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IB BARON & NISSLY, Proprietors.
SALINE, WASHTENAW COUNTY, MICHIGAN, JANUAEY 20, 1881.
VOL. I—NO. 10.
NEWS SUMMARY.
Iniportant Intelligence from AH Parts.
Congress.
Alensthz debate occurred In the Senate
on the 13th. on Mr. Logan's resolution for the
extension of the franking privilege to all official business of Senators and Representatives-
The Army Appropriation hill Avas debated	
The morningr hour was dispensed'with in the
House, and the IHxndlng: bill was considered
in Committee of the Whole. The rate
of interest on the bonds and notes
was fixed at three per cent, by a
vote of ,333 to 93—the Democrats mainly
favoring that rate and the Republicans oppo-
sinsfit.. An amendment offered by Mr. Sanford, was adopted, that prior to the issue of
the refunding bonds or notes the Secretary of
the Treasury shall pay on maturing bonds all.
standard silver dollars and all gold in excess of
$50,0j0,000 now held for redemption purposes.
An amendment, offered by Mr. McMillan,
making-the bonds authorized by the bill subject to taxation was defeated—25 to 99.
A bili, was passed in the Senate on the 13th
for the payment of, damages which may be
occasioned to Indians on the Minnesota reservation, by the construction of reservoirs at
the headwaters of the Mississippi under the
act of last year. The, Army Appropriation bill
was taken up, and an item forthe partial payment of land-grant roads was adopted Bills
were reported in the House: Prom the Committee on Elections, a minority report, declaring that neither J. G. Holms nor AY. P. Sapp
had been legally elected from the Eighth Congressional "District of Iowa; also, a minority
report in the case of Wilson vs. Carpenter, from the'Mnth. Congressional District
pt Iowa; from the Committee on Military
Affairs, for *the relief of General Ord. The
Pundingbill was taken up in Committee of
the Whole, and an amendment, by Mr. Randall, was adopted—128 to 3, Messrs. Weaver
and G-illette in the negative—that 8100,000,000
m three-per-cent. bonds, redeemable in five
years and payable in ten, and certificates to
the amount of §300,0.,0,000, bearing three-percent, interest and running from one to ten
years, be issued, the Treasury having previously paid out all the stiver dollars and all the
gold reserve abpve»S50,000,000.
; Mr. Hoar introduced a bill in the Senate on
the 14th providing for retired and retiring
Presidents by paying to them annually a sum
equal to one-fourth of the salary they received
while in office. -The District of Columbia
!JCramp bill and the Army and West Point Appropriation bills were passed. Adjourned to
the 17th. Several private bills" were considered in the House, in Committee of the Whole.
j The Senate was not in session on the 15th.
I...The Funding bill wa* further considered
in the House, in Committee of the Whole, and
thejiratvSepond, third and fourth sections
were completed. Mr. Anderson's proposition
to replace bank notes with legal tenders as
rapidly as the former were retired was rejected as not being germane. A substitute for the whole bill, offered by Mr.
McLane, embracing Secretary Sherman's plan
■>f bonds or certificates, drawing not over
three and one-half per cent., was lost—97 to
108. The Randall amendment to the first section, providing for SIOO.OOU.OOO of bonds, payable in five to ten years, and §300,000,000 of certificates, redeemable in one to ten years, each
bearing three per cent, interest, the Treasury
having previously- paid out on maturing bonds
all the silver dollars in store and all gold
above §50,000,000, was adopted. The second
section, as amended, authorizes the Secretary
of the Treasury, in refunding operations, to
exchange any bonds except those issued to
the Pacific Railway Companies. The third
section restricts to one-fourth of one per cent,
the expense of placing the new bonds and
certificates. Ths fourth section authorizes
the use of f.50,CC0,000 in coin in redeeming five
and six per cent, bonds, which are to be cancelled. Several amendments to the fifth section were pending when the committee rose
and the House adjourned.
Domestic.
The boiler of the Union Flouring Mills,
Detroit, exploded on the 12th, killing; three
men and three horses. The building was
completely wrecked.
An" explosion in a celluloid factory at New-
buryport, Mass., on the 12th caused, the death
of two, and possibly three, men. The works
had been recently removed, from Kew Jersey,
where ah, explosion had previously occurred.
ATEast St. Louis a few days ago Miss Mary
Stack, while kissing the lips of a dead and
well-loved cousin, fell dead upon the floor
from grief.
The explosion of a coal-oil lamp in the residence of W. B. Moser, at Beading, Pa.,
caused the death of two persons and the fatal
burniii°: of two others.
The Western Union and the American
Union Telegraph Companies have pooled
their issues. By the terms of the agreement
the new organization will have a capital of
SSO.O00,000, of which S5S,000,000 will be apportioned to the Western Union, $15,000,000
to the American Union and 17,000^000 to the
Atlantic and Facifie.
A Wabash express train from CMcago was
wrecked at Mitchell, III., on the morning of
the 12th.    Twelve persons were injured.
The farm residence of John Witfkow, near
Oshkosh, Wis., was On the 13th reduced to
ashes. An investigation revealed the fact
that, in a fit of insanity, Wiskow had killed
his wife, attempted the life of his daughter,
fired the bouse and out-buildings, and then
shot himself dead.
United States Treasurer Gijsstjjlks di-
reofcs that holders of notes may forward them
in even thousands for redemption, free of
}express charges.
Ox the 13th George Ashbaugh, foreman of
Bronson's factory at Indianapolis, was
caught by a shaft revolving three hundred
times per minute, stripped of all his clothing
save the necktie, and both feet pounded
oft He survived the accident but five minutes.
The Southern PaciSe construction train
were recently reported to be within forty
miles of El Paso.
Jacksian* & Co., live stock commission
dealers, and the Gheever&Burchard Cutlery
Company, of St. Louis, failed on the 13th.
Liabilities $25,000 and $80,000, respective!}-.
On the I3th a passenger train on the Pan-
Handle Road ran into three loaded freight-
cars near Unionport, Ohio. The engineer,
Thomas Burke, and the fireman were severely injured,; and several passengers wefe
wounded. The engine, postal-car and three
freight-cars were wrecked.
Near Sedalia, Tenn., a few nights ago
Delia Dewham poisoned her brother, because
be was determined to marry contrary to her
taste, by mixing arsenic with bread. He
lingered In great a^ony for twenty hours.
Fkei>emck Wintz, President of the New
Orleane City Railway Company, has been arrested for the embezzlement of $50,000.
The message of Governor St. John, of
Kansas, was delivered on the 13th. He shows
that Kansas has a bonded debt of §1,000,000
and has 8860,000 in the Treasury.
Is" Chicago on the 14th A. J. Mason, an
expert burglar, who strongly resembled
another inmate- o£ the Cook County jail,
named Grossman, made his escape by personating the latter and getting a discharge
by expiration of sentence.
An Indianapolis jury on the 14fch,found John
Gardiner guilty of horse-stealing, and sentenced him to three years in the Penitentiary.
The convicted felon then coolly walked out
of the court-room and had not been heard
fronx «p to midnight of that day. Spectators
wlio witnessed his departure thought he was
accompanied by a bailiff.
It is said recent careful investigation in
the cotton, belt shows that 16,500,000 acres
had been planted, and that the larger portion
of the crop would be Bayed, amounting to
5,900,000 bales.   One farmer in Kern County,
California, had planted fifty acres, with good
results.
At Wellsville, Mo., recently, Luther Betts
was chopping wood, when his little boy came
running up with a hand-sled to haul away the
wood. He ran under the ax, which struck,
him on the neck, nearly severing his head
from his body.
W. T. Lawrence, the builder of the grand
stand which fell in Adrian, Mich., In 1879,
and caused the death of seventeen persons,'
has had his trial for manslaughter and has
been acquitted.
According to the late census there are
245 cities in the United States having a population of over 10,000;
E. W. Marshall & Co., wholesale dry-
goods dealers at Charleston, S. C, have suspended, with liabilities of $60,000.
A few nights ago the dwelling of Timothy
Cavan, near Gaithersburg, Md., was destroyed by fire, and Cavan's sons, Francis and
Denis, aged eleven and thirteen years, respectively, aud an employe named John
•Folby, forty-live years of age, were burned to
death.
A Machias (Me.V dispatch of the 14th
states that the trial of Warren Longmore, the
nina-year-old boy who killed his playmate at
Pembroke last October, had ended in a verdict of manslaughter. He was sentenced to
the Reform School during his minority. It
was charged that Longmore shot his. companion, whose age was eight, in the bead and
neck, and started to drag the body to a manure heap for the purpose of burying it,
when, finding that life was not extinct, he
took a spade and fractured his victim's skull.
Alexaner Rodantj, who advertised himself as the agent of a mammoth watch
company, has been arrested in Boston for
using the mails for fraudulent purposes.
The corpse of James Hamilton, of Greensboro, Pa., was cremated in the Le Moyne
furnace at Washington, Pa., on the 14th.
The explosion of a boiler in Watson's
bleaehery, at Paterson, N. J.,, on the 15th
killed'one operative, and seriously wounded
another.
A band of Indians recently attacked a stage
near Fort Cummings, and killed the driver
and four passengers, mutilating and burning
their bodies.
Not long ago George Lawrence, of Springfield, 111., was given a sick pig, which, after
keeping several weeks, he slaughtered for
family use. His wife soon died, in great
agony, from trichinosis, and Ms body was
swollen to twice its natural size on the 16th.
The analysis of the meat showed that it was
alive with parasites.
An adjourned meeting of the Convention of
Wool Growers and Manufacturers of the
United States was held in Washington on the
loth. A number of interesting papers on
sheep culture were read, and a resolution was
adopted urging upon Congress the importance of establishing in the District of Columbia an experimental-farm, at the expense of
the Government, to acquire the best species
of domesticated animals for distribution
among the States.
Near Rixford, Pa., on the loth, L. Garth-
wait, an employe of the Roberts Torpedo
Company, had lowered a forty-quart torpedo
into a well, when the well made a sudden
flow,, throwing the torpedo into the air.
He caught it in his .arms, and, on the
rebound, the torpedo exploded, blowing the
man to pieces.
Frank Walsh, a Brooklyn burglar, who
was serving a term of twenty years at Sing
Sing, attempted to run across the Hudson on
the ice, on the 15th, and was shot dead oy a
guard.
The number of silver dollars distributed by
the United States mints during the week ended on the loth was 101,984, against 7,000
during the corresponding week of last year.
Over fifty head of Jersey cattle, among
which was a bull valued at $1,500, were
burned to death by the destruction of the
Coleman barns, in Lancaster County, Pa., On
the 15th.   Loss estimated at $43,000.
There were 1,783 fires in New York City
last year, involving a loss of $3,183,440, only
$119,367 of which was not covered by insurance. _
Personal and Political.
The Maine Legislature has concurred in a
report of the Joint Committee on Gubernatorial Votes declarinsr Harris M. Plaisted, the
Fusion candidate, elected Governor of that
State. The vote as finally determined was:
Harris M. Plaisted, 73,713; Daniel F. Davis,
73,544; Joshua Nye, 309; William A. Joy,
124; Harrison M. Plaisted, 57; scattering,
55; total vote, 147,802.
Senator McDonald, of Indiana, and Mrs.
Josephine E. Barnard were married in Washington on the 12th.
The Democratic members of the Ohio Legislature on the 12th renominated Allen G.
Thurman for United States Senator.
The West Virginia Legislature was organized on the 12th by the election ot the Democratic nominees for presiding officers.
Justice Seth Ames, of the Massachusetts
Supreme Court, has been forced by advancing
years to tender bis resignation.
The Democrats of the Delaware Legislature on the 12th renominated Senator Bayard.
At a convention of Kansas farmers held at
Topeka on the 12th a resolution was adopted
favoring a Congressional enactment controlling all inter-State transportation and rates of
freight based upon the cost of constructing
railroads.
The Wisconsin Legislature was organized
on the 12th by the election of Thomas B.
Scott as President pro tem. of the Senate, and
J. B. Bradford as Speaker of the Assembly.
' Governor Chcrchill, of Arkansas, was
Inaugurated with great ceremony on the 18th.
Both houses of the Michigan Legislature
have adopted a concurrent resolution requesting the delegation of the State in Congress to aid in passing the extension of the
land grant for a railroad from Ontonagon to
the Wisconsin State line.
General Grant has been elected President
of the World's Fair Commission, and has
signified his acceptance.
On the 13th the Pennsylvania Republican
Senatorial caucus nominated H. W. Oliver,
Jr., for United States Senator. Fi£t3'-oue
members absented themselves by agreement.
Justice Swayne, of the United States Supreme Court, resigned on the 13th, his resignation to take effect on the 23d of January.
H. M. Plaisted was Inaugurated Governor
of Maine on the 13th.
Hamilton Fish has been elected President
of the Union League Club of New York.
Senator McMillan was renominated on
the 13th for United States Senator by the
Republicans of the Minnesota Legislature.
The New York Republican members of the
Legislature on the 13th nominated Thomas
C. Piatt for United States Senator.
Eight Greenback Representatives in Congress, Messrs. Mutch, Weaver, Ford, De La
Matyr, Gillette, Stevenson, Lowe andYocum,
on the 15th sent a dlspafch to Governor Plaisted,. of Maine, " congratuJatl ig you and all
who aided in elevating you to office as Govr
emor of the Commonwealth of Maine* on
your able and patriotic inaugural address."
1 William Belden, General Garfield's stepfather, aged seventy years, died on the night
of the 14th, at his home in Byron Township,
Kent Co., Mich.
A bill has been introduced in the New
York Lezislature to make real estate the
only object of general taxation, and to tax
railroad gross earnings two per cent, and insurance premiums three per cent.
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Forelsn.
According to a Vienna telegram of the
12th, Turkey was making heavy purchases of
arms in the United States.
In Ireland on the 12th the Tralee and Les-
towel mail-car was*overturned by a mob and
all the letters were destroyed."
A London dispatch of the 12th says Gladstone, the Premier, hadreduced the rents of
his tenants twenty-five per cent.
Owing to a distasteful clause in a contract,
nearly fifty thousand English colliers struck
at Lancashire on the 13th.
Jean Dios, the revolutionist of San Domingo, has been shot by troops sent to effect
his capture.
It recently required over, three hundred
Irish police and a squadron of dragoons, with
the aid of the parish priest, to serve notices
of ejectment on the tenants of Lord Gravard,
atDrumlith.
On the opening of the state trials at Dublin oh the 13th a party of two hundred evicted tenants marched from the Land-League
offices to the court room.
A proclamation by the Boers charges the
British with having fired the first shot.
A Grand Trunk Railroad train, bound
west, was wrecked on the bridge at St. Ann's,
near Montreal, on the 14th. Seven loaded
cars were smashed.
Striking miners at Wigan, England, grew
so riotous on the 14th that they were charged
-by the police, who were repulsed, several persons being seriously injured.
It is reported that Mitchell Henry, Home-
Rule member of Parliament for Galway, who
has spent a fortune in beautifying his estates,
and has the reputation of being a generous
landlord, has resolved to quit Ireland, on
account of denunciation by the Land League.
In the British House of Commons on the
14th Parnell's amendment to the address in
reply to the Queen's speech, asserting that
coercion was no remedy for Irish grievances,
was rejected by 435 to 57.
At the dose of a recent Land meeting on
one of the Arran Islands, off the coast of Ireland, the Leaguers, it is alleged, drove
twenty-one fine beeves over the cliffs into the
sea.
The anti-Jewish agitation has extended
from Berlin to Saxony, Bavaria, Leipsic and
Breslau.
A Vienna dispatch of the 16th announces
the appointment of Herr Von Aueniode as
Ambassador to the United States.
The Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland has
sent to the Queen a memorial appealing for
.measures to check the terrorism of the Land
League.
In afresh note to the^Great Powers, published bn the 16th, the Porte refers to the
warlike preparations of Greece and invites a
movement for a European conference.
The Bavarian Minister of the Interior has
instructed the police to check the anti-Jewish
movement.
An investigation of the plot to blow up the
armory at Salford, England, shows that the
regiment quartered in the barracks had many
Irish members, among whom Fenianism had
been previously suspected.
At Maryborough, Ireland, on the 15th six
traders were arrested and held to bail upon
the charge of compelling persons to join the
Land League.
The British Court of Appeals on the 15th
ordered the discharge of the writs of attachment issued against Revs. T. Pelbam Dale
and W. Enright for persisting in ritualistic
practices, for the reason that the writs ordering their imprisonment were defective.
The rate of discount of the Bank of England has recently been raised to the highest
figure on the Continent, 3)4 per cent. The
constant drain of gold .for American export is
the cause.
OCCUKKENCES OP INTEREST.
LATER NEWS.
A PBELTMiNART report has been made to
the Census Bureau upon the cotton industry
of the United States. It shows that there are
530,223 looms, and 10,921,147 spindles, consuming 1.568,4S1 bales of cotton, and employing 181,628. persons.
Diphtheria was raging in the vicinity of
Valparaiso, Ind., on the 17th with a virulence
that almost equaled that of yellow fever.
Chauncy Gaylord; residing near Chrisman
Station, buried five children in one grave, and
two more were not expected to survive the
day.
Superintendent Walker has recently
furnished the official figures of the popula-'
tion of the following States: Colorado, 194,-
649; Florida, *266,566; Louisiana, 940,263;
Kentucky, 1,648,599; California, 864,6S6; Connecticut, 622,6S3; Idaho, 32,611; Georgia,
1,538,983; Michigan, 1,636,335; West Virginia,
618,193. The census of all the States shows a
total population of 49,369,595 and of the Territories 783,271, making a grand total of 50,-
152, S66.
The value of domestic breastuffs exported
from the United States during the month oi
December, 1880, was $18,214,746; December,
1879, §19,155,236; twelve months ended December, 1880, $263,295,359; same period in
1879, $239,201,889,
George Ehredt, son of a farmer living
near Galena, 111., a few mornings ago playfully pointed a gun, which he thought unloaded, at his brother while in bed. The gun
was loaded and went off. The bullet lodged
in the brother's throat, killing him almost
instantly.
&In the State trials at Dublin on the 17th the
counsel for the traversers called to the stand
a man of eighty-three years, scarcely able to
stand upright, who had been evicted from a
holding.
The Democratic members of the Pennsyl-
vana Legislature on the 17th renominated
William A. Wallace for United State3 Sen-
.ator and those of the New York Legislature
Francis Kcrnan. General B. F. Butler was
nominated by the Democrats of the Massachusetts Legislature.
Bills were passed in the United States
Senate on the 17th directing the purchase of
the Freedmen's Bank building at Washington for $250,000, and to place General Ord
on the list of retired Major-Generals. The
joint resolution creating the Yorktown Centennial Commission was also passed. Amotion to lay aside the regular order and take
up the case of Senator Kellogg, of Louisiana,
was defeated—30 to 34—Messrs. Butler, Davis
(111.), Lamar, Groome, Pendleton, Thurman,
Voorhees, White, Williams and Bayard voting
with the Republicans in the negative. In the
House Mr. White introduced a proposition
for a Constitutional amendment providing
for the election of United States Senators by
the people. The Census report was received,
and Mr. Cox introduced an Apportionment
bill fixing the number of Representatives at
301. After a spirited debate the bill quiet'
ing the titles of settlers on DCs Moines River
lands was passed.
A. Railroad Ticket Twenty Tear* Old.
The Hartford (Conn.) Times says that a passenger on a train from Springfield recently
gave the conductor a ticket purchased in October, 1869. He bought it at South Framing-
ham, Ma3S., for Hartford at that time, but,
stopping over in Springfield, had it stamped,
and then w.ent to Hartford by another route.
It was taken up by the conductor, who said
that the oldest one known to "have been taken
previously was eighteen years old.
The " X.copnrd Boy."
New York, January 12.
Prof. George Henry Fox, in a lecture on
skin diseases at the College of Physicians and
Surgeons, exhibited as an illustration the
"Leopard Boy." After the Professor had explained that the color of different races depended on the amount of pigment contained
in the skin, the boy, a young negro about eleven years old, was let in.. He was scantily
dressed. His body is mottled with a patch of
white skin. Prof. Fox said that the white
spots had enlarged considerably since his first
examination of the boy three years ago, and
it was safe to predict that the process would
go on until transformation would be completed. The lad, in response to questions, said
that he was black at birth, and that white spots
began to appear when he was three years old.
He suffered no pain.
A. Fatal Inundation.
The Brazilian colony of Blumenau, largely
peopled by settlers from Germany, has met
with serious disaster in the shape of an overwhelming tropical rain storm. Dr. Blumenau
writes to the Saar and Mosel Zeitung that a deluge burst upon the settlers at three o'clock
on the morning of the 22d of September, and
lasted until eleven at night. Over twenty persons were drowned or lost their lives otherwise
during its continuance. In a neighboring settlement, eighteen lives were lost, and doubtless many more in other places. Hundreds of
houses were destroyed, bridges washed away,
and streets and roads so utterly devastated as
hardly to leave a trace of their previous existence. Dr. Blumenau's valuable library and
private papers and manuscripts were irreparably damaged, and his botanical garden, that
had been carefully cultivated for twenty-five
years, was partly uprooted and destroyed, and
partly buried in mud. Most of the colonists
are destitute.
The Explosive Water Pitcher.
Mr. William H. Levebgood, Principal of
the Boys' Secondary School, this city, had a
singular experience on Saturday morning
last, at his home in Wrightsville. He was
Bitting with certain members of his family,
when a loud report—as of the discharge of
a heavily-loaded gun—was heard in the
sleeping apartment occupied by his mother, and he rushed there to ascertain the
cause. Imagine his surprise to find that the
pitcher had exploded, and, with the bowl, had
been broken into fifty pieces by actual count,
some of the pieces having been hurled across
the room. The mo3t singular part of the affair was that the apartment was heated by a-
register, and that the pitcher contained only
about a pint of water, and that was not frozen.
Had the pitcher been filled with ice, the cracking of it would not have been remarkable; but
there was no such cause, and the vessels were
not merely cracked, but seemed to have been
blown to pieces by an explosion.—Lancaster
(Pa.) Neio Era.
Singular Fulfillment of a Bream.
Little Clara Beede, the ten-year-old
daughter of James M. Beede, the Assistant
Principal of the High-School at Orange, N. J.,
was greatly admired for her vivacity and her
sweetness of disposition by all her father's
neighbors and by her playmates. On the Friday preceding Christmas, the children attending the public schools were dismissed for the
holiday vacation. Christmas Day little Clara
spent at the Christmas-tree entertainment of
her Sunday-School class. She was as lively as
was her wont. In the evening her father
romped With her. On Sunday morning she
came to the breakfast table with a serious
face. Her mother questioned her, and Clara
said she had had a dream.
"I dreamt, mother," she said, "that Idled
and went to Heaven. When I got up there an
angol met me at the door. He led me by the
hand toward a lake of clear water. I asked
for a drink. It was handed'me. Oh, mother,
how delicious it was. I could feel it go through
all my veins. Then, mother, I saw you by my
side. I was glad at that, for I saw you drfnk,
too."
Mrs. Beede bade her child pay no attention to
the dream. They were both in good health, and
not likely to die. On Sunday afternoon symptoms of diphtheria were noticed in Clara. A
doctor was sent for. On New Year's morning,
when the neighbors called to wish Mr. Beede
the compliments of the season, he informed
them that his daughter was dead. She had
died that morning. Thej?reatest anxiety was
then expressed for the health of the mother,
by those to whom Clara's dream was repeated.
The father did not resume his duties, in the
High-School_pn Monday, for he was suffering
from the disease which had caused the little
girl's death.   His wife, too, was attacked.
On Friday Mr. Beede died. The news was
kept from his wife, as her death was momentarily expected. Mr. Beede was born in East
Hebron, N. H., thirty-six years ago, and was
graduated at Wesleyan University in the class
of'72. He was for some-time Professor of
Mathematics in the Drew Ladies' Seminary in
Carmel, N. Y.—N. T. Sun.
The Treaties With China.
A Washington special of the 10th says:
" The Chinese treaties were sent to the Senate to-day, and the documents were referred,
in Executive session, to the Committee on
Foreign Kelations. The treaties relate to commerce and immigration.
"TheEmperor of China agrees that the
Government of the United States should exercise entire control over the immigration of
Chinese into this country, just as the Pekin
Government regulates the movement of foreigners into their country. Whenever, in the
judgment of this Government, the immigration ot Chinese labor threatens to injure the
interests of this country, we may restrict or
put a stop to it altogether. While the
(influx of Chinese is not prohibited in
terms, the same end is practically accomplished by allowing our Government to exercise its discretion in the premises, except in
case of those Nations of China who may come
here for other purposes than labor simply. In
other words we are not to interfere with the
going and coming of Chinese subjects who
seek to invest capital, engage in commerce,
study or travel; to engage in the practice of
the learned professions, or scientinc observation or investigation. The Chinese already here
arc to have the same protection of life and
property as is guaranteed to our own citizens.
"The Commercial treaty provides that
no differential or discriminating duties
shall be levied by either country at their
ports to the disadvantage of the merchant marine or commerce of the other, which is, in
fact, in accordance with our statutes as at
present in force. It appears also that the
treaties do not profess to impair, abolish or
annul the Burlingume treaty, but rather define and supplement it, and supply regulations in certain particulars omitted in the
other document. The Commercial treaty
specifies that the Americans shall not import
opium into China, an article, by the way, that
we do not have to export, and In return for
this concession a very important consideration
Is provided in the way of special relief from
duties on our manufactured cotton fabrics to
our great advantage over English goods,"
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The Quaker Origin of Wilmington,
aware.
Del-
Dame Elizabeth Shipley had a dream.
She was living at the time—which was
in the year of grace 1730—at Ridly
Township, near the good town of Philadelphia. Her husband, William, who
was of honest, plodding English country
folk, was not one that a dream would,
lie upon; for such natures as his are ot
hard, dry substance, in which flowers
of imagination do not bloom freely, and
from which the dews of night pass readily in the open daylight. But Elizabeth's dream lay upon her mind the
next day, and she told it to her husband.
It was thus: She was traveling on horseback along a high-road, and after a time
she came to a wild and turbulent stream,
which she forded with difficulty; beyond
this stream she mounted a long and
steep hill-side; when she arrived at its
summit a great view of surpassing
beauty spread out before her. The hill
whereon she stood melted away in the
distance into a broad savannah, treeless
and covered with luxuriant grass. On
either side of the hill ran a stream—
upon one, the wild water-course which
she had just crossed; upon the other, a 1 sea, steepness, exposure to bad winds*
and the poor land too high. Sir Richard
Griffith was an engineer in his earlier
life, and from 1851 to 1864 was Chairman of the Board of Public Works
in Ireland. As a sample of the thorough manner in which the valuation
was made, a correspondent of the Toronto Globe writes:
The maps gotten out were, as nearly
perfect as possible, were on a six-inch
scale, and contained county, barony,
parish^ townlands, homes, acreage,
owners, cities,, towns, demesnes, farms,
runs, collieries, forges, lime-kilns, tanneries, bleach-greens, wells, roads,
canals, bridges, locks, weirs, hogs,
churches and every cabin, etc. There
were lines even to mark the fall of the
water and the curvature of the land.
Griffith divided his valuators into two
classes—ordinary valuators and cheek
valuators; the duty of the latter was
to follow the former into every district
and patch, to; dig and examine, no matter how small, to test the accuracy of
the ordinary valuators, and to alter the
valuation if necessary. Valuators were
bound to examine upper and under soil,
all was to be valued at its agricultural
worth; elevations above the level of the
snake-like river that wound sluggishly j
along in the sunlight.   Then for the
first time she saw that a guide accompanied her, and she spoke to him.
" Eriend,  what country is this that
thou hast taken me to?"
"Elizabeth Shipley," answered, he
" beneath thee lie th anew land and a
fruitful, and it is the design of Divine
Providence that thou shouldst enter in
thereto, thou and thy people, and ye
shall be enriched even unto the seventh
generation. Therefore now leave the
place where now thou dwellest, and
enter into and take possession. of this
land, even as the children of Israel took
possession of the land of Canaan." He
finished speaking, and as she turned to j
look, he vanished, and she awoke.
William Shipley bade his wif e think
no more of her dreams, for if one pulls
*6p blue beans after they have sprouted,
one's pot is like to go empty. So,
meeting with no encouragement, after
some days the sharpness of her dream
became dulled against the hard things
of every-day life.
A year passed, and Elizabeth received a Divine call to go and preach
at a meeting of the • Society
barrenness, patchiness, bad roads, bad
fences, all things which would depreciate and cause a reduction in value. On
the other hand, limestone, turf, seaweed and other manures, good roads,
climate, shelter and convenience to
good market towns were also taken into account and the valuation increased
accordingly.
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A Faithful Dog.
In the southern part of Bolton there
has lived for six or eight years past an
Englishman, aged about sixty, by the
name of Woolrich, who did not appear
to be doing much for a living. He kept
live dogs—some of them ugly—andfew
people went near the house. Last Thursday a notification was left With Eirst Selectman White that Woolrich had not
been seen for several days. Messrs:
White and Sumner, two l'esolute men,
went to the house. They were greeted
by the furious onset of a large coach
dog, who, on their opening the door
wide enough txTlook in, bounded forward with an ominous growl and a dis-
   play of teeth that meant mischief.   The
ofEriends I men snu* *^e door and went to the win-
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.
—The balloonist's home is one flight
up.—N. Y. News.
—A humorous article—a baby with
the rash.—Lowell Citizen.
—Strange as it may appear, every
seaworthy ship is for sail.—Borne Sentinel.
—If you have a desire to see a national and patriotic kiss just watch B
Pluri bus Unum.— Quincy Modern Argo.
—"There's a sketch from my pen,"
said the old farmer, showing his city
nephew a pencil drawing of a fat hog
he had killed.—Syracuse Sunday Times.
—The difference between a man and
a clock is, that the former quits work
when he strikes while the latter quits
work when it don't strike.—Whitehall
Times.
—A New York womanlost $20,000 one
day last week while out shopping. A
Rockland woman might go shopping
every day for a year and not lose so
much money. She is too careful,—
Rockland Courier.
—Why are a true lover's visits like a
successful newspaper? Because they
.commence weekly, become semi-weekly, then tri-weekly, and then daily with
Sunday supplement.—Philadelphia Sunday Item.
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The Foolish Hen—A Fable.
held in ^f praLsnla thlat^esVetweeu j dow-   Looking in, they saw Woolrich
the Delaware and Chesapeake bays,   lt
was  in  the   spring  time,   when   the
meadows were clad with bright green,
when the woodlands were soft with tender leaves,  unfolding  timidly   in   the
generous warmth of the sun, when the
birds sang,   when  the   cocks   crowed
lustily, when the wren chattered under
the eaves, and all the air was burdened
with the sweetness of the apple blossoms, among which the bees swarmed ,
with drowsy hum.    So she set forth on j
her journey, jogging southward along j
the old King's Road.    She passed many j
streams of sweet water untainted with
lime, Avhere the little fish darted here
and there as her old gray farm horse
went   splashing   across    their  pebbly
reaches.    After a journey of sixteen or
came   to a
eighteen miles she
roaring
stream that cut through tree-covered"
highlands and came ravins: and rushing
down over great rocks and bowP
ders. The cawing of crows in the
woods, and a solitary eagle that went
sailing through the air, was all the
life that broke the solitude of the place.
As she hesitated on the bank before entering the rough-looking ford, marked
at each end by a sapling^ pole to which
a red rag was fastened, tlie whole scene
seemed strangely familiar to her. After
she had crossed the stream she began
^ascending a hill up which the highway
led, that feeling strong upon her which
one has at times of having lived through
such a scene before. At the top of the
hill she came to a clearing in the forest
where an old Swede had built him a hut,
and begun to till the land. Here the
woods unfolded like a curtain, and beneath her she saw the hill melt away
into level meadows that spread far to a
great river sparkling in the sunlight
away in the distance. Upon one hand
ran a sluggish river curving through the
meadows; on the other, the brawling
stream she had just crossed. She sat
in silence looking at the scene, while
the little barefoot Swedish children
gathered at the door of the hut, looking
with blue-eyed wonder at the stranger;
then clasping her hands, she cried aloud,
"Behold it is the land of my vision and
here will I pitch my tent!"
Over the wooded hill-sides and across
the grassy savannahs Avhich Dame Shipley saw first in her dream and afterward in the reality, now spreads a busy
and populous city, of which she and her
husband were the chief founders. The
smoke from factory, chimneys stireaks
the air with black ribbons of vapor; on
the breeze come the clatter, the rattle
and the hammering of the great shipyards that now lie along the banks of
the slow-running, snake-like river that
she saw in her dream: while beside the
other brawling stream stand cotton,
woolen, paper, flour and powder mills.
Everywhere is the busy excitement and
teeming rush of tilose population. That
was the sower, that the seed and this
the fruit that grew from it—the city of
Wilmington, the metropolis of Delaware—Howard Pi/le, in Harper1 $ Magazine.
Griffith's Valuation.
"Griffith's valuation" has been so
frequently mentioned in the cable dispatches, with reference to the Irish
land ti*oubles, that a brief explanation
of it will be of interest to our readers.
It is substantially a valuation of land in
Ireland made for purposes of taxation
by Sir Richard John Griffith, some forty
years ago, which is much lower than
that now made by the landlords. In. a
letter, written in 1843, which has recently "been reprinted by the London
Times, Sir Richard says:
"In regard to the valuation made
under my direction, I am of opinion
that one-third being added to the prices
contained in the field-books would
make a full or high -rent, higher than
most gentlemen rent their lands, but
not higher than small proprietors and
middlemen let their lands. This rent
would not include the tithe-rent charge
or any tax to which lands are liable."
This valuation has been accepte.l by
the League, though it is said that the
best land was valued too low in 1843
sitting in a chair by the stove, his head
bent forward, as if asleep. Unable to
arouse him, and the dog continuing to
exhibit the ugliest symptoms, it was resolved to kul him Mr. White had
brought his gun, but the dog kept so
near his master, as if guarding him, that
it was not deemed safe to fire from the
window; and, raising this, the visitors
hurled a stone, to start the dog forward.
He'dashed at them with a furious
bound, when the gun was discharged,
killing the faithful animal instantly.
Going into the room, the visitors discovered that Woolrich was dead. Probably he had been dead several days, and
had been frozen to death. He was not
known as a drinking man. His other
dogs, starved out, had left him, but this
one faithful and formidable animal had
refused to desert him, and stood it out
bravely by his side in cold and hunger.
The dog fell a martyr to his devotion
and fidelity.—Hartford (Conn.) Times.
Japanese Dress.
To each class of the Japanese population a special description of clothing is
assigned, varying in material according
to season. These may be dividend into
the ordinary, festive,.mourning, professional, official, state, and other special
fashions of dress. The laborer, farmer,
and handicraftmen do not overburden
themselves with clothing; a loin cloth
forms their light summer raiment, while
their cold weather costume is usually
comprisedin a wrapper and short girdle.
The better class of artisans and shopkeepers wear a haori,' or short dress,
over all, when out of doors, and from
the thinnest gauze which they wear in
the heat of summer they change in succession to single cotton cloth, to lined
cotton, and, finally, to cotton-wadded*
garments in winter, silk clothing being
reserved for festivals, visits, or great
occasions. 'Firemfen wear thickly-padded and quilted dresses, with mittens
and cap to match them. Small officials
and many of the better class of tradesmen use the hakama, or split petticoat,
the dress being tucked into it, and the
haori worn over all. On special occasions, and in place of the liaori, an upper dress, resembling a pair of wings,
hangs from the shoulders. It is formed
of a material resembling the hakama
worn with it, but is seldom seen at
present. The kami shimo, or winged
jacket, is also worn on special occasions. The ordinary dress of the daimios
resembles the latter somewhat. But it
would require a special chapter to describe it fully. The dress of females of
the lower and middle classes differs only in the quality of material, the fashion
of all being alike. In the nationalmode
of dressing .the hair, now falling into-
disuse, the locks are gathered to the
crown of the head, tied there, and the
queue carried over to the forehead, a
patch being kept clean-shaven, on
which it rests.—Cor. Boston Herald.
A Smart Grocer.
'A Michigan Avenue grocer took a
new clerk a few days ago, and aniong^
other things "he cautioned him to keep
a bright lookout and see that none of
tlie goods at the front door were stolen.
The other evening when the grocer returned from supper bethought he would
give the clerk a fright, and lie. crept
softly up and took twelve dressed
chickens from a basket and carried
them around to the back door and hung
tliem on a hook. When the chickens
were missed the clerk was given a bad
scare by being informed that he must
pay for them. After a while the grocer
decided that the joke had been carried
far enough, and he went out to bring in
the chickens. They had flown away.
While he was scaring the clerk "some
one had come through the alley and
provided himself with fowl to last all
the week.—Detroit Free.Press....
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—The late engineer of the Austrian
arms factory has invented a repeating
rille of novel construction, and the German infantry rifles will be converted on
this model? It greatly increases, the
firing capacity.
Mrs. Brown Hen was known throughout her neighborhood as a modest, hard-
scratching, patient biddy. She never
complained of the cold or found fault
with the heat, and no one ever heard
her express an envious wish. Great
was the surprise, therefore, when she
appeared among the barnyard fowls
one day, and began:
"I'm tired of being a hen. It is
nothing but scratch for worms and lay
eggs for the family. Let a peacock
pass by and all praise it, but what
member of the family ever had a word
of praise for me? I'm going to be a
peacock."
"That you cannot be," replied a
veteran old rooster, as he shook the
dust off his back. "You lack in size
and shape. Nature intended you for a
hen, and as a hen you are a success."
"But lean Hress like a peacock,"
persisted the hen. " P m sick and tired
of these brown colors. I see no reason
why I shouldn't dress as well as any
other fowl."
Arguments and reasons were of no
avail, and Mrs. Brown Hen walked
away to carry out her programme. In
an hour she appeared among the peacocks with a red ribbon around her
neck, a gay feather over her ear, and a
red woolen rag tied around her leg.
She strutted about and tried to make
herself at home, but one of the peacocks stepped forward and said:
"You are simply deceiving yourself.
We all know you for a hen. While you
were acting the part of a hen we all respected you. Now that you are crowding'in where you don't belong, and
where neither nature nor education
have fitted you, you deserve only contempt."
The hen persisted in trying to be a
peacock, and as she strutted around itf^
ner borrowed finery the cook observed
her and said:
'4 No hen with her means could have
come by those things honestly. She
was the best hen in the coop as long as
she remained in her place, but now that
she is out of it she will be gossiped
about and made miserable, and I will
therefore wring her necK and eat her."
—Detroit Free Press.
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Hereditary Descent of Beauty.
Mr. Darwin believes that the general
beauty of the English upper class, and
especially of the titled aristocracy, is
probably due to their constant selection
of the most beautiful women of alj
classes (peeresses, actresses, or wealthy
bourgeoise) as wives through an immense number of generations. The
regular features and fine complexions
of the mothers are naturally handed
down by heredity to their descendants.
Similarly, it would seem, that we must
account for the high average of personal
beauty amongst the ancient Greeks and
the modern Italians by the high average
of general taste, the strong love for the
beautiful diffused amongst all classes in
both those races. The prettier women
and the handsomer men would stand a
better chance of marrying, other things
equal, and of handing do wu their own
refined type of face and figure to their
children. If this be so—and evolution-
sists at least can hardly doubt it—then
we should expect everywhere to find
the general level of personal beauty -
highest where there was the widest
diffusion of assthetie taste. Now, our
own squalid poor are noticeable, as a
rule, for their absolute and repulsive
ugliness, - even when compared with
those of other European countries.
Gaunt, hard-faced women, low-browed,
bull-dog-looking men, sickly, shapeless
children, people the back slums of our
manufacturing towns. Their painful
ugliness cannot all be due to their physical circumstances alone; for the laz-
zaroni who hang about the streets of
Naples must lead lives of about equal
hardship and discomfort; yet many of
them, both men and women, are beautiful enough to sit as models for a Leonardo. On the other hand, every traveler speaks in admiration of the beauty
and gracefulness displayed by young
and old amongst the aesthetic Polynesians; while in many like cases I note
that Europeans who have once become
accustomed to the local type find decidedly pretty faces extremely common
in several savage races whose primitive
works of art show them in other ways
to possess considerable aesthetic taste.
In India, where artistic feeling is universal, almost every man and woman is
handsome. On the whole, it seems
fairlv proved that the average personal
beauty everywhere corresponds to the
average general love for beauty in the
abstract.——-Cornhill Magazine."
—Curious Kentucky town nomenclature: V Pulltight" in Hopkins County;
" Pmchem Slyly" in Spencer; " Pluck
'em in" inVJessamine; "Shirt-tail
Bend," " Shake-rag" and "Dog Walk'1
in Muhlenberg; " Lick Skillet," " Grab
All" and " Ti-wa-pa-ta" in the vicinity
ofElkton; "Fool's Hollow," "Moll's
Gut" and " Lowden's Hole"" in Henry,
and " Devil's Den" and " Hell's Half-
acre" in Spencer.
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