Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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DEYOTD TO rOLI1IUC, RORALI1Y, EDUCATION AND TO TRE GNNERIL INTEREST OF THE COUVTiY. By_D. F. BRADLEY & 00. IICKENS, S. C , THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1883. VOL. XII. NO. . iue asylum of Alabama, has 19e1r arl llds yet white with cotton Tneseo, in 1882, produced 9,000, 'OQ bushel of wheat, and 78,000,000 bushels o, corn. Nine new cotton factories, with an aggregate capital of $1,725,500 have just been chartered in South Carolina. In five yqars the sales of governmen !' nds in Alabama, Arknsas, Florida, Louisiana and Mississippi have increaed fourfold. The pine lands have been especially in demand. Frain the;deposit discovered in 1872, in the Appgmattox river, al Bermuda, Virginia, thro are now taken 1,000 tons annually or about a third of the fine ochre used in the United States. A test was made in Sparta on last Sat. urday of the amount of water a hale of cotton would absorb in Rbout one-half Ii an hour's rain. The increase in weight Y was thirty seven'pounds. The project for a Confederate monu- 1 ment at Nashville seems at last to be w assuming a tangible shape, and if the line indicated is carried out the monu ment Is a certainty. The experiment. made in a large num ber of interior counties of Georgia last year of planting upland rice, wa' so un- a satisfactory on account of the long sum- t mer drouth, that very little was planted last spring, -At Greenfield, Tenn., an agent for a w Bt. Louis cotton firm was caught weigh hig cotton with a brass pea, hollow in side and packed full of shot, and making a] a difference of about five per cent. in the , quantity of cotton required. The Kansas supreme court has decided that the state has the right to prohibit liquor manufacture, though this action destroys the value of brewery property e built when brewing was legiti'mate. A keg containing $50,000 in gold was ni stolen from the steamer City of Para on a her recent trip from New ' ork to As- 1' pinwall. The money was eent. by the Sub-Treasury in New York to the Unit, ed States fleet in the Paciic o .Nashville Banner : The presvent mud dlied condition of the State treasury will e prevent any of the membera drawing thelb zalary-for some time to cone-am(l then there is only a little over $6,000 on 13 hand, and that won't pay oft for ten li day's service Nashville had only two eases of drunkenness on the police docket last Monday morning, instead of the twenty p: or thirty', as usual. The sudden reduc- e< tion of aggregate wickedness is attribut- tIl ed to the revival of a law prohibiting b the sale of merchandise on Sunday. Besides 2-cent p' go, the cotintry i likely o get, before the winter ii over, some improvements in the money order saystem At the last session the house 04 *voted for a reduction of rates to 8 cents -orlsumns below $10 and for the introdue tion of :3 cent postal notes for amounts fr not exceeding $5. A favorable re por1 t i has been made in the senate, and there o: is nio reason to anticipate a muchb lorger postponement of these experimnents. Massachusetts has reduced her panuper, list from 90,000 in 1876 to 28,000 att h present. Thle persons cost the State $1_ c 800,00t0 for maintenance last year, or ) tax of $1, nearly, for each ma n, woma:n a and child in the State. The great, cen ter of manufactures, Lowell. ha:s more paupers than any town in Massachusetts. t< Many cows have dliedl in Mi lledgeville g~ on account of over-fceding on cotton T seedl. For, a mob-ridden State, Californi: ' makes a v'ery crediiable showing in itst finances. The taxable pioperty in the State is val ued at $610,000,000. The in terest bearing-debJt is *3,293,5(0, an<it Of (1 this the State holds 5-2,690,0(00 as trustee t fot its schools, leaviirg <uly $G"3,((0 ofd payable dlebt ; and there is ntow in the a treasury over $500,(000 applicable to ita r redluctioin -Georgia in 1841 owed $1,309,750; in 1 1852 she owed $2,801,972; this sumi was reduced to 5,670,750 in 1860 ; in 1870) c the debt stood at $6,541,500, butt it was~ 1 rapidly increased until it stood-on pa- 1 per-'att 420,197,500. When the truy C amount of the debt was ascertained, and when the pro~cess (of pay ment. had bieguni, the debt wvas reduced to 10,335,00) ; andi' the bonds of the State are ntow in de mnandl at premiums rangin:g from liieven to twenty per cent. --The i ly of the valley is quite hairdy in all p)arts of the count1t ry, bult I k's a cool rat her than a warnm exp)osure, an I if possible it. sh<,uhl have a t i.l hde. Naturally it grow1s anmon --shrnihs and I low trees, fr-om, which it receivm sommt shade and( shelt er, and in plinting it. wo should, if possible, give it. a locan) olli mn itttinig its natura:l site. In preparinug a bed for it, if the mtaterial wvere at hamiul, we should mix sonme leaf mold w:t h the soil, bu4t it u.sually succee 's en umost Soi's withotit special prepharation1. -Sonme wise farmers i:nd it to their advantage to keep no0 st ck thirough thle winter, as they can always buy all th e) want in March ais low as in November,i and thus sav-e thle wiinter liceping. ('no farmer we hare readl of wvhoso regiar. practice was to buy in March, feed ju dliciouisly till gr.as was ready for graz ing, and then sell in ,June 01r sooni af er W d, when his cattle were in the best pdesible condit ion. By this methio I lie gave his pastures rest in the fa I. and secured an eavher and more vig'rouis start for his grass in thu spring.-N. F. Exraminer. --A traveler In Framnce, whose con seience would not allow him to use strong language, found that at the hotel where he was staying the waiters had been so acenstomed to hear Engilshmen do so that they act him dlown a-s a milk sop and neglected him accordIngly. IIe therefore h?t upon thIs expedient to se erroe a proper amount of attention: Whenever he gave an order he roiled '~~~iaonoroustones the words, "North tibr)ad, Cumnbgland, Durham." e areos TOPICS OF THE DAY. W. W. ASTOR has established ai .morican Club in Rome. A PosT of the Grand Army of the Re ublio has been establisted in Honolulu ONE Chicago pawnshop has lcanoi Loney on 2,200 revolvers during tl}e pas oar. RUSSIA has thirty-three schools ii hich to educate mon to operate rail ays. Gov. Ourro31, the victor in the lii >is Senatorial contest, is flfty-thre< ,ars of ago. GN. N.nANO0S, of Mexico, has mud contract to take 20,000 Italian fanilio, that country. A MAssAcHUsETrs soldier has justboei tid $44O by the Government for a toI hioh ho lost during the war. Tun mother of President Garfieb euds several hours every day readinl to published works of her illustriou; Dn. Dit s, in his prayer at the Nov ork Church of the Strangers, a fev andays ago, asked the Almighty t< Invert the choir. AT an auction sale of old Governmen edical supplies at St. Louis recently nong other things one man bough 1,308 pills for thirty cents. ANOTHEn reason for ridding ourselve the English sparrow is furuishod bi English physician, who srtys that thl rd may have smallpox and communi to the disease. IN a column and a-half article recent , the London Ti,nc3 s Iys that ver, btle is known of diphtheria beyond th et that it is a village disease ratht ian one of sewered cities. IT Is not generally known that. th, refix "Ah " to a Ohiunanan's nalo i luivalent to the title of "Mr.," ant tuo Bret Harto's famo,us '' Alt Si!I, ,Comes in plain Englsh " Mr. Sin." FRoM the deposits discovered in 1S72 i the A)polmattox River at Bermuda a., there are now taLen 1,000 tons an tally, or about one-third of the fill hres used in the United States. EARLY na rriages are becoming les equent in Ireland. ''ho late census rc trus show that of more than 1,500,00t marriageable men on the census righ1 Fer 900,000 are either bachelors or wi'd ve rs. 'T'uv death was recently an1nounec on London of Johu ]Blockley, th )>llposer of litany )oplhr Lnelodita, an est known, perhaps, by hiit ::ettiIg t 1usic ''enly:.on's poem, "h'11 lrook. [ was eiglty-two years of age. Trnu ion. SImuel J. Randall is vai > approve entliusiastically of the su estion that the next Speaher of tli [onso of Ripresenltativo h )rov itl ith a gavel .f tshioned after the mot f George Washington's memorable lii e hatehet. Tim Eminperor Wiliiam hias wi tte 1o story of his own life iln a privat iary which the world will read afte ic Emiperor's deathi. It has been lkey: aily for fifty years. And there ati ketches in it by seome of the bett (Gea ian artists. IT is cosfinag the Chicago Street Cah,! tailwvay Company a great dea'.l Of moune : constriict its sytem. The toti xpenso thus far has beenii $3,000),00 aut travel is increased, tihe dangers ait assed, and the futuro of thle lani ncouraging in the extreme. Tlire mionimnmt to he erected1 to t11 lemnory Of "M~aargaret,"~ the' well k~now .hilanhrophical lady of New Oriloam ep)re'tents her sreated on a chlair, wit ecr right arma resting on its back, an er heft thrown round an orphanf chcil, vho looksi up grateful ly inIto her face. "Ausmansare very foolish abiot om things," said Mmeo. Janapsl?ich ) ia Now York replorter reently. ' 'S hey turn their hacks upon schiolars I iay their respects to unafledged sti tents.'' She land Mrci. Langtry' in ho aind's eye at the t.ime of t,he intervie. ON tlhe irst Sunday in lat Decemlbe >r t her ebouts, suhl an amount of 51uo elI in Madrid, Spain, fliat the lii hereof had not ben known for tweni cars. It is said the depth of tihe suo a the Spanish Capitol, after . a sing lay's storm, was more~ than eleve uiches. IMIrATION diamionds are now so pr' ect that the real ones are at a discounn oone of wealth is suspected of wea ng any but the real stones, and mSulIy vealthy woman, it is claimed. Jali idvantaige of this notion, an(t wears ti nock jewels without fear of detection< oss by theft. Smn TArON SYKEs is another vei vealthy Englishman who has beconie honvert to the Chlurch of Romo. I w'ill build, at his own expense, a larj mrthedral at West,minsteir, which w: -esemb)le ini it8 architect,ure the cathl Iral at Cologne. To Cardinal Mamnin iloguence is attributed Sir Tattoi loiuversion. PAier,:aa theo Fren~oh soIintist . di A Chinese Loan Agency. When a Chinaman finds himself finan ally embarrased and needs money, lie )es not (do as other people do, borrow and either give a promissory note or lattel mortgage as security for the ione, but he forms what in Chinese is tiled an "owey." This is somethino hich is peculiarly Chinese-end requires minute explanation in order that it ay be understood. The lowest owey" is fixed at $1 for each person rniing it., and the highest $200. For istance, if a Chinaman needs $100 he ill call on a number of his friends, t to exceed ten, and tell thorn that lie ishes that amount of money, and -sires to form an "owey." If it is (e dod that it shall be a $20 "owey," ion live persons in addition to the :iginator combine. For the purpose (explain'ng the "owoy" the originator ill be desilated as Sam, and his five iends as Yow, Yen, Kow, Chew and .ing. At the first meeting of the six to originator receives from each of the her live $20. making up the amount 3 requires. This is a loau made to hin ithout interest, which he must repay at io rate of $20 per month. At the time 1is sum is advanced the other live Ad for the privilege of the "ow,'y" for ic running month. Each one writes i a slip of paper the amount of the remiun he will give. These slips are )lled separately and thrown into it rwl and shaken up, after which each iip is unrolled and1 the amount noted. he ''owey" is then awarded to the ie having bid the highest premium. ow having bid $1 premium, Yen, ow, (hew and Iling each pay $19, hich is theamount less the premium, id amounting in all to $76; and if he Ids the amount of his own contribu on it will make a total of L96, or ual to the almountadvance( Sam, less I which is reckoned as interest, allow ig :1 for each of the four who advance 1e mOney. At the close of the first month Sam, 1 originator, is, by the rules which uver this symtem of money-lending, >reed to notify all who belong to the owey" of the next meeting. At this icetiIg Yen, Kow, Chow and Iling are le only ones who are permitted to oiier prCliu,in Sam and Yow having no Uice in the matter. At this meeting le iremliumln of $1 is ana'nl of'ered, anld hating been awartred to Yen, the ther three pay him $19 ea.ch, aid Sal iid \ en repay their. first monthly in alilment of $20 each. At the r:ext iceting only three, Kow, Chew and ling, can bid, and if the samio amount f preluitllm is hid, and it i' a'varde I to le first of the three named, the other vo pay him N19 each, while the other Iree, Sam, Yow and Yen pay hi* ":U ach. At the next meeting only two, hew and I ing, are permitted to o!er preiium. The one to whom the owey" is awarded receives from Iho ther the anmonmt, less the premilum, ad fr'omu the other four $20 each. At. 1e next and last, meeting, only one ro m!:iinii , he receives from the other five ach('ll, making the full stum of :+100. this method the (rigin:ator of the owyv" who obtains the monev without itcrest has the use of $100 for one montl, $0 for four months, $:b) for hree months, $10 for two months and -0 for one monti. In retur )r the use of the Imone'; he I forced to act as collector 'o111 t h- other members of the "owey,'' ho are required to pay the mftihlv in alln :ts of $20. lIle also as,:unles a sk, and that is, if any member of the owey" does not pay at the appoilited me, lie has (o be responsible for the mount due. T1he other members of 1 "owey." who, by installments ad aice iiney to one another, receive in 3res5t for the amount of their advances, iiil each in turin has the use of the total mlounlt 01 the "'owey" ini thle samie pro oirtion as thle originator. Tlhis imethoed fmeoney-lending is ini vogue among all laSes, tiind womio Oten form ''oweys' mong them selves. When the slips of aperi, before alluded to, areC drawin 'om1 the bowvl, it of ten happens that t wo ir moire contain tihe sam11e amountt of reiuClim. lin such'l an Ovenlt thet " owey" given to thle one0 whose slip is first r'awn. 'The "'owey"' may' he coim usedl of anly' niumber not ex~ceeding tein ewides thle originator, and( the great (est mounlt t hiat may be raised bly suich means is $2,000. WVhenever an ''owey" formed and thle amlotunt to he awar'd .1 to lihe originator is $500, eor in ecs icreof, lie is requir'ed to treat t hose 'li loan hiim the mono11v, to a (dinnier ot. to coist less than $2 a hiead. Often. me.s a high premiium is bidl for, the iivil ege of the "'owev"' for~ eachl suec ~e dinig month(I, and tiis give t'3 hle leml. is e n sidIe rab)le in;terest for the use of A Unase ConspIracy Defeated. A close guess wias made in a IIar'tford iloon thle ether dlay. In one par'ti tion f a moneyi%-dlrawer was a large niuimber f pen nies. Amnong the freqjuenters 'f ie plae was4 a man who was i'wa s av to inake a bet. 1I, occurired to bem pro~pit,or of the place, who hadt 'ceei t akeni in a good mainy times by the( ectting mail, to lay for him. Ile took friend inito his conf idence, and1( the pair mlade iup theCir mfinds1 to boat the 4oUow with the contents of the money trawer. So they countedI the peninies mid found there were just G25 of them. rlhen they laid( low for their opp)or'ti FTat evening the betting man was on and(, and in a manner not to ex(cito tu5picioni the saloon-keeper sid to his riend: "I wvonder ho0w nmany penniies here are in this drawer?"' '[li betting chal) pricked upl his cars mad remarked :"L~et each of us pt -im) 9'5, and( thle one who comes nearest to lhe nmmer shall take thle iot."' This wvas agreed to, and1( the saloon teoper markted 624, his friend 6211, and lie fellow that was really ignor-ant of he number-, and whlom they exp)ectedl to ,rap, b)y the nmorest chlance put his ingers at 625.i 'Tho astonishment of the we sharpers was no grecater thlan the treader of the other at suich remarkably harp guessing. After this the betting ntan was hosa of tIhe saloon.-llartford Consn.) Time. _ THE wisuh often falls warm Upon my heart that I may learn nothing hero that I canlnot conItinule iin the other world; that I may do ncthumg here but deeds that wiul bear fruit in heaven, soribed as a me.n of low stature and powerful frame-spare, angular and weatherbeaton. He is a man of few words, abrupt, but olear in speech, and d of quick, impetuous gestures. Although it his farme rests upon minute material ro- e search, he is a steadfast believer in s spiritualism, and takes no interest in e t evolution theories or positivist doctrines. a -Il] HUNGARY is becoming quite a silk " growing country. From statistics pub- f< lished a short time ago it appears that in i 1881 there were 2,976 producers, who " turned out 41,537 kilogramnimes of co coons, which realiz d not lois than 41,- d 816 florins. On the profits there ha< c been est.ablished. with Stato aid. It Inodel i school, which promises to give a vell- 01 (lirected impetus to the silk-raising in- o dustry. A GERMAN has invented a safe, which, , in addition to the customary walls and t doors of steel, has an attachment that, h on being touched, immediately flares an w electric light on the scene, and at the ti same time uncovers a prepired Plate on U bl which the burglar's photograph is taken, ti while an alarm is sounded. A pit, opens o below, and the burglar is prccilitat-d P through the floor. Would any guilty [( man escape? s Ti,u- lato Chafles Gossage, of Chicago, ' was for many years one of the leading 0 dry goods merchants in that city. His store was well known by the two big iror ] lions that stood just outside the intii en trance. These were lost, with the .store a and stock, in the great lire, ail wer ti not replaced when the now storo was 0 built, ititil onie (iy aln ocl lily w.dked in and in(luired 'the wty to (iosii..)' t She nad bon hunting for the lin all over the city, but in vain. Mr. (o ; t} - at one, ordered now ones to 1e ii ale g and set ip in front of the new store. I Tmr ion. Joseph Cilley, of Nottvng n ham, N. H., the oldest living ex-ieinalo t of the United States celebrated the com pletion of his nuoty-second year a fe t days ago, amid a large gatlering o. il relatives arid friends. He was in ei,is: 0 health and spirits, and though his aih a was so dim that he could not reogniz(<l all his friends' faces, he quickly kin> 1 them by their voices. Col. Cilley is ; o veteran of the war of 1812, and was 'p ti - tai of a company in the regiment ind: t 3 Col. Miller that made that nistrionic t chargo at Lnundy's Lane. In that ight he was wounded in the thigh, and lanv3 a for life. le was elected to the jnited' States Senate from New IHampslire te o fill the vacancy caued by the resiitOatiou t of Levi Woodbury. I e3 is a hon-i.un of t - Gen. James Cilley, cf rv. ;olutiomirv fame. ------ - A Gold Vein on 10't Farmts, Very many communities know the excitemnent rd ii ited by the rmtor,even, that, som)ebody'.in the vicinity has foutndli intctolio h )eeiuo u( nthe soil. Untold m11l1.6n1 have been - ex1pendeu -ar'lh ing forl the prei l metal ink localitios ,hliere a bit of u;elCs-;s iron pyrites (sulphidu of iroii) h - Ien miislaken for gold, whith it re=embht in color. Out- ob,e'i"atimu indientc; that ti there is, on at least four-liths of the fariis of this tflttry, an overloolIt td golden veOin, of mtuchl grea3:tern valuei tn anly yellowv metal likely to1 be foundti ot 5ide of a few special geiologeal formtta tins. TLhe f'ttlowvintg expetimen ct t, trid on any farim orn galrden, will e3xplain whlat,e Swe are aiingii at. Take' a <linLr ofl fair e quality yard ttatnure, and11 poir hipon it a -- )itnt 01 ii ter~. Afitern staninghi a w,eek or two, drtainl off half a pin iof the lhi julid. Noiw priepare two 'ornt hills, a e few feet apart, ont any ground, evten rich y praitrie soil. For' oneo till, uni2ki a hole (j 'of tine ear-th, and Itlant1. th It econd htil l I Swjithout this pre'partaion. The re-;ult, n s will be, almitost, ahw.vty, t hat in t lie litrst,i lill the root lets, amnt subtl~eqnt, roo,ts, -e wvill grow downVi wheire the1( li.tiiid has e3 soaked, muchl morite quicly Y' rotw v ~ a ';tro nger-, .spreadl wider, and' sen<t out I far mi(orei I iiti nueru fet dlin t-r than t will be founod int t scond htiil. Theiie .youing Corn plants (and1( the same witht c ot her plants) will, like weoll feid young e I,animals, dell'opl mutchl earlmir amitl take far botter ad vait age of thle gr-owingi seasonl. lit short, what ever th'e s'oil, t this hill wvill, on the avi-rage, ripeni k enrlier, pro-oduce nior)i stals, an,d I wvent.y to fiftty 11Cr (ett---fte a13 h1Itundredi per 0 othter hill. And, byV the way, therto is in the quart of ferii -'rCi enough ttati'rial -r left fotr a simnilari (effect upjon three ort fotir othe crn hilts. N ow, vi-it the fairm-yard-ils of thle coun - . try genterally, and ini ino -ltnths of them311 'Iherei1 will be found, (ln one( side orn ant w" ot her, qurt]s, gallonts, barrelful s oIf I his :e golen liqunid leachtinig away and1( wa-t -y mng--oftein scoresi and hundridl o015if ha-i n w rels of it duiring a year-. Yeot, at trilliri e cost, perhaps only3 n r 'th Iian13k on Ithoe lower sid (o (f the3 yard, all thlii wanstage may(3 be0 saved andti turned to) accounit. Thhe treamsIn, rich in its itiulat ing 111ant .food, nowy lo-'t from thle yatrds o f the fotir andI one-t hirid milIlion farmsn of our' count ry, mayi3, withI very lit tIe care and( tr-ouble, he iretained in thet rottinig or a ganico matter-, andi( transferrt', to orn s htills and to) 11he roots oIf u ...er cropjs. e~ Real golid will he founid in Ithe inicreasLed r c3rop)5, anid ho obitined at far less cost andl labor thansi is expendiiedl by thie gre3at malss (If gold mliners. Prtoper attenitionl vto so sitmplo a mnatter- on the farms of a the country, takent toIget her-, wouhl add moire (dollars to 1-ho wveal th of thie coun1 try ever'y year tItan is noIw dug out otf Oal tIe go do mmes. beltwoon the Atlo 11and Pacift.-A1mericana A-Iriuturist. --A man In Thotmtont, bio., put an~ owl in bi cellar to kilt the rats. The next mornting the man found the owl . dead antd half-aatan. This wan rough Banking in Berlin. The majority of banks in Berlin are In the second story, and the only way to get to them is through a court of mo'o or less dirtiness, and u1p a steep, dark pair of stairs. And when you got tiere there isn't very muich to suggest a bank. All there is about the whole conceernt Consists in two rooms--one smlall one where the actual buslie be'twcen ets tomers and bank is transac el, and a large one where the books are kept ant 'he clerical work done. leiOnd the Counter :tainds i 111a11 Who cbO'ltb Ite- in himself the dual oiices of p" ing and teceiving teller. The counler itself is an ordinary wooden affair, with nothing about it to suggest finateial solidity or inspire confidence. NeitIer are th(ro trays piled high with twenti -mrk pieces. In short, nothing is in si2ht to give one the idea of a bank. In the larger room of the two there are ia lot of ordinary high desks visible t hrough I he glass doors separating the two room . And seated on the high stools at the- o desks are from fifteen to twent,y clerks and bookkeepers, aill with ledgers and day-books before them. What in the world these banks can do with so many clerks is beyond inc. 'i he sane amoun~t of business would be done in America by three or four clerks. But, neverthe less, there they are. They never appear to be very busy. Most oft 1hem appear to be half-asls7,, and those who hlzpen to be writing in the hooks do not seem to be in any hurry about it. From the gray-headed, stoopl-shoul(lered old lan who has been a bank elerk from his teens, (own to the smartly-dressed, eye: glassed youtngster, everybody ar, e dt': to be on good terms with himself, and does not feel called upon to hurry. Having so many clerks, the bank, )f course, can not afford to pay very l:r'e salaries. In fact, the young~or m(irIimers of the clerical force are ihere mtib-r ,t sort of an apprentice coottact --iav'in something for the privile.re of 'Itarnin(r the business.'' And ev(en whn11 t1hv have been in the bIank's em:olov for years they receive salarie: whicli,'comout )ared to an Anerican baik clerk's sal. ary, are miserably small. One's first enlcounater with a tierana bank is rather (1iseoura:gi: g. I renw(lu ber how helples I felt wten I took my draft to one of the prominent leilm banks to deposit it. I suc(edel, after somec trouble, in fladi'.g t_e batk. And after I had ero,se(l the dirty comi, climbed the dirty back st and pene trated to the (tell of 1110 eiying and re ceiving teller, a new t ronbe are- e. " flow am I to know that you ire the real Mr. Kaeg?" asked tie cautious in dividual behind the cintier. " I don't wish to draw any money ; I only wish to deposit thi., ;Lhaft. I i. made out in my name. I'll itnd,Orse it. And as I shall not need any 1m)ontey for a couple of mlonths, you wili have plenty of time to find out whether everytl ini is correct. ILe,ides, you have mly 1 signl4m ture, sent from San t :meni, .' ' But it was of no avail. lIe woiln't let mle (iepwit that'"tra:'t uitil I h:u proved my1 identity. A fter consid-.ra ble talk I 'happened to think of my pai port, and aitked him if that wolt d1o. " If you do not know anyone in Uei liin who can identify you I t hiink I c:n accept thatt,'l was the a s:'e r. So I had to walk a lleor .s' in tthe rtai to get my passport.. Blut whlel I retu rne( to the bank IL new trial awauiteud me: the bank was e!ole, liked:l ar rie I Here was a .uan1al'Y ; I o'io;; :t' the btnk closed. \sioin ot " .:i <pil cd paylnent" and 1all tlat "o:i. thing rose up hef,ore te, and I w: troulbledl. As I s;to(td in th t o m-n;tv:ar: debating what I c,tud do next, :1 'in dow iln tile secondo story was openedP :nil a voice said: "' 11011(! Whali)t's the mt it er ? So I cx piailuied. And the( v oi c sa'Il "Y oui'Il have 1(o come1( hbtek at o'clock. The ban.1k is clo.sed daiilyv fro In 12 to.2 .to allow thle clerks to go to dlin nier.' T'his wasl die(idledly a1 new idle: it b)anks--elosing from 12 to) 2, the bIt-i' part of the dayv. Buit ther'e w~as~ ntothintW left for' me t< (10 butt to stalnd artounld in thet 1ain f anl hour11. After tis ordeli f ellt('1 rate dlisgutstedl with thlings iln generlal. lIn at 2 o'clock I was- biack~ 0. t o hm:k 1Te (doors wer(e still loCkedl and1( t( hbar' were st ill up, wit1h no signs of lic atbou wvent, slowly by. l'Thenl a slov, ho'"-v step ecame aIcross the court;l lie n of the step deolib)erartciv draw i .L i lrg' L fromi is pockeOt, anti( dela'e:rat pr'' I stairs wenIt tile de('libePate0 tep, I f0! lowing. Arrived at the head ofj I 1tinirI", anlother' arcat Loy waL4 nr duiced, and Knothier door debhberaltely openedl. " What does the gentlemanl wishl ?" The gentlemtan wvishied to deposit a idraft. "WXill the tcentlemani lbe kindo enlough41 to take a seaLt3 Th'e etrk who a: t.endls to that parJt of the bu-~iines ha no~t yet returned fronm hlis dliner." -Yes, the gentlhemnan wVouhIl be goodi enough to take at seat : and1( he sait t er ini the cold, damnp rOoom, beain iho i loor with his feet, shlivering, phino: with his umbelh41i, thinlking of unu11' "a ble things, and1( wait ing lorl thel 1 1urn of "'the clerk wh> aI ttended1(11 to th a part of the business.'" At mteorr.al- 'tf two or thtree: mmtes tn'e oultor noC P openedl, admttmng at gust, (of cnohl ai~ and( bantk (hierks by~ one14, twiO., au-11 threes. Eacht one, as loe (camle dhr ately iln, caretfully .4)0k off hois- *'or' 0 and hat, slowly went, inito a I it c le elani room, andi ini te course of ia11 minute 'o 4) camell dliberaltiely out,1 and0 wee slowly to his place. At half-p,:,' :1 pmostot thle (1:erns were aitt mIr' (oP '; att twenty-liv mbp1i111(tes~ t ho the 'iwr only a few ab)sentles ;2 at ilht minue to .t, oy' ine nanirI 0o'ts, ''tne4 or r nei attends to tat part'I of the bui"in cameIi in, andl at. fourteen( mtinmeS tio: ap)pearedi( behlind the choutr and' 0.10 readly L walit upion mtte. .!umI im oi it! Two hour11s andI fortv-ix loin'' businessq hours wnevn m' or'aer "to 141 the clerks go to di inner."' I neOver felt. -so utterly disgustedt in my lifet. Itiut it Iwoul not have heen so bad if buin-e had been resumed1(111011 ) prmty at '2 Three-cluarters of an hour late. ,Ju 0 think of It! My passport was all right, andi I wa' peri'ttIed to deposit, mty (d rft. 'Inh clerk toot downa bhhnl monijQl f a n it out, signed it himseit, and requested It my signature. I signed ; the clerk sanded tho ink, brushed off the super Ilu<tms sand with a Jried haro's foot, iand handed me the papor. l "Woul e on Knt enough to give 1me a b:tiik-1b0ook ?" "A b:mk-book? I do not understand. Will the gentlenan be good enough to e: plain?" T(ho gentleman explained, and the clerk was ''sorry to say they did not use the bank-books in erw.Any. lIe- 0 si(,s, the gent leipan nadi a receipt in the Iaper he had just received." b A reiplest for a cleek-book met witL ti a very decided negative. S " No, we do not give check-books. f One mtust apply to the bank in person when one vihes to draw in'ney. It e would be (langerous to allow blank p cheeks to leave the bankc." t And it was of no use to argue ab mi s it. It didnii1't make any (lifferoece if the n bank did have my siirnature. If 1 wantecd to leave Berlin I must either i take the coin with me or take out a let- 9 ter of credit. I spent some four 'hours inl depositing that draft, and all I got to t show for it was a receipt with my sir- & r.attrO 'l1pol It,. UneCKS-Ut anK ones- 1, were dlangerous, but a receipt with the t myier''s signaturn upon It was not. 1~-rlin CJor. San Francisco Chroniclc. t Corruption In Russia. A Moscow paper has just published a list, of the principal thefts and emboz zlements that have recently been com mittid in ltussia, the trials concerning which are at present going on or have lai ely been eoncluded. First, mention I is male of Mfelnizkv, who carried off :;1(1,000 rubles from the great Foundling l lospitali in Moscow, and who has just iibeen sentenced to banishment to Siberia. I The cashier, Swiridoff, defrauded the t Associa tiont for Mutual Creditin Moscow to the extent of 257,000 rubles. A cor- . tain Safjano managed to defraud the f Soithwestern Railway of 400,000 rubles. t Ilhe delie.it of the Skopin Bank amounts t t no less fhian 12,0(0,000 rubles, of - which sum ''1nele" l(ykoff is said to h:ave !rot at least one-half. (ne evening 1 I he Aricultu al liank at. K herson wasI founi on fire. After the flames wereI extinguished a revision was ordered of t ho b.uik inds. There should have been 170,000 rubles in coinage and 8,en0l,000 in paper currency, but a care fil emnt revealed a delicit of no less lin 2,00,1100 rlble4. Where the money went to no one knows. The di- 1 rector of the Siertch Balink, in Wad ikaw ks, can not explain the loss of 1 1,7u0,000 rubles from the treasures in his charge. In Kranstadt former mem hers of the board of management of the b:k t here have been arrest ed,as a deficit of 3,000,000 rubles has been discovered. In Ko,troma the cashier of the Com mullnal Bank was satisfied with merely taking a bagatelle of 20,000 i'ubles, and th,e ief of the railroad station at Kis chineff with a palt ry 14,000. The re eent enlnlissariat process at Odessa has reference to a steal of 6,000,000 rubles. Tie so-called qiuinine process (fraiuls in connection with liininle eon tracts during the itusso-Turkish war) treats of a thv"ft of 250,000. In Archangel the crown apportioned 011,1'Ot) rubles for the con-truetion of a lhi t house, which cost, accorlinrg to the eXaimilnations made ',v a special com mi-sioi, only 20,000 I i')le-', 611,001 stick in; in the hands of oflicials and contrae tors. An ollicial named Argustoff, in \Vilna, stole 2-,000 of the Government fi id-, and the postm a ter of ,Ieli-sawet imil "annexed" 42,1)100 rubles. A Mos cow merceh:lt n;anaed Solodownikoff, hIIIs been found guilty of fraudulent b)ankru'1ptey to thle amunit of 51(9,1000 rul lts. In lessn a criinl prol~lcess is to1 b ist itutiel agin 1st a certain Mat kowsk y', wholl fiorged a ceort illeate of hapti' ml for t he puirpose5 oif gelttinug un lawni poslesionl (If 1,0: 0,(000 rubles. And '0) oni, not,1 to) mentioni the bagatell (If 201,1110 rubles andi I undor. Thle coIl Chlsi arrived at by the Moscow paper Li t hat Sibe0ria~ has 110 terrors that are su1 linient o eek the mlaniau for frauds and14 (embozz/,leents inl Russia, and1( to aniylody whoi' has bee41n ill Siberia it seems11 stranIge t hat tihe idlea could( ever have prevailed thaot. simple0 banishment thither is a severe puinihment at all. There is to-day a sente Rtussiian bIank cashier living i Tomsk, wo beniacltuired and1( inltellootual maln, realhly enosavery p)romlinenlt p)ositionl mi his plaee of oxile, and his crime, that of tak ing aboult 1,0010,0010 ru bles out, of lhe bank fond s, is ahlmos.t enit irely for otteni. O f coulrse, to live well ini ban ishmnent, iln Sib)eria t he0 embezzler must ha:ve pult110 somethig bly iln aL dry pIlaco forl such n1o evelltnt!ai ty, and if lie is wvillinig ti hid11 the temOll;rary inc(lonve ince0 oIf belirag under(1 police $11pervision iln a to)wn -that , beyonld it d distaonce from civilizationi, has1 nothiing plarticuilarly diHngrablle ibitut, i. lie will In d11o t,im10 et his rtmeward . l i may ret urn to tus.. -: a after t.he lapse o lf his term oIf exile or if lie madell enouligh out (If his tranisac ions he will prlfer to live ill Paris rr Nice or some1( oIther resort, and1( there Itnjoy the fruits (of his formier delinfluien ci, s, and wviihib, ha:vinmg suffered pun..l ltihnt theref'or, in (111 time hie thinks t t hie has fully e'irned. Such crimes have in the pIast beenhf undi(oubtedly pun13 i51hed mobs) len ient ly, and( sterner me'asures5 wvill in all probilablility soon1 be " De P'roperest Way." '' Whi i:h mo de ' pr"peret way to sup.. 1ress '1ne0elf1; do~ 14 yer say:' 'We en(ed - aLt (1 tIlel,' ir, 'we has donIle ate at tde :1ble,' " askeIt one1 Autin dlarkey (It an.. o her, theiy being engalged ill a gram lia)tical discuision . As they could ntt iglee, the ques1 ti wats referred to Uni ole Mope for his- dei>ioni, whichi waI: "In (d( (ease (1b you two niggabis 11on1 oh you am11 rizht. "' What. am deC proper way to say:'W eat ed at de taLble, ' Unclie Mose?" "J)e prope)rest way for sieb1 cattle0 as you two am to say : 'Wo fec' at, do -A niumbher of Ulltnese women have formied a league to .destroy the practice oIf foo t-b)indinig. They plitgo themsle ntot to p)ractice it, and1( will no' t peirmnit their SOnls to wed womenU. whlo,( feet wera over bouwL~ WIT ?31)'ISlX --It is, says a recent writer, neittr indl nor particularly wlre for one s 6e lass to laugh at the vioes of an ther. -A man who early in life is thrown n his own resources ought to pick hirtp. elf up again as soon as possible.--. ,owell Courier. -Judge -"What I cannot understand 1 how you could kill a man with a sin le blow." Culprit-" Shall I show you ow?"-Fliegende Blatter. -There are some folk? in the world rho are so in the habit of looking on !l dark side of life that, as .Jerold says, icy cnn't even see the bright side of be moon. -A wag, speaking.of a friend whort e suspected of living altogether beyond Is means, observed that he believed ho wotld owe several thousand dollars Itor all his debts were paid."-Law ncc American. -The Philadelphia Bulletin propounds lis conundrum: " Could two little boys ounding their father be called, with ny propriety, a pair of 1'a-iammers?" a-haps; but what on earth are " Pa immera?" We've lost the coubnatlon. -N. Y. Commercial Adcertiser. -A man was found dlead on the floor S11:s room at the Merriwether Hotel, rankfort, the other morn ug. He had lown out the gas. " Fad aulairP" said ie landlord, speaking o, the event; "I 'iould say it was. over one thousand et of gas escapedI"-Joston P(st. So your business is picking up, h?" said a facetious cobbler to a rag icker, who had just commcn-ed1 opera ons on an ash barrel in t ront of his lop door. '' Yes, and I see yours is lending!" quickly replied the ragged 'rehin, glancing at the dilapidated boot 1 the cobbler's hand.--Yonkers ,tatcs ian. -The dancing lady who tries to wear lie skirt of her dress under her arm uit the waist around her knees, and .icks her slippers clear over the orehes ira cha'rs every night, gets $(w00 a veek, and the city missionary gets $(00 Sear; the horse race scoops in $2,000 he first dlay. and the church fair lasts a veek, works thirty of its best women lcarly to death, a1(d( comes out $40 in lcbt.--Ch icayo Tin1 s. -Newspaper proverbs: "Two heads are better than one," when the news is maportant. There are a great many hngs which 'go without saving" iorses, for instance. ''All the world's stage"-and everybody prefers to be n top, even if he can't drive. '1'ho relations" of rival railroads gve them nuch more trouble than their "connec ions."--3oson A<dvertisCr. - When some eo the Congressmen ent their albums around in the 11ouse or the autographs of - their colleagues he other day, one of them, thinking liat the pages who presented the books or signatures also owned the volumes, vrote words of fatherly wi don before its name. In Senator Ednunis look ie wrote wit Ii a llourish: " He a good toy and you will b3ecome a good mian.'' 'li ecSenator hopes to profit by this ad ice an1d even to grow up, perhaps, to e the pride of his parents.-I)ctroit 1'osl. --A London organ-grinder recently !seaped a. tine by a very ingenious ex '1se. lie had been playing befo' e tho louse of an irascible old gentleman, ,vho furiously, and with wild gestieula ,ions, ordered him to "nmove on." The )rgan-grinder stolidly gro( nd on, and ,vs arre-ted for hlis disturbaince. At he trial the .Jud(ge asked him1 why' he 1lid not lcave when01 re(lnested. ''No pi)k Inglese,'" was the rep'lv. '"Well,'" idI thle Judge,' ''hut you m'ust have un terstood Ils gestures, hlis110 moions." I tinkee lhe come to (lance,"' was the r- einider, that, caused the doluge to aughi heartily and let the musician go. -l1usik at JleralId. FACTS AND FIOUR1ES. -The consunmption of thmread of the >est gradles iln the United States is 21, 00,000t splsl per annulmi. --England paid about $17,000,000 for enincing~ Arabi Bey thanit he ought lot to roee against his own govern nenit. -A .ioint stock company has been or anllizedl at Columub'a, Mlo., for a :0,000 crc tattle ranich in Texas, the lands >enin:! locat ed near railroadts andl about t2( ml It's wlest of Daillas. Tile compula iy have $15U.000, e.ndl will fence the anitire tract. -In 11881 18,670 pers~ons were killeQ by snaKes in Indoia, and 2,7t>7 by wild LI1iluim:s; 4 , (iJ hlead o cattle were de stroyedt by sniakes and idt aninmals dulrinlg tile sameii year. 25-1l.968 snakes Ilnd 15, 27-1 wild nimls1 w~ere dies' royedi, and lis. 10 ,810) disbursed by tile gov (11lernmet ill rewards for their destrue -Mr'. I1lenry l\I. Smith1, of Worcester, M\a-s., whlo hasi given 1mu1(1 alttentioni to the1 suibject, inds tIle fences now iln the UnIiitetd ttes aount to 6j,i L0,000 of mii les, oir enough to encircle tIhe wvorldl, oIe 11s and11 land,( 2-11) times, and have (os )th 11 nu21il lit tle sum of $ , 90 ,0010, (Ii 0, and thait. thle annultal expenlse for new ence ill tihe ituntry hlas been over ':90i,000,000t. Inl new counltries t he cost (of the fences is elten griealter than thatl of the buildings in wichI the peole anIld t hir a.mnimals11 find idhelter. -Boston 1'os!. --Vermont is said to produce more marble thlan any othe'r St a:o in tile un1 oni orl thain aniy country except this. Tine b)usiness hast expjanded with maiir ve lousq raid(it y sinice 1 870, whlen comn inativue littlec Vermiont marble was to >e foundii inl the nmarket. The0 aggregate 11m1ouniit 0f tile Stat' pr05 loduli on tile resen year'cii is I(1 ,l,i0 eubhie feet, aluted ait over $2.0' 0,2:00. Thue numi ber (If meni employed in the quarries and11 mills e2xceed( s 2,30 ', and( it required iU,00 LI'ars to carry the marblIe away. Nearly 51,' 00,0' ()'was paid11 for the labor of workingmen101 by the quarrtiy oneurs. In ordier to know how mian~y peopleG dlie every year one ha~s onlv to examine the( staitistLe4 of the wvorld's~ poplait tin. Asia hlas 800O,000.000 inihiabitatms; Eu 1r0 pe', ;;05, 00; ,1)110; A f rien, 2014,000),000; A mierica, x;,000, (0); Oceanien, t5,000, (U00. TJhese are0 low estimates, whlich give a tot al (If 1, 100,0,00. A llowving to the inhlabit anit of the earth an aver.. ago life of thlirty-ine years, it is found that evecry yeaur :;, 15,00U popl ie 1, 78:, dieathIs per hotuir, sixty-threce tdeatha eatch minullte. or moi(re thlan one per secoInt. 'Thuis (very se.condic " a leaf fails from the1 uast tree of life, to be forthwilth replaedt by a new one." Ch/iicaqo JIerald. -A n appli,cation was made in Comn mon lels Coulrt att Pittsburgh, Pa., the other day, whichl Is the first instance of the kind that ever (occurred ini hi. lounitry. Tihe aplplioatiton of a lady, alers. P. 8. libecekenridge, of Allegheny, ror natuirahzxation paper s. Mrs. B reek. ridge has been in t his counutry thIrty-on,. rears, having arrived here when undet' age, therefore, she needed but one paper, which was g ranted(, her son..in. aw, J, Erastus MeKelvy, Esq., wit nessing for her. Tihe lady is going toi lkurope and desires to become a oitize's if the Ulnite4 States before her dep. uarne.