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SCHEDULES.

PETERSBURG RAILROAD COMPANY, !
OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT, ;
PETERSBURG VA, October IL, 1882. }
COMMENCING Monday. October. l6,
" 1882. trains on this road will run as
follows:
GOING SOUTH,
Boston & Savannah Fast Mail
(Stors only at Relfeld)
Leave Petersburg daily at 4 :O9 p. IL
Arrive at W eldon at :54
NEW YORK EXPRESS,
Leave Petersburg daily at 100 ?. NJ
Arrive at Weldon at 3.l9 2 N
Freight.
Leave Petersburg (ex'pt Sun $3.50 p m
Arrive at Weldon at 1l:0O m
GOING NORTH
Boston & Savannah Fast Mail.
Leave w eldon daily at II :O5 A. Nj
Arrive at Petersburg at 2 :23 -
NEW YORK EXPRESS.
Leave Weldon daily at Ito i NJ.
Arrive at Petersburg at 3.z4 Il. ii.
Freight.
Leave Weldon lex Sum- 200 pm
Arrive at Petersburg 80 y m
First-class coaches will run through
between Wilmington and Washington
and sleeping cars on night and day trans
Sleeping car berths can be had for ,ne
dollar from Richmond to Baltimore. No
change of cars.
through tickets sold to all TASTE II
md Southern points, and baggage rIe X
ID through.
W. j. BROWN,
Dispatcher OF Trains
K. NJ. SULl.l
General superintendent
w. p. TAYLOR, Gen. Ticket ACT.
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Keep Nothing From Mother.

They sat at the spinning together,
And they spun the fine white thread;
One face was old and the other was
vounJ-
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sell the cleanest made and best

L shooting Breech-loading Double
SHOT GUNS in the world for the money.
My SEQ 90 Side Lever English Gun d.
guage. u to 81 lbs; 10 guage, St to
lbs. if 10 lbs. 81 extra), has genuine. fine,
English, real twist barrels. Every bar
rel bears the proof-master' stamp show
ing that it has been tested with two or
three times the usual charge. They are
choke bored, and, will shoot as we'll as an
ordinary 500 gun. Sent G. o. D. sub
ject to examination; over 500 miles away
81 must come with order, and over 1000
miles 81 is required. Ifwith Pistol grip
and rebounding Locks price is 1913.
CHARLES FOLSOM, LOG CHAMBERS
STREET. N. Y. CITY.
The Concordia eagle. [volume] (Vidalia, La.) 1873-1890, 1882-04-01
CLIPPINGS FOR THE CURIOUS.

The yew tree has always been con-
sidered tree of mourning.
a little bird, the red-tail, has been
seen to catch 900 flies in an hour.
Among the hundreds of parasitic
cones studding the TANKS Of Etna
there are some nearly 800 feet high.
Silk damasks are now made by past
ing thin silk tissue on cotton. India
rubber dissolved in petroleum is used
as cement.
The famous Mosque OF Omar, 'front.'
ing Solomon's temple, derives an an.
nual revenue of nearly S75, 100 from
pilgrim contributions.
A hundred thousand miles of railroad
track are laid in the United States,
being about one-half the constructed
railroads of the world.
The lily Of the Scriptures. according
to the bestor authity, was the purple
iris, the feur de lis, plant considered
sacred TO the Virgin Mary.
The Indians of the Tehuantepec High
lands ascend the icy SUBMITS of the
Sierra Madre, with o threadbare
blanket as their only covering.
II is found by experiment that if
meat, before being fed to dogs, be cut
fine, it is imperfectly digested, while if
swallowed in large pieces the result is
perfect digestion.
Trees, during rain storms, retain vast
quantities of water. The soil covered
with forests receives six-tenths of the
whole rainfall, the trees having inter-
cepted four-tenths.
A Russian savant offers the novel bu
absurd hypothesis that hail is of cos.
mical origin, and is captured by our
world in its journey through space in
the same way that meteors are attracted
to their planets.
There is weekly sale in Paris Of
toads, Which are brought in casks filed
with damp moss. One hundred good
tosds are worth from sixty to seventy
snillings. These are bought for gar
dens.
Some birds, it is said, desert their
young whenever the little ones have been
touched by any member of the human
race. The young birds die of starvation
in the nest, and are eaten by the ants
that are always foraging up and down
the trees.
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sketches BY Sitting BnIl.

A collection of sketches by Sitting
Bull, representing the principal events
of his life, the whole constituting pic
torial autobiography, was purchased in
1870 by Assistant Surgeon James G.
Kimball for 81. so IN provisions from q
Yanktonnais Sioux, who took it into
Fort Buford. These sketches, of the
authenticity of which there has been
considerable doubt, have been in pos
session of the war department for several
years. The collection was recently sent
to Colonel Andrews, commanding Fort
Randall, where Sitting Bull is q pris-
oner, in order that the fallen brave
might certify to their authentic char.
acter and explain their Significance.
This Sitting Bull has done with most Of
the sketches, explaining that few of
them relate to his brother, Jumping
Bull. The exploits depicted are only
such as rebound to the martial glory of
the artist, according to his estimate of
greatness. In drawing, composition
and coloring the pictures are grotesque
and barbaric in the last degree.
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and the dish look as good as new If II
is boiled in milk. This has been tried
on small msjolica pitcher with success.
The water or syrup in which prunes
arc cooked should always be strained.
It will not look clear or even clean un-
less II is. After washing the prunes in
two or three waters let them soak air
night. They will then require cooking
only few minutes, and win retain their
distinctive flavor better.
To wash delicate muslins put three
pints Of wheat bran and handful Of
salt into loose bag, and boil half an
hour in six quarts of soft water. Use
this water for washing muslins or lawns
with delicate colors, keeping at hand
the bag OF bran to use instead of soap
on any soiled spot that win not yield TO
slight hand rubbing. Rinse the muslin
in clear water and dry quickly in the
shade. Many colors in calico goods,
which are injured by using the most
delicate soap, can be safely washed II
wheat bran Tor, if more convenient
wheat four is boiled and used instead.
The Concordia eagle. [volume] (Vidalia, La.) 1873-1890, 1882-04-01
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

Stands to reason-The inveterate de-
batter.
The Ohio farmers are barbarians;
some Of them shock cornfeld by their
actions.
What word is there of five letters,
from which, il you take away two, you
leave six a-Sixty.
Gerster, the singer, likes gsrlicky and
onion-seasoned dishes Is this what
makes her voice so strong?
Tha careless man and the thief.are
equally troublesome. Neither Of them
ever leaves anything where he finds it.
The French eat their jackasses and
the Americans make Mayors of theirs,
and both claim to be in the right of 1t.
Another ex president of Peru has ar
rived in this country. Pretty soon
there will be enough Of them to hold 9
rennion.
Thirty Bostonians have written es-
says which are sealed up in box for a
hundred years. This would be good
scheme for spring poets.
"Oh. yes" said the broker; sob. yes,
he's sharp; he's very sharp. But then
he's Like most sharp men. he never cuts
anything unless it's softer than himself"
Cleveland figures that it costs a
''nobby young man. about $500 to
get married and make weeks tour,
and the said nobby young man always
lacks just 81, 495 Of the requisite sum.
A London newspaper says that short
boneymoons are the fashion now. It'll
presumed the honeymoon ends when
the last quarter is reached.-LosOen
Citizen.
Captain, "summing mp =" What is
the charge, sergeantT Sergeant
"This time it's drunkenness, sir. But
this man is the most troublesome fellow
in the regiment, sir: He goes out
when he likes, and gets drunk when
he likes; in fact, be might be hor6cerl"
oh give.me back my boyhoods hours.
Their truant escapades,
There stolen sweets in orchard bowers---
Their watermelon raids,
Their Hastings on the pantry "snaek "
That made ones palate Jingle;
But ahi you needn't give me back
The slipper or the shingle.
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The Australian Sea Serpent.

An Australian writes to the San Fran.
cisco Call as follows: Captain Halle
recent account of the monster reptile,
now going the rounds of the press, re-
calls to mind the appearance some
years ago OF similar monster in one
of the rivers of Australia. In 1847, a
gentleman riding along the Murrumi
bidgee, observed huge creature
swimming in the river, with q head
something like that of q mastiff, but
much larger, a name about six inches
long, and a body near the head, as large
as mans, but tapering to the tail. 1t
was seen again in. q different river in
1858, and its length was variously esti-
mated at from fifty to eighty feet. The
existence of such monster had already
been known to the aborigines, to whom
the reptile was an object of the greatest
terror. They call it "bunyin," which
means water snake. The bunyin, un-
like Mr.. Halls water serpent, is far
rom being aggressive, at least in the
water-i is in fact very shy, as we'll as q
rapid swimmer, and while ordinarily
carrying his head above water. will i'm
mediately disappear on hearing the
least noise on the bank. But though
shy and timid in the water, In which
element it is supposed to obtain most
of its food, it is fierce ON land, and
has been known, according to aborigi-
nal tradition, to devour large numbers
Of the natives whenever they unwilling
ly crossed its path. It must, however,
be observed, and the fact is worthy Of
notice, that so far as the writer is aware
no skeleton of the monster has ss yet
been discovered.
The Concordia eagle. [volume] (Vidalia, La.) 1873-1890, 1882-04-01

Learn q Little Every Day.
Little rills make wider streamleta,
Streamlets swell the rivers fiow;
Rivers join the mountain pillows,
Onward, onward, as they gol
Life is made Of amallest fragments,
Shade and sunshine, work and play !;
80 may we, with greatest profit,
Learn little every day.
Tiny seeds make boundless harvests,
Drops Of rain compose the showers,
Seconds make the flying minutes,
And the minutes make the hoursi
Let us hasten, then, and catch them
As they pass rs on the way;
And with honest, true endeavor
Learn Q little every day.
Let us read some striking passage,
Gull verse from every page;
Here q line, and there q sentence,
'Gainst the lonely time Of age !
At our work or by the wayside,
While the sunshine's making hay;
Thus we may by help Of study
Learn little every day.
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Hot Water for PJauts,

1t has long been known that the roots
Of plants encased in earth would stand
water so hot as to be quite uncomfortable
to the hand. M. Willermoz, in the
journal of the Society of Practical
horticulture" of the Rhone, France.
relates that plants in pots may be treat
ed with hot water when ont of health,
the usual remedy for which has been
reporting.
He says when il1-health ensues from
said substances contained or generated
in the soil, and this is absorbed by the
roots, it acts as a poison. The small
roots are withered and cease their &C
ton, consequently the upper and
younger shoots of the plant turn yellow,
and the spots with which the leaves
are covered indicate their morbid
state. In such cases the usual remedy
is to transplant into fresh soil, clean
the pots carefully, secure good drain
nSCy hAu OitCA Wlbu tuc pcot Et-
suits. But the experience of several
years has proved, with him, the unfail-
ing efficacy of the simpler treatment,
which consists in watering abundantly
with hot water at temperature Of las
degrees F., having previously stirred
the soil of the pots SO far as might be
done without injury to the roots. Water
is then given until it runs freely from
che pots.
In his experiments the water first
came out clear; afterward it was sensi-
bly, tinged with brown, and gave an
appreciable acid reaction. After this
thorough washing the pots were kept
warm. Next day the leaves of Ficus
elastica SO treated ceased to droop, the
spread of black spots on their leaves
was arrested, and three days afterward,
instead of dying, the plants had recov-
cred their normal look Of health. Very
soon they made new roots, Immediately
followed by vigorous growth. U
The Concordia eagle. [volume] (Vidalia, La.) 1873-1890, 1882-04-01
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Hens In Winter.

Hens In Winter.
To have laying hens in winter. the
first year of their lives, the pullets
should be Matched early in the previous
spring. Thus they grow to maturity
BY late fall, and after molting they viii
begin to lay, frequently in November,
or even in October. Leghorns will
commence to lay at five months old
and we have known Brahma and Cochins
to begin laying at six months. Gen.
orally speaking. however. they do not
lay much till they are month or two
older. SO, If your pullets are Matched
out, say in March or April, they will be
seven or eight months of age in Novem-
Der, and should then be ready to STAY
in winter" naturally, without forcing.
But they commonly do not get to laying
at this time, and the reason is that they
have not been properly fed with this
end in view. Where you find young
winter-laying hens you may be sure they
have been taken good care Of, from the
shell upward. But older hens may be
put up to this work by artificial feeding
or by supplying them with highly slim
ulating or egg producing food for the
same purpose. Thus, if we take flock
Of one and two ear-oid hens and pen
them where We can furnish them with
animal and grain food and the necessary
condiments which go to create egg
meat and shells-awsy from the ordi-
narily fed poultry-we can quicken
them in the laying disposition, and
they will commence to discharge their
iitters month or six weeks earlier than
they would have done had they been
left to take their chances among their
flock. But this forcing is exhaustive.
Nature is over hurried. 1t is not q
healthful way for hens to lay
under this stimulating "bigh
pressure" And they soon lay
themselves out. We have known hens
thus treated to produce enormous sized
eggs frequently, and also many soft
shelled ones when being thus pushed.
They can be made to lay" in this way
for time. But it is brief time only
before they will "play out" under this
fastening process. We therefore would
advise those who would have laying
fowls in winter time to procure pullets
that they know are then seven or eight
months of age Of any breed. If they
wish to bring their old hens into laying
at this period, they must feed them
high in advance, keep them warm and
dry and furnish them with plenty of
animal food, wheat, buckwheat and egg
producing food for this purpose. And
SO it will be for the flock thus forced,
a short life and prolific one, but you
may thus have winter laying hens
Poultry World.
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Some years ago Miss Libbie Minkler,
OF Rochelle, ILL.,, lost both arms by
falling in front Of reaper. To-day
she is earning good living by oil paint
ing, holding the brush in her teeth.
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In the last 100 years over 1000 people
have been burned up in thesters, and
in the same time over 5000 have per-
ished in church accidents.
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When you see an Irish mother sew.
ing the tears in her boys pantaloons,
you may put her down as being in favor
of the ''no.rent" system.
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"Do you think you'll be able to pull
through ?" anxiously inquired the needle
of the thread. "Eye guess So" was
the curt response.
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Household Hints.

1t is fact that little, Just perceptible
cracks in earthenware will disappear
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as 1 have here written it. The bag
was lost.
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gEzREgaEsL4E TD1s DO.
ggaaele roswna as1esvn aaoxTs7 aneG
2gaay Persons KILLED.

SEDAL1A, No., April l8.-Keports reach
ed here to-nigheto the effect that a lorna
DO struck Montrose yesterday at :, 80 D. NJ,
destroying eighteen dwellings and four
churches. No lives were lost. 4 build
ing four miles east OF Montrose was blown
down and al the inmates were more or
less injured. Two little sons OF John Farr
are supposed to be fatally injured. One
child was blown across Il tWentv-acre field
and lodged III an apple tree uninjured.
Two men in an adjacent field were blown
over hedge fence eleven feet high and
both badly hurt. The storm is said to have
extended to Appleton City and blown
down houses ut Clinton. A heavy hail
Storm prevailed, and MI the windows fac
ing the west were blown in. At places
the hail fell rs large rs goose eggs, and at
Holden IL number Of houses were blown
down and others badly damaged. NoliYes
are reported lost. AT p. M. terrible
tornado struck Brownsville, demolished
over fifty houses Ii the heart Of the town,
including the city hall and main business
houses. The following persons are known
TO have been killed:
Claude Miller, merchant; James Miller,
John $. c. Riggs, Mr.. Arthur of Pitts
burg, Pa, and Richard Ferguson. City
Marshal Con. White ID believed TO have
been killed. Thirty others are Freported
more or less injured, many Of them dan
gerolsly.
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q he pay full price lor 1t?
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Ebe@ petite Daaosaas=

ST. PETERSBURG, April 2o.-An Inperlal
order has beensiasued prohibiting military
men from publicly delivering political
speeches, or expressing political opinions.
The War Department officials are proii-
bited from publishing, without the sane
ton Of their aaperiors, documents referring
to internal and external affairs Of foreign
countries.
General Ignatie0 dismissed his gecre-
tary, Pubnickod, for writing an anti-Ger-
man pamphlet,
The Col..,ciIog the Empire Is instructed
TO draw ups law deHsaing lhs poaItion Of
Jews III Russia.
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= Budget az New Yerk News.

New YonK, April 25.-An attachment
/ In the name of Leopold L., King of Bel
gum, for $340, ,Qo0z has been obtained by
the Belgian consul IN this city from Judge
Barrett, Of the supreme court, against
Leon Burnard, who Ia accused OF robbing
q prominent archbishop In Belgium Of
bonds, money, Jewels, etc., amounting 90
far IS known, TO over 81 ,200, 900. Burnard
is supposed to be in this country. The
detectives are on his track.
The Tribune reviews the antecedents Of
the Presidents recent appointments and
shows they all belong to the stalwart wing
ofthe Republican party, and that the y
generally replace those who belong TO the
majority of the party.
The furniture and storage warehouse OF
G. c. Flint &c Go. 303 West street, was
burned to-day. Loss. $4,000; partly in-
aured.
The Tribane aays Biaine's evidence yes
terday In the Peruvian Company lnyestl-
cation was clear strong and conclusive.
Probably no intelligent human being ex-
pected any other outcome to this whole
business, than Blaine's testimony now In
dicAtes. The attention given to the alleg-
ed Peruvian Company BY congress and
the country has been preposterous. No
rational man could read the drst half u
dozen out Of the hundreds OF columns OF
sfaf reported without realizing that he was
asked to vest with International impor-
tanco the pretsntious boasts OF moon
struck and utterly irresponsible New York
adventurer.
The Herald St. Petersburg special says:
Lient. DannenhoWer arrived at Lroutsk on
the 18th Inst. and left there again ON the
18th. Heis hourly expected It Orenburg,
the extreme terminus Of the European
railroad In three days travel from Mos
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The K5ah@mrn@ Gas ses

WASHINGTON, April 23.-General sur
prise Il expressed at the verdict In the Kill
bourne case. The prevailing opinion 10 that
it il excessive and ought to be set aside.
There il some sharp criticism on the man
ner In which the Government interests in
this case have been defended, or rather
been neglected. District Attorney Cork
hill with other important cases In his
hands, and only one assistant, was sup
posed te defend the Government interests,
while able and influential counsel were
arrayed on Kilbourne's side. On the Jury
were some men who. had figured rather
conspicuously In notorious rings In the
past here, and there are those who openly
express the opinion that the Governments
case was given away, or allowed pretty
much to so by default.
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TIME toes or THzE JEANNErTE.
aaar &3revv Compelled to Pump Ser Is
yH@n&as GO keep Her Afl@at.

sAN FRAAczsco, April l6.--The Gail to-
| saorrow will publish letter from DR.. II
G. Iedyard, at American now IN Siberia,
| TO friend In this city. At Irkoutsh1 DR..
Ledyard met Lieut.. Danenhower, who
gave him interesting details OF the loss OF
| tho Jeannette. The following extracts are
uasde:
ssSlnco the first fall they were out, when
they were caught By the ice In trying to
reach Herald Island, they had never taken
d course, bat the vessel was held ~ In the
)awa OF death, squeesed until every timber
strained, turned this way and that, thrown
floating and then caught again. They
were every hour in Suspense, never know
tng when tbs Ice would clese upon Them.
,, a little more aud the deck sank beneath
them. Throughout the strain they were
WELL aud tried to be cheerful, working
very hard, for the engine and the men
we're barely able to Keep the water out.
They had TO puaap for year and half.
On june Il, 1881, fhe criais came. The ship
showed greater straining than before, the
deck q,lfyered, and inexplicable aoye-
taenes warned them TO hasten from
the weasel. They prepared their boats,
and made their camp beside the Jeanette
She rose and turned in her cradle until the
yards touched the ice. Then The rigging
gave way, aud her masts lay PROSTATE.
At o'clock In the morning the doe part
I'd, and all Weat deWn. ! cry Of alarm
called all to escape from the creyice in the
ice, II opened just through the Captains
tent. Then began the retreat. For tWen-
ty-nine days they struggled southwark,
500 allies OF broken ice being thus passed
over. Four aailes u day was thought good
fortune. After one series of fourteen days
they were twenty-seyen xaileg further
north than at first. While working over
the ice and dragging three boats, they dis
covered Bennett island, TO explore which
they spent four weeks Of their precious
summer day, and expended much of tlsir
limited supply Of foed. 70 this detour
those Nho survived attributed mnsh of
their suf1eging and the death Of their COM
snander, With nineteen men. After three
months Of this perilous and exhansting
work, they came to blue water, and then,
with fur winds, took their course for the
mouth Of Lena River. Chief Engineer
nelYille'a boat was stove against a block
Of Ice, aad the Captains boat lost her
mast and sail. The Captain landed with
Il vel, but abandoned the boat, as the
water was shallow and it could not make
the channel OF the river. !"
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NEW oRA' a95la @l'-- nc 11s..f1ta ;
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lanes O. Aan.sop, ehe eo1npA'a'oa VI
hlaYolle u : e1'ssl&'1 >e'1nt t'aily aaeas 1s
latter gave the correspondent the Hat Of
original stockholders Of the concern. It
Incl,1ded JohnaR. McPhprson IA sena-
tor from New Jersey one ahare Of tween.
tIeth for which he r,sld A1o 600. Jacoh p
9hanhera No 10 snrnrs attract New
YORK an4.twentietb which he recetva.l
from nonoonarr-consi,,era t;on nnknown
Most Of fhe other members are philadel-
nb;an. rha following onversation oc-