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Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-12-18
Travelling in Persia.

The ordinary mode of travelling in this
country. by people in anything like com
Portable circumstances, is to 60 on
horseback with a guard of zaptiehs. and
extra horses and attendants carrying bed
ding, tent, cases of provisions, etc. for
the villagers are the most poverty stricken
people imaginable, and the accommoda-
tons ~obtainable from them is something
to shrink from, so that it is not easy for
an inexperienced person to imagine what
u fellow carrying lone of these things,
but trusting entirely to whatever may
turn up from one hour to another, has to
cAdure.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-12-18
Value of Farm Products.

WASHINGTON, Dec. l0.-The crop
reports of the Department of Agricul-
ture for December gives the farm
prices of the principal crops. The in
crease in the product of corn has re-
duced the average value of the crop to
thirty-three cents per bushel. The av.
erage value of the previous crops in
December was thirty-six cents.
The reduction is largest in the Ohio
Valley and in the Southern States west
of the Mississippi. The increase of
stock feeding has corrected the ten
dency to extremely low prices.
Compared with former prices, corn
values are very low, For the pre-
ceeding five ~years-nearly all under
the average in production-the aver
age farm value was 44.7 cents per
bushel, and for the preceding ten years
42.6 cents.
The price of wheat, though still
low, is considerably above last De
cembtr's average, which Was IS cents.
That of 1888 was 81 cents. The pres
ent is 70 7 cents, again equal to halt
the unprecedented decline indicated
last December. For the five years
past the average farm . value
has been 80 cents per bushel, and for
the preceding ten years $l.e5,
Last years 1arm value was &c
per cent lower than for the ten years
ending 1876, due mainly to d fuller
European production and a smaller
foreign demand for a surplus, nearly
equal to a third Of the entire crop.
The range of State prices is from 81
cents in Nebraska to 81 25 in Massa-
chusetts. 1t is above one dollar in the
Eastern and in the Cotton States fol
homegrown wheat.
The average price for rye is 81 cents
4 cents more than last year. Of bar
ley Sc cents. an increase of z cents; OF
buckwheat Sc cents. a decrease of !
cents of potatoes As cents; of oats
% cents. the same as last year. The
price of cotton averages 8.3 per pound
of lint, farm value, which is 9 mills
less than the December prices last
year. The farm prices are /; Virginia
North Carolina, South Carolina ant
Georgia 9.5, Alabama and Louisiana
SO, Mississippi 8.4, Texas and Tennes
see s.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-12-18
A Lucky
Chicago Herald.l

Professor James Warren is announced as
the inventor of a new process of reduc.
ing orcs by the aid of electricity. While
examining a piece of gold bearing quartz
the professor accidentally let it fall into
one of the dynamos, which was in motion
at the time. On looking for the piece of
quartz the next day he found it in the
dynamo, and, to his surprise, the gold in
the quartz had been melted and had run
to one side of the rock, forming a beau
tiful button. He Immediately instituted
a series of experiments and succeeded in
evolving a process by which gold. silver
and copper can be instantly smelted from
concentrations by q powerful electric
shock, almost elualing in intensity a
stroke of lightning. The successful ap-
plication of this process to other ores, as
lead OF anthony, is also expected
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-12-18
LlrhtInr tha FIraa.

PlTTsBURe, Dec. l2.-Ten per cent
additional Of the syndicate ovens in
Connellsville region have been fred
up, making ninety per cent Of the total
number now in blast. The coke trade
is reported better than it has been for
years. Both syndicate and independent
operators report a large increased out
pourt. There is not an idle workman
in the coke region and all indications
point to prosperity. The improve
ment in the coke trade isthe direct
result of activity in iron and steel
industries.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-12-18
New York letter.

At an characterization meeting in New
York, at which Henry Bergh presided,
DR.. Gum read some statistics, among
which were the following: Before Jen.
ner's time 1873 per cent Of smallpox
patients died. To-day, in spite of i'm.
proved sanitary methods, 1876 per cent.
If patients die. Before Jenner's day 30
people in 100, 900 died from smallpox.
To-day II people in 1000, 900 die directly
from vaccination In short, he declared
that neither reason, authority nor results
proved the advantage of vaccination.
MIR. Bergh said the ob ect Of the meeting
was not a fanatical crusade against vac.
cination, but simply to get at the truth Of
the matter.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-12-18
Crushed to Death.

A most terrible accident occurred
about one O'Clock yesterday at the
gravel pits Of Messrs. Mattingly s.
Cunning, in which one laborer and two
mules were killed and two labOrers
were seriously wounded by the caving
in of the enbankment of Clay from
above the gravel, which stood about
forty feet high above the bottom of the
pit, and was perpendicular from the
bottom for a distance Of about thirty
feet along the side of the
pit. During the dinner hour,
as was Capt. Cummings custom, to
prevent accident, he had caused three
of his experienced hands to make a
sufficient fall Of gravel to run his teams
during the evening. The vein of
gravel at this point is about fifteen feet
high from the bottom aud above this
is a strata of tough soapstone about
three feet thick and above this to the
top red clay. The teams and leaders
went into the pit and commenced
work. At the time the disastrous cave
of Clay from the top came in a team
belonging TO Mr.. Lindsay was being
loaded by four or five men. The alarm
was given and part of the men escaped
but VIM. Wilmore, colored, who
lives on Fort Hill, was caught and
crushed to death instantly, his entire
body being buried under tons of
earth. Alex. Thompson and Jacob
Tillman, both colored, were caught
and painfully injured, Tillman being
caught among the mules, n of which
was crushed to death and the other
had his fore legs broken, this one
biting Tillman on the head as they
both lay together in their agony, The
wounded men were sent to the hospi-
tai. The coroner's jury exonorated
the contractors from blame in the
premises.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-12-18

Whom the construction of the great
trunk subterranean telegraph lines in
France and Germany was entered upon,
1t was thought that, owing to their depth
under ground and their sheathing of
metal in contact with the earth, they
would be exempt from the influence Of
atmospheric disturbances. M. Blavier,
the well-known electrician, has, never
theless, pointed out recently to the
French Academy of Sciences, that In
time of storm currents are produced in
these lines which discharge themselves
through the lightning protectors, melting
their fine wires. They are, however, less
violent than the currents in aerial wires,
and do not appear to the interfere with
the traffic.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-12-18
billboard IrreverenCe.

The billboard of a Broadway theatre
bears something curious. The throngs
who see it from across the street discern
the sacred Christian symbolic letters, II.
II. s." with the Fl. larger than the
others, and forming q semblance of the
familiar monogram. On closer approach,
however. the letters are seen to be part
of the words "In His, " the capitals being
extra large, while underneath is the line
aPower," altogether making the title Of
the NAV running at that house, ain His
Power" That is a shocking way of
bringing the church and the stage to-
gether, and it is vigorously com
mented on.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-12-18
AT TWILIGHT.
[Alice Turner.l

[Alice Turnerl
To close my eyes and dream
OF things afar, until l seem
To eaten the fragrance OF the sea;
To hear its rush upon the shore
And grow heart-sick to feel, "No more
Can that old life belong to me-"
To know the leaves are gol1 and bro wn
Along the road that leaves the town
And creeps, a long gray line adown
Between the hills that calmly stand
The monarchs Of this quiet land,
Where all OF II il pur5 and free.
And silence comprehends our thought.
And, through the way which we have
sought.
Helps Us to grasp eternity.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-12-18
Every Man Is Mad.

In London recently a %coroner's jury in
a case of suicide brought in a verdict of
murder. AS this would involve serious
penalties to the family the humane cor
oner begged the jury to alter it to temper
airy insanity, using the following argu-
ment: ALLOW me to remark, though you
may not be aware Of it, that every man
is mad on some point. I'm mad, and
you're mad, if we only knew about what.
The deceased's mad point was to kill him
self The verdict was changed. .
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-12-18

P~ITTsBURG, Dec. IA telegram
from Uranium, Pa, states that two
deaths have occurred in the House
meyer family from trtchina, and the
other six patients are sinking rapidly,
with no hopes Of their recovery. The
affair has caused great excitement in
the vicinity Of Trantum, and scores OF
physicians from this city have ex-
amined pieces Of the meat under a
microscope.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-12-18
Kansas Forests.

The Chicago Inter Ocean declares that
the mineral wealth and forests of Mis-
souri, are far superior to Kansas. We
may knock under to Missouri in the mat
ter Of mineral wealth, /" but never in re.
gard to forests. " Where the children
can be kept from pulling them up or the
calves from deyouring them, there are no
finer forests than those Of Kansas
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-12-18
[LAndon letter.

People in England who grow flowers
for a living complain of the ruinous com
petition that has sprung up in the last
few years, their rivals being none other
than the nobility and gentry, who ship
their flowers and fruit to market. The
poor people complain that this is an un,
fair competition, because the man who
openly cultivates flowers Tor a living is
taxed on the glass aud other material he
uses, while the conservatory Of the
wealthy private grower is not taxed.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-12-18
An Old English Dance.
tTondnn Truth

You will be more than pleased with the
"cushion Dance" by Michael Watson.
This is an old English dance, in which
each woman selected her partner by plac-
ing a cushion before him, the men kneel-
ing on the cushion in obeisance-equiva'
lent to the feminine courtesy. Before you
begin to play it you must get into your
head several rustic couples. keeping excel
lent time, which they mark by Hopping
a courtesy every now and then and stamp
ing with their heavily. shod feet.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-12-18
The Ohio Senate VIII Be Demo-
cratic.

COLUMBUS, o., Dec. l2-The SUI
preme court announced its decision in
the Hamilton county contested cleo
ton case. reversing the decision Of the
circuit court Of that county and giving
the certificates of election to the DEM
ocrstic candidates for senators and
representatives. No decision was an
nounced in the mandamus proceedings
brought by the governor and secretary
Of State to compel Clerk Dalton to
make a return of the election abstract
from Hamilton county to the secretary
of State.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-12-18

PARIS fremen are armed with guns.
While on service in the city the men
wear the cap of soldiers in the infan-
try service, aud when at fires they
wear a helmet of brass with a black
crest. The chief officer is a Colonel,
They are organized as infantry, and
number fifty officers and 1850 men.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-12-18
Shooting at mi

MONROE, Dec. 1.-Two months
ago George Robertson, colored, got
into a difficulty with two young white
men, Tom Parker and Charles Bell.
Robertson knocked Parker with a
stick or brass knuckles. Bell then
shot Robertson. ~inflicting a wound in
the hand. Robertson lift them, but
afterward returned. Last night a
party of white men went to the house
where he was staying, for the purpose
of taking him out to whip him, OF do
worse. Being refused admittance,
the door was forced open. Robertson
attempting to escape through the back
door, one Of the party, Willard +.
Parker, was SEM around there to pre-
vent his escape. Robertson shot him.
The bullet entered under the left nip
pie, ranging down, coming out the
small Of the back. Parker died ashort
while afterward. His friends are
making every effort to catch the negro,
but public opinion does not approveit.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-12-18

SPECIAL attention is called to changes
in the schedule of the Piedmont AIT
line in another column at this morn
ine's paper The Richmond and Dan
vile system is the most direct route
from Vicksburg to Washington and
the eastern cities.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-12-18
Boston Transcript.

Ingenious as was Josh Billings spell
ing, he never excelled the phonetic sys-
TEN as illustrated in the diary of Mr..
Jeames De La Pluche when he describes
the boy god as "Qpid
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-12-18
rhn Gold Mines OF ThIbet,

The gold dug from the mines in
Tibet, writes a missionary, is SO plentiful
that it is used to cover the pinnacles of
the pagodas, and is made into idols,
chairs, couches, and ornaments for the
people.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-12-18
The Presidential Succession Bill to
be Reported Monday.

be Reported Monday.
WASHINGTON, d. O., Dec. l2.-The
senate committee on privileges and
elections held its second meeting this
morning and instructed its chairman,
Senator Hoar, to report on Mondny
the presidential succession bill, and a
number Of verbal changes have been
made in the bill. but in all important
features it is the same missive that
passed during the late Congress, and
known as the Hoar bin. 1t will prob
ably be taken up early in the week,
and will give rise to considerable dis
c%ussion, but is likely TO be passed dur
ing the week.
The House committee on rules will
meet at 5 o'clock this afternoon and
consider the various propositions
that have been referred to them touch
ing notifications of the rules. Que
Of the members of the committees is
Of the opinion that the subject will be
disposed Of to-day.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-12-18
Monterey Under MartIal law.

MONTEREY, Dec. l2.--Yesterday
acting Governor Zphuveda concluded
to surrender, and on notifying Gen.
Reys that he would do so, he was
taken prisoner and placed in a military
poison. Gen. Reys then publicly pro
claimed martial law over the State and
assumed the military governorship, he
having been appointed to that position
by the national senate Of the City Of
Mexico. The arrival Of Gen. Trevino
is still a~nxiously looked for, and it is
thought by some that when he arrives
the civil government can be peaceably
re established. Fears are now ex-
pressed for the safety Of Cow
ernor Zphuveda, as he will doubtless be
hell responsible for the killing Of fed
eral troops in the action last night.
Federal soldiers are being hurried to
Monterey from all n%elghboring towns,
and within twenty-four hours FIVE to
six hundred troops will be there. The
forces Of Roderiquez, the revolution
airy leader, are also en- their way to
Monterey, but they do not know that
Zphuyeda has been disposed of, and
that the task Of o~verthrowing him has
been taken off their hands.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-12-18

Bishop Taylor writes that missionaries
with big families are wanted In Africa.
They can dig and teach, hoe and preach.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-12-18

BARONESS BURDETT-CoUTT has the
the satisfaction Of knowing that her
young American-born husband beat
the Marquis Of Lorne for a seat in the
House OF Commons. The Marquis Is
the Queens son-in.law, and It was her
Majesty who snubbed the Barontss
because she married ayoung man.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-12-18

It is said that there are twice as many
professional actors in America as five
years ago.
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Little Mans Offering.

The great wide gates swung open
The music softly sounded
And loving hands heaping the soldiers graves
with flowers;
With panses, pinks and roses,
And pure, gold-hearted lilies
The fairest sweetest blossoms that grace the spring
time bowers.
When down the walk came tripping
A vice. bareheaded grille
Her eyes filed with wonder her face was grave
and sweet
Her small brown hands were crowded
Wit dandeiions yellow
The gallant merry blossom that children love to
greet
0, many smiled to see her
That dimple-cheeked wee baby
Pass by with quaint intentness as on a mission
bound,
And pausing oft an instant
Let fall from out her treasures
A yellow dandelion upon each fower-strewn mound.
The music died in silence,
robin ceased its singing;
And in the fragrant stiffness a bird-like whisper
grew,
So sweet, clear and solemn,
That smiles gave place to teardrops
man loves 90. darln soldier; and here's flower for
'oo.'
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Twas night; the rough; the lightning's fash
Revealed a maiden in open boat
Who shrieked for help then fell insensible.
Her lover heard and from the shore plunged in
To save or sink with her. By miracle
Of love he gained the boat and snatched her from
The grave. Safe in his arms he bore her home,
And, laughing gave her back to life and joy.
Times chariot rolled apace; the maid proved false;
Her lover knew, yet fullest pardon gave;
She smiled upon him. clasp'd him to her breast
And kissed him thrice; then-horrid thought that
chills
The blood to tell-she stabbed him to the heart.
heard him groan; felt his spirit writhe;
/ saw his large blue eyes of faith run Ger
With tears, and heard him say, just ere he died.
I loved her much; God pity me--and-her."
LAFAYETTE. w. Dewitt Wallace
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Ruskiu.

husKln.
The most hopeful and sacred work which can
at present be done for humanity is to teach men,
chiefly by example as all best teaching must be
done, how to satisfy themselves 1t is the curse
of every evil nature and creature to eat and not
be satisfied. The words of blessing are that they
shall eat and be satisfied; and as there is only
one kind of water which quenches all thirst, SO
there is only one kind of bread which satisfies
all hunger-the bread of justice and righteous
ness, which, hungering after, men shall always
be filled, that being the bread of heaven; but,
hungering after the bread of the wages of I'M
righteousness, shall not be filed, that being the
bread Of Sodom. And in order to teach men
how to be satisfied it is necessary to fully under
stand the art of joy in an humble life-this. at
present, of all arts or sciences, being the one
needing study. Humble life, that is to say, pro-
posing to itself no future exaltation, but only a
sweet continuance; not excluding the idea of
foresight, wholly of foresorrow, and taking no
troublous thought of coming days; So also, not
excluding the idea of providence and provision,
but wholly of accumulation; the life of domestic
affection and domestic peace, full of sensitive
ness to all elements Of costless and kind pleas
ure; therefore chiefly to the loneliness Of the
natural world.
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COME IN AND GET SOME COFFEE
LIKE YOUR MOTHER USED TO MAKE.

Then Mr.. Riley goes on to relate. in quaint
and simple style, how this sign caught the eye of
an Indiany stranger, 'lank and slim" He i'm
mediately went in and the first sup of the rich
aromatic liquid brought up visions of his youth
full home, and he forthwith proceeded
to narrate how this coffee tastes like gettin'
home to me-" AS the story goes it
was actually his mothers brew of coffee he was
enjoying, and the poem ends with beauti-
fully pathetic picture of reunited mother and
son, the latter apologizing for his running eyes
with the obvious untruth: Your coffee's mighty
hot" Now, such a subject needs to be delicate
ly handled, and, above all, the person attempting
it should not be plagiarist. the sign which
Mr.. Charles Fallen Adams hung before his imi-
tatiye muse bore the following inscription:
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WASHINGTON CRANKs.
Two of the Specimens Who Annoyed Mrs.
Logan.
Washington Special.


Washington Special.
People so prominenS, and at the same time so
accessible as the Logans receive great many
letters. They probably see more of that class
denominated eranks than any other persons in
public life. Old soldiers, whose disordered
brains make the government their debtor to
fabulous amount, invariably appeal to the Gen.
eral for assistance in recovering it.
One day tall, elegantly dressed gentleman
called at the house on Iowa circle. Mrs Logan
greeted him politely, and told him the General
would be home soon. After few minutes pre-
liminary conversation. the stranger suddenly
exclaimed:
MRS. Logan, do you know who amir
Mrs. Logan replied that she did not, but sup
posed he was an old friend Of the Generals.
mo, Madame, / am not" said he, solemnly,
and with majestic wave of the hand. II am
Jesus Christ"
Mrs. Logan did not lose her self possession.
She quietly rang for servant, and gave him
continued chatting pleasantly with her visitor
until policeman arrived and marched him off
to the station house
During the Generals recent absence in Spring
field, a letter arrived bearing New York post
mark. Mrs Logan opened it. The writer began
by asking the General if he remembered a GER
tain purchase of lands the two had made Jointly
in Texas during the war. He then proceeded to
say that the lands had become immensely val
liable, and that they were both miilionaires
my heart leaped into nay mouth said Mrs.
Logan, who tells the story, and / had already
began began to revel in the anticipation of so
much wealth, when the language became inco-
kerent and the latter 6nallz closed in series Of
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Amusennents.

Southwestern Presbyterian.
The grounds on which the permission of some
amusements and the prohibition Of others have
been rested have often been inconsistent and ir-
rational, and the following general principles in
regard to them may be recommended:
Amusement is not an end, but means-a
means of replenishing the mind and replenishing
the strength Of the body; when it begins to be
the principal thing for which one lives or when
in pursuing the mental powers are enfeebled
and The bodily health impaired, it falls under
just condemnation.
Amusements that consume the hours which
ought to be sacred to sleep are, therefore, CEN
surable.
Amusements that call away from work which
we are bound to do are pernicious just to the
extent to which they cause to be Leglectful or
unfaithfu
ADJUSTMENTS that arouse or stimulate morbid
appetite or unlawful passion, or that cause us
to be restless or disconnected, are always to be
avoided.
Any indulgence in amusements which has a
tendency to weaken our respect for the great in
terests of character, to loosen our hold on the
eternal verities of the spiritual realm, is, SO far
forth, a damage to u.s.