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BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 4, 1885. NO. 32. VOLUME XXIX. |S
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MY LIFE.
My life to mo is as a station,
"Wherein apart the traveler stands,
One absent long ?rom home and nation
In other lands.
And I, as ho who stands and listens
Amid the twilight's chill and gloom,
To hear approaching in the distance,
The train for home.
WILD NAN.
Cn.VPTEU I.
Judge Cobbleson, an eminent jurist?
all judges are?among other good trait9,
* warmly admired the truth. Every member
of the Daniel I.amber Club, a social
organization of two hundred and forty
pounders, were always glad when the
time came for the judge to entertain the |
meeting. The following is the last paper [
read by him:
Shortly after arriving in Arkansaw, I
then a territory, I was appointed prosecuting
attorney of one of the districts. Of
course, being young and not over-wise, I
"?? ? CAmnflmoff T kova
t> i45 aiuuiiiuua, c^mwumwo a r vutu uui v i
to ride horseback fifty miles to discharge |
uiy duties. There is one occasion that I'
shall never forget. A new court house j
having been built in Shakerag county, 11
et out for that place as court convened
immediatelv after the last clapboard was j
placed upon the roof. One evening as I
was nearing the end of a tiresome jour- J
ney?while riding along, wondering what j
lo:t of a boarding house it would be my j
fortune or misfortune to secure, a' piercing
shriek brought ray horse to a stand- !
Itill. I was frightened, tor although the
country was wild, 1 was not prepared for i
?uch a shock. Pulling down my hat which
leemed to rise on the ends of my hair, ,
! looked around, and was not long in j
discovering the cause of the outcry. A j;
?irl, with streaming hair, was on the 1
back of a capering mule. The animal, :
rithout saddle or bridle, was lunging at
will. The performance was taking
place on the edge of a small prairie, and
every moment I expected to see the mule
plunge into the timber and kill the rider. (
It was not a time for surmises. Gallop'
Ing out to the edge of the prairie, I made l
% dash at the mule. The' beast wheeled
and threw his heels within an inch of my
face, and, at the same time, threw his! i
rider. Springing from my horse I ran
to the girl's assistance. She was up, ! (
thcugh, before I reached her. She had j'
fallen on a bed of grass and was not
hurt. j 1
"It is a thousand wonders you were
not killed," said I, not knowing what (
ftthpr remark to make. I |
"Yes," she replied, "and it is a thou-: 1
sand wonders that you were not. Didn't j i
you feel awful funny when you saw his ]
heels reaching after your countenance?" ; <
"I hardly had time to feel anything, j
Having so much business on hand your- '
self, I wonder that you noticed the compliment
which your friend was trying to i
pay me."
"Ah!" she replied, "a woman is never i
too busy to watch the affairs of her neigh- i
bora." 1
"But you are not a woman." ]
"I am not a man." t i
"Of course not. I mean that you are
only a girl. What is your name?" ;
'\Nanny Harlin, but everybody calls j
me "Wild Nan." ! ]
"I should think, too, that you have j
earned the title. Were you brought up j
here?" <
"Yes, and brought down there," point- i
lag to the place where she had fallen, j
"1 don't live but a little way from here, j
Won't you please let me ride your!
horse?"
"With pleasure. Come, let m: assist <
you into the saddle."
I expectcd that she would ride along j
leisurely and let me walk beside her, but I
striking the horse with the bridle-reins j
she urged him into a gallop. I shouted. J <
but paying no attention to me, she dashed
away and soon disappeared iu the woods. ! 1
Naturallv I felt embarrassed. I followed i
in the direction she had taken, but dark-! ness
soon coming on, I lost the semblance : ]
of a trail and -wandered aimlessly in the i 1
woods. After a long time, an age it [
seemed to me, a light gleaming away
over on a hillside, stopped my rapid flow i
of profanity. Reaching the house, !
which I did for u wonder without en- ',
countering a dog, I was about to veil a
lusty halloa when a man's voice, speak- j
ing far more powerful than gentle, ar- |
rested my attention. j (
"Where the deuce did you get that j 1
horse?" said the voice, and" thcu, with- j
out giving any time to reply, added: ' 'Be 11
sent to tne penitentiary, the first thing ;1
you know. Everybody don't understand
your foolishness. Now, suppose that ;
man should fail to find the house to- ;
night, what will become of your' 1
, " What'll become of him, dad, that's <
the question." i
"Look sharp, now. Don't give me i
any of you foolishness. "Where were yon <
when you first saw him?" 11
"J was on a mule." j <
" On a mule?" yelled the man's voice.
"Yep." j]
" What where you doing on a mule?" j i
"I was getting off 'bout the time he <
saw me. I was being flung by old Sap. j;
T oAmn onlf Ant for mnlao onrl
while old Sap was lickiu', I climbed a ]
tree an' got on his back. Then he rau !
out on the prairie and cut more monkey j
shines than anything you ever saw."
"Nan, education hasn't clone you a ]
particle of good. Been going to school i
ever since your mother died, and yet you
don't know how to act." 0 j <
"I'll be good, dad." I \
"No, you won't; you are going to i
give me all the trouble you can; that's <
what you are going to do. Mow, I've J j
5ot to start out and look for that man. j
'en chances to one he'll never find the <
house." I >
Here I shouted. The door was irnme-11
diately opened.' "Come in. said a strong j
voice. As soon as I reached the door, a <
man stepped aside, saying as he did sj. ;
"Walk right in, sir. Man, hand the gen- (
tleman a chair." ' j
The man was pretty well advanced in <
years. The girl, whom I immediately i
recognized, was not bad looking. In ,
truth, looking at her as she sat in the ;
tire-light, untangling her long hair, I j
rethought her face at timc->. when a wild 1
expression melted into a gentler one, to
be decidedy pretty.
"I dont't know how to apologize to <
you, sir," said the old gentleman, when
he learned that I was the owner of the
horse. "In a more civilized country than
this, the freak of my daughter would
strongly resemble a crime, but I am suff, ;
sir, tnat she did not intend to incon- j
venience you." j;
"I didn't go to do it," said the girl.
' Hush, >?an," demanded the lather.
"Ever)'time you speak, you make matters
- worse."
"Do not give to the subject another j
thought," said I. "The adventure, es- j .
peciaily as it has had such a pleasant
termination, is more than worth the
trouble it has caused."
After an hour's conversation, during
which time we became pood friends over j,
dishes of stewed vension and roasted
bear, I explained I was enroute for j
Shakerag courthouse.
"Then you are fortunate, for if you j
had gone much further you would have
passed it," said my host. "The court- j
house is about three quarters of a mile ]
to the left of this place. Have you some
thing to do with tnc court c I
"I am prosecuting attorney for this 1
district," I replied, giving my name.
"I am Dr. Hiirlin. Rather thinly j
populated country for a doctor of any
pretentions, but having passed the best
part of my life in a crowd, I have de-'
cided to pass the remainder of it in re- '
tirement."
Before bed time I had engaged board I
with the doctor. He made me promise j
that I would be patient with Nan. To j
this I agreed, especially as she seemed 1
to be growing better and better looking.
"Good night," said the doctor, when
he had shown me into a room. "Rather
airy quarters, but fresh air is healthful.''
CHATTER It.
If Nan's manners had improved ns
much as her looks, I don't know but I
, should have fallen in love with her during
the first few days of our acquaintance.
She was undoubtedly the most
mischievous creature I ever saw. Watching
her expressive face, ever changing
under the influence of her revolutionary
in:nd, I fancied that I could see her
little plans of annoyance come to matur
Ouc night, after a hard day in court, ]
went to bed early. I was asleep about i
the time I touched the bed. I was toe J
tired to dream. I had not slept verj i
long when I was awakened by something
weighing heavily on my fpet. lieacliing '
for a flint and steel at the head of my |
bed, I struck a light. Horror of horrors! i
*1. MVl'lUlUU MUUU UU liij UCU. |
ing up, I jumped into my pantaloons, i
grabbed my other clothes and finished i
dressing in the hallway. Then remera I
bering my cowardice, I re-entered the !
room and" lighted the candle. The
skeleton was gone. It must have been a
nightmare, but I looked under the bed. I
In snutling the candle, I extinguished |
the light. Great Caesar! I heard the aw- |
ful thing dancing on the floor. Strik- j
ing a light, my terrible surmise was
correct. There it was grinning and I
grim. I thought no more of cowardice, I
but with a yell, I rushed from !
the room. The doctor met me in the !
hallway.
"My goodness, sir, what is the mat- j
ter?"
"There's a skeleton in my room!"
"Xnn! oh, Xan!"
No answer.
"Nan, if you don't answer me you I
shan't have that candy-pulling. Xan!"
"Yep!" came a reply from the loft I
over my room. |
"Come down this minute."
She obeyed deliberately. "What have j |
you been doing up there? Hah?"
"I wasn't doing anything." I (
"Didn't you take that skeleton out ol i
the box?"' I j
"Yes, eir, I believe I did."
"Yes, you good for nothing thing, j;
You ought to be ashamed of yourself. !
Go to bed." I
She had moved one of the loose (
boards and had lowered the skeleton by |
means of a black cord. I might have ,
+ woo n V\llf U'llfln O
rviiu\>u mat it nw <* uiun, uuv ,
uian is scared, he doesn't take time to
reason with himself. My nerves had
been so wrought upcn that I tossed
nearly all.night, unable to sleep; and at '
last when I did doze, I did not lose en- j
tire consciousness, but every moment j
expected to be aroused by a skeleton.
CHAPTER III.
I had been nearly a month at the doctor's
house, and the term of court wa9
drawing to a close. By this time, Nan
was to mc perfectly beautiful; but gracious
her manners were as ugly as ever.
The thought that I might possibly be in
love with her hail, doubtless, never entered
her head. This was provoking.
One day when the doctor had been
?allcd to visit a distant patient, I decided '
to inquire into the state of Nan's affectioDs?if
she had any. "When I entered
the sitting-room alter dinner, I found I
tier reading a novel. An encouraging j
. , ? . O ?
>ign, evidently. \
"What arc you reading, Nan?"
"A book." j
"Of course it's a book. Do you find j
t interesting?"
"It might be to some people, but I am I
lot carried away with it. Tells all about j
i fool man that loved a fool girl, and, ;
from the way they arc taking on at '
present, I think they will soon be mar icd."
"Did you ever think of marriage,
San?''
"Well, it never kept me awake at ;
light. i ,
"Did you ever love any one, Nan!" j ^
"I never lost my appetite on that ac- !
lount." j ,
"Why don't you speak earnestly? Thi? ] .
is a serious subject." ; ]
"Yes, too serious for me."'
"Xau, I am in love now. I love you." ]
"Who told you so!" she replied, with- J j
jut exhibiting thj least emotion.
"Come, girl, don't trifle with me this 1
way!"
"IIow must I trifle with you then!" j j
"Oh, Nan, don't you see how I love j j
rou?"
"That's the way the felllow talks in j
this book. Why don't you write a book, j !
ind make the men say 'ah' and the : ,
women 'do tell!' Take my left hand,
please. I want to hold the book with ,
:he right one.''
"Nan, you will break my heart."
"When?" j '
"You arc breaking it now." j
"Don't be foolish, Mr. Prosecuting '
Attorney."
"Is it foolish to love you!"
"Yes, I think so." I
"Then I am foolish. I would rather I :
aie in such foolishness than to live and ! '
be wise. Oh, Nan?"
"I tell you I need ray right hand. Oh, j
behave yourself. I don't love you. |
There now, go on away."
I had been kneeling at her feet. I ;
irose when she said she did not love me. j
My hopes were withered like a mulberry
Leaf in November. Without saying an- ;
Jther word, I left her and wandered for j ,
i time in the woods. "I will leave her
to morrow morning," I mused. "I shall '
say nothing to the doctor. 1 shall leave
before day. I canuot bear to tell either i
of them good-bye."
I tried to appear unaffected when we ;
met at the supper table, and I don't |
think the doctor noticed anything. We j
sat up unusually late, I in the hope that i
N'an would say something to alter my ;
letermination; but not a word, not a :
look did I receive to encourage me.
"Good-night," I said, still lingering
in the doorway.
Nan did not even look at me as she re- j
r?irrlit- TInnr* nr* !
" ? f~ I
:ons will bother you." | ;
I did not go to sleep. By the heavy ;
strokes of the great old clock in the sit- '
ting-room, I counted the weary drag !
of the hours. Five o'clock. I arose and.
Pressed myself. Slipping out cautiously, |
1 started toward the stable. The air was
sharp and frosty. The moon had gone ,
down. The morniug star blazed. The
stable wa9 situated some distance from
the house, reached by a path winding !
imong the scattering trees and stumps
of a semi-clearing. I had not proceeded
far, when I saw a light on a stump. I
drew closer and a chill seized me. What
i light! Its beams came from a horrible j
Lcrin. I was frightened, but I was determined
not to turn back. Closes, and
with my heart beating wildly, I stopped, j
Merciful heavens! The light came from '
r? linmnn clrilll TllPn T llPJIwl CTlCTOrlf*
that I knew too well.
"Nan!" I called.
She stepped from behind a tree and
approached.
" Nan, what on earth is that?"
"Candle in a skull. I thought you
would need a light."
" How did you know I was coming out
here?"
" "When you fed your horse late last
night, I thought that you would attempt j
to leave early this morning."
" Attempt to leave?" I repeated.
"Yes, I knew that you would attempt j
to leave, but I shall not let you. Oh, Mr.
CobblesoD, don't you know that I wor- I
ship you?" grasping my arm. "If you |
were to leave, 1 should" die. Come, let
us return to the house."
The old doctor never knew of my attempted
flight. He readily gave his cousent
to our marriage. Nan sobered down I
into the gentlest of women. One of her i
grand-daughters is very much like her, I
but lack of opportunity prevents her '
from employing skeletons in the practice j
of her mischievous machinations.?Ar- J
kansate Tnuckr.
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A Graveyard Within a Bank.
Few people are aware that the Bank j
of England contains within its walls a !
graveyard, but such is nevertheless the j
fact. The Gordon riots in 1780, during j
wmcn ttie uanK was auacneu uy u mou, ;
called alteution to the necessity for!
strengthening its defenses. Competent
authorities advised that an adjoining i
church, rejoicing in the appropriate i
name of St. Christopher-le-Stocks, was,
in a military sense, a source of danger, I
and accordingly an act of parliament was j
passed to enable the directors to purchase
the church and its appurtenances.
The old churchyard, tastefully laid out,
now forms what is known as the bank
"garden," the handsome "court-room"
or "bank parlor'' abutting on one of its
sides. There is a magnificent lime-tree,
one of the largest in London, in the centre
of the garden, and tradition states
that under this tree a former clerk of thu
bank, eight feet high, lies buried,?
Chambers,' Journal.
There are eight lawyers in Philadel
phia who have been in practice over fiftj
years.
SCRAPS FROM THE FEASTS. I
A QUEER INDUSTRY WHICH FLOURISHES
IN NEW YORK.
Gathering 1,'p the Fooil I.eft Over at ;
Faaliionnble Entertainment* ?
How It i* Retold.
A belated New York reporter found J
himself in front of a handsome house |
on Madison avenue at 2 a. m. A dilupi- ;
dated wagon, drawn by an aged horse,
stood before the house. The reporter j
noticcd two men hurrying from the cart, ;
with empty pans and pails, into the |
basement of the house, and returning |
speedily with the same tilled to the brim, j
For a moment it looked like a burglary, j
but the presence of a policeman on the !
ncaicst corner was assurance to the contrar}\
One of the men paused as if to
rest for a 1110 ment, and the reporter accosted
him:
"What's the racket?"
"The same old thing. Free lunches,
cheap restaurants, and Eyetalians."
"I don't quite catch on. What are you
doing in the place!"
"Why, don't you sec, they've had a
party there to-night and a big supper.
They've left three times as much as
they've eaten, and we're buying it up
from the steward. Well, take it around
to our regular customers and sell it all
before 9 o'clock to-morrow."
"Regular customers? Why, is this a
regular trade?"'
"Of course it is, and has been for over
ten years of my own knowledge. You
see, there are a hundred parties and over
ijivcn every night here in New York.
N'carly all of them are supplied by regular
caterers. About half are noticed in
the daily papers. Now, at these rackets
;hcy always put up a lot more than they
svant. They can't help themselves, because
it would never do to have just us
nuch as their guests needed and no more,
tt would look just as if they were dead
uroke. Old families order generally
twice as much as they're going to use,
icw families about three or four times as
nuch, and shoddies five and ten times
is much. Why, last week we took in a j
swell place where they had fifty people, j
>r,/l V>?X1 nnmifrli frruli for five hun
3red. Now, what happens? The party
3r wedding is all over, and there's all
:hat stnf! left untastcd. All they can
3o is to throw it into the swill barrel.
That's where we conic in. We come
ilong and buy it up. Sometimes we
buy it from the caterer. It saves him
trouble and time, as we clean off all the
Jis'nes and leave them ready for his
ivashers. Sometimes we make the deal i
with the cook or the butler, and some- j
limes, but not very often, with the old
man of the house. Anyway, we mauago
:o connect and get the stuff."
"What do you pay?"
" Well, that depends. With a reliable
caterer we can find out what will be
eft over, and can make a fair bid. With
:ooks aud servants we generally stake
aim with a two or a five-dollar note. Alnost
always we comc out ahead, but now j
ind then we get left. Cooks are getting |
:oo smart and want too much. With I
:he head of the house, though, it's easy
tvork, and a V will satisfy him every i
time."
" What do you do with the stuff?"
- - ~ - _ rni .i. I
"bell it to our customers, mures, ]
5rst, the cheap restaurants. They're al- j
ways ready to take anything cheap. If
they can get a chicken salad for $2 that ;
would cost them S5 to make they'll take |
it every time. You see, they can afford I
to sell at twenty cents a plate and make
money. "Why, one time I sold lobster I
salad, thirty pounds for $2.2o. It cost j
the restaurant keeper three cents a plate,
md he could sell for ten and make I
money. As a matter of fact, he sold it j
ill before 4 o'clock for tiftcen cents a i
plate. Then there's the free lunch saloons.
They want sandwiches, pickles, |
bread, cheese, olives and ham. They |
ion't pay much, but they'll take all you j
bring. There's one place downtown
where they give a fried oyster, a sandwich,
or something with every drink.
That man is one of my best customers.
"After you've worked the restaurants
ind free lunches, you can always s^ll out
what's left to the Eyetalians. They'll ;
buy anything if it's cheap enough. I've
sold them melted ice cream of different
:olors half eaten Charlotte Russes,
chicken bones, and broken cakes. At a !
street cleaner's restaurant in Marion j
street last year I sold the leavings from i
Hio r\iofno nf i liicr wprldiiitr retention for >
u v' i/li*tv'i' " C? L I
3ne dollar. They made about three pail- j
fuls, and had over fifty different things !
in them."
"What do you get mostly from parties?"
"First, leavings from plates; then ,
melted ice cream: next sandwiches, and j
then cake. Occasionally we get Char- I
lotte Russc and candies. In the old j
days we almost never got salads; but j
since they've used veal and boiled beef
in making chicken salad, we get a good j
deal. On warm nights we collar a good j
many fried and pickled oysters; on cold '
nights almost none at all. 'When they I
put up cold ham, corned beef, turkey I
and vension, people don't eat a quarter j
of it, and then we come in solid.
"Hut you see it all depends on the ;
kind of party it is. Literaries are the [
worst of all; they only have bouillon, i
coffee, sandwiches, and salad, and there's
nothing left over. Musicals arc almost
as bad. Kettledrum? and afternoon
rackets arc not much good either. The
best is a wedding. They send out n
thousand invites and set up for 700, and
then about 150 comes. Jiecepuons to |
public men are the next best. Then
conic birthday, christening, and tin wed- j
ding parties. Wakes, too. are sometimes ^
boss. The only way to size them up is i
to kDow the caterer and get all the j
points from him."
"I)o you ever get any wine?"
'\Na-o! The eld man of the house always
comes down aud collars what's
left. If he don't, the waiters drink it,
and they are always helped out by the j
servants. I've been in the business for J
ten years, and I never j;ot even a half j
bottle. That is, I didn't get any wine, I
although I did get the empty bottles. I
Tliev don't pay, though, unless you get !
more thnn fifty, and then they bring you j
about a dollar. 15ut I've got to stop, as |
I'm of! now to Washington market for ;
our first customer.''
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A luidii; ifUL'iui a I.AJIL-Iicmc. j
When Dr. Koch, the discoverer of scv- j
eral kinds of bacteria, or the germs of j
different diseases, brought forward the j
cholera bacilli, which he averred could |
not be mistaken for any other, the enthti- |
siasm among scientific men was so great |
that several students ottered themselves j
as subjects for experiment, urging that j
they should be allowed to swallow the j
bacilli, to prove the truth of Dr. Koch's i
discovery, and to help establish the ;
chance of cure.
Such heroism and willingness to sacrifice
life to promote the science of the j
healing art lias been not uncommon 1
among medical students in all times. A I
still more recent case shows a physician '
not only offering to die. but really risk j
ing and losing his life to save that of
another.
Dr. Kabbath. a young physician in j
London, while removing the deposit
lately from the throat of a child dying
with diphtheria, applied his own mouth j
to the tube"*and sucked it out, as the last j
hope of rescue. The heroic sacrifice was
useless in saving life. Doth the child I
and the physician died within a few j
hours. Hut it was not in vain. JJr. j
Kabbath might have lived unknown, as ;
(in obscure physician. But the story of j
lus death was told all over the English- i
speaking world, and quickened men to!
unseltish heroism as with the sound of a j
trumpet. "A living mail/' said one
writer, "he entered heaven with a living
child !*'? Youths' Companion.
There are about 150 vessels and 200
Hampton boats owned in Portland, Me.,
which are engaged in the fishing business,
giving employment to about 3,000
fishermen. The amount of capital represented
in this interest is not far from
$2,000,000, and the annual catch of tish
is of about the same value.
The present population of the world I
is stated at 1,294,533,073, of whom j
7.831,080 are Jews and 370,879.000 are |
Christians. These figures leave 915,721,827
to be classed as heathen.
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
Gray and black ostrich feathers are
speckled with white,as if sprinkled with
snow.
Bronze slippers and royal cardinal silk
hose arc popular for afternoon wear at
home.
Umbrellas now have natural wooden
handles, the quainter and more eccentric
the newer style.
Black, cardinal and blue are the leading
shades in hosiery, the stripes and
plaids being rarely seen.
A good novelty is a ribbon for use on
mourning dresses, between Ottoman and
faille, very durable, yet soft.
Choice sprays of shaded velvet flowers
appear upon some of the most elegaut
little opera bonnets from Paris.
"Worth, of Paris, will furnish a bridal
outfit for a lady for $20,000, but she
imiov wajivvi vii-ij luiiij; "?i .v_?j v,ummon.
The very newest overskirts are made
with very large plaits all around, and are
shorter in front than at the sido and
behind.
Jet and black ribbon arc the favorite
trimming for the very little wraps worn
with woolen suits, no matter what may
be their color.
Basques and tunics for elegant house
wear are made of Gobelin serge with antique
figures and rich dull colors, and
worn over skirts of velvet.
Small gold and silver pins, in novel
devices, both floral, fanciful and grotcsqe,
arc thrust about in the luces of
jabots and frills on dressy corsages.
"Worth's most stylish wraps have a
jersey effect in the waist portion, and
the long skirts are draped to cling to
the figure and produce a slender effect.
A companion volume to " Men of the
Times" is to be devoted to women of
mark,and comprises over 400 names wellknown
in art, literature, science, music
and the drama.
A new crape cloth has been brought
out for widows' second mourning which
really wears well. It is all wool, though
heretofore there has been a cotton warp
in such fabrics.
For all but deep mourning people are
wearing terry brochc thrown ou wool
ground, all black, and for si ght mourning
some charming specklcd stufTs have
been brought out.
A bride's cake, in London, for Sir
Watkins - Williams - "Wynn's daughter,
weighed fifty pounds, and had statuettes
on top representing literature, art,
science and music.
A pretty fancy for dancing is the
wearing of black silk stockings with jet
clocks, and slippers of black satin with
a jet swallow pcrched 011 each instep,
the beak terminating at the toe.
Muffs and bonnets trimmed with applique
bands in solid colorings, or in
the magnificent Persian effects in silk I
cord, bead and cheniile are worn with
wraps and redingotes similarly adorned.
A most charming toilet, recently imported,
is made of moonlight tulle,
studded all over with tiny silver loops
woven into the tissue, and through cach
of which is passed the stem of a wood
violet in velvet.
The styles in kid gloves show few
changes. The lengths remain about the
same, although in soino brands are a
little Wider in the arm and a trifle narrower
where they button, and this is a j
decided improvement.
A charming evening dress is of white
tulle and white satin. The train of satin
is dotted with silver, and the front,composed
of plaited tulle, is striped with
satin ribbon, the panels lengthwise, the
full front horizontally.
The taste for all kinds of beadwork
this season is a new idea in silk dress
goods. The beading is not confined to
white goods, but is used on satins and
velvets ot ail colors, tiie uiacKs ueing especially
rich in effect when embroidered
with gold beads.
Many of the large white collars of
English embroidery have the pattern
outlined in gold thread, and r.re more
becoming and more elegant in consequence.
Sometimes the metal appears
only in the corners and at the border,
and sometimes it is employed on the
whole surface
An English way of arranging ribbon
as a trimming on a "hat is to make a very
large and complicated bow of it in front
of the crown, setting a few ostrich tips
among the loops. The ends of the ribbon
are passed through a slit in front of
the crown and reappear at its top in the
back, passing down to be tied in a bow j
on the brim.
The most beautiful of the European i
royal women is said to be Queen Olga,
of Greece. She is tall and of perfect |
shape, with exquisite feet and hands, j
limpid aucl Jargc daric eyes and long
curling lashes. very long dark liuir, and
a complexion delicate as a flower petal.
She is almost as fine an equestrienne as
the Empress of Austria. Her husband
adores her.
A Jlnu ">7llli Three Logs.
In a Boston hotel recently a Bavarian,
thirty-three years of age, named George
Lippert, presented himself for examination
and inspection to a number of
physicians and surgeons. Mr. Lippert,
says the Boston JJenihl, is known aud
accurately described as the "three-legged
man." lie has two legs which reach the
ground and one that is turned up behind
him, the latter originally placed in that
position by Mr. Lippert himself, who
was sensitive about his deformity and
desired to conceal it. In fact, he does
conceal it so well that its presence can
not be cuessed as he walks alonjj the
street, llis left leg is perfect, except
that it has six toes. Where the right
leg should be there :tre two legs growing
side by side and covered by the same
skin as far as the knee, or very near that
point. There are two thigh bones, two
ball and socket joints and different sets
of muscles, and the motion of one leg is
entirely independent of the other. Each
of these legs, which may be called the
second and third legs, has a separate
knee-joint, and from the knee they are
entirely separate from each other. The
second leg below the knee has but one
bone, and this ends in a bony knob with
three toes attached to it. It is this leg
that he uses in walking, the termination
being protected by a padded cup made
to tit it. The third leg has all the bones i
and muscles to be found in the leg of
any ordinary man, but at the foot is
twisted in a most extraordinary manner.
On this foot there are six toes, which all
move as Mr. l.ippeit wills. This leg,
though not 1 lie one used in walking, is,
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uuvuriui'ivas, iui: i. libit |
Mr. Lippert was .sixteen years of age he I
used all three legs in walking, and each j
had its own independent motion, but lie j
could not stand the remarks his appear- |
once drew forth, and the older he be- j
came the more sensitive he grew, and I
finally he strapped the outside leg up be- |
hind him in such a way that it could not j
be remarked. lie naturally thought the |
outside lea was the superfluous one, |
wheu in reality the extra one was in the |
center. Tightly strapped up in the way j
described, the muscles became rigid and ;
contracted in such a way that it is im- !
possible now to straighten this lcic. An- )
other singular thing about this third leg j
is that the toe nails grow under the foot J
and not as in a perfect foot. Mr. Lippert
has three brothers and three sisters,
all perfectly formed; his father and j
mother arc in no way remarkable, and |
there is no record in his family of the j
birth of twins, lie is another living
illustration of the peculiar method in
which nature sometimes works, and no
theory yet advanced satisfactorily accounts
for his strange deformity. Findinn
hie nvtr.1 1 nrr 11 scriouq inconvenience
*"b v""** *vt? * ? -to
him in nearly all the walks of life, he
finally overcame his modesty and consented
to exhibit himself.
Ginger biscuits, an agreeable variation
of ginger cookies, are made of one
pound of flour, half a pound of butter,
half a pound of sugar, two eggs, two
heaping tablespoonfuls of ginger, two
tcaspoonfuls of baking powder; mix
thoroughly and mold into small biscuits;
bake in ft quick oven. A little salt is required
unless the butter is very salt.
Just sixteen years ago the interest, on
he national debt was $143,000,000 a
car. It is now $58,000,000.
! NEWS SUMMARY
Frmtcm and Middle states.
The banking houso of AmosS. Henderson
at Lancaster, Pcnn., has gone under; liabilities,
over JUUO.O^O.
New Bedford, Mass., reports 1,000 cases
I of measles, an average of one case to every
| thirty jiersons.
Five men were killed by the explosion of a
sawmill boiler at Good Spring, Peun.
Cashier Meech and Assistant-Cashier
Webb, of the Merchants' bank, of Norwich,
Conn., were arrested for embezzling from the
institution's funds. Both gavo bonds to
answer.
The long struggle over a nomination for
the successor of Hon. Elbridge (I. Lapham
as United States Senator from New York
ended by the Republican caucus awarding
tho prize" to William M. Evarts, who received
sixty-one votes to twenty-eight for Oliver P
Morton and three for Chauncey M. Dopew.
As tho Republicans have a majority in tho
New York legislature, the nomination of Mr.
Evarts was equivalent to an election.
William M. Evarts was elected United
States Senator from New York by the State
legislature, receivinc nineteen votes in tho
senate and seventy-three in tho assembly to
thirteen votes in tho senate and fifty-two in
the assembly for Edward Cooper, the Democratic
causus nominee.
Congressman Jonathan Chace was
elected by tho Rhode Island legislature to tho
United States Senate as successor to the late
Senator Anthony.
Oliver Brothers & Phillips, tho suspended
Pittsburg iron firm, have made a
statement to their creditors showing liabilities,
Sl,50S,m?3; assets, $2,31U,352.42. An
extension of five years is asked.
The Connecticut legislature re-elected Hon.
0. H. Piatt to the United States Senate.
The Democratic nominee was \V. H. Barnum,
chairman of the Democratic National committee.
Under instructions from Mayor Grace, the
New York police are putting a stop to all
gambling and rigidly entorcing the liquor law.
The other night twelve gambling houses in
the city were raided.
Three right whales, known to whalemen
as "two cows and a calf," were captured the
other day off tho Long Island coast by the
whaling crews of two villages. The whales
were harpooned close to the shore, but making
a desperate fight for life towed the boats fully
ten miles to sea before spouting blood. They
are valued at nearly $4,(X)J. A day or two
subsequently another right whale was captured
off the Long Island coast. It proved
to be the largest yet caught, being seventy
feet long and nino feet broad. The bone is
??l x-o cri/i
VUlUl'U UK <W,?JUU.
TnE failure of the Jamestown (Penn.) savings
bank was followed by the discovery that
its young cashier, I. Ross Martin, had disappeared
and was a defaulter to tho tune of
about $20,000. When last seen Martin was
headod for Canada.
Sister Theresa,a niece of the Hon. Jame3
G. Blaine, died a few days since in St. Mary's
Catholic convent at Wilkesbarre, Penn.
Ex-Mayor Gontiier, of New York, once
a prominent merchant and politician, is
dead. The
boiler of a portable engine on Simon
Benedict's farm in Groton, N. Y., exploded
with terrific effect. Mr. Benedict and one son
were fatally injured, a youuger son was instantly
killed, and the engineer's body could
not bo found.
Mount Washington*, N. H., has just had
the coldest weather ever experienced there,
tho thermometer registering fifty degrees belo
w zero.
A Mrs. E. H. Green*, who is said to be the
richest woman in America, had $2(5,000,00.')
in first-class bonds and securities on deposit
with tho recently suspended New York banking
house of John J. Cisco & Son. Mrs.
Green called for her projwrty the other day,
and upon tho assignee's refusing to give up
fcQrn (lilOwnrfh nf thA Hnimmcr thev
must lie held as collateral for the loan of
$SI)D,C00 made to her husband, the lady made
quite a scene, bursting out crying, throwing
herself upon the floor and refusing to bo comforted
or quieted She finally left, threatening
to appeal to the law.
South and Wont.
A DEsrEHAOO named Perry Pleasants, arrested
in Albion, Idaho, fired his revolver
with fatal effect at Deputy Sheriff Butterfield,
who was guarding him, receiving simultaneously
the contents of the latter sshotgun,
which killed him instantly.
A host of friends were present at Schuyler
Colfax's funeral in South Kend, Ind. Governor
Hendricks, Governor Porter, Governor
Gray, Hon. W. H. Calkins and other prominent
Indianians who were to serve as pallbearers
were snow bound and did not arrive
in time.
A fresh railroad war has broken out, and
emigrant passenger rates from New York to
Chicago have been reduced to one dollar.
Numerous towns in Oregon have been cut
off from communication with the outside
world by immense snow drifts.
Five Kiowa Indians were found frozen to
death in Indian Territory.
riua. i-'AAILL, > UUIVIlAliH nuo iciiuiiiiuubvu
to the United States Senate by th_> Democratic
members of the Indiana legislature.
The Democrats in the Indiana legislature
have a majority on joint ballot.
Large iron and brass mills in Ohio are
again starting up, and reports give a more
favorable outlook for the metal trade than
lias existed iu many months.
Senator Vest has been re-elected to the
United States Senate from Missouri
Mb. Yoorhees was re-elected United
States Senator by the Indiana legislature,
receiving a majority of forty-five out of the
14!i votes cast over ex-Governor Porter, the
Republican candidate.
Z. 13. Vance was re-elected United States
Senator from North Carolina, receiving 128
votes. Tyro York, the Republican nominee,
received twenty-five votes.
"Wilkinson Call has been re-elected
United States Senator by the Florida legislature.
There was a disgraceful fight over pos
session of the speaker's gavel in the Illinois
legislature. Speaker Haines resigned at 10
v. M., saying that it seemed both parties did
not want him, and ho would have to assume
his old position ns tho Independent party.
Immediately there was a free fight
for possession of tho gavel, members hurling
each other right and left in the ell'ort to obtain
tlio insignia of oflice. An extraordinary
scene of turmoil followed, nnd lasted for
some time.
Governor Scales' inauguration at
Raleigh, N. C., was attended with an unusual
civic nnd military display.
During the wedding celebration of Colson
Bninbridge, an Indian, near Wobber's Falls,
Indian Territory, he was killed by unknown
parties, who fired through the window. After
his death the firing became general, and
three of tho wedding party?ono man and
two women?wero wounded.
The Virginia fleet in search of depredators
on tho State's oyster beds has made one haul
of sixty-soven prisoners. Governor Cameron
declares his determination to continue to
make war upon tho "oyster pirates" so long
as tliev continue their unlawful practices.
Patrick Woods (colored), killed a constable
at McCorab City, Miss. Forty masked
men look "Woods out of jail and hanged him.
H*anlii iicton.
It is announced that two colored compa
nies, tile Monumental Guards of Baltimore
and the Elliot Grays of Now York, will bo
present at "Washington during the inaugural
ceremonies.
Representative John D. Long, of Massachusetts.
has been chosen by the managers
of the Washington Monument commission to
read the address prepared by Robert C. Winthrop,
of Massachusetts, which Mr. "Winthrop
had expected to deliver at the ceremony of
dedication. Mr. Winthrop was the orator
when the corner-stone was laid, and has recently
been very ill.
Tub announcement of J. Donald- Cameron's
re-election to the United States Senate i
was rend by the clerks of botli houses of the
Pennsylvania legislature in joint session at |
Ilnrrisburg.
Tiie Colorado legislature has ele -ted Henry |
M. Teller, secretary of the inti ri >r, as sucSessor
to N. I'. Hill of the United States Senate.
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?'\S U. IV. AUIHJ, posuiulMUr ami umivu
States lan?l commissioner at Sarasota, Fla.,
was walking along the street ho was shot
from behind and killed l>y two men, who
conveyed their victim's body away in a boat
Investigation is snid to have resulted in the
discovery of a secret assassination society,
whose object was the removal by death of 1
all persons objectionable to its members.
Chief Justice Waite, of tho United
States supreme court, has gone to Florida for
the benelitof his health.
President Aiithi r sent to the Senate the
nomination of Carroll 1>. Wright, of Massachusetts,
to be commissioner of labor; William
C. hnimett. of New York, to be secre
tary of the legation at Constantinople; Emory
Sjiear, of Georgia, to be United States district
judge for the southern district of
Georgia, and II. C. Minor, to bo collector of
internal revenue for tho district of Louisiana.
News has been received that 4(J0 settler8
have taken possession of land in tho Indian
Territory contrary to law, that the number
is steadily increasing, and that resistance to
Federal authority is threatened. After a
consultation between the President and secretary
of war orders wvro given to remove i
tlie settlers by United States troops.
The Senate in executive session confirmed
the following nominations: John Davis, of
the District of Columbia to be judge of the
United States court of claims; William A.
Richardson to be chief justico of the United
States court of claims, and Samuel P.
McCormick to be collector of internal revenue
for the district of West Virginia.
A bill lias been introduced in the House to
prohibit aliens and foreigners from acquiring
or owning lands within tho United States.
Within* four years twelve members of tho
House of Representatives?eight Republicans
and four Democrats?have been promoted to
tlje United States Senate.
At a secret session of the National Woman
SulFrage association, held in Washington,
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, of New York, was
chosen president, and Susan B. Anthony
first vice-president.
the wire ol Justice Stanley Matthews, or
the United States supreme court, died a fow
days since.
Collections of internal revenue In tho
first six months of the fiscal year ending June
30, 1884, were $50,518,5(58, of which $34,0(54,395
was from spirits, $12,732,399 from tobacco
$9,570,492 from fermented liquors, and $151,
282 from miscellaneous sources. The total
receipts are $4,270,780 loss than they were in
the same period the previous year.
The Senate has confirmed thE nomination
of Carroll D. Wright, of Boston, to bo commissioner
of labor.
REAn-ADMinAL S. P. Quacken'bush has
been placed on the retired list of tho United
States navy.
The olectoral returns of all the States, both
by mail and messenger, have been received
by the president of tho Senate. The returns
from Oregon and Iowa were sent back for
correction, and havj since been received in
proper legal form.
The House committee on tho public health
has decided to recommend tho appropriation
of $25,000 for the national board of health
and S.500.003 to bo used at tho discretion of
the President in preventing the spread of
cholera should it appear in this country 1)0fore
the next Congress assembles.
Foreign.
Edmund About, the distinguished French
author, is dead.
The English packet steamer Admiral
MoorsoD.. plying between Dublin and Holyhead,
collided with an American vessel and
was sunk. Sixteen of her passengers and
crew were reported missing.
The city of Klagenfurt, capital of the
province of Carinthia, in southern Austria,
was visited by an avalanche which wrecked
soveral buildings and killed twenty of the inhabitants.
A small village at tho foot of the
Simplon mountain, Switzerland, has been
buried under ton feet of snow by an avalanche.
A RAiLnoAD train struck a broken rail
near Venice, 111. ; tho smoker and baggage
cars were thrown into a ditch and many people
were injured, oue fatally.
Great suffering prevails among the victims
of the recent earthquakes throughout Spain.
Native peasants engaged to accompany
the British army marching to Gordon's re
Uer are deserting Dy nunureas.
Thomas Parry was hanged in Galway,
Ireland, for murdering his sweetheart,
Miss Alicia Burns, who had broken her engagement
with him and was killed In revenge.
Fresh earthquake shocks, resulting in
some damage, have boon felt in Spain.
Many more villages in Italy are reported
as having been devastated by snow avalanches,and
the havoc and slaughter are described
as appalling. At Frassino 140 persons wore
killed; the village of Valgrano was partly
destroyed and a large number of persons lost
their lives; forty-two persons were killed at
Deveis; the villago of Rabassa was almost
completely buried under snow, and the victims
there were counted by the score.
CAPTURING A BIG WHALE.
An Exciting Clinic Off tlio Long
Island Const.
A dispatch from Amagansett, Long Island)
to the New York Sun, gives a vivid account
of tho capture of an immense whale after a
Tirnlnnff?1 'pnnt/iqt. with Din morino mnnciflr
A party of whalemen wero cutting up the
carcass of another whale that had been captured
a few days before, when a black mound
was seen rising above the water, two miles
off shore, shining in the sun, and forging
slowly ahead, moved by the lazy flapping of
a gigantic tail.
Blubber and try pots wero deserted, says
the dispatch, and in ten minutes the thrco
boats of the village were cutting the water in
hot pursuit. Five men were pulling at the
eras in each boat, with a sixth ns captain or
boat header, standing in the stern steering
and watching the monster's movements. Half
a mile of hard rowing brought the beats to
the point of the bar, and ns they pulled out
into tho open ocean they saw tho three
whaling boats from East Hampton come
dancing over the waves.
The whale at this time became suspicious
and dived out of sight. Then all the whaleboats
separated, eacli pulling toward the spot
where its captain thought tho whnlo most
likely to appear. At sundown tho whale still
had the best of it. He had been down and up
ing oil tho track nil but one of his pursuers.
One of the Amagansett boats was htill with
him, and was following closely every one of
his movements. Old Joshua Edwards, tho
oraclo of whales, was in command. Ho
seemed to know just what the whale's intentions
were, and just as tho sun set ho succeeded
in fooling it. He had ail along carefully
avoided crossing the whalb's track, because,
he said, whales can feel a boat crossing
their track. All the other boats being well to
the rear, tho big monster stopped to breathe
and take it oasy. Captain Edwards motioned
to his men to make but little noise. The unsuspecting
whale lay still on the water until
the bow of the boat was within fifteen feet of
the side. Then tho captain motioned to his
men again. They stopped rowing, and Geo.
Smith, laying astdo his oar, stood op in tho
bow of the boat and hurled a harpoou deep
into the whale's back.
Then it was "stem all!" for their lives. The
men backed water as hard o< they could from
tho dangerous vicinity, but the vhale went off
like a snot, lashing tho water with his tail,
and dragging the boat behind him at. railroad
speed. After tho first burst of fury he sank,
and fathom after fathom of tho tow Jiao attached
to the harpoon was paid oiIn a
few minutes he rose again, and tore through
tho water once more. Captain Edwards had
taken up his position in the bow of tho boat,
holding a hatchet in one hand, ready to sever
the rope in case of necessity, and in tho other
a long keen lanco, eagerly watching his opportunity
to plunge it into a vitul spot, but
the whale was a whopper, fifty feet long and
his powersof endurance seemed inexhaustible.
In a short time tho boat was dragged eight
miles out to sea, with a long crimson wako
stretching far behind it. The other Iwats
were doing their best to catch up with the
chase, but in vain. Occasionally tho stricken
monster would lie motionless on the water
and tho ;mon in tho boat endeavored
to approach him by drawing themselves
up hand over hand, but this strain
on the harpoon generally spurred him to renewed
struggles, and ho would start away
again. He had been lanced a dozen times before
0 o'clock, but tho constant lashing of his
torrible tail kept tho men at a distance, and
tho wounds were not deep.
At last, however, ho showed signs of weakness,
and Captain Edwards, after drawing up
as close as possible, took up instead of his
lanco a broad, sharp instrument (ailed a
spade. He hurled it with such dexterity nnd
force at the monster's tail that he severed
some of the muscles and seemed to paralyze
it. The whale then lay at the mercy of his
pursuers. The latter drew up without fear,
and the captain, taking deliberate aim, inflicted
a fatal wound. The whale sank at
once, but soon came up spouting blood, and
in ten minutes he rolled over and floated lifeless
on the water.
In a short tinio the other two Amagansett
boats came up. All three boats were fastened,
one behind the other, in tandem style,and
the fifteen men, guided bv a big beacon tire
built by their friends on the shore, started to
tow their prize back. At 1 o'clock this morning
the difficult task was accomplished, and
tho whale lay stranded oil' shore. Tho work
of stripping off the blubber and taking out
the whalebone was begun at once, and it bus
been going on ever since. There is great rejoicing
in the village and no jealousy anions
the crews,as each of the eighteen Amagansett
men will receive an equal share, captains and
men all faring alike, without anv preference
for those who did the killing, l'he whale is
valued at about ^.(XK), which makes a little
more thau $1U0 to reward each man for risking
his life. _______
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
Twenty theatres in Europe aro in receipt
of state aid.
Tnv.vn line lmnn lilnvilltr to "l)ic
business" in Chicago.
Riutori whs a failure in Now York, tho
audiences being wiutchedly small.
It costs a night to light tlie grand
apera house in Paris. The fuel is Sl(i,(JU0 a
year, and the expense of sweeping and dusting
$7,000 a year.
The largest organ in the world is said to be
in the cathedral of Riga. It is thirty-six feet
wide, thirty-two feet deep and sixty-five feet
in height. It lias (i,N2C pipes.
Laura Hoxky, daughter of tho famous
comedian, George Honey, is dead She had
written and adapted several plays in her life
time. She died at Oakland, Cai.
Sarah Bernhardt says she never
studies a part. She thinks it over and it
comes to hor. When it is obstinate she reads
it before going to lied, dreams of it, and she
Las it.
Three great musical festivals will he held
in tho provinces in Knglaud this year?that
at Birmingham at tno latter end of August,
ono at Hereford in September and another at
Bristol later 111 the year.
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the Italian menires are uk- uiich m m?
world to hoar ami see in, though they tlo not
compare with ours for decoration, i'hcy are
oval instead of horseshoe in shape, and as
fireproof as all theatres arc said to bo till they
prove to bo otherwise.
Many managers have visited the New York
Thalia during tho past week to see "Nation.11
All agree that it is a most charming opera.
A waltz aria running through the entire opera,
which is the work of Genre, the composer
who orchestrates all of Strauss' operas.
English music is attracting at present considerable
interest, thanks to the growing independence
of young Knglish composers. Tho
latest indication is the commission for an
opera for tho Stadt Theatre, at Hamburg, by
"V illiers Stanford from Manager I'ollini.
In' the marblo memorial to Shakspeare in
the Poet's Corner in Westminster Abl>ey. the
bard, as is well known, has one arm thrown
carelessly over a pile of bound volumes of his
works. When David Garrick, tho great
Shaksperean actor died, he was interred underneath
tho lloor in tho Poet's Corner, and a
few days afterward it was discovered that the
forefinger of (Shakespeare's efligy pointed directly
to Garrick's grave. It was purely
accidental, j'ot nothing could be more appropriate.
EL MAM REPULSED. 1
The British Force Marching to i
Gordon's Relief Attacked.
Horde3 of Arabi Throw Themselves
Upon a Hollow Square.
A despatch has been received at the war
o.Tice in'London from General Lord Wolseley,
which reads substantially as follows:
General Stewart has had a heavy engagement
with a portion of the Mahdi's forces
near tho Abu-Klt-a wolls, about twenty-three
miles this side of Metemneh. The
ro'oels' had collccted from Berber, Met
ciiiucu uim uiiuurainaa. mis last place,
I regret to say, tho prisoners report
was recently captured by tho Mahdi,
and thus the men wore released from there to
fight General Stewart. On the afternoon of
January 10 General Stewart's cavalry reported
"that the enemy wore in position somo
few miles this side of the wells. As it was
too late in the day to allow an advance and
a successful encounter General Stewart
bivouackcd whore ho was for the night.
Tho enemy kept up a harmless fire all
night and erected works on General Stewart's
right flank. On Saturday General Stewart
endeavored to draw tho enemy on to make
an attack, but tho rebels hesitated In consequence
of this General Stewart left all his
impediments and camels under guard of tho
Sussex regiment and some mounted infantry
and moved forward, keeping his forces
in tho form of a square. All the men were on
foot. The British army passed around tho
enemy's left flank, forcing them to make an
attack or bj subject to an inlllade fire. The
enemy wheeled to tho left and delivered a
well organized charge under a withering
firo from our men. The square was unfortunately
penetrated about its left rear,
where a haavy cavalry and camel
regiment were in position, by sheer weight of
numbors. Tho admirable steadiness of our
men enabled them to maintain a hand-to^
hand fight with the opposing forces while se"
vere punishment wa* being inflicted upon the
enemy by all other parts of the square. The
enemy wore finally driven back under heavy
firo from all sides.
Tho Nineteenth Hussars then pushed forward
to the wells, which woro in our possession
by 5 in the evening. Tho enemy left not
less than fcOJ slain around tho squara Prisoners
who were taken while the enemy were
retiring report that tho number of the
enemy who were wounded was quits exceptional.
One immediate effect of the battle
is that many of the rebels are submitting.
It was necessary for the army to
remain at tho wells some hours to obtain
water. As soon as practicable tho intention
was to push 0:1 with all expedition to Metemneh.
The English wounded are doing well
Goneral Lord vVoIseley says General Stewart
concludes his reports as follows:
"It has been my duty to command a force
from which exceptional work, exceptional
hardship and exceptional fighting havo been
called for. It would bo impossible to ale
quatoly describe the admirable supportgiven
to ino by every officer and man of the force.
I regret to say that our 1033 was severe, but
our success has been so complete that it may
dishearten the enemy to such an extent that
all their future fighting may be of a less obstuiato
character.''
Goneral Lord Wolseley says General Stewart's
operations have been most creditable to
him as a commander, and the nation has
every reason to bo proud of the gallantry and
splendid spirit of her majesty's soldiers on
this occasion. Our losses were nine commissioned
officers killed and nine wounded,
and sixty-five non-commissioned officers and
men killed and eighty-five wounded. General
Stewart's force consi3ts of about 1,500 men all
told.
Among the number of the British who fell
was Lieu tenant-Colonel Burnaby, who made
the famous "Hide to Khiva." Beside Colonel
Burnaby the following were killed: Major
Carmichael, of the Fifth Lancers; Majoi
Atherton, of tho Fifth Dragoons; Majoi
Gough, of tho Royal Dragoons; Captain
Darltsy and Lieutenant Law, of thd Fourth
Dragoons; Lieutenant Wolfe, of the Scots
Greys and Lieutenants Pigolt and Delisle,
ol tho Naval Brigade. Lom St. Vincent and
Lord Airlio were wounded.
Colonel Burnaby was killed by a thrust of
an Arab's snear, which entered his neck anc
.1 W? in.
Stewart's horse was ahot tho rider fell to the
ground and was badly shaken, but lie soon
recovered aiul obtained auother mount Gen.
Stewart's orderly was killed by his side. The
English soldiers had had neither food nor
water since the night before the battle.
Tho battle was a fearful hand-to-hand fight.
Most of the Arabs were armed with spears
and protected by spiked shields of ox-hide.
They rushed to clo:->o quarters and swarmed
over the bodies of their dead and wounded
comrades. Tho English troops, after the
iirst few rounds had been fired, fought with
shortened sabres and with sword bayonets
wielded at half-arm length.
Tho news of a battle in Egypt surprised
tho government, as severe fighting was not
expected. Serious doubts are expressed as to
whether General Wolseley's force is sufficiently
strong to reach Khartoum. Colonel Burnaby's
death is greatly deplorod in London.
Ho was a favorite in all the clubs and in
political and military circles, where the news
has been tho great topic of conversation. His
death has been more talked about than the
battle itself.
SUMMARY OF CONGRESS
Senate.
The Senate devoted the day to eulogies of
the late Senator Anthony. His chair, in tho
front row on the Republican side of the
chamber, was draped in black. Mr. Sherman
presided. Immediately after the reading
of the journal Mr. Aldrich delivered a
speech commemorating tho private virtues
and public services of his former colleague.
He was followed by Messrs. Edmunds,Bayard,
Morrill, Pendleton, Hoar, Garlaud, Ingalls,
Butler, Hawley and Manderson. A short
speech by Mr. "Sheffield, Mr. Anthony's successor,
closed tho ceremonies.
Mr. Plumb olTen'd a resolution calling upon
tho President to advise the Senate as to the
status of the unoccupied lands in the Indian
Territory, and upon the suggestion of Mr.
Hoar tho matter went over... .Mr. Colquitt
presented the credentials of Joseph E.
Brown, re-elected Senator from Georgia....
Tho Senate resumed consideration of the
Inter-State Commerce bill, which was discussed
by Mr. Beck and Mr. Maxey. Mr.
Coke yielded to a motion to go into executive
session.. .A message from the President was
received transmitting information relating to
the foreign commerce of Mexico. Central and
South America, the Spanish West Indies,
Havti and San Domingo, and the share of the
United States thcroin.
The consideration of tho Inter-State Com
mcrw UIJl ???0 1COU1IIWU, A'XUOOAO. vwn, *?*v,
Pherson, Morgan and Harrison continuing
the discussion.... A message was received
from the House announcing the death of
John Hamilton Evins. Mr. Hampton offered
an appropriate resolution. Mr. Frye and
Mr. Butler also spoke, and the Senate adjourned
out of resjxjct to the memory of Mr.
Evins.
House.
Mr. Hitt moved to suspend the rules and
pass the Senate bill providing for tho exerciso
of tho jurisdiction conferred on the
United States in places out of j
their territory and doiniuion. After j
debate the motion was lost....
Mr. Cor introduced a bill to appropriate
$i">0,0u0 for a nine hundred ton gunboat....
Mr. Phelps moved that the President be asked
to furnish information as to tho imprisonment
of Chas. A. Van Bockkclt at Port-au- i
Prince, Havti Mr. Townshend offered a I
resolution asking the President to send the |
House the corro<pjndenco on file in the de- !
partments relating to the Oklahoma lands in
the Indian Territory, and information as to
the condition of the controvei'sy growing out
of the attempted occupation of those lands.
Mr. Oates, of Alabama, from the committee
on public lauds, reported a bill prohibiting
aliens aii'l foreigners from acquiring
title to and owning lands iu the United States
The House discussed the Indian appropriation
bill. Mr. Ellis, of Louisiana,
explained that tho bill apjsopriated
fit, 1 :! ">, which sum was $I,8tU5,1114
Iws than the estimates, an I $lir>,000 less
than tho sum appropriatedjfor the current
year. The new legislation in the bill provided
for tho punishment of any person convicted of
furnishing firearms to any Indian except
those belonging to tho civilized tribes in tho
lu,linn TernuH-v.andma'lo more stringent tu?<>f
nnlent, snirit
iiuv a^iiiiisi ,
into tlu' 1 tit 1 i:t:i country.
Tlio Agricultural Appropriation bill was
roporte I to the ILmse. It carries
which is about ?XKl,l)0) less than the appropriation
for the current fiscal year... .Lulogisiic
a'liltv*si's upon the private life and
iniblic s.'rvi 'os of the late Senator Anthony,
of Rhode Island. were delivered by Messrs.
(.'haceuiid Spooner, of Rhode Island; Kelly,
of Pennsylvania: i'olaiul, of Vermont :
Morse, of Massachusetts, and Keifer, of
Ohio, and then the Ilouse, as an additional
mark of respect to the deceased Senator, adjournal.
BURIED BY AVALANCKES,"
Village* in Italy and France Overwhelmed
1 diler >now.
News has been received that villages in the
highlands of Piedmont and Savoy, Italy, were
devastated by avalanches. Three villages in
Piedmont, including the important village of
Frassono, have been imried under avalanches
from the Picdmonteso mountains. Tho town
of Chaumont in France,capital of the department
of Haute Maine, at the foot of tho Wages
mountains, is partly overwhelmed with
snow, and many people there have been
killed. Another fatal avalanche has occurred
at Kparone, on Uio Dora Hoi tea liver, a lew
I mill's south of Irreii.
Fifteen persons nro known to bo buried nnI
dertlw snow at Sparone, ami most of the
j other inhabitants are engaged in digging out
tin* survivors. The villagers who have been
made Immeli ssare in great distress and have
appealed for relief from the royal treasury at
Home. Troops have been sent from Home to
1 assist the villager*
RIVERS AND HARBORS,
Principal Items of Appropriation by
the House Committee.
The House committee on rivers and harbon
has completed consideration of the river and
harbor appropriation bill for the next fiscal
year. The bill appropriates $11,399,200. The
estimates as prepared by the engineers in
charge of tho various improvements amounted
to $31,507,630. Following are somo of the
appropriations for harbors:
Massachusetts?Boston. $->0,000.
Connecticut?New Haven harbor and
breakwater, $420,000.
New York?Buffalo, $75,000; Buttermill:
Channel, $10,000; New York Harbor (for re*
| moving obstructions), $5,000, Canarsie bay,
$.3,000; Charlotte, $30,000; Flushing bay,
$10,000; Great Sod us bay, ?10,000,
Gowanus bay, $5,000; Greenport, $.3,000:
T em linn. Mnnfrm-fmo I
jjltirj UUUUO ut*Jl *?v,ww,
$5,000; Ogdensburp, $10,000; Oswego,
?5,000; Rouse's Point Breakwater, $10,000;
Rondout, $2,000: Sheepohead bay, <5,000;
channel between Staten Island and Jfew Jersey
shore, $7,500.
New Jersey?Raritan Bay, $15,000.
Pennsylvania- Erie, $.')5,000.
Delaware?Delaware Breakwater, $100,000.
Maryland? Baltimore. $75,000.
Viiginia?Norfolk and approaches, $50,000.
South Carolina?Charleston Harbor, $150,000;
Georgetown, $2,000.
Georgia?Cumberland Sound, $75,000; Savannah,
$83,000.
Alabama?Mobile, $120,000.
Louisiana?New Orleans, $150,000.
Texas?Aransas Pass, $100,000; Sabine
Pass, $125,000.
Illinois?Chicago, $75,000: Waukegan, $15,000.
Wisconsin?Milwaukee, $75,000; Sheboygan,
$20,000.
California?Humboldt, $100,000; Oakland,
$75,000.
Oregon?Yaguina, $10,000.
APPROPRIATIONS FOR RIVERS.
Following are appropriations for rivers:
New York?Hudson, $20,000; Newtown
Creek, $20,000.
New Jersey?Passaic, $30,000; Raritan,
$15,000; Shrewsbury, $10,0J0.
Pennsylvania?Delaware river, $125,000.
Maryland?Potomac, at "Washington (provided
title is good to reclaimed land),
$150,000.
I v;>?r{n<n?Tomoa S1 Kfl Vnrlr. *17.000
"West Virginia?Great fcanawha, $175,000;
Littlo Kanawha, $22,500; Monongahela,
$48,000.
North Carolina?Cape Fear river, $70,500.
Florida?St. John's river, $155,000.
Louisiana?Red, $05,000.
Arkansas?Ouachita, $20,000; White, $12,000;
Arkansas, $32,000.
Tennessee?Cumberland river, $112,500;
Mussel Shoals, $350,00D.
.. Kentucky?Kentucky river, $200,000; Ohio
river, $350,000; Falls of the Ohio, $125,000.
Michigan?Detroit, Hay Lake channel,
$125,000; Saginaw, $50,000.
Indiana?Wabash, $50,0.0,
Illinois?Illinois river, $100,000; Hennepin
canal, $1^0),000: Mississippi from St. Paid
to DesMoines Rapids, $200,000; Dry dock.
DesMoines Rapids, $65,000; Mississippi from
DesMoines Rapids to Illinois river, 200,000;
Mississippi from Illinois river to Cairo,
$100,000: Mississippi to Cario to head of
Passes, $2,800,000; survey of ths Mississippi,
$75,000; removal of snaga in the Mississippi,
$50,000; fitting up snag Doat, $50,000.
Missouri?Missouri river, $450,000; surveys
of the Missouri, $50,000.
Oregon?Canal at Cascades, Columbia river,
$125,000.
NEWSPAPER POSTAGE,
Argument In Favor of a ltcdncilon
? A he matter Before Congrre??,
The question of a reduction in newspaper
postage is now before Congress. The New
York Mail and Express discusses the matter
editorially as follows:
Before the year 1874, postage on newspapers
and periodicals?mail matter of the
second-class?was paid by the subscriber at
the office of delivery. Much of this postages
was never collected, and in 1871 the present
law was passed, which requires prepayment
at the office of publication. As this change
in the law caine at a tima when it was impossible
for publishers to advance their rates
to meet the additional outlay, the postage
has always been practically a government
tax upon publishers.
Sineo 1874 the postage on letters and on
transient newspapers and periodicals?such
as are sent by other persons than publishers
?has been largely reduced, but on secondclass
matter the rate stands where it was put
eleven years ago.
In view of these facts, a meeting of nswspaper
men in the West and Northwest was
called at Detroit five weeks ago, and at tiiat
meeting, in which the principal journals of
Ohio, West Virginia, W astern Pennsylvania,
Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa,
Minnesota, Missouri and Tennessee were
represented, a memorial wa3 adopted, urging
upon Congress the expediency and justice of
roducing the postage on second-class mail
matter to one-half the present rates.
The subject has been agitated for saveral
years. In April, 1882, the House requested
rostmaster-Oeneral Howe for information as
to the weight, cost of carrying, and postage
collected on second-class mail matter, together
with his opinion of the "propriety of abolishing
the postage on such matter. Mr. Howe
replied that, in his opinion, such abolition
wag both feasible and advisable. Tne total
revenue to the government from this source
was only about $1,500,000 a year, or between
threo and four per cent of the total postal
revenue. This amount t ha governments mid
easily afford to lose. At present, falling upon
a comparatively small class of business men,
it amounts, in many cases, to a taking away
of tho entire profits of a newspaper.
Asido from all these consideration??and
all that tliesj publishers ask is that the rate
on second-class matter bo reduced in a ratio
commensurate with tho reduction on first
a'nd third-class mattor?it might well be argued
that it is scarcely fair, in this land of
liberty and intellectual light, to put a special
government tax upon a business which more
than any other tends to the education of tho
people.
There are already several bills before the
House looking to remelial legislation in the
premises. It is likely that the friends of the
proposed reduction will uuite 011 some one of
thesa measures, and press for an early consideration
of it. Such a consideration it certainly
ought to have.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
General Butler denies the recent story
that ho has engaged to write a book.
Mas. Garfield, mother of the late president,
has passed her eighty-third birthday.
Tiie Tichborne claimant has made arrangements
to come to America on a lecturing tour.
Mrs. Gladstone, wife of the English premier,
is a great worker among the London
poor.
The Sth of January the Prince of Wales
eldest son, and, therefore, heir to the throne,
came of age.
Although still weak from the effects of his
illness, General Grant is said to be rapidly
improving in health.
Ex-Vice-President "William A. Wheeler
is in feeble health, wifeless and childless,
at his old home in Malona, Franklin county,
New York.
Governor Ivinicead, of Alaska, says it
will be impossible to build railroads in that
country. Alaska is larger than all the United
States east of th>) Mississippi river.
Theodore Tilton is living in Paris, whore
he is described as giving good dinners to good
persons, writing a volume of poems, and
mingling in artistic society, including *'iat ot'
Sarah Bernhardt.
Adjutant General Drum is said to agree
with General O. O. Howard in the opinion |
that deserters from the army ought to be
branded. Ho says that during the last five
years 10,1)01 soldiers have deserted fi om the
regular army, or nearly every other man.
It is stated by Harper's Weekly that "Mr.
Hayes was the only President of the United
States since Mr. Lincoln who did not smoke
tobacco. President-elect Cleveland is a
smoker, as were President* Johnson, Grant
and Garfield, and as is President Arthur."
A movement has been started to keep
Erancis Murphy in Pittsburg as the minister
of a "Church of Gospel Temperance." A
fund of $.*>,(HK> has already been raised in its
support. During his late campaign of eight
week.< in that city Mr. Murphy obtained
IS,000 signatures to the temperance pledge.
THE PUBLIC PRINTER
Facts of Interest from liis Annual Report,
The public printer has transmitted to tho
United United States Senate his report for
the fiscal year ended Juno 30, 1SS1. Thereport
says that the printing by order of the
.Senate cost $1-I'.), 14:1. against $04,464, and the
House printing 'ytti, against ?17.">,2'J", for
t lie previous year. The ltecoril for the first
s -ssion of the Forty-eighth Congress compnsod
pages. It is recommended that
iml.i tni- rm-wion 1 p romired to be
lile.l with tlie public printer within live clays
after adjournment.
On the probable introduction of cholera in
this country anil it; relu wn to -his ntlieiij the
public printer says: "I am advised that imported
rags uro largely used liy the
contractor who snppliis jtajor. The
Treasury Department has issued an
order prohibiting the importation of rags
from cholera intected countries. If there
be danger in the use of rags at mills it would
seem that the disease might be communicated
in tho juii>er which is daily received at this
ollice. In view of the exjiected approach ot
cholera and in the name of 2,:.'0) people under
my charge, I submit this as a proper question
for the consideration of Congress."'
An appropriation of (n.">,00J is askeil for
the coming tiseal year against $1,014,000?the
estimate for the current fiscal year. This docrease
in the estimates, the report fays, 1>
duo to improved press facilities and to the
introduction of modern machinery and to the
application of better business principles in
tho management of the oftlce. A specific appropriation
of $?5,000 is asko:l for the purpose
of granting the employes fifteen nays
leave during tho vear.
ROASTED AM j|
Terrible Death In a Blazing In- * |
sane Asynlra.
Many of the Bedridden Inmates
Burned to a Crisp.- _ M
A Kankakee (111.) dispatch says that tfaa '>.??.
south infirmary of the Illinois Eastern HotpL -^-21
tal for the Insane was burned this morning '-Is'iiI
at 4:2 j a. m. The fire originated in the fur
nace room ana uaa ouuuneu a xiruug uw ,y.?
way ho'oro it was discoverad. The wood ..-ty
work being of Soulhorn pine, it burned very '
rapidly. The building was occupied by forty- - ^
flvo patients, six attendants and a night * J
waUhman. 8 3 von teen patients in all an
missing. All of the patients were infirm and
incurable. .
The bedridden one 3 were rescued first, and
chose who were able to help themselves did not
ivalize the danger in time, and they perished.
The attendants narrowly escaped with thell'
lives. One of them had to tie bed clothes to- $&?
gelher to escape from a window to thegroaod.
There were no facilities for putting oat tho ;
fire, the State not having made any appro? >,
priation for the purpose. Tho building was y
a new one, and cost about 116,000. The following
are the names of those who perished: . +*>
Henry Brown, Rock Island: H. W. Belden,
Galesburg: George Bennett, Morris; Joeeph . fA
Calbert. Chicago; Orlando Ellis, Pontiac; J. .
W. Galloway Macoupin; Thomas Hickerr,
Snrincfleld; Matthew Hague, Chebanse; T. -'S
Hachner, Stevenson county; Thomas Herely. 3
Chicago; John Johnson, Vermilion; Mfchaii }jft
Jordan, Chicago; J. Nathan, Chicago; A. ' .
Runyard, "Winnebago county; C. StroU, Chicago;
J. W. Tyler, Chicago, and P. Weymouth,
Putnam county.
It was 12 degreee below zero when Watchman
Cobb discovered smoke issuing from the -a
floor above the furnaces. He at once awoke
the attendants. Smoke was drawn through '
the hot flues and along the halls and stau>
ways to all parts of the building. The fire "//'V?
spread so rapidly that all efforts to save the ^' .*?3
building weie in vain. Attendant Reid be- - ,-Ti
gan dragging and carrying oat patients.
Many patients clad in night clothes only '.0Z
rushed from the bitter cold tor back into toe "ffi
building.
Reid struggled on till twenty-one patient*
wore leauueuj n uuu uo ucuuuo oiHimwuy p
and was earned away. On the second Hoof, J%]
attendant Rose and his wife heard the alarm J
and escuped down the stairway just before it "
felL Attendant Brown, sleeping on the same . **?
floor, was awakened by the smoke, and at* ' '-*yg
tempted to save a patient in an adjoining
room. but failed, and, sliding down by the
aid of a sheet from his window, jumped to -ij
th6 ground.
Superintendent R. S. Dewoy, with ladders.
climbed to the second-story windows, and '
was able to rescue some of the patient* by
tnis means. Almost all the patients refund *> ; '3
to co-operate in the efforts being made to
save them, and were only rescued by being
dragged from the flames and held from re- .
turning. A marvelous escape was that of an
inmate who fell with the second floor, striking
the burning debris above the furnace and '^
bounding through a window to the ground
uninjured.
The remains of the bodies of twelre pa* S
tienls have been taken from the ruins, burned . *'-A
lo fragments. A coroner's inquest was held, ' :
at which Superintendent Dewey testified that ' j
he had asked the legislature two years ago ; 3
for 11,W0, to protect theso detached wards
from Are; that f1,000 was allowed, all of Y.'i
which was used in mains and hydrants.- He.jjiH
gave two reasons for the great number of
deaths; first, the patients wera almost all : -:':i
sulFocated by smoke before tbey could be -S
reached, and second, the insane were unable
or unwilling to help themselves.
The remains of the bodies, with one exception
were simply handfulsof charred ashes. .
H. W. Beldon, aged fifty years, of Galea
burg, the only victim whose remains pre- . ''r
served even the semblance of a human being,
was a prominent man in his part of the
State. He was on the second floor, was an '
invalid, and was unable to help himself. So- '*
perintendent Dewey placed a ladder'to his -?9fl
window and broke the glass with his hands but vi'
being unable to break the sash descended
for some implement to break it with.
Meantime Bel den's shrieks for help
were loud and agonizing, but as Deney reascended
his cries died away. The smoke
and flames poured from the window so that
no help could be given him .
Dr. Dewey, hearing calls for help from ail
other window, hurried to the rescue, ana
dragged a ISO-pound pntient through the 'i*})
window, and bore him safely to the groand.
Attendant Harry Brown, who was sleep* 4
ing on the upper floor, escaped by..
tying his bed sheets together, letting
himself out of the window,
and dropping flfte:-n feat to the groand, with- ' <,
out receiving any injury. All the twentyone
inmates .on the first floor, except two, -tl
were saved. Patient Hague, who lost his
life on the second floor, refused to follow two
of his companions down a ladder, and an instant
later disappeared from sight, overcome
by suffocation. It is probable that all the
victims were first made unconscious by suffocation.
NEWSY GLEANIN&a ' %
eg
The Standard oil company employs 98,000
men. ^'^8
Corn cots for fuel bring $1.50 a load in
Nebraska.
Train robbing is punishable by death In ;
Arkansas.
There were 1,500 roller-skating rinkabailt '
during 1834. ,
It is 1,413 miles from .New York to New
Orleans by rail.
Utah's mining output for 1884 is valued
at $5,257,021.44.
Sixty-nine army officers will retire during
Mr. Cleveland's term
The permanent population ol Washington
is put at about 212,000.
During 1884 the six faculties of Franc*
produced about 700 doctors.
The highest-priced pew in Grace chgxslfl??^^
New York, is $3,000 per year.
A pearl bas been found on the western
Australian coast valued at $20,000.
The Danes formerly imported nearly all
their sugar; now they raise it from beet*.
Of the 32,000 Indians in the Territory of
Dakota, 30.000 speak the English language.
The value of the agricultural products of
the United States for 1834 is estimated at
about $1,000,000,000.
The olive crop in the southern counties of
California has been heavy this season where
the trees have received proper care.
Next to California, Kansas is the largest
wheat producer of the States This year's
crop is probably in excess of 40,000,000 bushA
colored silversmith of Georgetown, Ken** SgsS
tucky, made a miniature steam engine which
attracts a great deal of attention at New Or- -7|Sn
Ax Omaha pa[>er can connt 145 deliberate
murders which have occurred in Kansas, JaBB
Nebraska and Colorado since the first of last ;/jS8
There will be 12,000 tickets, at $5 each.
issued for the inauguration ball. That will
make $00,COO, an amount that will probably
a great deal more than pay the expenses.
Large numbers of colored people, who em- , /5J
igrated to Kansas a year or two ago, now >
find the climate too severe, and are reported *3
to be leaving for New Mexico and other "';-S
points in the Southwest.
TVuniN" four years past, in Tazewell, Russell
and Washington counties, Virginia, 1,500
men and 3,000 horses have been engaged in
the walnut lumlwr trade, bringing into these
counties $l,o00,001 One walnut tree realized
$000.
A.v elephant seems to taice a coia 01 nis own
sizo, wneu lie takes any, and Lis curative
dose is sized accordingly. In Cincinnati, a
short time ago, five tubtuls of whisky, molasses
and giuger were given to eacli elephant
in a show, and the mixture was apparently
enjoyed.
Georgia's Gold Mines.
The story of gold mining in Georgia
is one of peculiar interest, says a Dahloucga
(Ga.) letter. Gold was first discovered
in Cherokee purchase, within
three miles of Dnlilonega, in 1820, by
Benjamin Parks, who now lives in that
neighborhood. This and other discoveries
led to a rush of people to that place.
After the territory was surveyed and
drawn for by lottery and settled up by
an intelligent population, it was discovered
that other valuable metals and
minerals extended over a large area from
Alabama to North (iarolina. It is a settled
fact that gold,silver, copper, nickel,
mica, corundum, marble, granite, soapstone,
slate, pianganese and stone coal exist
in rich quantities. In many localities
iron, coal and marble are extensively
mined. The granite and marble quarries
are extensive. The copper and
nickel belts extend from North Carolina
to Alabama, and have been partially developed.
Gold veins and deposits have been
found principally in the northeastern
part of the State, and are worked extensively
i.i tliecounlies of I'nion, White,
Lumpkin, Dawson and Cherokee. Many
hundreds of thousands of dollars arc invested
in mines and fixtures. Many of
'he mines arc yielding a large profit on
the capital invested. Within a radius of
seven miles around Dahlonega there are
now in running order twenty gold
piartz crushing mills, with an aggregate
number of -100 stamps, with capital, invested
in land, machinery and apparatus
of over $.100,000. A movement is now
on foot to secure the rccstablishnicut of
the United States mint here.
T