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VOLEME IV. HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA, SATURDAY, JUISE 9. 1883. NUMBER so

sews and notes.

A summary of Important Events. ___•

T Mexican mail service between

^ Orleans and Ualveston, Tex., has been

^juiilfd. _.—--

Petroleum exports for April fell off

,t q noO,W), as compared with April of

^TmEmperorandEmpreBS of Russia

Tetc,Sokolmki,near Moscow, the other

day without anescorh__ u^phas refunded a $3,000,000

aefen^e loan bearing 3 (B-100 per cent, in-

w est at a premium^_ Thf ooinage at the various United

, Mints for h^-y was $4,721,200, of Stete® standard silver dollars. which ---

rllE com wanders of English war-

hivsin*adagascar waters have been in-

micted to take proper measures to secure

Ip safety of British subjects.

The Columbia College committee

.ppoinwl to consider the proposal to admit

Jomen reports that co-education of the

.exes is at present impracticable.

It is reported that the Rope will take

,., -e severe measurers with the Irish

: .hops if they refuse to heed the com-

mands regarding the Parnell fund.

The estimated decrease of the public debt for May is about $3,500,000. Bond re-

demption during the month, $10,500,000; payments on account of pensions, $12,- iW,lXH). Governor Butler having refused to

. _-n warrants for the pay-roll of employes ,f the Massachusetts State Board of Health, i: was intimated that legal steps would

be taken to compel their payment.

Challemel Lacour, French Minister of Foreign Affairs, says by the first of next month France will have sufficient force in T ir;uin to enforce her demands and that China will be soothed with diplomacy.

In the barbed wire fence cases brought brthe Washburn & Moen Manufacturing idapany against various defendants Judge Treat, of the United States Circuit Court at

>:. Louis, has rendered a decision in favor el plaintiffs. __

b the case of General Butler the trustees of Harvard University have re-

sell to comply with the time-honored pre- cedent of conferring the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws on the Governor of Mas- sachusetts.

Walter Evans, the new Cornmis- ■i tier of Internal Revenue, was installed in

See in Washington on the 31st ult. Gen- mi Raurn, the retiring Commissioner, in- induced the managers of the several di- visions to their new chief.

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The business failures during the sev- en days ended on the 1st numbered 161, as

against 158 last week. The New England States had 21; Middle States, 16; Western, ti;Southern, 26; Pacific States and Terri- tories, 1,1; New York City, 8, and Canada and provinces, 25.

Uavitt, Healey and Quinn, impris- oned in Kilmainham Jail for making in- flammatory speeches, were released on the db inst. Another murder conspiracy had been- discovered in County Tipperary. Ca- ry, the informer, has been notified by the Government that he must leave Ireland.

It was authoritatively announced 'rim the \\ ar Department on the 31st that '"'Jeral Crook was proceeding against the Apaches in Mexico in accordance with a ^finite understanding that he had all the

'"■i and supplies he wanted, and that he voukl account for everything in due time.

T'ew of the, appearance of yellow — er on ship-board at Havana, Cuba, the

a.me Hospital officials have cabled the per authorities to examine the vessels

^"in- c uhan ports for the United Elates. <re «ere twenty deaths from yellow 'er during the week, ended on the 2d at

Havana. v-*-

f,v(,".I1THERN' and C-'ontral Indiana was

w -v, v ^ * c-vr'one on the night of the 28th,

l *a< JSl5trous effect- The greatest havoc

^0s^hUtClay City wbere six per-; lar-o pfreuSa'd to have been killed and a

'er hart, while many buildings piMo. -A-t deal’s Mill seven peo- dama-p" 'lled and seTeral injured. Much

•“'mevtr*8 dmie to farm ProPerty and in

•feline Shelby County, and across

inbuj. °hnson County the town of Ed- o sustained considerable injury.

in 'E 7a,i<ma* b ree-trade Conference,

adopted on at; ,Detroit- Mich., on the 1st, tiriS that ressto tlle people, submit- in natim Tf nu? re^onn was the vital issue >m« fr *1 'Cities, and advocating the exist byt.v "iide among nations as

the States; that protection r- h,0"1 mor® than the rich; that the t;.v free tra'7 " a®es would be increased

'i'uidhf. 1 that the navigation laws

forties Pwr'ipeale,1: that in case existing :':a«rs ,ti,in^ ref°rm the revenue re-

t.tion. * Prepare for independent

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oa the 77 t-lat raged over North Texas h’:n; Count

^ tlle ~d struck Greenville, 5 ;n? rrpit 1

’111 tfi® shape of a cyclone, try. on ! -image to buildings and prop* ^ eiS,?7;e,d and fifty houses were

? V'<1 from o!« bl0WQ down entirely or

*a$ Vnn eU f°undataons. Only one

fiilti, t,u, t° be lost, that of a colored

bjured. <ra* P°rsous were severely 'hssouri Paris

end was blown off the f,v*a$den ..cdePotand the freight de- ^ cCrllShed’the Methodist and col-

PresbvtrwWere totally wrecked and

badly fifi*an and BaPtist Churches Xsia at other ooinf^K There was a heavy f omts, bgt no tornado.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Some of the English newspapers op- pose the idea of appointing any of the Queen’s sons to the Governorship of colo- nies.

The Pennsylvania Senate has passed the bill to prohibit railroad discriminations.

During the absence of her husband Mrs. Susan E. Douglas, of Cumberland County, Pa., the other day cut the throats of her three children and then killed her- self. She was insane.

A great rain storm visited Council Bluffs, Io., and vicinity on the 1st. Indian Creek, which runs through the heart of that city, overflowed, causing a damage es-

timated at $200,000. Seven iron bridges and two stone culverts were swept away; also several dwellings and barns. * Several losses of life were reported.

The official ceremonies of the open- ing of the annual examination of the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md., were observed on the 1st with the usual eclat.

Ricardo Menocal, who fled from Cuba seven years ago with $300,000 of the public funds, has been captured.

The single-scull race of three miles between Hanlan and Kennedy, at Boston, Mass., the other day, was won by the former by twenty lengths; time, nineteen minutes and four seconds.

Because the company refused to add five dollars a month to the wages of each man three hundred and fifty workmen em-

ployed by the Tittabawasse Boom C'un- panv at East Saginaw, Mich., quit their situations a few days ago.

The law against the importation of American pork into France is not being rigidly enforced, and shipments are being made from New York to Marseilles.

Ex-Vice-President Davis and his bride arrived at their home in Blooming- ton, 111., a few days ago.

Three men were drowned the other day in trying to cross the Muskegon River in a canoe at Hersey, Mich._

The late A. K. Henderson, of Erie, Pa.,has bequeated to the city of Cleveland, O., property to the value of $200,000, to be applied toward the endowment of an indus- trial school.

At Fremont, Nebr., a few days ago, a

Deputy Sheriff was shot in the mouth by one of two desperadoes whom he and the Sheriff attempted to arrest. The Sheriff in turn shot the man dead, and after a long chase his companion was captured. The Deputy Sheriff was dangerously hurt.

Alfred Weigel, merchant, London. Eng., has failed, with liabilities of £1,000,- 000.

Thomas Caffrey. the fourth man convicted of the Phoenix Park murders, was hanged at Kilmainham Jail, Dublin,on the 2d.

The German Reichstag has passed the measures relating to copyright conven-

tion with France and commercial freaty with Italy.

The Italian Chamber of Deputies has voted to appoint a commission to re-

port a plan for a monument to Garibaldi. The anniversary of Garibaldi’s death was

commemorated on the 2d throughout Italy. Among the bequests named in the

will of the late Amasa Stone, of Cleveland, O., were the following: One hundred thousand dollars to Adelbert College, $10,- 000 to the Home for Aged Women, and $10,- 000 to the Children’s Aid Society.

The Salvation Army has been noti- fied to quit singing in the streets of New

Haven, Conn. The Czar of Russia has granted new

privileges to dissenters from the Greek Church.

McGeogh, Everingiiam & Co., of Chicago, 111., the other day claimed that there was $1,000,000 worth of adulterated lard in that market.

The Board of Visitors of the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md., has organ- ized, Rear Admiral Howell being chosen President.

Thirty-nine cows and three horses ■were burned to death in a barn near Mine-

ola, Long Island, a few days ago. At Winterset, Io., the other morning,

a mob of masked men broke into the Coun-

ty Jail with crowbars and sledges, being refused the keys by the jailer, and taking John Hamner, who was confined there on

the charge of having murdered William Newell over a year ago, hung him to a tree in the jail yard.

J. Henry Langley, who for years had been operating in the leading cities in

the East and West as the promoter of stock

jobbing corporations, organized on paper for swindling purposes, and who was known as “King of the Peter Funks,” has been ar-

rested at Boston, Mass.

The other night two negro patients in the Lunatic Asylum at Austin, Tex., got together and one beat the other to death.

The teacher of a parochial school at

Cleveland, O., who was arrested recently on a charge of crippling a scholar by beat-

ing, has been dismissed after trial, the

evidence not substantiating the charge. Desperate attempts were made to

fire the city of Toronto, Cana., on the 3d, fires being discovered in five different

places inside of forty minutes. At three other points where it was intended to ap-

ply the torch the attempts were frustrated. The fire brigade was on hand in each case

and easily coped with the flames.

The tin plate manufacturers of the United States have organized an associa- tion.

At Troy, N. Y., the other day, dur- ing the absence of his parents Theo. Mar

tin, aged seven years, found a revolver. He and his fourteen-year-old brother were

examining the weapon when Theodors pulled the trigger. The ball entered his brother’s throat. The wound was probably fatal.

rHE thirty-first annual meeting of the International Typographical Union of the United States and Canada began on the j

| 5th in Cincinnati, Ohio.

A tornado in Bartley County, Ala., ; the other day demolished the houses on several plantations. One colored man was killed and several other persons were se- verely injured.

The editor of the Kerry Sentinel was

arraigned at Tralee, Ireland, on the 2d. He declared that the notice inviting volunteers to join the Invincibles was printed in the office without his knowledge.

A band of robbers from Mexico* crossed the Rio Grande and stole $5,000 worth of money and goods from a store in Hidalgo County, Texas, a few days ago.

The first train into Knoxville, Tenn., by the new line from Louisville arrived on the 4th inst.

A Fenian plot to blow up the Wel- land Canal is reported to have been frus- trated the other day by the vigilance of the Canadian authorities.

W. P. McCreary, secretary, and F. Listenwalter, manager of the Marriage Fund Mutual Trust Association, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, were arrested a few days ago on a charge of conspiracy to defraud and using the United States mail for that purpose.

The schedule in the recent assign- ment of Maxfield & Co., fruit dealers and importers, New York, shows liabilities of $160,894; nominal assets, $151,000; actual assets, $68,689.

The failure of the Grafton Iron Com- pany of Lectonia, Ohio, has been announced, with liabilities placed at $600,000.

While looking for criminals in the Chickasaw country, I. Ter., a Deputy United States Marshal and posse recently reported having encountered and killed three desperadoes. It has transpired that, having stumbled upon a woman and two children sleeping out of doors, they fired witb-out waiting to investigate further fill- ing the children and wounding the mother, who fled to her house. Thither the posse followed her, and, finding a third child, shot him dead.

Oscar C. DeWolf, City Health Com- missioner of Chicago, 111., gives it as his view that the statement that a large amount of adulterated lard is on that market is a

pure fabrication. Frank Brown and John Anderson,

notorious desperadoes, undertook to “run” the town of Wiota, Iowa, the other night, threatening peaceable citizens and firing their revolvers. As they passed up the street, a public-spirited citizen fired a load of buck-shot into them. Anderson died, and Brown could not recover.

The Massachusettes authorities have stopped the running of Sunday trains on

the Housatonic Railroad. McCoan, member of Parliament for

Wicklow, has notified Parnell of his with- drawal from theParnellite party.

An immense fete was given in Petroffsky Park, near Moscow, in honor of the coronation of the Czar. Five persons j were crushed to death in the tremendous j crowd who sought admission.

The Dakota Capital Commission has fixed upon Bismarck as the site of the new

capital of the Territory. The opponents ; of removal will continue the fight in the j courts.

CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

The Ohio Republican State Conven- tion met at Columbus on the 5th. Senator L. P. Wolcott, as temporary chairman, made a speech, reviewing the record of the

party, and indorsing legislation on the

temperance subject; also commending tho administration of Governor Foster.

The ambassador who represented China at the Russian coronation says dip- lomatic relations between France and China will cease if France operates in

Tonquin without an understanding with tho

Flowery kingdom. The First Comptroller of the Treas-

ury has decided that the Pacific railroads are entitled to cash payments for mail service on non-subsidized leased lines.

The Coroner’s Jury found the officers anti trustees of the Brooklyn bridge re-

sponsible for the deaths resulting from tho

recent disaster. Advices received from Sierra Leono

a few days ago, under date of May 24th, state that fifty persons were roasted alive

far withcraft in the Slierbro district.

Di king the performance of a■ circus at Suspension Bridge, New York, the other

evening, the canvas tents were struck by a

terrific rain squall and utterly demolished. About 1,500 persons were in ttie tents and a

terrible panic ensued. A large number of

persons were injured, though nolletally. The editor, publishers and two com-

positors of the Kerry (Ireland) Sentinel were on the 6th sentenced to several

months’ imprisonment for publishing the

placard inviting persons to join the Invin-

cibles. One hundred and forty-three Ger-

man soldiers were accidentally.poisoned at

Posen, a few days ago, and were in a criti-

cal condition. By a runaway at Troy. N. Y.. the

other morning Mrs. Mason, of New York, was thrown from a wagon and received probably fatal injuries, and four other

persons were seriously injured. A recent dispatch from Sierra-Leone

states that King Koifee Kalkali; the au-

thor of the late war in Ashantee, has been

forcibly restored to his throne. A British

envoy has been sent to Coomassie to en-

deavor to arrange a peaceable understand-

ing of the difficulties. The schooner Fannie A. Bailey, from

Cheveri, N. S., for Philadelphia, went

ashore at Cape May a few days ago. Three men and one child were lost.

Lord Roseberry, Under-Secretary fo# Home Affairs, threatened to resign from the English Cabinet the other day in

consequence of discourteous treatment by the Home Secretary, Sir William Harcourt.

The annual meeting of the American Medical Association began on the 5th at

Cleveland, O. 4

SOUTHERN CLEANING^. A perfect model of a steamship with

the steru and side propellers, a recent in- vention at Dallas, Tex., was placed in a tank of water, steam raised, and the steru propeller first put in motion. It crossed the tank in 10!> seconds. Then all three were set going, when the tiny ship crossed in six seconds. Thus the speed was in- creased forty-five per cent, and the fact demonstrated (apparently) that a steam- ship which crosses the Atlantic in seven

M^ys can with this new attachment cross it ui four. The inventor is confident of in- creasing the speed of steamships sixty per cent. It runs much faster with the side than with the stern propellers, and runs

away with the stern wheel working in re- verse.

The Washington Artillery, a battal- ion of historic fame in the Mexican and civil wars, held the twenty-second anniver- sary of its setting out for the seat of war in \ irginia by a public parade and dinner in New Orleans, La., a few days ago. One of the feautures was the presenting of the original battle flag of the Virginia army to the battalion by Judge Alfred ltoman in behalf of General Beauregard.

Mrs. Lena Rapp, an aged German woman, of Louisville, Ky., was killed by lightning the other night. Her husband, in the same room, was uninjured.

The boiler in a saw mill in Water- ford, Spencer County, Ky., exploded a few days ago, fatally wounding several work- men and instantly killing John Pnrcell, owner of the mill.

The past week closed the strawberry shipping season at Chattanooga, Tenn. It has reached 600,003 pounds.

An old resident of Hot Springs, Ark., says the supply of hot water has more than doubled in thirteen years.

The old stone mansion situated in Thoroughfare Gap, Va., which had been in the possession of the Chapman family for over one hundred years, was destroyed re-

cently by fire occasioned by a defect in a

flue. At a recent contest in Mobile, Ala.,

for the twelve largest and heaviest heads of cabbage the winner produced twelve heads weighing212 pounds.

At Waco, Tex., recently, Fred Sche- nick was trying to put on the end of a small pencil what seemed to he a common mus-

ket cap. It exploded and blew oil one joint of a thumb and two joints of his finger. On examination of the box from which it was

taken, the innocent-looking caps all proved to be dynamite cartridges. Schenick was

clerking in a hardware house, and no one

"jY a ware that the caps were filled with d? nainite.

A fund for the benefit of the families of the Phoenix Park assassins executed re-

cently is being collected by Irishmen at

Galveston, Tex. Extensive frauds in the entry of pub-

lic lands in Louisiana have been alleged against J. B. Watkins, of Baton Rouge.

About four hundred thousand dol- lars of the old indebtedness of Memphis, Tenn., had been filed to a recent date to be funded.

At Wheeling, W. Va., the other af- ternoon, in the house in which Guenther Schnelle murdered Dr. Schuckhart, Mary Bach, aged eighty-seven, a relative of Schnelle’s wife, committed suicide by hang- ing.

Car-shops for the entire Gould sys- tem of railways are to be established at

Palestine, Tex. The Secretary of the Interier has

granted a rehearing in the land-grant case of the Alabama & Chattanooga Railroad Com-

pany. The following are the receipts at the

Texas State Treasury for the month of May from the proceeds of land sales: Blind Asylum land, $10,000; Lunatic Asy- um, $10,000; University," $15,000; public domain, $-17,000. Total, $82,000.

In 1814 there were about thirty cabins in the Hot Springs (Ark.) Valley.

The Texas Department of Education has received the scholastic census of Dal-

las, Ft. Worth, Houston, Brownsville, Bren- ( ham, Denison, Flatonia, Galveston and j Mexia. The cities show a total of 9,814 ;

white and 3,760 colored children within scholastic ages. Among those mentioned Galveston leads with 4,003; Houston next

with 3,087, and then Dallas, 1,758. Robert Smith, one of the brothers

who killed the two Cecil brothers at Helen- j wood, Tenn., was killed the other day ! while resisting arrest.

The other night Glenrov Henson

(colored), keeper of the city hay scales at

Petersburg, Va., was murdered by his step- son, Joseph Henson, a lunatic, who killed his victim by striking him on the head with

a fence-paling. Several nails penetrated the skull.

The body of William Lenders, a rich

Philadelphian, was found in Gulph Creek, six miles below Hot Springs, Ark., a few

days ago. He had evidently wandered

away temporarily deranged and fallen in-

to the creek. A boiler exploded at the saw-mill ol j

Blackshear & Snyder, in the northwestern

portion of Opelousas Parish, La., the other

day, killing two men and badly wounding four.

An inspection of the Post-office at

Savanah, Ga., by the United States In-

spector the other day developed a shortage in the accounts of L. B. Toomer, colored, superintendent of the carriers’ delivery. Toomer was a prominent Republican poli- I

tician, heads the colored Masonic order in

Georgia, is Adjutant-General of the First

Georgia Battalion (colored), and Warden

in the Episcopal colored Church in Savan-

nah.

C. F. Wing, the young lawyer of Princeton, Ky., who killed City Marshall ;

Conger, was indicted by the Grand Jury for

murder a few days ago. An attempt at

his rescue was feared and the guard* around U>« 3aif were doubled. j

On the Management of Children. Of all the disastrous policies which

thoughtless parents adopt for the gov- ernment or training of children, scarce- ly one is more prolific of evil than that of harping perpetually upon a child’s shortcomings or defects. Sometimes it is a physical peculiarity—rod hair, a

squint eye, a pug nose, some uncom- mon development of feature or form— that receives comment. This, as it is generally only a jocular, good-natured badgering, is not extremely serious, though evil sometimes results, as a morbid self-consciousness is likely to bo developed, both painful and injurious to the child. Frequently the fruit is ex- cessive shyness or awkwardness, diffi- cult to overcome even after the primary cause may have beeu outgrown.

But when it is some mental trait that Is made the never-ending topic of re- mark, with gloomy or sarcastic prog- nostications of the future that is to re- ! suit, most evil results accrue. If it is true, as a noted novelist has told us, that ‘‘we are apt to believe what the world believes about us,” it is still more a truth as regards children, who are

scarcely capable of deciding far them- selves any knotty point,whose thoughts are more or less confused at the best, who naturally turn to parents or guard- ians rather than to the voice of con- science for the right or wrong of any- thing, and whose most intimate asso-

ciates stand to them for the world. A policy of this kind can not but prove dulling to the sensibilities and harden- ing to the heart. Many a parent who has harped upon his child’s short com-

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ingstill he has hammered that child’s I heart to a stone, wonders that his child persists in the even tenor of his way, paying no more attention to remon- strances than to the voice of the wind. It would be a thing to wonder at more if he did otherwise.

That which is berated may be a real fault —indolence, untrutlifulnees, lack of order and the like: or it may lesim- ply that the fault is in the parent's eye —that the child is not to the parent’s mind. The child may exceed in physi- cal energy, when the parent would have more intellectual strength: or he may be studious and dreamy, when the parent desires him to he matter-of-fact. The harping and hammering go on. day af- ter day, in season and out of season, till the child comes to look upon home as a

place of torment rather tliau refuge,and ! upon the parent as an avenging Xerne- j s:s rather than a being to reverence and love. If the victim is a boy, lie is quite likely, after a certain ago, to keep out I of the way as much as he can, if he does j not quit the premises altogether, which j project is meditated by nine out of every i ten boys so situated. Happy for both | parent and child if the latter seek not at a “saloon,” or some ot her equally de- :

moralizing resort, that freedom which he misses in the home. There is oft- times something exceedingly pathetic j about these much-berated little ones, i Listless and dispirited, too often sullen as well as sad, all childish sparkle and I spontaneity lost, they go about with drooping heads and downcast eyes, as !< if in gloomy meditation on the ever-ex- j pected storm.

Doubtless with most parents the prac- tice of excessive chiding is begun with the honest purpose of amending some

fault, but continued from force of habit," or often from irritation of mind,induced by the child’s failing to heed and be healed. The fact is that children so dealt with seldom do heed. Gentle, steady firmness may, indeed, take more

patience, energy and time than a stream of reproofs, but let the parent be as- sured that if the former does not cure, j the latter never will.

Dickens gives us a good illustration of this kind of management in the child- , hood and early school life of David L'op- perfield. What a true and pathetic pic- ture is that of the boy’s distress of mind j as he is about leaving home for school —of his anxiety and trepidation lest the Murdstones have sent his character—as they themselves daily depicted it to the boy—on in advance of him, predispos- ing his future associates against him, and setting him at once in disgrace be- fore the school! What a barbarous as

well as disastrous policy! Yet how many children are made to suffer in like ways i and far more keenly, often, than their elders are aware! Poor David, with all his trials and the evils imputed to him by his tormentors, is still a model child. Few children, I think, with his ex-

perience, would have turned out so well. If any parent feels an uncertainty

about the ill effects of “living under a

cloud,” let him try the experiment for himself. Let him offend the prejudices of the community, or let some enemy instill suspicion or dislike into the minds of his associates; let him for a

few months meet with shoulder-shrug- giusrs where he is accustomed to hand- shakings, with indifferent noc^s where he expects greeting, and then let him declare whether his experience has served either to sweeten his temper or

soften his heart. Even if he be innocent of any evil, he will find the cross none

too light. But in any case we elders still have the best of it; we can at least hurl back coldness for coldness and dis- dain for disdain. Not so with the chil- dren. They are expected to keep in mind the divine command, "Honor thy father and thy mother,” and never, un-

der any provocation, to “answer back.” If they do forget themselves, Solomon's remedy is generally brought into speedy use, to teach these small atoms of hu- inanity their weakness and their de-

pendence, which, poor things, they al- ready know too well!—Country Gen- tleman.

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—There are said to be 85,000 people in West Virginia who do not know how to read or write. 1

SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

—George II. Corliss, of Rhode Island, Is building the engines for the first cot- ton mills to be erected in China.

—The process of substituting steel sleepers Yor wooden ones has begun with great success on German railways.

—The blue-stone business of Sauger- ties. X. Y.. iindudiug the quarries, fur- nish employment for from 1,{>00 to 1.8Q0 men.

—Dr. Fields, of St. Louis, has invent- ed a compound which costs only one- fifth as much as gunpowder and has seven-tenths more explosive power.—, 87. Louis Globe.

—An Oneonta (N. Y.) firm has ship- ped $200 worth of hop roots to Ken- tucky. The industry is a new one in, that locality, and the roots are to be used as an experiment.—N. Y. Times.

—Geological examination reveals in the delta of the Mississippi, along a

space of 300 miles, ten distinct forests of buried trees. Bald cypresses with a

diameter of twenty-five feet have been found.

—Among the notable things in Palat- ka. Fla., is the first tangarine tree ever budded in Florida. The bud was re-

ceived by Dr. Morangue before the war, and from this comes all the kid-glove oranges in that State. The tree can be seen in his grove, which is quite cele- brated oh that account.—Chicago Times.

—Injecting pine railroad ties with chloride of zinc preserves seventy-nine per cent, of them for over twenty-one years ; beech ties injected with creosote, fifty-four percent, for over twenty-two years, and oak ties injected with chlo- ride of zinc preserved twenty-one per cent, for over seventeen years.—X. Y. Tribune.

—The Southern Silk Industrial Asso- ciation has sent the New Orleans Times-Democrat a bunch of raw silk raised by the ladies of the association in that city. The silk is of a beautiful golden hue, very soft and fine, and, the Times-Dernocrat says, proves that as

good a quality of silk can be raised in New Orleans and vicinity as anywhere else.

—Mr. John Pearson, a trembling old man, who has been a resident of Fort Smith, Ark., for forty-three years, claims to have been the actual inventor of the revolver patented by Colonel Colt. He says that in 1834, while he was working in Baltimore with a gun- smith named Baxter, Colonel Colt hired him to make experiments, which resulted in the perfected revolver, with six charges in the cylinder and one

barrel. Pearson never received any re- ward for his invention.—X. Y. Post.

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PITH AND POINT.

—Some people are like a well-used rocking-cliair; they are always on the go, but never get ahead.

—Mothers who are tired of their little daughters and want more time to

gad should send them out to jump the rope.—Detroit Free Press.

—lie very man dat tells yer that clothes dean make de man is de one what looks to see how yer's dressed. I'se done dis myself.—Arkansaw Trav- eler.

—A Reading (Pa.) man died a few days ago, after drinking fifteen quarts of water. The Coroner’s Jury rendered the verdict; “Suicide by drowning.”— Philadelphia Press.

—A girl in this city has made a

wager to wear her fiance’s shoes for two weeks, and he wears hers. The fiance says he has the most comf >rt out of the arrangement.—Chicago Herald.

—When we were ten years old wo

used to think, while gazing in the win-

dow of a candy store, how much we

would like to work in such a place. Now we are affected with a similar feel- ing while gazing in the window of a bank.— Ar. 1. Post.

—“My boy,” said a father to his son, “treat every one with politeness; even

those who are rude to you. For re-

member that you show courtesies to others not because they are gentle- men, but because you are one.”

—An unscrupulous person contributes this: “A gentleman went down to

Mississippi from Tennessee to prospect, with a view to immigrating. He hap- pened to be in that part of the country which the tornado struck, and was

completely carried away with it.”— Louisville Courier-Journal.

—“Settled with a bullet,” says one of our exchanges in giving an account of a murder. It does not state the cause

of the trouble between them, but it is high time that the present generation should learn to have no dealings what- ever with a bullet.—Chicago Times.

--“What would you do if you were I and I were you?” tenderly inquired a

young swell of his lady friend as he es-

corted her home from church. “Well,” said she, “if I were you I would throw away that vile cigarette, eut up my cane for firewood, wear my watch-chain under my coat, and stay at home nights and pray for brains.”—N. Y. Times.

—Printers are liable to err. So, at

least, thought the young man who blushed to the tips of his ears as he

stepped up to the society editor’s table. “Good morning. What is it, sir?” was the affable greeting. “You made a little mistake in your announcements

yesterday, sir.” ‘“Very likely. It is almost impossible not to make a mis- take sometimes. What wa3 it?” “You said me and Lizzie Pipkins were

bothered, when we were not bothered at all. We are betro&ed, sir. Quite a

difference.” “Ah! I presume you see

the difference now more than von will in the future. However, I will smooth the matter out Good morning, sir.’ —

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