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BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 31. 1885. NO. 30. VOLUME XXIX. ?-li
A CONQUEROR.
On the shining heights he had sought so long,
He stood alone at the break of day;
The wind about him blew fieree and strong.
And the wide, waste land beneath him lay;
He could see the arch of the purplo sky,
And the distant sea-line, thin and white;
And hear, as the swift gale hurried by,
The low, weird voice of tho fleeting night.
He could see the way that his feet had trod,
The wreck aud ruin his hand had made,
The clotted blood on the withered sod,
The cold, white faces amid the shade;
The land was his by tho victor's right,
He had swept the j>eople before his wrath,
And conquered all bv his keen sword's might, |
And marked his course by a lurid path.
His word was law in the prostrate world,
"Where kings lay prone in their galling >
chains;
TTn hnlN of Jove were I
hurled
Along the silence of fruitless plains;
The boastful trumpets for him were loud,
And servile minions bent to his feet;
But he passed alone through the cringing
crowd,
And no red lips for his kiss grew sweet
And what did this give for weary years ?
Lo, nothing at all but a sounding name, j
And a harvest of woe and bitter tears,
For the loss of love is the gift of fame;
Ah, few are tho good things life can hold; j
And tho one that shines all others above
Is neither fame nor a wealth of gold,
But the sweetness and joy of perfect love, j
?Titos. Collier, in the Current.
TEE PACK KI_J'.LUE COAT.
"I reckon my first voyage was a mem- ]
orable one," said an old South street!
merchant, speaking of his sailor days, i
"The Blue Coat was a neat Boston ship.
She was loading for I'ernainbuco when I
went on board. Her captain's name was
John Salisbury, and the mate's name was
Bevins. Salisbury was a great big Yankee
and Bevins was a nattie little fellow
from Baltimore. They were great chums,
too, and when I was at work polishing
up the bright work about the quarterdeck
every morning I used to hear them j
talking about their families and other
private matters. Just across the pier
was another Boston ship called the Alice,
loading for l'ernambuco, and the consequence
was that an intense rivalry sprung
up between the two captains. We were
~ Pf AWfi/1 ? fof lull tKli
gcilllig UU1 oiunvvi vr\?v
other captain swore he would beat us sailing,
and so catch the rnaiket first. .
Another reason why Captain Salisbury
was anxious to make a short passage
was that his wife and a two year-old
baby were in England visiting, and were
going to sail in the old packet ship
Hanger for New York in time to eat the
' Christmas turkey at home, and as we
were to put to sea before the end of September
we had a chance of getting back
for the same occasion.
"The crew, and there were twenty of
them, tumbled their chests over the rail
before the last barrel was stowed. I reckon
I'll never forget two of them. One .
was a great broad-shouldered fellow, too
big to be quick. His name was Jim McAdam,
and u better man on a topsail
halliard or a weather earring never
smoked a pipe. However, he seldom
got the weather earring, because the
other chap, whose real name was Henry
Palmly, but who was known only as
Dandy, was as handsome a man as you
could find in a week's search among
sailors' boarding houses. He had curly
brown hair, blue eyes with a sort of a
scared look in them, a good five-foot-ten
figure, and small hands and feet. His
dress and bearing gave him his nickname.
McAdam was known as Baldy
Jim, for reasons that were obvious when
his hat was off. Of course these two
men did not agree well, and a3 Baldy
was aggressive, Dandy was imposed on,
and Baldy bcuuiuc mler of the star-!
board watch. When we got to ooa l
very soon learned that a certain personal
regard which Captain Salisbury had for
my father uid not save me from becoming
Baldy's body servant, and that was
about the most unfortunate position a
boy could hold. The second uay out, as
we were going below for the afternoon
watch, Baldy ordered me to grease his
boots, which I did after he was snoring.
I was inwardly cursing the fate that
took me to sea. when Dandy came dowii
the ladder, looked at me a minute, and
then turned in, for we were all in one
watch. I did a good job, and three
hours later was routed out by the watch
on deck. There was a brisk wind
blowing, and just as Baldy reached the
deck a sea came over the rail forward
and sloshed down around him.thoroughly
wetting one foot, because his boot
had a hole in it. 1 was known as Useless.
" 'Here, Useless, said Baldy. 'You
little cuss, why didn't you grease the
cracks?'
I was mad, and was about to say something
to show it, when Baldy, with his
big boot, lifted me clear into the lee
cuppers. It was an awful kick. 1
crawled to the edge of the fore-hatch,
but no medicine could have relieved me
so much as what followed. The men of
both watches, excepting Dandy, laughed
at me. When I reached the hatch combings
he turned to IJaldy and said, imperiously
:
"'Ask the boy's pardon. He did a
good job on the boots, for I saw him
at it.'
"That was a stunner and no mistake.
For mild-mannered Dandy to tell the
boss of the forecastle to ask a boy's
Sardon was too much. Baldy just
ropped a bit. as if to get a better
hold on something, and then started for
Dandy. The result nearly turned the
forecastle upside down. He didn't take
a step till Dandy met him. and then
something seemed to lift him into the
air. His left shoulder struck the deck
first, and then the big boots came down
with a racket that brought Mr. Tullis,
second mate, and Captain Salisbury forward.
" 'What's up here?' said Mr. Tullis.
" 'I am, sir. No man shall strike me,'
said Dandv. with a salute.
" 'So am I,' said Baldv, as he rose and
made for Dandy again. He got no
further than before. His head struck
the deck first again.
" 'Avas*, or I'll put you in irons for a
month.' said the captain. 'What do you
mean by t hat V
"Balcly crawled on to the hatch much
as I had, and then, thfre being nothing
small about him told the truth about the
matter. After that nobody was so much
respected in ihe forecastle as Dandy.
But when one of the crew tried afterward
to chaff Baldv about the licking,
he got a slap across the jaw that made
his teeth rattle, and Baldysaid: 'Well,
yeou can't dew it, ef Dandy kin.J
"All this time we'd .been carrying on
sail and the Blue Coat was just humping
herself. Captain Salisbury knew a thing
or two about chips, and he wasn't going
to let any rival ship get in ahead of him
if he knew i:. After the first two weeks
he used to ask the lookout, about every
time a sail was reported, if it was a
square sail or a raffiie. A rathe was the
n.ame he gave to the three little threeAAwnAvAr)
eL???i'n!L> thn V lir>n r?nr_
CVlUgiCU II tllUii uiu ?> nvv vwi
ried above her royals. He was awfully
excited when the lookout reported a
schooner topsail on the weather beam
one day. However, the wind held us
well, and just twenty-two days from the
time we passed Sandy Hook a pilot was
coming on board off I'ernair.buco, and
was telling the captain that tbe other
ship had not arrived. We came to
anchor inside the bar before night, and
the old man looked up the consignees
and the custom house officials. He was
regular nie for two days, aud then the
triangles showed up in the offing. The
Alice should have left four days after we
did, and her captain swore he didn't get
away for five.
'"You know how long it takes to dis..narge
a cargo in a South American port
now, and it was worse in those days. It
was the 3d of December when we got
away. I remember that Captain Salisbury
was walking up and down the
quarterdeck as the land grew faint in the
distance, and was saying to the littie
mate: 'Bevins, she's three days out of
Liverpool. Ilalliday will take her the
warm passage. The Ranger is a fine ship,
but wife and boy, Bevins are seasick.'
Presently the captain went below, leaving
Mr. Bevins to carry on every stitch
of canvas the old Blue Coat would
tand.
"What made this passage more exciting
to us, aud perhaps more depressing
to the captain, was the fact that the
Alice's captain had hopped on the rail as
we sailed- out by him, and had said he
would be risht after us next day. We
didn't believe that, but we knew he
would very soon follow. Captain Salisbury
headed well out to eastward,hoping
to c atch the northeast trades better, and
day and night kept every stitch set. It
takes a man of nerve to carry on all sail
at night, but that is the way the famous
passages were made with the old-time
packets and ^clippers. We had pretty
good luck until we were somewhere in
the latitude of the Bahamas, but away to
the eastward in longitude fifty-eight degrees.
Then it fell a dead calm. A
gale at sea is sometimes bad, a fog is
worse, but the worst of all is a calm
under a burning sun. It makes me
tired even to this day to think of what
we suffered lor five days. The sails
hung limp and rattled idlv as the ship
rolled in the gentle swells or rushed
against the masts with a boom when it
caught us right. And the tar was melting
off the rigging and dripping down,
and the pitch was oozing up out of the
deck seams and running across the deck,
and the men. without cessation, sawed
nn thp hrnr<>9 dav and nicrht. or uainted
the hull on the sunny side. The captain
got wild, and never seemed to leave
the deck. He would climb the rigging
to look for a cat's-paw of wind, and
then com s down and curse himself for
getting off so far to eastward and northward.
' To add to his grief, as the light began
to show in the east on the morning
of the sixth day, we discovered a sail
just appearing as a sneck above
the horizon to the southard. The
captain's glass was on it in a
miuute, and the next moment he
was jumping up and down on
the quarterdeck livid with rage, but
speechless. The sail was a triangle.
The Alice was overhauling us. Half an
hour later our royals began to lift witb
the breeze that had by that time brought
the topgallant sails of the Alice in sight.
All hands were called to set the stun'suils,
and no one was allowed thereafter to go
below. Men were even kept with braces
in their hands, while the captain looked
alternately at the triangles astern and
the trim of his own sails aloft. Breakfast
was served to the men on deck. We
drifted along without gaining an incb
on the Alice until about 10 o'clock.
Then without warning the wind hauled
around on the other quarter. The
spanker gibed over in a jiffy and there
t. . 1
was a rusn iu iuc urates, i uc ucu
grumbling constantly forward, but nc
attention was paid to that, although the}'
had not been allowed four hours of unbroken
sleep in a week. When the yards
were trimmed and the stun'sails were I
set on the other side we began to gather
better headway than before, but as the i
captain was noticing this he saw that the
Alice was favored with still better wind
than he. Just then Dandy from the
foretopsail yard shouted:
" 'On deck, there. Boat adrift on the
lee bow, sir.'
"Amoment later he added: 'There's
some one in her, sir. I saw an arm
waved above the gun'ale.'
''Then he jumped on a back stay and
came down hand over fist. The captain
and Mr. Kevins were both looking foi
the boat with their glasses, and prettj
soon they saw her. They didn't look
long before the captain said: 'The man
was mistaken, Bevins. There's no one
in her.'
" "That's quite right, sir. But see
that. Alice raising tis, will you?"
"Then both looked over the tafTrail
and swore loudly. Dandy stepped aft to
leeward and touched his hat.
" 'Captain,' said he, 'there's some one
adrift in that boat, sir. I know what I
see, sir, and I believe it's a woman. It's
clean murder to leave that boat adrift.'
"The Captain gave one more look at
A linn onrl f nrnnrJ tn tllPJlsh
Daildy.
"Both men were very rod in the face
when the captain struck out. He was
quicker tlian Baldy, but he only reached
Dandy's arm. and the next instant he
was sprawling on the deck. Before Mr.
Bevins could rightly shout 'Mutiny!' as
he tried to do, he was lying across the
captain's body and Dandy was tying him
with a piece of the signal halliards which
he cut with one slash of his knife, swearing,
meantime, that he would cut the
heart out of the one that moved first.
Baldy was alongside immediately, and
before Mr. Tullis could get his head out
of the companion way he goi a lap on it.
Others of the crew took a hand in, and
in three minutes the three officers were
sitting in a row against the taffrail, with
their hands behind their backs and theii
legs tied together like the two parts of a
backstay.
" 'Now,' said Dandy, Train charge ol
this ship till we pick up that boat.
Then we'll turn it over to the lawful offi
cers again, if so be til it we are not going
to have any trouble about this little
scrimmage. Jump aloft there, some ol
you, and get in those stun'sails.'
"The stun'sails were soon in, for the
men worked with a will. Then we
squared away the yards and were soon
heading for the boat. The bree/.e was
freshening, and in less than fifteen minutes,
when I had an opportunity to jumj:
up into the main rigging, we were sc
near that, as I turned to look, I could
see very plainly iuto tho boat when it
rose on a wave. Aft, in the bottom, a
child was crawling about. A white tar
paulin was stretched over the three aftei
thwarts, and in the bow was the form of
a man huddled up and motionless. Then
a small white hand reached out from
under the tarpaulin, as if to find the
child. Once it waved above the rail, and
Dandy, who, with the men, stood on the
quarterdeck, said: 'There, that was the
motion I saw, aud it is a woman!'
"I jumped down on deck. Dandy was
a born sailor. When the main yards
were thrown aback and the ehip lost hei
headway, the .strange boat was under the
9.tarboard quarter. 1 was quick as a
monkey in those days. I i a ruled at one
jump on the fore thwart with the end ol
a rope in my hand. I made it fust, and
then secured the baby, which was crying
roundly, in a iiiic market basket which
Dandy lowered dowu. Then I shinned
up the impromptu painter, determined
to see to the babv, for I had a brother ol
his size at home. 1 reached the iail a>
the Dandy lifted the youngster from the
basket. At the same moment Captain
Salisbury by a violent etlort freed one
hand, leaped to his feet, bound as he
was, and then fell headlong toward the
child, lie had fainted.
"Let me see," continued the merchant
after a moments pause, in which he
picked au old scrap book from a shell
and opened it. "This tells the rest 01
the story." lie pointed to a newspapei
clipping, which read:
M Alt INK.
A KHIVA LS.
Ship Alice (irahant, Pernauibuoo. twentylive
days, with sugar to ('iinnvii it Welch
vessel to Jaekman 6c Jaekman.
Ship Blue Coat, Salisbury, Perimuibuco
twenty-six days, with su;4ar to Camden &
Welch, vessel to Ogden & Co. Reports piek
inj; up ten days ago a ijuartcrhont containing
the wife and child of Captain Salisbury, and
1 1 ?(ioiii,i?v ..r tii.
II1L* lU-iUl UKKAJ V/4 vupv^lli , ...
packet Hanger, now overdue Irom Liverpool.
I l'lie Hanger was burned in longitude fifty
six degrees twenty minutes west, latitude
| twenty-seven degrees forty minutes north
Mrs. Salisbury ai.d her child are the sole suri
vivorsof the crew and passengers, who numbered
12*. Full particulars in our next edition.?Sew
York Sun.
How Ladies Came to Attend Congress
The iudies did not at first attend the
sessions of Congress, probably because
in early days it was regarded as almost
treasonable for a lady to enter the British
houses of parliament. But when tte
famous "Jay treaty" was brought home
! for ratification, the House came near re|
fusing to make an appropriation to carry
I it into effect, and warm debates ensued.
' One night at a party. Mrs. Langdon, ol
New Hampshire, expressed her regret to
| Hon. Fisher Ames, of Massachusetts,
; that she could not hear the arguments,
| especially his speeches. Mr. Ames rej
plied that he knew of no reason why
I ladies should not be permitted to lieai
! the debates. "Then,"' replied Mrs. Lang1
don, " if you will let me know when you
; next intend to speak 1 will make up a
j party of ladies and we will go and hear
you.'' The notice was given, the ladies
went, and since then congressional orators
have always had fair hearers, with
.others, perhaps, not very fair.?Ben:
Ferity Pwre.
! NKTVS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
Bonnet string* arc quite short.
I A western lady is the widow of eleven
husbands.
| A band of beaver or otter makes a
I coronet for a velvet or felt bonnet.
CJrav and black ostrich feathers arc
j speckled with white, as if sprinkled with
snow.
There are more women in Indianapolis
who are engaged in business than in any
other city in the West.
1 A new brocade, called "the Eclipse,"
is studded with velvet spots, half covere
1 by other spots of terry.
The colored As'rachan cloths are less
used than the plain black, which is
combined with all shades and tints,
i A small bang at the back of the neck I
' is now worn by many ladies who dress
their hair on the top of their heads.
.let and black ribbon are the favorite
: trimming for the very little wraps worn
with woolen suits, no matter what may
be their color.
The capote has grown so much larger,
and the poke has decreased so much,
linf />ar?lnao nhcorvnr el nf>9 nf?t. find it I
j easy to distinguish between the two spei
cies.
Canaries are used to ornament dresses.
They are mounted on twisted wires, and
either perched on the shoulders or so
arranged as to seem to hold folds of lace
together.
What seems to be a new material is
produced by embroidering half the
j squares in a checkered woolen stuff with
' Angora wool, taking loug stitches and
making a raised effect.
The draperies of suits which have underskirts
of wool-velvet are trimmed
with braid, and the wool velvet makes
the waistcoat of the basque, the collar
and sleeves being braided.
The heaviest mourning costumes, in
which almost every inch of surface is
covered with crape, now have silken
j sleeves, which not only wear better, but
do not look awkward and doll-like.
"A judicious wife," says John Iluskin,
; "is always nipping off from her husband's
moral nature little twigs that are
! growing in wroug directions. She keeps
him in shape by continual pruning."
- - 1
I ?C01CU [HU1U.H 111 nuui luuiunuia
most appropriately used lor portions of
j costumes. The fashion, now nearly unii
versul. of U3ing two kinds of stuff for
j costumes is especially favorable to plaids.
Lady liurdett Coutts does not dress in
| a subdued style, eveu although she is no
longer young. At a recent wedding she
wore quantities of diamonds, and a scarlet
cashmere mantle wrought in gold and
i trimmed with white fur.
Deep,, tongue like scallops are worked
in bright crewel on the border of some
of the tine wool stuffs used for draperies.
They are worn only with the richest underskirts,
and are among the most elegant
materials of the season.
Mrs. Eliza J. Ludlow, of Little Washington
Territory, is supposed to be the
first woman to serve as foreman of a jury.
! The case was that of one Johnson Campbell,
who was accused of killing another
man in a brawl, lie was convicted of
manslaughter.
Iloods to the backs of mantles are
being worn again, and though some of
these are merely ornamental the majority
are intended to be useful as well.
Women with round shoulders do well to
avoid these fashionable additions, as do
also women who are verv stout.
Peopie who have an overabundance of
color should adopt gray. There is no
hue which so mercifully subdues a florid
complexion. By the same reason palt
faces should studiously avoid the contiguitv
of any shade of pearl or gray,
since it is apt to give a ghastly tinge to a
j colorless complexion.
A round hat that is now one of the
most popular shape with young ladies
| hns a high, somewhat sloping crown,
j and a brim that is much wider in front
I than at the back. A plain band of
trimming surrounds the crown, and
short plumes, wings, breast, or pompons
are massed either directly in front or a
little to the left of the front.
The hose for winter wear of spun silk
or line merino are in solid, dark colors,
and these limited in number. It has
been customaiy for several years to
manufacture hosiery and pretty much
everything else that could be worn in
"all''colors. The consequence was that
the fine dark shades were picked out
v?rv Oiiifbll- Iinfl tlifi liiorh and lifht
' v'* J 'I M4V,%V?' """ ---O" - o ?colors
left a drug upon tlic hands of the
dealer, who shipped them oil or tried to
rid himself of them at a reduced price
to inexperienced buyers. This, however,
was not a profitable operation, and now
in the best stores, and styles the colors
are limited to those current in tine
dress goods and most" likely to be called
for.
How a Copper Mine Was Found.
The big ea^le that dropped Sinbad
i into the valley of diamonds was a "story
i bird;'' and it may be fiction that tells us
the first gems of the now famous Trans1
*vaal were discovered in the crop of a
! SoutH African Dutchman's hen: but it is
unquestionable that more than one reve|
lation of the riches of the earth to men
has been unconsciously made by the act
of a dumb animal. In this line of service
the poor pijr lias beaten all competi|
tors if what a correspondent of the
I Cleveland leader tells us is true:
I have just returned from the shores of
Lake Superior, where 1 spent some time
visiting the copper regions, the greatest
Throughout the rocky, barren Keweenaw
peninsula, good for nothing as
farming lands, the immense copper de|
posits have caused large towns to spring
i up, and they now give employment to
| thousands of men.
About eighteen years ago a pig strayed
from the drove to which it belonged, and
fell into a pit on a spot where the city
of Calumet now stauds. In rooting
about, it uncovered a mass of native
copper, and showed to the world the location
of the greatest copper mine it has
ever known.
As the result of the pig's rooting, humanity
is now thirty-live million dollars
richer in the use of the copper there disI
covered, and the stockholders, who, led
bv the pig, have helped the world to
this wealth, have received about twentyfive
million dollars for their trouble. A
town of six thousand inhabitants has
gathered around the pig's hole, and near
Iv two thousand men are employed in
operating the mines beneath it.
Rapid (irowtli of a Cent.
A cent seems of little value, remarks
an exchange, but if it is only doubled a
few times, it grows to a marvelous sum.
A young lady in I'ortland caught her
father in a very rash promise, by a
knowledge of this fact on her part.
I She modestly proposed that if her
| father would give her only one cent on
' one day, and double the amount on each
successive day for just one month, she
would pledge herself never to ask of him
another cent of money as long as she
lived. Paterfamilias, not stopping to
run over the figures in his head, and not
j supposing it would amount to a large
[ sum, was glad to accept the offer at
i once, thinking it also a favorable oppor;
tunity to include a possible marriage
I dowry in the future. On the twentyfifth
day he became greatly alarmed, lest
if he complied with his own acceptance
he might be obliged to be "declared &
j bankrupt on his own petition."
Hut on the thirtieth day the young
girl demanded only the pretty little sum
nf i* 'IC.s ~(||| I'M Thn nutrinishf>rl mnr.
chant was only too happy to cancel tho
claim by advancing a handsome cash payJ
ment for his folly in allowing himself to
give a bond?for his word he considered
as good as his bond?without noticing
' the consideration therein expressed, and
j by promising to return to the old custom
of advancing smaller sums daily uu:
til otherwise ordered.
Our arithmetical reporter has been
, " figuring on it," and says that if the
! old gentleman had fulfilled his promI
ise, the daughter would have had, upon
, the receipt of the thirtieth payment, the
snug little sum of $10.4130,017.43.
Our carriage industry,including wagon
j and car factories, gives employment tu
I 54,589 persons.
MOMENTS FOR MERRIMENT.
COMICAL STORIES GLEANED PROM
THE PAPERS.
j Letting: the Cat Out of the Bag-Too
(jroBM to Kclato?I'rcncnce of JTIind,
Kt?'i, Ktc.
Josiah Benson, a large manufacturer,
took into his office a ncpliew, who, to
put it mildly, was rather feeble-minded.
One day the nephew came to his uncle
and complained of the head clerk, .Tones.
"Uncle, what do you suppose that
clerk Jones has been telling people about
me?"
" I have no idea."
"lie lias been telling everybody that
I am a fool."
" I will see him about it, and tell him
to keep quiet about it. lie has no right,
to expose the secrets of this office."?
Free Pros.
Too GroftM to Relate*
Dark was the stilly night, and the
distant glare of electric lights and the
occasional fitful flash of a November meteor
only served to deepen the shadows
of the massive brick buildings which
line Fifth avenue, when two Pittsburg
attorneys ran into each other.
[ "Oh, is it you, K. A.?" said one; and
| was immediately answered by a deep
"Yes.'1
' Say," continued the first speaker in
a mysterious voice, "did you hear that
story about 288 to-dav?"
"No," answered the other excitedly;
"what is it?"
"Oh, its too gross?too gross entirely!"
replied his companion in a mournful
voice.
"Tell away," resumed the first, "and
I'll try to stand it. If I must hear such
dreadful things I must."
"Well," exclaimed his friend, "144 is
one gross, and 288 is two gross, isn't
It?"
A meteor shot across the sky like a
flash of lightning?a thud?a moan?a
jhuckle ?a dark form stealing away in
the darkness?and all was silent.?Pitta\urg
Di?patc/i.
Prewnce of .Hind.
Presence of mind is a very rare quality
Indeed. How few of those we meet,
though apparently cool and self possessed,
know just what to do in an
emergency. It is a good thing to have
m active mind, well stored with useful
cnowledge, but sometimes it is better to
have a less expansive style of mind and
dove it calm and unruffled at a time
tvhen it is needed.
A friend of mine once put a large red
poker chip in the church plate by mislake.
Few people would have known
what to do; but he just went to the pastor
after the services were over and said
that he had the money with which to re3eem
that chip. He told the minister
that the chip was worth five dollars up
town, and he would cash it at that price.
The preacher took the five dollars, and
jaid he always knew that these little red
louvenirs came high, but he didn't know
they were so expensive as that.
Another friend of mine, who had no
presence of mind whatever, went to a
picnic, and, by mistake, sat down on a
oaby .that was asleep ander a shawl in
the shade of an umbrageous tree, break ,ng
its nose?the child's nose, I mean,
lie was a caddidatc for the legislature,
md did not wish to ofTend the mother
jr lose the vote of the father, so he tried
to turn the thing off as a joke by saying
tie didn't nose it was there.
He was terribly snowed under at the
polls, and he deserved it, too.?Bill Nye.
fliN Feel are Warm >'ow.
"Another telegram for that man!"
:xclaimeu Llerk Hughes oi tbe Louti
aental hotel yesterday uftemoon as a
messenger boy poked an open receipt
book before his eyes and held out an
snvelope. "This makes eight."
"Eight telegrams for whom?"
" A gentleman stopping here, who is
a little under the weather."
" How?"
"His feet," exclaimed Mr. Hughes,
cautiously looking arouud. "It's a
joke. He is a New York merchant who
comes over here every week. Last
night, he and several others, among
whom were one or two theatrical men,
talked here for an hour. The New
Yorker complained of suffering from
cold feet.
"Cold feet!" exclaimed one of the
party. 4 Did you ever try those new foot
plasters? The best thing in the world.
Since I wore them I have never been
troubled with cold. Come, I'll get-you
the right kind.'
1' In they went and got a plaster, cut
it in half, and the New Yorker clapped
It on the soles of his feet.
" He was to take an early train.
Wlmn lift was nailed the servant found
him wide awake and swearing. He lay
in bed on his back, nursing his feet on a
pillow. I went up to see hiin afterward.
"He had been awakened in the night
by terrible sensations. The soles of his
feet were on tire. The truth then flashed
upon him. The joker had used fly
blisters.
" When he tore the strips off, patches
of skin came with them.
"He is lying on his back up there.
Eight telegrams have come already from
his wife, partners and friends, and all he
can do is to lie there and wait and swear
until his soles .heal up."?Philadelphia,
Timet.
Had to Watch Her.
An old man and his wife were walking
along the street. The wife persisted in
looking buck every time she passed a
woman.
" What makes you curry on that way?"
asked the old fellow.
"I reckon I want to see Dan'l."
"But you don't hafter act like a cow
that's bothered with hoss flies. Folks'll
think you never was in town before,'<
"Well, now, jes' shet your mouth. I
come to see. an' I'm goin' to see. You're
alius a fussin' an' a fussin', and nobody
cun't have no peace with you. If 1 want
to see how a woman's dress sets it ain't
none o' your business, so there."
" Wall, if you must see how all the
dresses set, let's stand here till everybody
gits dun goin' by. It's distressin'
to me to see you twist your neck round
that way."
"Dan'l, for the goodness sake, hush.
Folks will think that we live like cats
an' dogs. 1 do think a man is the beatenes'
tiling I ever saw. Fuss, fuss from
mornin' till night. Now, look at you,
what air yon guzin' at?"
"Lookin' at a seto' harness hangin' up
thar."
"Folks will think you are crazy if you
carry on that way."
"Don't mind me," said the old man.
"An' don't you mind me," replied his
wife.
"I have to mind you when you twist
your neck an' hold your head to one side
like a goose. You're in danger o' hurtin'
yourself. It's business with me, for I am
lookin'out for a set o' harness."
Meeting a fashionable dressed lady,
the wife looked back, but striking an
uneven place oil the sidewalk, fell sprawl
ing on the ground.
"Thar!" exclaimed the old man, without
making an effort to assist her. "Oh,
the Lord fetches every thing 'round all
right."
"My goodness!" said the old woman,
arising with difficulty, "it mighty nigh
killed me."
"Of course it did, an' it sarves you exactly
right. Kackon you'll know how to
act now, od ding it. Gape an' gaze;
gape an' gaze all the time, it is a wonder
that you aint been killed."
"Dan'l, for the Lord's sake, don'tscold.
You don't do nothin' but fuss an' fuss all
the time."
The old man did not reply. He was
looking at a saddle hanging out in front
of a shop, stepping on a piece of orange
peel, his heels tlew up and he came down
with an awful thump.
"Good gracious, are you hurt, Dan'l?"
The old man eroaned, and scuffling to
his his feet said: "Hurt? that's a putty
question to ask a dead man. Wall, this
is the last time you ever come to town
with me. You keep a body watchin' you
so close he can't see how he walks."
" Dan'l, don't fuss."
"Come on. Let's git them mules an'
git outen here. 1 never saw sich a woman
n my life."?Arkanmw Traveler.
Flirts are like fiddlers?No good without
the beau.? Waterloo Observer.
Wealth In Rags.
Notwitstanding some drawbacks and
occasional periods of stagnation the rag
I business of the United States, particuj
larly of the West, appears to be flourishing,
and has reached wonderful proportions.
both as to quantities handled and
in value. The miserable creature with
bag or basket in hand collecting what
can be found in the al lev way does not
: seem much in the world's concerns, but
I to the wholesale dealer the ragged, bent
old collector is a much more important
j item in the business community than
many might suspect. In these days of
vast figures we are not very apt to be
very much surprised when we hear of a
wholesale drygoods or hardware firm
doing a business aggregating $1,000,000
a year, but that a mere dealer in rags
j and wastes could under any circumstan'
ces reach that figure does seem a little
1 startling. It is nevertheless the case,
' and is but another illustration of tha
' wonderful business spirit and possibili1
ties of the great West.
There is one firm of rag and waste
j dealers in this city doing a business
] amounting to $1,OOU,OUU a year, ana the
| business is constantly increasing. There
is another firm of paper manufacturers in
j this city whose business, exclusive of
i what it supplies to its own mills in Wisj
consin. exceeds half a million dollars anj
nully. There are several houses dealing
: exclusively in rags whose business ranges
] from $100,000 to $500,000 u year, while
i there are several smaller ones whose cus1
torn is by no means contemptible, but,
on the contrary, in most cases quite up
to the average volume reached by the
more assuming retail dry goods, hardware,
boot and shoe, clothiug and grocery
stores, a great many of which think
they are doing remarkably well if they
have a business of from $-2;3,000 to $50,000
a year. There is not a rag dealer in
the city, and here are thirty-six of them,
according to the directory, that does not
control a business of from $.1,000 to $10,000
a year, and a noteworthy peculiarity
of the trade, they claim, is that there is
hardly ever, if ever, any one in it who
fails or compels a compromise with
cheated creditors, although they have to
pay cash for their goods every time,carry
a stock raging from $1,000 to $100,000
or more, and sell on two, three, four and
bix months' credit.
It is estimated the total amount of this
business done in the city exceeds $5,000,000
annually, even at the unusually low
figures at which some grades of rags are
held in the market at present. The number
of hands employed is not less than
5,000, including 1,000 sot aside as the
quota engaged, bag or basket in hand,
gathering up what they can and where
they can throughout the city and its suburbs.?Chicago
Herald.
Diamonds Stained with Blood.
Perhaps there has been more intrigue
and bloodshed on account of the famous
Oriental diamond, Great Mogul, than
any other. It originally weighed 787
karats, but by cutting was reduced to
279. It was apparently the highest aim
of every reigning potentate in Asia to
place that gem in his crowu. Famous
intriguers had carte blanche from their
sovereigns to get it at any cost. Finally
the Tartars, under Xadir Shah, invaded
the civilized country and captured it and
about -ii-l00,000,000 in treasure bonds.
That was a century and more ago,-but
j not a word has been heard of the Great
Mogul since. It is supposed, however,
that it is in one of the obscure fortresses
of Asia Minor. Diligent search is kept
up, and when it is "found there will be
sharp competition between royalty and
shoddy as to who gets it.
Rubsian potentates have always wished
to make a greater show of wealth than
any others. The thrones of all the
Russians are miracles of wealth. The
throne of the empress is completely covered
with p'ates of gold, and contains
1,500 rubies and 8,000 turquoises, beside
many other rare and costly gems.
The throne of the czar, known as the
diamond throne, is truly a marvel. In
it are set over 4,000 diamonds of the
first water. It is generally conceded
that Russia possesses more precious stones
than any other nation, a majority of
which were procured at the expense of
blood. The jewels in the Cathedral of
Moscow alone are valued at $12,000,000.
I Thr> nreat. OrlnfF dinmond for which
Count OrlofT paid $250,000 and $20,000
a year to the seller for life and a title to
nobility, was a bloody gem, it having
been the prize at stake in several skirmishes.
The shah was another from on
whose every facet could have been written
a bloody story of which it was the
hero.
?
Oil on Troubled Waters.
Captain Chetwynd, R. N., the chier
I inspector of lifeboats in England, reports
I the result of his experiments to determine
the efficacy of oil in calming the
sea as very favorable to its use. Though
! he finds thai oil applied to troubled
I waters can have only a limited value in
| lifeboat service, and that it ia not a
I "specific," certain to insure immunity
from danger, yet as a protection to small
! vessels and to open boats in a heavy sea
| its efTcct it most desirable. To be of
I any protection the oil must be applied to
I the sea from the boat or vessel in the
! direct line from which the seas arc advancing.
and at a sullicient distance to
i give it time to spread and act on the
waves before they reach the endangered
craft. Captain Chetwynd proposes that
when a vessel is running before a sea a
slightly perforated canvas being filled
' with oil should be hung over each bow,
J and when the ship is hove to the bags
j should be put overboard to windward, at!
tached to light lines. This plali seems
! preferable to that sometimes employed of
hanging the bags over the weather side
| of the ship, because the bag", not drifting
; as fast as the ship, will be curried to
] windward, and thus the oil exuding will
! calm the waves which are most to be
dreaded. It would be well if seafaring
men would give these carefully formed
conclusions due consideration.?New
York Herald.
Au Indian Tale of the Deluge.
A recent writer gives us the following
version or the fiooct, wliicli ne says is
believed in the East Indies: In East India
there is a legend that ages ago mankind
became so very bad that God determined
to destroy all except just
enough to begin with new. The excepI
tions were mostly preserved, along with
, pairs of all sorts of animals, in a golden
i palace on a mountain top. A boy and
1 a girl, bom of parents who were
| " neither good nor bad," had been preI
viously carried oil by an angel from their
' respective homes on the day of their
i birth, and were brought up in a crystal
| palace suspended in mid-air, where they
i were tended by a mute figure of gold,
j When they grew up the\ were married,
j and a girl was bom to them. The dc]
struction of the wicked having been ef!
fected by fire, the earth whs thereby
I greatly smirched. So giants were sent
i to wash it clean. They used so much
j water that a deluge was produced, and
the water rose ?o high that the golden
palace and its inmates were in danger of
being submerged.
Queer Tacts About London.
The population of London is sheltered
by 550,000 dwelling houses, and the area
' of streets and squares embraces 122
< square miles. Every day sees an average
] of 100,000 strangers enter the city, and
, 123 persons added to the population;
! while each year about.twcntv-eiglit miles
1 of now streets are laid out. and !?,000
j new houses creeted. There are 120.000
I paupers, upon whom 10,700 police keep
I a close eye. The population includes
j 120,000 foreigners, more Roman I'athoi
lies than there arc in Home, and more
| Jews than there are in Palestine. Two
I thousand clergymen preside over G20
j churches and 423 chapels, of which lat]
ter buildings the Independents have 121,
i the Baptists 100, the Wesleyans seventy;
seven, the Catholics ninety, the CalvinI
ists ten, the Presbyterians ten, the
j Quakers seven, and the Jews ten. The
I number of cats kept by the people is so
' large (700,000) that "cat's meat'' is daily
| delivered at the majority of houses. The
3,000 horses that die each week are utilized
to meet this demand.
Street lamps at Berlin are extinguished
at midnightj and the police carry lanterns
instead of being preceded by a
brass band.
NEWS SUMMARY
Fnntcrn nnil Middle State*.
In a newspaper interview Mr. Andrew
Carnegie, of the Edgar Thomson Steel works
at Pittsburgh, Penn., and many other industrial
establishments, proclaims himself an
advocate of socialistic principles. When
I asked, "Arc you prepared now to divide your
| wealthT' Mr. Carnegie smited and said: "No,
I not at present, but 1 do not spend much on
I myself. I give away every year seven or
j eight times as much as I spend for personal
comfort and pleasures. Working people have
my full sympathy, and I always extend a
helping hand. Speaking of the present j>osition
of the workingman, I believe co-ojieration
is his hope."
Dr. Rudolf Taufzky, a prominent NewYork
physician, during a fit of insanity
brought on by j nlousy, shot his young wife,
and then turned the pistol upon himself, inflicting
a mortal woun 1. His wife's wound
is not serious.
Abner Coburn, governor of Maine in
1862 and 1863, died at Portland, a fow days
ago, aged eighty-two years.
The banking house of Cook & Sackett, of
Havana, N. Y,, suspended owing to the disappearance
of the senior member, Elbert P.
Cook, with the funds. Cook was treasurer of
the village.
A filie burned down one-third of the business
portion of Holley, N. Y., and destroyed
nearly $40,U00 worth of property, including
the Standard oflice, Frisbies block, Robb's
block and Masonic Hall.
Gov. Pattisojts annual message shows
that the total receipts of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania for tho last fiscal year were
$0,140,000, and the total payment 55,012,002.
The messago recommends more stringent
laws in regard to the sale of liquor, and a
more rigid and less expeditious divorce law.
At the opening of tho New York legislature
the following brief message trom
President-elect Cleveland, resigning his oflice
as governor, was received; "lo the legislature?I
hereby resign tho oflice of governor
of the State of New York. G rover Cleveland."
Lieutenant-Governor Hill, who has
succeeded Mr. Cleveland as governor, sent in
his first messago to the legislature. George
C. Erwin, tho Republican candidate, was
elected speaker of the assembly. Senator
Dennis McCarthy was elected president pro
tern, of the senate.
The message of Governor Hill to the Now
York legislature reviews and commends the
executive and legislative work of the State
government under Mr. Cleveland's administration,
particularly that of the year just
closed. It declares the public finances to be
in a satisfactory condition and valuable progress
to have been made in all that
concerns the State's material welfare. Revision
of banking laws, particularly
those relating to privato institutions,
is urged, and the desirability of the
legislature at once abolishing the present
prison labor contract system and substituting
one more in accord with the expressed wish
of the public is dwelt upon at great length
Biennial spring eloctions for municipal ollicers
in New York are recommended; close attention
is called to tne work of civil service reform,
a modification of naturalization laws is advised;
careful consideration is invited to tho
problem of forest preservation; the failure of
New York reform bills because T>f careless
wording is cited as proof of need of closer
scrutiny of legislation, and the employment
of competent counsel to the legislature is suggested.
Numerous other topics are also discussed.
The annual auction sale of pews in Mr
Beecher's Plvmouth Church. Brooklyn, drew
tho usual large attendance. Tlio first choice
brought fW, and tho entire sale realized
or about $7,000 less tlian last year.
B. P. Jones, Chairman of the Republican
national committee, was elected President of
the American Iron and Steel association at
a meeting in Philadelphia.
General Grant has written a letter to
Cyrus W. Field, the New York millionaire,
declining the subscription which a number of
I his friends were raising for his benefit. The
general says it is due to himself and family to
decline tho proffered generosity. The amount
intended to be raised was $100,000.
The wife of a Philadelphia police sergeant
1 has just fallen heir to tho comfortable sum of
$600,000.
Bishop Paddock presided at tho fifth annual
meeting of the New England Divorce
Roform league, held in Boston.
More than 5,000 miners have just been
thrown out of work in Pennsylvania, the
collieries having shutdown for the purpose of
I restricting the output in coal.
South and Wem.
Guards at the scene of the Hocking Valley
(Ohio) mine troubles were driven from a
railroad tunnel, heavily timbered with solid
walls of coal, by an armed crowd. Tho tunnel
was then fired at both sides and destroyed,
causing a heavy loss. A number of
| arrests were made.
Rciie Harkel, a jealous lover, discharged
a shot-gun into a ballroom near Batchtown,
III., wounding seven young people?two
fatally.
At Chicago a tugboat explosion killed five
persons. One of them was hurled fifty feet
nigh against a grain elevator, where the imj
print of his form was seen pressed in blood
| on the side of the building.
| Two men boarded a passenger train at
Rising Sun, Md., and with revolvers drawn
went through a passenger car, relieving the
passengers of their money and valuables.
After getting considerable booty they jumped
off the train and disappeared in the woods.
Two residents of Oxford, Penn., were caught
| in the woods and taken to jail at Elktou.
Dr. John Maxwell, who murdered three
of his four children by poisoning them,hanged
| himself iu jail at Springfield, Ohio.
I Mr. D. L. Moody, the evangelist, began
a series of revival meetings, lasting ten days.
| n Richmond, Va. Large crowds attended
' the meetings.
Seven men were found frozen to doath
I on the road between Niobrara and Long
Pines, Neb.
Determined upon obtaining revenge be;
cause officers of the Baltimore and Ohio railJ
road had arrested her husband for robbing
j freight cars, Mrs. Mary Beck put on malo
| garments and succeed ed in wrecking an ox
press train near Grafton, W. Va., with the
i loss of two lives and much destruction of propi
ertv. She was arrested and admitted her
; guilt.
Way up in Oregon a passenger train which
1 left Portland got stuck in the snow after
: going about forty miles, and when last heard
I from had been blockaded eighteen days, with
1 little prospects of getting out of tho thirty |
foot drifts before next spring! The twenty'
five i>eoplo aboard the train have been regu,
j larly supplied with victuals brought by relief
j parties, and fuel cut from the surrounding
j forests has kept them warm.
The congressional committee to investii
gate the appointment of United States dejv
uty marshals in Cincinnati at the October
elections, the Hon. Mr. Springer, chairman,
began their work in the city named. United
States Marshal Lot Wright was the first witness
called.
Several men were killed and others
wounded in a desperate fight between a posse
of revenue officers and a dozen or more moonshiners
near Livingston, Ky.
Thk New Orleans exposition gato receipts
are now more than meeting the current expenses.
A(;en'ts of the Hocking Valley (Ohio)
mines have been at work in Lynchburg, Va.,
j securing negroes to take the places of the
striking miners. Seventy-five left for the
mines in one night, and others have been secured.
Ditiujtg last year 1,865 now enterprises
wore started in the fourteen Southern States,
1 with a combined capital of $10."),-6.1,500.
Washington*
i
During December the national debt was
I again increased, the amount for the month
! being ?iill,."S4.71. This left the total debt,
less cash in the treasury, at $1,418,548,371.40;
cash in the treasury, $13-,475,176.31.
The coinage executed at the various United
States mints in December was: 101.04? gold
pieces, worth 023.50; ?,7!).S,0ii0 silver
pieces, worth $-.425,1)05.25; 4,018.310 minor
coins, worth ?!>'.420.30; total coinage, 0,1)77,|
418 piece.-, worth .?4,840,115^.05.
1 H. K'iud has lilo 1 a notice of contest for
the seat of Ueorgo W. Steele, of the Eleventh
1 Indiana Pis! net. Mr. Kidd charges that
j votes in his favor were cast out by tho lie:
publicans. This is the first notice of a con|
test in tho next Congress that has been
; filed.
The governors of twenty States have writI
ten expivs-iug a desire to co-operate in niakI
ing the American exhibition in London
| in 1>8> a faithful and thorough exposition
of the arts, manufactures and products
I of tho Knit-d States. Mr. John Gilmer Speed,
trte agent at wasmngton, continues ro receive
from public men assurances of their support
of the measure to secure an official participation
,'n oTliiln'tinti hv 1 he imvernment.
A decision of the United States supreme
court just rendered sustains the constitutionality
of the New Hampshire mill act. This
is a decision of great importance in and out
of New Kngland. It determines the constitutionality
of the "mill acts" in force in
I most of the States, l>y which land is con'
demned to dam streams for water power.
General W. B. Hazen,chief signal officer,
has reduced Sergeant Otto Holtnorth of tho
signal service to the ranks, and has formally
: recommended to the secretary of war that he
! be dismissed from the service for rifling
| Lieutenant (Ireely's private paiiers.
The cleik of the House states that in the
next Congress the House will contain 182
j Democrats, 1-10 Republicans, one Greenback
| Democrat (Mr. "Weaver, of I?wa), and oni
Greenlajk Republican (Mr. Brumm, of Penn|
sylvania). A vacancy exists in the Nineteenth
j congressional district of 1'ennsylvania. Of
j the members of tho present House 187 have
I been re-elected. Arkansas, Delaware, Kanj
sas, Maine and West Virginia havo made no
I change in their Representatives,
j Secretary McC'lt.loch has transmitted
! to the House an estimate specifying the numl
ber and class of officers and employes of every
| grade and nature, with the rates of compensation
which will he necessary to propierly
conduct the business of collecting tho revenue
at each port of entry in tho United States
for the liscal year ending June HO, J886. The
number of regular officers and employes is estimated
at 4,147, and their salaries at #5,2115,13'J.
An additional estimate for miscellaneous
items is made, amounting to $1,160,623.
The annual rejwrt of tho Mississippi River
commis-sion 1ms been sent to Congress. The
amount of money called for by tno commission
for the next fiscal year is $10,717,TOO.
The secretary of war lifti ordered the discharge
of Sergeant Otto Holtnorth from the
signal service for rifling Lieutenant Greely's
papers.
Statistics conc3rning the number of Mormons
in this country are given by the interior I
department as follows: In 1850 there were i
10 church organizations and 10.SS0 sittings, |
in 1860 24 organizations and 13,500 sittings, |
in 1870 IS!) organizations and 87.S."S sittings,
and in 1880 207 organizations and 05,202 sit- |
tings. The actual membership of the Mor- j
mon church, according to the census of 13S0, i
was 70,88(5.
A statement prepared by the United
States treasurer shows that there are now |
outstanding $20,5311.141 in onedollar notes and
$20,840,217 in two dollar notes. The treasurer :
says that there is now no scarcity of notes of
small denominations, and he is prepared to
supply all legal demands for them.
Foreign.
At tho lord mayor's banquet in Dublin the
toast to the queen was received with applause
mingled with gn>at hissing.
AI.L London has been greatly scared by
another dynamite explosion. Tho affair hat>pened
on ono of th<> underground railways j
which traverse London, and two trains passing
at the time of the explosion wero baaly
shattered; houses were shaken and people
thrown down, but no serious injury upon person
or property wo? inflicted.
General Campenon, French minister of
war, lias resigned because he is dissatisfied
with the Tonquiu campaign.
Severe earthquake shocks are reported
from Italy and Chili.
Recent floods in India have destroyed
hundreds of houses. Fifty-three persons have
beon drowned by the overflow of the lied
Hill lakofl at Madras.
At a council of cabinet ministers in Paris
it was resolved to send 1-.000 French troops
to the scene of war in Tonquin.
A hailkoad train left the track in Buenos
Ayres, South America, killing seven and injuring
fifteen people. All the victims were
persons of prominence.
Advices from Tien-Tsin, China, state that
the losses of the French forces in Formosa
from fever and dysentery are ennrmous, and
that as a consequence Admiral Courbet's ship
,s insulllciently manned.
Nine hundred lives wpre lost in Grenada,
Spain, during the recent earthquakes.
LATER NEWS
As there was no choice for the Stats
at the recent election in Connecticut, the legislature
has elected the following Republican
nominees: For governor, Henry B. Harrison;
lieutenant-governor, Lorrin A. Cooke;
secretary of state, Charles A. Bussell; treasurer,
Valentine B. Chamberlain; controller,
Luzerne J. Munron. Governor Harrison deA
mocenrra
At a meeting of the national committee of
the Prohibition party,held in New York,twenty
members, representing as many States,
were present. A committee report was adopted
thanking tho late candidates for President
and Vice-President for their services in the
campaign and condemning the attacks upon
Mr. St. John as "malicious and without
proof."
The Marino Hospital bureau has received
a report from United States Consul Byers at
Home, Italy, relative to the cholera epidemic
in that country. From tho outbreak of
cholera, late in July, down to November 0,
when the epidemic was declared at an end>
there were 21,240 cases of cholera in Italy,
and 11,072 deaths. Of these 12,402 cases and
j 0,020 deaths were in Naples alone.
j Mme. Clevis-Hughes, who recently shot
I and killed a prominent Parisian detective for
i slandering her, was acquitted notwithstand.
[ ing she boldly confessed having committed
the deed, but was condemned to pay a fine of
$400 and the costs of trial
Still moro earthquake shocks have oc.
curred in Spain. Fifteen thousand persons
have left Granada. The village of Guevejar
is .-lowly sliding downwards to the valley.
An opening has appeared in the mountain at
Otivar, from which smoke is reported *o be
issuing. The subterranean rumbling?j?nd
detonations are fearful.
A fire destroyed the cargo of the British
j ship Rover of the Seas, lying in the harbor
, at Victoria, British Columbia. The estimated
I loss is $100,000.
.
[ LATE IK CON?RE.SSIO>Al, \EffS.
Senate.
Mr. Allison introduced a bill relating to the
j fees of pension claim agent? and attorneys.
He said that it had been charged that under
the legislation of last year claim agents were
oppressing pension agents, and that the Senate
was responsible for it. The fact was that
the legislation of lost year came from the
House on the regular pension bill
Mr. Hawley offered a resolution asking
the President to send to the
Senate an historical statement concerning
the public policy of the executive department
of tho Confederate States during the
J late war, which was reported to have been
I recently filed iu the war department by
I General Sherman....Mr. Lap'nam made an
I argument in favor of the negotiation of com|
morcial treaties, taking the ground that they
I Ttl ATPfMltivft SeSSlOn
the Senators discussed for more than two
hours Mr. Conger's resolution to make public
the text of theNicaraguan treaty. The resolution
was lost by 12 yeas to 40 nays.
Houu.
The House, by a vote of 158 to 75, passed
! tho inter-state commerce bill. The bill provides
that no railroad or pipe line company
shall make any discrimination in its charges
for transporting freight from one State or
Territory to another or to or from any
foreign country. Tho provisions relating
to the carrying of passengers declares
that all persons who have
j bought tickets of the same class shall be afford?
1 equal accommodations, but that any
road may provide separate accommodations
for passengers provided that no discrimination
is made on account of race or color. No
passenger can be charged more tnan three
cents a mile. Tho bill prescribes penalties
for violation of its provisions, and provides
for the bringing of suits in the United States
and State courts. The act does not apply to the
carriage of property wholly within one State..
Mr. Randall, from the committee on appropriations,
reported a bill for tho expenses of
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me navy iur iuu m.\ juvhiuo cuumg u uuv w,
I lSs">. It appropriates $6,120,155 Ml".
| Craig's contest for the seat from the Fourth
| district of Alabama, occupied by Charles M.
! Shelley (Democrat) was derided in favor of
1 the contestant, who is n Republican, and Mr.
j Craig took the oath <>f oJiice.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
| General B. F. Butler has opened a law
office iu New York city.
| United State-; Senator Lamar, of Misi
sissippi, lias just lost his wife by death.
General Hancock's only soil and child,
! Russell Hancock, a Mississippi planter, thirtyI
four years old, died a few days since.
j It is said that George W. Cable, the New
i Orleans story-writer and reader, is making
j $50,000 a year cut of his literary work.
| Two distinguished Englishmen now sojourning
in this country have announced the
possibility of their Incoming American citizens?Colonel
Mapleson, the opera manager,
and Professor llichard N. Proctor? the astronomer.
The Ex-Empress Eugenie is building for
herself a beautiful mausoleum, not in France,
i?* r> 1 1 n..? IfarnlmrniHrh
I UUt III 111 n?u ,
whose inhabitant are very fond of hor, partly |
I becauso slio goes out shopping and is kind to
i their poor.
| Victok H coo went to see the completed
I statue o:' Liberty enlightening the world, l?y
i B. Bartholdi, and smiled with gratification
I when a bystander, seeing the poet and the
I statue facingencli other, exclaimed: ''BeRold!
I Two giants are regarding each other."
| It is stated, on the authority of a Massaj
chusetts friend of General Benjamin F. But!
ler, that ho has signed a contract with a Now
! York publishing lirm to write for them his
political reminiscences. The work is to be in
! two volumes and General Butler is to receive
$50,000 and a small royalty.
Admiral Ly.ncii, the Chilian conqueror of j
Peru, has gone as minister to Madrid in order ;
to have the benefit of the best surgical skill |
for his left eyo and right hand, the use of |
which ho lost in tho war. He is, by the wav, j
the first Chilian minister to Spain after nearly i
twenty years of suspended diplomatic rela- '
toons.
KINO IjOUIS, oi isavaria, laieiy omereu uiuu
eome bronze statues be set up at his palace
gates, but as his majesty is nearly bankrupt,
the keeper of the privy purse thought it well
to put up plaster imagas covered with bronze
paint. This worked nicely until Louis discovered
the fraud and smashed tho statues
with a club.
Ah Ti, of La Forte, Cal., is tho wealthiest
Chinaman in America, having a modest
$2,000,000 to his credit. His family consists
of a wife and six children, and he has sent
them back to tho Celestial kingdom to live permanently,
whither Ti will follow them as
soon as he settles up his business. He made
his money in tho mines and in trade and ia
going home to enjoy it
TWO THOUSAND DM
Terrible Results of the Earthquakes
in Spain.
Widespread Desolation Caused by
Many Succsssive Shocks.
Later reports from Spain state that the
whole southern portion of the country lias
been shaken by earthquakes, which have
followed one another in quick succession,
each adding to the destruction wrought by
its predecessor. So fast did the shocks occur
that tHe terror-stricken and bereaved inhabitants
had no time to recover from their
fright, and little opportunity to search in
safety for the bodies of their relatives and
friends buried in the ruins of towns and
villages. Beginning on Christmas Eve, the
earthquakes chased each other up and down
the length of the Sierra Nevada mountains,
spreading death and terror on either hand,
over the most romantic, picturesque and historically
interesting provinces of Spain. The
famous old city of Granada has been
shaken again and again. Malaga,
Albania, Cordova, Seville and Jaec
are amoncr the well-known cities that have
suffered more or less severely from tne repeated
shocks. All through Andalusia the
inhabitants are in a condition of panic, many
of those who survived the earlier shocks, and
whose houses have not been destroyed, not
daring to enter them lest they be shaken
down upon their heads. The number of persons
killed is not known. According to the
latest despatches it cannot full short of 2,000,
but the record is by no means complete. In
many instances, while the survivors were
trying to dig the dead nnd wounded out of
the ruins, fresh shocks tumbled down more
houses and increased the destruction of life.
Som6 towns, among vhich is Alhama, have
been almost wholly destroyed. Tho survivors
are camping in public squares and the open
country, ana have not themselves any definite
knowledge of tho number who have perished.
At Antiquera five successive shocks were
felt in one day, and every one of the seven
churches in the town was overthrown. Houses
rocked and crumbled in every direction,
chimneys toppled, walls cracked, loosened
floors fell crashing, and people ran stumbling
and screaming through the streets, seeking
safety in the broad plazas, where they were
out of the reach of the falling buildings.
Hundreds knelt together on the pavement in
the squares, imploring deliverance from
heaven.
In Periana 750 houses were shaken down.
So great was the force of the shock that the
earth covering the side of the mountain near
the town was loosened and went thundering
down in an avalanche, overwhelming many
houses and burying forty-eight persons, of
whom eighteen were dug out alive.
At Nerja a terrific hurricane followed the
first shocks of the earthquake, and houses
whose walls had been weakened by the shaking
were blown down by the wind. The inhabitants
fled from the town, even the sick
in hospitals hurrying from their beds and
running with the others for places of safety.
At Velez Malaga tho first shocks were followed
by a still more violent earthquake,
which utterly destroyed a large number of
houses, and drove all the inhabitants from
the town. At the same time Alhama, Periana,
and other places, which had previously
suffered severely, were again shaken, and further
loss of life was caused.
in uranaaa uie iaiwiu ul mu uuiucuim vras
seriously damaged, and the museum, the university
and several government buildings
were injured.
The sufferings of the survivors, who are
encamped in wagons, tents, and open fields,
and many of whom are wounded, are very
severe. The appearance of the ruined town
of Albuneulas is described as appalling.
Half of the buildings have been overthrown,
including the convent, churches and the
town hall. The mayor was among the
killed, and his wife remained buried waist
deep in the ruins for eighteen hours before
the rescuers reached her. Many persons were
rescued alive after having been covered by
the debris of fallen houses for more than
twenty-four hours. Home were half crazed
jehen taken out. Cries and moans were heard
in the ruins for a whole day from persons
who could not be reached. The survivors encamped
outside the ruined down, women and
children remaining day and night huddled
together in carts and wagons, shivering from
exposure, and half famished for lack of food
A singular feature of the earthquakes waa
the fact that in places only a short distance
apart some experienced three and others
seventeen shocks. After the first shock
there were flashes of lightning from a
clear sky. All the shocks ran from
south to north. Several of the
shocks had a rotary movement. While
the center of the disturbance has remained in
the south of Spain, earthquake shocks were
felt in Corinthia, where many buildings were
damaged, and in Wales, where also a number
of houses were injured.
The Spanish government is taking steps to
relieve the sufferers. King Alfonso will perRonallv
visit the devastated district, and a
royal decree has been issued ordering that a
national subscription be made for the relief
of the suirerers. Public officials will contribute
one day's pay each, ljy this means
alone it is expected that $20^,000 will be
raised. The Spanish ambassadors, ministers,
and consuls in all countries will also open subscriptions,
and the cortes, or Spanish legislature,
vot?d to co operate with the government
in all measures that might be taken ljbr
the relief of the afflicted.
MAEINE PERILS.
( allant Rescue of a Shipwrecked
Crew by a Brave Captain*
The dodged determination and disregard
for their own lives displayed by sailors when
othei s are in peril and tliero is any chance to
rescue them is graphically illustrated in the
story told by Captain Olsen, of the Norwegian
bark Onward, which has arrived at New
Vork, concerning the rescue of the crew of
the schooner Estelle Day, off Cape Hatteras.
The following is the story of the rescue as
told by Captain Olson:
"I passed the Bermudas four days before,
after which heavy gales from the southwest
continued without intermission. On the
morning of the 22d, at daybreak, the wind
was very heavy from the southwest, finally
incasing to ttao dimensions of a hurricane,
with frightful squalls of wind and rain.
n Bon we discovered me wrecit, mu sua ?>?o
running mountain high and we were running
before the wind under two lower topsails?the
fore topsail reefed?all we dare
< arry, one of them, as it was, being
blown to ribbons. Notwithstanding the
danger, I determined to save the
unfortunates. There were plenty of
volunteers, but I sent for my mate, A. Nordstrom.
'If you don't go,' said I, 'I will go
myself. It must bo an old sailor to manage
tho boat in this sea.' He was ready to go,
and selocted tho carpenter, H. Evans, and
Seaman A. I.osquist from among the volunteers,
to go with him. The first boat we lowered
tilled immediately and had to bo taken
up and emptied. The ship at the time had
her rail constantly under water. As the next
lioat touched the water a heavy squall struck
us and we lost that boat. It was three hours
b 'fore we got the next boat and its crew away
Ironi the bark. Before they left each man
bade us 'goodby,' as neither they nor we
expected them to come b-ck. Many a prayer
want after them and they were answered,
for by 11 o'clock they were all safely on board.
The rescued men were nearly dead.^ When 1
got them on deck they were in a* frightful
condition, the skin being peeled from their
legs, arms and faces. For eight days we had
t.. nrnvatUi, liL-o linl.ioa hflfnrn thev could
stand alone. I lmvo been fourteen years at sea,
I ill 11 have never yet seen such frightful weather
or such enormous waves. When the men
were discovered three of them wera lying
down, unable to move, while their compane
ions could onlv stagger to their feet, waviheir
arms wildly for a moment, and then
iink down again. The sea was fuil of enormous
sharks, twelve to fourteen feet long,
and it was undoubtedly one of them thut
pulled Mate Curloy down while he was calling,
for help after fading through the plunks.
One hour before his death, being almost
r:ized from hunger and thirst, ho called
'ipon his companions to draw
its, declaring that one of them
must die so that the others might have food
and drink. That they were not troubled by
t'i'O-t is accounted for by the fact that they
were in the middle of the Gulf Stream and
the waves breaking over them were warm.'"
The schooner is owned in Newcastle, Del.,
:md is a total loss, there being no insurance
n her. Captain Williams, who is from Delaware
Bay, lost his chronometer, gold watch
ind chain and all his clothing. The crew,
two of whom were negroes, also lost everything
they had
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC'
The title of Rhea's new play is "An American
Countess."
A l'F.UKECT avalanche of concerts ha9
visited London.
Lawrence Barrett's "Blot on tho 'Scuteheoiv'
was a failure in "Washington.
M. Alexander Dumas, the author and
dramatist, has been mado a commander of
Legion of Honor.
It costs $300 a night to light the Grand
Opera-houso in Paris and $7,000 a year to
dust and sweep it.
Henry Guy Cari.eton's newest comic
piece for Mr. AVallack is a light play, to be
christened "Personals."
Harry Mixer has engaged Victoria MoraBini
for a concert tour. He will send her out
traveling with a company.
An esteemed Detroit minister attacks the
stage, and declares that "dog fights and
tragedies should lx> classed together.
There are twenty-five legitimate theatres
in London, supplying tho public with comedy,
oi>era, melodrama, farce and tragedy.
The manager of tho Italian opera at Lima,
Peru, has been fined forty soles (about $3-.40)
for not raising the curtain punctually at 8
p. m.
I
SUMMARY OF CONGRESS
Senate.
At the opening of the Senate after th?
holiday recess the chair laid before the Sen*
ate the credentials of Justin S. Morrill, reelected
Senator from Vermont for the six
years beginning March 4, 1885.... Among petitions
presented was one by Mr. Sherman
from the Society of FrienJs praying that provision
may be made in the pending Spanish
treaty for the settlement, by arbitration, of
any differences that may arise between 8pain
and the United States. It was referred
to the committee on foreign relations....
Mr. Voorhees introduced a concurrent resolution
extending the thanks of Congress to
Commodore Schley, Lieutenant Emory and
all the officers and men of the ships Alert,
Boar. Thetis and Loch Garry for the daring
and skill displayed by them in the rescue of
the survivors of the Greely Arctic expedition.
which was referred to the committee on naval ^
affairs....Messrs. Wilson and Sewell ad
dressed the Senate on the inter-state commerce
hill.
Nearly the whole day's session of the Senate
was taken up in discussion of the Oregon
Central land grant forfeiture bill, which was
finally passed. The bill applies to such .
portions only of the lands as lie adjacent
to and coterminous with the uncompleted
portions of the line. After declaring
ennh Innrlo frtrfofif. nrnviflos that; norsnnn
already actually settletfthereon shall Wve a
preference right ot entry thereto under the
Homestead laws?such entry to be considered
as of the date of actual settlement. When it
came from the House the bill declared all the . .
lands granted to the company forfeited....
Mr. Hawley introduced a bill to establish an
international copyright system.
The Senate passed the House joint resola- '
tion appropriating $50,000 to relieve the
wants oi destitute Indians in Montana.... A
resolution introduced by Mr. Sewell author- . .
ires the secretary of war to pay $25,000 to the
Washington association of New Jersey for the
purpose of improving Washington s headquarters
at Morristown, N. J., and for the
purchase of ground in wnich to place there- .
mains of Continental soldiers, and to erect a _
monument over the spot.
Home* . '
When the House re-opened after the holiday
recess, Mr. Smith, of Pennsylvania, presented
the certificate of election of John A.
Swop, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the
deatu of W. A. Duncan, from the Nineteenth X
congressional district of Pennsylvania, and
Mr. Swope appeared at the bar of the House
andtookthe oath of office....The Military
Academy bill, with Senate amendments, was
referred to committee on appropriations.... - *
Mr. Breckenridge, of Arkansas, introduced a
Dill providing ior trie croauon 01 a nver ana .
harbor department, which shall be under the
charge of a commissioner of rivers and harbors,
to be appointed by the President, and .
who shall receive a salary of $4,300....Mr.
King, of Louisiana, introduced a bill appropriating
$7,OQO,OW) for th9 improvement of
the Mississippi river in accordance with the
plans and estimates of the Mississip?i
River commission. Referred ....
fr. Hiscock moved to suspend the rules
and pass a bill abolishing the internal revenue
tax on tobacco, cigars, snuff, cigarette* if
and cheroots, the tax on distilled spirits used
for manufacturing or mechanical purposes,
the special tax on dealers in tobacco, and the
tax on liquors distilled wholly from fruit. -.
After discussion the motion to suspend the
rule was lost bv 77 yeas to 128 nays....
The motion of Mr. Collins to suspend the
rules and make the bankruptcy bill the special
order for January 22, and following days,
was rejected by a vote of 136 yeas so 70 nays
?less than the two-thirds required. This
practically kills the bill for this session of
Congress. A motion to pass the
pension bill, as it came from the Senate, wa*
rejected by 129 yeas to 85 yeas?thirteen le?
than the necessary two-thirds majority.
The House went into committee of the
whole on the pensions appropriation bill,
which appropriates $o9,V76,Oi)0. The bill
was passed, with an amendment limiting
pension agents' fees to $10, except that a written
contract for a $25 fee may be made between
a claimant and an agent residing in
the same State, and providing that no agent
shall receive a fee until the claim 1b allowed
Mr. Phelps made a reply to Mr. Reagan's
attack upon him in connection with the in- ^,
ter-staft? commerce bilL Messrs. Horr and
Hewitt also spoke .on the bill.... The consular
and diplomatic appropriation bill, as reported
by the committee, is $1,190,885, a reduction
under the present fiscal year of $34,.
SOUTHERN DTOUSTRIES,
New Enterprise* Organized In the
South Lait Year.
The Baltimore Manufacturer's Record in
its annual review of Southern industries publishes
a list of all manufacturing and mining
enterprises organized in the Southern S: ates in
1884, giving name, location and character of
business of each. The list shows 1,805 new
enterprises, with an aggregate capital reaching
the enormous sum of $1< 5,269,500, divided
among the fourteen Southern States as to'.'
lows: - '
No. of
States. Enterprises. Capital.
Alabama 1H7 $16,925,000
Arkansas 46 2,010,0/0
Florida 93 2,32$,00!)
Georgia 196 5)4.*5(0'H)
Kentucky 137 21,"?W,00:i
Louisiana 53 5,'St,101
Maryland 105 7,121,50)
Mississippi 40 1.285,000
North Carolina 226 4,110.(0)
South Carolina 53 2,174,000
Tennessee 250 7,910,000
Texas 212 10,778,000
Virginia 188 13,450,0.10
West Virginia 77 7,392,000
Totals 1,865 $105,200,500 *
In Kentucky, Alabama and Virginia somes
extensive mining and iron companies, with
large capital, were organized, which runs up
the total of investments in those States.
The list shows that almost every branch of
general manufactures is represented'. Cotton
and woolen mills, machine shops, foundries,
blast furnaces, ice factories, sawmills, planing
mills, building material factories, furniture
factories, carriage and wagon factories and " %
t -ii- /--i?t? TViorn
UtUlUlC lUt'lUI It=>
are many flour mills and more tobacco factories,
and a large number of cotton-s?ed oil
mills, as well as mining enterprises of all
kinds?gold, silver, copper, mica, ore and
coal. A noticeable feature is the amount of ^
Northern and Western capital going into tho
South, though the Southern people are themselves
showing remarkablo energy in developing
the resources.
STEAMBOAT SUNK.
Narrow Escape of Pa??en?era on the
Iflissihtlppi lliver.
An Arkansas City dispatch says that at
3:30 a. m. the Belle, of Shreveport, from Cincinnati
to New Orleans, ran against
the bank on the Miss issippi side,
near the head of Island 66, and
sank in forty minutes, She will prove
a total loss. She had nearly 100 cabin passengers,
who were all oaved, but nearly every
one lost personal effects. Tho only life ' .'-v
known to be lost was that of James Moore,of
New Albany, Ind. The Kate Adams passed
the wreck soon after, rescued tho passengers
from their dreary resting place on the island,
and brought them to Arkansas City. Many
of the passengers wero bound for the New
Orleans exj>osition.
oavc f.hfl hnftf. ATrwri
enced rough weather after leaving Memphis,
and he was in the act of calling the first mate < 7^
when the boat ran into an eddy, which threw
her against the bank with such force as to vy
stave in the entire forward hull
The majority of the passengers are quartered
in the railroad elevator. Among the
losses on the Shreveport are twenty-four
head of blooded racing stock intended for the
Exposition, and eleven head of Jersey cows.
The boat had about 1,400 tons of miscellaneous
freight, which will prove a total loss.
TEE GEAIN_C_E_OP OF 1884.
A Year5! Yield of Corn, Wheat, Oats,
Barley and Ityc.
The agricultural department at Washington,
makes the following unofficial estimate
of the crop yield for 1881:
CORN.
Yield 1,800.000,000 bushels
Acreage tW,000,000 "
WUFAT
Yield 500,000,000 bushela
Acreage &>,000,000 "
OATS.
Yield 570,000,000 bushel*
Acreage 21,000,000 "
BARLEY.
Yield 50,000,000 buahelj
Acreage 2,6'J0,000 "
RYE.
Yield 25 ,'000.000 busheli
Acreage 2,000,000 "
In the itf?ri of corn, wheat, and oats the
ofl'cial return* will differ very little from
those estimate.
THE WAR IN ESYPT.
General Gordon Heard From?E1
ITIalidl'it movement**
General Wolseley has received a not? from
General Gordon with tbe latter's genuine seal
on it. The date is December 14, and Gordon
says that Khartoum is all right. A messenger
brought it concealed in a seam of his
garment Gordon estimates the Mahdi's
force at from 20,000 to SO,000. He spends
the nights at Khartoum in a oeasele6s
watch, visiting the outposts to see that
every sentry is on the alert. During the
day Gordon sleeps. He is described as cheerful.
An Arab from El Mahdi's camp haa
reached Dongola. He states that the False
Prophet's army is a two days' march from
Umderman. He recently intended to march
against the Mudir of Dongola. The chiefs
wanted him to lead the troops and charm off
the bullets. The Mahdi thereupon told the
chiefs that he had seen in a dream that the
Mudir was a saint against whom it was useless
to flght. This statement caused great
alarm in the Mahdi's camp*.
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