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Stanley'S Personnel.

Mr.. Henry NJ. Stanley, since his re-
turn from Africa, has been described as
a man slightly bent under a burden of
memories of fevers and cramps with d
bcyish face, crowned with a shock Of
iron-gray hair, in curious contrast of eff
feet with the black mustache; with high
cheek bones, tanned skin, and the
hands of backwoodsman, roughened
by cutting way through forest and jun
gle, and carrying an elephant rife firing
two-ounce ball.. When he reached the
ocean from the African interior he was
so emaciated that he weighed only 119
pounds. In fifteen days thereafter he
gained half a pound a day, and his sea-
voyage almost completely restored his
health. From the moment he entered
the African continent on one side, until
he emerged from it on the other, he
never received letter nor newspaper,
nor heard syllable of what was going
on in the world. Mr. Stanley's expedi-
ton is said to have cost $115, 900, the.
expenses being divided equally between
the New York Herald and the London
Telegraph.
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FoRTY-FoURrH CONGRESS.

TUESDAY, Feb. 5.-SENATE.-Mr. Conkling
presf nted the petitions of a large number of citi-
zens of many counties in New York in favor of
the RECOMMENDATION of silver. :. Mr. Wallace from
the Committee on Finance, reported, with an
amendment, the bill introduced by him some time
ago to authorize long bond for investment of saw
ings, and gave notice that he would call
it up for consideration at an early day. It
directs the Secretary of the Treasury to issue $780,
000,000 coupon bonds of the denominations of
$685. $50 and $780, and of equal of each of said
denominations, redeemable in coin after fifty years
from the date of their ISSUE and bearing interest
payable semi-annually in coin, at the rate of 3.65
per cent. per annum. ). Mr.. Eaton continued the
discussion of the Silver bill, taking ground
against it. He was followed by Mr.. Howe,
who spoke in favor of the measure. . Mr.. Conkling
presented petition from the citizens of New York
setting forth the appalling famine raging in North
ern China. and suggested the appointment of com.
mission from the residents of China to act in con-
nection with the United States Minister in procur-
ing and distributing relief. Mr.. Ferry, from the
Committee on Postof6ces and Post Roads, reported
with amendment the Senate bill to regulate the COM
pensation OF Postmasters and for other purposes.
HoUsE.-The bill extending the time for the COM
pletion of the Northern Pacific railroad ten years
was reported and recommitted Mr.. Hewitt, of
New York, presented two petitions, one from New
York and one from Boston asking Congress to
adopt appropriate measures to mitigate the hard
ships of the famine now raging in China. The
bin to authorize the construction Of bridge across
briefly discussed, and referred to the committee Of
&lin unn1o thu n<o+n
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WASHINGTON NOTES.

The internal-revenue receipts in December
fell off 100000 from the receipts during the
corresponding month of the previous year.
The receipts in January fell off over 81, 0OO,-
600. and, If the decrease continues so rapid
for the remainder of the current month as it
has during the first four days, the falling Off
will amount to over $1,000, 900 in February.
This does not include the falling off of customs
receipts, which for the last two months has
been 81, 100000.
The Ways and Means Committee of the
House is said to be unanimously in favor of
Mr.. Woods Tariff bill.
The House Judiciary Committee has taken a
vote on the proposition for Sixteenth amend
ment to the constitution, as advocated by the
female suffragists. The vote stood to s.
The vote in favor of the proposition was:
Lynde, Frye, Butler, Conger and Lapham.
Those who voted against it were: Knott, Hart
ridge, Stenger, Mcmahon and Culberson.
Harris, of Virginia, who is opposed to female
suffrage, was absent. There is no probability
whatever that the committee will at any time
hereafter take favorable action on this subject.
The President nominated the following In
dian accents. Gharlaa A Rnffaa nf Minnesota
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THE PATENT OFFICE.
Report of the Commissioner.

hepOrG OF the commissioner.
The United States Commissioner of
Patents has sent his annual report to
Congress. He suggests some important
changes In the present Patent laws.
which, in some cases, the courts have
declared defective.
He thinks that under certain condi-
lions it will be better to dispense with
models IN applications for patents. They
form no part of the patent VIXEN issued.
The law makes it essential to the validi-
ty of patent that the specification and
drawing thereof shall disclose fully the
invention to those skilled in the art to
which it pertains. He believes that it
1t Will be necessary only that the pro-
vision be made requiring models in cases
where the capability of the machine to
operate is called in question, or where
the Examiner is in doubt as to sufi-
cheney OF the drawing, or where models
may be necessary for ready illustration
on appeals CT interference cases. This
will relieve the inventor of large part
OF the expense attending applications for
patents, and will tend, on the whole, to
make the drawings and specifications
more explicit and better understood.
He would, however, advise the collec-
ton at the Patent Office of articles of
manufacture and working models of such
operating machinery as manufacturers
or inventors may desire to place On ex-
hibition.
Reformation is also suggested in what
is now source of much complaint. This
is the reissue of old patents with claims
covering machines subsequently invent
ed, and practically the first to operate
successfully. To such al extent has
this been carried that when man had
really made valuable invention it
was necessary for him to examine
the records of the Office and ascertain
what old patents could be found which
might be reissued to cover his invention;
and 1t has been matter of prudence to
secure such patents before investing in
the manufacture of an invention liable
to be dominated in that way. Further
than this, there are patents granted for
improvements more Or less trivial. differ
ing in comparatively small particulars
from machines or articles preceding
them. That which seems but q trivial
change may amount in practice to a very
important and valuable improvement.
Since the grant Of such patent cannot
always be awarded, the question arises
whether their duration may not be
abridged, and for this purpose some
process of natural selection be applied
to the patents issued by the Government.
1t has therefore been thought desirable
to require, at certain periods in the life
time of patent, the payment of fees as
a necessary condition to the continuance
OF the life of the patent. Such a pro-
vision would, in the opinion Of the Com
missioner, tend to remove useless and
frivolous patents, without imposing any
serious burden upon those that prove
meritorious.
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Horrors of the Famine in China.

A correspondent engaged in the relief
work in the Northeast of China writes,
g People of all ages die of actual starva-
ton by thousands. The famine extends
over district which includes, at least,
5000 villages, and in these latter together
[ ana certainly within the mark in saying
that 500 die daily, perhaps 1000 may be
within it. A few days ago I traversed
the worst part Thousands upon thous-
ands have persisted already. Houses are
pulled down in every village to sell the
timber and thatch in order to get food.
Those who can get husks AMI dry leaves,
ordinarily used for fuel, are considered
well off. Most Of the poor young girls
had been sold old men, middle-aged,
young men, and children die daily of
sheer starvation, and others freeze. The
dead cannot get burial they are too
many, and none can afford the expense
SO they are cast daily into large pits.
This is description of what happened
last year. This year even worse horrors
are reported. The people at Shansi are
said to be living on the corpses of their
e.
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Chippewa agency, Minnesota; John W. Doug
lass, of New York, Yankton agency, Dakota;
Samuel Ely, of Pennsylvania, Pawnee agency,
Indian Territory; Philemon B. Hunt, of Ken
lucky, Kiowa and Comanche agency, Indian
Territory.
The House Committee on Education and La
Dor have agreed to report bill to distribute
the proceeds of the sales of public lands among
the several States for purposes of education.
In his remarks on the Mexican question be-
fore the House Committee on Foreign Affairs,
Mr.. Foster, the United States Minister, de-
clared that no treaty between the Mexicans and
this country can be enforced without first sup
pressing or exterminating the people on the
Mexican side CT the Rio Grande who make q
business Of robbery and murder on this side.
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NEWS SUM MARY


Gable dispatches of theE8th inst. are to the
effect that Russia was favorable to confer
ence of the powers, bnt rejected the proposal
to hold it in Vienna, or any other great capital,
that the Russian army was in possession OF
Constantinople, it's occupation being regarded
as one of the terms Of the arnistice; that Rust
chuk and Silistria had been occupied by the
DusIy bombarding Widin.
Cable kilograms of the 9th inst. rep Q TT that
England had assented to Austria's proposal for
conference that England had asked Russia
for explanations that there was tremendous
excitement in London on account of the man
ner in which the Bear had outwitted the Lion,
crowds thronging the streets, clamoring for
war, singing ''God Save the Queen" and ston-
ing the house of Gladstone, and the Office OF
the Daily Ne,0s; that the opposition to the
vote of credit of Ell, 1000, 900 had been withdrawn
by the opposition in the House Ct Commons
that Constantinople was not in actual posses
sion Of the Russians, who held only portion
of the outer line of defenses, thus leaving itin
a practically defenseless condition.
According to the summary of the terms OF
armistlce communicated to the British House
of Commons, the line of demarcation places
in Russian hands almost all Of Bulgaria an6
Roumania up to the lines of Constantinople and
Gallipoi. Three days notice is to be giver
before the resumption of hostilities. Another
article of the armistice stipulates that the
Turks are to remove their arms, ETC., OF
evacuating places within the neutral zone
which will divide the two armies.
The House of Commons voted the extr;
grant of $4,000, 900 by 1913 to 1914
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POLITICAL POINTS.

A Washington correspondent telegraphs that
:" the President is represented by some who
have talked with him as very much dissatis-
fed with the course of the Senate in regard to
combinations. A large number of no1nina-
lions are in possession of the Senate, and of
late there have been scarcely any indications
of an intention to give even the most ordinary
attention to Them
The Committee on Federal Relations of the
Maryland House of Delegates, to whom were
referred Montgomery Blair's resolutions and
memorial calling upon Congress to reopen and
investigate the ele ctoral question, have report
ed adversely to their adoption.
The following is the dispatch recently sent
to Anderson, at New Orleans, by Secretary
Sherman and others of the so-called visiting
statesman
Gen. Thomas G. Anderson, New Orleans:
The undersigned feel it due to you, under pres
emit circumstances, to assure you of our unhesi-
tating belief that in the matter wherein
you stand charged you are altogether guilt
less of any ofense against the law; that
you falsely accused and maliciously
prosecuted; tnas the proceeding against you,
though in the form of law, is without the substance
of justice; that we hereby tender our earnest SYM
pathies, and express our hope that the sense OF
justice and the love of peace of the people of Louis
ana will protect you and not permit the best in
terests of the whole country to be disturbed by a
revival of sectional animosity.
In any event, we are confident that the American
people will redress any injustice of which you may
| be made the victim. JOHN SHERMAN
STANLEY MATHEWS,
| J.. A. GARFIELD,
EUGENE HALE,
HARRY WHITE
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MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGs.

Grain in sight in the States and Canada
Wheat, 10,268,974 bushels corn, 5,817, 483
bushels; 3,476,47 bushels of oats /; 754, 592
bushels of rye, and 1922, $50 bushels of barley.
Commissioner Mccormick reports that the
American exhibit at Paris will be creditable,
though not as good as it might have been had
there been longer time for preparation. In ma
play will be unusually good but great many
articles Of this sort had to be rejected for want
of room in which to show them
An excited mob visited the Parliament house
in Quebec, Canada a few evenings ago, burned
an efigy of the Solicitor General in the espla-
made, broke some windows, and raised lively
rumpus generally. The cause of the demon
stration is the unpopularty of the Government
on certain questions, notably their railway
policy.
are well executed, and calculated to deceive
the casual observer.
Failures Joel Hayden & Co., brassware
manufacturers, Haydenville, Mass, liabilities
100000, nominal assets 100000; the Wyan-
dotte Rolling Mill Company, Detroit, Mich,
liabilities 1926, 000 nominal assets about 81, O0O
600; Hallett Brothers, proprietors of dollar
stores in Cleveland, Detroit and other cities,
liabilities heavy; J. & J. Woodley, leather,
Quebec, Canada, liabilities 100000, assets
$4,000; W. G. Sapp. dry goods, Mount
Vernon, Ohio, liabilities heavy; D. H..
Brigham & Co., clothing, Springfield, Mass,
liabilities $250,000; Peter Herdie, lumber,
Wiliamsport, Pa, liabilities 100000; the
Hinckley Locomotive Works, Boston, Mass,
liabilities 100000; Joseph Gilmore, COAL
Pittsburgh, Pa, liabilities $4,000; Robert
Henderson & Co., coke, Pittsburgh, Pa, lia-
bilities over 100000 j. G. Ferguson, pork
packer, Indianapolis Ind, liabilities $780,
600; J. ". & E. Cheney, millinery, Detroit,
Mich, liabilities $4,000; Sweet, Cool & Co.,
boots and shoes, Buffalo, N. Y, liabilities
$150,000 Daniel Robertson, tea importer,
Montreal, Canada, liabilities $4,000; the
Mercantile Savings Bank. Boston, Mass. John
T. Henry, Curran & Co., heavy druggists, New
York city, liabilities not stated l.. Woods &
Co., importers of WOODEN goods, Montreal,
Canada, liabilities 100000, assets $3.50, 1000 !;
William Sturges, capitalist and speculator Chi
cage, liabilities 81, 900, assets $3.50, !;
Leblanc & Robitaille, grocers, Montreal, Can
ada, liabilities 100000, assets $4,000; Will
lam A. Buffers & Co., auctioneers, Chicago,
liabilities about 900, assets nil
Died: At Philadelphia William Welsh, the
well-known philanthropist and ex-Indian Com
missioner, aged II; at Hartford, Ct., Hon.
Gideon Welles, ex-Secretary of the Navy under
Mr.. Lincoln, aged 70; at New Orleans, Hon.
Charles M. Conrad, ex-Secretary of War under
President Fillmore, aged IS.
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still remaining in Besika bay pending the nego-
tiations A st. Petersburg telegram of the
same date announces that the order had been
issued for the occupation of the Turkish capital
by Russian troops.
A London dispatch of the 18th says there is
extraordinary activity in all the British dock
yards, and the workmen had been ordered to
put in three hours overtime daily. Every
available means were being employed in fitting
out war vessels
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the strong are killing the weak for the
sake of obtaining their flesh for food |!
Up to the present time the principal re-
lief has come from the Christian mis-
sionaries, Protestant and Roman Catho-
lie, who have distributed among the
sufferers the funds subscribed by their
communities in the open ports.
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INSIDE of twenty-five years all of the
5000, 900 acres of the free land in Iowa,
with the exception of 100000 acres,
have been taken up and converted into
farms and villages.
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MONTENEGRO, in the late Russo Turk
ish strife, lost 1000 in killed and 1000
IN wounded, or more than quarter of
= r. I.
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ular belief was that "there was more
virtue In the Egyptian than In the spice.
1t appears to have been the most emil
nent oure-all of those days, and Aircen-
ma, the greatest physician Of his tinie, re-
commends IL for o catalogue OF diseases
which reads very much like modern
medical advertisement. Among the ills
for which mummy was accounted q
specific were assesses, eruptions ana
fractures, paralysis and affections OF the
lungs, epilepsy and bowel complaint,
nausea and liver complaint, palpita.
tions of the heart and poisonings.
The Jews, who were the patent medi-
cine men of those days, built up colos-
sal fortunes In the trade and lived mag
nificently on the dry bones of Egypt
The supply falling to satisfy the de-
mand, they bought up the secret corpses
which had died Of leprosy, small pox
or the plague, executed criminals, ETC.,
filled the heads and trunks with asphalt
tum, a cheap gum, made inoisions into
muscular parts Of the limbs, and filled
these also with asphaltum, then wrapped
the bodies tightly in old clothes and
dried them in the sun. They presently
resembled the genuine article, so that
one candid Hebrew speculator declared
''no one could tell, but he marveled
how the Christians, 80 daintily mouthed.
could eat the bodies OF the dead"
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TRUSTEES,
MEDICAL NOTICE.

DR, w. BILLIE Specialist for all Chronic Dis.
eases. Private Diseases and Female Dfseases
has Just returned from Europe. Office, 1876 Canal
street between Dryades and Rampant streets
caused by abuse or age, ALWAYS cured Ia a
short time. Private Diseases treated after d new
sure and quick method. Female Diseases treated
DIR, Btde's reputation as skilled and SUCCESS
ful physician is already years ago established
hundreds Of cases here which other DhysfciaDs
had failed to benefit, which Is well known TO tbs
public. DR.. Bile is graduate from one Of the
pest colleges in Europe. and was for years ae-
sistant physician to Prof. Rieord Paris. Con.
sultaffone and correspondence strictly conf
Genital Charges moderate. 1876 Canal street
DRs VI. BILLIE 1ee Canal street, dna FL
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Mum MES.
How They We're Used as Medicines a
Few Centuries Ago.

How They We're Used as Medicines a
Few Centuries Ago.
[St Louis Post.I
Embalming has been practiced by
many nations ancient and medieval,
and all imaginable substances have
been used as preservatives, from the
myrrh, aloes and precious spices ap-
piled by the Hebrews according to
Scripture down to the rough rubbing In
of common salt in England after the
conquest. Alexander the Great was
embalmed in honey, which substance
was used by the Spartans and Baby
lonians. The Philippians used plas-
ter, colored to resemble life; the Per-
SLAMS and Scythians wax, which has
been used in England; Elizabeth Tu-
dor, the second daughter Of Henry VIII,
having been "cered by the wax chand-
ler." In the South Sea Islands embro-
cations OF the fragrant cocoanut oil are
found effective. The Peruvians covered
the bodies with snow from the noun
tains and afterwards applied a bitumin-
GUS substance as a preservative. In
England the practice was to cut large
gashes in the corpse and then throw in
salt. The body was afterwards sewed
up In the toughest buIl's-hide. King
John, a Countess of Pembroke and
James Ill OF SCOCIanQ were mus onVels
oped. The celebrated Hugh Lupus,
who died in 1101, was buried in gilded
leather and his ankles were tied to-
gether with string.
The trade in mummy was long impor-
tant and lucrative, and the belief in it's
medicinal virtues universal even so late
as the seventeenth century. MUM
N.Y." says Lord Bacon, hath great
force in staunching blood, which may
be- ascribed to the mixture of balsams
that are glutinous. This was the
opinion Of sensible man; but the pop
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The chief parts Of the estates Of all
these, except the Dukes of Richmond,
Deyonshire and Northumberland are in
Scotland. But though the estates Of
Scotland are larger, those of England
are usually much more valuable. The
land Of the Duke Of Sutherland Is near
ly all in the county Of Sutherland in the
extreme north Of Scotland, though he
has 12,7OO acres in Staffordshire, Eng
land, and 1880 acres in Shropshire,
Wales,
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The Board of Directors. at q meeting held on
the nineteenth day of January. 1878, after set
ting aside $4,000 to reserve fund from the net
earnings of the year, and paying 10 per cent
dividend to the stockholders. have resolved to
pay CASH DIVIDEND OF TWENTY-FIVE
PER CENT on the net earned participating
premiums Of the year ending December 81
1877, said dividend payable on and after Mon.
day. the twenty-eighth day of January. 1878,
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A FATAL RECOGNITION.
An Incident Of the Savannah Execution

An Incident Of the Savannah Execution.
Savannah Newsl
Among the thousands Of spectators at
the execution Of Frank Perryno was n
young colored girl, living on Reynolds
street, who, with some others, was at
tracted to the scene out Of curiosity.
When the condemned was placed on the
scaffold she at once recognized him as
her former lover, whom she thought
miles away, not connecting Frank Per
ryno, the murderer, with her lover,
Frank Perry, as she had known him.
She Immediately gave utterance to the
most fearful shrieks and Wailings, which
were joined In by others, and occasioned
the remark from Perryno. "You had
better mourn for your sins than for
me-" he not having the slightest con
ception that the cry was first uttered
by one who felt such an interest in him.
The girl was taken from the scene by
some friends, and conveyed to her house
on Reynolds street, where she imme-
diately fell into commissions. As soon
as she recovered from one she fell into
another OF even greater violence, the
services of three strong men being re-
CURED to hold her. The physician at
tending thinks her recovery doubtful,
as she has been in commissions ever
since.
- o =
In New York, ON Wednesday 100000 acres
of land in Mcdowell county, w. Va, repre-
sented as heavily timbered white oak and
mineral lands, were sold at public auction
The lands were sold In lots of 1000 acres or
more, to suit purchasers. One-half of the
tract was knocked down TO &. 7. Bonner &
CO., at half cent per acre. The balance was
mostly sold to Germans, In lots Of from $4,000
to 10000 acres, at from half cent TO O.
cent and a half per acre. The average price
realized for the entire tract was one cent per
acre.
Frasculeo, the chief matador Of Madrid Is
worth 100000, and wears $4,000 worth OF
diamonds on his fighting costume. He is
much courted by the highest society In
Madrid, and Is member of the most aris-
tOcratiG club; yet his wife Is fishmonger's
daughter, and still helps her mother in the
market. On days when her husband per-
forms she sits at her balcony with his child
dren to receive Couriers, who come on horse.
back, waving white flag as sign of success
in the arena.
- -
For delightful shades, pleasant breezes and
glorious surf bathing. go to Point Clear this
season.
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Red is used for danger signals on the rail-
roads, and always means stop" On a
mans nose it ought to give the same warn
ing.