The Weatherford Times. (Weatherford, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 18, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 5, 1883 Page: 3 of 4
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THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
—AeoUWoaea the Qrmod Trmnk railway
mm W*1m, Owiorio, canead
TimrToniMrlaitkninil i
ü Ira tediaré, Mu*., by tbe npee tingla
Han Franciaeo,
nnmber, ven
—The tal fatality of the base-ball aeeaoo
occurred at Kf Baptd^lUoh., where William
—A
tnwrtifr cspsisoU
on bosro¡err«
••'"rffS
back of tbe seek by
. i of the brain, from
which he dUi
—AtBnffalo, Jawett'a oooner-ebops war*
■wast away by Ira, esasing a loae of ♦W.OUB.
At A. Loom, the Viedringhana eUmpiiiK work*
ware liaraagej by lire to the extent of
By th* barnloc of Vangbaa A Go.'a agrvoul-
laral-implementa atore, at Nawtoe, Iowa, a
loa* at 90,000 waa entailed. Fin ban and
twe dwellings were consumed and adjoining
baildtafja were injured by ire at Eaaf Hsgin-
—Ito destroyed twenty-three boaineaa
i of Auralia, Cherokee
loaa being about
there ha* beeo averted.
cigarmakers and WO packer*
inaugurated a strike tor * ^
HOO Poal-iale* s in Ohio I
snbqiii a reduction of * eeata a day in the
rale of pay. The minera in ft* Allegheny
coal regi aooeptedjhe lower wageaogeroS
!tíiioeh20&
unict^u 11M KlIUUBI ■UBJ'WIUWI uiiuuju^ •rvl ■
Haatlagtaa's
ef the
moSi
trie light Company' generating-bouae took
tariffrrif .the healing of machinery, and
\i^ -,.^rr'*? ^JtoJt^ainounlj>ff*)¿*X).
u>ÍMM
rrrrl
PpgyVJty ,... k
by th* cyclone which ATTPT.
and Georgia only «ierre to inoreaae tira mm.ora
of the occaaioti Evory freah account from
the Motion of country invaded by the tornado
ia loaded with aome fresh horror, and adda to
the alraady frightfully-large mortality roll. It
ia now kiowa that at leaat 175 people were
killed, and that nit lee* than
¡MB were woaadsd. Whon the isolated aec-
ass. "sc.
be increased. In four oeuntiea of Central
Georgia the lateet telegrama record twenty
death* and ""* fifty peraona wounded. At
Beauregard, Mb*., th* death-roll foot* up
thirty-one. and flfty-nine people were injured,
while at Weaeon, a few mile* from there,
twenty-two were killed and 150 wounded. At
Georgetown, Ilia*., two churche* were blown
down while MrvioM were proereMing, and
many person* killed and injured. The town
wm Mid in mina. In Clay county alone the
tornado killed fifty people, beside large num-
ber* at atock, and the de*tr*ction of proper
tv cannot be eattmated An Atlanta dispatch
My* that the damage in Georgia will reach
mllltom The kills —il wounded are, in
Dougherty county, eight ktflled and twenty-
five wounded: Burator county, ten killed and
thirty injured. In tlio latter county, when
th* debris waa cleared away, Mr. and Mrs.
Woodruff and two children and a babe in the
mother's arm* and the nnn* wore all found
Ui a heap, dead. At Bockport, Copiah county,
Mia*.,ten people were killed and tosny wonnd-
gr'lgtogfleld, Ala., £& houM*
apeetalte the Hew OHmm Picayune.
WajUhkotoh, April 23—Under th*
eadgdjkhe Bou th era Pacific's latest
acquisition tbe New York Time* give*
tbe following account of Huntington's
purchase of tbe Morgan Steamer liiie
and system of railroads, and bis com
menta thereon; the capital stock of the
Morgan Steamship company baa been
bought by the Southern Development
company, and the railroads and steam-
ships of the former company will here-
after form a part of tbe Southern Pa-
cific railroad system. Tbe president
of the purchasing oompany, which owns
larga amount of property in the
ouurfeat, and is interested in the
nWLAWSi
hv «k*
That tbe following shall be the legal
imber of pounds per bushel: Wheat,
«i*ty pounds; eon, shelled, fifty-six
in the ear, shut'
seventy-two pounds; ^
pounds; barley, forty-eight
rye, filty-óx «made; lmck-wt
ty-two pounds; white beans,
pounds; Irish potatoes, sixty pounds';
potatoes, - fifty-five panada;
. fif y-aevqn pounds; turnips,
fifty-five pounds; dried apples, twenty-
eight pounds; dried peachea, twenty-
eight pounds; bran,twenty pounds ;Hun -
i grass need,forty-eight pounds;
_ seed, forty-fan pounds; stone
coal, eighty pounds; charcoal, twenty-
two pounds; salt, fifty pounds; clover
seed, sixty pounds, timothy seed, forty-
five pounds; cotton seed, thirty-two
pounds; millet seed, fifty pounds.
Takes effect ninety days after adjourn-
ment.
tie. said
tus illions of
3d
I aubacription* for the relief of the suffer-
ers are urgently called for.
arraigned at
• 1U,MX> under
—Ex-senator Kellogg wm
Washington, and gar* nail ia
his indictment.
expedition nnder _Oen. Crook,
with
ninety day*' supplies, left Wileox.A. T.. a few
day* ago forGuadaloupe Canon, in pursuit of
huetile Apachee.
-Mitchell, tbe Ei
the New Zealander,
pugilist, and Hlade,
made an argreemunt
to fight on Sept 11, within aou miles of Kansas
City, the Makes being fJ,.WU a aide.
—A aite for the Garfield memorial hospital
hM been purohaaed in the an bur be of Wash
'ell*r has formally demanded
Railroad Company the
due to
tbe
iagtou, the prioee paid being *97,000.
—Hecretary
of the Union
sum of •*1,737,^42.5-1, claimed to be
United Átete*.
—Eight hundred Iriah immigrants, who
were sMisted to quit their native land by the
Britiah Government, arrived at Boa ton tbe
other day. ,The Canard jkd Attn linee have
hooked u'aaay steeragrfBWMOger* as they
caa bring in three monthsT
Houthern Pacific railroad, is T. O.
Douty, of Haa F a nrisisi. Tke haavi
est Htockholders are ex-Qovcrnor Lc-
land Stanford, president; C. P. Hunt-
ington first vice-president of the Cen-
tral Pacific railroad; Messrs. Mark
Hopkins and Thomas W.Pierce of Boa-
ton.
Croaker is president and Mr,
Hnbflbgton is a stockholder in the
Southern Pacific railroad. The capital
stock in the Morgan Steamship compa
ny was 16,000,0(10. Tlie company owned
seventeen steamships plying between
New York and New Orleans and be
tween various gulf ports, and 549 miles
of railroad in Louisiana, known
Morgan's Louisiana and Texas railroad.
The Louisiana and Texas railroad
includes the main line from New Or-
leans to Vermillionville, 144 miles; a
branch from Vermillionville to Alex-
andria, 84 miles; one from Terrebonne
to Honma, 15 miles. In addition to
tlii* the oompany controlled the Hous-
ton fiSd Texas Central railroad, which
includes a line from Houston to Bed
River City. Texas, 345 miles; a branch
from Hempstead to Austin, 118 miles;
.and pne from Bremond to Boss, Texas,
Stfeaailes—total 521 miles. Also the
trfTTLT'tiatm,' Ttmffoam flam tfiAlb -
Texas and Pacific, from Indianola to
Cuero, Texas, GC miles.
The purchase of the Morgan syetem
of roads gives, the Southern Pacific a
line from New Orleans to Saa Fraucis-
ccC Said Mr. C. P Huntington the
other day, "It rounds out our South-
ern Pacific line. The steamship busi-
nma-is only incidental to the railroad
system." fhe Morgan company owned
valuable property at New Orleans, and
at Gretna and Algiers on the opposite
side of the river. The purchase of the
system was made about two months
ago subject to investigation of titlea.
Thi* -proving satisfactory, the first
installment of purchase money was paid
last Friday by Mr. Huntington, who
gave a check for #2,700,000.
na *1
t Hyphens,.
the Hilwaukee-
Conren-
—An etort i* being made by the Hil
sóa to tod*** the Bepubliaan National
tina to BfeMt in that city.
—The Connecticut Legislature has paaaed a
bill creating a Board of Pprdona, consiatihg
of the Governor, on* jodp of the Supreme
Court, sad torn members of the Legislature.
—The Pesaaylvania Donate killed tbe bill
prohibiting "tnating." '
Per**|«al.
Mrs. Storer .sister of President Johnson,
died at UreenrllU.. Tenn. Mrs. Patterson is
tbe only member of the teto President'!! family
surviving.
—Jamea Park, one of tbe oldeat iron and
steel manufacturera or Pittabnr/, ia dead.
—President Arthur arrired
from the Florida trip on the
good health and spirits,
in Washington,
£id of April In
—CoL Jack Hayes, of Mexican war fame,
—CoL Jack Hayes, or M
died reaantiy ia California.
—Mir John A, Macdonald, th* Canadian Pre-
mier, ia charged with perjury by Gen. Bntt
Hewson, growing out of certain litigation.
—Dynamite wm — __
(E^iand) tod*, hot ao fuse wm attached.
—Death: Jala* Handeau, celebrated French
novelist: «x-Hurgeon General Palmer, V. K
Navjr;^ Mra Ada Kwwel, Gen. Hancock's
—Th* latest sxplanation of the triple alli-
ance I* that It ia dMigned to isolate France in
ordar to facilitate a genera] disarmament,
which Biamarek will propoM to a European
7Ws saya the Government
of information showing that the
organisation In the United King!
i* 190,000 men, Iwsidos offshoots b,
titles of Vigilante and InrineihWa.
—It ia ansonncad in a dispatch from K
Petenburg. that the eoraatfon of th* Csar
will earteimy take place ao «he ^th of May,
the featiritie* continuing until the tlth of June.
—Report* have reached Pari* that the FaiM
Prophet hM been capto red at Khartoum In
IhoHoudan.
—An explosion doing little damage, alleged
to have b**a oanssd by dynamiter*, occurred
«ató* gqreoiwet WW AtJWMd. Eag^
ilotdoa ia a dynamite factory at
niaJMk; Hpain, wraeked the buildings from
« ruins of .which sejnn) corpses were takes.
-The newspapers la a Farmhouse.
People who live near the great thor*
Ighfare* where thejr have access tó
(o or tine dlfliw god a half-dozen
seUáea, dp not fully appreciate the.
iifil' tflpey wóuld as cheerfully do
iornmg meal as their. morning
But one must be far off in the
country,—remote from the "maddening
crowd —to realzio the fall luxury of a
newspaper, , The farmer who recieves
but <yie .newspaper a year, does not
glanoe over its columns hurriedly with
an air of impatkjiee. m does the mer-
chant or lawyer." Jte begins at the
beginning and reeds to the end, not
permitting a neWs item or an advertise-
ment to escape his eye. Then it has
to be thumbed by every member of the
family, each teoking for the things in
which he or she is most interested.
The thrown up daughters look for the
marriage notices, and Bre delighted if
the edit* # has treated them to a love
story. The hoo, who is about to en-
gage in farming, with an enthusiasm
that will earry him far in advance of
bis father, reads all the crop reports
and has a keen eye for hints about im-
proved modee of culture. The young-
er members of the family eome in for
the amnaing anecdotes and scrapa of
fun. All look fbrward^p the day that
bring file' paper Imh the uvliest
9st .«Ad If, by some unlucky
chance it fails to come, it is a bitter
disappointment. One can hardly es-
timate the amount of information which
that is not only read, but stud-
can earryJato afamily. They have
week by week spread before their men-
tal vision, a panorama of the busy
world; its fluctuations and its vast con-
cerns. It is the poor man's library,
and furnishes as much mental food aa
he has time to eongume or digest. No
one who has observed how much those
who are far away from the places where
men congregate value their weekly pa-
pers, can ful to invoke a blessing on
the inventor of the means of this intel-
lectual enjoyment.
FOOD ADULTERA TIOS.
That no person shall, within this
State, manufacture, offer for tale or
sell any article of food, wines, beers,
fermented or distilled liquors or drags,
which is by him known to be adultera-
ted, within the meaning of this act
Any person violating this provision
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemean-
or, and upon conviction thereof shall
be punished by a fine of not exceeding
The term food, as used in 'this ae*,'
shall include every articlo used for food,
or drink by man. Tbe term drag, aa
used in this act, shall include all medi-
cine for internal and-external use.
An article shall be deemed adulterated,
within the meaning of this set: (a) In
the case of drugs—
1. If, when sold under or by a name
recognized in the United States Phar-
macopoeia, it differs from the standard
of strength, quality or purity laid down
therein.
'¿. If, when sold under or by a name
not recognized in the United States
Pharmacopuiia, but which is found in
some other pharmacopoeia, or other
standard work on materia medica, it
difiera materially from the standard of
strcng|h, quality or purity laid down in
such work.
i). If its strength or parity fall be-
low the professed standard under which
it is sold. -
(b) In the case of food or drinks—
1. If any substance or substances
has or have been mixed with it so as to
reduce or lower, or injuriously effiset its
quality or strength.
«fccjér•WnjBfeásgs^Lstey
tnted, wholy or in part, for the articlo.
3. If any valuable constituent of
the article -has been wholly, or in part
attracted.
4. If it be an imitation of or be sold
under the name of another article.
5. If it consists, wholly or in part, of
a diseased, or decomposed, or putrid,
or rotten animal,or vegetable substance,
whether manufactured or not, or in
case of milk, if it is produced of a
diseased animal.
tt. If it be colored or coa tod, or pol
islied, or powdered, whereby damage
is oonoealed, or it is made to apipear
better than it really is, or of greater
value.
7. If it contains any added poison-
ous ingredient, or any ingredient which
I April 11,188S.Takea <
Archer
..A A.
..A.M.
A.L.
A. &
A. H.
..A.U.
..B.A.
.. B. S.
Bailey B. L
Baylor......B. B.
B« B. E.
B3Í . ..... B.L.
Bexar B. X.
Blanco B. N.
Bowl an .B.D.
Bosque B.
Bowie .B.O.
Brazoria.... B. B.
Brazos......B. Z.
Brisco B. H.
Brown B. W.
Burleson B. U.
Burnet..... .B. T.
Caldwell....O. A.
Calhoun C.H.
Callahan O. L.
Cameron.. . .C. M-
Camp C. P.
Carson C. B.
-C. j
Croehy..-.. ,.Ci
Dallas.
Dawson D.
Deaf Smith. D. -S.
Datta...... J).-"
1 KOj
DeWitt mt
Edward
Ellis
ElPa¿;^.
Encinal, i-.
.Erath
Phils...
Fannin..
Fayette.-.
Fisher...
[ that article U*)a be added to the
I Qhril Statuto* as follows:
Whenever it ta aesea-
water from any public
a tnteh for
having due regard to the
' r, and with aa little
to the adjacent land
provided that in aw* cases the
Mioners Court shall cause th*
to such premisses to be sa-
and paid oat of the
[venue of the county, and ut ease of
'disagreement between tbe Commission
ers" Court and such owner, the saou
mar be settled by soit as in other eases
Approved April 12, IMS. Takes
" ' ' DAMM
igsenaUlri.
(a Western
Tbe visiter to the petrifted
lar Corrizo, on the little (Morado,
wfllbegte to see the signs of petriftca-
tion hours before he reaches the won-
der; here and there and almost every
atop in the road small piccce of t]c-
tached limbsaadjargor stumjisof trees
,y be seen almont hidden in the white
id. Tlteroad at a distance of ten
miles from Oorriao enters aa
basin, the slope being nearly a
circle, and this is encloeed by high
of shale * and white fine
clay. At the entrance of this semi-cir
cuhar basin the exploring party
Castro...
..O.K.
Childresa... .C. D.
Gillespie. (
Goliad...
isfBai
Bangs oo a girl (a Western paper
ays: give her an unruly look, like a
ow with a board over her face. You
take the gentlest oow in the world and
put a board over her face and turn her
out fat a pastare, and she gats the rep-
a of being Unruly, and you would
that she would jump fenees and
merry hades, and you wouldn't
give so much for her by $10 only for
beef. It is so with the girl. If she
her hair high oa her forehead.
or brushed back or erren
and
Collins C.
Collings-
worth C.W
Gray........ ©. Y,
Grayson G. N.
Greer G.
Gregg. G.G.
Grimes ,G. M.
Guadalupe. ,G. E.
Hale H.
Hall.........H. A.
Hamilton.... H. I.
Hansford... .H. F.
Hardeman.. .H. N.
Hardin.. . .H.D.
Harris ..... H. S.
Harrison H. X.
Hartly ......H.T.
Haskell H.6.
Hays.. H.Y.
Hemphill .. .H. M.
Henderson . ,H. E.
Hidalgo H.G.
Hill H. L.
Hockley H. K.
Hood H. O.
Hopkins ,.. .H. P.
Howard H. B.
Houston^... .H. 4.
look, yoa will go your bot-
on her, mad^ fed^ttst she^is
ua'n tbai she loves'him there
UStxnuit on it, and no
but take the same girl,
boat hair banged, and when she looks
e* you yom fesl as though die would
JL h6ok,'and you eant trust bar. She
has a fence' "
Marion .
Martin..
Mason..
Matagorda r-Jt
Maverisk jlf
McCulloch.
McLennan. .1
McMullen.. M
Medina 1 .A.
Menard 1 . D.
Milam...... r.L
Mitchell....' .8,
Montague.. •! . E.
Montgomery I<M¡
Moon......f. O,
Morris
Motley.
to the
it; pro-
oflioermay,
may render such
health of a person
Tiding that the St
with theapproval
time to tit "
that the" provisions of this act.
not apply to mixtures; or oom-
pomji]a recognized as ordinary articles
of Rod; provided, that the samé are
not injurious to health, and that thear-.
tide are distinctly labeled as mixture
' ating the components of the mixture.
It shall h ' the duty Of'the State'
flAlth officer to* "prepare and publish
from time to time, lists of the articles,
mixtures or compounds declared to be
also, from time to time,
fix the
limits
Cities Warm
Those who
i the Ceas try.
to live a little
iv national pharm
The State health oAoer shall take
cognizance of the interests, of the pub-
lic health, as it relates to the sale of
food and drugs, and the adulterations
of the same, and make all necessary
investigations and inquiries relating
thereto. He shall also have the super-
vision of the appointment of public
analysis sad chemists, and upon his
recommendation, whenever lie shall
deem any such officers incompetent, the
appointment of any and every such
officer shall be revoked, and be held to
be void and of no effect. Witbin thirty
days after the pasaage of this act the
State health officer shall adopt such
measure as may seem necessary to fa-
cilitate enforcement of this act, and
prepare rules and regulations with re-
gara to the proper method of apllecting
and examining articles of food or drugs,
and for the appointment of the neees-
sary inspectors gad analysts, and the
said health officer shall be authorized
to expend an amount not exceeding
HfiBO, for the purpose of carrying out
tha proviaiona of this aet; and the I
of (3000 is hereby appropriated out of
anj money in the treasury not othex-
this section provided.
Hutebtnson. H. H.
Jsok. J.
Jackson . .. .J. A.
Jasper ...... J. P.
Jefferson. J. E.
Johnson J. H.
Jones J. O.
Karnes K.
Kaufman K. A.
Kendall K. E.
Kent K. T.
Kerr K. B.
Kimble K. I.
King K. N.
Kinney K.O.
Knox K. X.
Lamar...... L. A.
Lamb L. M.
Lampasas . ..L. P.
La SaUe L. S.
Lavaca L. C.
I«ee Jú. ^
I^oa.l... ,v JU4
rr.ft
Live Oak....L.O.
Sherman.. . 8. N.
~ S.T.
Somervell . .8. O.
Starr........8.B.
StejAen* B. E.
Stonewall...S. L.
Sw&be* 8.1.
Tarrant..... T. A.
TayloT T.
Terry T. E.
Throckmor-
ton ...T. H.
Titus T. I.
Tom Green. .T.G.
Travis .. ...T.S.
Trinity ,T. B.
Tyler T.L."
Upshur U. P.
Navarro
Newton..
Nolan
Nueces .. ± J
Ochiltree J.I
OldhamT/. J
Orange.....!
Palo Pinto. ,|
Panola......
Pármer.....
Parker: ..
Peeoe..
Polk....
Potter.
PreskBo...]
Raines . '
BandaH..y
Bed River.. .LB.
Brfngio..^.. ,'E.
Roberts....-
Robertson,. I O,
Rockwall
Runnels.
look that
voting man leel as t&augh he wouldn't
lie sale unless she was tied hand and
loat, ao she
A girl with bangs may try to lie good
and true, but it's awful hard work.
When she looks at herself in the glass
and sees the quarter forehead, she says
to herueH; "I m dangerous ¡ they want
to look out for me." She thinks she is
all right, bat she is constant!
that which a girl who wears her hair
brushed back would not think of
The bang girl may belong to thechi
and may trr to put on a pious look
while the hymn is being read. But
she will look oat from behind those
bangs sidewise) at aome meek and low
ly young Christian who is trying to
f?st,bta siind fixed on the hymn, sod he
will get his mind fixed on her, and it
will break him all up and lie wont
know whether be is singing "A Charge
to keep I Have" or "She's a Daisy."
The hang girl may place her bangs
down on the back of the pew ahead of
her during morning prayer, and try to
be good, but her corset will be too
tight, and aa she hitches around to
ees? the pain one eve will rise like the
morning star over the back of the pew,
and that will catch the eye of a young
man two seats to tho right, who is try-
ing to co^er his face with one hand,
while he tries to keep the flies off the
pomade on hia hair with the other, and
his interest in the
Rusk..
knocked
into a cooked hat.
girl's hair changes the whole nature of
the little wretch, and she becomes aa a
gun that is loaded. -You take a picture
of "Evangeline" and bang her hair, and
she would look as though she would
"run" at people. How would Mrs* Van
Cott, the alleged female preacher, look
with her hair banged? It is jnst the
with the boys. Xon take a nice,
Webb w.:
Wharton... W.
WheMer.
WV
Wilson
Young...,
The owners of all horses and
ia addition to thcár private
piaoe said county brand oi
and cattle owned by
ilaoed upon the neek
Handed.
Whenever any horses or oettle tó be
branded with the county braadare' ru-
mofed to another county, Mm i~
of mich stock may oounterbraa
said county brand, and a liar
said oounty brand shall be um_
known sa the "oounty brand" and wh«a
so oounterbranded, the brand of fM
oounty in which said stock
newly located may be placed
stock.
V* i A "HHnm gam Mr' delivered a
Wslhar JaAurein New York on gambling. He
_ analysed each, gamo, Hhowe^^Éhaé "*h4
Washington J*. N owner of the game had a percentage
maMsi
in toe new order of things, which is.
that the business reUteoas lwttreen t ., ,
northern aad southern peoph are cou- j —T^e land in Texas c.ipal !>- of
tinnally growing more intimate and prod amn* sugar, is placed at 1 (*u,"00
friendly. The old anti-war feuds and ! acres.
jealousies are giving place to mor,- \ _t,h. |„^.| i„ Ati^.i.io
friendly confidence, and we look to sco UaH ai^d.aiv.'.l all «.f its n.-gr.. «
tbe day when the ijeoplo of U«i* coun- j #m, ,Mtl|,l,.Vo.l v,hite men only
■ will know no North and no Simtli t ' „
rlasüetl t —IV woou i utraria*k toe r.< p
of we- ¡ire ts'iiig eliKM-.! out a>. rapidly :u>}hw
exploring _
and a fire was quickly burning
meal consisted of bacon,
partaking
TEXAN TUPIO-
and tbat all will Ik- proud to Is-
as of one nation, irrespective
tiouul lines of divisious.
.-oldi
line.
with a view oí axing ooal yf.
Ine
Within the M iiionth 111) head of
cattle have Uvn driven from Drew,
Urtwlh'v and Dorsey iMUtities,Arkansas,
oMaue.!
%. Tbe
beefsteak and
of which the
In the
an hour's
iving to reach tde heart of the
petrified forest, and there
such a wonder met our gaze as no
ene can ever realize until they make
tbat very trip for themselves. The
petrifted stumps, limbs, and in fact,
whole treee lie about on all sides, the
action of the waters for hundreds of
years having gradually waahed away
the hills roundabout, and the trees that
once covered the high table lands now
lie in the valley beneath. Immense
trunks, some of which will measure
over five feet in diameter, are broken
and scattered over a surface of three
hundred acres. Limbs and twigs cover
the sand in every direction and the
visitor is puzzled aa to where he shall
begin to gather tbe beautiful specimens
ttaa* He within easy reach. There are
numerous Mocks or trunks of this pe-
trified wood that have the appearanco
for all the world of having been just
cut down by toe woodman's axe, and
the chips are thrown around on the
id so that one instinctively picks
up as be would on the log camps
of Michigan and Pennsylvania.
Many of the small particles and even
the whole heart of some trees have now
become thoroughly crystalized and the
beautiful colored cubes sparkle in the
sunshine like so many diamonds. Every
color of the rainbow is duplicated in
these crystals, and those of an amethyst
color would -pass the eve of a novice
for the real stone. T^c grain of the
wood is plainly shown in nearly every
specimen—making the pieces more
beifltiful than ever.
Although the party went armed with
pick and crowbar, they were entirely
unneoeesary, for thousands of broken
fragments can be gathered all about
you, and the sunlight striking ui>on the
orystalized particles point out their
hiding plaoes to the eager searcher af-
ter curiosities.—AlbfujuerijtceJoutiml.
The New Neath.
Induttriftl World, Cbic&go.
The changes wrought in the com-
mercial, financial and industrial condi-
tions of the South in the few years
that have intervened since the close of
the war have been truly wonderful.
One naturally thinks of the South as
a land laid waste by contending armies.
Visions of fields plowed with cannon
balls, of cities and towns made desolate
by the torch and sword, and a moral
and social condition pitiable in the ex-
treme, ooine almost incessantly to the
mind. But these pictures do not reflect
the present condition of that country.
Sinee the war a new South has arisen,
with brighter and better prospects than
ever, and with present realizations
which place that seotion in a position
comparing favorably with tho other
portions of the country. At the close
of the rebellion the condition of the
seceding States wasin many respects not
Suicide Statistic*.
Statistics of suicide for the wiuter
monthsi published by the to st(K-W fsm, - in T. v,-.
Ukfumclf show some interesting fuct.-.
The whole nuuilier reported for the
United. Stall's is -80, of which l>eivsú-
ber baa 123 to its credit, January «5
and February 8-J. The cloae . f the
year wait evidently very depressing, as
shown by the large uuuilwr, while the
—Ki'|s>rts from the I'auhi'.mlle coun-
try say that the Star range of Unuter
& \lmi«>:t and that of Saulmrn has
1mvii hnriiiil hv the striking cowlxtys
on tin- ltith of thi;} mouth. Further
information wivs the strikers are i>ut
first month of toe new year was corres- "f money and are willing to return to
s Sunday-school bar, who oaa re- wasin man v respects not
Itrn ■■ unljka tfotf of France at pie ynd of the
pondingiy encouraging. During the
second month the enconragrouent wore
off and tbe uuinber increased.
Of the causes dissipation stands at
the head with thirty-two suicides at-
tributed to it. Business trouble cullies
next with t«euly-cight;thea "sickness"
with twenty-seven; "insanity" with
twenty-eix; "fumi|y trouble" with twen-
t -four; "love trouble" with fourteen,
and "grief' ten. "Itcligioua delusiou"
accounts for two—a classification which
scarcely se6ms necessary in addition to
the general cause "insanity."
Of the methods employed shooting
liad precedence, 104 lives having liecu
terminated at the point of the pistol.
Fifty-eight'of the unhappy ones tried
poisoning, forty-five hanging, thirty-
four the razor and fifteen drowning.
One jumped from a height, one inhaled
gas ami five throw themselves under
railroad trains.
Among tlft states Ohio was ths fore-
most, thirty-six of her citizens choosing
death rather than continued «xistaiico
within her borders. Illinois lost thirty-
two; Now York thirty-one; Indiana.
Missouri and Pensylvaiua, twenty each;
Wisconsin, ten; Kentucky,, nine; Cali-
fornia and Massachusetts, eight each;
Michigan anil Texas, saveii each; Mary-
land, six; Colorado, five; Iowa, Kansas,
Minnesota, Nebraska and Siew Jersey,
four each; Maine, Tennessee and tlie
District of Columbia, three each ¡Con-
necticut, New Mexico anil Oregon, two
each, and tho rest of the states one
each.
Divided by the sex there were 2*¿2
males and .r>i females, showing moreen- ,
durance on the part of the latter than of
the former of the hard winter and other Í
I"
F
work at the former wages.
—On April £1. the Comptroller d«-
positisl with the Treasurer &MIUII to
tlie credit ol the common school fund
and #"i0 lUil to tin general n ve me. Ho
also ilc|Kisited f*'i ISSC to the credit t f
the Hinkiug'fund and interest of Smith
oounty ImmuIs. Since Jannary 16,,
drummers have taken out licenses,
iiaying te the Comptroller $11.H40.
'or the collection of this tax, which on
an average amounts to about $35,' 00
a year, it costs the state only il.lfcM.
—A special from New YoA on tbe
22nd says: A check for (<2,50<,000
passed tlirongli tlie. ~'«*H|y{-houari
yesterday. It uas BfJ *Vy nf
the heirs of tlie ('IAuUI "
by Mr. C. 1*. Ilun^* . . •
first of throe innUÍ J 3 A N K.-
cliasxiof Ui« liuru
About a year ago, shortly after tlie
death of Charles Morgan, a syndicate
of Central and Southern l'acifie cap-
italists was formed by Uuntingtou for
the purchase of the property. An offer '
was mode of SK.OOO.tMIO whivh was re-
fused. Negotiations were ojm>uisI a
few days ok , resulting in the sale of
the line for $?,50!>,t*K) to Is* |«iid iu
three installments. Tho- property will
Im> used in connection with the South-
ern Pacific railroad. Kx-Governor Le-
lanil Stanford, CharlesCroduir, of San
Francisco, ami other v,ell-kuown capi-
talitsts art1 in the ti'aiisaction. This is
the s<-cnnd largest individual ch<>ek
that has Is-en put through the clearing-
house. The'other was fCt,(NMI,(MN>, auil
was drawn in favor of Thomas A. S<-ott
lly Mr. .lay (iouhl. Mr. Uonhl was
in I'liihuleljiliia at the time and hap-
ills. Considered with reference to ¡ pening to ls< without any blank
nationality, AiAeriiains prcpomlerutisl, i checks, "ho tore a slip from a sheet
' Of foolscap, iilhsl it out and for-
n arded it to New York, where it
furnishing 14H, or inore than fifty per
cent. The Germans eame next with
seventy-nine;the Irish with twenty-one;
the English with elcveu; the Scotch
with seven; tho Swislcs with three; the
African, Bohemian, French, Italian,
Spanish and Swiss one each.
Of the occupation, singularly enough,
was duly honored at the Fourth Na-
tional bank.
Thrilling Adventure.
An old shopman tells the following
the farmers were most tul!y represent- exciting story of his experience when
ed^tlurty-lour suicides U-tng reported i . , „ J
as tillers of the soil. FonrUieu w, rc wlt)l a well-known menagerie
merchants, tliirtei-u clerks, five tailors, ''"""K a" «'ugagenicnt at Smithlaud,
four saloon koejicrs. Severid oecúpa- | Ky.: "AfU-t the exhibition was over,"
preceding wars, and were saddled with
rat indebtedness consequent thereon,
radical
of the game t
in Ida favor wnicG is never" lews than
fl, a d which very gea«rally rises to an
"ate oortainty. The majority «f
• dollars which are inverted in an
ipt to win a game of foro, ag any
ef the games whiqh are open in a mod-
ern gambling-liouM, «re just aa cser-
.tainly loot by the owner m if he were
to throw them into a furnaoe. Evan
■appose the gama to be a fair one, and
the pereentege in favor of toa game no
more than 6; even this is
enough to "eat up" any capitalist.
What sort of an idiot would a man be
who should, in betting at "evens," be
williag to put up $10C aa often aa his
aatagonistlaya down flOfl? But what
i* more infinite thaaUM foitya* t
a "bet, in oaiM where the chances
ly favor boto parties, for one of
to be compelled to furnish from 9180
to UTS aa often as his opponent adven-
cas HOOT And yet this ia precisely
what is being done by every man who
undertakes to win in a gambling-house,
fa foot, ha encounters, sa a rule, oven
larger odds than these; he is compelled
to make hate in which he furnishes all
the stakaa* and in whiah he has not even
the cbaaaa at winning back his stakea.
It is precisely a oaaa in which ewe man
bets oa a sure thing and obliges the
loser to put up all the money.
What ia (till stranger about it ell is
that mta will continue to play whan
whey know juat what chancee they have
to encounter. Men will oontinae to
play, weak, alter weak, even year after
year, loabur constantly, and yat filled
al, will take out
m which they know cannot Sou
Said a well-known gambler aad
is believed c
-A conflict ia iu procreas between the Vati
I aad Hwilasrlanu relative to the diqwieh of
ken ManailM to the see of Geneva and
' b<aaaaaae. Ths Geneva Council declarea it
■IB pietsel the people from the eneres*
i of Um papacy.
alto Britiah Honsa oi Oommom 1
, la reply to the ¡pato at asMml
poaitton, asid list It would do* be
i to ststa what noaaiirnioation had
IMassd batwaau the Miaisters sad the Wssh-
Inrioa Gevernment relative lo the hatehiaf sf
Irfch masyInnlaa la ths lepabMe.
sienoe, must have noticed a lack'of
cord between the readings of their own
standard therm amatara aad the pub-
lished observationa of the signal-aery
perturbing action of the heat which
the city emits; and however gratifying
it may be to the outsider to find him-
self superior to toe government ob-
servers, it is very little to toa oredit
of the weathar haiMH Ilia* this pqrtio-
ular source of error haa act loag since
been reeogniaad aad avoided. Aa fa-
marks of Profeasor Whitney
subject, aa applied to
made at London are
oonviaoing. He aays: "It ta a well known
fact that citiea are oona
er than the mora thinly
tkma of tbe oountry,
similar climatic cond
prove thiato be trae; aad there caa be
no doubt that such woald be the
of aa immense smisgatina of
tion in
on tha
nenever any person
any animal on which any
may be found, it shall be toe
the oounty clerk of tbe
said estray may be to
a notice, containing a fall
of said animal, togrtber with
aad brands, to tha
SSSÍJS1SP
oounty clerk of said
record
shall be
or supply
agent of the
feature ef this
la that it af-
i>
apply to him for that parpóse, and
tendering the value of toe same, with
a sample sufficient for tbe purpoae of
analysis of any article which ia includ-
ed ia thiaact, aad which ia ia tbe poa-
of the person selling, under
$100 for
aayet been barely
i w Hw viiuuiwa
Boato, with bar i
change of government en-
sued, and a comp'cte
of political affairs insulted. lint in
the South, >r in ¿V'me, tbe chongo
for thebetter. Tho necessities of
the people of both oountrios forced
them into new channels of thought and
aalivity, and to-day prosperity to a
preeminent degree is displsyed in both.
Tbe trials, the losses, in fact, the
very misfortunes of the South, have
baa i its salvation. No oountry seems
more favored in soil, climate and min-
eral resources than many of t o States
south of Maaon and Dixon's 1 n i But
there was need of a bolder en< i-vfy and
afirmar purpose to fully utilise and
thewi resources. There was
need of a political and social trans-
formation such only as a great war
eoulil make, to not only bring into play
the dormant energy of tho residents,
~ "but to tovitothe cooperation of capital-
ista and enterprising workers else-
where. War, ooming with almost vol-
canic action, overthrew the old order of
things, and now are we permitted to
what results have been developed
in less than two deoades since th^ de-
claration of peace.
With the advent of new railways and
tbe reconstruction of the old c
came, aa might be expected, a great en-
largement of manufacturing industries.
The rich ores of tbe South, abounding
in alinoat limit]cm quantities, furnishes
an inviting field for the inveatment of
capital. That this field is being wall
the thriving industrial cen-
tres, such aa Birmingham, Cliattamx ga
Nashville, amply demonstrate.
Tha numerous blast-fu macea, rolling-
milla, bloomaries, nail-mills and ma-
* that now abound in the
aa well aa the large cotton-mills
mark a new
progreaaive era for the land of cotton
' 'ready toe southern
istingof their abili-
ty to compete wit i tbeNortb in fabri-
catingiroo productioM.and tip eviden
>a
of profit to
aad capital were toe
Tha day ia
wffl
_ _ will
"Iron ia King-
la learning the '
%--..Pro^®r.
that, her soU ia
tions, iiu'.luiling' politician uml tramp,
furnished one each.
Two of the suicidas wero persons «:(
years of age, while tlie youhgnst suicide
was 13. The greatest numlier, elcveu,
was at the age of 3ó. Seventy-six of
the uufortunateswere hnslionds, thirty-
five wives, sixty-seven bachelors, eleven
maids, eight widowers ainl four wid-
ows. Interesting facts of s inisoel'an-
eons character aro that one of the sui-
cides was committed in connection with
a murder and one for the purpose of
maturing a lifo iusnranco jwlicy.—iJr-
IraitFri f I'rrx.i. ^,
The numlier oíTImmigrant ¡uíssen- ;
gers brought over by incoming -eeoan
steamers is steadily-iiicrhasi-'ig, and, ai-
transformation^though tbe numlier landed since the
~ first of January is f.ir Isilow the figures
for the corresponding period last year,
it is the belief of those in charge of
the Immigration Bureau at Castle ÍJar-
«U¡n that tho total numlier for tho year
will be nearly as large a« tho total of
Inst y oar. It is proliabht that the re-
duction in the rates for steerage pass-
age has had much to do with this in-
crease of immigration. The total num-
ber of passengers landed at Castle (¡ar-
den in tlie month of January was K,:14k,
in February ].'i,l¡l:i,iu Marcii '¿K,'ill .anil
thus far this month -fi>,702— making the
total number since tho 1st of January
1)0,804. In the same time last year the
number was 12U|U4. She total num-
lier of immigrants landed at ( astlc
Oarden thus far this week is !l,84!).
The tide of summer travel to Knropc
haa set in somewhat earlier than tu-nal.
Seven steamers left this port for Uu ojie
Saturday, and they all went out with
well-filled passenger lists. Tlie steamer
City of Berlin, of tho Iiunau Line, sail-
ed with more than UK) cabiu passen-
gers, among whom are Col. J. H. Maple,
son and members of his opera company,
Signor Luigi Arditi, the lley. Joseph
Duenger, Bishop of Ft. Wayne; the
Bev. Dr. E. T. Hiseock and John
he says, "I passed into the menagerie
to talk to the watchman. From some
cause In- was alweiit from his post, and
I walked across the amphitheater to-
ward my old friend, the elephant, to
give him an apple, for we were the best
of friend . lie was one of the largest
elephants, i was alsiut half actons tho
ring when 1 heard a grow l, and, look -**
ing around, saw to my horror one of
the lions out of his cage ami approach-
ing me in a crouching manuer, ready-
for a spring. 1 thought of a thousand
things in n moment, ami aiw *v e' I*'1'"
«Wt h«v«. regf—f- "f had sufficient
rc iuir. it tJii utmost imat.on t<i extricate
myself floni it. One hasty motion on
my part and I would In- in the jaws of
the monster. I felt that my only hope
was the elephant, if I could roach him,
but he was chained by tbe foot and
could not reach inc. K'earor and near-
er came the lidn, waving his toil in a
manner that moaut business. If I
turniil my liack he would spring; if I
took my eyes from him, I was lost. It
was a terrible moment. I glided back-
ward swiftly a.* I dared. I had another
fear. 1 feared stumbling liackward,
and knew if I did fall I 'would never
rise, lint that where I fell 1 would make
a meal for tliat lion. As I neared the
clcplant I saw that the liou understood
my movements, and, fearing he woabl
lie balked of his prey, he propared to
bring tho matter to a crisis. I then
saw that I had but one hope, to rush
with all my Hpeod te the elephant. I
think I must have jiimned twenty feet
when I turned, and I know tlin lion
jumped thirty, but lie just missed me.
How I completed the race I do not
know. I only know that the elephant's
trnuk was arouud mv waidt and lie was
lifting ine np oil his head. I ouly
knew that I was saved."
Car-
I'hotegraphed While Klasing.
negie. The steamer Italv, of the Nation-
a goodly number
arc J.
of
Duff
passengers, among whom
Wallace and L. W. Sawyer, of tbiscitv.
The Bhaetia, of the Hamburg-Ameri-
can Line, also lias a Well-filled list of
cabin passengers, among wheni are
Prof. Arnold, A. T. Zullig, of Boston,
and Samual D. Sewanls, of this city.
Tlie steamer Oder, of North Oermtui
Lloyd, carries among her passengers
Dr. Oeorg 4i.r*sbody, prof. L.Skou-
gaard Herverine and C. Itiessurr, of this
city.
Ka^erwr WHffam'* PHtjT Repast.
physician who was s.tmmoned to
■nd Emperor William, waited and
A correspondent informa aa of a ro-
mantic incident which lias recently
occurred in a pros|icrons Iiondoa sub-
urb. A devoted young high church
curate of interesting appearance and
great popularity was waited upon by a
voting lady of considerable attractions,
lint with an air of deep
and clad in a somewhat
After some confusion and tha i
of a tear, she revealed to him that
hod ventured to visit him i
deeply affecting
feared her life. 1
attend
ÜMSJIKI ]y|
Is whs" r
¡ere is what Dr.
him devour whea a
aeptuagenarian invalid: ''A vary large
quantity of soap, of the strongest and
mc* highly spteed mgredienta, yet, m
Spiced as it already waa, he addeil to
it a spoonful of powdered ginger and
mace; then a good piece of turiú a In
¡iu ge—heel steeped bi a half piat of
brandy. Next ha took a great quanti-
ty of an Italian dfeh. half ~
half Paamesan checa*; to t
of garUa is added, and toe whole ia
in butter on til there arises a
rind as thick M finger. This, is one of
dishes, iacaiidt
having ex-
lier own abode,
lie imparted excent at Im
where she adjured him aa
friend by all he held ss ored,to
After soane little eonveraation the rav-
erend gentlemen promised to do aail
and tbe ncxtday called at iba ""
given him. Then tbe;
a look of i
indicative of
vealed to him
had conceived a
love for thai
she said, that bar |
in hia devotion to
she loved him mota, bal
aalf to a Ufo at <3 v. and >bn wmU
%
E i
11
pava Itiwi
i a whole plate of
it seemed aa if
«to*
mm-3
ia*we
he.
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