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The Cotton Supply.

The next IN Importance to the Ameri-
crop as regards quantity is the SUD.
ply from the East Indies. Europe used
to receive thence on an average 1900. 900
bales a. year last season the imports
were only 100000 bales. The cause is
to be found in the extension of local
mills (durlng the last twelve months
they consumed 230, 600 bales Bombay
cetton), in the almost entire cessation of
shipments from Calcutta and in the
..isely increased culture and export OF
wheat. The same causes still prevail, and
are further aggravated this year by the
Partial failure of the crops in the south
ern provinces, which have their outlet at
Bombay, and also of the Madras crops.
Another falling off is predicted of l50,-
900 to 100000 bales in the receipts from
the East Indies, although, as is reported.
the exports from Bombay for the first
half year ending the thirtieth of June
may prove little short of those during
the same period in 1876, because with
the full yield in the three principal dis
tricts the failure in the southern
provinces will not tell on the shipments
from Bombay until after the monsoon.
The Bombay bales weigh about three
hundred pounds, the Madras and Bengal
about three hundred pounds.
The Egyptian crop, like our own, has
been marketed unusually early. From
of October to twenty-itth Of No
vember, receipts in Alexandra were l..
233, 900 csntars against s57 900 and s43,-
900 cantars the two preceding years.
an excess OF $4,000 cantars
5000 bales) over those in 1875. On
the twentieth of December the excess
had been reduced to 146, 600 cantars. and
it was expected that it would disappear
with the first week in January, when a
continued falling off would leave the
crop $4,000 to $4,000 blaes short of that
last year, namely 10000 to 420, 600
OF six hundred pounds each, against
. 600 and 437 900 bales in 1886 and
From the other Mediterranean
ports the imports have remained singu-
Iarly stationary, amounting to about
lV0, 900 bales OF three hundred and eigh-
y pounds each, and this will probably
70 The supply OF lie season.. /.
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a temporary hons anhi . afasfls6 esh 81
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20 Wy Fsblie aad pfiesis charities, sha me-
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faf afa hanlfad dollars. b. be aaeI amaaraf
fts poor ~ bic shufoh is saps in biz let
ter The people here. ~ churches aud A.
e mnniripa, corporation, ADD ~ individuals
exceed any I have seen Tor The variety and
ekteni n their noble charities
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We have received q pamphlet contain
ing an abstract II the annual report al
the United States commissioner Of edu,
cation from which We derive much in
formation. The total number Of teachers
reported in the public schools is 2g2, 1852.
But, large ~ this number il, il il 100, 900
short Of the number required to the en-.
tire school population reported, allowing
forty scholars on an average to the
teacher. In the southern states more
men are employed than women ia the
northern aud central states, more women
than men the excess of women teachers
is much the greatest in New England
especially in Massachusetts, where some
ale already beginning to think that the
interests OF education have suffered by
the too exclusive surrender of the
work OF primary instruction TO one sex,
In massachusetts, there are / ,169men and
SOY women teachers. In Alabama,
Delaware, Kentucky, Nevada and Texas
thes same salaries are paid for the same
work to men and women teachers. The
average monthly compensation of teach.
ers in Illinois, male, $4S.2 q, and female.
$49.22; in Michigan it is, male, sol IS,
female, $1,000 in Iowa, male, 500 S,
female, 1888; in. Wisconsin, male,
S43,5 80, female, $27.l5; in Indiana, male,
500, female, 40. Illinois returns an in
crease OF 10, 1876 in school population, OF
1901 in school enrolment, of four hun
dred and eighty-nine in the number of
teachers, and OF seventeen in the number
OF school,houses. But the receipts for
schools were less by $33.03S, and the ex
penditures by $476 1873 than in 1874.
Two kindergarten report one hundred
and nine children. The state normal
university and five other normal schools
had l,l4l normal pupils and graduated
one hundred and five. In the n hun
drcd and sixteen public high schools
there were about 1880 students, who
with 1888 in business colleges, 2,785 in
private academies, and 1888 under sec
ondary training elsewhere, make l2,080
academic students. Six institutions for
superior instruction Of womer report
three hundred and forty-eight collegiate
students, with two hundred unclassifed;
twenty four colleges and universities,
! $50 ~collegiates; two schools of science,
four hundred and thirteen. Thirteen
5emInaries report four hundred and
eighty-six students of theology; four law
schools, one hundred and eighty-three
legal ones; six schools of medicine, five
hundred and ssventy-six; and ten special
ools, 1919.
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CONGRESSIONAL
HOUSE.

In the house on the Goth, considera-
ton was resumed Of the resolutions reported
from the committee on privileges relative to
the powers OF the house in counting the cleo
toral vote, and Mr.. Willis spoke at length.
At the end of Mr.. Willis speech the subject
was postponed to allow the house to 90 into
committee of the whole on the Indian an.
preparation bill. Without diSposing of the
Dill the committee rose and the house adj
journed.
In the house on the 22d, bills were in
troduceu: By Mr.. Frye, to establish a court
for the tria. of contested elections for offices
OF president and vice-president. 1t provides
that an election may be contested by any
eligible person who has received votes for
president, and that the court for such con-
tested elections shall consist of the chief
justice of the supreme court, and six Judges
OF the circuit courts, to be selected by the
chiefjustice. By Mr., Caulfeld, to regulate
the disposition of troops in the District of
Columbia. By M. Sayler, to eform the
civil service. Adjourned.
The house on the 23d, considered the
resolutions reported on by the committee on
privileges, and was ad dressed by Mr.. Seelye.
The house judiciary committee unanimously
resolved that articles of impeachment ought
not be preferred against George NJ. Robesoni
secretary of the navy. Mr.. Cox, chairman
of the committee on election frauds in New
York, submitted a report in regard to the
alleged tampering with Mr.. Hewitt's mail in
the New York p~ostofice. 1t completely ex-
onerates postmaster James and his subordi-
mates in the matter and declares that no
such tampering has been don Printed and
recnmmitted. Adjourned.
In the house on the oath, consideration
was resumed of the resolutions reported by
the committee on privileges, and was ad.
dressed by Mr.. McDill Qowa) in fovor of the
resolutions submitted by the minority of the
committee. Mr.. Payne, from the committee
on banking and currency, reported a bill to
amend existing law in regard to national
gold banks. He explained the object of the
bill to be to allow these banks TO issue gold
notes to the amount of ninety per cent of
their bonds 10 secure circulation, and ta re.
quire those banks in California to denosit
with the assistant treasurer at San Francisco
five per cent. Of lhsir circulation as a re.
demption fund. Tn bill was usssed. Mr.
Lamar from the Racine railr 4ad committee
reported back iavorably senate bill extend
ing Tor eight years the time for the compile
ton OF the northern Pacific railroad. Mr..
Holman made a point of order, that under
the rules the bill must receive its first con
sidcration In committee Of the whole, mas
much as it involved the disposition of an
immense body Of the public domain-36.-
0Oo. 600 acres. The speaker again laid be-
fore the house a message from the NJ sid emf
IN regard to the use Of troops II the late
elsone7, ss originally presented isst Monday.
NJ Weea then assFsd hts resolution lhaf
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eaalsitise shiah bed some from ihs a.asts.
"a NE esmmities an soaailsg me slsstofsi
vote This sss aFfssi - n.y. aasalmau.
consent The tl1 vhs referred ~ ths com.
@#fie# 81 electoral vote aHH was fmWe5iH
aisly fepsfied back ~ w. Payne, ahaifuHB
Of tte COMMITTEES. The elefk Thea proceeded
~ read The bill ln etfento. Mr. MftfHV. e
fnemIief N the Joint eomHrities then opened
The debate.
MONT aReafgs.
The house met aRaih ~ ~. o'clock. with
W. Hooker Missi IN the chaif ns speaker
pro ten The afst speech was made by
Caldwell, ~ Tennessee, who advocated ths
bill He was followed by stevenson, Of tili.
uois, md Garfield. Of Illinois. also IN sup.
port ~ the bill The house. at .iev.n o'clock
adjourned TIL tomorrow NJ ten O'Clock.
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THE ELECTORAL BILL.


Text of the Bill rs ID Passed the -enate
After an all night session devoted Il
debate, the senate on the twenty-tittf
passed the joint. committees electora
bill by the overwhelming vote of AZ tt
17-more than two-thirds.
First-It is a temporary measure designed
for the settlement of questions at issue IL
the present complication only, and not in
tended as a rule to govern future ~electora
counts.
Second-The time for beginning the cleo
toral count is changed from February IA to
February l.
, Third-The two houses meet in the hail Of
the house of representatives as heretofore
and everything pretending to be a certificate
is opened by the president of the senate and
hlnded to the t~ellers,o of which there are four
two from each house, the certificates being
opened in alphabetical order Ct the states,
beginning with the letter A.
Fourth-When a certificate has been read
the president of the senate calls for obiec-
tiens, which must be in writing and argued
by at least n senator and one representa-
tive, whether there be only one or two re.
turns from the state in the case of which OBJ.
lection is made.
Fifth-If there is only one return, the SEN.
ate withdraws and the objections are consid-
efeu Ill the lOllONlug mdllUef:
/. The presiding officers state the obiec.
tons, and each senator and representative
may speak ten minutes and not ~oftener than
once, but the main question shall be nut af.
ter two hours debate.
II. A recess may be taken until ten o'clock
next day, pending the consideration Of spv
objection, and the house may transact leg.
lslative business while waiting the action Of
the other on objections.
III. When the two house have voted thew
Immediately meet again, and the presiding
officers announce their decisions.
". II both concur in the objection il Is
sustained, and if they disagree it is over
ruled.
Sxth-If there are two returns the obiec-
tons are referred to a commission, whose
composition and mode of action are thus
/. Each of the houses elect five members
by a viva voce vote on Janusry 30, and the
associate justices of the supreme court as
signed to the following districts, first jus
Cliffordl, third Justice Strongl, eighth
Justice Miller, and ninth Justice Field,
choose a fifth justice, who with themselves
form part Of the commission.
III. The oldest justice fClifford) presides
over the commission and administer q spec
ial oath TO its members to impartially eAaai-
inc aud TO cons der al questions.
III, i Is not ia the power Of either house
10 dissolve the oozEissson or withdraw hBY 1
The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-02-02
The Commodore and Sam Barger.

One of Commodore Vanderbilt's asso-
ciates in his various railway enterprises
is Sam Barger, a wag as we'll as a director,
AT one of the meetings the commodore
said he didn't see how it was that Jay
Gould gotat all the facts and figures about
New York Central.
"Il tell you how you can prevent his
knowing anything about your roads, said
Sam.
"How ?" asked the commodore.
ELECT him a director, was the reply.
The autocraGic fashion in which the old
man managed the road is well known.
A s%peculator wished Sam to induce
the commodore to go into an operation in
the street.
. "If the commodore will take a hand
we can make a million, without the pos
sibility of losing a dollar" said the hope
full operator.
"No danger of loss ?" said sam.
"None at all, and sure to make all the
money we want" was the reply.
"Well, ] don't. know about the old
man," said Sam, "but, if you feel so
sure about the thing, l have no doubt
| might get his son Cornelius to join
you"
Sam got word one evening while at
dinner hat the commodore would like to
see him. Hastily partsking of a little
food he repaired TO the old gentleman's
residence, forgetting in his hurry to put
a cigar in his pocket. After the BUSH
ness was finished Sam said "Commo-
dore, you brought me away from my
dinner in such a hurry that l didn't get
my smoke J believe | would like to
try a cigar" (The commodore was
smoking a delightfully."- fragrant Hava-
na).
IAN right, Sam" he replied, you will
find a match on the mantel piece" Sam
smoked when he got home.
The bearish T~wenty-third street party
were heavily short of Central. The COM
modore was buying all any one wanted to
at constantly advancing figures. Sam
happened in at the beer garden, and of
course the talk was of the commodore's
purchases. 81 tell you, said one of the
bruins, more savage than the rest, "the
Id man ought to be taken care Of; he has
ost his head"
II don't see any one that / suspect of
iaving found it," was Sans quiet re-
nark, and nothing more was said on that
The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-02-02

nsSspLLasE0ts.
The pig iron production Of the United
states for 1876 is estimated at 2,O3O,O00 tons
In 1875 the production was 2,206,5sl tons
When 1875 opened the stock on hand wa,
estimated at $4,000 tons, and this had been
reduced at the close of the year to about
$4,000 tons.
The debt of New York city has in,
creased 100000 since 1860, and is steadily
in '~reasing. 1t now amounts to about one
hundred and fifty dollars for every man.
woman and child living within the corpora.
ton limits. The rate of increase is about
100000 per annum.
Pauline Lucca sued her first husband,
Baron Won Rhade, who is married to another
woman, aud obtained a decree of divorce
from him, whereupon she remarked. This
divorce was decided to be irregular, and was
opened so as to let the first husband come
in and defend. She claims she paid her
lawyers ssin the original suit thirty-fve
hundred dollars, and IN the effort to main
tain their action nearly five thousand more.
She has sued her first lawyers Tor ten.thou-
sand dollars damages Through their inexcu.
sable negligence.
According to the Railway Age Deem
Der is alphabetically = bad month for rail
ways, and last Decenber was much more
severe on most Of them than the same season
a year ago. Nineteen roads, from which re.
turns have been received, show an aggregate
of $5,33s, 437 for last month, II falling off of
S24S,33 Eight of these roads show a gain,
but eleven suffered decrease-one of s1S7,-
sos, and another of $1,000 This is not en-.
ceuragiug, although expenses have also been
severely cut down. The showing for No.
venber was rather better, thirty-five roads
returning an aggregate of S9,080,573, against
$40, 276, 746 in 1885.
Boston Advertiser: "Can the south
manufacture cotton goods cheaper than the
north" is often and anxiously asked, and
every item of fact bearing on the question is
worth catching and holding. Here are two,
both favorable to southern manufacture:
Machinery is being put in the third cotton
mill owned and operated by the Eagle and
Phoenix manufacturing company, of Colum.
bus, Ga. TIL new mill is as large as the
other two of the company; will be devoted
to making checks and stripes, will have 20.
900 spindles, eight hundred looms and one
hundred and sixty carding machines; will
use twenty bales of cotton a day, and will
employ seven hundred hands. The compa.
ny has paid good dividends and has a large
reserve fund. Second; At the recent semi.
annual meeting of the Augusta GA factory
the profits of the company for the six
months were said to be above 1900, and a
two per cent, dividend was declared-not
large for a semi-annual, to be sure but cot :
ton mills are not many of them doing as well :
as that, During that time the factory made d,
yards of goods, chiefly for southern n
consumption. Two swallows do not make A S
but the signs of a change are worth !
noticing. L
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First Steamboat on the Mississippi,

A correspondent of the Scientific
American quotes from the Navigator, a
book published by Robert Ferguson,
Pittsburg, in 1871, some facts which are
in striking contrast with the present con-
dition of steam navigation. In 1911
there was launched at Pittsburg, by a
Mr.. Roo5ewalt (~Roosevelt), acting in con-
junction, with Messrs. Fulton q Liv-
ingston, OF New York, a steamboat of
one hundred and thirty-feet keel, and
between three hundred and four hundred
tons burden. The boat was called the
New Orleans, and was put on the route
between Natchez and New Orleans in
December, 1911. The passage down oc-
cupied from two to three days-the pas
sage up from seven 10 eight. She waited
from four to FIVE days at each end of her
route, making about twelve trips per
annum. Her passengers were said to be
"numerous"-seldom less than ten to
twelve from Nstchez down, at Sls per
head, and from thirty to fifty, and even
eighty, from New Orleans up, at s25.
1t is hard to understand why the cup
passengers 50 much exceeded the "down."
unless the steamer from New Orleans
was used by emigrants. at was
thought" in 1914, that by pushing"
her trips might have been increased TO
seventeen per annum. The though was
an trror in defect, but not in excess
certainly. The New Orleans was a pesu.
mary success to her projectors paying in
three years $4,000 profit over the ex-
penses and the interest ofthe funds IN.
vested supposed to be about $4,000 |
That il better than many steamers have
since, with passengers more "nu.
msrous and with the handling Of much
more freight and money.
The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-02-02
Mothers to Other WOmen's Sons,

We think there are other things still
i'll the way of counteraction against bar
rooms and liquor saloons which it lies
on mothers and sisters to bring into use.
A beautiful, bright, cheerful home
atmosphere is a great safeguard to a son
or a. brother. Believe us, dear women.
even though you are tired, though vour
head aches, though you feel of all things
in the world like slippers and easy chairs,
it is worth while to cast off your fatigue
and entertain the young men of the
household, as you would entertain whom
you cared to honor. Have extra lights
and let the parlor look glowing and in
wiling. Play your new pieces, sing your
new songs, and ask in the pretty daugh-
ter of your next door neighbor, or the
merry girls from I'VE the way, and have
a good time at home. Then, too, we
have often thought that every woman
who Is a mother ought to have a moth
erly feeling for other women's sons.
They come to our city in scores, bows
from farm houses and from fishing vii.
lagos, and what sort of home do thew
ind? Their salaries are small, they want
to save something to send to the old
folks, or to lay by for future use, and the
price of board is high. Now, why can
not our homes be made to open wider
doors to Just this class? We once knew
a lady who, every Thanksgiving and
Christmas, was accustomed to gather
about her dinner table all the Young
men and women she could hear of who
had no homes to go to on these festal
days, and we thought it a lovely thing
do, because 30 full of the inspirations
and essence of christian kindness. How
many times might a motherly hand laid
upon his shoulder, a womanly hold upon
ais heart, save a young man from drift
.ng into temptations that he cares little
or in themselves, but which attract him
because he is lonely and oppressed.
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President Diaz has banished the no.
torious bandit Cortiua from Mexico.
A cable special says the German GOV.
eminent possesses ample proofs Of the exist.
ence Of a large monastic conspiracy IN
France 3. endesvor to gain power in that
country for purposes hostile to Germany.
The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-02-02

CREAM CAKE-One and one half cup
uls Of -four. three heaping t~easpoonfnls
b ? wdsr, seven eggs. THIS makes
fhFss cakes, 81 large gouud tgns.
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1877-03-20

ss- Rsformatorii9e SisnFmdb4sn.
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sunssn Der Wobnunssn ben Wistbsrn
idriftIi9 unb per Yot sutommsn la1Isn,
unb umsetsbrt, 1T etuas Geu6bnli9es.
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in Die Rl4s 3uridtebrte. amf Die Srass
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bare gsnsbmsn i4lisbIi4 aufalsn mubte,
bate Wilbelmine nur ausuei4enoe ant-
porten uno NusHii9te. BOD ioqte Der
mabre @runo Der Srau YrofsHOriu nidt
LANCE psrborsen blsiben, als es finf Wi.
nuten mad Sp0lf l1br piebsr flinsslts.
Sas Mdo9en elite binaus um su 6ffnen,
unb tam slsi4 barauf 3urld, nit eisen.
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tintdien obus, neil id mir psrsnbsrn min.
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ySroitHorn" Die Rlnoisuas ibres oisnit.
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beibt bod on Der Spibs Der Civilization
mari9irt!