North Carolina Newspapers

Ibtaittfcirf B sWfl -tV-i- i.ttX MoJmrj ' -! '-, it? f 2 -. ; r. -ef".' 'r a .at I .1 tI.i--i-t.:- f . . Pi. - -: f mm W I - . i Ar.6i't;g iitia. (ait ad u". a. m w.t. i"' - 'H. C. WlIA, Miter and Preprietvr IS'. -tap s -4- fOL. il 1 ri- U&fcS ' TO Uffl 1$ W 1 M . MS M J M : Ai l vras rrr i 4 IP I' i CKINCH AM. N. C. .... WALTER H. NEAL, . . - .1 :... . . . i- i ..... H . Ajrpnnar ati la JAMES TLmi; 'rlkr Old PMoAw MWItec- ATTOlRriCYp AT JLAjvj RocniNCHAM, n. c. : I mil BURwELL & WALKIR, ! T : . O It BR YO UR ! Cols, Wets, asi Biirial JA8. C HiiTOHirison, WADESBORO, K. C wuuM Mm. . Vf . JONES. NEW FIRM., HEU GOODS. j i CilOCpjSJ , Heaiff and Fancy firpceriei ,i it mi i inyiiny ttMMMf-WJMkiJt 1 DUTTCR AMD CCQO, AM kiijd.iljllw.lTHKAl 0rfrA8H. . ."tto, and w. thaU know Matter tuI . i Call nd m HAMLET T t. -yv. IABKS CI1Di7 Goodiit Oroeeriaa, Sbea. Mc jao VOW tha' oatiTva ara aatlalwd. Barfora bajias. ) Mid m:. vataeKof ' 31T GOODS. OROCKR1KS, r . HATS, AVi; BOOTS. : SHOES, CTJTCKRY, .fBAOOH, SHIP BTTJTT. A Hd almoat aimiitiln axliil K w. Kr iot to csl I and aaa mo hfm hn.inT t.' m m. "Zilr"tM' i T .7Vv. parks: 1 B0CKINGHATI,F. C. afwyn- b& SnppHsd with the tMatrth uritot fctortle. . K ATEJt I . '' Ta' I board sad it.ntii i,J.....I.i-.ii..B Board with room, per month..,.. -.1;. 1M 1rr tofw tro.'........,..;.. 16 u asssto ssa llHIo 1M- B-iard Vi fifty, from. Snfl .;....-.;.. i.i.Uy.i-Ji ' -SO, H. BA.RNESj, Proprietor. J. janffi 'M U HimTOTE, .rADESB0E0,li-.C.:jl i A. HcfiKEGOK ' A. B. I llSioclpaT. jamis w. Krj-oo.'A. b..' :- I BKSflK W. MARTEn, - lusll USAVS. . . , - I wlU haain Mondar. Janaar T. tM. toition, per month, tfi. S3, and $4; sonaw axtra, $8, Coot4nfrtt fa. p. annnai. r Bowri-Sia-SIJpw month. :'t .. - f 1ST" For tartiUT partienlara apply to toe Principal, j. '.-. -Ten HQtlon Car Wheels. j iTbere svrttiaoTe tban 10,000,000 iron!! af wheels in oae on American railroads, j aaid the nuister meehanic on oxia of. the trunk Hnea, t'and it requirea 525 patntds of pig iron to make one . wheel. About 1,250,000 Wheels are worn -out every year, and the same number of new ones ninst be made, to take theirplaoea. The iron men are called on fc only a small proportion jof the 312,500 tons of ma terial required for ihese nw, wheels, however, Xoij nearly 290,000 tons is sup plied by the worn-out wheels themselves. Formerly the lifeotj a car. wheel was estimated at! eight years, but the reduc tion of railrbads generally to the stand ard gauge, J and. ; the improvements in loading ana unloadinff faoilities, nave materially decreased the length of ser vice that a wheel may be depended on to perform. ,j The muformity in gangs . keeps' . oars jin ' more ' continnoos nae, while the-decrease in time oX loading and ruiloadirig enables them to be put to more acliv ervioe even where they are run only on short local routes. . ; : "These figures do not r include the wheels on paiaoe coaches and the better claeof pAAsenger eoabhes. The wheels on-that grade of rolling stock; are now , madealmostjeiolusiTely of papers They are aa aerviceable as iron, and. ooxnbine lightness with .strength, a great desider atom where upeed and economy in mo-' . tivs power , are or paramount import-' 'ance.: I- A Vintner! 61 fioo was given against k Fulladdphlfl nim lor using an adverthier Uieutsin4i)artoapoUKnstanip. .. ; BBITES THEPEOPME.fe I . 1 ' m . -if'.' .. 1 . ,. J ' i j , 1 I". HEEL 5l3il' JT-.. U " il l cia:-A.E.Xjoa?TB. MANUFACTURES AND 0;... dBoflm. o ! -1. ui ir ir.vi 1 : ijnff JULIUS ! WW :.j . Wheftif Mill 0tfll. f OormMID forUbl. 4 . ..-,,u. Reiptn, Uovm and Steam and Water Pip HUFARQ PROUPTLY ATTEITDED TO. Address, y -rtj a 0? ALL KIMUT BOTH :r I haye the largest stock of I3E irorders prop.fjf for chn.3Mim . 's: LA I D A E -AND- Lighter Ones Donned. I ':' :- ' f: . ' v " ' ' ' , ' ' . Handdomer NOW rfofcted by; Our Representalijire In Mtsw forlc City ! AND ARRIVINO WEEKLY. RELIABLE Lowest Prices f f CONSTANTLY IN STOCK . . ... : 1 4 . I huh AND Flour; Meal, Meat hnd Salt, Sugar, Coffee and Tea. Butter and LardMMplases, by the .car Joad from New Orleans, and Canned Good? in great variety, x "Dixie Boy" and Watt Plows, Steel Plows, Hoes and Shov- - , .' fK Hemes, Traces and Co'lare, Bridles. Sad-. . i , I j dies, Line, Backhands etc, and 1 Evsrytriing rjeodod by an Agriculturist. asi.ClVsil 'Eclipse'; Cotton Seed Plaptam, Thorha. Sheeting, R R- afflk' Snuff, J. .at P. Coats' rparation at factory prices. fib EVERETT al'iili' -tbU Y t-fw baa JH'rJi-3n.:olla:il4. MotiM ir4 A VVVftf. . Rkjcn Brass Fittings tt y MOLMI iUTilL. any house in toe State,' and lJJrrERS01L.I. Badsteada, and anything in the 7A8ES AND BUR AL SUITS AL- & Baraca, CHARLOTTE, N. C. SIDE I Vhan Evei ! BEING ANDREWS GOODOWT STYLES ! A, Guaranteed. ASSORTMENT OF - Oli.Eiiry Wigoss, Harrow.; Pee Dee PUjds, Rockingh Spool Cotton, and HoraeWa Bread V It': : &l GO A NICE FANCY GB0CER1ES! WALL dnMr crices still con tittttea. "Alftr seVaml about ane-thirdlees than the ngtU&r prio, present pdint to a general, rednctibn in drugf aTl si fsa4 nlali'AiHM m 11 ama Iria Minf.rV work on Uie pedcBtal for tne jMnnoioi oiai- te pedcBt. Ihan thirty days ''thMulaVWill ba CDbiprete, nrt SheHajnasoilL Ul bcfciA lajjLie; Itdne Ifofc&niiy pijbber l'ltbl joBwai be ready to receiro the" statue. Eight large iron rods will nui down throngh the column to TJrerent the fignro from; being blown from the stand. . Funds are rting la l the rate of -abons fUOW;;, .and there it, aow about ' 86,06froii hand - . :-. i -; , "hk supposed decrease in the world's supph of gold in not borne out by the facts of the ease A. Uermai writer says that w have-now four great gold fleMst the 'western ''part of dnt- ted Btatns, Australia, Siberia and the section of South America, north of .the Amaeon. The output of these gold fields is rJifficletiUy large to surtain the view th means,, will :b found when the detnahd became reslljr urgent to fur nish gold enough to meet the world's monetary wan(s for centuries to come, if not for all time. It is quite probable, howertr, that as ciTiliza-, itionf advances gold wiy be used chiefly for pur poses of ornamentation, and will f urtn but a very small part of the circulating' medium of the world. ' j It is quite possible that "ChihesV Oordon is a crank. His religious convictions arepecu a r . Be bclieveaf that this life is only one of a seriea of Urea which our incarnate part has lived. He ha little doubt of our baring pre existed. In the present life he believes that everything was Buttled, from the Teiy begin ning by the Almighty, the doctrine of eternal damnation arouses General Gordon's intense adignatioa. . He believes that everybody will be savednot on account of their worthiness, but because of the infinite goodness of God. I The creed of this strange man is said to resem ble that of Cromwell, but it greatly tempered by the bumanitarlanism and catholicity of the age, ' ; i Tn English prejudice sgainst masqnerada ibaiia la ao deeply rooted that it will never he removed. Public masquerades are not permit ted in England. ' After the restoration no attempt warmtarto'reetoYe the court masques and the few public affairs held m the Georgian era were soon frowned down by public opinion. Of late years masquerades have been disallowed by the magistrates, and nobody regixta it. Tha English say that intrigue and mystification ar essentials of Italian and Spanish masquerades, and such amusements are, therefore, incom patible with the spirit of the English people. In fact, the preachers and novelists seem to agree in regard ng a masquerade as the short est possible cut to lonhet i ' - ' . f). iljcit'. Joj.aj fTt4ifa. the :oTer.V . t...'; J Xs :.. Tiny. (n.tltntr t. n.-.l. portant improvements in his destructive piece. 1 he gun can now fire on an average of, about 3,100 shots per minute continuously, and the latest inventions enable, it Ao be fired at any angle. The doctor was first led to invent his murderous gun by . humane motives. He thought that if a gun could be invented that would do the work of a hundred men. and re quire but a few men to operate itthe horrors of war would be greatly diminished,.' and the end would come Very rapidly of every struggle.' The first Gathng guns were purchased by Ben Butlnr and uaed by him at Poteraburg. - They crested consternation, and the news', of them went all oyer the world. They are now need In all wars, and are purchased in im'tnfe quantities by foreign governments. ' - Thkbk is no doubt that a gang of expert dla. mond swindlers are new operating is tha country. A great -many south African dia mond cf l ydlowiah or strawjcolqredtiBt have been sent to New York, where they are cutj set and sold for what they really are. These dia monds are worth from one-fourth to one-twentieth of the value of the white or bluish tinted brilliant. Within the past year diamond ex perts have discovered a process which removes, the yellowish tint of the African diamonds aad gives them the blue hue so highly prized. It will be recollected that a few days ago a ladj offered Borne of the bogus diamonds for sale in Boston and the fraud was detected. It is be lieved that a great number of thr diamonds now worn are of tha Boutb African variety.' They look ao much like the geuine article that a test is required to ascertain their real value.' KiJ Perkihs has been examining the wheat fields in the winter wheat belt from Philadel phia to Emporia, Kansas, and from Toledo to &t Joseph. Tie says that he has not seen such a proa pect .for wheat & ten years: . 'It is good everywhere. Pennsylvania will raise 50,000, 0O0 bushels this year. In Michigan, Missouri, and Illinois the crop Is phenomenally good. The ffect of this great crop of wheat is being diseounred at Chicago. , Wheat has beerT sold for delivery in Liverpool at a dollar a bushel This will break up wheat raising in Europe. They can't afford over, there to raise wheat at a dollar a bushel on land worth, 9300 an acra. After this year America will raise wheat for the world. This year's yield will be 600,000, 000 bushels. , Thx guilds of London just now are the sub ject of parliamentary inquiry. - Theas guilds are antiqnkrian irehcs. ; Starting at first as politics! corporations for the protection of their members they subsequently became direc U d Into religious and commercial organiza tions. At present the only remaining func tions of these guilds is feasting. Some of them have aoofimuiatcd 'vast lurid, but nobodv knows what they do with their mouey. As tha lA v.r. lml.rA. f V 1 . , T .1 .1. . vJ- . guuiw uv -4WM5V- .v mj uid tvusmesa I or which they were instituted, it has ourrcd to some of the progressive law makers tfBritUa u that they may ho in the nature of . monopolies or public anuses, and it. Is probable that they will be ciosely investigated.' That sneh socie ties should have so long outlived their useful ness is remarkable that is, if auy thing can be remarkable In a .city 1 whera a fond is still in existenca for buying faggots to be used iu burning infidels. .- ; -; ' :-': r- v." -J' IIohtaxa is looming no as a great CatOe terding country. In 1880 there were cattle in the whole territory. To-day the Yel lowstone valley alone contains mora than double tha number. Montana beef shipped jto eastern dties raadily brings. Ave casta a poind waaa, hrongbt pi-a competition, with, Texas beef. . The'differenof is in the pewfor tha meat obtains from ;fetdiog on Montana grass. IhamahilfOint lafavor o Man tana is tha elevation of the country ' above sea .'leval. Good jadges af cattle wMisay.Ui'al th altifiads islhatUOBthinant C4unsiderttkB tud of Alices Cityy tb reat 9ck ceutro t wUJt .AH4.JTl.'4! u'i: ' a-. ' - a . 'a- V . 1. T . . ' 4, - wv , ' AT f. owiuieumaw tne-f cattto,-take ca.o.thera. i r. arrteauure saajte ke the western wheat area 27, O,O0e. acres.. This is nearly the breadth, sown ttpwrioul crVpef Akff V and a per atwua' 26.400,000 to he, hartt4i , Comparing with 4h area han-csted the presented hreadth' is sa increase of Ere per cent, The ptseht atoa i greater than fhhl Bt tii-a jtSfaetta ytfcr by m " QPOXCsenei dsn the -raeiac coast, and nearly VlOQp scAheurji states. ;Jhere is fftt! 'ki '-4ft bit tm', ' ... I "Iffrir'conshtts - af rweBrT-lsevei rtste. one 1 3tedeHrdistri1aoBe lritory. There are l.-mlr&niiip nf 1 1 i I IT nfT H i la utaS i a ' . TK tr ef Hfrxiooh 30h,000 inhsbitsnts, Puebkt 900,000, ohd' Leon 120,000. Civilization out side Of the irB Wtltrfis tery'pnMtttve, Mspy of tl'iliuisA i villsgeit- arefhbilt 61 turf or of cahe stuck in the ground; without S window4 withoht a tablti cKsh-j stttve r bed. Tet a Village of this wretched appfarahbe will have a ftiagniiio) ht stehe hurch with nave, choir, chime of btlls, frt ttcd ceiling and resounding dome, With a font' of onyi. or spper. with a marble pulpit and silver chancel rail. . Oittwda of the rillsges, in the country, every few miles the traveler comes to a ivast straggling one story building, covering1 four or five seres, with a tower in one corner surmounted by a bell This Is a Spanish farmhouse. or a haci et da. ThPre aH l3,0o0 of these haciendas in Mexi?o snd they own four-fifths of the land. On,e owns 4,000 square miles and another own 10,000 square miles. The proprietor of a haci enda lives in a ducal state. , He has . soldiers under his command, a physician to attend his tenants, and many of the peons an his place, fcre virtually his slaves, because' they are in debt to him and 'he law makes them his serfs so long as they Owe him.; The rapidly multi plying railroads will, gradually revolutionize business and modes of life in Mexico, but for generations to come our. southern neighbors will be regarded as a peculiar people. ! 1 . T! MTSICAL AM DRAMATIC JJvk. Patti has deckled not to sing in Lon- ouu bus spnu. ; Mrs. Lanotrt returns to New York short ly to play "Pygmalion and Galatea. D. D. I.U5YP. the editnrwbo wrote the play "'For Coiigrr ss,s luxt gone to Europe. "Mita. ModjksjCa hns. fixed upon June 7 as .the date of her oeparture for Enrojie. Tu gross rev?eipts of the .seventn per foruiancen of Hapft-son's otera company in Bau FracOlsco are stated to have been $ .0". 0U0. .... .',.' , Tag statement that Theodore Thomas wonla conduct concerts at Coney I!and the coming strmmer is contradictod. He sails for Kunp in June. , y : 4 Katk Forsyth .tiiewti'essjot several t'.iou sund dollars' worth f t personal effoite by tha fire Monday afternoon in the Kt George flats, iew. York...- , ' . "i i ' 'i M. Pai.ukr. of the T'i!iv.si;i;,i theatre, ew ot-k, told a wftru r nt Pari t-t ha "V V 1 " n n. 1 i" tti .. " ftv his auther"rigb.ss iu "The Banker's lianUU-r.'' .- j!-;- : . Gi stax AanrRG themanagexof thoTlialia company, of jJe-w V-t, fenegoi.itirrg for an Amorican tou- of the f ami Meinincn com pany that made suck a sermtion in Loudon a lew years n go. f At the Borlb Tlieatra Iloral last yeW there were twenry-:wen rcprcsonrttions of hkf pearean rliys. ..Seven ii of h's ploy -si wera t'xL Thore wers.ei2ht" en reprutatioU of Schiller andhiw of Got -h WHSxnot artinr,. Joe jifferson load.' 'pleasant -life on his plantationof ton thousand acres in I-ouisiana hi the ! rogin occupied by the AcadiAnsr&-.hing and fmiiting, and sur roundod by a colony of grandchildren. , " As orjraniMticn known as 'The New Ens' land Musical Charitable Assocatkm"" has beeu fornied by the theatrical managers of Boston, its objecVboiug to care tor juek members or the profession who derive no benefit frorr. any other society. .. i J, - There, was a novel dramatic performance In London recently, when the members of a deaf-mute mission presonted "Tie School for Scandal,r and ' 'The Sorrows of Mr. Snooks. em 't'?lT i"- the sign language and to an ao-Ueru-e of mutes. . -- v'j -L'. - I V. IL Crosbv. on of the rgrrtor & negTo minstrelsy, recently diod at Reynoldsr tta. tie nrst nppoarrni. ns a rrun-'tret fort; yours nia 5He entertained Prwrident -Pol' arrl fjunily at the W&itH house- m 1846. i Mr. Crosby was a bass singer ' Hkbr Antox- DvOttA:, whor-e "Stabtl maier 7 has won for him a hi-,h rank anvmg musica! compo wrs, rms riaa a ounoui nistory. He Avnst born September S, 1841, in anoTcnr BMiemian town, of hnrhbkr folk. '' At the afra of sixtoen h. ei t-jrod the oiTiaB scboof at Prague., hnvhis exhibited nrenouslv mnrked m-jsical t Ueut. At fiie age of twenty-one ha piayci in tno iock row pi- tno violas at tb opera hottso in the Fame city.. 8ubsxiuently brf.K RnhlTM tnil f.icf : MMfrnMnw W rM j ' ...... 1.7 . um.iy 1 ujiubiu 4117 fTZ nins, became infwrstl In his fortunes, and then -Tonchim brought his chamber inUsio into prominent notice.-,. . Dvorak's music waa first introduced to an English audience by Kerr Manns, who, in 1873, performed the first v. ma oibtwk aamm ODD SDI0IDE3L . . 1 Davto S. Bawmns, of PhJladelphifti kiilec, Dimsen Dy oeatuig nis neaa vnur a stone. w Mart Thompson, of Sirrath Ahincdrx, Mass., hung herself because she was sufferinj from nennughv :A' t. : Ama b-srnmathmg her body to the doctors, Ehxa tefjatarick, of bandusky, cut her thjoac wild a naiKisaw. , T , BXNJAM1X BVCKW ALTER. Of Yji nraur.fr. Penn., hung himself because he hnained be naa wrongea tne Aiennomto cnutch, of which ae was a memoer. f; .1 ; Having had poor crops for several years ant lost considerable stock, James Vahvire, of At lanta, became discouraged and killed himself mtn a snotgun. - -v , j ' 'Afte having.; married three husbahdi, Mm David Dutcher. of Sullivan count.v x Y., killed herself because,. aa she said, none of A Crew's Inttnfgence. The sentinel system of the crows is very complete. . Their guards display a remarkable degree of judgment and in telligence. They will raise' cry. for a man with a gun long Itefore he gets in range of them, and they are . equally wary of a nvm Vho creeps toward them. But a team may pass close . by without, disturbing, them, and they wil even let a. man on foot pais .unnoticed if he hasn't a gun and goes boldly about his business, .1 had a curious example of this when ft .'..first begtui tcr. study their habits. I eoramencedT)y trying to shoot them, nt .though I had passed ;thm oIch enotigh lfora, I could not get near tb&araf ter I begior carrying a gun, I went out with tny gun every evening ' tor weeks. I crept; behind fencea and lay m wait . in the ' jbushesv hut eoold Mti get a, ahot, at them. One ,dayj. however I atruok upon a plan which I have aince operated - very, rraexsfully. I held my gjm dose to my side, the bar-' rel' runrmig down -the fideof myi leg imdwfdked JbolSljI Sfiim the.ron4 with. 6u,t taking any noHoe; of thenv ' With; their firariHLUrirttoV f or 1 ''Irwler' t ier Jet ne" 3pa(i Tcs?w'i? to 'thera, tf , VI ttirneda-'aoeDry: ana nre- x .- - . Eastsra an zniHia i- bouhesvi-tfeefi fcbit9c&Kigirtr vwrirm. nigav oeenwaDj, TJurteea lamiu of. taearSught-fflth flajsM raxtwi witt tebiulrlcT'wid outy tne wnusi mnainins j ; Jrjeverat, oi.Aoona; rerj.wa'eited into .tne JUa theran church there, and the next day cut his wife's head oft. ' Be was kesierally -thought 'to Dejnaana,..,;; j- iMfi h1iLii,( Tkk First Rational bank, of St Albans, ti t!l3ed Its deers; being unable to meet iti fchlur?tkj!lt , ' i - - V Ti New Yhrk'S&fe lte' pfserJ the bill prohibiting the saasntfadtare and stU6 8t bleOr Bargarine and and butterine, t , . " Johk DrLUfAj was hlanged! at' Easton, Penn. , for the murder of his wife. - t o t At he:TenhrftlTatfa; laioW fftatf ecuivenwon in -M entpwn, etjn., Uenerai W. H. H ' Darts, of Rovleatown.- wa Bomistcd ' for 'Congressnian at large, three rreswp itm elect -fs at . large were fat ixl hBmm&tittr), ' six delegfttfis at lafgfe-tt the uatittnai. ctJriVention ivereelectedj and district ablegates .: aiid eieftorl were fchonerL Tha' platform adopted favors "a tarift for revenue lhntted t- the necesnities of nib - government" and --"the- abolition of the. Internal ; revenue -' system. ' of taxes and such 1 . adjusatneflt . "t 7 the existing tariff duties- as will be cHhsiSteiit with these principles:" denounces " the leo-' toral fraud of INM,r.opposea ccntraliz-otion. monopolies, subsidies, etc , and doclarr that " Samuel J. Randall is the choice of the De tnocracy of Pennsylvania as the caadidate of their party for President," J A Ufc stiffef ing frotfl frtchlnrsria has been tdmitted to Bellevtie hospital; New Yorfc.and iscasoiSbDg watched by aU the doctors. A piece of muscular tissue about the sixe of a pea taken from his ami wad ttytsA to be rwarming witti trichinse.' '' Thk British schooner George Calhoun en-, countered a Okxicester, (Mass.) schoon-v at sea in smklnz coixlition; and while trying to transfer the. tatter's crew of five fishermen to the former vessel tbe boat was swamped. The flve-fishSnrrxfi and a fittifcif belonging to the George Calhoun were drowned.. After ward the George Calhoun was wrecked and her remaining crew of four men were rcscBBd by the schooner Zenobia and taken to-BoRton. Joseph Agatx, a retired merchant worth about $",000 000, chiefly in real estate, com mitted sui Me in a New York hotel by shoot-fa-r. Hewa a resldeiit of Yonkera, N.iY., and left a note stating that lie vras suffering from nerVotts prostration, and had not luidan hour's natural sleep in four months. . j After the lapse of nearly a month four teen of the one hundred and fifty odd miners killed by the catastrophe at Ft ahontas. Vs., were lound, partly decdauposed and dia. fhrurad almost berond identification, ., , it ! . . ,Wa.Mngion. . ' The House comnuttee to Judiciary adopted Reprewntative' MayberryV adverse rt-portoiV the joint molutfon jroposing a eowtitratiohsr amendment tn give twmeft the Tight of suf frage. Mr. iJol-sheitneri . was of. opinic that it would be ftdvisahlo at, ,pm, fy ture time. give women the right to.vpa..' . fcr. , A Majority 6f the llotwe committee on public lands have adopted n repoft'deelaririg the - unearned portion of the Northern Pa cific land grant Jorfei ted. ; ' ... ..'f - '' ! Mr. NEWOOMB. Batiiralirt of the Jeannetts expedition, appeared befjere. the Hotise inves-: tigation oommictee .ana.testuirxi as to toe trouble on the vessel doling the ill-fated voy age. - ' ' ; .;o-jv' I'M. rr.inniittf e of tle ITfrtutsorhi'iiltreet tution pruposing consntutionat amend mht relating to the- cwrency,i; ;, Trja proposed amendment is as f ollowsr " TheKgiSlalave Cers grahted to Congress by the Consttu shhtl riot be constraod to include! tha power to pass any law making anything' but Sold and silver coin a tender tn payment of; ebts except after a declaration, of .war, or in case of reliellion or invasion, when the publjo safety may demand it" '. ; . Inspector Woodward, of the 'postofflcei department, appeared' before the Hoiif com mittee of in v estiva: 1jb .and explained, the good results winch- had-fcUo wed-tte star route prosecutions in. a reform of .the errca GkkSrai. Adam Badeap, who has been TJnitrd Stntea consul general at' Havana for wo years, has forwarded hia resignation to the state department at .Washington. - - The Senate in executive session passed the resolution authorizing the Prwidont to reo Ognize the .African International asxiciation as the ruling power in the. Congo region. Members of the Housecommittee on public lands are of cqpinkm that a bill will be rw-.l ported to repeal the pre-emption and timber culture acts, and to amenq tha homestead act ... " -:'' ... ;'; ' , CoMn-rm returns of the postal revenues for the first and second quarters of the pres- i.fjt fiscal year and estimates for1 the third. qaarter'V'Iygwtng sesuitst wross re cwipte for tha quarler" &&$r$G$l$t2!gU$K .1883, $10,395,817; for the quarter ended De cember 81. Me-a. ajrertaincd. tll.l-W.OW; esti mated for the quarter ending March 3L, 18 i,' fiO708,614: estunated for tbe quarter ending June Si 1884, tl0,737.S4i; total estimated revenue for the vear. &i3JiGl!,44t; total reve nue for year ended J one SO, 1881. t45,508,!Y falling off tn the revenue f or the present year 2,24(J,24fi - -' ' : ; r , . . foreign.' Prkmtkb Gladstone ' made a powerful speech In the 'British house of commons in sup port of Jhe franchise bin. He defended the extension of the franchise in Ireland as an act of right and justice. - ,y - - A revolt lias troken out in Mexico, A the mtrchanta in the republic, closing their stores and protesting agfunst the the enioree- ment of an obnoxious stamp' act President- Gonzales insisted upon the collection of the ax at all hazards.. - . -. A riot against the employment of female labor, has occurred At ludderminster, Eng land. - ' PSlNclt BrsitARCK has withdrawn from the Prussian ministry, but will still keep a watch-; tul eye over the affairs of imperial Germany. : A ruue at Oruqganl a small place in ifora . rio, destroyed fifty houses. . One woman and two' children were burned to death. ; Great damage has been done by floods in Armenia, . v - . . . r'-. ". ' - O.B-HALP rrf Msndalny, the capital of Bur mah, a city of 90,000 people, has been destroyed by fire. . ... : . . A rosmvE proof of the connection existing between the anarchists of Etirope end ttieir alleged confederates in the United States is said to have been obtained by the jSwiss. authoritiea. , -J. . fe tAmra bghoobbovsn, oi tne wret-Ki-u. steamer Daniel Stemmann, made at liaiiiax his formal statoment .of tlie terrible disaster. He suiii that he had overrua his 'reckoning in the fog, and, till fatally too ktr mistook Sambro light for that at another, point He thought if - guns had been fired by the watch ashore he might have been warned in time to escapettba peril. - -. - - -. . . . Fiva French missionaries and tliirfcy cate rhists have .been inassored at Thanhoa, a town in Topquin, , . '. GknfraI Gordon shelled the rebel camp near Khartoum, and kuied forty of the enemy. ' Iu; several engagement between General OordonV troops and the Arabs the latter were defeated. - The rebels about Khar toum are , estimated by Gordoa to number 8,000. r; m r ? A. M. GrLUWPT & Co., london mer chants, hajye failed f or 1250,000. Z: :fc:' r? Thk Dutch aahoritica have' blockaded av portion of the Acheeh' coast (Sumatra), witit s view to ec3sirig jtsruTeupon-tu rajah of Tanom to t oroa, him to raleaaa the crew tha wracked Enrlish ate-amer Nieero.- held eaptive since laaAovember. ' ' ; : Frva ' natirma tha ? Jtaltan. Ameneaav Fiwacfa, German cod Engliah--are demaaoV lag indemnity from Bay -for. daraajes sua tamed in the recent Rbelliea. .-. . - . Chaxles Rkadb. the noted Entlish hovel- 1st; died a few davs A20 in London, at tha age swvuirtyBearai hiiM wfKt exctoflfrelift was created la Kirrain?- hiim, i - nd, b y the arrest of a ntato name.f Daly wiic a n..mbtrd dyrMtnjita yomta aad; perjspu j' jaCErtlilI4Hjijf.,tlie Chicago rrf6tme, mao wd. argdrnfent "before the Senate -om-nntt.ltc a-sidpofet j-ojBd,tn,'fayoft of the redurtioH of the preseut pound xtip oP-rj-agewHi-iiewqkaperB fcsuisd fronf tha fiWof pulita. fff ,? ," t ,t t whfc itollhWd '.wtnhfeiu1Lttia at Ming;.'' hlo, u the Bight of ,, Jiux i , ; has oeca inrMcMWthhthTl'irorudtPaM J .W Va to-.Awo; .tea iff imprfcownvMit, dni;ta I na v a line of t.'iiiO foi1 manslaughter. The col-1 I listoa resulted m fhelms of sev-ontar lives;-- m , .Q'JSTK.tAXD's. municipal, elertioin resiytetit in a Kepublicah vktoiy by about .3,000 nut jortty. -ixwfe.o'.fo , i.::!-.,,i-.o.ii -.m. , . R T A vTTrn,iA it, r.lte1fi. etf TT5rfc V NatiLhnal bank of Moumoulih; Iil.,ki lost 100.i .vuuoj the .institution 'f tunas. )j iwauawoH,. and ronipelleel it to suspend. I Ait amuiw!rislmve ' H iJrincirtiiaiti by ;tbe rocentriot-t, strangers Keeping away tfom: tne itty, it women no ingaijaidtafehUiro out at -night. .;: its ar.TrT T-a 4"rv a rViin T i 1 a W cS nM1 TllinASO ' show the condition of the whoat, clover, tiirio L thy -and apple crops to be f aye able, .wad -the pfni-a crop uniaoraoie. ,; Thirtv' bundings. mostly frame sfructrrres oocunied 'as stores and dwellings wra di Stroyed by lire at Hampton, V.. resulting in a total estimated less of JO0.O00. ' Several persons were ht jured. rH'his is the third tuna Hampton has teeu swept by the flarnmt ISLisviN hetrfiX Were in a skill on the rtver at "iclcsburg, Miss., wliett their frail, craft upset, and six of them were drowned. ' AImatehiaIi advance in prices for wheat and pork has taken place in Chicago. 'J Aires njnrmvoon and his wire, an tsrm couple livhurcear Karidnn, 111., tycre found dead in thoir ,bod with their throat s cut. Jhe house had been ransacked. A hired man was arrested.. . ........ . The sccretarv of the California ftate Ag- HcuKural ' bureau predicts an unexampled wheat crop lor tne i acme coass SIBI-SLaRY of cqxgress. Senate. . . I Conidderation of the Blair educat ional bill was resumed. Mr Hoar's amendment was adopted providing that the amount to be dis Trit1r thflriit v-ar be 7.000,000. in tha second 'v'eat !0,!fl ",000, and in the third year ft5,000,00 . and fhe arpTtrgriation to be: then dimiiushed at the rate Of 3,000,000 yearly until tl, B-rxiirntinii nf tho eiehtli Ve?u. when the anrn-onriation shall cease -;.. .Another ameiwlnicnt oflered by Mr.' Hoar, tha equal opportunity of education be pveu to all children was udopfe-d. Ir. Sherman nrfrrad nn in.nvndment. which was adoptod. pivwidius tlathe money shall be used only for mnimnii schools not s!taruin ui charac ter. The bill Was finally pasvjfl by thirty- f three to eleven! It.apyropriatps fUjOQiw to be distnliUW anions tha (states nvpropor-' tkm to' their ulrteiurjyi ta-tae oasis ot two census of 180. he payments to extend over eight years. A' - 'O ": The bilL&rtl le relief of GenerljW. TV. Av eriH was 'repox-ted favorably . . . . Bills were . tiaiisxl .nrinrikiri9 t htA consfcmetion of two bridsres oVer the Rio Grande rivet. '. . .thsq naval aitpropiiation bilj ' Svaa ' considered and amended. ( . . -1 Mr. Hill, Troth thd committee on post offices and post fiails, R.poi"ietl favwalily to the Seii-. ate an origin.it bul to establish a postal te.'.o graph system. Mr. Hill ieuiarked tliat tho ' comnutteo were ttnaiilmous as to the first tea ' sectiona-of the bill, which relates tb doing the It work-by contattcts with exiRtin companies,but j tnac a uimoriry or tne fouuintree were op posed to the sections reJatinpc to the coistruo tion ofpurcha.se of linl .by tiie" government - Thd hill to nr.-Hiiftt flnntviin Thoinaa G f'TCorhin, wiw'nu tn.- lttin.l h1, -f t'u- ! v.r. to tilt- j .ink oi -ri'p r-'idn-iral ')J ut- JAUie 'i-t mar twttcneu mae4niteiy.. . ..'4ve navitl j-, propiiation bill was debated. ; The naval appropriation, bill was further discussed and ami nded A bill was i'.ttro- ducedito provide for the protection of rail road employes engaged in incer-state comnierce; isThe eommitteo on forei"8reh.(io!is r ported a substitute for tha bills to appoint a commission to visit the South American co;m- . tiieSj and to authorize- the Presiflent to invito ! Mexico .and the Ctsnt ral and youth Anv ricaii countries t send delegates to a convention in Washington..' - Thoi subRtitute, whi-h was; framed By Mr. . Filinghnysen, with-.tiie ap proval of ' the iTftsident, nppropriates, through an-amendmeut to the eonsuljr diplo- matic bfil, 100,010 to enable the Pn'sidenr. to compensate a commwsion to, bo appointed to ' examine and report- upon the relat ions of the United States with the countries in ques tion, and upon the best modes of sjcui ing in timate national and commercial relations,etc House Mr. Converse, of Ohio, secured the floor and moved to suspend the rules and pass the -bill restoring the duty of 1875 on wool. After the thirty -minute debate allowed by the rules the motion was lost by a 'vote of . 119 yeastoiati nays:. ..Mr. Springer inrroduced , a resolution looking to preventing tlie con- j fisCation by T;he Italian government of tha 'property of the American college in Rome ....A bill was introduced bv ilr. Ixvcriii2r granting a pensioa of $7 a month -to all JJiitod KtKt?MTS5S.4Bnd sailors who serv sixty " ij 44....... . days during. thIaT-wr .TJie llotwe adopted a l-esolution dccl.arLi3yA.JCS the pi-esent Congross to abolish or roducViSiL. tax on spirits distilled from umiu. A bill was passed dpclarinrthatthesiiprr5rue' court .of I every Territory shall consist of a Chief justice and three nssociato justices and 'providing that every Territory ltalr be di Vided into four judicial districts, and -a. disj trict coiut shall be held ia - each by one of the justices -of" the supreme court. . . .A bill was passnd requiring tbe governor? of the Tei-ri-tories to be resident of tlie Territory to which' heis-appointod at least two years proceeding appointment. ' i -A bill was paswd fpr the adoption of re-: Vised internal reeulationsfor preventing col lision at sea.... A resolution, was irrtaroduced tind referred, providing for an investigation of tho present system of railroad transporta ' tion of live stock.- ' ; Mr. Eaton reported a substitute for th PresidentiiU electors bill, which was referred . . . . A bill was introduced by Mr. Bowen to provide for the Tflrot-ection of employes of railroad corporations engaged in inter-StAt commerce and in the transportation of freight by railway in the District of Columbia and the Territories of the United States. - After a short debaters. House passe l fhe Senate resolution offering! ft reward of f, 0 X) f or the recue of 1 he Greely party. This r.ward, Mr. Ellis explained, is expected to stimulate the sealers' and 1 whaler. who go north early in the season, so that they will Le on ttw aleit mil take pains to explore tha bay coasts and islands and seek for traces of the .Grecly pai-ty....ld cohvnittee of the whojc the pension appnprlation bill was con ndWetl.. The bill aft-fopriatest. f'20,(i84(4X) and rmppropriata aii amount estimated "a! frHJ.000,000, The appropriations for the cur rent year wcra $12000,000, of which only t2B,ft.noo were expended during tha first half of the year. The Dynamite Scare. 1 The dynamite scare in England is sub siding, but the papers still continue to harp npon the duty o( America to stip presa' copspiracy. The Haturday lie view says:' "The new form of Irish war fare is as dangerous to Americans as to Eneusbmen. If a portmanteau insr to an Irish conspirator who is lo quit America for Europe should Dlode at the Fifth Avenue Hotel board a steamer -filled , with , Americans com i air to England the whole ' wbuld at once present itselt to' the A icaii mmd in quite aiitferent ligfit j m:iyt 'fl-Z&ZX anyaerieeof ctragwaolJh- Bui even without such a -P-eW 0f -M itmust.be believed tltrt. to,S ' of the.lriah te America wZm$m?m? U'-WP'rMvWii are erloAea-agaimil lMBaiat.?.t4 'Z.Tbx. GbStme -of Kew.Tor mk Wi .'jUk?. v ? proved that Hey haw s tmiWk V corrosion icr t e mWlS. - NATIONAL EDTOf TIOIT Ttum : Blair . Bill as ir ytawael tUeX T..i44l ' " J " ,4j.4'4 ' The Impikt liointu . ef the Blair Bca ? tional bill, aa it passed the pnitod States gen- -tJadwent before- tha House, ajra aa " foL' ':! V. t 1 1 n-hioif. tin- aiffh vatw next after the passage. pf 4.his Oct there shall be ajmuaUy. propri htod from the money ta the taaaury the Xol Jowiug jeirm witr The first ycjpwsnrri -r x iKRi-iHiii. .inn NHLTU1U . T ia .w- sixth year'the stun ofJ.W0,000, tha Jwventhj year the sum or f(,uuu,ww, tno inv" ji the sun, ot ,000,009,-Which' ieTeral .tamsj shall lWried to Ksrore ibenefits ofl common at htlflcbKW to U thei drew of the school age mtrthcreaf hvina In the Unfed States;' that sUch "Oney shall annually bodividedsunong-andiiaWta ' several -States and Territories VirS. f portiott which ittie "Whole numher PJK offiaaVf'tbirdrttowi . jta000,trr fourth year te sum of W-M the fifth -vear the stun of $11,000,000, tM ineacawfio. being of tbe age ox sen jy.'Y-VTU.a a over, cannot write, beanr to the whole num- ber of such persona in the'lThited-BtsteSi -- ; Buch comrWtwna shall be made according to thp bsnsus laflwe. h v ' .'"it " ' . No money shall be paid out under. this act to any State or Territory that shall not have provided by law a system of free common schools for all of Its children of school age, , witnout diatinctioii of" raco or color, asitner nx the raising or distribution of -school revenue or In he school facilities affdrdedv trovided -that separate schools fortwhite and colored, children shall not be considered a violaaoo of this condition, j ; : , , That the instruction in the common scnoois whereon these moneys shall be expeiKMd shall -include the art of reading, writing andspeak hig the English language, arithmetic, geo graphy, history of the United States ana such) v other branches of useful knowledge as maybe taurht under local laws.;" " "T . The money appropriated and apportioned under the provisions of this act to tho nse of 1 any Territory shall be applied to the. use of ' common and industrial schools therein by tha . secretary oMbe interior, . '; -f No greater part of the money appropriated under this act shall be paid out to any State ' or Territory in any one year, than ;t3ft sum expended out of its own revenues iu 'the pre- ceAing year for the maintenance of common schoob'not Including the um? expended in the erection of school builtlings. :. J A part- of the money appropriated to each State or Territory, not exceeding one-tenth thereof, may yearly be applied to the edu cation of teachers for :the common schools therein. "' ' No part of the educational fund allotted to any State or Territory shall be used for the erection pf school houses or school buildings .- of any description, nor for rent of the suae, .. .. The moneys distributed1 under the provis ions of this tact shall be used only for eomrdon schools not sectarian incharacter. . ,. !.;.(: vJ .'j.-;.1'' T; "' "rj -i-t.- . Gkirintatr CihAiri stiH1 hobbles about Oal crutches. 1 1 iJ!.-r ;- .- ', ' - Pvspepsia and nCTirajgia torment United Slates Senator Edrhttnds. ' ! ' ' ' . ' RoftA BokcmDnu pkerW are1 always sold laiig before thpy avr )inted. , .;,-:.- j TnK' youngest son. fof peneral Robert EJ -riee' Bob, is a quiet farmer. He ves neaa ' rUcbmontl, on the James river, ;'';' .' GstfERAic Frkmotti's health is riot bad, all though several newspaper reports hpiva -reprej., sented that he is failing. Mrs. Fremont, whd Is in Washington, is excellent health. . k i D. O.'i Mtlij has . been given - a yote of thanks by the ' California legislature for hia gii?ltothStateHf apieeeof stotaiary-reproV sentihg-,,Colrrm!rim before Queen Isabella." "ls'satd to to e-Mest Odd bellow5 HTinglnlthiJ ' country. TT. ia mnrA than nifrVSf.ir !Mta rkld. and has belonged to ,Jhe v,plerj sfityn ' jearfe?'J '',j:i -' ' !' - ff -"f,'i 31RS. Kooers, the 'lexas cattle queen, 19 fifty years old . , Her husband, twenty-three , y a-her tnior, gaveop prehih-V'but she " peri mitten nun to 00 eiecxea to tn ; xexaa teg- . 4 i. -i; ..... cinvFHsnB. wiirra v. , r.on nnmrnr n monk-Trf in'T'tah,. was bbr hi Kenthcky and is a : luul-brotnfr oE tiovcrnor- L.nttanden. . He is six feet three inches high. ""He.was a ' bria k) commander 'at the. age pf nineteen Bill 1 general fit twentyrte. .j,!, I .s ... - Mrs.- James G. Blarve is tall and not slim,, ; a.id lie is ; grave and dignified in manner.' Rjrn in New Engian l and well educatad, she met Mr. Blainom Kentucky and was his first ; love. 1 - Hei companion and cousin is Miss' Abi- . ga l Ho ige", ;tbe "Gail Hamilton?- of literal . in iv. ( . . , . " . ,-,.,;; ". .. . , . "';'.' IIf.nry Gkorgk, author of ''Progress audj P6va-ty,'". began life a printer; later he be ;; came a sailor, then a reporter on the Sacra men to Record, the owner of the San Francis-, " co tost; and afterward a lecturer. Ha is forty . five. ,lliswifeis of Iri-sh parent-age and Aus tralian birth.' v ". ' 1 .: ri; ? Gkokox ".vtlliam Curtts1,. tha Kqrper' Weekly t was asked t?.!&'-.i.,V viewer recently: 'tAre there anj h . L i-;--'" ' on-either side of tne'.watw- of ;v' '.'w k' -- -' isef?- -His reply was: .J,KQt..OBi."tiV.'',?".;tl'H''-,'i -no important literary mrut yrW : 'J-'c:&t2 tinier way" . i f ; JjM:WA:i , -aUAUb.oauutrr is. 'p -A f t , W$$,tW V . creti Imacioation,' the. the firiest humor, o million dntlam iV V 4 V- 0 ..-J-ij 5 most npTTjcht torecieaiTbj . .' .v'i ' ' gai4-Ptand.vigc?rpaJb; chtnt of spiMmmviV tisstiepanerot wMt&to8'i.;f . fmmeBse lortune,.) -He'n. ir;'Vt' '.' 'i teentfa street in that cifcv i; vZt- where a New York wsFthjaj;"tA: ....... ... -r - .' . . . i.J' .-;'.".yi '-?'. 1 ' JioBsesttei Repes - delicious and new '.way to iaki 'jgrJ Cilirig fof a' layer cake is'to cbjop' som Vk I figs5 very tine; set in half a pint or two '4 thirds of a pint of thick sweet creAsi - where it wil) get very cold, then whipjl jj light, .mix it with the chopped ' figs anil spread oii the layer of cake. ' ' - 7j; '; An old-fftshiflUAd nriidinr anna - 1iifl .'A 4 ;an be made in an instant is "simpl v milk rweeterled and flitvoted with gtatctt hatr' meg. This is really palatable with corn etarch and blaue-mangei..' '- v ' - , f If tho bread of which yon are' to inako Bttiffin'g is sgneezedj dry after it has soaked in hot water it will ' be much nicer. It will , not be so Kkelf to bo'-iiXS soggy,' . but will be light. Fof veaor ; for lamb the stuffing should be seasoned 5 ?vi highly; a little onion and pstralet-Nsitlk"' 4 .1 a.r. .'. :-.Tf- iu5 iwm. auit are ueoiaeAiJ appe' .- tlZtug. -. ' .; -. :fti ,. ixML A iieceeaary precanhon when 'xoisimg..: a large andfat loin ot mutton "iaarmi it with paper daring the earlier' etas-;,?;4X of its, roasting; otherwise itn' fa;.wdlvM-' burn, br at least will ';be:-''afl?mo!;-.'Bad ' CodtiRh is much nicer if it is picked in: v-'': very small bits and then " soaked lor "auw Aivuf. 44U vjuiw m iuiwu uub Ulw fVtU U ; 7 ': water or . scaldedi. in the latter caae ifrt J belong- i Lecomes Jiard'iin.i.ilft-1. nfeK-lrTW aoont i and weU imtrWi'asmW'atRfsiif or on I Ir-i-j Ki'va&& r ''i'V r. t I. v.. .4... .- . ..... -: 4 . ... r . . - - - -f .