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USCEILANFoUS.

The san Francisco Chamber of Commerce
has adopted resolutions against the rcmon-
etizati0n OF silver.
The Southern Educational Convention was
in session at Atlanta, Ga, on the eth and Sth.
Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina,
Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Missouri, Ala
bama and Louisiana were represented by
State superintendent, College Presidents
and educators. Resolutions were passed
fayoring the creation Of a National Educa-
tioual Fund, from TIE proceeds Of wild
land sales and other sources, to be applied
under the State laws on a basis Of Illiteracy,
and a memorial was made to Congress 10
hasten such legislation.
A horrible story is told by the Cap ID
the schooner Sallie NJ. Steelman, which was
abandoned at sea January 30, while en- route
from Charleston TO Baltimore, the survivors
being picked up by another vessel and land
ed in New York City. The Schoon-
er encountered a terrific gale of
Hatteras, which washed every thing
movable from the deck and caused her to
spring a leak. The vessel then became un-
manageable, the men became exhausted at
the pumps, and, most horrible Of all, their
last mouthful of food was eaten on the 23d.
Starvation stared them in the face, and
for some six days not morseI
Of food passed their lips. Finally,
on the morning Of the 30th, George Seaman,
coiored, who had become crazy, attempted
to take the life Of Walter Sampson, but was
instantly killed by the latter. The dead
body was Immediately cut up by the crazed
and starving men and portions of it eagerly
eaten. On the following night they were
rescued. The crew consisted Of the cap
tain, mate, cook and four seamen, three Of
the latter cOlOred.
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School and Church.

Preachers will not be permitted to
teach in the public schools of Milwau-
kee hereafter.
The University of Michigan takes
the lead among American institutions
in following European customs and do
ing away with g commencement"
Lieut.. Flipper, the only colored
graduate of West Point, is to be APP
pointed military instructor of the color
ed branch of the Agricultural and Mill
tary College of Texas.
Pennsylvania people are clamoring
for the close of their " teacher factory"
as they term the Normal School, as
there are now 1900 teachers with GER
tifcates, but without situations.
Peter Cooper is negotiating for the
purchase of Limestone Springs, near
Spartansburg, s. c., when he will es-
tablish an institution similar in general
design to Cooper Institute in New York.
Professor Peck, who is connected
with "A school IN Homer, n. Y, has been
fined $3.50 for severely whippinga pupil.
At one time the jury stood six in favor
of making the amount 81, 600 and six
for $500.
There are So Baptist churches in
the Creek Nation, Indian Territory.
Six of these churches are composed of
colored members, formerly slaves of the
Indians, but now enjoying civil rights
ard social equality.
The teachers of the public schools
OF Baltimore have formed a beneficial
association, whose object is to provide
certain benefits for the members in cases
of sickness and disability, and for their
families in cases of death. The-St
Louis teachers have just adopted a SINH
lar plan.
The Southern Educational Conven-
ton met at Atlanta, Ga, on the 7th.
One hundred and twenty delegates were
present. A memorial was adopted and
viii be presented to Congress, asking
that the proceeds of the sales of public
lands be apportioned among the States
for educational purposes.
Cardinal Manning insists that Mon
signor Capel, who has been so successful
in winning wealthy and titled English
men and women to the Romish Church,
shall be made the Archbishop of Scot
land. The Scotch bishops resent this in
trusion of a foreigner, and a controversy
has arisen which has postponed the es-
Enlistment of Scotch Papal hierarchy
for the present. The Cardinal, it is eX-
pected, will carry his point.
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Pope states that his Holiness remained
calm throughout. At II O'Clock, when his
distressed breathing was painful TO witness,
he took crucifx from under his pillow and
blessed the bystanders Herewith. At $3.50
p. m. the body became livid. Cardinals re-
lieved each other in praying by the bedside.
Cardinal Bilio recited the Office for the dy-
ing, and at the commencement Of the fourth
Office the deathrattle ceased. The physi-
clans state that the immediate cause of the
Pope's death was paralysis Of the lungs.
A Russian paper estimates that about
100000 bushels of wheat will be ready
for shipment from Black Sea ports
as soon as there is an absolute
blockade of the Russian coast is already
raised, and the expectation Of the accumu-
lations Of breadstuffs will probably soon be-
gin.
A Vienna correspondent telegraphs that
Russia's reply to Austria's proposal to hold
The conference in that city is received. Not
only does it reject Vienna as the seat of the
conference, but it declares that certain
points in the peace preliminaries are not to
W ItltII6u 10 lDe conference At all nus
siS's alliance with Turkey is regarded
as fixed fact, and great alarm
prevails in Vienna as to the final outcome
Of this complication. Orders to prepare
Austria's best iron-clads for sea have been
issued, and it is expected that the mobiliza-
ton Of the army will be decreed. The
Turkish forces, in accordance with the peace
preliminaries, have evacuated Widdin, Rust
chuk, Silistria, Belgradschik and Erzeroum,
and have withdrawn from the Bujuk Chek-
mich lines to the line from Kujuk Chek-
mich to Akbuuar. The neutral zone is u
miles broad.
A London dispatch of the 18th says: The
Porte has refused to allow the British fleet
10 approach ConstantinOple, and pending
further negotiations the fleet remains in
Besika Bay. Paince GortschakofT has Off
cislly informed the Powers that Russia con-
templates the occupation Of ConstantinOple
for the protection of the Christian popula-
ton, and it is significantly added that the
Sultan has invited the Grand Duke Nicholas
to spend few days In Constantinople. Or
ders have been issued for the dock yards at
Chatham TO hasten the completion of all war
vessels under way, and hands are working
over time.
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tor Emanuel, to be erected on the Ter
mini Square, near the Baths of DiOcle-
tian. The other cities of the peninsula
have subscribed literally to the same
project, as also private individuals at
home and abroad, so that there will be
no lack of funds. The monument is to
be after the style of Trajan's column,
and is to record in twining has relief the
royal deeds in behalf of the uniieation
of Italy On the assembling of Parlia-
ment, on Feb. 10, bill is to be passed
unanimously to pay the Kings debts,
amounting to S6,000,000.
Paris has lately lost a notable char
acter in the person of ViscOunt Hubert
de Rocattier, who Succumbed to delirium
tremens at the premature age of AZ. The
Viscount struck upon an original mode
of procuring a livelihood. In addition
to being very free luncher, he used to
raise supplies by posting himself outside
gambling clubs, and, as gentlemen left,
presenting a card bearing his name,
and further enriched with the heraldic
insignsa of the noble house of Rocattier,
and then requesting the loan of 10 francs,
which, partly out of consideration of his
being dilapitated man of good family,
partly in view of the fact that he con-
sidered refusal an insult, and was cap
ital swordsman, was rarely refused.
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Commerce of the World.

Russia exports tallow, fax, hemp,
flour, iron, linseed, lard, hides, wax,
cordage, bristies, furs and potash.
China exports tea, rhubarb, musk,
ginger, borax, ziac, silks, cassia, fill
gree work, ivory-ware and porcelain.
Turkey exports opium, silks, drugs,
gums, dried fruits, tobacco, wines, cam
els hair, carpets, shawls, camlets and
morocco.
Germany exports wool, wooden goods,
linens, rags, corn, timber, iron, lead,
tin, flax, hemp, wines, wax, tallow and
cattle.
Italy exports corn, oil, flax, flour,
wines, essences, dye-stuffs, drugs, fine
marble, soap, paintings, engravings,
molasses and salt.
Spain exports wines, brandies, iron,
fresh and dried fruits, quicksilver, sui
phur, salt, cork, saffron, anchovies,
silks and woOlens.
Austria exports minerals, raw and
manufactured silk, thread, glass, wax,
tar, nutgalis, wines, honey and mathe-
NAUTICAL instruments.
Brazil exports coffee, indigo, sugar,
rice, hides, dried meats, tallow, gold, dia-
monds and other stones, gems, mIhoga-
ny and india-rubber.
Hindostan exports gold and silver,
cochineaI, indigo, sarsapariIla, vanilla,
jalap, fustic, campeachy wood, pimento.
drugs and dyestuffs.
France exports wines, brandies, silks,
fancy articles, furniture, jewelry clocks,
watches, paper, perfumery and fancy
goods generally.
Prussia exports linen, wOolens, zinc,
articles Of iron, copper and brass, indigo,
wax, hams, musical instruments, tObac-
co, wines and porcelain.
England exports cotton, wOOlens,
glass, hardware, earthenware, cutlery,
iron, metallic wares, salt, coal, watches,
tin, silks and linens.
East India exports cloves, nutmegs,
mace, pepper, rice, indigo, gold dust,
camphor, benzine, sulphur, ivory, rat
tans, sandal wood, zinc and nuts.
The West Indies export sugar, mo-
lasses, rum, tobacco, cigars, mahagO-
ny, dyewood, coffee, pimento, fresh
fruits and preserves, wax, ginger and
other spices.
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MISAPPLIED QUOTATIONS..
From the Cincinnati Commercial
When at home do as the home 'unS

do.
Old age comes on pace, in har-
ness, and at a good round gait.
All the worlds stage, and money
makes the mare 90 before it.
AT many of the cheap clothing auc-
tions there is great cry and little wool.
The ear of charity is as deaf as an
adder at work on a long column of
figures.
The blood of the turnip is the seed
of the church in some of the stingy in
stances.
Women are generally pretty smart !;
but they can not hold a candle to can
Of kerosene with safety.
Virtue is It's own reward; but lit
tie besides, that will buy something, is
generally quite handy
The old hummer smelleth the bottle
from afar off when it is set up for free
treat to the crowd.
"A word spoken in due season, how
good it is when it strikes the man with
the bill Just about right.
The motto of the gay old bachelor
on the shady side of life is, the Guard
dyes, but never surrenders.
The grinders should cease, because
they are few, and hand-organ music
isn't very popular just at present, any
how.
How doth the little busy wife i'm
prove each shining hour, and CAD around
the shops all day-at night done out and
sour.
He that touches pitch shall be de-
filed Herewith; and poker, seven-up,
and other games of that class are just as
bad as pitch.
And after the fire, still, small
voice. 1t is that of the reporter sliding
around for the amount of the ,oss and
insurance.
When a man slips in to get sly nip
and finds q crowd of his acquaintances
there, his first thought is, Defend me
me from my friends.
The fullness of merchants store
is not indicated by the beggarly account
of empty boxes which he permits to
block the sidewalk.
So Remove not the old landmarks, -"
pleadeth the venerable tramp when they
bid him peel off and get into the bath
pool at the work-house.
God helps them who helps them
selves. The lunch-fend takes heart and
goes for what there is on the table, re-
gardless of Providential aid in the con-
tract.
The boy stood on the bnrning deck
that he had hauled from the fire where
his father had thrown it; but the old
man yanked him off and completed the
cremation of the vile cards.
81 beg of you, have you few cents
for starving man?" asked tramp of
a pedestrian on Vine Street last even
ing. "Oh!" exclaimed the latter,
" you are only begging the question; !"
and he-passed on.
Father, at that critical period when
the down is appearing on the chin of
your boy; when his changing voice is
constantly getting out Of gear; when he
is experiencing his first dreams of love,
and when he is peculiarly sensitive, be
careful in your bearing towards him,
and govern your temper; practice for
bearance, for fear the son may 90 down
on your wrath, and you be cleaned out
at your old game.
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EAST AND SOUTHEAST.

The Mercantile Savings Institution Of
Boston is enjoined for the present from do
ing business.
An alleged miracle is reported to have oe-
Cured recently st East Mauch Chunk, Pa.
Miss Amelia Greth, aged 80, deyout Cath
Ole, had been for a long time i'll with pull
monary affection. She had vision, in
which her death was predicted at a certain
time, and that she would be restored
70 life and perfect health through
the ihtercession of Father Heenan, her pas
tor. These events followed, it is claimed,
precisely as indicated, and both Miss Greth
and Father Heenan publicly declare it to be
a miracle. The affair causes great excite
ment, and, while many Catholics accept the
facts as stated, others reject them or are
on-eommittal.
A Philadelphia man, J. Henry Sehrack,
successfully imposed upon the eredulity Of
many Of his neighbors, by feigning death
and then coming TO life again, when he told
a most marvellous story Of the sights he had
seen while upon the boundaries Of the other
world. INVESTIGATION shows that the whole
thing was preconcerted fraud, and the i'm
poster has been publicly exposed.
Augustus NJ. Turney, for % years Teller
Of the Bank Of North America, New York,
has confessed himself a defaulter TO the
bank to the amount Of 100000. The bank
has since recovered some $4,000 Of this
amount, and, having a surplus of over $780,
600, its standing is not affected. Turney is
locked up.
Archbishop Wood OF Philadelphia has
81
by Father Heinan, of Mauch Chunk, Pa,
"delusion," and the deluded father has been
eounseled 10 do all in his power to correct
the bad impression which may have been
created.
Peter He-dic, the great lumberman Of
Williamsport, Pa, has gone into bankrupt
CIV. Liabilities and assets both large, but
the latter mainly Of such a nature that they
can not Immediately be made available.
The City Of Augusta, Ga, was severely
damaged by a cyclone on the night Of the
9Th. Several buildings were totally crushed
to atoms Charles Dives and wife were left
dead in the ruins Of their house. The track
Of the tornado, about 800 yards in width,
blazed as if on fire.
Cardinal McCloskey sailed from New
York on tie 9th, expecting to reach Rome
on the 22d, five days after the assembling
Of tie COnclave.
The Dorchester Savings Bank and the
Rockport Savings Bank, both Of Boston,
have been enioined from doing further bust
ness. The Haydenyille (Mass.) Savings
Bank has suspended payment. The South
Side Savings Bank of Pittsburg has also
suspended.
Theodore Roosevelt, recently nominated
BY the President for Collector Of the Port Of
New York, is dead.
The Troy On. " Times building was
burned on the 10th, including seven stores
and various offices, etc. Total loss about
5000
Hon. Gideon Welles, eX-Secretary Of the
Navy, died at his home in Hartford, Conn,
on the 1lth.
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The Turks threaten to lombard the Greek
ports unless the Greek troops are recalled.
Great CONSERVATION prevailed at Athens on
the 9th, caused by the arrival of the Turkish
fleet under Hobart Pasha, and many Of the
residents were fleeing from the city.
Turkey has formed a new ministry, under
European forms and designations. The Of
flee Of Grand Yizier has been abolished.
Great excitement prevailed in London on
the 7th, caused by rumors that the Russian
army had occupied Constantinople.
The German Parliament was opened on
the 9th.
The Pope died at about p. m. on Thurs
day, the eth Of February. His last words
were" Guard the Church / loved so well
and sacredly." The Cardinals and other
dignitaries Of the Church were present at
the last moment. 4 Conclave of Cardinals
assembled Immediately after the Pope's
death.
Austria's plan Of a conference Of the Eu-
ropean Powers to consider the questions at
i>.uo between Russia and Turkey has at
once met the approval Of Germany, England,
France and Italy. The Gar is pledged to
refer certain points to a conference, though
there is no allusion TO this fact in the peace
protocol, and some Of the Russian officia
organs take ground against the conference
project. Russia will necessarily accept the
Austrian proposition, since it has been so
promptly and directly sustained by the
Powers which signed the Treaty Of Paris,
but objects to the conference being held at
Vienna.
The English House of Commons on the
Sth voted the supplementary appropriation
Of f6,00o,00o asked for by the Ministry. The
vote upon the division stood 32S yeas to 124
nays. Previous to the vote being taken, Sir
Stafford NOrthcote, Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, communicated TO the House the
information that the British feet had been
ordered TO ConstantinOple for the purpose
Of protecting British life and property.
He also communicated a summary Of the
terms Of the armistiee, as given by Minister
Layard. According to this the line of de-
marcatiOn fixed by the srmistiee places in
the Russian hands almost all Of Bulgaria
and Roumelia up to the lines Of CONSTANT
noplc and GallipOl. Three days notice is
to be given before the resumption Of hos
Utilities. Another article of the armistice
that the Turks are to remove their
arms, etc, on evacuating places within the
neutral zone which will divide the two ar
mics. Sir Stafford Northcote said it was
quite evident from this that, although the
Russians have not occupied COnstantinOple
lines, they have occupied the outskirts close
10 them, aud as the lines, under the proyi-
sions Of the armistice, are thoroughly dis
The Russians are able, after giving
three days notice, to advance upon Con-
stantinople without hindranee.
The official account OF the death of the
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Science and Industry.

All the gold in the world could be
welded into a 23-foot cube.
dynamite has the consistency of
and closely resembles brown sugar.
The timber of the oak is not of
much value until the tree is 100 years
old.
-Narrow-gauge railroads are grow
ing in favor, one-half the new roads
built in 1877 being of that class.
The Florida orange season has
proved unremunerative. The markets
were crowded with unripe fruits at first,
which forced down. prices, and there
they have remained.
One hundred and forty-fve thou
sand dollars has been taken in q few
months from White Hall gold mines, in
Spottsylvania County, Va.
Among the shipments last year
from the port of Wilmington, n. c.,
were 70,570 bushels peanuts, 101, 1882
pounds turpentine, 537 ,696 barrels rosin,
and 501 bags asbestos.
A Nevada engineer is perfecting
plan of heating a city by means of heat
generated in subterranean mines. The
plan contemplates system of pipes for
distributing the heat throughout the
city. The same operation ventilates the
mines.
The coal production of the world
has increased enormously since 1915. In
that year Great Britain produced 81,
SOC, 600 tons; in 1874, 125, 043. 600 tons;
Belgium, 1915, 4,960,077; in 1874, A.
$4,000. France, 1915, 4,141,6I7; 1874,
16, $40, 900 Prussia, 1915, 3,500,0 900;
1874, Al ,754 COO. In the United States
the production in 1874 was nearly ten
times that in 1915.
The State of Georgia lets out its
convictS for S14 year apiece to com
panies that furnish guards and employ
the prisoners in mines or on farms. 4
contract has just been entered into be-
tween ex-Gov. Brown and the State by
which the former agrees to pay the lat,
ter $500, 900 in yearly installments Of
$50, 600 for the use of all convicts for
twenty years from April, 1879.
A patent for COMPRISING tea was
lately brought to the notice of the ex-
hisition of sanitary appliances in Man
chester, England. 1t congresses the
loose leaves of tea into one-third of their
original bulk, and, in breaking up the
fiber of the leaves, opens the small cells
which have been closed by the process
of drying, and which are not thorough
ly opened when merely infused in boil /
ing water. fhe result is a gain of from
10 to so per cent in strength.
The " free oil pipe" proposition, I
which has excited a great amount of 4
discussion in Pennsylvania, is to build
conduit, through which the /
crude product of the oil regions may
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.

-Sothern, the actor, is writing a
book.
-Tennyson is preparing new vol
ume of poems.
Senator Gordon was once a news
paper man.
-Beecher, Tilton and Moulton are
all lecturing.
Henry NJ Stanley calls himself a
" soldier of Journalism"
Lydia Maria Child was 76 wears old
on the 1lth of February.
Stanley viii write a history of his
African explorations, at London, before
returning to the United States.
The court sword worn by the poet
Schiller is now in possession of Bayard
Taylor. Ii was given him by Thacke-
ray.
The publishing houses of James r.
Osgood Il Co. and Hurd & HoughtOn of
New York and the Riverside Press of
Cambridge have been consolidated.
Walt Whitman is preparing a new
book, containing prose and poetry,
which he intends to call Far and Near
at SO" He is now in his 18th year.
The copyright of the musical works
of Mendelssohn expired on the first OF
January, the authors or composers
privilege being limited to 80 years after
death
Mr.. LOngfellow says if he were to re-
spond to all the requests sent to him foI
his autograph and his portrait, he would
spend third of his income in photo.
graphs and portraits.
-Coubert, the lately deceased paint
er, never used a brush, but laid on hi:
colors thickly with a palette knife. He
produced many delicate effects in thi;
way with few touches.
Mrs. Southworth, Mrs. Ann S. Ste
phens, and Mrs. Burnett, all novelists
figure in Washington society. Mrs
Denison, author of " That Husband OF
Mine, is also resident of the Capital
and, it is said, has just bought home
off the profits of her successful book.
Prof Hall has christened his twin
discoveries, Mars satellites, . Deimus
and " Phebus." Homer mentions tn,
names in the fifteenth book of the Iliad
where Mars is preparing to descend Il
the earth. Bryant renders the lines
thus: 4" He spake and summoned Fea
(Deimus) and Flight (Phebus) to yok,
his steeds and put his glorious armoi
on -
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gan, of Hendricks County, Ind, was drown
ed while fording Walnut Greek, near Green
castle, on the 9th.
Hon. Charles NJ. Conrad, ex-member Of
Congress, ex-United States Senator, and
Secretary Of War under President Fill
more, died at New Orleans on the 18th,
aged %.
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4 UNIQUE shtw, grandiloquently
dubbed the g International Congress Of
Beauty and Culture is being held at
Gilmofe's Garden, New York City.
Over thousand women have had the
poor taste to enroll themselves for ex-
hibition. The handsomest and home
lest woman, the best dressed and the
most ladylike competitor, the tallest and
the shortest, the finest head of hair, and
the prettiest pair of eyes, are all booked
for prizes. The funniest thing about
this affair is that all the applicants have
been compelled 10 file certificates OF
good character with the management.
The applications, it IS said, have come
chiefly from the ranks OF the working
girls.
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Prof. w. T. Harris says that st.
Louis does not begin early enough with
the enrolment of its schOOl-children,
which is the reason that its schoOl-cen-
sus falls so far behind that of other cit
les. In most cases when childreR are
kept out by the rules until they are
years old, they loose schooling almost
entirely by having to go to work before
they arrive at schOOl-age.