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roads is little less than $500, OO0, 900
Its Administered BY PA distinct COM
panies, SEINE of which pay TO dividend,
wtiienrher la 10 sllsssly isselvest-7A
a rule, the srnaibsf~th Company the less
proftabiethe undertaking. 7~siry
1t has been estimated By reports re-
ceived at the Agricultural Department
of Georgia that so per cent. of the
farmers who raise their own supplies
make money by farming. Seventy-five
per cent of those who give liens and
mortgages, and pay high rates of inter-
est on supplies, fail to make expenses.
Prof. Colladon of Geneva has effect
ed an important improvement in the in
genious continuance for enabling deaf
mutes to hear through the teeth, lately
discovered in this country For the In
dia-rubber apparatus used by the Amer
lean inventor, which is somewhat costly.
the Professor substitutes piece of elias
tic cardboard. rast
The New York Gas Company has
decided to abandon coal for gas-making
purposes about March l, and adopt the
system of the Municipal Company,
which makes gas out of water, and en-
riches. the hydrogen with vaporized
naphtha This gas, it is said, can
be made for 80 cents per 1000 cubic
feet.
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BEST ANp soUTHwEsr.

The Mississippi River Improvements COM
mission, which has been in session at st.
Iyouis for some time, adjourned until the
l4th of February, when it will re-assemble
in Washington, presenting its report to Con-
gress about the LIST of March. This docu-
ment will recommend the carrying out OF
plans made BY the Commission, and ask for
an appropriation of between $1,000, 200 and
81 900, 600 for that purpose.
The steamer Chsrmer,, of the Red River
Transportation lime, was burned tothe wa
ter's edge on the morning OF Sunday, the
18th, near Bayou Sara, la. Eight lives were
lost, viz, two chambermaids, two cooks, two
cabin boys, one fireman and one deck hand.
The cargo consisted of 1900 bales of cot
ton. The Charmer was an elegant new
steamer and,eos, $500 She was insured
for SIS, 900.
A Leavenworth dispatch of the 18th says,
it is now conceded that the robbery Of Pay
master Broadhead's safe (of So, OOO) was
ACCOMPLISHED while the safe was in charge
of the Express Company, between Leaves-
worth and Atehison. The seals Of the safe
were intact when it was delivered by Major
Broadhead to the express agent at the former
place.
The Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad
has been incorporated into the Wabash sys-
TEN, Of which jay Gould is the moving
spirit. The NJ, X. & 7. has been operated
since July, 1879, by the Union Trust Com
gauy w 1,cw YORK, IN behalf OF the bond
holders. The control Of the road was secured
by the purchase of stock. AT a special meet
ing Of the Directors, held on the 9th, eight
members Ga majority Of the old Board
handed in their designations, and their
places were supplied by the election of eight
of the Wabash Directory. Jay Gould was
then chosen President, f. S. Bond, First
Vice President, N. L. McCready, Second
Vice. President, and II. b. Henson was re-
elected Secretary. 1t is said the NJ, X. and
r. will be at once consolidated with the Mis-
souri, Pacific.
Charles Ponder, aged 30, local preacher
of the NJ. E. Church, committed suicide by
hanging himself on his farm, four miles west
of New Albany, Ind, on the 9th. Cause,
insanity produced by religious excitement in
relation to sanctification.
A duel took place on Metairie Ridge, near
A. Burke of the Democrat, and Maj.
H. J. Hearsey of the States. The
duel was fought with pistols; distance,
10 PAGES. After firing two shots each,
friends interposed, and the difficulty was
adjusted.
The telephone was recently successfully
worked between st. Louis and Omaha, a
distance of 410 miles. Singing and CONVEX
sation were distinctly heard at either end.
A delegation of 40 colored emigrants from
Monroe Parish, La, arrived at Leavenworth,
HANS, on the 9th. They were mostly old
men, women and children, and all were in
a destitute condition and entirely dependent
upon charity.
Charles Taing, a Chinaman, was hanged
at COlusa, CAL, on the 3Oth, for the murder
of a Chinawoman in December, 1878.
Rev. j. NJ. Tower committed suicide at
Faribault, Mimi, on the Goth, by shooting.
He leaves wife and six children.
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School and Church.

In the last 20 years the Methodist
missions have received upwards of ten
million dollars. se -
AT recent session of the North
Mississippi Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South, the Bishop de-
cided that a lady who had been elected
rs a lay delegate could not serve. He
said both the discipline and the Bible
excluded women from holding church
offices.
"A public spirited Mississippian, DIR.
C. NJ. Walden, has made an offer to the
Legislature Of Mississippi or the various
churches of the State to give $4,000
towards the erection of college at Val
den, provided that either the churches
or the lawmakers will give the other
$50, 900 required.
The estimated number of religious
denominations among the English
speaking communities throughout the
world are: Episcopalians, 100000;
Methodists, 100000; Roman Catho-
lies, 13,500,000; Presbyterians, 10, $780,
600; Baptists, 8,000,0 600; Congregation
alists, 100000; Unitarians, 100000;
minor religious sects, 100000 no par
ticular religion, S,500,000. Total, 49,
1000.
The report of the Superintendent
of Public instruction in Iowa contains
statement of startling losses of the
school funds of that State by deficits in
reports of district officers for the seven
years beginning in 1873. The total
losses for the seven years foot up S491,
1851, of which the teachers fund lost
$685., 40, the school-house fund $780,
IA, and the contingent fund S53, 9O3.
"A few years ago, on the occasion of
the visit OF Professor Huxley to this
country, he said within ten years the
natural sciences would be taught in the
common schools here. Iowa has moved
in the matter, with the usual prompt
ness of that State in educational matters,
and organized a State Academy of
Sciences, located at the capital, with
library, laboratory and museum, to be
open to the free use of all the normal
schools held at the capital.
The Methodist is. of the opinion that
the Methodist General Conference which
meets in May will elect five BishOps.T 1t
saws: "There will be an effort to stop
at two, but the distribution of choices
among several candidates tends to in
crease the number Among the more
prominent candidates mentioned are
Chancellor Haven of Syracuse. Univer-
sity, President Foss of Wesleyan Univer-
sity, President Hurst of Drew Theologi-
cal Seminary, and DIR. Charles II.
Fowler. a,l s-t....
The Superintendent of Public In
struction Of Kentucky, in his report for
1879, claims that the public school sys-
tenn of that State has made a great
advance within the last ten years.
Eighteen hundred sehool-houses, most
of them tasteful and comfortable, have
been built within the last eight years;
and home supply of teachers has been
furnished from the best young men and
women of the State, who, choosing the
business for their life work, are taking
the places of the former temporary
teachers a( H.
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The lite Outbreak.
WASHINGTON. Jan. q.

WASHINGTON, jan.
Miss Josie Meeker was before the House In.
dian Committee to day, and told the story OF
the massacre of her father and of the causes
which led to it. She said the Indians were in
cited TO the deed by their intense native aver
sion to take on civilized modes ofhte. Thorn
burgh's advance in her opinion, was the i'm
mediate cause of the trouble. There was no
trouble with the White River Utes on account
of supplies since her father had been Agent,
and the outbreak was not occasloneq Dy any
treaty negotiations. 1t appears further from
her statement that the Indians had set fise TO
the country on and off the reservation, partly
that in case of an outbreak the soldiers could
not follow them. e".- rs
WASHINGTON, Jan. 80.
The House Committee on Indian Affairs
to day examined Gov. Pitkin of Colorado
on the Ute question. He stated that the
Indians had long been dissatisfied and
chafed under the restraints OF the
enforced influences of civilization exerted by
the agency; that Jack and other Indians had
appealed TO him to have them relieved of the
presence of Agent Meeker; that they did not
care for farming, but preferred TO lead the
same nomadiclife their fathers had followed.
He Governor Pitlin) believed the Utes were
actuated by malicious intent in the recent Ute
outbreak, and desired, If possible, to drive
out the whites from Colorado. He related
the incidents of his interviews with Jack
and other Indians, going to show that GU
ray had gradually lost his influence
over the younger Utes, and that the feel
ing of disaffectiOn and the war spirit had for
some time past been gaining an ascendency
with them. He said some of the scouts had,
previous to Thornburgh's fight, been warned
that the Indians would attack the troops at or
near Bear River, and that the general opinion
among the people of Colorado was that the
outbreak was Dremeditated.
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.


-Wilkie Collins says he has earned
$3.50, 900 with his pen.
Mrs. Ann S. Stephens is said to be
the oldest living American authoress.
The Atlanta Constitution thinks Mrs.
Burne.t,s Southern dialect is not the
correct article.
Mrs E. L. Davenport, the widow of
the distinguished actor, is giving dramat-
ic readings in New York.
"Ouida ,'~has written new novel,
entitled 'sMoths, - in which many noted
persons will appear in very thin dis
guise.
Mrs. Tennyson composed the music
for her husbands song which appears
in the March number of So. Nicholas.
Mr.. Samuel Smiles has received
from the King of Italy valuable
decoration as a mark of the royal
appreciation of his books. - Self Help
translated, has been sold in Italy to the
number of $4,000 copies.
"A prize of E2OO has been offered by
the Rev. Wyatt EdgeE, through tho
Sanitary Institute of Great Britain, for
the best essay that may be written by
Aug. next, on 1.-THE Cause of Hered-
itary Tendencies in Health and Dis
ease.n
Mary Kyle Dallas lives in New York.
She earns $1,000 a year from Bonner's
Ledger, and although not yet 40 years
old her hair is snow-white. She wears
it dressed in puffs piled upon her head
and with a bunch of crimson roses on
one side.
Mary Clemmer, the Washington
correspondent, is woman Of command
ing height, striking face, blue eyes,
delicate complexion and brown hair,
worn in clustering curls over her fore
head, and simply knotted at the back of
her head. She is energetic and electric
in conversation, trifle imperious in
manner.
OF the reported rupture of Miss
Julia Fletcher's engagement, the Lon
don Globe says: american society in
Rome is Just now much exercised by the
abrupt termination to the matrimonial
engagement between Miss Fletcher,
authoress of Kismet, and Lord Went
worth. In this transaction no blame is
attached to the lady, but the gentleman
is highly censured."
Mime. Colban is distinguished
Norwegian writer who did not attempt
authorship until she was nearly 60 years
old. She has produced since then five
romances, which are described as charm
inc. Her children were established in
life, her health began to fail, and her
duties and amusements as q woman of
society grew irksome. So she went to
live in Rome, where she has renewed
her youth in literary work.
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science and Industry.
-Virginia's peanut crop for 1879
valued at 81 goo, 600. 49,.

-virginia's peanut crop for 1879 is
valued at 81 ,0t0, 900. ..
Putnam County, Fla, produced 81
100000 oranges last year.
George Root of Spencer, Mass, has
bought 600 acres near Gordonsuille, Va,
and means to establish a manufacturing
village there.
1t has been ascertained by careful
ANALYSIS that rain which falls in towns
often becomes heavily charged with in
furious properties, and can onlyinrura
districts be regarded as thoroughly safe
drinking water ns.l3I igrag
The glass factories at Pittsburg,
Pa. which have been running at barely
living rates for several years, now have
all they can do to keep up with orders,
and have raised prices 10 and % per
cent. on window-glass and tableware.
Formerly it took five bushels of
wheat to make a barrel of -four, but
now, by the new process, only four and
a half bushels are required. A gain of
$40, 900, 600 is thus secured in one sea-
sons crop. This is good news for both
wheat-growers and bread eaters ~ -.
The capital employed inBTitishrail-
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Noman's Nerve.


A tall lady with saturnine counte-
nance came into the Chronicle office to-
day and demanded of one of the re-
porters if Virginia offered good field
for a series of a dozen lectures on wom-
an suffrage.
81 don't think the Comstockers have
thought much about female suffrage y
replied the reporter frankly.
Don't say female" said the tall
lady, sharply.
"Why notP" asked the reporter, in
innocent surprise.
"Because, sir, a term that is used to
describe sex in animals should not be
applied to women"
The reporter admitted in great hui
initiation, that the point was well taken,
and looked up in some alarm at the Sc
we're countenance of the lady, who was
head taller than himself and mani
testify able to thrash him in the interest
of progress, if so disposed. The stern
countenance softened somewhat at the
signs of confessed inferiority, however,
and the lady continued:
The cause of woman is the cause OF
humanity. The cause of humanity en-
braces all progress. Why, then, should
the people of Virginia be indifferent to
womanP"
Z" They're not!'' cried the small re-
porter, hastily. "Far from it. Woman
is the boss in this camp. Every thing
she wants she gets, and not one in a
hundred has to do a lick of work"
"Mere toys" said the tall one, with
deep scorn. "Play things for an idle
hour. You cover woman with silks and
gauds and sink her soul into insignif-
canoe by circumscribing her sphere and
allowing her no mission in life."
"Well," admitted the small reporter,
"that'S about the way we look at it up
here, that's a fact. Women haven't got
the nerve to wrastle for themselves like
men, ....-
NER-R-R-VRi"
She uttered this word in terrific
tone, so terrific that the small reporter
half rose from his chair. ......
"Nerve! What is there requiring
nerve that you do that am incapable
of?''
I" No offense, madam, no offense; |
meant nothing personal, assure you"
"Am not stronger than you?" she
demanded, scorning the apology. cam
I not gifted with as great brain? Why
do you despise my sex? We can bear
more pain and are, therefore, your
superiOrs in courage"
The small reporter was gazing fixedly
at dark corner of the room, and made
no answer.
"Nerve, indeed" continued the tall
lady, "why, women have infinitely more
nerve than men. Only yesterday | saw
woman"
"That's the biggest rat I ever saw in
the Office said the small reporter, star
ing intently at the dark corner.
The screams that rent the air brought
in al the printers and several citizens
from the street. When they arrived the
tail one was standing on a chair with
one hand covering her eyes and the
other convulsively clutching at her skirts
as she gathered them close around her
The small reporter wisely took adj
vantage of the crowd to slip out, and he
telegraphed from Gold Hill that he was
going down to Carson TO work up big
Virginia City Chronicle.
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The Boy Who Loved His Teacher.

A school boy about 10 years old was
the other day halted by benevolent
minded citizen on Second Street and
asked if he liked to 90 to school.
"No, sir" was the prompt reply.
"Then you don't love your teacher?n
"N-yes, sir. That is, | didn't until
yesterday, but now / do. think she's
just bully @ ar
"Why have you loved her since yes
terdavPn
q swell, you know Jack Cain? Well,
he's the worst fighter in our room. He
can lick me and two other boys with
one hand tied behind him. Well, he
was going to lick me last night and he
was shaking his fist at me in school and
showing his teeth and getting me all
excited when the teacher saw him.
"Did, eh?n o,
+" You bet she did and the way she
took him out of that and wolloped him
and humbled him down made me feel
as if she were a mother to me! When
school was out, Jack dasn't touch no.
body. He was wilted down, and when
hit him with hunk of dirt he never
even looked around! | guess I'm going
to try and lick him in the morning,
before he gets over feeling humber
Detroit Free Press.
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Goodness and prompt action in time
of danger is great thing. A volunteer
fireman in New Hampshire entered
dwelling threatened with destruction,
dashed up stairs, threw a mirror and
lamp from an upper window on to the
heads of the people below, took an AK
and chopped six holes in a Brussels car
peted floor, Earring off the plastering
below, broke a French clock on the
mantel, then grabbed feather bed and
carried it three-quarters of a mile to the
bank, and hunted up the cashier, to
have him put the article in the safe, and
then, the fire which was in the wood
shed being extinguished, went home, I'M
der the impression that he had rendered
valuable aid, and was hero.-Boston
Post.
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u -Dronmore Castle, the lately COM
pleted residence of the Earl of Limerick,
has been under construction since 1865,
and is a perfect reproduction of
stronghold of the fourteenth century.
The interior corresponds in the minutest
details with the outward design, and
the furniture is consistent with the style
of the fourteenth century SO far as the
exigencies of epresent age viii admit.
1t is two miles from Shannon, in County
Limerick. Lord Limerick is descended
from Speaker Perry, of the Irish House
of Commons.
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-3' odds and Ends.

Ouus anu
The chicken that swallowed hook
for fun will never go fishing again on
Sunday.
The New York Express "infers
from a recent strange spell of weather
that Josh Billings must have got his
hand on the climate
When Mr.. William Winter of the
New York Tribune was about to leave
the shores of England he mounted the
bridge of the steamer, and, taking off
his hat to the crowd assembled ON the
jetty at Liverpool, exclaimed: ''Gen-
tlemen, if there's any body in your
island whom have not given Il shilling,
now's his time to speak!'' Agenteman
on the dock shouted back :. I'm the
only man in Great Britain that you
haven't beaten out of the drinks
- 1t is related of well known mer-s
chant of ncigkboring city that, after
making his will and leaving large
property to trustee for his son, he
called the young man in and after read
ing the viii to him asked if there was
any alteration or Improvement he could
suggest .'Well, father" said the
young gentleman, lighting a, cigarette,
II think, as things 90 nowadays, it
would be better for me if you left, the
property to the other fellow and made
me the trHstee.' The old gentleman
made up his mind then and there that
the young man was quite competent to
take charge of his own inheritance, and
scratched the trustee. clause, out.-Bos-
ton ConaBterctdl RnlIetia.ss q = a.. y =
Ia THE OLD MAN OF MoNTROsE.
There was an old man of Montrose
Who had remarkable nose,
So long and so thin, 4
And so far from his chin,i -..r .. -.
Twas always in danger OF blows.
One day the old man of Montrose
~, Went out without muftiing his nose;
And it grieves me to tell -ir
That this organ of smell
As stiff as an icicle frOZe. ..rf
Soon after, in sneeZing ker-ckoo,f
His nose into snithereens few,
- And left but a stump,
A ridiculous lump, .li r -fr--
That even in summer looked blue.
The frost bitten man of MOntrose
Used words that were. equal TO blows;
Ia. And so great his disgrace,
He soon quilted the place,
!, -- And where he has gone no one knows.
-H1rper's Young People.
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-Abd-el-Kader, whose death was
about a month since generally an
nounced, is not only still living. but
also, despite his 10 years of age and his
40 children. is exceedingly healthy and
carries himself. as stoutly as a young
man. He lives at Damascus, deyoting
his time to agriculture and charity. He
is one of the haRdsomest old men to be
seen, enjoys life, and asks from Provi-.
dence nothing better than TO be able to
read few more obituaries of himself.
A COLD snap-An icy answer.
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Tl,eI Ingalls In,esLirniion.

10 n : :" n d WASHINGTON, JaN- y
O. NJ Foulks, T. s. Stambaugh, A A. Thorn
as and ID. z. anthony were called as wit
nesses in the Ingalls, case, but their testimony
was unimp0rtalit. This virtually closed the ev-
idence in the case and the committee decided
TO allow counsel on both sides one week IN
which TO prepare written arguments to be
submitted TO the committee. tla 5ltt
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+. =" What dreadful AFFAIR."" indig-
nantly exclaimed good Mrs. Higgin-
botham, laying down the account of a
prize fight which she had been reading.
:" The awful men actually struck each
other with their hands, and one of them
got so sick that he threw up sponge.
Such things ought to be stopped by
Law. y ROctldnd Courier
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provisions of the New Constitution, are about
TO use the proceeds of taxes levied under
the law of 1874 for the year 1872 to defray the
expenses OF the Stite Government instead OF
deyoting them to the payment of said bonds
as required by said law, and praying that the
provisions OF said New Constitution affecting
the payment of said bonds be declared void
and unconstitutional, Is impairing the obli-
CATION Of contract. The bill also prays for
: q writ of injunction to restrain the State ofil-
GERS of Louisiana from using the proceeds OF
said taxes for any other purpose than speei-
fed by said act OF 1874.
Senator Garfield has written letter an
noui1eing his preference for John Sherman
as the Republican candidate for President.
THE TROUBLES IN MAINE.
The Maine Supreme Court, on the 27tb,
rendered an opinion in response TO the ques-
lions submitted by the Fusion Legisla-
ture, although expressly disclaining any
recognition of that body, even by implica-
tion as legally organized Legislative
body. The Court declares that the Fusion
House was neverlegally organized, inasmuch
as some of the persons who assumed to act as
members thereof and were necessary to
make quorum did not ar 1ear to be elected
on the face of the returns and were not in
fact elected. The same objection ex-
lists as to the Fusion Senate. Regarding Re-
publican organizations, the Court say, that,
although there may be irregularities in the
manner in which such organizations were
formed, the voice of the people is not on that
account to be stifled nor the true Govern
ment to fail to be maintained. No essential
defects anywhere exist, but only such de-
partures from the ordinary forms as circum-
stances compelled"
The Fusion Legislature, after a pro-
longed secret session on the 2Sth, adjourned
to meet on the first Wednesday Of August
next.
In the Republican Senate, on the Goth,
seven Fusionists took their seats, and % Fu
sionists took places in the Republican House.
Every body seemed willing to accept the sit
uation, and absolute quiet reigned.
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"A South American plant has been
found that cures bashfulness. 1t should
be promptly tried on the man who
leaves the hotel by the back window be-
cause he is too diffident to say good-by
to the cashier and clerk. i
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sciousness, produced by rheumatism of the
heart, as stated by his physician, iroIn which
it was at one time thought he could not re-
cover.