at Mozambique. - Senator Dawes Kas been authorized 'by the Senate committee on Indian affairs to favorably report a jbill providing for .the punishment of trespassers on Indian lands bv imprisonment f or-j one year or $500 fine, of both. This is specially intended to keep Payne and his followers out of the Oklahama lands. j . ' Senator Plumb has reported to the Sen ate an original bill from the committes on aricu ture, making j the department of ag riculture an executive department, whose chief officershall be the secretary of agricul ture, ii The Senate has passed a bill making au Wiual appropriation to provide arms for the militia. The bill! appropriates $600,000. The House has passed a joint resolution appropriating $ln0, 000 to be expended among tho Indians for educational purposes. Secretary FoLgiIr has issued the 12Cth call for bonds. The call is for the redemp tion of $10,000,00') inifbonds of the three per cent, loan of 1N82. ' ' '7 The agricultural I appropriation bill, as completed by the House committee on agri culture, appropriates $430,590 an increase of about $ M, 00 ove?j the last appropriation. The bill makes an appropriation of $8,000 for the propagation of the tea plant. . At a meeting of tike Democratic National committee in the Arlington hotel, Washing ton, held . for the purpose of naming the time and place to hold the national conven tion for the nomination of candidates for President and Vice-President, every State was represented either by a mem ber of the committee or a proxy. VV. H. Barnum, of Connecticut,presided,anl Frederic O. Prince j1 of Massachusetts, was secretary. A motion was adopted that the Democrats of each forganized Territory and of the District of Columbia be invited to send two delegates to the national' conven tion. Upon the thufd ballot Chicago was se lected as the place to noia tne national con vention, tha-. citv receiving: twenty-one votes to seventeen for St. Louis. The date for the convention Is July 8. After issuing the call for the convention the committee adjourned to meet next in Chicago on July 7. I ; , Thr National Greenback Labor party has issued a call for a national convention to be held in India narxilisJ on Wednesday. May io, 1884. At a State convention of the Indiana Green backers in Indianapolis a full ticket, headed bv H. G. LeOnard i for eovernor, was nominated, and twenty-three resolutions af- firminfir the principles ot the ureenoacic Labor party were adopted as a platform. South and West. Reuben Hart and! wife (colored), residing three miles from- Crockett, Texas, went to church at night, and left six children at home Mirni with thi door locked. At 10 o'clock the house was aiscoverea to De on ure. um It hiimrl rt miioklv that it was imoostdble to save it or the children, every one of whom was burne 1 to death. The eldest was a ooy thirteen years old. t A freight train left the track near New PhilAfolrthia. Ohio, ton account of a mis- niarad switch, and at second section follow- fl .tA i-t-a . mail slomrkliishinflp WAntTV. two cars and two engines, and killing four persona. ; w- FhcAvv snnwitormi have prevailed in Da fcota and Southern Minnesota, and the rail roads have been blockaded. A' ctcxone "which struck Amberson's, Ala., demolished nearlv every house in town. Fourteen persons were reported killed. The South has been visited' by a tornado which destroyed thousands of houses and killed hundreds of people in Georgia, Ala bama. North and South Carolina, IoniRift.na and Mississippi. A firR at Jackson, Mich., destroyed the Union hotel block. occupied by a hotel, 4-.K0n.hn. Kvinrs bank and other business houses. ' One n aa was burned to death, and orSv at 7s:- fr.nr rarAons were fatally and one sera iniured. The tjeeuriiary loss is about $175, T body snatcher, wa arreted, ana cyhfeMl that he . and Be Johns- ha I entered -tf ie nati medical institution, where they Itoldlfche . "D : .1 a. i. 1 : c . j..' : . two others were, arrested fori com pUcitzsin the terrible crime. ; L" The breaking of a dam on the Loa AneJes river produqei the most disastrous &o&d&&r r . j i -i ; f : tu. 1- j i.---- of Los Angeles was Completely inuCda' Sfd, and forty b.iildings were swept away. B dreds of families were obliged to afcan it?n tbeir homes a id seek shelter OK :.&io hills. The Igps-amounts to $150,000. F;in Los Angeles to" Mo. are, a distance .pf OQ miles, hardlj- a mile of tho Southern ftsU o track remains in p a,; and east w- 'ffsn Gor-gonio, 'eighty mies, -the devastation is equally great. Ihe Calif brniaSonthernr -i tad from ijorton to r-an Diego ls also was ma out. Travel in all direction1 is suspn(Bd. It will nrobablv be two months before1 5 Sm- munication can be proierlv established ? fee' ports received from towns in theSoujStrn portion of the San Joaquin f alley aanot4ad the heaviest floods ever known. "is Two colored men iu iail at Ibanoniiv., for assaulting a woman, were taken otftrby a iurious inuo auu uaugeu. t':&, , j 1 1 . . . ?v B. F. Barxes, a -prominent cItizeti-of Booche, throat. is. . killed his wite ana cut hi m Protracted illness in the "tamSrs is assigned as ths ca". Foreign, - A dispatch from Berlin asserts j. mat nnhiiratiVAn fiflrmdn- American ''eitiieiiS - who return to Germany are again being rigort f sly subjected tq military duty. It says, tocy' -Siat tne uerman ioreign omce iguui;tj it ysieu Statgs Minister Sargent, and conduct all negotiations directly with Washington., The London Times; Jn an article oF.tthe Iasker incident, implies that dislike tf.gthe country which deprives Germany : of S5our sands of conscripts is the basis of Bismiik's actidn, and that Mr. -Sargent's resignation would strain-the relations 01 uerhaan j, ,na the Unteti States. After holding out for weeks againitthe attacks of El Mahdi's forces the ; toS of Tokaf surrendered to El Mahdi's rebeVTbe- fore'it could be relieved by Generar.-ura- ' ham's expedition. The news was brou i to ouaKiru Dy uve noimera wuu pati tj .pou fromTokar. It Was stated that ;, oi ithe soldiers at Tokar who had families hair rendered, while the others attemfttt - to reach ouatom. upon re-teption 01 tutrew in London great . excitement ensued -'d a special cabinet meeting was calje5 El Mahdi appointed his brother, ; Ali Yftuf, governor of Barfour, and ordered. ;b -i to levy 7,000 men, ana marcn to jtusraoi to reinforce the muia body of El" MvSdi'a troops. General Gordon announced tbafVJfter restoring order in Kpiartoum he woulu iro ceed to Kordoan, to interview thef'r false Prophet. , '4 Osman Digma, the leader" of the" reflrls in the vicinity of Suakim it exciting his tpvlow ers by quoting the Koran, saying t! El Mahdi, the alse T)phet,isuivmeiy in tred, and requires little food and clothing. '- Nine sailors belonging to tha Britisroaark Ada Barton, from St. John, N. fi.vabaittied at sea in a waterlogged condition,: 3 ere di-owned. , if Bismarck's action in returning, the V Mker resolutions of sympathy to the vAmracan Congress has excited much discussion it-Ong the papers of Germany, the goernm3 gf or gans praising and tne opposition presa'tfcon- -demning the German chancellors frjajTse. Mr. Sargent, the American representay e at Berlin, is also bitterly attacked and- ehe mently defendeti by German papers the part which be has taken in the matted ;m A v nj-iation of Rnwltsh authors h(fes.:peen formed t aid in securing an EnglisMeri- An Indian uprising has oocunred irf:?ani- toba, British America, and twelve m-aited poiue sent to quell the disturbance ifg re ported tohave been masjacred. "' ;v Sir Hennbv Brand, who has resign the speakership of the British house of scaom-' mons on account of sickcess, has decked a peerage. t & t The three men who murdered CJouifVon Majlith, president of the court of cf tion at Ofer. Hungary, last March, nav-?been hanged in Pesth. - A great crowd. eo;$cted about the prison and cheered the condtlffed. item! MISCELLANEOUS Only threa execution-! for irmrdfejitook place in France during 1S83. , . '' "t Mrs. Esthe t Gantz, of Troy, -N. '--i?. died while on her kneei at prayer. . Many Western railroad camps are v for bidding the presence of Chinamen. ' f The ffovernment envelope factorv. i Hart ford, Conn.,, uses a ton of gum arab( -j,very year.- ' There are three women in New Yoitedime museums whose combined weight J-fl,965 pounds. California is at present producing it far from 18,000,-000 pf gold and silver tiuion I' annually. A street car driver in New York ??s he has picked lip'as much es $32 in oneiiSht by watching the tracks for lost money. Baron Rothschild, of London, uiyjdiving hniir. 'thA lArsrest steam vacht in the trid." The craft is to be 2.46 fe t long, and LN have twenty-seven ieeo peain. 1. - A site has been secured at Lutterworth, .n Kncland. for the monument of Jon Wy- cliflfe, which, it is intended, shall be sup to commemorate the nve hurj-areqtn aaiiver sary of his death. - "If The Rev. Henry Morgan has engaT9J 1 00 scales to On placed at every .police fetation and branch or the associated rcnaesies in Boston, so that poor people in that.p may not be cheated m the weignt of the cf they buy in small quantities. J" lw Wheat in Kansas is said to nave rxm se riously affected by the variaole Tfe.jther. the crop will be a total failure. i-5j Exclusive. u The Cabinet Album is cbing ifS&itlgh flia press in the Government :W hiing oflfiftfl. It is a custom for tha but 3&f to prepare fine steel engrAVing8 ?,;ich Resident .and hia Cabinet.' T?Cgje. en gravings are in the highest etylf'the art, and are bound in a cotteij&ading style. The book contains the ?Ttaits of all the Presidents and yiewfjf the White House, Capitol, etc, ' OnA suf fiMOT.t nnmhflr of copies are ? :-f Side to present the President and met&ers of his Cabinet with one each' and re iin one W. B. Cash, son of Cofcnel Cash, toe ti lei ist who killed Colonel St innon a. few yirs ago, entered Cheraw, S, ( .ran;! atU aftriSt ing heavily got into a U Blculty wit Tfvn Marshal Richards, who w g roughly Nrad1L ' Cash then left town, but 1 3 turned tbr" foUw ing , afternoon and ap; reaching 7 II ait&l Richards drew a revolve! and rapiiy ited three shots. The firt bi 11 struck fj inno cent bystander named Co art and tn5BeeCavl bit Richards, both, shoii .causing mo' '.fed wounds. Cash then mou ted his! hose nd rode rapidly away. . I ! ? Thk cabin of Beverly ) Taylor, a- coined man living near Cineintiiti. was b6Jrnefto the ground at night, act it was at I fret thought that the owner, frith his, wife a4 a grandchi'.d, had; perish in the f flat les. I.Ater, however, the bodi of allthQe Vre ,d'-tvered in the buildin J of the Ohio Mijyi . cal college, whither . thej had been' &r fed for dissection. Allen IngUls, a Tfotl nfcro cabin and killed the t;r vanrnateq, wkeuie bodie toa waiting 'Tr.on,' driven 'hy ftfp, Dickson, and conveved them to the-Cinin- Alternately freez rrg and thawihg.j fusing the ground to swell, has injured the Jgt8 of the plant, and in some f ountieS 'it iOeared SUMMARY OF CONGRESS Senate. Mr. Morrill, from the co iimittee on finance, reported adversely thebill authorizing the payment of customs duties in legal tmder notes, but. aske 1 that in deference to the -wish of another Seuat r, it be placed on the calendar. It was : pia-ed. Mr.' Morril also reported adverse;.- the b ll providing for the red''nnent of small legal teader notes; also, a Aversely, th9 bill authorizing the secretary of the treasury to make final adjustment of claims . of foreign b teams hip companies arising from the illegal action of tonnage (nes. The last two bills were' in definitely poponed.-..Mr. Blair introduced a bill to amend the pension laws . . . .The Sen ate further considered the bill to provide for the issue of circulation to national banks. . The Senate passed the bill making it a felyny, punishable by three years' imprison ment luid, $1?000 fine, to falsely personate; goveriijwalt officers or employes with intent to defraad:.: .Most f the ter -warspMft-. torf debate on Mr. Moi-gan's ame :dme.it permit ti.ig national banks to d?p .sit bonds of the separate States as security . for circulation, tnd finally Mr. MorgaiJ witiidrew it, haying introduced the same proposition as an origi nal bill.... On motion of Mr. Shermans i' oiut resolution was passed appropriating 10,000 to enable the committee on privileges pd elections to carry on its investlKations. Mr. . Hale, from the committee on naval affairs, reported unfavorably and moved tne indefinte postponement of the joint resolu tion introduced by Mr. McPherson, limiting the amount of money to be expended by . the President on the Greely relief expedition . to $500,030. Mr. Voor- hees offered a resolution directing the secretary of the interior to withhold ap- Sroval of seletions of lands made by the Northern Pacific Railroad company within certain indemnity limits The Senate con sidered the McPherson banking bill and Mr. Bayard delivered an address in its support. Mr. Sawyer called up the bill recently reported . from the committee on post offices and post roads, making all public roads and highways post routes, and after some amendment it was passed A resolu tion was agreed to directing the committee on finance to consider the expediency of provid ing by general legislation ror the change ot names of national banks, and to report by bill or otherwise at the present session .... Mr. Logan introduced a bill to provide that persons honorably discharged from the mili tary or naval service of the -United States shall be preferred for appointment to civil offices, provided they are found to possess the necessary business capacity. The Senate spent most of a day again dis cussing Mr. McPherson's National. Bank Note bill and the proposed amendments to it. Mr. Plumb argued against the bill. He said the national debt should be paid off as soon as possible, and what was wanted was something to take the place of the bank che lation as it was withdrawn from time to time. '' He ottered an amendment pro viding for the issuing of treasury notes to take the place of the circulation of the banks as it is surrendered. Mr. Sherman's amend ment, providing that if any of the bonds de posited bore Interest higher than three per cent, additional notes should be issued equal to one-half the interest in excess of the three per cent accruing before maturity, was voted, down. 42 nays to 7 veas. Boniwi Mr. Dorsheimer movea to susiiend the rules and make the bill grafting copyright to-citizens of foreign countries a gyecial order for Febi uary 27. Mr. Deuster said the eti'ect ol the bill would be to make b-xks dear anj to tax our people for thj benefit of foreign uthors. It would also throw out 01 enipioy- Ithent men who were engaged in mak ing reprints of foreign authors. Mr. Chace believed in internationa' c py- right, but was opposed to the bill in its present shape. Air. iveJiey wisuea to nav-s the bill fixed for a later d ite in ord-T to heat , authors, publishers and b( okmaliers. dr. 1 Dorsbeiuier's motion was lost The bill foi i the retirement of the trade dollar was niad , a special ordsr for March 11. Mr. Town- , shend said he was opp sed to the bill. Tha trade dollar had circulated at par until tne . bankers repudiated it, and the merchants re- f fused to receive it. It immed &.ely depre-: ciated to eighty cents on the dollar, and went into the hands of jobbers in New York, who now wish to have it exchanged at par. .A bill was pa&sed relieving trom the charge of desertion soldiers who sefve-l through the war, out wno, oeing aosent irom their command when it was mustered out, did not receive an honorable discharge ... . A bill was passed fixing the postage on tran sient newspapers at one cent for four ounces. . . . The House voteu to noia nignt sessions on Fridays to consider pension bills. Y Vhe liouse spent an n gnt in a uui'usuei ms crastnn. From 5 o'clocK at nishl until 9 o'clockdn the morning there was a d( ailock, owing to the fact that the Republicans de clined to vote on a motion to nx a uay iur the consideration of the bill to pe ision Mexi caft veterans, and the survivors of some In dian wars. At about 3 o'clock a. m., an ex citing discussion was brought about by a m . tion, made by Mr. Lamb, of Indiana, to fine Mr. Brumm, of Pennsylvania, five dollars for leaving theHouse after the contest of the evening had begun. An angry debate fol lowed, principally participat d in by Messrs. Hiscock, Morrison. Tucker, Reed and Hunt. At one time Mr. Hiscock was standing full is front of the Speaker's desk, where he was sur rounded by an excited crowd of adherenti and opponents, aud the services o the sep geant-at-arms had to be called into re.piisj tion in. order to secure some degree of order Finally, Mr. Brumm explained that he hac been misunderstood as saying that he had no left the House until the filibustering wa begun. He had left before that time. Mr Lamb then withdrew his motion, and Mr. Brumm was excused. At 8 : 15 a quorum hay ing been obtained a motiou to make the biil the special order for the 21st was carried by 175 yeas to 35 nays, and the House then ad journed. . , A communication was received from tha President, transmitting a statement from the secretary of state to the effect that f ha 'British government had presented the Bteamship Alert to the United States for usa on the. Greely relief expedition. The read ing of Secretary Frelinghuysen's statement at the requestof Mr. Randall, disclosed that in the search for vessels suitable for the ex pedition now preparing for Greely's relief, attention had been directed to the Alert, and that Minister Lowell had been instructed to inquire whether she could be spared by .... M. I A. HI ,'Mi,.nil T AM the British government; tuau aiiuiaws xuw ell was told the British government had pot forgotten the action of the United States in the matter of the Resolute, a Britisn vessel which - had been abandoned in the Arctic regions, discovered and brought to this country by Amesican sea men, purchased from them by the Amer ican government, repaired and then returned to Great Britain; that the British govern ment, in recognition of this courtesy, had now given the Alert to the United States: un conditionally, with all her equipment; that in response to this "graceful and opportune act of courtesy on the part of her majesty's government," Secretary Frelinghuysen had telegraphed to Minister Lowell that this evidence of sympathy "receives the highest appreciation of the President, as it will that of the people of the United States," etc. Mr. Randall asked unanimous consent that t.h communication be spread uion : ths innmiil nf the House, and tnat it be referred to the committee on foreign affairs with the object of having a more formal and appro uriate recognition of the aco of the British mvornment Mr. Finnertv ob.ectel and Mr. Randall then out bis request in the form of a motion, which was agreed to, Messrs. Fin nerty. of Illinois, and Robinson, of New Vnrir. to tin c in the negative The military academy appropriation bill, and the pott mntfl bill, with Senate amendments, were ti RonT Mil for the construction or a building for the library of Ckmgress was taken from the Speaker's table and referred to the committee on the library.... The tested election case' of Chalmers against Manning. A debate ensued, but no action Was taken. 1 Tne House ' resumed the . debate on the Mississippi contested election case of Chal mers against Manning. The monotony of the proceedings was broken by Mr. Curtin, who- took Mr. Manning; by the arm, led him. to the bar of the House, and demanded that he be sworn as a member. Mr. Cal kins raised a point of order, but the speaker said there wa'no necessity for deciding Ssuch a question, as the chair would not undertake to administer the oath of office to a person claiming to be a member elect, when the House itself was considering his right to the seat. '" The rruiority resolution, declaring Manning's credentials to be per fect, was rejected, 140 to lQuL The majority resolution discharging thaV committee on elections from consideration of the prima facie case, and leaving the seatvacant until the case was decided on its merits, was then adopted. '-''.. . - MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC, 1 8)L Smith PiCsell has a new play, called 4Ti:e Editor.'' T. C. .fccoLTRON, the colored tragedian started on his Southern tour. : I Mme. Mod teski mado a great hit in "ad jesda," brought out in New York. Se vent v ditferent operas were given at the Vienna Opera house during 1S-53. ; 1 Soxnenthal. the foremost leading ma 1 in ' Germany has been engaged for an American tour. ! Charlotte Walker, the soprano, will organize an English opera company for next ; season. Little Eva French, the child-actress, has been taken from the profession and sent to school. Teneseria Tua, the young violinist, comes to America next October for 100 concerts; price, $4(,000. ;Mme. Ristori will make her appearance in this country at the Star theatre, New 1 oi-k, October o. Mme. Marie Durand, the American la ly who created such a success abroad in the .Ojiera,"Giocoiida,"' will soon return home. During Edwin Booth s first visit to Eng land he was supported by a Manchester stock company, among whom was Henry Irving. Ten. combinations have gone to piecs recently on the VVestern circuit, and from all accounts the number will shortly be doubled. Mrs. Charles Strattox, widow of Tom Thumb, applied recently to Mayor Edson, of New York, for a licause to open a museum in the Bowery. Planqcette's new opera, "Xell Gwynne," has made a great success in London. It is 6aid to belong to the purest school of Frencj comic of3era and suggests Aubar. Harlev, a tenor of the Royal Comedy theatre, ' dismissed some time ago for singing out of time? has recovered JfoO damages from the director of the theatre. . Piccolomini, who was an operatic sensa tion in this country a quarter of a century ago, is now an old woman in very destitute circumstances. Her condition is attributed to her having married Italian marquis. It is said that Mary aderson will make a tour of "Grv&t lSriUtin nJ.-ii season; the year after she will follow Booth's example and act through Germany, and in the autumn of liso she will begiu a thirty-weeks' tour in this country. The liberal remuneration secured in France to dramat'c authors, who for each piece j-epre ented are entitled by law to a certain proportion of tha gross receipts, is direc tly due to the agitation on the subject under taken by Beaumarchais. There are in -London 4,000 professors of music, including vocalists, instrumentalists, , nd teac'ners. but excluding musical govern ?sses. There are about -1(h) shopkeepers, mu rica' instrument makers, and others engaged -i the music trale. In the provinces there ife 6,000, including both clashes. - An Officers Duties. A cavalry officer who attends properly to his 4uty has something to do. He has first much of the usual routine of the infantry officer to look after. Such as setting up recruits, foot drill, guard duty, target practice, recitation in tac tics, proper care of arms, clothing, equipments, barracks and bedding, the personal cleanliness of the men, &a well as their health, proper cookings of ra tions, guard duty, target practice, com pany returns and accounts. Now comes the duty peculiar to cavalry drilling the men on horseback, care and practice of three weapons, sabre, carbine and re volver, looking after the completeness of each horse equipment, consisting- of saddle, bridle, watering bridle, lariat and picket pin, side lines, nose bag, halter and saddle blanket. He must see that the saddle blankets are kept clean, that the men kndwhow to fold them, and what is of great importance, that they can belt their horses properly; also to study the horse's mouth so as to properly bit them, and in riding see that the trooper's weight is properly distrib uted on the saddle so that no muscle of the animal is unduly exhausted. He must be conversant with the proper grooming, feeding and watering horses, and also see at a glance if. the horse is properly shod ; whether the shoe is' too long or too short, and whether the hoof has been pared too much or too little. His extrs duties not common to the in fantry officer are two stable calls, stable guard and head guard to look after and at many posts to pack train, to drill, pack saddles and rations for eight or twelve days to look after. The cavalry officer must be theoretically, at least, blacksmith, grjoom, doctor, cook, veter inary surgeon, gunsmith, saddler, har ness maker, surgeon, and lawyer, when be sits in court martial. A Duped Tradesman. In London, lately, two well-dressed men entered the shop of a fashionable tradesman.and asked to see the chief of the establishment, whom they privately informed that they were detectives from Scotland Yard. The men said that from information received they knew that two "swell women" would drive up to the shop in a brougham and order drapery to-a large amount, paving for tne same with a forged check for 50, bearing the name of a well-known nobleman. It would, however, be necessary, in order to properly convict the women, to allow them to carry the goods off with them, and take the change of the check. . But in order that they should not escape, t ho detectives were to have a hansom with fast horse, to follow the brougham and take the ladies into custody. The officers took their stand behind the conn ter; the "ladies" came, ordered the goods, and tendered the check. They received tho change and goods, and drove oft The detectives immediately followed in their hansom with, the "fast horse." The tradesman is still waiting for the goods. THE JOKER'S BUDGET. WHAT WE FIND TO .-SMILE OTEB 1 tue aujnoKoim papers. , i THB SOKO. A Tribune attache yesterday heard -a skilled vocalist sing "Wait Till the Clouds Roll By." She rendered it : "Wah tab the claw raw baw, Jawyf Wah tah the claw raw baw; Jawy, ma aw traw law wah. j Wait tah the claw raw baw." And then she smiled so sweetly and. broadly over the well-merited applause that the corners of her month held a bo- . ciableon the back of her neck. 7-2?' march Tribune. . - A BEATS '. : ; .'jjAs member of the family, "there ain't nothin' can beat Maud S., is they?" "Oh, yes," replied Mx.Wigglesworth. "What?" "A tramp," replied Mr. Wiggles worth, with-a light and airy touch of humor. 'A tramp beats everything and everybody," "1 know one thing he don't beat?" re marked Mrs. Wigglesworth. "What's that?" queried her husband in mild sruprise. "A carpet," returned Mrs. Wiggles worth ; ' 'yon can't ever get a tramp tov beat a carpet. " A DETOOODS OIiEltK. "Yes, papa," said Beryl, "I am in love nay, more than that, I jiave plighted my troth. 7 "How much did you get on it?" asked the banker. "You misunderstand me," replied BeryL "I have pledged .myself to be come the bride of the only man I can ever love Arthur-Ainsleigh." "What j" almost shouted the banker, "that drygoods clerk?" "Yes," was the reply, in clear, reso nant tones. "I love him, and, despite your sneersf I shairmarry him. It is no crime for a man to be a drygoods clerk." "No," said Mr. Setback, thoughtfully, "but it ought to be." Chicago Times. 1 NOTHIN (BUT A tTLTJB WILL DO IT. A big clock hangs above the head of the ticket, agent at the 125th street sta tion of the Thiroyavenue elevated road. A placard ion the pendulum says: "Yes, sir ! I am tight." A passebger gazed at it yesterday and started to inquire "What is ' ?" But the agent cut him short and yelled: "That's there to keep people from asking if that's the right time. Ques tions used to averse from 100 to 500 a day. Now twice as many ask what the placard's for, and the thing's worse than ever. Keeps me talking nearly all day." New York Sun. PLANTATION PHILOSOPHY. De wise man an' de fool doan quarrel, but two fools or two wise men kain't get along so well. De man what marries a 'oman 'case she's got more sense den he has is neber allowed ter lose fight o' da fack. Da chile dat-too soon shows signs o' smartness doan turn out ter be de smart- est mail, i DeJust cotton dat opens is ' neber de fees'. Eben i'mong de animals 'pearances makes a difference, fur ef de blackbird had bright feathers . in his wing we'd think dat his song was much sweeter. De gigglin' girl generally turns out ter be de woman what doan laff much, an' lemme tell yer, marridge an a lot o' cliillun will take de chuckle outen de xnos' o' 'em. j De fox is not only smart, but he is de mosr perticular o' all de animals. He is mighty playful, but he nebbergetso fur Iqs' in de persuit o' his pleasure dat he neglecksjhis business; an as soon as he stops playin' he is so mighty cunnin' dat yer would tink dat he nebber paid any 'tention ter frolick. De . coon has also got some Inn in him, but it is a sort o' dull an' oberfed kine o' sport, fur he nebber plays till arter he eats an' arter - he gets thro', w'y he's dun eat so much dat he doan feel much like caperin ronn . Arkansas iraveter. " , AN EDUCATED GENTLEMAN. "Dis is de fouf anavers'y o' my mar riage, said an old. negro. "How many times is yer been mar ried ?" asked an acquaintance. "Ef dis is de foul anavers y, o cose I'se been married fo' times. I'se heard de white fokes sav dat it doan do io good ter edycate de nigger, an' now I b'levesit Heah yer is dun gone ter . school an' got a good edycation an' doan un'erstan' 'rithmetic yet I'se ashamed o yer, sah. "Uncle Ben," replied the acquain tance, "I neber went ter school much an' I kain't talk zackly 'proper, but blame ef I ain't got mo' sense 'bout sicb. matters dan yerse f has. De annavers y o' a marriage-' doan mean how often a man's been married." 'What do it mean den ?" "Why, it means how long. Anavers'y means year, an' in tuck from .de Latin. Ann mans married, an' vers'y means 'vear. ali' da lof when put togedder means' married year." . "Wall, chile, yer must 'sense me. 'Fore de Lawd I didn't know yer had so much 'ligh'enment. When yer sets up a school, dinged ef 1 doan sen' my Chil ian ter yer, for I'se lamed mo' frum yer in fiffprm rr.inirsden Ieberknowed befo'." T ken stan' mos' anything, but when a man draws out de En'lish an' de Latin on me, I'se bleeged ter gin up den an Jar. I thanks yer fur de inflimation." &.rkansaw Traveler. "2s'o, Henby," she said, with a coun tenance full of love -and determination beautifully blendd, "I cannot consent to"i0! your wife this month or even next mouth.! Perhaps I may in the gentle suih:e-tinie." "But why not sooner. dearest'?" aked Henry, with a face full of anxiety. "Well, since you press me for my reason; dear Henry, I will tell ,you. The newspapers say there will be thirty-eight snows this winter, and I want to enjoy some of the good sleigh ing. I have noticed there . isn't much sleighing for a girl after marriage, Henry " The wedding will not take place till April. mtuui&unujt j. rut taript. ; . 000. copy at tne JBureau ox arnaung. I-''- L ii
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