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HOME
VOLUME xxr.
WINCHESTER, TENNESSEE, JUNE 21, 1882.
NUMBER 11.
JOURNAL.
NEWS GLEANINGS,
Tliere are but 7i0 Jews in Florida.
Arkansas lias but tight daily newspa
pers. West Virginia lias, a population of
18,457.
Tlio city tk'bt of McmpliiH in about
$4,000,000.
Texan ban nearly 2,100 convict in lier
penitentiary.
The dogs of Georgia cost more than
her preachers.
A large cottonseed-oil mill in to bo
built in Madison, Ga.
An uiiiiHuallv rich copper mine haft
been opened in Cabarrus county, N. C.
A fourteen-pound cabbage has been
(hipped from Amerieus, Ga.
Geo'gia's wheat crop this year will be
the bent raised in twenty years.
The Richmond. Va.. water wort nn.
to be completed, and will cost .'100,000.
A cold-fish 101 lilt-lies lnllir u'liu rni'diif.
Jy taken from a cistern in Macon, Ga.
Virginia will come to the front this
rear with a remarkably large fruit crop.
Fur the fnstliinc in scvciity-livcyeais,
ruliiam couuly, (in., is. without a sa-
loon.
Tennessee has 18,000 acres unimproved
land, most of which is covered with fino
timber.
Two hundred and forty convicts are at
work on the. Marietta & North Georgia
railroad.
Atlanta, Ga , is to have a watch man
ufacturing company, with a capital Block
of $100,000.
A South Carolina lady has made feath
er fans of the value of V 0 for a New
York rirm
Home, Ga., has completed the survey
of her proposed canal, and estimates the
cost at $2",f.0'J per mile,
Moss Point, Miss., has a glnsi factory,
tannery, shoe factory, live plaining
and fourteen saw mills.
iho post master at Vieksburg gets the
largest Hillary of any postmaster in Mis
sissippi. is pay is if 2,700 per year,
George Ra n and Peter Hang, each 18
years of age, aie to bp hanged, at Pus-
y..i....n i A 1 I r.
i..Kviim, muss, jiiiiisi !, ior ii'iirucr.
Near Lumlicrt( n, N. C, two girls
named respectively Frances McNnirand
tween the sjKiies in its revolution,
knocked him oil. The wheels then ran
over his neck, breaking it.
Mississippi has anew law which re
qui ret, all agents for fru't miseries situa
ted out of the State to pay $" limine in
every county in which they do business
and give a kind and surety that the
vines and trees gold will come up to the
representation of the vendor.
A mill owner in Clinch county, (in.,
has found that the sawdust and chips
from his saw mill yield fourteen gallons
of spirit of turpentine, three to four
gallons of rosin and a large quantity of
pine tar per cord. It is extracted by a
sweating process, and the newly-discovered
industry will be generally worked
by mill men.
Laborers at work on a railroad near
Jacksonville, Fin., moved a large flat
stone whilo grading, which discovered a
hole leading into the earth. A long
pole failed to tonch the bottom of the
pit and a man was lowered into it with
fifty foot-rope, but this also failed to
find lwttom. While he was being pulled
up he .dix'oved (he skeleton of a mini
lying in a niche in the side of the cav
ern, which had apparently Wen there
forages,, as the hones crumbled to dust
as soon as touched. The pit is to be explored.
They Hugged Him.
Two sprightly aud beautiful young
ladies were visiting their cousin,
another sprightly and bountiful young
lady, who, like her guests, was of that
happy age that turns everything into
fun aud merriment. They were fond of
practical jokcB, and were constantly
playing all sorts of pruuks with each
other. All throe occupied a room on tlio
ground floor, and cuddled up together
in bed.
Two of tho young ladies attended nt
party, and did not get homo until 11:30
o'clock at night. As it was Into, they
concluded not to disturb tho household,
bo they quietly stepped into thoir room
hrongh tho low, open window.
In about half au hour after they had
loft for tho party a young Metuodii't
minister called at tlio house whore they
were staying and craved a night's lodg
ing, which of cburso was granted. As
ministers always have the best of every
thing, the old lady put him to sloop m
the best room, aud tho young huly (Fan
nie) who had not gone to tho party, was
intrusted with tho duty of sitting up for
the absent ones ana of informing them
of the change of rooms, Bug took up
her post in the narldr. and. as tho nitrht
nna anltw uIia Hnrortiul mi nn ftvimt'uim
Tune Kellar fought over a young man, to tUo mt 0f ,ireams.
and the latter was stabbed through the We will now return to tho young
heart. ladies who had gouo to tueir room
v .,.!. , . , through the window. By tho dim light
boulhern papers point to tne im- .,. tl" mnnnWmiL M fi1BT rfni,J?nii
meme amount of farming machinery through tho curtains, tho young ladies
being sold as evidence of the prosperity were enabled to descry tho outlines of
of the Son Hi Fannie (aa they supposed) ensconced in
.in. ..Winn. ,t.i.iu i, v,n.i nn. ,., ..,,.
A rich deposit of kaolinc has been dis- to wit : a pair of boots. Tha truth
dovcred in Macon county, Ala. The mr- flashed upon them at onoo. Tlioy saw
' I II .11 . . l.T . A jl il.
tirnl x .!;. ... l.ln !.. n, ........ .r.. "O". iannio uau set uiuia in uioroom
I""1'"1' Miniiuinv 4 !. l. ,1 ., ll'l.,, t-
lore OI nro OriCK. tl,ir l,nn.la twrat.hnr ninl ilnforniinuil l.
a co.npany una neon organized in turn tho tables on her. biloutly tliey
North Carolina to bottle juniper water, disrobed and, stealthily as cats, they
famous as n gentle tonic. The water is ?k,ni? thoAr l'osious .n oi,u,??r Bfll V1
. 1... I,.,,, U1U UBU, Al U K1VUU BIUI1U1 WHY UUtll
abundant near Albemarle. i,,mn,i ti. ipri mm mi nii ui,,
Teniie sf-ec has 25 copper furnaces that of tho unconscious parson, laughing and
turnout 2,000,000 pounds of copper screaming, "Oh, what a man 1 on,
each vrnr. Tim ii. I,.. is nnn nun w,ml 0 miin . Sftvo 1,10 l'or. m'
" wilderod minister such a promiscuous
acres of unimproved land. hugging and tussling as fow parsons aro
pou in Carolina protects rho birds bv able to. brag of la the course ot a iue-
Inniosinir n Cum ,r in ,.;. t ,.. ..., I time
. . - r- J I 'l'l,a nniaA rf flin TyiipnAilnifT nwn rn
"""lu lODoinir n resi. jinriv . ui, n
1 . . " I llUD U1U 1(111 Tt HUU nM3 CULl I'lliu 4(1 u
lays nnirisonmcnt can bo added. adioinina room. She comprehended tho
A Norfolk. Y i,i k,m !.. Situation in a moment, and, rushing to
' r" vmi cu in- I 41.- alia riAiiafl tlia tiCUW fttlil OY.
censed because her sister gave birth to olakned :
an illegitimate child that she Mriiiurlrd " Gracious, girls, it is a man 1 It is a
the infant to death. The i,rt!nH l,nW man, sure enough !"
i,,if., .. in , . ,6 Therewas one prolonged, consolidated
10 a COOQ fill V lind tlin ninrilornau iu Tm i:. ' 11 i.
jail.
1 he Alliens. Ga., cottno factory pays
"n annual dividend of 121 per cent. be.
sides putting a like per cent into a sit k.
ing fund for future repairs and addi.
Hons,
James Kirklaud, of Levy county.Fla.,
iet wuu a Iiornb o death wh In nnf.
"uting recently. fo stunililcd and
ell on a sharp stake, which pierced
through his body and held him until ho
oied
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
SrcnriHANT Masoi is making shoos at
Albany, N. Y.
Tun net dobt ri Now York, Juno 1,
was U7,5'J2,0M.
i
Mkxico has repealed tho duty on ex
ports of gold and silver.
I'Anw is counting on 100,000 Ameri
cans visiting that city this summer.
Oawikld'a biograpy is selling in
England at the rata of 2,000 a mouth.
Mas. Gaiifiw,d has been elected to
succeed her husband as a trustco of
Ilirani College,
Tite present Chief Justice of Alabama
used to set typo ou a weekly newspaper
for 3 per week.
Ex-Hknator Jif.AiNH is interested in
the groat coal monopoly in tho Hocking
Valley of Ohio.
Oovnioit Citmr.snr.v, of Missouri,
has been mado an LL. i). by the Mis
souri University.
i
Vr.NNim, Tied, 'and Couch, a trio of
weather prophets, all predicted execrable
weather for Juno.
At Tomhstosu. Arizona, a purso of
,2,500 has been raised to pay for Indian
senilis at $10 apiece.
Costa RinA has accredited a lady
Madamo Heal rice as her hnvoy hx
traordinary at Washington,
NnAur.T nil the creditors of tho busted
Mechanics' Hank, at Newark, N. J.,havo
been paid and tho bank will reopen.
nir.ti to forbid publishers and agents
of school books serving on school com-
mittees bus passed tho llhodo Iblaud
Senate.
Tub census returns of Japan show a
population of 35,35:1,091. Of these 18,.
423,271 aro males and 10,035,720 aro
females,
TnR Chicago Inter-Occan has discov
ered that the man who pays fifteen cents
for a drink of whisky is swindled a clean
ten cents' worth.
Cavon FAnnra, who preached in West
minster Abboy lermon on Darwin, took
tiita appropriate mt j "And ho spake of
trees, from tho cedar that is in Lebanon
even unto tho hysop that springoth out
of tho wall ; ho spake also of beasts,
and of fowl, and of creeping things, and
of fishes."
conscience happens Jto dict-itf.
other Sunday, in ratorson, N.
Tho
J., a
Full of "Specs."
The real olil-fushioned Yankee is still
gang f Halvationist woro ptuading tho I a fixture among us, though some writers
PASSIM) SMII.US.
Tub Ancient Order of United Work
mon, in anuiial sossion in Cincinnati,
decided to hereafter receive no members
who aro over fifty years of ago.
Tun world moves. An oil pipo line
lias been laid across tho Caucasus Moun
tains to deliver petroleum at a shipping
point on tho coastof the, IMuek Sea.
AtiKXANPRii 111. lias presented the
German Emperor with tlio horses which
were drawing the carriage of his father,
the Czar, when ho was assassinated.
Tun f'pirit of flir, Thnrn says James
II. Keeno offered fifteen thousand dollars
for llenlopcn, winner of tlio Juvenile
Stakes, at ileromo l'arlc, which was
declined.
IT is conceded by those who aro
posted on Congressional matters the
present session, that tlio member who
has tho strongest lungs is tho greatest
statesman.
Says a cotomporary : Stories used to
begin : "Oueo upon a time tliere livcd-
Now they begin : " 'Vengeance, blood,
death,' shoutod Uattlesnalto Jim," or
words to that effect.
scream, a flash ot muslin through mo
door, and all was over.
Tho best of tho oke is that tho min
ister took the whole thing iu: earnest.
Ho would listen to no apologies tho old
lady could make for the- girls. Ho
would hear no excuse, out solemnly
folded his official robes atjout him and
silently glided away.
11H
Hi
Where There aro no Sunsets,
The folio win or is Conjrrcsstnan Cox's
description of a scene at tho North Capo:
"Here in the uppermost point in
RurmiB and at this midsummer season
Tlin Unl,,,. i i f r -m ther8 18 110 aunsot I wmg nunai wueus
110 Hebrew fnloon-keeners of Littlo i i i,. , 0,,.,f i
JtocK, Ark., refuso ioobev the new Sim- T.i Wia nnnral rninir of woo and tell
day law, claiming that the Christian through the land that sunset is no more,
Sum nn o ni n,i. k....,i.. and vol 1 live Ana must i now oo
' ' ' -""""J- n-mTMiaifn,! 0 Tin T lwn. mi1 is siinsnt
tVillie Morris became iovous at a nn mnnt Tin T nnn a country wbero
Wilmington, N. C, camp-meeting, and the sun is going down, amid a miee cn
'en over Annie Williams while the lat- ?? e(lu.nl' u supeum, mj
ter was kncelinir in praver. and broke nnrtrnv with mv not nen. and vet it
her back. does not 'tro down ? Was it not enough
a . ... . . that for ton lone days there was no
uBuBia? ua., will soon add 40,000 ; inr . . thulthniuinhv olidinir
people to her population by taking in and glowing in the north without any
me new factories and Ilarrisburg, Hick- respite bad disturbed our customary
viiu T.ii ... . ., , I BTiwriniices ? The reaction might be
na me ibiey, r: . The failure of the bid orb
Aingnnd I urry settlements. - toset mieht-well. there is no telling
llioinmi Keririinr.n f trni,inn v fi the oateleptio ana oiner aire const
fcitvuvii. v vi viuimii 4.1 i t . ,i ii t
oi... .1 .... , nnonccs. Jiut nere was tne patent met
.v may pointed an -empty- shot-gun ?- wara olond. and uaitt. M tho
ni his three-year-old brother, but it wen hues of the prism in splendid display and
m, fl r" 1
off just the same, and the child was torn
to pieces.
The Savannah News calls attention to
the fret that the execution of two white
yet no sunset after all I Midnight, and
yet light all aglow I No gas, no candlos,
r.o stars, no moon only the fiery orb
and his traveling clouds oi Kiory.
"But is not the sun all-sufHoient with'
. a A T. l . J
,,,,j ., , r, . , i out otner uresr J-l no up uuu
murderers recently in Georgia, shows t hat moro can the human heart
that hanging white offenders for murder desire ?
is by no means play
ftate of thelSouth.
What wonder that oriental
is by no means played out in the Empire mind clothed the sun with the maiosty
A peculiar accident caured the death
t f Hiclimnnd Pitts, at Ccdartown. A
ruck op wood fell lroin a wagon on
which he was riding, and catching bo
nis coming with worship, as the source
of life ? What wonder that his beams
from Memnon t Is he not
ii t tioaitVi and the crest ben-
ofanr? And we have found a land
when h will not rest,"
TnE entire expenses at York town cele
brationper bill audited and allowed by
uongross amounting over (,uiw, was
for lino old wino and whiskies, ciirurs
and iiuo-cut chewing tobacco.
IJiiapstiiuht's report indicates a de
crease in tho ncroago and a reduced yield
in tho production of oottou. Tho weather
has not boon favorable to tho growth of
tho plant in considerable areas ot the
country, and tho demoralization of labor
in tho flooded districts has retarded
planting.
Tub popular costume of tho dwellers
in Arizona is thus graphically described
by a "tenderfoot:" "In ordinary
weather ho wears a belt with pistols in
it. When it grows chilly ho puts on
another belt with pistols in it, aud when
it becomes really cold ho throws a Win
chester riilo over his shoulders."
Tup. Italian idea of Darwin is as fol
lows, from ono of their papers : " Wc
learn from our English correspondent
that Darwin, tho famous apostle, of tho
apes, is dead. In Darwin's opinion mou
ire not tho creatures f God, made of
body uinl sovil, and called to immortality
in nnother life, but merely perfected
apes."
That the dogs of Georgia cost more
than her preachers, and that ra'ts claim
a tithe of her wheat and corn, aro among
tlio curious deductions from a talk with
the Onunissiouer of Agricultnro, who
alo sees in 1882 a bad year for cats,
whoso places as rat killers can only
bo filled by black snakes, according to
Congressman Hammond.
Movemknts ars lk'ing made in many
cities for tho erection of monuments to
Garibaldi. Tho municipality of Genoa
have subscribed 20,000 francs toward tho
erection of n monunioat, and that of
Verona 10,000 francs for tho same pur
pose. Tho municipality of Homo hnve
contributed 80,000 francs for t'uo erec
tion of a monument on Jauieulum Hill.
imrNK and disorderly mnn was sen
tenced by an English magistrate to seven
days at hard labor for trying at Leicester
last week to shako bands with the
Princess of Wales as alio sat in her car
riage, and poked him away with her
parasol. He was immediately released at
the reipiest of tho I'riiico and Princess.
It is bard to boat an English magistrate
in doing what ho thinks will please the
royal family.
'J'unitR seems to bo ns lilllo economy
In th disbursement of public funds in
New York now ns thcro was when tho
lamented Tweed built his court-house.
The New York and lirooklyn Suspension
Dridgn, which started on a plan of 200
feet nbovo low water, and an estimated
cost of $7,000,001), has got down to only
13.1 feet abovo water, and up to nn actual
coat of 15,000,000, aud now tho New
York Legislature has a bill to appropriate
91,250,000 to completo tho bridge.
Tun trial at New Haven of thoMalley
boysandnianeJio Douglass, charged with
tho outrage and murder of Misi Jennie
Cramer, it is thought by those who have
been watching tho proceedings, will not
result in conviction, but rather in nc
ipiittal not becauso tho Mnlloys have
been Miowu to bo innocent, but becauso
they have not been imlisputably shown
to be guilty of thocriino for which they
aro indicted. Aud yet publio opinion
will novertlioles3 hold them responsible
for Jennie Crauur's death.
stroots, marking time and sinking loudly
tne following cnpict :
"JtiKht, loftrlKlit, loft,
The Lord U right, tad tlio Povfl b loft."
A captain and lieutenant of tho police
force arrested the Salvationists as dift.
turbcrs of tho peace, and in court, when
the case came up a number of Hallelujah
lasses were present, who knolt down in
a circlo and prayed fervoutly for tho
souls of the wicked policemen who had
arrested their commanders.
W. A. FfiNNEn, writing from San An
tonio, Texas, says that "among tho
noted residents of tho vicinity tho Rev.
W. II. Murray, Adirondack Murray,'
ts ho is called, is hero, a fallen giant in
lesd, with none so poor as to do him
rovercuco. When he fled from Uoston
his fair-haired private secretary, a young
lady, followed his fortunes and lias since
lived with him. Last year her heart
broken fathor camo for her, and after a
despairing effort to get her to return
with him, which proved ineffectual, tho
IKior old man, disgraced, broken in
xpirits, alone in tho world aud almost
penniless after his long search for her,
blew out bis brains at tlio very threshold
i)f Miura's door. Only last Sunday
Sunday, mark you I saw him at Sail
Pedro Springs unloading, with his own
hands, a wagon load of cedar ties that
ho lind hauled from his little place f t
the street railroad company. He vns
without coat, vest or collar, dirty and
unshorn, and it would take a ki en eye,
as a Boston man remarked to me, to de
tect in him tho idolized preacher of ono
o' tho proudest pulpits iu the Hub."
Hunting Up a Pedigree.
I live iu n small country parish of 10 1
inhabitants, aud our imrisli register dab s
from 103(1. A young American gentle
man camo to my friend tho Hector, ami
said that it had only come to his knowl
edge two days previous that it was from
this village that his father's grandfather
emigrated to America about tho year
would mako us believe that ho has bi-en
dead for yoars. Thuo was a geiniino
specimen in the Frio depot yesterday, !
and ho was explaining to several inter
ested parlies: I
'Futher-in-law lives here in Jersey j
City, and I'm on a visit liko. Thought j
i'd bring along a fow traps and things I
and gi't up a dicker or two. Any of yo !
liko to invest in that?" j
Ho put out tho model of a rat trap and
said: I
"This trap not only catches tho var-1
mints, but it chokes cm to death, throws ;
tho body out of that back window, and
then resets i!selfv In the u is an alarm, !
to go off any hour you want and wnko i
up tho family. Hero's an apparatus cu I
this side for grating spiues. Any of you j
liko to buy county rights?" j
No one did, and ho then placed beforo
them a vessel, about which ho cx- j
plained.
"This is now a water-pail! !y phie
ing this iron cover on tho bottom it be-
comes a kettle. Hy inverting tho cover
you have a spider. The pail is a half-!
bushel measure to a grain. Oiii'iMiroiind I
ins cxaeuy a yarn, ns weight is cruelly tu-nl. .1 that litlle matter
two pounds, aud 1 sell the county rights j his limm! "you are
lor ju earn.
Tlvo next was a boot jack, which could
bo transformed into liic-tmi.ti, press
hoard, stove-handle, nail liainmri' aud
several other tliinirs. Ilolia laii an; vr
shieh bored four holes at one1, a.-inii. t
which bored a square bole; a washing
machine which could also ha made to
servo as a tea-table, and one or two other
things, aud as he reached tho last bo
said:
"Gentlemen, I am full of speculation,
111 invent anything vou waul. I
anythingl'vo got. I'll take pay in any
thing yon have, anil 1 11 give every ono
of you a ""o to mako a million dollars."
Tlioy
Lirrrwts must bn wicked things,
aro nlwavs indicted.
Mo-rro for the milkman to tho puro
all things urn puro.
"What is your famrite gem, Sarah?"
Sarah replied demurely, "Agate." Melo
drama. A coriT.r. of Hohliers of the Salvation
Army approached a Philadelphia broker
recently ami asked: "flow is it vith
.you, iny friend?" " I am short on Head
ing," replied tho broker.
Wkat.tiiy Cad " Look here bring
ine some dinner, old man. Tho best
you've got." Itestaiiralciir " Jtinrr it
Id ('!,; M'mru!" Cud "Cart bo
hanged! Dinner it li r l arriii'ir!"
Tlli'.V say, "'tis darkest just before tho
dawn," but tho man who got up at mid.
night to bunt for a lone match on tlin
corner of the wash-stand can't see bow it
could be any darker.
" I rrr outside my window a large box
filled with mold, and sowed it with seed.
What do vou think came up?" " Wheat,
barley or nuts?" " No - a policeman, who
ordered mo to remove it."
1 hi: iliscoiiragi'il collector again
Well,'
pro-
t.aii)
round
again
y
1700, and there laid tho foundation for I utely Kit about turning him' from bis
.... ... i.i i i i.. i ..... .
i "Yes," .says the fellow, with the account
in his haml, "but f want to get Bipiaiv."
i "Laws and geiillenien," said an Irish
mana for to his audi, 'lev of (hive, "a.i
tliere i.i nobody here, I II di mi s you nil.
The perl'oi inaliee of this ni-iht will Hot bo
performed, but will bo repeated to-morrow
evening."
I A T.lTi l.i'. boy enterWl the fish market
the nllier ilnv uinl i.i'X.i.r r,.t. .1... c.-.l-
I .' ' 'r, " " ill-1.
tune a pile of lobsters Ivihn cm the couu
' 4.... I. .i ..i ii :..i... II.. c. .-
U, , ' nw , , uu-ui um-llll 1 lJl mime I lino.
.. i I ....i; i . ii 'i-i. .... . , '
..mil nn i.iiiutTii ; X lieill Jl TUU Ulg-
gent grasshoppers I ever seen." ,
Wiiat'.s maun;!, iiii.tliivli'1. luiilipiHla anil siOi
'I ' M ilwrine
X't iilr i-i, fiar.mi, in mlnr so ridi
Ol O'.Mais; iriui ?
Tlinu'll L-iilllli-s nf p:iHue-fi.llil lililk-m.iM' Rmllci.
Could lie Heat on Drj Land. I llN,'ll.,'-"ullM 'mmiHg Wry-iuniu.'
I Will.
All intoxicated colored man mado it ii TWu guilt)- .if n.nnlit imi iirniialiii IIoj,
.insueeesslul attempt to burv himself j , . ""' '.' u.r,"- .
ilive in (he quicksand be 1 of t'ho Platte, 1 . t!llM ,',;ll," )!! ",,(',, "I' abonrd
IVnver, Col. Ho was industriously dig- 1" v,',.-'a''' ("-morrow morning,
,'ing a hole ill the river bed with bis ; J..""k 'hall have good groiuids for it
liands-and tho assistnnco of a small ; d'voiw. said a cross husband the other
lionrd-with the evident intention ol ! "iori.ir.fj. "I don t want any ..f your
1 s iucer, reioi ieu uis w ho, - - ami wiiut
Tve sediment."
A l-iiir.Ni who lately culled on tin)
burying himself alive, when a number
A smnll boys who were playing iu the
vicinity discovered him. Thcv iiiitnuli-
tho present wealth of his descendants,
Tho gentleman, with a party of fourteen,
had been titteon montlis away from Isew
York, visiting the chief places of tho
Continent, the Holy Land, F.gypt, &e.,
and eliding up with tho principal sights
in iMiglaml aim Kcothuul ; and they wcro
to embark from Liverpool on the follow,
ing morning. He had traveled specially
to this little village. Would tho Hector
be good enough to refer to the parish
registers, and seo if his ancestors woro
therein mentioned? Tho Hector did so
the ancestors were there found in regu
lar descent, from tho very beginning of
the register and tho gentleman, in less
than two hours' time, was set up with a
pedigree dating back two and a hnlf cen
turies, which he said ho should havo
drawn tip in heraldic fashion, and which
doubtless now adorns some room in his
American homo. It was evident that
the ancestors were of tho humblest class,
as iu another book mention of " Goody"
was frequently mado as being the
recipient of a tonpeiiny charity. Put
the surname happens to correspond with
ono in the Fnglish liaroiietage, and
while tho Hector was transcribing tlio
numerous registers the American gentle
man was busy copying from Debrett, the
coat of arms of tho ISaronot iu question,
bloody hand and all, I regret to add
that tho Hector never received a six
pence for his trouble, though ho might
have charged a heavy sum in fees ; but
ho was restoring his church, and ho left
it to the American gentleman to givo
somo donation for that purpose, either
in money or iu tho form of a stained-
glass window or other memorial to his
ancestors. Aotci ana (tier tin.
iNTur.Liap.NOK from the South Const ol
South America is to the oflcct that
Ecuador is in tho throes of revolution
Peru in anarchy and disorder, and Chili
smitten by epidemics and cursed by
brigandage
An emiotrio light wire.lmricd beneath
an nsphaltum pavement at San Francisco,
somehow lost ite insulatincr envelone
recently, aud tho result was tho electric
fluid found its way into the asphalt
which was soon in a lively sizzlo auJ
fume.
Mn. Geoiuib Jacob Homoakf, tht
well-known writer on co-operation aud
kindred subjects.hns been commissioned
by tho British Government to visit this
country and Canada aud report upon th
chances offered here to immigrant work
ing people
Tub Presbytorlan Foreign Mission
Board has spent $,192,000 in the pas
yenr. It has now accepted thirty new
missionaries, mostly yonng men. ix
posting a great increase of work this
yenr, it asks for an additional 8100,000
abovo customary rcoeipts.
Some Gorman newspapers are voner-
able with age. The Frankfort Journal
is 201 years old, the Magdeburg .omut
is 253 years old, and ninety-eight others
are ovor 100 years old, and most of these
papers are no more liko a real live Amer
ican sheet than they were 100 years ago,
Thb Mamnbis Avalanane kocps tho
docket of Judge Lynch' court, and
states that since January 1, sixteen per-
sons have been haugod by mob law iu
the South, nineteen iu the North and six
in the frontier Stntos. Thie probably
equals the executions by due process of
ww,
A Ni'.w Yoiik lawyer has earned per
haps tho largest fea ever won. Tho
ruling cf tlio Supremo Court of tho
United States, taking off .10 percent,
specific duty on hosiery and knit goods
into which wool enters, refunds to tho
importers $11,000,000 of the taxes pre
viously paid. Tho lawyer gots half
.1,500.000 a nice contingent foe. The
manufacturers of hosiery in this country
complain loudly of tlio injustice of the
decision, taking off nil tho protection
from thoir work.
Tub quickest timo on record made by
a train of improved stock cars between
Chicago aud Now York is just reported,
Tho speed from Buffalo was at the rate
of thirty to forty-live miles an nour.
Tho shrinkage was only twenty pounds
nor head, whilo the usual loss is from
.nvrintv to one hundrod pounds. These
cars permit each animal to occupy a scp
nrate stall. The animals can also lie
down nud movo about without coming
in contact with each other. For feeding
and watering the animals without un
loading the facilities are ample.
In nis dispatch to Minister Lowell on
the subjoot of the relations between
Great Britain and the United States to
the various intcr-ooean canal project,
Secretary of State, Frelinghuyscn, hav
ing mado his points of opposition on the
part of the United States to foreign in
tervention in the matter ot the Nicarag-
nan Canal, as being contrary to the
Monroe Doctrine of this country, rests
his caso, with an expression of confi
dence that the differences between the
two Governments will . be satisfactorily
adjusted before the canaUwill be built,
It is a serious infringment on personal
liberty when religionista are prohibited
from exercising the emotional as their
iiiiicidiil purpose by making him a target
for stone throwing practice.
Although hit several times by the small
missiles, ho did not appear at all an
noyed, but continued to dig as if tho ef
fort was ono for life instead of death.
Mr. Charles 11. Wright, tho surveyor,
happening along at the timo in a hu
manitarian lnood walked over to where
the darkey was preparing his grave.
"What aro you doing?" a.-ki d Mr.
Wright, trying to believe that the darkey
was exploring for a placer mine iu thu
river sand.
"Well, Iduii'no ef els eny your bees
new, boss," said tho digger, not di igu
ing to look up from his work. " but don,
I don mind to tell ye dat 1'so gvvino to
bury m'self up h'yar and die."
Tho colored man refused to explain
matters further and Mr. Wright retired
to n respectful distance to await tho
result of the odd freak.
When a hole ef hiillieient length ha 1
been dug to the depth of about a foot and
a half, tho colored loan laid in it, nud
commenced to pull the damp sand over
him. It appears that water had been .
struck in the bottom of the hole, and be- I
fore theoild suicide had readied anything
liko tlio climax of bis intentions the
moisluiM and coldness of his position 1
had quite cured him of his design. !
Leaping to bis feet, he muttered loud '
enough to be heard by Mr. Wrighl : "Data !
too mueii too in itch ; nil wantcii t- r
drown, I'd jump inter do rib;r. No sah,
I can beat dat yer on dry lan'." Up to
a late hour tho coroner had not beeu
called,. -Denver Tribune.
Lear from llie Czar's Diary.
Got up at 7 a. m. and ordered mr
bath. Found four gallons vitriol m it
and did not tako it. Went to breakfast.
Tho Nihilists had placed two torpedoes
on tho stairs, but I did not step on
them. The coffee smclled so strongly
of Prussia acid that I was afraid to drink
it. Found a scorpion in my left slipper,
but luckily shook it out beforo putting
it on. Just before stepping into tuo
carriage to go lor my morning drivo it
was blown into tho air, auiing too
coachmen and horses instantly. 1 did
not drive. Took a light lunch of
hormotically-scalcd American canned
goods. They can't fool me there. Found
a poisoned dagger in my iavonwj mr,
with the point sticking out. Did uot
sit down on it. Had dinner at G p. m.,
and mado Baron Iiiuschounowonski tasto
every dish, tie uiea oore tne soup
- . . . it . I
was carried away, uonsumou aomo ir.u
trmore oysters and some London Btout
that I have had locked up for five years
Went to tho theater and was shot at
three times in tho first act. Had tho
entiro audience hanged. Went homo to
bed, and slopt all night on the roof o
tho palace. San Francisco Kcw
Letter. .
Coring Sick Headache.
A Vermont correspondent writes that
after suffering from sick headache for
twenty years, with frequent attacks of
diphtheria, quinsy and erysipelas, sho
has discovered the cause of all her troub
les. Eight months' abstinence from meat
has cured her of dyspepsia and all the
ailments she has suffered from, and her
health is better than it has been for many
years. On a diet of vegetables and cer
eals with fish and eggs occasionally, she
is well and strong. Happy are they who
find out their limitations, physical, in
tellectual and spiritual, aud do not rum
heidth and happiness in a vain endeavor
to digest something beyond their pow
ers. - "
Time works changes; or, as the Texan
colored boy expressed it, " things is not
as dey used to was in de future times
back. The ex-Empress Eugenie is now
known in Fw00 w " 8 Widow Bon&r
parte,"
The Figs ef Commerce.
Tho fruit of tho f!.r tree may bo recTi
oncil among tho staple foods of man for
ages beforo cereals wcro cultivated by
imv settled agricultural population. Li
tho temperate regions where it thrives
best, it tills tlio place of tho banana of
tropical clinics, and yields its fruit during !
several months of the year. In Asia i
Minor, where the tree found wild !
and whore tho best tigs of coiumeivoivro 1
cliielly grown, the fruit begins to ripen
in tho end of June; and the summer
yield, which gives employment to a
largo population, comes to market iu
immense quantities in September and
October. Tho trees often givo even a
third crop, which ripens after the leaves
have fallen. The best ngs lor on ing
come from tho valleys of the Meander
and Kaistros, to tho south of Smyrna,
whom tho trees aro planted regularly
with care, aud tho ground is dug and
hoed from four to six times during tho
summer. Tho Smyrna and Aidin Bail
way now affords great facilities for (lie
transport of tho fruit, which formerly
bad to bo brought long distances on
camols enrrying about 500 cnoh. When
K8 reach Smyrna they are sorted uy
women and packed iu boxes by men.
Thoy nro best when newly packed, and
as tho montlis go by get dryer and
harder in tho ware houses or tho grocers
shop. No one who bns not eaten them
in the liovaut at ino coniiueiieeiuein, .i
; premier found him quiet, but not without
a gleam of his peculiar saturnine humor.
"It is aslraiign thing," said he; "but
; people keep calling nt this house, and
asking after mo as though I had had a
' child!"
Mn. M wr.rM remarked to F.rskino that
i bis physician had forbidden bis ImUiin;'
jut ilrigbton. "You aro iiuilimi yo'o-
Illinium, salt l JasKine. "lait, con
tinued Mr. Mayluni, "he says my wifo
may bailie." "Ah," replied Lrskino,
" she is nullum in nc."
"Ti.s dimes mako ono dollar," said
the schoolmaster. ' Now go on, sir.
Ten dollars make one- what?" "They
make ono mighty glad these times," re
plied tho boy; uinl the teacher, who
hadn't got his last month's salary yet,
concluded that the boy was about right.
Tin-: Chicago lull r-Oei mi having come
to the conclusion thai "a full-grown limn
who throws banana peels upon the side
walk ij no Cliiisliaii," the Cincinnati
Cuiiiiiii i-fiul anxiously inquires " Well,
what do you think of the banana pool
Hist throws a full-grown man upon tho
sidewalk?"
Win i.i'. Hisbop Ames was presiding over
a conference in tho west n member began
a tirade against univoisWes, education,
'.te., thanking God that ho had never
i been corrupted by contact with a college.
After proceeding thus for a fow minutes
the bishop interrupted him with tho
i quest imi: "Do I understand that tho
j In olln-r thanks God for his ignorance?"
j "Well, yes," was tho answer; "you
can put it in that way if you want to."
"Well, all I have to say! "said the bishop,
iu his sweet, musical tones, "is, that tho
brother has a groat deal to thank God
for."
Why Americans Die.
"When we learn that in the yenr 1880 '
tho death rato iu New York was 20.4$ to
1,(1011 inhabitants, that in tho yenr 1881
the rato was ill. 08 per 1,000, while in
London for the same period tho average
death rato was '1U, and that forty- .
eight cities in the United States during
tho same t'mio exceeded tho death rata
i of New York, it becomes us to ask,
i 'Why are Americans dying out?' Iu
; " in this city, there were 12,101 more
' deaths than births, and ill tho months of
January and Fobrunw, 1S82, tlio deaths
exceeded tho births by 2,410. In Lon
don, during tlio year 1880, thero wero
81,128 deaths and 1:2,128 births, or 51,
017 moro births thnn deaths. I have
considered these facts worthy of close
attention. Ono reason why Americans
aro dying out is because they eat too
much and too fast. A person studying
closely the habits of Americans would
think that their object in life was to eat
Americans can't converse five minutes
without something to eat Another rea
son why Americans aro dying out is be
causo they drink too much. The curse
of our nation is iutemperance. A third
reason why Americans aro dying out is
becauso they gamblo too fast. Wo ore
becoming ft nation of gamblers. This
spirit of gambling is undermining all
honest industries. Another reason is
tho season, packed in the ornamcntul ! disappointed ambition. We are a nation
iinstebonrd drums, with glowing pictures of rivals. Each man desires to lead bis
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on tho top, in which they are sold lor
local consumption, knows what the best
figs nro liko. '1 be card-board for those
boxes is Biiniilicd chiefly by Belgium and
Austria; 54,000 camel-loads of four j
kintals each, or nearly 12,000 tons, had
renehod Smyna on tlio 'I'M (lay oi uciooer
lost yenr; and the production increases
annually. Fifteen years ago not moro
than half tho amount was recorded for
the whole season. England aud
America take by far tho larger portion of
the exports ; Franco, where tho smaller
and much inferior tigs of tho Mediterra
nean are chiefly consumed, taking little
or nono of the flue fruit of Smyrna.
New Orlcuixa Hupar I'lantcr.
Conceunino tlio strongest New En
gland factories au estimate ih mado that
they pay an average pf 7 per ceut, on
tUe iuvestmont,
fellows. A Kepublio has many bless
ings, but it possesses ono disadvantage
the failure to satisfy the grasping ambi
tion of its teeming millions. Tho last
reason for Americans dying out is their
falBo standard of success, money. If a
man in Emopo fails in business, or lose
his money by somo unexpected calamity,
liis friemls will still remain truo to him,
as a rulo. But in this country let a man
lose bis fortuno by adversity, and he is
quickly forgotton. Wo should not gauge
tlio mneiiities and duties of life upon a
person's bank book, for in doing "
liitroduco those oauscsof dwoounwejueut
inaction aud national death whicJi w"i
not only mako Amenoan. .e
every nation under r"rfr
onb 'who w lit to bea master long
remains aseryaut, v