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Fs~~~~~~. B I K N.Io .) LO~ M) AA~e IDX & co TPOIS OF i'l DAY. OnrawAo is to visit England in the Wpio wilmourn fer the plumber-.4 paap not one. raS 'trz is lecturihg o civil rieform. St. Gorannw's Tunnel was completed on the 28d of Deoember. BaDra to prediot and mise thhe never to prediot a a.- Vennor. "uGAm HaxmrNo" will spend the winter with Mrs. Blaine in Washington. A Owst&pza published at Tin Cup, nusas, is called the Garfel4 Banne. IT says that the publio generally in England are disgusted with the Guiteau SuUnma OorxAx asserts there is noth ing that would induce him to return to publio life. L iTRAeu as it may seem, the oountry Is full of people who are seeking for the autograph of Guiteau. Pmous are keeping right up, and the farmer who happens to have a full granery, should be happy. AS A WZATHEn prophet, Vennor has lost his prestige, now and forever more. We swear by him no longer. TAX Italian Senate has adopted a bill which confers the right of suffrage on 34 allwho can read and write. QuMN VIronA requests the London Sandard to deny the itatement that she will-open Parliament in person. Di, Ontvan WzNDrun HOLKES, like Mr. Whittier, pleads inability to write Poems to order. Growing old, you know. Tu London 2Vtnee says the Guiteani trial is unpreeedented. We are pretty sure itis, so far as this contry is con. IT ia not known how near the North elf-the knhaeete reached. The de tail(s,0 the expedition are awaited with some anxiety. Is STRANGELy Guitean has not yet in suilted any of the jury on his case, but his whack at them will come when they bring in their verioit. United Xrelandc, a newspaper, is now printed in London, all the material of ie concern having been shipped there :from Ireland the past week. Aw eminent physician says high-heeled \,shoes causs the calf of the leg to dwin die away to the leanness of decrepit geand become a thin, shapeless shank. INA gityimile bicycle ontest in New ~ ork the past week, George Gideon was 'fhe onl~y person who completed the dis isnce. - Time, 8 hours, 13 minutes and Si Seconds. A sAnooN-irmapmn in Brooklyn has been sued by a Methodist minister be cause the minister's son loafed about the ~salooa, and he was thereby deprived of his servioes. Tax meate in a gallon of oysters ahoid weigh eight and three-quarter potands, and a gallon of oysters that does not weigh that much, has been stuffed Wth water and is aswindle. T WAr~asoNwriting frorn. t Wasbington, approves the course of Judge Cox and Mr. Corkhill in giving niQuteau all the rope he wante. It wl - help to hang him. - u:"V" shaped hull of the polar vessel Jeannette did not save her from beine Melg4ed by the ice ,'but it is with a feel - of joy l( tat we are able to chronicle te sf return of a greater portion of bereew. Truoan . Ifow,, of Wisconsin, the * y Potmzaster G4eneral, is sixty-five yisarn old. He was at one time a United State. Senator, and at the Chicago Be .~d~lbn Convention, was one of the M&nar~emisrm ladies seekdng rank ~'*1J ~hse bear in mind that President Arthur persistently denies the story enrm'ent that he is about tobe married. rem Is , ,~n at-all in it and his heart I ua$ as 'ig as it ever was.. 14%sNrAT1V% McMrra has intro due4, b11l or the assessment and col . letion at a tireie per ennu~im tax from on all net incomes &boe81 'LADr LAND LACUnMS in Ireland are to be arrested, and for their reception, a special jal is being provided. This means that, according to all expeetations, tlere will be, for some time to come, ladies in jail in Ireland for political offenses. SEVERAL Cincinnati brewgr, diggted with the way the weather has been st ing, are putting in ico mpchines, and will have ice whether old Boreas wills it o not. Hypothetically speaking, it does look as if Satan and scienes were going hand in hand. THI memory of Guiteau will be per petuated by plaster casts, the product of the sculptor Clark Mills, but who it is that is anxious to adorn their mantel pieces with copies of it would be hard to say. Everyone has had about enough of him already, . THEE are two Congressmen now serving who commenced life as pages in the National House, and a Senator whos start in life was as a page in the Senate. The Congressmen are Townshend of Il linois and Wise of Virginia. The Sena tor is Gorman of Maryland. Dn. H. G. GrNN, of California, has put 30,000-acres in wheat, and expects to sow 25,000 acres more. That is the way they farm, where, when a young married couple start out to milk, they have so far to go and are gone so long that their children bring the milk home. Big farms out there. Tn Detroit .oee Press, a religious paper, says :- " In the last. 100 years over 4,000 people...avp been burned up in theaters, and in the same time over 6,000 have perished in church acci dento." Where is the good of publish ipg such statistics? It seems that there is everything to shake one's faith. WE BELIEvE there is a general demand for a fractional currency fpr convenience in mailing purposes. Silver is out of the question for this purpose, and postage stamps are a nuisance to business houses receiving small orders by mail. It is 9f little importance what shape this small eurrency is in, just so long as it will serve the purpose in -.queAtion.. Congress ought to make some provision at once. THE immigrants to thik bountry dur ig November were distributed among the various nationalities thus: England and Wales, 5,823-; Ireland, 3,284; Scot land, 989; Austria, 1,454 : Belgium, 59 ; Denmark, 814; France, 529 ; Ger many, 16,900 ; Hungary, '593 ; Italy, 2,978 ;, Netherlands, 858;, Norway, 1, 294; Poland, 228 ; Bussia, 1,721 ; Swed en, 2,870-; Switzerland, 451 ; Dominion of Qanada, 8,807; China, 2,711 ; and from all other countries, 228. SENATOR CAnL, of Florida, Senator Jones, of Laouisiana, and other Congress. men, have bought the old Whutehall gold mine, near the Wilderness battle field, in Spot~tsylvania County, Virginia. Gold was f~iat found there in 1809. The mine was worked by Commodore Stock ton from. 1848 antil just before the war. It has since been owfied, by Gilbert R. Fox, of lPennsylvannla N~early $2,000, 000 worth of gold has been taken from the mine. Ta. k'eport of the United States Rail. road Oommissioner says that indioations arc that in a short time there will be five soparate routes to the Paciflo coast, whore less than a year ago there was but one. The tendency Is still toward 1n4 creased railroad development, principally. in the Soutjiand Southwest. -It Is be lieved that operations in railrop4 con struction this year will exceed those of any preceding year. The general con sitrintion of, the Jfacifie yallroads is criti cised as not up to the standard. Congress is asked to establish a uniform system of railroad signals. AN uxowAeu whose editor seems to have had some experIence, says: A doctor will sit down and write a prescrip tion;: time, five minutes ; paper and ink. one-fourth -of a cent; and the patient pays $1, 2, $5, $10,as theease maybe. A lawyer writes ten oir.twehe lines of advice, and gets fr6m'$10 to $20 from his client. -'An editor writes a half-oolumnr puff for a man,.pays a aa from fifty cents to $1 for putting It In. type, prints it on' horipal dollar's wurth of paper' sends It to several thdAsymd peorple and' then suriales the pu~ed man if he makes any oharge. Amang G. Tmust~ is eharged by the Watkingop T#r~o with producing a pAnic In the Senate. It says : " A noise like unto a clap of. thunder at sea was heard. ;Dhvis, of West Virginia, sprang to lWe fee4 s ianont ; Hoer trembled, Vest laughed. Beak looked as though he had heard that noise before, andturedtoward the. Damao~Mat cink I nUr wi& his al( sadan m e band and4.t good mntbet in the ota. e4k told Davis not to be alarmed; it was no*n ut Thurmn blo ,3g his noge, the 1' bW No who 'have unlimited faith in =th prediations of Prof. Vennor, a so ed Canadian WeatOWr *iognosteAotor, -wil perhaps have that faith soniewhat sh4ken by the perusal of the following, P1 lished three months.. ago in his al aao fof188S a y DecembEr, M h yIke the looks of this month, viewed from the present stand point (September 18). It looks ugly, and emacks of cold-biter, bi(tg '.ooI,. north and soutb, east and west. The month bids fair to be cold and dry rather than otherwise, and cold may -le sohnewbat proportionate to, the heat of the past summer, and extend to extteme Southern and Western points. The entry of the month is 'likely to bring In winter ebruptly in most sections where winter Is usn 4lly expected or experienced. The first week of the month will probably give the rst good snowfalls of *the season in New York." w t does not seem that he hit it very w I that time. In hiP almanac for 1881, for the same month, he said : "The' characteristies of December probably will be.those of the precedmg two monthe. This I believe will be one of those Decembers that will cause inquiries of the oldest inhabi tant as to whether there ever had been such a December before. In Canada fotwers may be discovered in Noom in Oe open parden, and plowing will be continued almost up to Obrist ma#,." Now had Vennor transposed the order of this, the hit WQuld have been capital. But thedr--he didp t Confederate. Bond Text. As considerable interest has been. aroused it regard to Confederate bonds, and As the majority of people are un acquainted with their terms, the follow ing wording of a $1,000,bqzd is given se a matter of i formation : 44 No. 7,408. Pirst series. "oonrNFEDERAT'E rfs OF AMZMCA, Loan Authorized by Section 6 of February ,17, 18M Aot of Congress. "On the rst day of uly, 1864, the Oon feerate States of -Ameria will pay to the bearer of tljs bond, at the seat of Government or at such placd o'f d oit as maybe appoiited byj the Secretary of %e Tr~muryj the sum of one thousand dollars, with interest thereon at thie -rate of six per cent. per abaum, payable. sui-annuaUy on the first days of January and July In each year. "The Confederate States hlave, by an act a proved February 1, -1864, enacted that the principal and interest whereof shall be free from txation. and for the payment of the in terest thereon, the entire not receipts of any export duty hereafter laid on the value of all cottop, tobaoco, and naval stores, which shall be exported from the Confederate States, and the net proceeds of the import duties now laid on so much thereof as mayte necessary to pgy annually the interest, are hereby pially pledged, provided that the duties now lid upon imports, and hereby pledged, shall hereafter be paid in specie or In sterling exchange, or In the coupons of said bonds. "In witness whereof the register of the treasury, in pursuance of- the said act of' Oon gi'ess, hath hereunto set his hand and affixed the seal of the treasury, at Richmond, this 1st day of March, 1864. E. AmassoN, "Jor register of the treasur." "Entered, Rt. B. S. Ileoorded, 3. 5. W. ' On the left of thie bond at a right angle with the body of the bond are the words, "One thousand dollars," and on the right, "Si1 per cent, per annum." Attached to the bond are &ixty coupons, payable every six niionthe, fromn January 1, 1865,-to July 1', 1894. The doonpons are as follows : " Loan under act of Febrfry 17, 1884. The Confederate States of America will pay to bearer thidy dollars .for six m. nths' interest, du. January 11865, on liod 7,403, for $1,000. Ro. yler, Register," exe t thiedats which, of course, are all dl font, bagn g at January 1, 1865, and ending wit Juy 1, 1894. 0oncerning Authors. There is an abundance of writers for the press, and to illustrate this fact, I may say that the editor of Harper's Magazine has already a sufficient num ber of accepted artidles on hand to serve for two years. He~nce should he Ilot re ceive a uingle fresh oo'ntribaition isa sup ply would' last till 1884. The rejected matter, often of Interest and real value, which . daily declined by magazines newspapers, and booksellers, would fill a good-elied wagonm. 3naner, of the Ledger; has for' some years left orders with his clerks to allow no centribution t~o be left for eamarination. He haa his regular list of writers, who filll up the apace allotted to them, and thus the pa per is ..;nade up without any new eon tributors. Authorship and writing for the press is now overdone, and there sta but few, and these are, indeed, lucky who can make a living at it. It issaid that the magamne writers are not an enviable elss.. They may reoeive $100 for an article, but It Iasos difmoult to get an article published that they ai not much bettet .than a mere newspaper Bohemian. A leading magazimnist is said to rate his income from this souroe at him1 for ournalism by a collegee Jo , ' ently engaged to tid bar In a' saloon at $ er week.Ti mnay beintendedI as a piece of humqr, but there is a a trieth iunderlying it. *" Ox ye. s," 7Si rws, as -sbe surveyed wkivikdent pleasure the little parlor sidebodcovered with old ohina and decorated ith highly-eolored tiles ; " Mr. B. remnarked 'ldet night that I wa becoming quite an atheist," and the old iuady's countenmanc e fairly beamed with dehight as her ey~s rested on a 16 cenut Jananese ten-pot.--Newarh Call. JEWS GLEANINGS. eippLes are grown at Walatka, Florij Loca option ts becoming popular in Virginia. Corinth, Miss., Is showing an interest in silk culture. A sea-cow was recently seen in the bay neai 8t. Augustine. Mississippi is displaying an unusual interest in railroads. Virginia now ranks eighth as a pro ducer of iron 'ore. In 1870 she was twelfth. Twelve thousand barrels of rosin were disposed of in one sale recently by a Sa vannah house. The Ohie Justice of Alabama is a printer by trade, and formerly worked at the case at Athens. The machinery to be used in improv ing Apalachicola, (Fla.) harbor has ar riveq there and work will begin at once. Col. J. S. Mosby, of Virginia, when he returns from China, will marry a well i known society lady of Alexandria. Stock raising in Texas offers greater inducements to the capitalist than- any other business carried on in the coun. I try. New Orleans property owners will i have to pay a tax of three per cent. to meet the necessities of the city govern- ] ment next year. < Asbury Bush, a ferryman, shot and 1 killed a negro named Charlie Nixon, at I Warwick, Ga., for refusing to pay five cents ferriage acress the river. Lucien Beard has been pardoned out of the Virginia penitentiary at Rich mond after having served eight of an eighteen years' sentence for horse steal ing. Five hundred inhabitants at Ozark, Ala., and not a Smith in the directory. Perhaps the old and well known Jones lainly have kept them out with clubs. Thomas Jefferson has been arrested at Wilmington, South Carolina, for strik ing Ben. Franklin with a rock and throw ing sand into John Adams' eyes. A large petition is being gotten up in Alabama, praying for the opening of Coosa river to navigation, and beseech ing that no delay be permitted. The convicts in the Tennessee peniten tiary will issue an address to the peoplei of the State, soliciting funds to pur chase an organ forttheir benefit. The State of West Virginia has no indebtedness, the constitution of .the State forbidding the creation of any IEa bility in the nature of a public debt. In accordance with an act of th . Legislature every child who attends the public schools In Savannah must be vac cinated, otherwise they will be rejected at the..re-opening of the schools next month. A company has been chartered and organized at Rome Ga., to make surveys and estimates with the view of con structing a canal from a point seven miles above the city, sa as to give a fall of thirty feet. With this fall 3,000 horse power will be available for manu facturing. . ,Dalhonega (Ga.,) Sentinel: The prep arations for mining by the L~oud Gold Mining Company are simply wonderful. The canals:are spread over a wide extent of country and mining by the hydraulic process will soon surpass anything ever witnessed in the South. Reports from Hoover'Hill gold mine in Randolph county, North Carolina, still continue good. Since the rich strike was made a few weeks ago, It is estimated that the ore raised is worth $50,000, and it still holds out with splendid promise. This mine is owned and operated by an English company. Bibb county, Ala, has a curiosity in the way of a stalk of ribbon cane. It divides itself into two prongs near the ground. Below the fork the stalk has double eyes.: Above the fork, and in eluding both prongs, it is ten feet long and has thirty-iwo joints. Senator Browrd, of Georgia, said in a reoent interview that he received no ed ueation to speak of until he was of age At thirty-three he was elected to a Judgeship, and *t thirty-seven became Governor. He Is now, at sixty-eight, a United States senator. Giheeville (Ga.) Southron : Gen. Longstreet will ask thre Legislature of Tennesse and North Carolina to give him charters for the extension of his Longstreet does not pretend that be cau build the road all by himself, but with proper encouragment can and will lo so. Atlanta OonhtUtioi: Many farmers iay they will plant more rn next year. rhese are not the intentmn of spring. When the present crop of cotton is safe y out of the hands of the producers, prices will go up with a venomous bounoe, and then our gifted husband non will plow up the corn they have planted and proceed to scatter their cot kn seed over the face of nature. Natchez (Miss.) Democrat: Yester lay Mr. Jerome Converse shot and killed mn immense rattlesnake, which measured ))even and a half feet in length and fif *en inches in diameter. This monster nake had nineteen rattles, and Its upper ange were one inch long, and when shot iad a large rabbit in its mouth prepara ory -to swallowing it. Mr. H. B. Evers, of England, repre enting a Londen syndicate. has recently ought 676,000 acres of land from the tate of Mississippi, lying principally n the Yazoo delta, and for which he ias paid the State about $50,000. Mr. Evers says that if the State will give is.syndicate aid 'hey will in the next our years bring to the State 160,000 English immigrants, 60,000 of whom will be voters as soon as naturalized. Oravge county, (Fla.,) Reporter: Eleven years ago, Dr. J. F. J. Mitchell, >f Lake Jessup, ate some Oranges and >lanted the seed. The trees are now ten rears old. This year eighty of the seed ing trees from those seeds are bearing, nd last week The Doctor sold the fruit rom the eighty trees for $462. These rees, as they are ordinarily planned, would cover about one and one-third Lcres of land-a yield of about $840 per tcre, which, for young grove, is not a yad showing by any means. The Doctor ias four young groves, and he reports iis crop this year 290 per cent. larger han last year's crop. Mr. J G. McElroy, of Banks county, -a., relates the following occurapec which happened on his plantation, near armony Grove, a few days ago: W bile iis three little boys were standing in the rard a large hawk swooped down and lew away with a chicken in his talons. rhe boys thinking that his majesty might Irop the chicken, followed him some dis ance, when, to their delight, they 'aw iim drop his prey. As soon as this hap 1ened the hawk comumenced circling roud where the boys and chicken were ~ongregated, and finally lighted on the ildest boy, who was ten years old, and ~astened onel talon in the boys chin. r'he second son went to the rescue, when ~he hawk caught him in the arm with the >thuer talon, thus holding both the boys it his mercy. TIhe third and yougest, ieing the perilous situation of his broth. irs, drew his knife, went '. to work and ucceeded in cutting the hawk from his rothers and killing him, both legs were ~ut to the bone, just above the claw, be ore the boys were released from their langerous position. After his lordship was dispatched he was found to be a arge bird, '.,and measured 'twenty four nches from stem to stern. Didn't~Win the Bet. Two friends were discussing the mer ts of their acquaintane. Said one f the gentlemen: " Talk about mean cnen ; now there's old Strasberger. Hea the hardest, driest, meanest old Bhylock that ever lived. That man I whyl1" And there he siopped as if words couldn't do justise e the subject. " You're mistaken," said his riend. " He's not so bad ; even the devil isn't so bek as he is pinted. Now I'll bet you p10 can borrow $50 of him before night." " Done I" and the money was put up. On posted the sanguin, book-maker to~ hds mtended victim. " Stransberger, my boy, how are you?" and he slapped him on the baok of a faded ready-made coat with a esital as sumption of goof-fellowship. "VYeil, I was all r-l-g-h-t, Tot's do madder mit you ?" " Look here, old fellow, I made a lit-. tle bet about you just now, ha, ha I It's a capital 30ke." "'Urn "'said Strassberger. "Vell i" " Yes, I bet $10 with Smith; that I could borrow $0of you to-day. ::es ** at was.'he.mount-" " ou bet ten ?" " htawhat I pt up." a" Vel, now look here, my friend" (in aowhipe " dol g straight avay and 'hde Sarw the man who 6o left when the wine came short at communion : " I don't care for the liquor, but I think my soul is of as much account as anybody's, and, if I don't lick the deacon by whose negligenc e I was prevenited from carry ing out my relgiusd dty, I'm a pirate." Itnma Boma pa his howse ese mo then double tu paid any college prfessor. 'FAM1 FOR TE 0 UV OUgL. VTOAT is 40soa valua L& vng rm&tA& . a. who Vie it save eve the poeder which sold for making if#p. - '00i Average life of andiurbaghh mdM "* sovdreign is-about hi ea=, is, the ooin loses t quarters of a graweight in about thate of - - tie, It then ceases to be Is e4 It is sd that of the .100 000 00o British' ld coinae 40 pOr ent, down -wow the 10 rate. 'Ba. .wis BAr of Albaiy, in a r. view of the medical evidegdoeii the o01. brated Billings murder audes -it the Ourious fact .that Of "a fS# ealiber fired through glass maya hole enough amIlier than the ftfl mis of the ball before firing to rnut. es Unfired ball of like caliber passing. , Ir. Ba0h notes. having seen " a base ball, *rown Yitli grept force and hovira otary twvist, make a roundholethongh an ordinary window light, and when ball was tried to be agam passed throu Ike same openin the hole was nearly one-third too smal" Tim English antiquar John Aubrey, who wrote about the u e of the sev enteuth century, says at in his time miost of the housm in the West End of London were protected against witohes and evil spirits by having horse-shoes fastened to them in various ways. It was the belief that then no witch or evil enius could cross the threshQld which was protected by fhe shoe. The bet in that the superstition has been traued about so far back, and then we ind it lost in ihe obscurity of the ages, The eustom of nailing horse-shoes for luck to all kinds of sailing craft is still in voou, and is religiously maintatied to e - - - wise and lucky- inesure: r The - superst tion goes furthe by itfortunae for any one to find a horse- oe, and thp good luck is increased with the numb af nails that are attached to the shoe i 1 - it is picked up. IT is curious to n6te that BEoWg earliest poems were published mider the S title of William soott. Still Uora eurk owe to note that he was pot aw"e of this until it was mentioned in "lfa?)gr's ur. vey of Gormian Poetry." B It wrdt6 to Taylor, to' renoistrate. "As'to 'ng. t tive of ScotlaAd," he writes, " there sre few things counted more iahonoble th~an abandoning his 9wn giame.o" Tay lor's defence was, "If you ad, te title-page of Goets von' Berlin in printed in London in 1779, for Bell - Oxfordestroet, you we#ld not have been surprised at:my blunder. It states the play to have ben .tranqlated frqm .le Gernau, by Wm. Su4L, Osq. a4vpoate of Edinburgh. 'The aof the Last Minstrel' has the name'of Walter' Bett Esq., advocate of Idinburgh, -prefixe& - That there [should be two Sootts boh advocates, both of Edinburgh,,and both skilled in German, at a tiuge when the study of that languiag0 was uncomMon, appeared to me improbable, and I there. fore inferred that the historioc or bap tismal name of this individual was William, and his romantic or Arnadian name was Walter." '1 Earth-Eating Tribes. M. Grevaux, a French.'aayal surgo, has 'lately bgen explorirg the niorthen parts of S outhi Amnesica, mcore espe'ally " mn the valley of the0'Orin&,ed arid it affiu ents. Aniong other faste 6f-observationi, he states that the' Guarauxiosoi at: the ' delta of that river, take, retagel~ tbe trees when the delta is inulated.Thr they' make a sort of dwelling it branches and clay. Th4 Wonien light -' on a small piece of floor, the fur'eedM for cooking, and the traveiet on the river by night often sees with. surprise long rows of flames at a considerable height in the air. The (Guarauno0s pose of their dead by hangi'gthem in hiammock. in the teops of rees. Dr. Crevaux, in the- course of his travels, met with geophagous or earth-eating tribes. The clay, which often serves for their food whole months, seems te be a mixture of oxide of Iron and. some' organio substances. They have recourse to it more especially in times of scarcity. .. but, strange to- say, there .~ a ge gourmands for the substance indi d-. uals in whom the depraved taste becomes do pronounced that they thiay be mse tearing pieces of ferruginoub olay fram . huts made of it and putting themn in their mouths. They Will Sin Nio More, An Eighteenth Ward baker, John B. Sapter, put up a job of exoe' arue4 on the small boys who make -it les. tint for the tesidents In the ven cf Fullerton street and Broadway.,~ r afternoou when the baker drew up at a store, it was the reprehensible customa of the wicked lads to mount the wagen in the owner's absence, and approprate whatever samples of pie and gmnger snaps came in their way. One afternoion tour of the boys were at there p when the baker arrived. A a dozen pieces were suspiciously easy to get at, but the guileful " kids "hd no thought of wtong in others, and, with many expressions .of siisfeactwm, fled to a contiguous ravine with the o vendor, and in a remarkably' short space of time had colied round thie indigesti ble. Their sensation of repletion 1*as all too brief. The baker had sessened his rutxy with tartar emetic, anidte only reason the young bandits retus' their shoes was because they were Ued on. The agony ended at last, and four - W6-begone, pallid-faced small ne with stomachs as empty as the pr of a politician, but their heart. 41M with iotentions of future ho~~ ~ u 'rtesscp homys