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3 Cot VOL. II. SALISBURY. N. a. THURSDAY, JANUARY l7, 1889. NO. 16. TflE STORY OF. THE BEE. i i -." J DAILY LIFE OF AN INBTfSTSlbTJS LITTLE VTORKEE- A : What Goes On Inside aT5eehiTe ( The Queen Bee, the Wor Jeers and the Drones. , t A bee is all business. That1 is a brief summary- of the remarks made to a Wa'Mngton Star reporter by Mr. J. P, Miller, a representative f of the Bee Iveeners' TTninn. who has been in the 'city for the purpose ojj securing legisla-' tion to relieve the bees from the neces- sity of competing With glucose. - Ac cording to Mr. Millar, this is a land flowing with adulterated milk and bogus honey. His L'nion desires toejet a law enacted requiring men who make honey without the help off bees to stamp then wares, so that the bees will not have to suffer in reputatiou for any shortcomings in their honey. ' A. oeenive, .Dir.. juiuer saia, ouerea an example of a well-organized, well- ; governed commuuitv. It is a i sort ol petticoat government.- The working 'bees, or those that form the vast majori- ty, are imperfect! They are, so to spA ly aeveiopea iemaies. ;aK;the voters, 'lhey have everything in tneir own nanas. Y hen they lose their queen they can make a new oneJ They can anddo also limit the number of male bees or; drones, The active life oh a working bee fs about twelve weeks. It attains us majority when it is twenl ty-onqi l nai is, twenty one days after tbe eg"! is deposited the bee cuts its way out cY the cell and be gins its work. ' Thef mbryo bee lives in the eg three daysjihen it becomes a little wjiite grub, a.l in this larva shape it exists eight dayy. Then it passes into the chrysalis or vjpa stage. Some mem ber of the (T y seals up trie ceu, ana there the fcn'v Lfideroes during its eleven Ant 1 fronof "?m o t- 1 Ml caavs'. conf. ii f rom-a gr" a wingea bee. i When . it is fully mX, Ad it cuts its own way out through, the can of the cell and begins its attacks', on the stores of the colony. Ordinarily it eats voraciously for 'several days. The other colo nist? encourage it in gluttony. It gets fat with layers of a sort of bee fat or tallow under its sleek coat. This tallow is the beeswax. The beestake it and make the comb of it. If a I ee hap .pens to cut its way out, -however, at a time: when there is a. glut of beeswax, and no demand for more combs, it is rigidly limited in its diet,' and it has to xqc) abroad to collect honey or pollen, or stay at home to attend to domestic duties. .Theie -is a. just and wise division of ; labor. The queen bee, or mother bee, as she is known in some parts of the world, has nothing to do but to attend to the duties of maternity. . She goes a .out depositing an egg here and there in little cells prepared for their recep- nurses and bring pollen and water, with which they feed the larva;. The, bees go on continually storing honey, so long as the harvest lasts. They have in view apparently, the possibility that a season may come wheu the yield of honey will be too small tjast over winter. When the cold we yjer comes the bees become torpid; and'iA ernate.. This period of hibernation, lasting until theblooms ap ,penr again, does not teem to count in a : working bee's life. Une hatched early "in the summer will spend all its little life forces in twelve weeks and die be-! fore the flowers are gone. One hatched - six weeks before the bees go into, winter quarters will' awake from its last long sleep the next spring and have its last . inning then, living the next six weeks of active lifo still due it in the ne'tsura mer. ; . ,', - The! queen bee attains an age almost patriarchal compared with that of its i humble sister. 1 he queen "will live from ' twoand one-half to three years. Each swarnThas its queen,' and she will brook jio rival When a swarm becomes over populous it divides, itself equally, and v?ue-half goes off-' with the old queen to seek a new hive.. Of course provision has to be made for a new qileen. The working bee can so influence- an egg as to make a queen of it. They huild about it a oueen tell or royal cradle. Food of richer quality and greater variety is crammed into this cell. The royal larva passes then into the pupa state, and 6even' days later the new queen bursts forth in all her splendor. Before this occurs, however, it is supposed that the old queen with half .the swarm has with drawn, leaving the new beauty a clear . field. It happens sometimes that lower ing or bad weather prevents the exodus, and the old queen has not got away when the new one comes forth. In such case there is a dreadful combat between the two queens, which does not end till one is stretched out in death. The queen has a sting, but uses it only against a presumptuous rival. The queen, soon after her appearance, following the dic tates ot. an unvarying instinct, goes abroad to seek a mate, This is called ''the bridal tour." It is an exceedingly dangerous journey for the queen, as her toy wings render her night laborious, while . her larger and more showy body renders her a conspicuous object to birds - and predacious insects.- If she , loses her way and. seeks shelter in -'t neighboring hive, she is immediately killed by the inhabitants of the hive. l here is not mucn . nospitanty shown a lost ' or exiled queen. Having : accom plished the object. of her iourney, she returns and never again leaves the hive, except -to lead forth a swarm in the manner described. The queen goes 4n for two' or three summers lay ing thousands of eggs, beginning - in- the1 earlv summer with a1 product of forty or fifty a day, and at the height; i me season laying as many as a tnou sand a. day. The limit of a swarm of bees at whi: h the death rate and record of new births ""balance each other, .is figured out 'to . be "about 7q,000. A 8-warrd, however, generally numbers from 30,000 to 4l,000. : The queen bee never mates tut once, and this immense progeny is the result. . , Of coarse, there have to be male bees ifor the queens to mate with. . They are ," "not king bees, but vagabonds big, fat, .lazy, fellows, leading" an idle bohemian troubadour existence, and feeding at the public crib. They have no stings, and no tools forworking like their busy sis trg'have. tThey are tolerated for a time - by these methodical and economical little workers. When the mating season is over though, tke drones are ruthlessly si&ugnterea: in workers do not pro pose to feeq these creatures after what ' little service they can render the swarm lias been rendered. The drone is usually permitted to bask in the sunlight ox life and seek the favor of some wandering queen for about forty days. SELECT SIFTINGS. There are 9,000,000 eggs in an eet. . "Jumbo," the giant elephant, weighed ten tons. . ... , ' ' They have discovered a chalk mount ain in Montana. - A webfooted boy has been born ir Spmerville, Mass. v : An eagle sailing half a mile above the earth can see a field-mouse. The oldest city in the United States, St. Augustine, was founded in lq(J5. The entire front of one of the banks at Riverside, Cal., is constructed of onyx. William Rufus, King of England, died the death of the poor stags which hi hunted. -. . A "tootometer" has been, invented which will make a noise that can b heard ten mile 3. If the ratio of population in this coun try was equal to that of France w should have a population of 53l,b-if ,o8iJ. A talking pianO, operated by numeroui keys-ttfid producing words of all kinds, i one of the curiosities of a New York museum. The Russian Minister of Railways hai issued an order that in future all pas sengers who play cards will be "judiciallj pursued. ' . ; - Ahornetfew into the mouth of Har rison Sands, near. Syracuse, N. Y., th other day and gave him a sting whict resulted in his death. In Leominster, England, there art growing together an oak and, an ash which appear to have only one common trunk 'for four feet and then divide. A minister at Strousburg, 'Neb., preached .his farewell sermon Sunday morning, ad at the urgent requestv oi the people repeated it in the evening Printing wa3 introduced in Iceland as early a3 l-6it by the Bishop of Holum, Gudbraad Torlakson, who set up a press, and had the Bible printed in Icelandic. Just about fifty years ago stoves cooking and heating stoves first began to be generally used. That was when Americans began to make stoves for the home market. As late as 182 there were as many as 000 persons confined for debt in prisons of .Massachuseits, 10,000 in New York, 7000 in Pennsylvania, 3000 in Maryland, and a like proportion in other States.1 Such a thing as a hare going mad is not recorded in medical works. Such a thing als a March hare being madder than a February or an April hare is said by4r. Perkins to be. an absurdity. The "IiufTalo cow" is so called because its head somewhat resembles that cf the female bison or American buffalo. The horns of the females of the buffalo tribes are almost wholly undeveloped, and are covered by tufts of hide.. A Bohemian. mechanic built, in 1858, a bed that, as soon as laid upon, began playing airs from Auber, and lulled the occupaDt tosleep witn aionan sweetness. At the hour setfor rising, it changed its tactics, and thundered forth one clashing march after another until relieved of the sleeper's weight. . ' . A Jiutland, Vt., family, while eatins dinner, discovered a small tin box in the centerof the butter. It was .opened 'and found to contain a "reminder to some unmarried Christian gentleman of his duty." The note was from "a girl eighteen years or age, good looKing ana an excellent housekeeper." A young man of Albany, N. Y., whe prides himself on his ability to do queei things,, now astonishes his lnends py tossiug up a grape, and as it comes down cutting it in two with one istroke . r t.-:- . Ti. Ol nisraz.ur, it tuua. uvci uc weeks to learn the trick, and it cost him the end bf one of his fingers before he succeeded. Material of Books. If we of this stirrinjr generation were suddenly Molted backward to the time when the art of writing consisted in painting with different kinds of ink, or trees or throwing stones into a pile, we should begin to appreciate our current privileges. V Visitors at the British Museum are otten entertained by the examination of specimens of the earliest modes of writing on bricks, tables of stone, ivory, the bark of trees and the leaves of trees. In the Sloanian Library is a nabob's letter on a piece of bark, about two yards long, and richly orna mented with gold. There are also several copies ci the Bible written on Ealm leaves. The ancients appear to ave written on any leaves they could find adapted to the purpose. Hence the name leaf, of a book, referring to a tree, was derived. The Babylonians made their contracts of business on tiles or broken pots. The treaties between the Romans, Spartans and the Jews were written on brass. The speech of Clau dius, engraved 'on a plate of bronze, is preserved in the town hall of Lyons, in France. There are wooden manuscripts which must have existed pnor to 1423. In the shepherd state, people wrote with hons and awls ; then ' they invented an iron bodkin. After that the stylus came into use, made sharp at one end to write with, and blunt and broad at the other for effacing and correcting. But the Romans found these sharp instruments dangerous, as vicious persons uled them for daggers. A schoolmaster was killed on one occasion with them in the hands of his owncholars. JIagazine of Ameri can IRbtory. , ' Using: $ngarto Make the Fire Go. : A great mystery in a certain house hold in Boston has been solved. The head of the house, who bought sugar by the barret, often wondered "how in the world the family used as much sweeten ing as they did," and his wife, who was not much given to going into the kitchen, said , she guessed they didn't use any more than other folks. But one day she did go to the kitcken, and arrived just in time to see the cook in the act of throwing a scoopful of granulated white sugar on thefire. Sugar is exceedingly inflammable, and its application mado the fire flash uplin fine shape. The girl confessed that she had Jregularly used sugar. to quicken the fire. 'Sure,mum," she said, "we must have the fire, an the coal burns that slow that me heart is broke .waitin upon it Y SOUTHED PWS. HAPPENINGS 1BRIEFED AND STRUNG TOGETHER. ALiji MOVEKK3TTS OF ALI)IAXCE JTEU RAIL ROAD CASUALTIE3-4THB' LABOR FIELD. . ACCIDENTS CBOP J2ETTJBKS. A LAB IA. The suspension of at Birmingham, was a LT a mi - ounceu on. xnur8-. day. "Want o'f patro is announced; as the cause of the plant will be removed General Q. T. And uspension. The: Anniston. r ... j won, ex-cmei oi was unanimously police of Atlanta, Ga., ilected to a similar pmce at Anniston, by the new municipal administration of hat city. He was the best chief of po ice Atlanta ever had. On Thursday, while standing before the fire, the dress of Little Willie Allen, ed two . years, 'of Selma, caught fire, tnd before assistance could reach him he vas horribly burned, from the effects of which he- died, after suffering for two lours. The negro murderer of Mrs. Kellan nd a little son at Pratt Mines on Sunday has not been captured. Searching par ties' are scouring the country in all direc tions, and a dozen or more negroeshave been arrested on suspicion, but none of them were found to be the right party. The representative negro politicians and educators of Alabama, in convention assembled at Montgomery on Wednes day, passed a resolution inviting white immigration to the state after a stormy debate lasting two hours. The conven tion also passed a resolution that it was for the interest of the negro to cultivate and foster good feeling between the races. . ' ' At Lincoln, on Sunday, Marion Davis, colored, had a quarrel, and Davis apolo gized for his conduct and asked his wife to take a walk with him. She consented, and they walked out into the woods, a Bhort distance from town. Suddenly drawing a knife, Davis turned on his wife, exclaiming: "You can't fool me again," and cut her I throat from ear to ear. The woman lived only a few hours. Davis escaped. " Robert Raines was arrested at Moul ton on Sunday, charged with the murder of his brother, Rev. Benjamin Raine3. The prisoner denies all knowledge of the crime, but the circumstantial evidence against him is. very strong. Two broth ers and a son-in-ia.v of Robert Raines, named Sims, left Moulton together Thursday afternoon, iust before dark. The' three men were seen in the road, a few miles from town engaged in a quar rel. Next morning the dead body ot the minister was found near the spot with a knife blade in his breast. 1 LOUISIANA. Sine buildings were burned at Shreve- port Thursday, entailing a los3 of $75, 000. i New Orleans is busy getting up sub scriptions to build a $ 2, 000, 000 hotel. Subscribers will pay $2.50 a month oy each share of stock until $100 is paid. . NORTH CAROLINA. The North . Carolina Legislature adopted a resolution of ' instructions tcj members of Congress on the question of internal revenue and the reduction of the tariff. It urges the immediate abolition of the internal revenue and such a re duction of the tariff as will lessen the taxes on necessaries and implements of farming, and retain the taxes on luxuries. At Durham, just before time ' to quit work on Saturday, the roof of the exten sion "of the works of the Durham : wash, door and blind factory fell, carrying six carpenters- with it. Strange to say, none, of the. workman were fatally injured. The carpenters were engaged in sheathing the roof at the time of the accident, which was" caused by the spreading of the rafters. A mob of men who live in a place called ScufHetown, and are locally known as "Scuffs," made an assault on the house of a man named Harp, two miles from Redbanks. The assailants had for some time shown feeling against Harp. All of them were white men. ; They be gan a fusilade, and bullets entering the doors and windows wounded several per sons in the house. The fire was returned, and the combat became general. A bul let struck Harp's wife, aged sixty-five, and killed her instantly. ' The Grand Lodge of Masons in session at Raleigh, on Wednesday, elected the following officers : Samuel H. Smith, of Winston," grand master; H. A. Gud- ger, of Asheville, deputy grand master; John W. Cotton, of Tarboro,7 senior grand warden; W. M. Moye, of Wilson, junior grand warden ;, Donald W. Bain, of Raleigh, grand secretary, William E.' Anderson, of Raleigh, grand treasurer. Dr. B. F. Dixon was re-elected superin tendent of the Oxford orphan asylum. The attendance at the grand lodge is the greatest on record, over 250 delegates being present. - . '. MARYLAND. The British steamer Macedonia, bound for Hull, England, On Thursday ran into and sunk the - schooner Larinda: Campbell and went ashpre'at the lower end of Craighill channel, near Baltimore.. The value of the ship and cargo is aDOUt 1250,000. . MISSOURI. At Challows, a village: in Johnson county, two physicians quarreled over small bill. The dispute grew until each armed himself, and when they met. Dr. Starke shot and killed Dr. Pister. ;! "TENNESSEE, . . ','- W..XJ. lsryant, wno was arrested on s charge of having set fire to the European Hotel, Chattanooga, on the night of No vember 12th, has been held to bail. If he succeeds in getting a' bondsman, he will immediately be arrested on a charge of "murder. He ; has , been held in the sijm of $5r000 on a charge of arson, v . . - '. .TEXAS. ... .The Texas state fair and Dallas Expo sition has been a subject of much 'discus sion in Dallas lor several days, because its existence 'has : been-; hanging 7 in the balance. Bonds, maturing in five years. will be floated ' and the Exposition will have smooth sailing now, and the man agement will endeavor to enlarge the scope of the enterprise, so as to make it national in its character. " SOUTH CAROMKA. Rev. William Martin, the oldest mini liter in the South Carolina Conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, j died at his home in Columbia, aged 86 j years. He remained in active ministry a -- . t.: in up lAJ uie hums ox 1x1.9 xuucbs . , . The situationCas to trusts seems about to be reversed ;in South Carolina. For over a year, the farmers in various por tions of the fitajle have been organizing the Farmers' Alliance. Not much at tention has been paid to this heretofore, but now that - the time has arrived for laying in farm supplies, especially com mercial f ertilizersj it "begins to. look like the farmers ' have themselves organized into a sort of trust or combine, prin cipally against the fertilizer trade. The funeral of Col. P. C. Gaillard in Charleston was the most imposing demon stration of the kind ever witnessed there. The immense throng overflowed from the church building into the? adjacent streets, -which were packed. - Among the organizations in attendance, were the mayor and city council. The South Carolina Society, the Confederate Sur vivors' . Association, the Ancient Artil lery, the "Confederate Home School, and all the state, federal, county and city officials. I ' A queer state? of affairs prevails in Beaufort. At the recent election two county tickets were in the field, both Republican. The irregular or comprom ise ticket was declared elected on the face of the returns. ' The regular ticket, which was composed of the incumbents, refused to surrender their offices. A day or two ago the circuit court issued, a' mandamus ordering the incumbents 1 to turn over their offices to the successful candidates. On Thursday, W. I. Whip per, probate judge of the .county, was served with the mandamus. He refused to obey it, and, getting up a brass band,, headed a procession to the public Bquare, where he made a speech, in which he said that he would go to jail before giv ing up his office. Most of the other officers have followed his example, and great excitement prevails. Virginia: By the appointment of the RJght Rev. John J. Keane hSjrector of the new Cath olic University it Washington, D. C, the see of Richmond was made vacant, and there is considerable ; speculation among Catholics as to who will be pro moted to. the bishopric. Very Rev. John M. Farley, pastor of St. Gabriel's Church, is a possible successor to.Bishop Keane. - i GE0KGIA ITEMS. The Atlanta police lorce is to be in ceased from 58 ti 100.- , Most of the colored military companies of Atlanta, will attend the inauguration ceremonies at Washington jD. C, March 4th. ; The Technological school -Jn Atlanta, now having its ful complement of stu dents, no more will be taken at this term. ' Mayor Glenn, df Atlanta, 5. formulates his policy in thesef words: 4fWe have a higher duty and a! nobler work than the uisiriuuuon 01, patronage or mo aug menting of. private . interests the wise and the faithful government of this great citv." t . . Ti e two car robbers, who attempted repeatedly to escape from the Dougherty countv iail. and twere tmained to the noor lor security; nave snapped tneir heavy chains like pipe stems. They are white tramps, and appear to be proies sional jail as well k& car breakers. The Augusta Chronicle announces the discontinuance of j its Monday morning edition. The Chrmicle is of the opinion tht Monday morning papers in Georgia are stale, flat and unprofitable, and are a constant strain upejn the f orce, depriving them of their day iof rest in each week, without sufficient corresponding benefit to the paper or its patrons Josiah Carter, the managing editor of the Atlanta Evening Journal, while .pro ceeding home about 7 o'clock on Thurs day night, was knocked dotni by foot pads and robbed. ;t The affair was ont a public street and almost under the rays of an electric light.) After securing their booty, the men rani away, leaving their victim senseless and bleeding irom se vere wounds to hisi head. . H. J. Taylor, the colored ex-minister to Liberia, has settled down in Atlanta to practice law. - Recently, the; highest criminal counrappointea layior to ae f end two colored fpboys charged with stealing, and who couldj not afford to pay a lawyer, and he won both cases. Tay lor proves he has a fine legal education, and good sense. These are the first cases ever argued in a Fiilton county superior court by a colored lawyer, and Taylor is the first colored man ever admitted to the superior court. ' ' A DANDY. " 1 The third official trial trip of the new United States dynamite gun cruiser Ves . uvius, called "a cbmmerce destroyer," was made over the new government course at Delaware Breakwater. The trial was the most successful of the three, the vessel attaining a rate of 21.64 knots per hour, while theicontract calls for but twenty knots. The speed attained lacks but 6-10 of a rate of twenty-'five statute miles per hour and places the Vesuvius in the front rank bf ocean greyhounds, having attained thelfastet speed of "any steamship afloat. slThe indicated horse power developed by the main engines was 4,235, (contract 3,200) anti estimat . ing auxiliaries, 150. collective indicated horse power ; the 1otal horse power was 4,445. : l- - HUSS OR KEELYJ Chrn. TIL. savs that John W. Keelv. the Vimous inventor of the mysterious moto, was known in Louisville twenty - three kears$o as John Adam fluss. and W L hA thori now. a rnntor Wrt- tery for capitalists o invest m. ,He or- . gaied.a, "Hydraulic Air Engine Cornel pany,Tfui.; th a papisl of $430,000, and, j Mr; , V.verj&nki's son-ic -law, Xicholaa : Semos.recte one of the investors. The 'stockh(treirs were to have an exhibition t - V -T . - J of the y fking of. the machine, but Huss put it dyrf and finally disappeared. WASHINGTON NEWS. WHAT THE SAYING OFFICIALS ARE AND DOING. ' . CONGRESS. : Thursday was taken up by the Senate in discussing the tariff bUl. . . .In the House, Mr. Weaver, of Iowa, raised no objection to the reading of the journal, lut the clerk, having concluded the task, Mr. Weaver brought forth his two dila tory motions to adjourn and that when the House adjourn it be to meet Satur day. " Mr. Crisp, " of Georgia, and Mr. Weaver were appointed tellers on the latter motion, and as no quorum voted, a call of the House was ordered. Two hundred and fifty-three-members having responded; to their names, further pro ceedings "under the call were dispensed with, and Mr. Springer asked unanimous consent for the entering of an order pro viding for a final vote on the Oklahoma bill, but his request was answered .by loud cries of 'regular order." ' .- '.- NOTES. . y The President has approved the act to construct a road from Florence, S. C, to the National Cemetery. Alexander T. McGill, D. D. LL. D., emeritus professor of ecclesiastical, homi lectic and pastoral theology at Princeton seminary, died at Pridceton, N. J., Sun day morning in the 82d year of his age, after a fingering illness. ! .Justice L. "Q. C. Lamar has purchased a magnificent house on Massachusetts avenue, for which he paid $23,000. Senator-Butler, , of South Carolina, also bought a handsome residence on N street. ..' , : , The inauguration of Gen. Harrison as President, on the 4th of March, will be an interesting occasion, and at least 200, 000 visitors are expected in Washington to witness the ceremony, which will be far ahead of any ever held in ton. ' ' v- . Washing- The deadlock is broken and Weaver is the victor. By his stubbornness he has brought the House to terms. The agree ment was reached when Speaker Carlisle, Judge Crisp and others held a consulta tion, and made the proposition to Mr. Weaver that if he would cease his dila tory tactics they would pass a resolution repealing the 5 o'clock adjournment rule, and he would be allowed to call up his Oklahoma bill on the first suspension day, when ttiey would promise the Dem ocrats would not filibuster, and "they would . lend him their support in bringing h?st pet measure to a vote. . The Cecember report of the Depart ment of Agriculture,' makes the product ot corn I,ys7,7yu,uuu ousneis grown on .75,672,562,763 acres, valued on farm at $677,561,580 or 34.1 centsj per oushel, against 44.4 for the crop of 1887, being 27 per cent less in volume than that of 1888. ? The Atlantic coaat south of the Potomac averages 11.2 bushels, of com paratively i poor quality. The wheat average is - 414,868,000 bushels, growr on 37,336,138 acres, valued at $384, 248, 030. A comparison of the aggregate values shows that the present corn crop is worth $31,000,000 more .than the previous one ; wheat $74,000,000j oats $5,000,000; oats 15,000,000 less. ; ,The .National Wool Growers' Associa tion met in convention .in Washington on Thursday Thirteen states and iteni tories, besides .various j sheep and' wool growing associations, were ; represented. The' preamble read:- ;"The verdict of the people at the.last presidential elec tion having determined that wool grow . eas should have full and adequate pro tection. this national convention re spectfully -insists on the fulfillment, of tnat pledge." One of the .resolutions said : "That the determination of a future economic and financial policy for this government, is so important - to the wool-growing and all the other indus tries and business of the'Htion. as to re quire immediate and-v5Jte legislation, and if this shall not accomplished during the present Congress, we earnest ly request that the fifty-first Congress be convened at tfye earliest day practicable offer the' expiration of the present Con- kgress." - v v ' , General Sheridan is buried at Arlington, can hardly be imagined. . Arlington is the most beautiful national cemetery in the, world. It was originally the home of Robert.E. Lee. The history of the property is about as follows : ; - In 1 857 George Washington Park Curtis left the estate of Arlington to hi daughter, the wife of Gen. "Robert E. Jee, and at hU death it was to V revert to his children. The land was taken possession ' of dur ing the War by the United States. Af terward the sum ' of ; $150,000 was' paid for it. The original estate contained about 1,100 acres. Shortly after the War, about 200 acres were set apart for the purpose of forming a national ceme tery for the interment of the bodies of soldiers who'fell on the . battlefields ol Virginia. . It now contains about 16,000 bodies, of soldiers, eplored, refugees and Confederate soldiers of War. .. GREATS BRITAIN ANGRY. " A bine book on the Sackville ?iffair Jias just been published by the British government. Interest in the book cen ters in the dispatch dated October 24th, toMr. Phelps, in which, observing' that in". the. judgment? of the' government, I Lord Sackville's conduct .has . ceased to f be" of importance, .President Cleveland having already sent him his passport. Lord Salisbury scouts the idei that the r acceptance orYftention of a minister is a ; question to be determined .solely with or without reasons-assigne by the goyern i mentto' whichthe is accredited. In this ; matter Lord Salisbury says, general prin- A cides are of more importance 'than .the 1 particular case under discussion. ' The Jondon i?f, commenting on the subjecf, saJs: "Lord Salisbury acted with due "j regard for the national dignity. Lord Sackville'a. indiscretion does not condone j Mr. Bayati's neglect of decent wterna- i , -, - " tional -observance.---' A SICK KING. The King of Holland has inflammation of the "brain.' The end cannot long be deferred. " Prayers for the king were of fered in all the churches on Sunday. LATEST BY TELEGRAPH. The funeral of Owen Brown, son of John Brown, the abolitionist, ; and last survivor of the Harper's Ferry tragedy, was held on Sunday at Passadena, Cal. An immense number of people were in attendance. s -. The Kennebec, Me., river is open for navigation from Augusta to the sea, the ice having gone out. . " The condition of the river is unprecedented. Ice men are e greatest' sufferers, not a pound of ice aving been harvested up to this time.1! President Carnot of France has issueid a decree authorizing the construction in private ship yards of two iron -clad cruisers; one of which will be of 4,000 tons burthen and the other 5,000 toils The decree also authorizes the construc- ' tion of 15 torpedo boats for the coast de- A party of, men and boys, of Stony Point, Pa., went to serenade Charles CresslerV who had recently been married. A quarrel took place among some of the serenaders, and one of the young men named Rhone was waylaid on his way home by Charles Meredith. After Mere dith had' knocked Rhone dtiwn, .he tramped and kicked him almost to a jelly. The crowd interfered, and Rhone was carried .to his home, where he died soon after. . Mrs. Jay Gould died at her home on Fifth avenue, in New York on Sunday night. . "The entire family was at the bedside. , Dr. Baldwin said that any at tempt to prolong life would be not only useless, but almost . cruel. There was nothing to 1 do, but watch and jwait. Mrs. Gould was too feeble to r converse, and answered the anxious inquiries of loved ones - about her with a simple fves" or ,(no."- Her mother is still uy- ing, but being feeble and , over eighty years of age, was not' notified of the death. . . '. i. ' ' :.- HARRISON'S CABINET. The situation seems to be that the President-elect has for a week had-under consideration a list of a dozen or fif teen names from ; which .to choose his seven advisers. There are included in this list representatives of all sections of the country and of different shades of party feeling, but the fate of the bulk of those quasi-candidates will be - decided by the settlement of the question as to who shall be secretary of state. Thedist of names was given . as approxi-, mately the ones Gen. Harrison' has. been considering: Blaine of 'Maine, Proctor of .Vermont, Piatt and Evarts of New York, Wanamaker of Pennsylvania, Hen derson " of Missouri, . Sherman of Ohio, Alger of Michigan, Spencer of Wscjprin, Allison an,d CJark son . of Io wa7 Man'dersbh "and . Thurs ton of Nebraska,' and . possibly some In diana ma and Swift, of California. Besides these, there are a dozen - other', men like Wharton Barker, Gen. Long street,. Chauncy epew, Alvin, Haw kinsof Tennessee, Alfred Buck, of Georgia, Bradley of " Kentucky,' and others who are, .according to " some counts, upon the President's mind. ac- FIENDISH OUTRAGE, V S i :- - Passengers who arrived at Washing ton, D. C, on the . Piedmont Air Line from the South report a deliberate at tempt to wreck a train on Sunday night near the southern border )of South Caro lina. While coming d6wn-a mountain side at great speed between Fredala' and Westminster, it suddenly collided : with an obstruction j throwing the passengers out of their seats and!- badly damaging the. cars. - Upon investigation; it was found that an oak 1 tie had ' been : placed upright on a high1 .trestle oyer a ravine, and that, too, large stones had also been placed upon the track. .'( The, rate of speed at which the "train . was-, agoing, hdwever, broke the 'tie in twain' and ground the stones-to atoms. The pas- sengers say, that i the. high speed of the train was the only thing that averted .a great disaster. ' THE SALVATIONISTS.- - An interesting decision has ' just been rendered by the supreme court of ' Mas sachusetts. It is against the city laws of Boston for musicians to sing or play on the streets without a license, except in connection with a funeral, a military pa rade, or a procession of a political, ci vie or charitable organization, v for which a police escort is provided. Lost Decem ber a member of the Salvation Army w arrested for playing oo a cornet in the streets. At the trial he contended that he was playing in the regular religiow worship of the army,' and therefore could not be interfered with. f The supreme court held that religious worship could not violate reasonable rules for the, regu lation and control of the streets, and af firmed the judgment "of conviction ren dered in the court below: yj - ' ' THE SOUTHERN SOCIETY. ' - t "Maw York on Thursday, the South ern Society held its annual : meeting for the election of officers. The following ticket was elected with great enthusiasm : President, John C. Calhoun; vice-presidents, John H. Inman, W. P. St. John, Evan Thomas 1 James H. -' . Parker; secretary, McGrane Coxe ; treaaurer, W. R. McCorkle; executive, committee, W W. Flannigan, A. G. Crenshaw J r., Charles A. Deshon, James Swann, G. Rutledge, William A. Polk. By the report of. the treasurer for the year, the society was shown to ,be in a flourishing condition, with? every promise of great prosperity. - The membership now num bers over 500. .-. ; - ' ONE COUNTRY1; ONE FLAG. . Major .William Warner, commander-in-chief of' the Grand Army of the Re public, having been urged totakeofSciivi action looking to the Grand Army, of the Republic, taking part in the inaugu ration ceremonies ; and 5 parade at Wash inortnn. Ti. C. savs that it is nrorjer for O ' ' J ' X t , Republic, either as individuals, post$ or deiwrtments,tb participate in the inaug uration ceremonies; none will question. Tt is a timehe "says, when partisan and sectarianism disappear; a time when citizens of .the republic meet on a com mon plane, having but one country, one flag and one destiny.", . . . ; TIJ.E WORLD OVER.. ITEMS 0OILED READABLE DOWN IN 8TYLE. the ''rrtLD or iBon skethiST& rtiAtri.- - DRON OF EUROPEAN INTRIGUE FIRES, SUICIDES, , ETC. -NOTED DEAD. : German authorities have forbidden the circulation by the post in Germany of the JntfansigianU Henry Roche fort's pa- per Rochefort declares that he is flat tered by the action of the German gOT ernment. . , . Girl featherworkers, employed by Harrison & Greene, in Kew York, to the1 numlerof about 200, went oh a strike Thursday, because the firm refusedio pay fhp. aralp. of wacrp.a offered bv the eaih-- er workers' Union. Tho London StahdaraV$ Paris corres-". pondent confirms the statement; that Gea... Boulanger intends to resign his seat in the Chamber of Deputies for the depart ment of the Nord, and that hewill pre face his resignation with a motion foe a dissolution of the Chambers. ' William R. Foster, father of Willianr K. Foster, Jr., who robbed the Produce Exchange Gratuity Fund, in New York , some time since of 1 193,000 and then de camped for parts unknown, sent on. Thursday a check for $50,000 for tho benefit of the Gratuity Fund. : vThe steamer George Appold, went . ashore ncarMontauk Point, N. Y., while - on a voyage from. Providence for ,Norr folk and became a total wreck. The captain, crew and one .-passenger were taken off by a life-saving . crew without injury, . ,v .v. V. - . . , The suspension bridge, situated, near est the falls at Lockport, N. Y., was car ried away by a gale on inursday ana deposited in the" river.- The towers and cables remain intact, i .The bridge , had recently been rebuilt, and enlarged for a iouble track. Mr. Gladstone's recent Tetter with "ref erence to the position of. the , Pope was part of a concerted effort on foot to per suade the Vatican that Mr. Gladstone, if returned to power, would promote an European congress to settle the question at issue between Italy and the papacy. J., J. West, J. R. Dunlap and Zen 8 TJhristenson, respectively, proprietor and) city editor of the Times and the editor of the Arbiter ZeUung appeared in Justiee White's court in Chicago, 111., to answer, the charges of criminal libel preferred by Police Inspector Bonfield. They waived examination and were bound over to the criminal court. . ' WILL STOP: ST. The leading bankers' and railroad managers of the country, held a conven tion in New York on Thursday, and de termined to put a stop to reckless railroad building, by refusing to buy the bonds oi "kite" lines: MU8T QO- BLSEWHERE. New York courts decided that Iter. Dr. McGltnn'a J followers ' cannot bo buried in. Catholic cemeteries; if tha church authorities object. BREATHING UNDER WATEEV An Explanation of a Famous Diver ,. Ilemarkable Feat, f , . From the "Jouth'B Companion. , The length of time during which a person can live under water without th aid of any diving apparatus is a ques--tion in dispute among scientific men. Some tevelers have told "marvellous' ' 6tories of the' natives of .Eastern coun , tries who were able o. stay ten or fif teen minuses under water, but there caa. 'be'no doubt that those are absurd exag gerations. It is well know that the or- s dinary divers for coral, sponge, and pearl oysters do not remain under morf than two minutes, and the "men-fish,' who exhibit in the museums, do not ex ceed two minutes and a half. - The doctors differ in their opinion ai to the time at which death comes ixt drowning. Some say in three minutes, others in Ave, but nope set a. longer time than this, except the drowning per- ' sons faint, when respiration ceases. . A Frenchman, named Lacassagne, has been for some time studying this sub ject, and the results of his experiment and observations are given in the Ram Scientifique. The man upon whom he experimented was a famous Hungarians swimmer named James, who, among other exploits, once swam from Calais to Dover; and had remained under, water for four minutes and fourteen seconds.: ' Before i diving; it was observed that he first expelled all the air from his lungs and thn took a long breath. After be? had been under water for a minute his heart beats became slow, irregular, and. feeble. After two minutes and thirty-' seven seconds there was a rush of blood' to the head and his eyes appeared sunken. Still he continued to breathe- and regularly at the rate of twenty res pirations a minute, while at the sama time the observer noticed that the ab dominal cavity diminished greatly in' size. "-' .....-'--.-,''-";.&' - ; M. Lacassagne believes from this, and from the fact that James was OQntinuallj swallowing his saliva, that, in drawing; the long breath at first, he twaUiwed a quantity of air, and that the ordinary respiratory channels being closed, bo takes into his lungs the air contained in. his stomach, and from' thence again taken, somewhat purified, into his lungs, , That is, in other words, he makes of his ' stomach a reservoir for air, a fact.whiclv" if true, will . account for his ability to remain for such an extraordinary time under water. This process which the.' rUvAT Trf nrma instinotivel v and mechan ically, ML lacassagne behoves can an should be learned by all gwinmers.s:' -giving them a far greater endure tmder the surface than cthey now ' It cosb j something for r make a tour bf diplomacy an? boring powers, the expense . William's trip to Austria ing not less than 200, with him enough xici jewelry store, among A ' ' , rnond rings and bracV scarf-pins, present'' stars of the orders, Eazles. X
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