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shiT wners. The bill provides that the non
nabl By clause of the act of March 3. 1851
slail apply to all vessels steamboats, ana
other craft engaged in inland navigation
consideration was resumed of the bill to rro-
VIDE Tor the redemption and reissue of United
states notes, and for FREQ Banking The bill.
aiiSr much debate, was read the third time
anWpassed-29 to 81
In the house, on the 9th, the COM
mittee on elections made report on the Ken
tucky contested election case, that Young, the
sitting member, is entitled to a scat.
resolution was referred instructing the com
mlttee on commerce to inquire into the aues-
uon OF IeTylng capitation tax on emigTants
al the port of New York. Adjourned.
In the senate, on the 7th, the chair
presented communication from the secretary
OF war, transmitting the report OF the board
OF engineers appointed to examine and report
upon the James river and Kanawha canal
project. The finance committee reported
unfaVorably on the bill to refund the internal
revenue taxes erroneously sssessed and col
Iected- After the consideration Of several
private bills the senate proceeded to the con
sideiatlon of executive business and soon
after adjourned.
In the house. on the 7th, the commit
tee on education and labor reported adversely
on bile sr1Ertfzs AiIliaaa-sara.s-
iand to trustees of Browns Institute in Flor
ida, donating the former United States court
mouse building at st. Augustine, Fla. for ed |
ucatonal purposes, and to promote education
IN the territories. The currency question |
occupied the remainder OF the session.
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Cuban Sugar Production.

OF the ], 1857, ,164, 800 pounds of sugar
imported to the United States during
the year 1873, ], ,073, 795, ,520pounds came
from Cuba that is to say, more than
five-sixths of all the sugar we use
comes from this important island. The
condition of its sugar interest is, there
fore, of very great consequence to us
1t was anticipated that the continual
struggle of the Cubans for independ-
ence would materially interrupt the
! growth of its sugar production, but
the statistics of the last three years
show. on the contrary, steady and
healthy increase. The total produea
ton of the island, estimated in tons,
has been as follows: In 1871, 547, 179 (;
in 1872, 708, ,244 in 1873, 796, ,179. The
prospects for the present crop are said
to be very fine, and there Is no good
reason to suppose that there will be any
falling off from these figures. The
capabilities of Cuba for the production
of sugar are practically unlimited, and
under proper direction, it could be made
to Weld as rapidly as the demand could
possibly grow. In 1873 it exported
714 900 tons of sugar, of which 23l, l96
tons, or 80. 81 per cent, came to the
United States. These figures show that
we are by far Sae best customers thai
island has. This fact is still more
strikingly illustrated in the case OF mo.
lasses. for of the 189, 1888 tons exported
last year, we took III, ,519 tons, or 80. II
per cent of the entire amount.
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The Grange Reform.


It is not at all strange that the Grange
movement should meej with opposition.
An enterprise is hardly worth the name
of reform if it does not have this. Gov.
Carpenter, of lows, addressing last
fall a convention of Patrons, told them
they must expect opposition that they
had money and talent arrayed against
them, but that Notwithstanding this
they must go right on, trusting to the
iustness of their cause and the necessl-
ty that rested upon them. That If they
would do all this impediments would
be swept away, and the oppressor would
be left at his toll-gate with free road
around it. on which the Patrons would
go singing because of a free road to
market and q fair return for their pro-
ducts. All great reforms in church
and state have had to overcome great
opposition. and the labor reform against
the expressions of capitalists will not
be an exception. But if it presses on
wisely and perseveringly it will in the
end reap the appropriate fruits Hon.
George Stephenson was opposed by the
aristocracv of England whenshe attempt
ed to get leave of parliament to lay the
first railroad track on her sacred soil.
"Why. it would frighten every thing
to wiidness the birds would leave the
island the cows would dry up, and the
hens would cease to lay; the land would
be ruined. and the whole order of things
would be broken up." When Mr.
Stephenson was presenting his claim:
before parliament he was sneered at
one member said, "Well, Mr.. Stephen
son. see how absurd your idea is. lSup
pose it were possible for you to rul
ysagSs Sss ras 50 tGa ss It eoad az 1Sa' ne %
off-what if COW got on the track ant
you could not turn out for her ?'' "Well
my lord" said Stephenson, 1T woul,
be bad for the cow" So all reform
have met impediments, but they mus
get out of the way or it will be bad fo
! them, Ohio Farmer.
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The Disnosal of the Dead.


The Popular Science Monthly for
March says: " / assume that there is
no point of view 10 be regarded as be-
longing to the deceased person, and
that no one believes that the dead has
any interest in the matter. We who
live may anxiously hope-as I should
hope, at least-to do no evil to sur
vivors after death. whatever we may
have done of harm to others during life.
But, being deceased, I take it we can
have no wishes or feelings touching
this subject. What is best to be done
with the dead is, then, mainly a ques-
ton for the living, and to them it is
one of extreme importance. When the
globe was thinly peoDled, and when
there were no large bCdies of men liv-
ing in close neighborhtod, the subject
was an ipconsiderable cue and could af-
ford to wait, and might indeed be left
for its solution to smtiment of any
kind. But the rapid Increase of popu-
lation forces it irt0 res ;ce, and especi-
ollres.r inea'e 10 " t4-NNssy9~'in crowded
as the sact Is too pa<Snt, tina ssaS-s -
ent mode of treating the dead, namely,
that by burial beneath the soil, Is full
of danger to the living. Hence intra-
mural ipterment has been recently for
hidden, the first stepin aseries of reforms
which must follow. AT present we who
dwell in towns are able to escape much
evil by selecting a portion of ground
distant-in this year of grace 1873
some five or ten miles from any very
populous neigborhood, and by sending
to be buried there-lsying by poison
nevertheless, it is certain, for QUE
children's children, who viii find
your remains polluting their water
sources, when the now distant plot is
covered, as it will be, more or less
closely, by human dwellings,. For 1t
can be question of time only when
now every waste spot will be utilized
for production or shelter, and
when some other mode of disposing of
the dead than that of burial must be
adopted. If, Therefore, burial IN the
soil be certainly injurious either now
or in the future, has not the time al
ready come to discuss the possibility of
replacing it by better process We
cannot to soon cease to DO evil and
| learn to do well. Is it not indeed q
social sin of no small magnitude to
SOW the seed o. disease and death
broadcast, caring only TO be certain that
| they cannot do much harm to our own
! generation? 1t may be granted, to an
ticipate objection, that it is quite pos
sible that the bodies now buried may
have lost most, if not all, their power
of doing mischief by the time that the
particular soil they inhabit ls turned
up again to the suns rays, although
this is by no means certain but 1t is
beyond dispute that the margin OF
safety as to time grows narrower year
by year, and that pollution of wells
streams which supply the living must
ere long arise wherever I'VE bury oul
dead in this country"
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The Currency Bill.

The bill to provide for the redemp-
ton and reissue of United States notes
and for free banking, passed the senate
on the 9th, by the following vote:
YEAs-Messrs. Allison, Bogy, Bor
man, Cameron, Carpenter, Clayton,
Dorsey, Ferry of Michigan, Gold
thwaite, Harvey, Hitchcock, ingalls,,
Johnston, Lewis, Logan, McCreery,
Merrlman, Morton, Norwood, Oglesby,
Patterson, Pease, Pratt, Ramsey, Rob-A
ertson, Spencer, Upton, West and
Windom-29.
NAYs-Messrs. Anthony, Chandler,
Conklin, Clayton. Cooper, Cragin, Da-
Wis, Fenton, Frelinghuysen, Hager,
Hamilton of Indiana, Hamilton of
Texas, Hamlin, Howe, Jones, Kelley,
Morrill, of Vermont, Sergeant, Sauls-
bury, Schurz, Scott, Sherman, Stewart,
Thurman and Wadleigh-24.
Messrs. Gordon, Brownlow, Mitchell,
Sprague. Conover. Ransom and Wright,
who would have voted for the bill, were
paired with Messrs. Bayard, Flanagan,
! Boutwell,, Morrill, of Maine, Stevenson,
| Stockton and Edmunds, who would
have voted against it.
The following is the text of the bill
as adopted That the maximum amount
/ of United States circulation IS hereby
! fixed at four hundred millioas of dol
| lars. That forty-six million dollars in
notes for circulation, in addition to such
circulation now allowed by law, shall
be issued to national banking associa-
tions now organized and which may be
organized hereafter, and such increased
circulation shall be distributed among
the several states, as provided in section
one of the act entitled "An act TO pro-
vide for the redemption of three pei
cent. temporary loan certificates, and
for an increase of national bank notes,
approved July u, 1870; and each ma,
tional banking association now organ
lied. or hereafter to be organized,
shall keep and maintain, as part
of it's reserve required by law. one,
fourth part of the coin received by II
as the interest on bonds of the United
States deposited as security for circula.
ting notes or government deposits, ane
that hereafter only one-fourth of the re
serve now prescribed by law for nation
al banking associations shall consist o
balances due to an association, available
for redemption of its circulating note
from associations in cities of redemp
ton, and upon which balances of inter
est shall be paid.
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Educational Statistics.

The report of Gen. Eaton, commits
sioner of education, for the year 1873 is
mostly IN the hands of the printer, and
washington correspondents are already
beginning to anticipate some of the
more valuable information it will con
sa1n. The bureau in 1871 began col
lecting the facts in regard to gifts of
individuals to educational institutions.
These facts resulted for 1871, in show
ing over $500, 900 so contributed in
1872, 50, $50, 900; and for 1873, 81. .226,-
977, distributed as follows 70 col
leges, IS, 23S, 141 schools of science,
$50, ,65S /; schools of theology, S5I9.-
SR; medical colleges, etc, s78, 600:
superior instruction of women, 1852
OO5; secondary instruction, 1915, ,24I
libraries, S379,0 OIL; museums of nat
ural history S151, $50 deaf and dumb,
81, %; blind, S15, 900; Peabody fund,
Sl3kS49; miscellaneous, $1,000.
Tne educational institutions of Ten
nessee received the following gifts last
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Comb Manufacture.

One of the greatest comb manuf
tories In the world is in Aberdeen, Sc
land. In this establishment there
an immense number of furnaces for p
pairing horns and tortoise-shells for
combs. and between one and two hI
dred iron screw presses are constan
employed in stamping them Sted
power Is employed to cut the com|
the operation being performed ~ \
means with great efficiency. The coa|
combs are stamped or cut ont, two
ing cut in a place at one time by inel
ious machinery. The flne dress
combs aud all small-tooth combs
cut by circular saws, some so nne n|
cut forty teeth in the space OF one Y
and they revolve thousands OF time
a minute. There are about Two n
sand varieties of combs made, and
aggregate number produced, OF OIL y
different sorts Of combs, Is ABOUT
millions annually. The annual
sumption of OK horns, hoois, torts
shell and buffalo horn, is, o. CO..
nrodipious even the waste oo11. Y,
Of horn shavings and perlngs 2. ~ Z y
amoupts to hundreds OF tons !.
and this becomes q valuable =. -, M K
the raanufacture Of prus""''
! ash, etc.
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HOW STRANGE.
How strange it will be, love-how strange, when
fun

How strange it viii be- loye-how strange, when W
Shall be what ali lovers become
You frigid and faithless-I cold and untrue
You thoughtless Of me, and careless of you
our pet names grown rusty with nothing TO do
Loves bright web unraYeled, and rent, and worI
And iife's loom left empty-ah humI
All, me,
How strange it Will bei
How strange 1t viii be when the witchery goes,
Which makes me seem lovely to-day;
When yeur thought Of me loses its "couleur d.
when every day serves some new fault disclose
When you find I've odd eyes and an everyday nose
And wonder You could for a moment suppose
was out Of the eommon-Plaee way
All, me,
How strange it viii be-
How strange it will be, Iove-how strange when We
with just a chill touch of the handl
When my pulses no longer delightedly beat
At the thought Of your coming, the sound Of youl
when I watch not your going, far down the long
When your dear loving voice, now so thrillingly
sweet,
Grows harsh in reproaeh or command
All, me,
How strange 1t will be
How strange it will be, when we willingly stay
Divided the dreary day through
Or, gstting remotely apart as We may,
81 e51y e e1rse sseF m Niih TN Iss Ins9S1g 9 @ t2 say &
In wearisome, d-married-folks sort Of way;
shrink from the picture-don't you?
All. me,
How strange 1t viii be!
Dear love- if our hearts do grow torpid and old,
As so many others have done
If we let our love perish with hunger and cold
If we choose to live wretched and die unconsoled.
Twill be strangest Of all things that ever told
As happening under the sun
All, me,
How strange IL viii be
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GENERAL.

Ex-Judge Edmonds, the well known
lawyer and spiritualist, is dead.
The commissioner of pensions esti-
mates the number of Mexican veterans still
living at $4,000
Leander and Myron Fax, convicted
of sending obscene matter through the mails.
have been pardoned by the president, upon
condition of their paying the five hundred
dollars fine imposed when convicted, and the
costs of the trial.
G. Fl. Sturgeon, of the st. Louis
commissioners to examine the Texas AMI Pa
cifc railroad, has submitted his report to the
secretary of the interior. He examined 169
miles from the boundary line between Louisi-
ana and Texas, west via Marshall to Dallas,
"a miles from Marshall to Texarkana. and 56
miles from sherman, east to Brooklyn. Stur-
geon reports that the road is well built and
equipped, and recommends its acceptance.
In the United States Supreme court,
in the case of the Mutual Life insurance com
insurance COMPANY from the Tennsssee Fem sse cir a
cult, the DEGREES below were affirmed by a
divided court. This was test case to de-
termine the liability of insurance companies
unns were not paid during the war, but upon
which parties or their representatives rendered
payment after the close Of the war. re-
hearing is expected, when the presence Of the
chief justice will prevent a division The
court viii adjourn May 4
The special commissioner of Samana
Bay company has not succeeded in obtnning
an amicable settlement of the questions bend
ing between the government and the COM
pany, and the provisional government has
declared the Samana Bay convention null and
void. The commissioners have protested
against this summary act as arbitrary and ille-
gal, and instigated by British-Haytien inau-
ence and demand arbitration upon the mat
ters in dispute according to the terms Of the
convention. The company Will, in the mean
time, call upon the United States government
for protection against any violent proceedings
on the part of the Dominican authorities.
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round their head and fi-ikg it as well as
they could. The turb@as were of va
rio1s colors, and would in different
ways some of them sFpre like a high
tower.
Shoes and stockingF swere unknown
but soles of leather were fastened with
two latchets. The ladies', who carried
luxury into every depsrtment, and who
are supposed, even in t3e present day.
to be far from indiffert4 t to nice neaS
boot or to elegant Slippers, had their
shoes, or rather sandalsga and their latch
cts. made of beautifuH7 eolored lestb-
er dark blue, violet, End purple were
favorite colors. Solomon admired Sim
lamite's shoes very much, and also the
feet which wore then, for he saws
''How beautiful are tlt5feet with shoes.
o princes daughter sRound the an,
kles bracelets of gor4ar dainty silver
chains and rings. withfiny silver bells,
were worn.
Hair-nets and headAands were in
great request. The later were made of
gold or silver, and worn under the net.
from one ear to the other.
Earrings were much Hought of we
are told of some tha.~eiehed thou
sand and seven hnn edtSaels of gold,
and that were so large that man could
easily put his hand through them.
Some of the women wore several rings
with little bells attached tc them. They
were generally made of horn or of sill
yer. But the most popular ring was
the nose-ring. The left nostril was
pierced for the purpose, and ring made
Of ivory or of metal was put through
It. To our western taste this practice
seems revolving and barbarous, but why
i should be more so than the piercing |
IF the ears am at loss to conceive.
Bracelets were generally worn on the |
right arm, ard some of them were ex-
'eedingly large, so that they reached |
Up to the elbow. Rings on the fingers |
we're worn; chains of fine gold, or |
strings of pearls with little silver balls |
'r snail tinkling bells were worn round |
he neck. ''Thy cheeks, " said Solomon, |
Who knew more about women than most |
If us do, "are comely with rows of |
ewels, thy neck with chains of gold.
t was customary to attach ornaments |
o these chains, either with no meaning /
IS the crosses which our ladies wear, or |
o serve as amulets; such were round /
Tres like the moon, small scent bottles, !
IN the shape of serpents, |
nd little gold or silver plates on which
we're written words supposed to be pos /
essed of magical power.
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Vandalism.

Recent evidence abont the last allied
war against China shows that at the
taking of the Simmer palace one build
ing was full of silks, the produce OF
tax which requires every manufacturer
to send in the first piece he makes of
each sort. a part of these was used IN
stead of ropes, which were wanted to
picket the French horses Then there
was palace full of drawings, series
of four thousand, illustrating the whole
history of China. The soldiers, lgnor-
ant of their value, trod them under foot
and used them for kindling fires.
Scarcely two hundred were saved. Then
there was the carrisge palace, in which
were found the magnificent coacheS
which were presented to the emperor ~
China by the English embassy in 1878
Since then they had never been used
The iron work was loose, and the leather
had become as hard and brittle as wood.
One palace was full of furs.
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Louisiana.

The negro population of Louisiana
seems to be steadily increasing. In
1870 the state had total population OF
726, ,275, and in 1874 the number had
diminished only couple Of hundred,
while during the same period the mum,
ber of blacks in the state had increased
nearly ten thousand. OF the 726,OOO
inhabitants, nearly 298, 900 can neither
whites and $50, 900 blacks. This state
ment. including, as it does, Infants and
Young children, is of course likely to
mislead as to the real state of affairs,
bnt the actual fact that of the children
old enough to atterd school, number.
ing in all 25O, 900, only $1,000, or mol
quita one-third, attend school, is ap-
palIlg enough 10 awaken the most serl'
Gus apprehensions concerning the fu'
ture Of that unfortunate state.
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VEST

Reh Chinaman was admitted to citizen
eas- Grand Rapids, Michigan, last week.
seaGts.to be the first Chinaman to renounce
ss g to the empire.
~ Ter, the balloonist, made an as
~ u al San Francisco on the 9th inst
nearly over the town OF Lanhan-
Fsal5,s 600 feet in the air. the balloon
collapsed. There were four men and two
ladies in the car. The balloon struck the
ground with great force and was dragged
about three hundred yards. No lives were
lost, but al the occupants of the csA were
hurt none seriously.
A dispatch from Austin, Nevada,
gives the particulars OF horrible tragedy in
Smoky Valley. Charles Eckstein had been fer
long time jealous of his wife, on account OF
attentions paid her by yeung man, Martin,
and frequently quarrelled about him. Yester-
day man went to Eckstein's home and found
the door closed, and no response. He opened
the door and the floor saw the naked BODY
of Mrs. Eckstein, cut to pieces. the head split
Then at her feet lay her little girls head,
from her body, and near them
nc dead bodies of Eckstein and young Mar
TN, grappled in a death struggle. Eek
stein held large bowie-knife, covered with
blood, in his hand Martin had dragoon pis-
tol, four chambers empty. There is no living
witness Of this horrible affair.
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The Origin of Inhumation.

Apropos of the subject of burial, a
very curious tradition is said to exist
among the natives of Abyssinia in re-
gard to the origin of burial They say
that when Adam found the body of the
murdered Abel he carried it upon his
shoulders for twenty days, not knowing
how to dispose of it. The Almighty
took pity on him, and sent forth a crow
with its dead young one on its back;
and the crow flew before Adam until it
came to tract of sandy ground, in
which it dug a hole with its feet and
buried its young one. And when Adam
saw this he dug grave in the sand and
buried his lost boy in it.
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When Children Should Begin schoal.

In a paper on the sanitary aspectsN vi
primary education, read recently by
DR.. R. ]. Sullivan, before the New
York Academy of Medicine, an i'm
portant suggestion occurs in reference
to the earliest age at which pupil
should be admitted in nour schools. he
contends that seven years is a minimum
a0e. not because mental exertion would
be injurious to healthy intellectual
growth, but because school life under
It's present hygienic surroundings is
very unfavorable to physical develop
ment.
In,other words it is to be understood
that. although a pupil is capable OF
reasonable understanding and limited
amount of intellectual development
prior to the seventh year, such educa,
| tion should be given it out OF school