Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1879 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

MINORITY REPRESENTATION. It is stated from Washington that “a ball is luring prepared having for its object minority representation in Congress. It will probably bo introduced in the House soon after the reassembling of Congress It proposes to have the Legislature of each State, after the apportionment of the next census, so redistrict the Htate tliat the minority as well as the majority will be entitled to representation. By this plan, if carried out at the next election, supposing that there is no political change among the people, the Democrats will have a small majority, but all parts of the country alike will be represented by Republicans as well as Democrats. The plan is to divide each Statu into distriota; that the districts may, as far as possible, be entitled to elect either tliree or five members meh, thus permitting the majority of the voters to elect two out of three or three out of five. In case the district is entitled to three Representatives, each elector can vote for two candidates and no more. In case the district is entitled to five Representatives, each elebtor can vote for three candidates, and no more. Where a Htate is entitled to only two Representatives, as in the case of Rhode Island and Florida, it is to be divided into two districts, each electing one member, as at present, as in this case majority and minority representation would be impossible. In all cases where there is an odd representative after the Htate has been divided as nearly as possible into districts to be represented by three or five members, a separate district is to be set apart for this Representative, who is to be elected as at present The effect of this bill will bo to secure to the colored people a representation in Congress. It is argued that if it were passed it would remove the ob jections raised by Senator Blaine to the present lack of representation of the colored population of the South.”

THE BLAINE INVESTIGATION. A Washington dispatch of Dec. 27 says: “ The Teller-Blaine Committee met yesterday, formally acknowledged that they are powerless on account of want of funds, and adjourned to meet at the call of the Chairman. There can be little doubt that, so far as any practical investigation goes, the neglect to provide an appropriation will result in the defeat of the entire inquiry. Senator Blaine, in the course of his argument in support of the investigation, urged that if the inquiry was to have any value the committee must proceed South immediately and do the greater portion of its work during the recess. It his become necessary to pursue a different course, and it is generally conceded that the result will bo seriously to cripple, if not entirely to defeat, purposes of investigation. The main reason for this is, of course, a reliance upon the $20,000 appropriation supposed to bo available, but, aside from that, and apart from strictly Democratic opposition, the checks upon the investigation have been twofold: First, the jealousy between rival Presidential candidates in tlio Henate. Second, the traditional hostility of that conservative body to a now member, and an unwillingness on the part of the oldest Senators to pennit a new man to take the lead in anything. Added to this is the desire on the part of some Republicans not to reopen the Southern question.” FOREIGN NEWS. Dispatches from the British forces in Afghanistan report that the important town of Jelalabad was occupied by Gen. Browne’s column on the 20th, without opposition. A deputation of notables of the city went out to meet the invaders, and the whole population appeared to be friendly. Gambetta predicts that the republicans will have a good majority in the next French Senate. A telegram from Berlin says the Socialist law is being enforced with renewed severity. Seventeen publications have been prohibited in Leipsic alone. Scotland has been visited by another great snow-storm, blocking all the railroads. The Macedonian insurgents are rallying. Means and resources are being supplied them from Bulgaria. At Madrid, the Supreme Court of Justice has finally condemned to death Moncasi, w'ho attempted to assassinate the King. Suleiman Pasha, whose alleged misconduct of the Turkish armies during the late war was duo to Damad Pasha’s order, has been pardoned. * A marriage has been arranged between the Infanta Pilar, sister to the King of Spain, and the French Prince De Joinville’s eldest son. Robbers attacked a train near Puebla, Mexico, recently, killed the baggage-master, wounded the conductor, and escaped with $27,000 in silver. Eastern Roumelians will stubbornly resist the execution of the Berlin treaty. A disastrous fire is reported to have visited Hong Kong, China, on the 25th and 26th of December.

The town of St. Louis del Nord, in Hayti, has been swept away by a river changing its course, and many lives Io: t The steamship Emily P. Souder, bound from New York to Turk’s island, was lately lost at sea, together with nearly her entire crew and passengers. The lives of the Austrian Emperor and Empress are regarded in such serious danger from assassins that their royal persons have been surrounded by an increased number of guards. DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Eaat. The heaviest snow-storm experienced for eight years is reported in New York and Canada. The schooner Charlie Bell was wrecked at Thumb Gap island, on the coast of Maine, and four men lost A boiler explosion at Troy, N. Y. killed Alfred St Charles, water-tender, and Thomas Gentleman, puddler. Font others wore injured. The Hebrews of New York have rejected the donations for Jewish charities made by Judge Hilton on behalf of the widow of the late A. T. Stewart New York papers announce that Vanderbilt, the railway king, has established an ocean-freight line in connection with his Central ra'lroad and branches. His ultimate purpose is apparently to control the ocean freight traffic. His fleet at present consists of fourteen large iron screw freight steamships, brand new, e ach of 2,000 tons burden. West. The big St. Louis bridge was sold at a notion last week for <2,000,000, under a mortage foreclosure, a gentleman acting in the interest of New York parties being the purchaser. S. D. Richards, who murdered Mrs. • Hewn and her three children in Nebraska, a

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short time ago, has been arrested at Steubenville, Ohio. The monster has made a full confession of the murder of the Harleson family, and also acknowledges to three other murders, all neighbors of his. He is a Quaker by birth and religion. At Janesville, Wis., Mrs. Malinda Mack has been convicted of the murder of her husband and sentenced to the State Prison for life. The incipient Indian war in Oregon has been stamped out, and Chief Moses and several of his fellow-warriors have been arrested and placed in durance vile. Mr. Fred Arndt, of Milwaukee, was the recipient of a triple present on Christmas day, in the shape of three bouncing baby boys from hie wife. At Cleveland, Ohio, the great bridge across the Cuyahoga river, so long in process of construction, connecting the east and west sides of the city, has just been completed and dedicated to public use. Whereat the Clevelanders rejoice with exceeding great joy. The Tracy-Titus Opera Troupe is at McVicker’s,Theater during the week, giving the comic opera called the “Bells of Comeville,” which has been, heretofore, known as “The Chimes of Normandy." This company contains a number of well-known names to the operatic stage, and has made a great success in the East, where crowded houses have been the rule. The principal members are Miss Catharine Lewis, Miss Laura Joyce, Mr. Henry Peakes, Eugene Clark, Charles F. Lang, M. W. Fiske, Antonie Ruff, Laura Clancey, Emma Mettler. The chorus is a good one, and so it is said is the orchestra. The costuming and scenery are new. The p> ima donna, Miss Lewis, is a sister of Miss Jeffreys-Lewis, the actress. South. A New Orleans dispatch announces the disappearance and supposed murder of Lott Clark and Bill White, two colored men, near Caledonia, about fifty miles below Shreveport, while on their way to New Orleans, where they were summoned to appear before the United States Grand Jury as witnesses in the election troubles. They were taken possession of by a mob, and it is supposed were killed. A dispatch from Jacksonville, Fla., says the State Canvassing Board has completed the canvass of the votes of the Novenfber election, and given the certificate to Hull, Democratic candidate for Congress. This result was arrived at by throwing out Brevard county, which gave a Democratic majority, on the ground that the returns were fraudulent, and Madison county, which gave a Republican majority, on the ground that one precinct was not included in the returns from tliat county. The County Canvassing Board of Brevard county has been indicted by the United States Grand Jury for making fraudulent returns, and are in jail in default of $3,000 bail each. At Marshall, Texas, the jury iu the case of the State against Abe Rothschild for the murder of Bessie Moore brought in a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree. Defendant’s counsel gave notice of an appeal. In Fentress county, Tenn., forty-six illicit distillers have been arrested and bound over to the United States Circuit Court, and illicit concerns valued at S6,(MX) have been destroyed.

WASHINGTON NOTES. The friends of Gov. Hartranft, of Pennsylvania, arc pressing his claims to the vacant Berlin mission. Ex-Gov. Ramsey, of Minnesota (says a Washington dispatch) is favorably mentioned as a candidate for the post After examining the whole subject, the First Comptroller has decided that no portion of the $20,000 appropriated for the use of the Senate to investigate the frauds in the electoral count can be applied to the purposes of the Blaine committee. The committee will therefore have to wait for a separate appropriation, in which case the House cau have a chance at debating the Southern question, and it can also be reopened in the Senate. There have been distributed during the year, from tho United States Department of Agriculture, over 50,000 tea plants, and as many more will be distributed during the coming year. Commissioner Leduc is confident of success.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS Two of the Russian steamers purchased in Philadelphia just before the meeting of the Berlin congress, and since fitted and armed for war, sailed from that port last week. Gen. Alpheus S. Williams, Representative in Congress from the Detroit (Mich.) district, died at Washington on the 21st of December, after having clung to life with the most remarkable tenacity for a number of days, when distinguished physicians had abandoned all hopes. Gen. Williams’ case will, in this respect, be numbered among the remarkable cases in medical annals. He died in an unconscious state, surrounded by a member of members of his family. His wife, however, was unable to leave her home on account of ill health. He was C 8 years old, and had been a resident of Detroit since 1835. Owing to his free, open-handed liberality, Gen. Williams was never a rich man, and probably leaves but a small fortune to his heirs beyond the memory of the brave soldier, warm and faithful friend, and thoroughly honest man. Two freight trains on the Grand Trunk collided at Trenton, Ontario, killing Hugh McGregor, fireman, and Thomas Gamble, brakeman. The steamer State of Louisiana, bound from New Y’ork to Liverpool, was lost on the coast of Ireland The disaster occurred just as the vessel was entering an Irish harbor, and it does not appear that any lives were lost The steamship State of Louisiana has been lost on the Irish coast. Cholera and famine are desolating some of the northern provinces of Brazil. Among the horrors reported as occurring among the wretched people are carrion-eating and cannibalism. Fred. Grant will join his father, and accompany him on the remainder of his trip around the world. The Pennsylvania coal combination has fallen to pieces, and there is now a prospect of cheap coat Advices from Mexico report the hanging of eighteen insurgents, who were captured in an engagement at Guadalajara, by order of the commander of the national troops.

POLITICAL POINTS. The Blaine investigating committee held ite first formal session immediately after the adjournment of Congress. Senator Bayard offered a resolution stating that inasmuch as the President had made certain charges, that he be requested to place before the committee all testimony that he could properly communicate. This was after Mr. Garland had made the point that there were no specific charges before the committee to work upon. It was voted down by a strict party vote. Mr. Garland then said they must have some charges to work upon, and, inasmuch as Mr. Blaine had originated the chargesand had brought about the investigation,

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he (Garland) submitted a resolution calling upon that gentleman to furnish specifications upon which the committee might lAse the inquiry and carry out the instructions embraced in the resolution authorizing the investigation. This was adopted. A resolution was adopted that the committee sit with open doors. It was also decided to send a sub-committee to New Orleans. Senater Bayard, says a Washington telegram, has formally entered the field as a candidate for the Presidency. His headquarters have been established at his home in Wilmington, Del, where an organization is nowbeing rapidly effected. The sinews of war will not be wanting. It is expected that he can confidently rely upon all the necessary material assistance from New York; besides, his own fortune is ample.

THE MONETARY CRISIS.

Alexander H. Stephens’ Plan. Mr. Alexander H. Stephens, says a Washington correspondent of a Western journal, is still of the opinion that the country is going to the demnition bowwows. He says the present is one of the severest monetary crises the country has ever been called to pass through. As to the matter of resumption, he says he has nothing to say against it. “Let it come, but, unless something is done to relieve the distress of the people, there will be terrible suffering.” When asked what measures of relief he would suggest, Air. Stephens answered: “I would relieve the stringency by the issuance of silver dollars, silver bullion and gold bullion bars, and silver certificates and gold certificates to an equal amount. I have already embodied my view’s in a bill which is now in the possession of the Committee on Coinage, Weights and Measures, and which, at the earliest opportunity, I shall present to the House. This bill provides for the unlimited issue of bullion; that is to say, they are never to exceed the amount of bullion, but they may exceed the amount of coined money at any one time in existence a hundred-fold. The trouble with the country is not in the quality of its money, but in its quantity. People may talk as they will about the desirability of a paper dollar which shall be at par with gold or silver. I want dollars to be at par with each othdr, but I also want enough of them to do the business of the country with. There are not nearly enough of them now, and hence the terrible stringency in the labor markets of the world. Aly plan will entitle the holder of bullion, gold or silver, to carry it to the Alint and have it stamped and get his certificate therefor, which certificates I would have legal-tender money of value. It takes no longer to stamp on a bar of silver the figures descriptive of its w’eight, and therefore value, than it does to stamp a dollar, and not so long. These certificates I would make full legal tender, receivable for public and private debts. The beauty of my plan is that it will act quickly. Large blocks of bullion can at once be stamped, and the certificates issued in multiples of SI,OOO, say, or smaller, even down to fractions of a dollar. In this way we should not have to w’ait for the slow and wearisome process of coining the standard dollars. Two or three hundred million dollars’ worth of certificates could be issued in a very little while, and that amount of legal tender injected into the great arteries of trade will revive business as bya galvanic shock, and the reaction will be entirely healthy, too.”

A Whipping-Post Tragedy. One of the strangest of tragic occurrences took place recently in Nansemond countv, Va. Moses Ford, who was employed as a negro laborer on the Seaboard and Roanoke railroad, was arrested for stealing $lO worth of property from a farmer. The Judge of the neighborhood soon ascertained his guilt, and speedily sentenced him to receive thirty-nine lashes at the public whipping-post. The punishment was duly inflicted by the constable, and at its termination Ford exhibited the wildest emotion and left with the greatest precipitation for home. A deep sense of mortification seemed to settle upon him and he was perfectly overwhelmed. He spoke to his mother calmly, without mentioning the shame to which he had been subjected, and called for his gun. His mother handed him the weapon, when he repaired to the back yard out of sight of the members of his family, and, placing the muzzle of the gun to his forehead, pulled the trigger with his foot. His agitation caused the charge to miss, and he stood uninjured. He deliberately readjusted the piece and fired again, this time with fatal effect, as a large part of the skull was blown away and his brains scattered over the ground, presenting a most revolting and ghastly spectacle. This startling ending of a simple public whipping causes considerable feeling in the neighborhood where it occurred. There is a growing sentiment in Virginia against the whipping-post, and this tragic result will materially add to its unpopularity. The Hog-Cholera Commission. Congress having appropriated, at the previous session, SIO,OOO to pay the expenses of investigating the nature and cause of the diseases prevalent among swine, the Commissioner of Agriculture appointed a number of competent gentlemen in the States of Indiana, Illinois, lowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, North Carolina, Virginia and the western part of New York, who have been engaged in prosecuting their investigations, and have nearly all submitted extended reports, which have been carefully collated and the results embodied in a report that will shortly be presented to Congress. From these papers it appears that the identity of the disease in all portions of the country is pretty thoroughly established, and the term “hog cholera” appears to be a misnomer, and that in all cases of the disease the lungs appear to be affected. Among the gentlemen engaged in the investigation are Dr. H. J. Detmos, the veterinary writer for the Chicago Tribune; Prof. Law, of the Cornell University; Dr. D. W. Voyles, of New Albany, Ind., and Dr. Salmon, of North Carolina, from whose knowledge it is supposed that the results of the investigation will prove of the highest importance in throwing light on a subject which has never been fully understood, and in checking a disease whose ravages yearly destroy a large portion of the revenue of our stock raisers and farmers.—Scientific American. Jesse Pomeroy, the boy murderer in the Massachusetts State prison, is said to be losing his mind and failing in health.

“A Finn Adherence to Correct Principles.”

REMEDILESS INJUSTICE.

Two Notable Cases In France. A petition has just been presented to j the French Assembly by M. Varambon, ' member from the Department of Rhone, i The matter involved is curious as showing a phase of justice, or injustice, which is not wholly confined to France. Some thirty-six years ago an innkeeper living in the neighborhood of St. Symphoriensur-Coise was accused of murder. Very soon after he was arrested and taken before the examining magistate. The latter, a pompous, puritanical official, was desirous of giving himself some reputation in the case. It never entered his mind that tike acI cused might be innocent. Believing in his guilt in advance, he sought only for his conviction. Finally, brought liefore the Court of Assize, Dussud—such was the name of the prisoner—endeavored to preserve a calm bearing, and to present some clear explanations of the circumstances which weighed against him. This very fact damaged him in the estimate of the President. His calmness was the hardihood of brazen crime, his ingenious explanations were the cunning of an astute criminal. This view, taken and boldly announced by the President, had its weight with the jury. This fact overcame the poor devil, and he burst into tears. “At last,” said the President, “ the truth prevails. The jury, I have no doubt, in fixing your punishment will take into account your repentance.” It was iu vain that i the accused endeavored to explain that : there was nothing of which he could re- ■ pent; the assurance only strengthened the impression that his apparent despair and exhibitions of grief were the i acting of a confirmed criminal. The ' case was vigorously presented for the state by three lawyers; and the jury found him guilty with extenuating ciri cumstances; the Judge therefore seni tenced him to the galleys for life. Dussud served fifteen years at hard labor, and then was pardoned out, and I permitted to go home, but subject to ■ police surveillance. His life was thenceforth a wretched one. Despised or forgotten by all his former friends, he became a vagabond without a home or means of subsistence. In 1871, upon his death-bed, another individual confessed himself guilty of the crime for which poor Dussud had so long suffered. To-day, the heirs of Dussud, through : Varambon, have petitioned the French Assembly for the sum of 160,000 francs, | as compensation for the material losses j which they have endured from the absence of their father, and the disgrace l of a crime of which he was not guilty. That the amount will be paid seems to be the general belief. The French paper which relates these facts also recalls the celebrated case of a woman named Doize, accused of attempted assassination. The same kind of a Judge seems to have presided in her trial. He believed her guilty, and gave himself to the labor of proving it with all the ardor of a prosecuting offii cer. He -was an ingenious man, and he hit upon a happy expedient to force the woman to confess her crime. She was about to become a mother, and this fact gave the Judge his cue. He said to her that if she would avow her guilt she should have her accouchment in the i finest apartments to be had, and should jbe treated with every attention that would be given to a Duchess. The woman was affrighted at the vision of her child being born in the damp, meager, and unwholesome appointments of a prison. The instincts of the mother prevailed, and she confessed that she i was concerned in the attempt to assassinate Henry IV. The Judge kept his word. The child was born amidst every possible luxurious surrounding. The i jury found her guilty, but with extenuating circumstances, which saved her Life. She was condemned to perpetual imprisonment with hard labor; and six i months later was released, her entire innocence having been established beyond any question.

Bayard Taylor and Horace Greeley.

The following is an extract from Bayard Taylor’s letter to the New York Tribune, soon after the death of Mr. Greeley: I first saw Mr. Greeley in June, 1844, when I was a boy of 19. I applied to him for an engagement to write letters to the Tribune from Germany. His reply was terse enough. “No descriptive letters!” he said, “I’m sick of them. When you have been there long enough to know something, send to me, and, if there is anything in your letters, I will publish them.” I waited nearly a year, and then sent seventeen letters, which were published. They were shallow enough, I suspect; but what might they not have been without his warning? Toward the end of 1847, while I was engaged in the unfortunate enterprise of trying to establish a weekly paper at Phoenixville, Pa., I wrote to him, foreseeing the failure of my hopes—asking his assistance in procuring literary work in New Y’ork. He advised me (as I suspect he has advised thousands of young men) to stay in the country. But I had stayed in the country, and a year too long; so another month found me in New York, in his office, with my story of disappointment, and my repeated request for his favorable influence. “I think you are mistaken,” he said; “ but I will bear you in mind, if I hear of any chance.” Six weeks afterward, to my great surprise (for I supposed he had quite forgotten me), he sent for me and offered me a place on the Tribune. I worked hard and incessantly during the summer of 1848, hearing never a word of commendation or encouragement; but, one day in October he, suddenly came to my desk, laid his hand on my shoulder and said: “ You have been faithful; but now you need rest. Take a week’s holiday, and go into New England.” I obeyed, and found, on my return, that he had ordered my salary to be increased. I think none of his associates at that time ever wrote a line which he did not critically read. His comments sometimes seemed rough, but they were always wholesome and almost invariably just. Once he called me into his room, pointed to a poem of mine which had just appeared in a literary magazine, and abruptly asked: “ Why did you publish that gassy stuff? ” My indignation was even greater than my astonishment. I retorted fiercely: “Mr. Greeley, I should feel hurt by your question, if I had any respect whatever for your judgment in regard to poetry!” He smiled a sad, forgiving smile, and said nothing. Years afterward I saw that he was right; the poem

was only a piece of sounding rhetoric, for which “ gassy ” was perhaps a coarse, but certainly not an inappropriate, epithet. In this, as in other respects, the discipline to which he subjected me, was excellent; if not the result of the intellectual perception, it manifested an instinct even more remarkable. A Good Horse. “ I can’t explain what a real good horse is,” said one of the best-natured dealers in the street. “ They are as different as men. In buying a horse, you must look first to his head and eyes for signs of intelligence, temper, courage and honesty. Unless a horse has brains yqu can*t teach him anything, any more than you can a half-witted child. See that tall bay there, a finerooting animal, fifteen hands high. You can’t teach that horse anything. Why? Well, I’ll show you a difference in heads; but have a care of his heels. Look at the brute’s head—-that rounding nose, that tapering forehead, that broad, full place below the eyes. You can’t trust him. Kick? Well, I guess so! Put him in a ten-acre lot, where he’s got plenty of swing, and he’ll kick the horn off the moon.” The world’s treatment of man and beast has the tendency to enlarge and intensify bad qualities, if they predominate. This good-natured phrenologist could not refrain from slapping in the face the horse whose character had been so cruelly delineated, while he had nothing but the gentlest caresses for a tall, docile, sleek-limbed sorrel, that pricked her ears forward and looked intelligent enough to understand all that was being said. “That’s an awful good mare,” he added. “She’s as true as the sun. You can see breadth and fullness between the ears and eyes. You couldn’t hire that mare to act mean or hurt anybody. The eye should be full, and hazel is a good color. I like a small, thin ear, and want a horse to throw his ears well forward. Look out for the brute that wants to listen to all the conversation going on behind him. The horse that turns back his ears till they almost meet at the points, take my word for it, is sure to do something wrong. A horse with a dishing face is cowardly, and a cowardly brute is usually vicious. Then I like a square muzzle with large nostrils, to let in plenty of air to the lungs. For the under side of the head, a good horse should be well cut under the jowl, with jaw-bones broad, and wide apart under the throttle. “So much for the head,” he continued. “The next thing to consider is the build of the animal. Never buy a longlegged, stilty horse. Let him have a short, straight back and a straight rump, and you’ve got a gentleman’s horse. The withers should be high, and the shoulders well set back and broad; but don’t get them too deep in the chest. The fore-leg should be short. Give me a pretty straight hind-leg with the hock low down, short pastern joints, and a round, mulish foot. There are all kinds of horses, but the animal that has these points is almost sure to be sightly, graceful, good-natured and serviceable. As to color, taste differs. Bays, browns and chestnuts are the best. Roans are very fashionable at present. A great many grays and sorrels are bought here for shipment to Mexico and Cuba. They do well in a hot climate, under a tropical sun, for the same reason that you find light-colored clothing most serviceable in summer. That circus horse behind you is what many people call a calico horse; now, I call him a genuine piebald. It’s a freak of nature, and may happen anywhere.”— Scribner for January.

How to Delect Scarlet Fever.

It is important to detect the disease when it first shows itself, for the reason that it may run rapidly to a fatal issue, and because early precautions need to be taken against its spread, inasmuch as the patient may communicate it from the very first. Scarlatina is characterized by very numerous red points on the skin about the size of a pin-head—though larger in some places, but seldom as large as a lentil. These spots are closely aggregated, leaving the adjacent skin wholly free. About as much of the surfaee is free as is covered by the spots. Where the skin is free, it has a natural pale color. There are generally fewer spots on the face than on the rest of the body. It is the reverse with measles, for which it is most apt to be mistaken. Arounql the mouth and on the chin there are no spots; hence these have a very peculiar pale look, in striking contrast w’ith the scarlet spots. Moreover, the spots are not as much elevated as they are in measles; indeed, they may be entirely flat. They are also less indented. Their nearly circular shape, their being crowded together, with free spaces between the aggregates, their tolerably uniform space from each other, and their nearly equal size, help to distinguish them from other eruptions; but the paleness of the mouth alone is often sufficient to decide the matter at once. Besides these indications, almost always the back of the mouth and of the tongue are inflamed, and the glands of the neck are swollen.

Grain in Europe and America.

Europe produces now, on an average, i 5,000,000,000 bushels of grain, of which Russia produces one-third, Germany and France 520,000,000 each, and Austria 500,000,000. The United States produces 1,600,000,000 bushels, or about the same as Russia. In order to appreciate the advantages of the United States, the population should be taken into account. This is for the United States 40,000,000, and therefore we produce forty bushels per head; while Europe, with a population of quite 300,000,000, produces sixteen bushels; Russia twenty-six bushels per head, and Great Britain only four bushels per head. As the average quantity of grain consumed, per head, is fifteen bushels, we produce nearly three times as much as we want. Russia scarcely twice its wants, Europe, on an all needed, but Great Britain not much more than one-fourth. It will be seen that the general production far surpasses the consumption, but this excess is absorbed by breweries and distilleries all over the world, which do more to keep the price of breadstuffs at a high figure than anything else.— San Francisco Commercial Advocate. There are five Chinese opium dens in Oakland, Cal., patronized by white men and women, and sixteen frequented excltisively by Chinamen.

SOUTHERN TRAGEDIES.

A Savage Duel in Baltimore. One of the most desperate and murderous duels at short range ever recorded was fought a few days ago in Baltimore between two members of the Fifth Afaryland regiment—Wood Hinds and William M. James. Thirteen shots were exchanged and both men riddled with bullets and seriously if not mortally wounded. A local paper gives the following particulars of the sanguinary affair : James, it is stated, charged Hinds with having ruined his sister. This, however, Hinds strenuously denies. James insisted that Hinds should marry his sister, which the latter refusing, a deadly hatred sprung up between the young men, and James, it is stated, frequently of late threatened to kill Hinds. Having been apprised of James’ declared intention of killing him, Hinds prepared himself for an attack. It came, however, when he least expected it. James entered the store of Aloore & Co. and asked to see Wood, the name by which he is familiarly known. The people in the establishment, knowing James to be a friend of Hinds, told him that the latter was down stairs. Hinds had, a few moments previous to James’ entrance, gone down into the basement to get a drink of water, and, when near a table at the bottom of the stairway on his return, he was confronted by James, who at once drew a revolver, and, after calling Hinds an insulting name, commenced firing at him. The young men were not more than five feet apart when the firing commenced. After receiving the first bullet in the right side of the temple, Hinds at once drew a sevenbarreled revolver and returned the fire. At this point a bloody duel commenced. Both men continued firing at each other until every load in James’ pistol had been exhausted, when James exclaimed : “Aly pistol is empty. I have had enough,” and rushed in on Hinds and attempted to brain him with the butt end of the weapon. Hinds, who had one more load in his revolver, struggled desperately with his maddened antagonist, and, pressing his revolver close to James’ right cheek, was about to fire a final shot, which would, doubtless, have killed him instantly, when they were separated by clerks in the store. The deadly conflict attracted the attention of all in the establishment, many of whom ran to the scene, to find Hinds and James covered with blood and seated on a bench. In answer to a question propounded to James as to how the affair occurred, he said : “Ask Wood.” The floor where the conflict occurred was covered with blood, while both of the young men were bleeding in the face and body. Neither of them appeared to suffer much from their wounds, but bore the pain with remarkable coolness. James was shot four times, one ball passing near his heart. Hinds received three wounds, two in the head.

A Duel With Rifles in Louisiana. A bloody tragedy was recently enacted near Shreveport, La. Wiley Holmes, married to a sister of Beu Talbert, had some family misunderstanding with his brother-in-law. Both happened out hunting deer, and met on the road. Talbert ordered Holmes to halt, and aimed his gun at him. Holmes raised his gun, and both fired simultaneously, each shot taking effect. They then dismounted and fired again. Talbert fell in the road and Holmes walked to a house near by, falling exhausted on the doorsteps. Talbert came up and stepped over Holmes into the house, asking for a gun to finish him. He, too, fell on the floor, and both expired in a few minutes after. Holmes was 23 and Talbert 19. The Speaker’s Sanctorum. It is during a week like the last when the little handful of men who really control, business in the House are making up their minds what shall be done that one begins to understand what an important place the Speaker’s room is. Possibly not half of those familiar with the Capitol know where it is. Ido not mean the Speaker’s room down in the guide-books, a big, tile-floored, wellwindowed reception-room just back of the chamber in which the House sits. That room is currently known as the Speaker’s room, but the Speaker never sees any one there whom he wants to see. It is too open and accessible by half. As Bismarck says in his conversations, what is really going on is never put into the dispatches; it is sent in private notes and memoranda. The conferences which the Speaker has at which anything is done are not held in this marble-walled saloon. Some ten years ago, driven to death by the horde of people who wanted to see him, Schuyler Colfax took a little closet in a dark entry below the hall. It is hard by a private staircase. The glazed door is screened by green baize. There is not the sign of name or note on the door, and it is one of the few doors not marked in the Capitol. The corridor has no light, and on a cloudy day is dark. Once inside, you see a room partly covered by a carpet partly ragged. The window'—there is only one—is screened in some cheap way. There is room for a straggling table, one lounge and three chairs There is room for nothing else. You have nearly to run over Mr. Speaker in reaching the chair to which he bow’s you. f you know him, you have got in without a card. If you do not know him, you have not got in at all. As a matter of course, there is no ante-room, but a brisk, sharp-eyed page loiters at the end of the passage and watches the door. And in such a room you find the third officer of the Government hard at work. It is significant of the publicity of public life, when it is un fenced by class-rank, that it is only in some such coal-hole that he can get time to work. Unless he hides himself, so many people have a right to see him that his w’hole time runs to waste. It is in this little hole in the wall that tnree Speakers, Colfax, Blaine and Randall, have done the real work of legislation. Speaking guardedly, I fancy more of the business of governing is done in that room than in any other one room in Washington.— IFus/tmjrton letter to Utica Herald.

Three Curious Children. A remarkable case of defective vision is that of the three children of James Howard, a seafaring man, whose family live on Ocracoke island. They become totally blind each day immediately after the sun goes down. If by chance they happen to be in the yard playing, their playthings are instantly laid aside, and efforts made to reach the house, when they soon after retire and sleep soundly

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until sunrise, after which their sight is described as being restored, and, to all appearance, perfectly unimpaired. The youngest is 3 and the eldest 10 years old —two boys and one girl, all of light complexion. The eyes are light blue, and there is nothing about them that appears at all strange.— Tarboro (N. C.) Southerner.

Mr. Lockyer Finds the Philosopher’s Stone. Mr. Norman Lockyer has realized the ' alchemist’s dr.eain, the transmutation of metals. In the presence of a small party of scientific men. Mr. Lockyer, by the aid of a powerful voltaic current, volatilized copper within a glass tube, dissolved the deposit formed within the tube in hydrochloric acid, and then showed, by meaffs that the solution contained no longer copper, but another metal, calcium, the base of ordinary lime. The experiment < was repeated with other metals and with i i corresponding results. Nickel was thus ; ■ changed into cobalt, and calcium into : I strontium. All these bodies, as is well j known, have ever been regarded as elementary— that is, as incapable of being resolved into any components, or of being changed one into another. It is on this.basis that all modern chemistry is founded, and, should Mr. Lockyer’s discovery bear the test of further trial, i our entire system of chemistry will require revision. The future possibilities ’ of the discovery it is difficult to limit. ! The great object of the old alchemists ■ was, of course, to transmute base metals ■ into gold, and, so far as our knowledge I" goes, there is no reason why copper should not be changed into i gold as well as into calcium. ' The means at present employed are ob- | viously such as to render the process far ; more costly than any possible results can i be worth; but this is necessarily the case , with most scientific discoveries before i they are turned into commercial facts. Mr. Lockyer is one of our best bring spectroscopists, and no man with a reputation such as his would risk the publication of so startling a fact as he has j just announced to the scientific world I without the very surest grounds. He is i known by his friends as somewhat san- J guine, and he does not pretend to be an accomplished chemist, but he was supported yesterday by some of our leading chemists, all of whom admitted that the results of his experiments were in- I explicable on any other grounds but j those admitting of the change of one j element into another, unless, indeed, our whole system of spectrum analysis is to be upset, the other horn of a very ’ awkward dilemma. Since, 100 years ago, Priestly discovered oxygen and ' ' founded modern chemistry, there has ' ; been - there could be—no discovery made which would have such an effect i ; on modern science as that the so-called I : elements were no longer to be consid-' ered elementary. — London Daily News.

The National Militia. The plan for the organization of a National Guard of the United States has been drawn up by Gen. Geo. B. McClellan, Gen. Hancock, of the United States army, Gen. Couch, of Massachusetts, and Gen. W. B. Franklin, Ad jutant General of Connecticut. The following comprise the most important details of the measure: The annual appropriation for the militia shall be increased from $200,000 to $1,000,000, and, in addition, there shall be an appropriation of $1,000,000 for the purchase of arms, ammunition and equipments of the latest patterns, to be divided pro rata among the regu-larly-organized militia of the several States. The proper apportionment shall be made under the direction of a board of five officers, two regular and three from the National Guard, one from each of the great divisions of the country, East, West and South. The officers will be appointed by the President, upon the recommendations of the Governors from the three great natural divisions of the country above named. They shall have the pay of the officers of equal grade in the regular army while in such service. The regular officers shall be detailed by the proper authority, and the senior officers shall not be of less rank than Brigadier General. This board shall prepare a system of regulations for the uniform organization of the militia, w’hich shall be issued to the States. Each State accepting the money and arms allotted to it by the board shall furnish its soldiers with uniforms and equipments. The uniform thus adopted shall be the fatigue dress of the militia, and must be worn when the command are called out for active service, and at such other times as the Governors of the States may direct. The full dress local uniform shall be retained and worn on all other occasions. The President shall assign, from officers of the rank of Brigadier General on the retired list who are capable of performing such duty, ten Inspectors of Militia, whose duty it shall be to make annual inspections. It is also intended that each State shall put up a rifle-range and appoint an officer to superintend rifle practice; and the Federal Government is to offer a stand of colors each year for the regiment in each State which shall show the most proficiency in drill and discipline.

The Moffett Register. The Moffett liquor-tax system has not resulted as favorably in Virginia as has been represented, or as was hoped by the friends of the movement. The official report of the proceeds of the tax, as published by the State Auditor, is as follows: Tax from registers, countiessl4o,269.lß Tax from registers, cities 142,203.9 > T0ta1...,52-2.563.08 License, specific tax 190,271.11 Aggregates472,B34.l4 Rebates of licenses, tax and expenses.... 149,165.00 Net re5u1t5823,669.14 Raised by old license system 240,600.00 True product of Moffett register systems fe3.W19.14 This is not such a great improvement on the old system after all, but the comparatively fight result is attributed to the neglect to properly enforce the law and the evasion of the liquor-sellers, which things Dr. Moffett thinks he can remedy.

Who Will Come

The latest sentimental agony in songs is a tender ballad beginning: Who will come, above me sighing, When the grass grows over me* We can’t say, positively, who, but if the cemetery fence is in the usual repair it will probably fie th? cow. — Burlington Hawk-Eye.

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HOUSEWORK. ' Washing, mopping, baking, ohurning; Next day ironing must be done. And the busy housewife tindethj Little rest till set of sun. Then the knitting and the sowing. With the buttonholes to make; Oh ; the patching and the darning, How they make our fingers ache. But of all the varied duties That we busy housewives find. I do think that washing dishee Is the most provoking kind. Why, the times they must be handled O'<r and o'er, day after day, Almost makes one wish the china Were in bits for children's play. Now, don’t tell me I am wicked— I know that as well as you: But somehow when I am weary, Dishes make me feel so blue. And the only cure I've found yet Is a paper or a book, When my family are settled Each in his own cozy nook. 1 know well that very many Have obtained the needed grace. With a patient, cheerful spirit, All life's petty ills to face. Oh. that I were of that number! Then, with heart for any fate, I might, with a cheerful spirit. ■'Learn to labor and to wait."

WIT AND HUMOR.

A pair of drawers —Two dentists. Partridges are among the things that whirr. Babies were the original discoverers of the milky-way. The kid-glove duty—To smuggle as many as you can. You cannot mend your ways with the thread of a discourse. Is a man careful of his provisions when he bolts his food ? “ I will drop the subject,” he said ; and he let fall the “ stiff.” The man tVhose cut couldn’t bo returned —The headsman’s. I dearly love my sweet art, said the enthusiastic confectioner. When at prayer, some people kneel, because it is a knees-y position. How many women fancy they are thinking when they are only reflecting? What is sweeter than a sugar-house? Why, a young ladies’ seminary when' it is full of ’lasses. My brother-in-law wants to know whether Gabriel’s trump is the right bower or the joker.— Chat. There is a man in Washington the most powerful in the country. He carries a horse scar on his cheek. Tailors are the only people from whom you can obtain a reliable list of our “promising” young men. Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, if you have a clear conscience, last season’s overcoat and a mouth’s credit at a coalyard. All the signers of the Declaration of Independence signed their names with quill pens except one—he signed his Witherspoon. The age of economy has been reached in Foxboro, Mass., where a woman stopped a clock from rurfhing because it would wear out too fast. “Well,” said an old bachelor, when he found a basketful of baby on his front steps, “some men are born babies, some achieve babies, and some have babies thrust upon them.” Better it is to sit on a barrel at the corner grocery with contentment than to repose in the most luxurious easychair adorned with a tidy in the. house of the order-loving woman. “And you are really going to marry again, after losing that dear husband of yours—and you so young and pretty, yet!” “My love, it’s simply out of respect for the memory of the late. This is a scandalous world! ” The man who waits to get three cats in line before he shoots will some day find the poor-house waiting for him. It is the man who peppers away at cats whenever chance offers who will Jay up ducats for old age.— Detroit Free Press. A Western poet, w’ho deprecates the advances made by science over romance, writes that electricity may be conquering, but that moonlight itself is superior to gas. Ha, yes: but then, my boy, you can’t metre by moonlight alone.

A liquor-dealer applied to a customer for a letter of recommendaticn of a certain brand of whisky he had already sold him. The customer wrote: “I have tried all sorts of insect poison, and find none equal to your Old Cabinet whisky.” The New York Express is determined to tell the truth though the heavens fall. It says: “It isn’t overwork that’s ruining the young men of this great city by any means. No, it's waiting on the street corner for somebody to invite them into the nearest saloon.” Did the prophet Isaiah ever eat at a railroad station ? It certainly looks so, for how could he have described it so literally if he had not? “And he shall snatch on the right hand and be hungry, and he shall eat on the left hand and shall not be satisfied.” How women change their minds respecting their husbands! Mrs. Jinks was forever telling her husband that he wasn’t worth the salt in his bread. But when the poor man got killed in a railway smash-up, the fond widow sued the company for $5,000 damages. A little shaver, going on an errand, met an acquaintance, to whom he propounded the following conundrum: “ Why am I like a penny? ” The other fellow gave it up. “I am like a penny,” said the little man, “ because I am one sent.” And he went his way.— Chicago Tribune. “ I’m a tough cuss from Bitter Creek,” is the expression employed by the plains desperado to inform everybody that he is “on the fight.” Further east the corresponding member of society says: ‘ I’m a wolf, and this is my time to howl.” In Kentucky he says: “ I’m a yard wide, and all wool.” “What shall I leave you when I die ? ” said an insipid fellow to a young lady whose patience he had nearly exhausted. “Needn’t wait till you die,” said she; “you can leave something now,if you will.” “ What shall I leave? ” he asked. “ Leave yourself,” she replied. He left.— Chicago Tribune. The, little folks wanted the head of the ‘family to spend the evening with them. Father said he thought of attending a meeting. Various measures were discussed for keeping father at home, when Tommy, aged 5, addressed his brother, aged 7, as follows: “I tell you what we’ll do. We’ll put a sign on the front door- ‘No admittance to go out es this house nights.’ ”