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SOUTHERN.

The Legislature of Arkansas has en-
acted a law that invites competition from
any part of the Union for the State printing
there being no provision, even, that the
work shall be done at the capital of the
State.
The boiler of saw-mill at Bethel,
n. c., exploded Wednesday evening. The
mill was destroyed and Henry Allen, a white
man. and James Moss, negro. were killed
The act for the payment of the debt
of the city of Memphis has become law,
the first interest becoming payable July /
next An ample tax has been levied, and it
will be paid promptly.
Reports from Northwestern Texas
concerning the prospects of the crops are
very discouraging In many places the wheat
and oats crops are being plowed up, and the
land prepared for corn, of which the average
will be very large Fruit has suffered from
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japanese Progress.

A resident of Japan, in a recent let
ter, says that the country is not making
so much progress as is generally sup
posed. The change is mostly on the
surface, There are professions of re-
gard for the people of other nations,
but the late Satsuma rebellion was a
formidable outbreak of the anti-for-
eign sentiment. The edicts against
Christianity have never been abolished.
The people really have contempt for
foreigners, and the Government is fast
discharging those of that class in it's
employ, and the number at present is
very small. Some of the leaders of
public opinion believe that, with few
iron-clads and torpedo-boats for navy,
Japan will take its place among the
great nations of the earth, and be prac-
tically independent of Western civiliza-
ton.
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are as active as cats, but their frames do
not show the strength of the German.
Hollander or Englishman. Their faces
are thin, hair almost always black, teeth
very white and regular, and eyes as
quick and restless as those of a bird of
prey.
Their dress is picturesque to a de-
gree. If a hat is worn il invariably has
short feather of some sort in the side.
and if cap it is turban-shaped and fat
on the top. The under coat is short
coming only little below the waist. an
elongated jacket with waist. and is
braided all over the front and down the
back with braid in fanciful designs. The
trousers are tight Ito the person, with
braid in front over the pockets, and the
leg terminates in boot that reaches to
the knee, in which the tight trousers
disappear.
The overcoat in the winter of the
wealthy comes to the feet, has an enor-
nous hood, and is always of a very
heavy cloth and lined with fur. The
farmers have overcoats of the same
shape, of sheep-skin tanned with the
wool. For carriage or railroad travel
they have enormous fur or sheep-skin
boots, which they pull over the ordina-
ry boot, with fur cap covering every
thing but the nose and mouth.
from Hungary.
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cold all over the State, and the crop will be
short
Thos. H. Herndon, Congressman
elect from the First Alabama district died
last week ut Mobile.
The chemical works of Alonzo l..
Thompson, at South Baltimore, Md, were
damaged by fire to the extent of $4,000;
fully covered by insurance.
The Tennessee Legislature has adopt
ed the bill making it felony to keep a
gambling house or to rent rooms to be used
for gambling purposes
John Young went home, near Talla-
hassee, Fla, the other evening, and found
his little daughter on the ground with her
throat cut from ear TO ear, and his wife on the
floor of the house with a load of buckshot
in her body Both were dead
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for the next fiscal year of 81, CSC, 600 A large
number of articles will probably be added to
the free list most satisfactory financial
exhibit was made.
A subsidy of S24 900 per annum for a
monthly line of steamers TO Antwerp has
been granted by the Canadian Government
Advices from prominent trade centers
report continued though not evenly dis
tributed improvement throughout the coun-
try.
Three hangings occurred on Friday,
March 30, and one of the victims was a
woman. G. w. Beaver, a colored boy of IL,
was hung in Virginia for rape. Another
negro named Bristow paid the penalty for
murder at Camden, s. c. Mrs Emeline
Meaker, the poisoner of her niece, was hung
at Windsor, VT She is the first woman exc
cuted by legal process in the Green Mount
ain State
The Great Western Insurance Com
pany. of New York, has begun proceedings
in the Court of Claims against the United
States for the recovery Of over $4,000
claimed TO be due the company out of the
Geneva award and other insurance compan-
les are following the example of the Great
Western These proceedings are instigated
in view of the recent decision of the Su-
preme Court of the United States in the
We'll case which overrules the Congressional
decision that certain claims should not be
paid out of the Mexican award
The Rev. Isaac l.. Nicholson, ID. D.,
of Philadelphia, who was selected TO the
Bishopric of Indiana by the Protestant Epis-
copal Diocesan Convention early last month,
has declined the office.
The Union machine shops and several
business houses were destroyed by fire at
Montreal. The loss was estimated at $780,.
COO, and was fully covered by insurance.
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NEWS CONDENSED.
EASTERN.

The Vermont Central railway litiga-
ton, which has been in the courts for thirty
years, ended by the DEGREES of foreclosure
being withdrawn The company win now be
recognized
Mr.. Dukes, the slayer of DIR. Mutt,
was served with a notice by citizens Of
Uniontown, Pa, that he must leave the city
within twenty-four hours Mr.. Dukes paid
no attention to the warning, although he
kept his room The report is current at
Uniontown that DR.. Nuts eldest SON and
daughter the latter the subject of the con-
troversy which occasioned her fathers
death) are watching for an opportunity to
kill Dukes
George w. Conkling, Jr., who killed
William H. Haverstick. his sisters paramount,
in New York last week, has been discharged
from custody, the court deciding that
Conkling acted in self-defense
Z. G.. Weichman & Co., jobbers of
woolens, of New York have failed with La
bilities amounting to ssO0.0Oo.
A Pittsburgh firm has received a large
order from India for heavy quality of
barbed wire. The order states the wire is TO
be used for combining elephants, lions, tigers,
and other large animals.
n. l.. Dukes sent a letter TO the
Speaker of the Pennsylvania House, request
ing that his seat be declared vacant, in which
the members promptly concurred
The Delaware Legislature has passed
bill increasing the fine on unlicensed drum
nj oil ,1o
Furnishing officers who arrest statesmen and
accept bride for their release.
James Bennett died at Housatonic,
Mass, aged 10l He was a native of Kew
stock, England and came TO this country in
1929 He was an intimate friend of Sidney
Dillon
Engineer Hosley, whose negligence
caused the death of George B. Phillips by
railroad collision at Charlemont, Mass, Sept
10, has been found guilty of manslaughter
Salmi Morse produced his Passion
Play" at New York before great audience
Some scenes in the drama met with un-
equivocal approval, but certain portions of
the dialogue were tediously dull
The chair mandatory of Harwood
Brothers, of Leominster, Mass, was des-
troyed by fire Loss 500, 600; insurance 49,
000 Seventy-five hands are thrown out of
employment
A tow of thirty-seven coal barges
broke from their moorings at Pittsburgh,
Pa, and were swept rapidly down the river,
colliding with several steamers, one of which
was sunk, and number of other barges,
which also sunk The damage done is esti-
mated at $4,000
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For Farmers.

General hints: Care and economy
are the farmers best friends, except
hard cider and credit at the grocery
store. The small details of manage
ment should never be neglected. II
your harrow is in bad condition, send it
to dentist and have new teeth put in.
If the boys run away with your plow
shares to SHY" at vagrant dogs, send
to Mr.. Jay Gould and get new shares.
BE careful to avoid setting hens on
all china eggs. When you find your
cucumber vines running all over your
neighbor's property, tie them up and
try to get them to stay at home nights
by providing them with business recre-
alton. On the morning before sending
your chickens to market feed them
buckshot painted yellow. The chick
ems take it for corn, and it is both
cheaper and heavier. If there is any
dye left over after you have colored
your Easter eggs and your flannel un-
derclothing, spill it upon your wife,s
dahlias and sell them to the city seed
man for new variety.
If you keep bee-hives you will find il
advisable to extract the stings of the
bees. This may be easily done by
sending the hired man out. to stir up
the bees with short stick. He will
being most of the .stings back with
him. Puck.
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Early Slavery in South Carolina.

Accordingly, in South Carolina, the
negroes were worked to death, and the
relations between the slave and his
master were very different from what
they were in Virginia and Maryland.
The negroes In South Carolina were
simply heather savages; wedlock was
almost unknown among them; they
were kept in brute-like ignorance, and
were often treated with barbarous cru
city. Consequently, instead of becom-
ing softened in disposition and partially
civilized, like their brethren in Mary
land and Virginia, these negroes were
as ugly and ferocious as any tribe of
savages in Africa. Like the dog that
is used to being kicked, they were al
ways ready to snarl and bite. They
were dangerous class of society, prone
to commit crimes of violence, and to run
away or rise in rebellion when occa-
sion offered. In the course of the
eighteenth century there were several
alarming instructions, which were sup
pressed with atrocious barbarity. The
planters lived In perpetual terror A
sort of standing army, in the shape of
a well-drilled militia 5000 strong. was
hcPo SOHuiuualiy Oh uuIy, ana part OF
the business of this militia was to visit
all the plantations and search the negro
quarters for concealed weapons. They
were also authorized to fog any stray
negro they might chance to meet,
without stopping to ask questions. For
the murder of master or overseer
negroes were sometimes burned at the
stake, or exposed in an iron cage and
left to starve.-JOh11 Fiske, IN Har-
per's Magazine.
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His Room Better Than His Company.

Uniontown pa special SAYS N l.
Dukes, the murderer Of Mutt, arrived there
from his stepfather's, and next morning a
committee of citizens waited on him and
presented him with the resolutions adopted
at the Indignation meeting lately held.
have twentv-four hours TO transact his bust
ness and leave town
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The SnY System In London.

The English Government contemplates
adding a strictly political department to the
detective police force, in consequence Of
the operations of the Irish secret societies.
whose qualifications have been discovered TO
be most extensive and whose membership,
1t is found, embraces all classes of society
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ANYTHING which is homely, ugly, in
convenient, ill-shaped and unhandy is
Queen Anne style, and must be APP
preciated accordingly.
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LIFE has no charms for the poor
clerk whose salary is mortgaged three
months ahead to pay for his wife's fur
lined circular.
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Hungarian Men and Their Clothes.

The Hungarians, the male portion,
are splendid fellows in some respects
and not so splendid in others. They
The Penn's Grove record., 1883-12-01

"About the sharpest bit of gambling
that L have seen for some tlras occurred
up ut our town a short whils ago." said
a Lexington sport last night to a little
crowd OF congenial companions.
You all know Ernest Fouchee. ]
guess every sport III Kentucky knows
Ernest. He is the last man in the world
to be picked up for a sucker. We'll, q
short time ago Ernest went to Chicago
&c lay in supply OF cards aud chips for
his poker room. He went to one OF the
dig card houses and bought Lis goods.
He gave direction where to send them
and left. That evening he steered
straight for home. He had hardly lett
the card store when two men came III
and asked ii Mr.. Fouchee's package
had been sent. The clerk replied that
1t had not, and they said that MIR,
Fouchee had changed his mind abont
sending it. and that, as they were going
to Lexington, they would take charge
Of the cards. They asked what the bill
was and paid 1t. OF course the clerk
had no Idea of any job, as as the men
paid for The cards he let them take them
Cd. The two men took the cards around
30 their o and marked them, or put
marked cards in their places. They
then took the package down to the ex-
press office and lett word there to have
the goods SEN to Lexington. They
then got on board the first train and
started for the Bluegrass capital. The
sports OF Lexington were surprised by
the way the strangers spent their money.
None of the poker players made their
bets half SO recklessiy, and none OF the
faro players piled their chips up SO care
iessly. In two days they got rid OF
about $1,000. One Friday night the
Chicago cards came, aud Fouchee
gathered a little party in his room to
tsy the Q stock. Luck ran toward the
strangers, and rs the night began to
wane the piles of money in front OF
them grew steadily. At length, at 10
O'Clock Saturday morning, Ernest rose
from the table. He had lost everything,
and as the strangers counted over their
winnings they found themselves $4,000
ahead. Fouchee doesn't keep a poker
oom now.
The Penn's Grove record., 1883-12-01

I'VE had captured a one-hundred
barrel whale, and after the head was
split open l was detailed to dip out the
oil. It's just like going into a big bath
tub, and a man stands almost up to hts
armpits in oil. / was waddng about
in the monsters head, when l was sud.
denly startled by seeing the surface II
the oil burst into a blaze, caused, a. l
afterwards learned, by d of the crew
accidentally dropping a box of burning
matches. The only thing to do was to
dive under the burning oil, and 1 did
it, with my sheaf-knife ia my teeth. L
turned my head after / got underneath,
and made a desperate effort to dig my
way out with the knife. 1 managed to
dig a hole large enough TO thrust my
head through, and then by q mighty
effort, escaped into the sea. 1t was a
pretty tight squeeze, l car tell you,
and my body was so warm that it made
the water hiss all around me. The
Captain of the vessel thought that l
had been burned to death, and when 1
swan to the side of the vessel, I've was
so frightened that he told me there
was only n thing that prevented him
from turning gray in a single night"
"What was that?' asked the listen
er.
"He was bald headed" said the nau-
tical 'tCop."
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WILL your
nere IN the nnalnt bal town.

There I'm the quaint old town,
Down by the sea,
Where yachts pass mp and down
White sailed and free,
All the sweet summer days
When you andI
Tried all Of pleasures ways,
Knowing no sigh;
Growing in friendship sweet
That did defy
Time. with his noiseless feet,
Hurrying by,
AL that sweet summer there
When first we met,
When life was free from care
VIII you forget?
Hand-clasps that made my heart
Beat wild with joy;
Vows that, though far apart
Naught should destroy
Memory of days gone by;
Hopes we should meet
Warm friends meath winters sky
In city's street;
All that you promised, love,
That you would be
Promises Intervene
There by the sea,
In the bright bathrooms glare,
In bleak December;
VIII you, love, ever care?
VIII you remember?
The Penn's Grove record., 1883-12-01

Carl Werner, one OF the most disUm-
guished authorities IN Germany on
education, has just published in a vi
emma paper an article III which he shows
the superiority of the system of indus
trial art IN schools, al taught by Chas
g. Leland in Philadelphia, to N at
present known in Europe.
To know how to say what other peo-
pie only think, is what make men poets
and sages; and to dare to say what
others only dare to think, makes men
martyrs OF reformers, or both.
In love we grow acquainted, because
We are already attached; in friendship
we must know each other before we
love,
The Penn's Grove record., 1883-12-01

there, her features shaping themselves
out more and more from the shadows
the bed-clOthes that covered her limbs
taking on an awful rigidity.
''She must have died in her sleep
the doctor said, when he came, with
out a struggle"
When Mary Brown really understood
that her sister was dead, she left her t.
the kindly m%inistrations of the good
women who are always ready in sucl
times in a country place, and went anC
sat by the kitchen window in the chaiI
which her sister had occupied that after
noon.
There the women found her wher
the last offices bad been done for The
dead.
"Come home with me tonight" one
said; "Miss Green will stay with her,
with a turn of her head toward thu
opposite room, and an emphasis on The
pronoun which distinguished it at once
from one applied to "a living person.
NO" said Mary Brown; "Im
a-goin' to set here an listen" She had
the window wide open, leaning her
head out into the chilly night air"
The women looked at each other; one
tapped her head, another nodded hers.
Poor thingln said a third.
'sYou see,p went on Mary Brown.
still speaking with her head leaned out
of the window. 81 was cross with her
this afternoon because she talked about
bear1n, music. | was cross. an spoke
up sharp to her. because | loved her.
but I don't think she knew. L didn't
want to think She WAS going to die. but
she was. An she heard the music, 1t
was true. An now I'm a-goin' to set
here an, listen till | hear it, too, an
then III know she amt laid UP what |
said agin me. an, that Pm a-goin to
die, too"
They found it impossible to rea-
son with her; there she sat till morn
ing. with a plying woman beside her,
listening all in VAN for unearthly me-
lody.
Next day they sent for a widowed
niece of the sisters, who came at once,
bringing her little boy with her. Sh5
was a kindly young woman, and took
up her abode in the little cottage, and
did the best she could for her poor aunt,
who it soon became evident, would
never be quite herself again. There
she would sit at the kitchen window
and listen day after day. She took a
great fancy to her niece's little boy,
and used often to hold him in her lap
as she sat there. Once in a while she
would ask him if he heard any music.
"An innocent little thing like him
hears quicker than a hard unbelievin'
old woman like me, she told his moth
er once.
She lived 81 for nearly a year after
her sister died. 1t vas evident that she
had failed gradually and surely, though
there was no apparent disease, 1t
seemed to trouble her exceedingly that
she never heard the music she listened
The Penn's Grove record., 1883-12-01

Il MMLaH
An analysis OF the population Of Paris
just published, gives very singular statistics
as TO The Inhabitants OF the gayest city In
Europe. II seems also, for It's SIZE, TO be
The most industrious. The proportion in
which the working classes exceed those
who live on their W income Is the more
remarkable as l'arls is the recognized
GENRE of expenditure and extravaganza OF
all France. There are no cities that nolo
to The capital the same relatIve position
that Liverpool, Manchester and Burning
ham occupy relatively TO London. More
than half a million of Parlsians are en-
ployed IN commeice, trade, and banking
operations, while OF the artisan class there
are C lnsiderably more than a million and a
quarter. The liberal professions seem to
occupy but a small proportion OF the popu-
latlon. All combined do not amount TO
200, 600, and In the subdivisions the prom
inence is quite different TO what 1t would
be TO US. Tine great majority are IN the
public service which employs more than
medicine, law and divinity all combined.
But. aiter the public service, 1t IS art which
gives employment ant livelihood to the
greatest number of Parisians. Forty two
thousand get their income from this branch
of industry. The doctors come alter. but
a long way after GledJcine, IN It's bran
ches, supports ls. 600, the branches of
course, including druggists me Ill COM
Founders and vendors ot medicine. Then
comes the law, with Its Id, ZOO votaries,
from judge to baiiff. Literature figures
very low on the list for, grouped with
science and journalism, it gives employ
ment TO only IL 900 people, while al the
clergy of all the persuaslons, amount to
out half that number. On the whole
Paris would seen TO be more industrious,
more artistic, less literary, aud less re-
ligious than the ordinary visitor would
suppose.
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TIE skipper on a coalboat on the
Baltimore and OHIO Camel recently de-
cided. after mature elaboration and
careful consideration, to marry his
cook, who had been a tried and faith
full servant to him for quite a number
of his perilous trips on the storm-lashed
canal. So he spoke to her about the
matter day, and, after securing ner
coy consent, he ordered the boat tied
up at a small town, and, being a prac-
teal skipper, skipped up the street
after a parson. The nuptial knot was
soon tied, the parson beaten down to a
dollar and a half for his fee, and then
the canal boatman said swell, Me-
Indy, we are married fur keeps now.
We are hitched fur life and must pull
together. I'm a little short-handed to-
day, and as that lead mule has got sad
die gals on his back, you jist take the
towpath and lead him down to Harp.
er's Ferry, and I'll steer an kinder
ruminate on some plan to give you
work on the boat without going
ashore in the mud. I've got q power
full sight more respect fur you now that
you're my wife,"
"A preparation of the kernels of
The Penn's Grove record., 1883-12-01

Since the death of the Comte de
Chambord eleven French Legitimist
newspapers have ceased to appear, pre-
sumably N account of the stoppage of
the subventions of money which ena-
bled them to live.
The total length of navigable rivers
in European Russia. has been determi-
ned to be about $1,000 miles. The
smallness of these figures for that vast
territory is due to the dryness of the
climate.
The trade in cedar nuts is an i'm,
portant branch of Siberian commerce
the fruit forming an article of food to
the inhabitants of the Ural Mountains
as well as being exported in great guam
titles to Norway.
The Mississippi river has become
brackish as far as New Orleans, its low
condition having allowed the Gulf water
to ascend that far.
All the machines connected with
the harbor of Wilhelmshafen, Germany,
are in future to be worked by means of
electricity. Preparations have already
begun for introducing the new motive
' power.
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THE MIDGET SHEEP.-The very SINAI
lest of all kinds OF sheep says st. Mich
olas is the tiny Breton sheep. 1t is too
small to be very profitable to raise; for
of course, it can not have much wool,
and as for eating. why. q hungry man
could almost eat n at a meal. Its SO
small when full grown that 1t can hide
behind a good sized bucket 1t takes
It's name from the particular part OF
France where it is most raised.
The Penn's Grove record., 1883-12-01

INsEcIs.-The following mas Do n
found an effectual remedy for all insects
both on plants and trees-One pint OF
soft soap mixed with half the Quantity
of coal OIL, the whole tnen being stirred
into SIX gallons OF water. The applca-
ton to be made by a powerful syringe.
del,glng the tops of the trees, and con-
tiuunrg the opera ton for 3 on 4 nights
in Succession, and afterwards once or
twice q v sek.