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Ufv"Uncle
Sam has $400,000,000 in his
strong box and in this respect is not hard
up. But lie owes $1,848,000,000 and is,
therefore. $1,448,000,000 behind the
world. Fifty-five millions of people are
his endorsers, however, aud his credit is
pretty good the world over. He can get
trusted for anything he wants.
"This is a wonderful city of over 3o0.000
souls, and a revelation to me," writes
Mini ster llanna from Buenos Ayres,
South America. "There is more money
here than in any place I ever saw, but
just now they are having our greenback
days over again, gold being worth 414-. |
It is the most extravagant government on
earth.v
The 4 "ordeal bean1' of Madagascar,
which innocent people are supposed to
be able to eat with impunity, though it
is sure death to criminals, is described as
being a very poisonous drug which kills I
by arresting the respiration. Never the- i
less, the chemists are working it up into
a new medicine, and one investigator
hopes to make it useful in palsy and
other nervous troubles
There is a man in South Lewiston,
Maine, who is 84 years old. Last winter he
lost the use of an eye, but did not dis- j
cover it until spring. He went into the I
field, one day in spring time, and noticed
that things looked passing strange. He
clapped his hand to one eye, and blank
darkness ensued. One eye was totally
blind, and the strangest part of all is
that it had not pained him, and he had
not known it before.
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India rubber is incnacea witn a nvui.
The rubber dealers of Eastern Nicaragua
think they have discovered a tree whose
gum will give as much satisfaction as
rubber, and will, in fact, take its place.
They say that the milk of the tuno furnishes
a most excellent gutta percha,
equal to the best found in the Eastern
tropics, while the number of trees is
' virtually inexhaustible, and the gum can
be produced with profit at twelve cents a
pound.
Several medical writers have lately
called attention to the fact thot although !
there is a marked diminution of drunk-|
enness in England, the use of powerful '
narcotic and stimulating drugs has large- |
ly increased. Even nitro-glycerine, a !
comparatively new medicine, has found j
its devotees. The Lancet says: "Since I
the introduction of nitro-glycerine tab- j
lets ioto the British pharmacopoeia the :
use of the drug has increased to an enormous
extent, and it is to be feared that I
1
its manufacture is carried on surrepti- j
tiously."
A traveler, Wyatt Gill, says: "lam
interested in the discussion going on at
home about fish as food for the brain.
For years past there have been annually
resident in the training institution at
Raratonga from fifty to seventy natives of j
the various islands of the South Pacific. I
The most quick-witted students come
from low coral islands and have grown
to manhood on a diet of fish and cocoanuts.
In muscular strength, however, I
and in the power of endurance, they are
decidedly inferior to the inhabitants of
olcanic islands who used a mixed diet."
A New York clergyman said the four
great difficulties jvhich confront clergymen
in a large city are the centralization
of churches; the rush of business and j
pleasure, and often silly and childish j
pleasures; the crowded and shifting pop- i
illation: and the tendency to sensational- |
iron. This, observes an exchange, is like j
the thirty-eight reasons which a mayor ;
gave for not firing a cannon when the j
king entered the city. "The first is, j
your majesty, we hadn't any powder;
the socond, we hadn't any cannon; the
third"?but here the king shut him up.
An electric boy is reported at Youngs [
town, Ohio?Frank Burnett. A com- i
munication to the Cincinnati Enquirer
says: "On his approach chairs and
tables dance and heavy articles totter
that his natural strength could not move.
This lad is unable to explain his unnat
ural power, and lias always enjoyed good
health. The tests made thus far show
the lad to be able to do more than he has
claimed. It is probable medical experts
will examine him to ascertain if possible
the secret of his power." He is de cribed
as being fifteen years old and
light of build, and lives with his mother.
Of the 380 Senators, Representctives
and delegates catalogued in the Congressional
directory, 208 received only an ordinary
or academic education, 151 went
through college, four are West Pointers
and six are self-educated. Harvard has
eight graduates enrolled, University of
Virginia seven, Princeton six, Yale Miami
and Michigan five each, Union four,
Bowdoin three, Dartmouth, Hamilton,
/ Amherst. Williams and Trinity, two
each. There are 274 lawyers, forty business
men, twenty farmers, ten editors?
and ten doctors. There are eighty-six
veterans of the Union army, si.xtv-seven
Confederate veterans and four ex-uleinbers
of the United States navy.
Montreal is to have a bigger ice palace
than ever this year. It is 152 feet long
ia.i wiili'. The nalace has
aim i. i. i *vw A
already been vacciuated. The principal
feature is the great donjon tower, which
rises nearly in the center. It is to bo
thirty-three feet in diameter and something
over one one hundred feet iif
height. At each angle of it rise machicolated
towers, three of eight feet in
diameter and one of eleven feet. The
ice castle of 1885 was 190 feet in length
and 120 in width. The main tower was
about 100 feet in height, and the supporting
towers were respectively thirtyeight
and forty-four feet in height. St.
Paul Castle is to be built in a large
square, and a skating and curling rink
are to be formed within its walls.
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I Tlic farmers of Oregon and the Colum!
bia valley are feeling exceedingly blue,
I and all branches of industry in that
! region are greatly depressed. The crops
i are as abundant as ever, but the distance
j to market and high railway freight
j charges consume all possible profits.
One or tnc wonders ot the bontn is the
j revivalist and temperance lecturer Sam
Jones. He is already attracting the at'
tention of the whole country. He is very
} eccentric. He creates a sensation everyI
where, but there seems to be very much
! to the man. His terse way of putting
! things, his humor and great earnestness
I seem the secret of his power. He will
no doubt have many imitators, but no
j man is likely to succeed at it. One
1 might as well attempt to compete with
| Solomon in making proverbs. A young
man who had a great admiration for the
! eloquence of Peter Cartright proposed to
copy his style, but, said the eccentric
Cartright, "you will go to the devil if
you do."
A Western newspaper tells a story of a
I doctor whose watch stopped as he was
j feeling the pulse of a patient. The patient
died. Some time afterward the
J doctor was again feeling the pulse of a
patient, and again the watch stopped,
and the patient died. A third patient,
! seeing the doctor about to take out his
watch, cried, "Don't pull that on me!"
but too late. The watch stopped, and
the victim expired. It is a question, of
course, whether all these patients would
not have died if the watch had kept on
going,' but the corjimunity in which the
doctor labored were not willing to test
the matter in their own persons, and the
doctor, after the third coincidence, found
himself without practice.
A triple wedding ring is worn by a
Iadv in Richmond, Ya. It was placed
on her finger by her husband recently, on
the celebration of their golden wedding.
The pair were married iu 1885, and the
lady then wore an ordinary wedding
ring. In 1860, when the silver wedding
was approaching, the husband took of!
the ring and had a second ring welded
to it, which he placed on her linger on
the anniversary. This year the golden
wedding was to be celebrated, and the
double ring was removed and sent to a
jeweler to have a third gold circlet attached.
This the husband placed on his
wife's finger, and she now wears it
proudly as a mark of her husband's love.
She is not any more his wife now than
she was when she wore the single hoop, j
but it is easy to understand the old lady's
delight in the renewal of the pledge
which each added circlet symbolizes.
Pasteur and the Mad Dogs.
A writer in a Paris publication says:
"Biting dogs and bitten dogs fill the
laboratory. Without reckoning the
hundreds of mad dogs that have died
in the laboratory during the last three
years, there never occurred a case of
hydrophobia in Paris of which Pasteur is
not informed. Not long ago a veterinary
surgeon telegraphed him: 'Attack at its
height in poodle dog and bull dog.
Come.' Pasteur invited me to accompany
him and we started, carrying six rabbits i
with us in a basket. The two dogs were
rabid to the last degree. The bull dog j
especially, an enormous creature, howled ;
and foamed in its cage. A bar of iron
was held out to him; he threw himself
upon it, and there was cpreat difficulty in
drawing it away from his bloody fangs.
"One of the rabbits was then brought
near the cage, and its drooping ear was
nllnwfid to nass thro'derh the bars. But,
notwithstanding this provocation, the !
dog flung himself down at the bottom of
his cage and refused to bite. Two
youths then threw a cord with a sliploop
over the dog as a lasso is thrown.
The animal was caught and drawn to the
edge of the cage. There they managed 1
to get hold of him and secure his jaws, !
and the dog, suffocating with fury, his
eyes bloodshot, and his body convulsed
with a violent spasm, was extended upon J
a table and held motionless, while Pas-;
teur, leaning over his foaming head at the
distance of a finger's breadth, sucked up
I into a narrow tube some drops of saliva. J
I In the basement of the veterinary surgeon's
house, witnessing this formidable
tete-a-tete, I thought Pasteur grander
than I had ever thought him before."
What the Forehead Reveals.
An observer sends the following to
Tid-Bit8: A very retreating forehead
which is low and shallow usually accomj
panies want of intellect. If slightly reI
treating, or what appears to be retreating
! from the fullness of the forms over the
eyes, it signifies imagination, susceptibility,
wit, and humor.
Slow persons, with dull intellect, have
very projecting foreheads.
Perpendicular foreheads, rather high,
and well rounded at the temples, rarely
fail to go with solid understanding,
nnwnrs of concentration, and love of
i r " ? ? .
| study.
j A low, archcd forehead which is full
I at the temples is indicative of sweetness
and sensitiveness, and when combined
I with great fullness over the eyes, gives
I an impressionable, idealistic nature.
I High, narrow, wholly unwrinkled foreheads,
over which the skin is tightly
drawn, show weakness of will power,
and a lack of imagination or susceptibility.
Foreheads not entirely projecting, but
having knotty protuberances, give vigor
of mind, and harsh, oppressive activity
and perseverence.
Persons possessing poetic, ardent, and
sensitive natures not infrequently have a
blue vein forming the letter l4y" in an
open, smooth, and low forehead.
Perpendicular wrinkles between the
eye-brows, when of equal lengths, signify
anger, but if the wrinkles are of utij
equal lengths, they show deep thought
! ami concentration.
'Thus Ever Thus.
The winter days are now at huiid
When sileutly throughout the laud
The snow doth fall;
Its dazzling whiteness all around
Doth drift above the frozen ground,
Deep over all.
Now the young lover haste doth ma Ice
And in a narrow cutter take
His girl to ride;
And she doth laugh, blithe rind jocose
Beneath the buffalo smuggled close
Up to his side.
Meanwhile at home his aged fathEr
doth, to shovel out a p&th,
The drifts attack;
: And while love holds the youth in thrall
The pcor old 2uan at home doth alMost
break his back.
! THE HOUSE COMMITTEES. !
!
i !
I List of Congressmen Wiio Get the ;
Chief Chairmanships.
! Names of all the Members Forming I
I the Leading Committees,
) Speaker Carlisle has announced the names '
; of chairmen of the chief House committees as |
I follows; Turner, of Georgia, Elections; RanI
dall, of Pennsylvania, Appropriations; Morrison,
of Illinois, AVays ancl Means; Herbert,
! of Alabama, Naval Affairs; Brag}?, of Wisj
consin, Military Affairs; Curtin, of
I Pennsylvania, Banking and Currency;
Bland', of Missouri, Coinage. Weitrhts. and
Measures; Willis, of Kentucky, Rivers and
Harbors; O'Neil, of Missouri, Labor; Mitch- j
ell, of Connecticut, Patents; Throckmorton, |
i of Texas, Pacific Railways; Reagan, of Texas.
Commerce: Cobb, of Indiana, Public lauds;
: Tucker, Virginia, Judiciary; Wellborn, of
j Texas, Indian Affairs; Blount, of Georgia,
Postottices, and Post-roads; Springer, of IIj
liuois, Claims: Spriggs, of New York, Aci
counts; Matsou, of Indiana, Invalid Pensions;
j Muller, of New York, Militia; Geddes, of
I Ohio, War Claims; King, of Louisiana. MisI
sissippi River; Aiken, of South Carolina,
I Education: Eldridge, of Michigan,Pensions:
| Halsell, of Kentucky, Private Land Claims:
I Barbour, of Virginia, District of Columbia;
i Cox, of North Carolina, Reform in Civil Seri
vice; Dunn, of Arkansas, American Ship j
j Building.
The following is the full list of the most im!
portant committees:
Ways and Means?Morrison, Illinois: Mills,
j Texiis"; Hewitt, N. Y.: McMillan, Teun.;
Harris, Georgia; Breckenridge, Ark.; Mayberry,
Mich.; Breckenridge, Ky.; Kelley,
I Pemi.: Hiscock, N. Y.; Browne, lnd.: Reed,
j Maine; McKinley, Ohio.
Appropriations ? Randall, Pennsylvania,
| Forney, Alabama; Holman, Indiana; Town|
shend, Illinois; Burns, Missouri; Cabell, Virginia;
La Fevre, Ohio; Adams, New York;
I Wilson, west; Virginia; uannon, Illinois;
Ryan, Kansas; Butterworth, Ohio; Long,
Massachusetts; McComas, Maryland; Henderson,
Iowa.
Judiciary?Tucker, Va.; Hammond, Ga.;
Culberson, Tex.; Collins, Mass.; Seney, O.; |
Oates, Ala.; Eden, Ills.; Rogers, Ark.; Bennett,
N. C.; E. B. Taylor, O.; Parker, X. Y.;
Ranney, Mass.; Hepburn, la.; Steward, Vt.;
Caswell, Wis.
Banking and Currency?Curtin, Pennsylvania;
Miller, Texas; Candler, Georgia;
Wilkius, Ohio; Arnot, New York; Snyder,
Virginia; Howard, Indiana; Hutton, Missouri;
Dinglev, Maine; Brumrn, Penusylvania;
Adams, Illinois; Brady, Virginia; Woodbury,
Nevada.
Coinage, Weights and Measures?Bland,
Mo.; Lanham, 'lexas.
Labor?O'Neill, 'Missouri; Foran, Ohio;
Lovering, Massachusetts; Weaver, Iowa;
Lawler, Illinois; Daniel, Virginia; Torsney,
Michigan; Crain, Texas; Funston, Kansas; j
James, New York; Haynes, New Hampshire;
Bound, Pennsylvania; Buchanan, New Jersey.
Foreign Affairs?Belmont,New York; ClemI
ents, Georgia; Cox, North Carolina; SingleI
ton, Mississippi; Worthington. Illinois;
I Daniel, Virginia; MeCreaiy, Kentucky;
j Crain, Texas; Rice, Massachusetts; Waite,
| Connecticut; Ketcham, New York; Phelps, |
I New Jersey; Hitt, Illinois.
Commerce?Reagan, Texas; Clardy, Mis- j
; sonri; Crisp, Georgia; Caldwell, Tennessee; j
| O'Ferrell, Virginia; Taxney, Michigan; Pulitzer,
New York; Bynum, Indiana; Irion,
Louisiana: O'Neill, Pennsylvania; Davis,
Massachusetts: Dunham, Illinois; Weaver,
Nebraska; Johnson, New York; Morrow,
California.
Rivers and Harbors?Willis, Kentucky;
Blanchard. Louisiana; Jones, Alabama;
Murphy, Iowa; Gibsou, West Virginia;
Stewart, Texas; Carlton, Michigan; Catching,
Missouri; Glover, Missouri; Henderson,
Illinois; Bayne, Pennsylvania; Stone, Massachusetts;
Burleigh, New York; Grosvenor,
Ohio; Markham, California.
Agriculture?Hatch, Missouri; Aiken
Soutn Carolina; Green, North Carolina; Winans,
Michigan; Frederick, Iowa; Davidsou,
Alabama; Stahlnecker, New York; Morgan,
Mississippi; Glass, Tennessee; White, Minnesota;
Funston, Kansas; Price, Wisconsin;
Hires, New Jersey; Pierce, Rhode Island;
Swinburne, New York; Gifford, Dakota.
Labor?O'Neill, Missouri; Foran, Ohio;
Loveriug, Massachusetts; Weaver, Iowa;
Lawler, Illinois; Daniel, Virginia; Tornsey,
Michigan; Crain, Texas; Funston, Kansas;
James, New York; Haynes, New Hampshire;
Bound, Pennsylvania; Buchanan, New
Jersey.
tensions?Jtlctredge, .aiienigan; \v oonoru,
Kentucky; Jones, Alabama; Scott, Pennsylvania;
G'owles, North Carolina: Lander. Illinois;
Mahoncy, New York; Hutton,Missouri;
Struble, Iowa; Taylor, Tennessee; Bradj-,
Virginia; White, Pennsylvania; Thompson,
Ohio.
Claims?Springer, Illinois; Muller, New
York; Lanham, Texas; Shaw, Maryland;
Howard,Indiana; Dougherty, Florida; Trigg,
Virginia; Neal, Tennessee; Snowdeu, Pennsylvania;
McKenna, California; Warner,
Missouri; Fleeger, Pennsylvania; Buchanan,
New Jersey; Gallinger, New Hampshire.
War Claims?Geddes, Ohio; Kleiner, Indiana;
Cono, Kentucky: Timothy J. Campbell,
New York; Richardson, Tennessee; Perry,
South Carolina; Comstock, Michigan; Reid,
North Carolina; Libby, Virginia; Smalls
South Carolina; Heistand, Pennsylvania;
Johnson, Indiana: Lyman, Iowa.
Private Land Claims?Halsell, Kentucky:
Barksdale, Mississippi:St. Martin, Louisiana;
Eldredge, Michigan; Sadler, Alabama; Croxton,
Virginia; Hall, Iowa; Reid. New Jersey;
Osborne, Pennsylvania; Ely. Massachusetts;
Thomas, Wisconsin; Dorsey, Nebraska:
I Thompson, Ohio.
^ Post Offices and Post Roads ? Blount, |
j Georgia; Ward, Indiana; Riggs, Illinois:
I T?. vlrvf* .Initios Tovoc
T^T-7 i " vo, *v.vm?, j
Missouri; vvarner, Ohio; Merrimau, New
York; Barry, Mississippi; Bingliam, Pennsylvania;
Wakefield, Minnesota; Burroughs,
Michigan; Gunther, Wisconsin; Millai*dt NewYork;
Peters, Kausas; Cains, Utah.
Public Lands?Cobb,Indiana; Henley,California;
Van Eaton, Mississippi; Foran.Ohio;
La flora, Kentucky; Stevens, Missouri;
Laudis, Illinois; McRae, Arkansas; Strait,
Minnesota; Anderson, Kansas: Pavson.
Illinois; Stephenson, Wisconsin; Jackson,
Pennsylvania; Voorhees, Washington Territory.
THE BUSINESS OUTLOOK,
Failures During the- Past Year?The
Prospects for 1886.
The New York mercantile agency of R. G,
i Dun & Co. report that the total number Of
business failures in the United States in 1885
was 10,637, with liabilities of a little more
than $134,000,000, as compared with 10,908
failures in 1884 with liabilities of $226,000,000.
While the failures for 1885 are only three
per cent, less in number than in 1884, the liabilities
have decreased nearly fifty pel"
cent. The number of traders reported in
"business in 1885 was 919,090. Of these one in j
every 80 failed. In 18 <8, with 4,000 traders,
j one in every (54 came to grief. The average
I amount of liabilities of each failure in 1885
was 811.678. asrainst $20,632 in 1881, $22,309 in
! 1878. It is seen from these figures that while
| business casualties have decreased but slightly
in number, they are far less significant in
amount and importance.
The Iron Trade Review publishes many
letters from manufacturers concerning trade
in 1885 and the outlook for the coming year. I
All branches of the iron and machinery trade
note a decided increase in both orders and inquiries
within the past sixty days, and the
prediction is made, without exception, that
18St? will be a year of widespread prosperity.
?
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
The average cost of a session of Congress fa
$3,000,000.
The Prince of Wales has entered on his
forty-fifth year.
I'Snake poison, it is stated, kills at least
17,000 people per auuum in India.
Ax Indian high school is to be established
in San Bernardino county, California.
A wild stallion has been killing animals
and scaring men near Cheyenne, W. T.
Tiie Missouri Cremation society has 40?
members, twenty-five of whom are women.
Silver coin is so very scarce in some parts
of Mexico that business is seriously interfered
with.
The new town of Duureith, iu Dakota, offers
*:!(?> and a town lot to the first.boy baby
born in the place.
1 ?
I
NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle States.
During 1SS5 there were 30,03$ births, 11.71(5
marriages, 3.>,('M> deaths and 73,372 arrests
in Now York city.
Governor Hill's inaugural ceremonies at
Albany comprised a civic and military procession?in
which the governor took part?
to the capitol, where the oath of office was
administered by Judge Learned. Iu his adrli'oco
fiAT*ai??nr "Will vni'i'iMi'ml tl"ir? nf
some of his predecessors and made promises
of a reform administration, quoting words of
Mr. Tilden and pledging himself to follow in
the footsteps of that governor.
"William H. McNeil, president of the
Lancaster National bank, of Clinton, Mass.,
disappeared suddenly, and the bank suspended.
The absconding president was
thought to have fled to Canada.
Frederick Fishel, confidential bookkeeper
for a largo New York clothing house,
during the past few years stole from tne firm
sums aggregating ?75,000, which he spent in
gambling and fast living. When detection
stared him in the face he fled to Canada, but
was arrested a few days ago aud brought
back to the metropolis.
Last year accidents iuthe numerous Lackawanna
Valley (Penn.) mines, amounted to
seventy-one deaths, the maiming of sixtynine
persons (some of whom will die) and the
wounding of 173.
Fire has partly destroyed the Essex County
lunatic asylum, Newark, N. J. Though
greatly excited, the 350 inmates were safely
removed. The damage amounts to about
$75,000.
Three small boys?Robbie, Willie and
Hugh Roberts?were drowned while skating
near near West Pawlet, Vt.
A great improdement in the iron and coal
trade is reported in some sections of Pennsylvania
where those industries are predominant.
A committee in New York is raising a
fund of ?100,000 to aid Parnell, the Irish home
rule leader, and his colleagues in the British
house of commons. About $25,000 has al
ready been raised.
Millie Eddie, a trapeze performer, fell
thirty feet from a trapeze while performing
in a New Haven theatre, and was seriously,
if not fatally injured.
The annual message of Governor Hill, of
New York, says that the State's finances are
in a healthful condition, although there has
been an undue increase in public expenditures;
that a revision of the tax laws is
needed; praises the civil service laws and denounces
the spoils system, and declares that
the problem of the satisfactory employment
of prison labor still remains unsolved.
Mr. Am Exde, the Hoboken (N. J.) druggist
whose mistake in a prescription resulted
in the death of two young ladies some time
ago, was acquitted by the jury.
The New York legislature organized by
electing James W. Husted speaker of the
assembly, while Lieutenant-Governor Jones
swore in the Senators. The legislature is
Republican in both branches.
The annual auction sales of pews l)elonging
to Mr. Beecher's Plymouth church,
Brooklyn, realized $26,626, the first choice
bringing $775.
J. B. Lippijtcott, head of the well-known
Philadelphia publishing house, is dead.
rt i i- ~
9umii uiiu nest.
R. H. Harris, a resident of Lee county,
Ala., and an ex-member of the legislature of
that State, committed suicide by snooting.
In a drinking saloon brawl at Louisville,
Ky., .Anthony Sauer fatally stabbed his
brother, who had knocked him"down.
General Fitzhugh Lf.e was inaugurated
governor of Virginia at Richmond.
Speculators are holding back wheat for
increased prices, and in consequence every
elevator in Michigan is reported to be full to
the roof, 2,000,000 bushels being stored in
Detroit alone.
The lumber-laden vessel Orphan Boy, with
seven men on board, has gone down in Lake
Michigan.
Chicago is to have a crematory for the
burning of the dead.
A fire destroyed the Southern hotel, New
Orleans, and Louis Kissner, a Baltimore musician,
perished in the flames.
Five prisoners?four of them charged with
murder?knocked down a guard in the
Charleston (W. Va.) county jail and escaped.
The'captain, mate and Chinese cook of a
schooner wrecked on the Oregon coast a few
days ago were drowned.
Heavy snow storms have prevailed in Illinois,
Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado
and New Mexico. Telegraphic communication
was temporarily interrupted and railway
trains were blockaded.
Washington.
More than G,000 persons,comprising cabinet
niPtnViPiu t.hA rlinlnmatin rnms. siinreme
court judges, army and navy officers, many
members of Congress, numerous government
officials, grand army veterans and an immense
throng of private citizens, shook
hands with President Cleveland at his New j
Year reception in the White House. The !
ladies who helped the President receive were I
Miss Cleveland, Mrs. Bayard, Mrs. Manning,
Mrs. Whitney and Mi-s. Vilas.
President Cleveland has contributed
$100 to the Grant monument fund. Accompanying
the contribution is the hope that the
association will succeed in its object.
During December the national debt decreased
$'.>,089,031), leaving the total indebtedness
on the 1st at $1,443,454,8213. Total cash
in the treasury, $404,361,954.
United States Treasurer Jordan
has taken charge of the sub-treasury at New
York.
The number of fourth-class postmasters appointed
under the present administration was,
up to the 5th, 13,4i5.
A Washington special states that the
President has now sent to the Senate the
nominations of all the men he has appointed
to office since the adjournment of the special
session of that body last March. None have
been withheld. Four Republican Senators?
Messrs. Hawley. Frye, Conger and Cullom?
have called at the White House to state to the
President their objections to men he appointed
during the recess.
Foreign.
A young girl who had made a highly successful
debut as a singer in Buda-Pesth, Hungary,
killed herself shortly afterward on account
of a quarrel with her affianced loeer.
M. Pasteur, the hydrophobia expert, has
undertaken at his own cost to cure eleven
persons that have been bitten by a mad wolf
in a village in Western Russia.
Great Britain* has formally annexed
Burmah, thus adding 07,000 square miles to
the British empire.
A Panama dispatch says that two families
with attendants were crossing from
Talcahunano to Peno when their l?oat was
swamped, and seventeen persons?nine men,
six women and two children?were drowned.
Matamoras, Mexico, lins been the scene of
a bloody election riot. The chief of police
and seven rioters were wounded. The military
took possession of the city and martial
law was declared.
The Arabs lost 000 killed and wounded in
tike recent battle with the British near
Kosheh, Egypt.
Emperor William's twenty-fifth anniversary
of his accession to the throne of .
Prussia has just been celebrated throughout
Germany with much rejoicing and enthusiasm.
Every empire, kingdom, republic and
principality of Europe and America was
represented in a gorgeous and glittering procession
to the royal chapel at Berlin, where a
thanksgiving service was held.
Women* have just voted for the first time
in Toronto, and they elected the temperance
candidate for mayor, for whom they went
almost solidly.
A new French cabinet has been lormed i>y
M. de Freyciuet.
The Balkan conference at Constantinople
has been abandoned, Russia refusing to guarantee
the independence of the union of Bulgaria
and Eastern Roumelia.
A shock of earthquake was felt a few days
since over au area of several miles iu South
Devonshire, Englaud.
Dk. Robert Ramsey, one of the most
prominent masons iu America, died the other
night in Toronto.
"Sir Henry alkred doughty tichborxe
will come of ago anil enter into possession of
his estates next May, and in spite of the
$(500,000 spent iu opposing "the claimant'' he
will bo a rich man, his rent roll amounting to
more tLin $140,000 a year.
At tlie beginning of last year Vermont had
thirteen v-governors living, but four of them
died du rig the vear. Nine ex-governors
still live. "
liter mm. \
' HE.vnr Bicnoir, the well-known president
of the Xew York Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals, is strongly opposed to
M. Pasteur's method of inoculation against
hydrophobia. lie says tliat the French
scientist's experiments are cruel and unnecessary.
Mn. John Gr. Steven's, president of the
1 United New Jersey Railroad and Canal company,
shot himself through the head at Trenton,
N. J. Although his friends denied it,
there was a general impression that he com
miucu siuciue.
A heavy snow storm in Colorado has resulted
iu great mortality among cattle
herds.
A fight broke out at a party in Clay county,
Ky., aud in the melee two men were
killed and a third mortally wounded.
During the recent heavy flood three colored
men were drowned in Taugier sound,
Md., by the upsetting of their skiff. Port j
Deposit, Md., was partially submerged, and !
great damage was done to property there aud
iu other places.
A freight train was derailed in a tuuuel
near Hint-on, W. Va., aud three men were
killed and three others injured.
It is stated that Secretary Whitney is entirely
satisfied with the seaworthiness of the ;
Dolphin as shown in her recent trial trip, aud ]
will formally accept the vessel.
The President gave a dinner the other j
night at the White House, in honor of the I
Misses Tildeu, nieces of Samuel J. Tilden. j
A national bi-metallic coinage association
has established headquarters at Washington.
Senator Jones, of Nevada, is presi- j
dent, and the other officers and members are
from the far Wpst.
In executive session of the Senate Mr.
Logan objected to the confirmation of Dorman
B. Eaton as civil service commissioner, and
the nomination went over for a day.
A great snow storm has prevailed
throughout England, raging for eight hours
ana impeding rauroaa travel.
Prince Alompra, a pretender to the Burmese
throne, has entered the field near Manda]
ay, and has assumed the title and attributes
of king of Burmah.
Many arrests of persons in good social
standing have been made at Warsaw in connection
with an alleged nihilist plot.
At Boston Run, a mining town in Pennsylvania.
a cave-in occurred over a colliery,
causing three houses to sink out of sight aud
threatening to carry down several others.
George Holford, of Newark, N. J., went
to Paterson, where his wife, from whom he |
was separated, lived, and killed her with '
pistol shots, after which he put an end to j
himself.
The Chicago Railway Aye reports that in
1385 twenty-two railroads, with 'J, lofJ mile* of j
road, a bonded debt of $141,5U0,1)00, and a !
capital stock of $10(i,'.M)(J,000, were sold at :
foreclosure.
The Mississippi Democratic legislative cau
cus at Jackson nominated Messrs. Walthall
aud George for re-election as United States
Senators.
Senator John- Sherman received the ;
unanimous vote of the Ohio Republican legis- '
lative caucus for re-electiou to the United j
States Senate.
The 3,000 employes of the Cleveland Roll- |
inp; Mill company, one of the largest concerns
of its kind in the couutiy, have just had
their wages raised ten per cent.
Sarah Althea Hill, whose claim that 1
she was the wife of the late ex-Senator
Sharon, has been thoroughly ventilated in
the California courts, has just been married
to her senior counsel, David S. Terry,ex-chief
justice of the California supreme court.
The President has, in answer to a resolution
adopted by the Senate, sent to that body
copies of document* showing the action taken
by him to ascertain the sentiments of foreign
governments iu regard to the establishment
of an international ratio between gold and
silver.
The French government is to make an official
investigation of the Panama canal. If
the official engineers pronounce the canal to
be practicable the goveiiunent will aid in its j
completion.
M. de Freycixet, the French premier, has
formed a new cabinet, which includes several i
members of M. Brisson's late cabinet. It is I
not expected that the new French ministry j
will last long.
|
A DAY WITH PASTEUB.
Six Dog-Bitten Americans Inoculated
Against Rabies.
A special cable dispatch from Paris to the
New York Heitild describes as follows scenes i
in the laboratory of M. Pasteur, the scientist J
whose discovery of a cure for hydrophobia
has created such a seusatiou throughout the
civilized world:
Another dog-bitten citizen of New Jersey
?Edward Bucklin. fifteen years of age?arrived
to-day at the laboratory iu the Rue
d'Ulm and received his first inoculation at
11 He makes the sixth American treated
by M. Pasteur up to date. Kaufman is doing
well and M. Pasteur says he may start for
home on Saturday. Sattler now says he
doesn't, want to be inoculated.
While M. Pasteur was supervising the inoculations
to-day two telegrams were handed
to him. Tearing one of them open he
exclaimed, ''It's from America!'' It proved
to be from the president of the Pasteur institute
in New, York, and asked if M. Pastern*
would receive a medical man who kuew
French to study in his laboratory and learn
his methods.
As M. Pasteur lianded me the telegram he
said: "Those gentlemen are iu too much of a
hurry. It is premature to attempt anything
yet. " Wait until we see how the cases
already treated turn out. Wait until
we see how the Newark children get
along. Wait at least until March, when
the series of exjjerimeuts already commenced
will enable me to make known facts and data
muck more sj>ecifie and detailed than anything
yet puplished. Of course I feel very
much flattered to hear that Americans have
tnougllli lit LU ?1VC IIIJ JJUIIlf IK) UI1C lUMIl/UtV,
but in the pure interests of science delay is
needed, as everything so far is merely experimental."
M. Pasteur then ojjeuod the second dispatch.
This was from a farmer at Aire-surl'Adour.
in the Department of the Landes,
announcing that a luad shepherd dog had attacked
him and sixty cows, biting a very
l.tiw.k itimihui- .if flln InffiiV Tlio rlotr which
was undoubtedly mad, was killed. The
farmer begged M. Pasteur or an assistant
to come to Aire aud inoculate the
whole herd. 1 asked M. Pasteur, "How do
you proi>ose to answer this telegram?" M.
Pasteur said: *'It is impossible for me or an
assistant to go there, and for the cows to
come here is impracticable. My lal>oratory,
as you see. is too small even to hold the score
of patients that come here every morning, to
sav nothing of sixty cows."
Five new patients then entered the laboratory.
One of them was a shoemaker, accompanied
by his wife, who asked, "After
mv husband was bitten I sucked the wound
with my mouth. Must I be inoculated also?"
M. Pasteur said, "Xo, it Is not necessary,"
and as the woman was poor, he gave iier
twenty francs to <ro home with.
t?-?
The stage obituary list for 18s5 is a long
one, and includes several names of eminence.
The stage has lost since last January Edward
Aruott, Mine. Sainton-Dolby, W. H. Beekinan,John
Ryder, Mrs. George Vanderhoff,
John Parselie, George Browne, Thomas E.
Morris aiid John McCollough. The death
list also includes Sir Julius Benedict, the distinguished
composer; Dr. Damrosch. the admirable
conductor of German opera; James
W. Davison, the famous musical critic of the
London Times, aud Richard Graut White,
the Shakesperian scholar. Victor Hugo, who
'Is claimed by the stu^e as well as bv literature,,
h:is also died within tbls year. " *
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ADRIFT AT SE1
Terrible Suffering of Six Whalers
in an Open Boat.
Becoming Delirious for Want of
Food and Water.
The sfeamer Advance, of the United States
and Brazil line, which arrrived at New York a j
few days ago, brought into port six ship- i
wrecked whalers who had been found at sea
in an open boat, Captain McNeil, of the
British steamer County Clare. Their names
! are John P. Pararo, third mate; Alex. G.
Wood, boat steerer; Manuel Hortnen, Anto"
nio Perrira, Lawrence Lodrevener and An[
tonio Manuel Lima, seamen. Alexander
Wood, the boatsteerer, is a negro,
! born in Connecticut, and is the only one who
| talks English fluently. His shipmates are
Italians. He said that they had sailed on the
whaling schooner Mary E. Simmons, from
j New Bedford some months ago for the whaling
grounds off the coast of South America,
mien about one hundred miles to the eastward
of Pernambuco, a school of whales was
sighted. The iirst and second mates lowered
away, the former taking the third mate's boat,
his own having been stove in on a former occasion
In a short time both boats had made fast
to a whale. From the deck of the schooner
the work of the two crews could be seen, and
there being otlier whales in sight the third
mate ordered the spare boat to be lowered.
She was without water or provisions, and it
Al- - -Ci. 1 '
w?k> rnw; iu me uiwrnoon wnen a stare was
made. A big spouter was selected for capture
by the third officer, and when near
enough the boatsteerer sent his harpoon into
the back of the victim. He proved to be a
fighting whale of tremendou3 size.
At the fii-st stroke of the harpoon he
"sounded,v or dived. Line was paid out, and
when he rose to the surface a strong pull was
made to get alongside of him, and the lance
in the hands of the third officer was plunged
into his side. Then the whale "fluked" and
lifted the boat, men and all, out of the water.
When they came down the boat
had been overturned and with great
difficulty it was righted. The
whale was dead and lay on the surface
a harmless mass of untried blubber,
alongside which the men hauled their boat,
whioh was stove and waterlogged. By this
time it was nearly sunset and the schooner
was nowhere to be seen. Shortly before dark
the sail of one of their own boats was seen
and the wrecked men yelled and shouted to
attract attention. Their cries were not heard,
and night coming on all hands were obliged
to sit on oars lashed across the boat's gunwale,
with their legs dangling in the water.
After dark the lights of the schooner could be
seen plainly, but too far off to windward to
allow a hail to be heard.
The next morning another schooner was
sighted standing toward them, and a man's
shirt was lashed to a boat-hook and waved
aloft. The schooner tacked three times
within eight or ten miles of them, and at
last squared away and was soon out of
sight. Weakness from want of water and food
and exposure, added to the disappointr
TriAnf. wlion t-hio QpVinrmnr onilr>/1 owov moHo
the men almost desperate. Shortly afterward
another vessel hove in sight and hope
was renewed. Frantic waving of the signal
on the boat-hook failed tp attract attention,
and again a feeling of despair came over
them.
During the day seven sails were seen and
all passed on their way without noticing the
suffering men. When night again fell Seaman
Lima had become delirious and raved
wildly. His shipmates were compelled to tie
him -with the boat's painter to prevent his
jumping into the sea. All night the men
were forced to listen to the ravings of "the delirious
mail, but as Seaman Wood said, "it
seemed to distract our minds from our own sufferings.
" The third day passed and still no signs
of help and the men were tortured with thirst
and hunger. On the morning of the fourth
day, two more vessels passed by. At 11 a.
m. a steamer was made out coming directly
toward them. She saw them and at noon
the six exhausted, starved and almost crazy
seamen were taken on board the County
Clare. Every kindness was shown them but
it was some time before they recovered their
strength. The were taken into Pernambuco,
whence the American consul sent them home
on the Advance.
A DISASTROUS FIRE
A Million Dollars' Worth of Property
in Detroit Gone.
The most destructive fire that has occurred
in Detroit in a score of years broke out the
other morning in the seed store and ware
house of D. M. Ferry & Co., which occupied
oue-half the block, bounded by Croghan and
Lafayette streets, east of Randolph. Smoke
was seen issuing from a window at about 9
o'clock and an alarm was sounded. The fire
department was on the ground promptly, and
the men found the upper part of the building
full of dense smoke, which seriously interfered
with every attempt to locate the fire. The
breaking of windows to inn in hose furnished
a sufficient draft to kindle the smother!! flames,
which at once broke out in great fur}'. The
entire contents of the building were as inflammable
as tinder and burned as rapidly. From
one end to the other it seemed to inflame at
ouee. The crowds fell back before the intense
heat and the firemen were driven away from
their posts. Water seemed to have no effect on
the flames. In one hour's time the walls of
the south half of the building had fallen in.
The north half was shut off by a heavy brick
wall, with openings closed by double iron
doors. So powerful was the heat that these
were twisted from their fastenings and the
flames swept into that half of the structure
and in half an hour more that was gone.
The fire then spread across an' alley and
communicated to White's theatre, the largest
aud most complete structure of the kind in
the city, which fronts on Randolph street,
aud this was soon destroyed. Several adjacent
single stores in the'block followed, so
so that finally an entire square was swept
clean, with the exception of one small brick
structure.
This was the busiest seasou of the year for |
Ferry & Co. Their building was full from
top to bottom oi maienai aireuu} sui icu mm
packed for shipment. Their loss is, as near
as can be estimated, $t>50,000 on building and
stock, on which they have an insurance of
$430,000.
The loss on White's theatre is estimated at
about $125,000. The building; originally cost
$75,000, but a large amount of additional expense
has been put on the premises. The
stage properties, scenery, etc., were very
complete. All the contents, with slight
exceptions, were destroyed. William H.
Wesson is the owner, and is well insured.
The other buildings ou the Randolph
street side of the burned block belonged to
the estate of the late E. A. Brush, and were
worth $75,000. They are fairly insured.
There were other losses of stocks that
will aggregate something like $5U,000
more. Altogether the lasses cannot
l>e less than $1,000,1)00. about
two-thirds insured. Captain Richard Filban.
of one of the truck companies, was struck by
a falling wall during the progress of the fire
and instantly killed. He was an unmarried
man. twenty-eight years old, and the support
of a widowed mother. Two other firemen
were seriously injured from the same cause
NATURE OONVCJLSED.
Seveu Earthquake Shocks ou the
South Pacific Coast.
There have been several shocks of earthquake
recently in Valparaiso, Arico, Pacna
and Serena, but the most alarming have j
been at Iquique, of which th<? Chilian Times j
says:
"The first shock occurred at 2:40 a. m.. and
it was an unusually heavy one. Buildings
were shaken in an ominous manner. Five
minutes after the first earthquake a slight
shock occurred, and ten minutes after the
second a third was felt. The third was followed
later on by two slight, but very distinct
shocks, and it is believed that a continuous tremor,
lasting for several hours might
have been detected with proper instruments.
To add to the alarm, the sea was extraordinarily
agitated, and persons residing near the
beach, anil more especially those living at the
Puntilla, left their beds and watched the furious
waves as they broke on the shore, and
the fear of an irruption of the ocean was uppermost
in everybody's mind. The agitation
of the sea continued, with gradually decreasing
violence, throughout the next day until
nightfall, when it became calm." j
| DAMAGED BY FLOODS.
j
Widespread Destruction Wrought
by Heavy Storms.
Towns Partly Submerg.d and the,
People Fleeing fo: their Lives.
r ' il
Particulars of the damage done in New ,
York and Pennsylvania by recent floods, fol- A
lowing the heavy rains, are as follows:
The Susquehanna river has been higher
than since the big flood of 18(35, and a great
deal of the surrounding country has been
submerged. Trains were mucn impeded. ^Rj
Twelve collieries in the Mahanoy vauey,
renn., nave ueeu iiuoueu. Auenwjwu wus
practically without drinking water, the ttB
pumping works having been flooded and rendered
useless. Trains on the Lehigh Valley
and Lehigh aud Susquehanna roads
were delayed by laud slides and
washouts. In Elmira, N. Y.. cellars were
flooded. The Erie railroad bridge in Owego
has been carried away and the trains ran over
the tracks of the Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western road. The Mohawk river was higher
than since 11504.
Many little towns near Shenandoah, Penn.,
were inundated. Basements, saloons and barrooms
at Girardville, Penn., suffered great
damage. The inhabitants along the
creek at that place retired about 11 P. M.,
but were awakened an hour later
by the roaring of the water rushing - .
through their dwellings. The water was
from three to four feet deep, and overran
bar counters and destroyed pianos and
organs. A number of serious cave-ins oc-.
curred on the Lehigh Valley road and prevented
trains from moving on the Mahanoy
bianch until noon yesterday. The water on
the Reading road was three feet deep in
some places, but traffic was resumed' yester- 1
day morning. Mahanoy City was completely
inundated, and many poor families
were forced to leave their homes in the
middle of the night.
The flood in the Susquehanna river reachedits
height at Lock Haven. Three-fourths of
the town was submerged.
At Williamsport. renn., the loss will be
greater than in 1865. One timber firm, it is
said, will, lose $35,000, and the loss on logs
that have broken away and gone down the
river is likelv to reach several hundred thou
sand dollars." There is much suffering among ,
families who have been driven out of their
homes by the flood, and the mayor called a'
mass meeting to take action to relieve destitution.
In Harrisburj?, Penn., and vicinity much
damage was inflicted by the rapid rise of the '
Susquehanna river.
In the Catskiils scores of farmhouses were 'Crvs
surrounded,imprisoning the inmates until the
flood subsided.
At Higginsville, a suburb of Kingston, N.
Y., families were forced during the night to
move everything into the second stones ot :
their houses. By daybreak the water covered,
the first floor and was rising at a rapid rate,
causing intense excitement. Thousands or _. 1
people lined the banks of the creek and
watched the imprisoned families, the water
running too swiftly for any one to go to their ? .': '
relief. Four men went in a boat to try and
save some property, but the boat upsetowing
to the strong current, and one oi
them, Owen Madden, a well-known politician >'
of the town of Kingston, was drowned. ;
A freshet in the eastern part of Oswego v
county, N.Y.,carried away two saw-mills and
a large quantity of logs. Every bridge between
the villages of Parish and Mexico, including
two of iron, went out with the flood.
An Emporium (Penn.) dispatch says the
loss to lumbermen will approach $3,000,000.
THE INDIAN PROBLEM. - 4
How General Sheridan Proposes to
Settle the Question.
In response to a request for additional information
explanatory of the recommendations
of his last anuual report in regard to
the Indian question, Lieutenant-General
Sheridan has written a statement in which he
* i. i . 'f'rjf&fv'
says:
In my annual report for 18851 recommend- >
ed that each Indian family be given (and
located upon) the $20 acres now provided for
them by law in case of actual settlement;
that the government then condemn the remainder
of earh rcsei*vation and buy it in at :
$1.25 per acre, and with the proceeds
purchase government bonds, to be neld in
trust by the interior department. , .
giving to* the Indians each year the interest
ou the bonds for their support I cited in ' .
illustration of what would be the practical
workings of this suggestion the case of the
Crows, the Chevennes and Arapahoes and the
Utes, but the limit of my report did not permit
a fully elucidation of the advantages that
would accrue to the Indian nor even an allusion
to the large amount of land bow lying
idle that would thereby be opened to settlement
and increase by so much the material
prosperity of the nation.
The Indian reservations of the United
States contain about 200,000 square miles; ?
their population is about 2b0,000. Twenty-six
thousaud square miles would locate each family
upon a half section of land, leaving a surninc
nf nhoiit 170.000 sahnre miles, which, ac
cordiug to tbe plan I ?iave proposed, would
produce annually $-1,480,000. This amount
exceeds by about $600,000 the entire sum appropriated
for the payment of their annuities
and for their subsistence and civilization.
The policy advocated in my report would
be most advantageously applied gradually,
the general government of the Indians being
continued according to the methods now in
vojrue, or such improvement of them as time
anu experience may suggest The ultimate
development of the suggested policy would,
as the Indians advance in civilization and in- - ,
telligence, result in the return to them of the
principal derived from the sale of their landsL
which, until such measures were authorized
by act of Congress, would be held as a trust '
l or their benefit and the income applied to
their support .
1 * ;
all of the candidates of the presidential 1
tickets of 1872 are dead. They were Grant,
Greeley, Wilson and Brown. General John ' /
C. Fremont is the sole survivor of the campaign
of 1853, Hannibal Hamlin of the-campaign
of 1860, George H. PendletoQ of 1864,
and Morauo Seymour ot iooo.
THE MARKETS.
NEW YORK. t
Beef cattle, good to prime I w 8^(9 9%
Calves, com'ii to prime veali 4^73 8
Sheep 2 (? 5%
Lamos 4% (g 6?
Hogs?Live.. 3y^pj 5
Dressed, city 3^(3 *
Flour?Ex. St., good to fancy 3 75 (5 4 40
West, good to choice. 4 00 (tt 5 05
Wheatr-Na 2. Red 91 (a 92%
Rye?State 65K'i? 67
Barley?Four-rowed State... @ S5
Com?Ungrad. West, mixed. 48 (3 40}^
Oats?White State 38 ftC 40
Mixed Western 35 $ 36
Hay?Med. topr. Timothy.. 01 (3 95
Straw?No. 1, Ryo 80 (? 85
Lard?City Steam ...620 @625
Butter?State Creamery.... 30 (cb 36
Dairy 26 0> 28
West Im. Creamery 18 25
Factory 11 @ IS
Cheese?State Factory 7 ?i 9!^
Skims 5^'@ 6%
Western 7 (5 9
Eggs?State and Penn 26 @ 27
BUFFALO.
Sheep?Good to Choice 2 75 (3 3 00
Lambs?Western 3 65 @ 4 01)
Steers?Western 4 60 (ct> 5 00
Hogs?Good to Choice Yorks 3 6') ^ 3 70
Flour?C'y ground a process 5 25 @ 6 50
Wheat?jNo. 1. Hard Duluth I 01 }{(d>
Corn?No. 2, Mixed New (a 47}{
Oats?No. 2, Mixed Western 40 (d
Barley?Two-rowed State ? (a) ?
BOSTON.
Beef?Ex. plate and family.. 10 50 (811 00
Hogs?Live 4 4%
Northern Dressed.... 5 <S 5}{.
Fork?Ex. Prime, per bbl... 10 00 (511 00
Flour?Winter "\\ heat pat's.. 5 65 (5 5 75
Corn?High Mixed 54 @ 56
Oats?Extra White 44 (c? 45
Eye?State 67 70
WATERTOWX (MASS.) CATTLE MARKET.
Beef?Extra quality 6 00 @6 25
Sheep?Live weight 2 (<? 4%
Lambs 4X/^ 6
Hogs?Northern, d. w V-idS 5
PHILADELPHIA.
Flour?Penn. ox family, good 4 25 @ 4 50
Wheat?No. 2, Red 90%
Hve?State @ 75
Com?Stute Yellow 52 @ 5."
Oats?Mixed 40 @ 41
Butter?Creamery Extra Pa. 20 (& 22
Cheese?N. Y. Full Cream... ll&tfi 14