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Smyrna times., 1885-07-15

The reports which come to us from
the East Indies suggest that hOusekeep-
ers who are free in the use of cOndi-
ments in the preparation of table food,
as we'll as the sausage and head-cheese
makers, will have to ecOnOmize in their
use, at least so far as pepper is concern
cd. There is some apprehension as to
the future supply of this spice, The
total annual consumption of this coun
try is about 4l0 tons, most of which
comes from Singapore, but the supply
on hand is said to be only One-third
what it was last year at this time. 1t
is used by us as II stimulant, a rube-
facient and vesicant, and unless the
importation is increased, economy in
its use may be necessary for pickling
and culinary purposes Orin its prepara'
ton as medicine.
Smyrna times., 1885-07-15

Lots of American girls could " boss
Lord Randolph Churchhill, just as
well as his wife has, and still leave him
in the hands of his friends,
Smyrna times., 1885-07-15

Jas. d. Fish, of Marine Bank motor
iety, has got into deep water" at last
He has been sent to Auburn prison for
ten wears. That ends the Marine Fish
tale.
Smyrna times., 1885-07-15

MERCANTILE ITEM" How do you
sell these peaches2" asked GilhOOly of
a colored woman, who had them for
sale.
"Six for a dime, boss"
GilhoOly began picking out half n
dozed of the largest and finest.
"Yer can't do dat, boss. Yer can't
pick out de biggest ones Onless yer
buys 'em all"
Smyrna times., 1885-07-15

If q man takes many mintJullps
through straw, he is apt to suck-um.
Smyrna times., 1885-07-15

According to the Philadelphia Times,
we are as n nation to become red
headed and hopeful"-a nation of
" strawberry blondes"
Smyrna times., 1885-07-15

PREFERRED A CROw.-Pope Sixtus
V. detested fattery. He said one day
to a nobleman whe had hattered him
excessively -
a prefer to deal with crow than
with a flatterer.'
When asked to give reason for his
preference he said =
A crow only lives on the dead, but
a Aatterer lives on the living"
Smyrna times., 1885-07-15

In regard to the French in Tonquin,
history has not taken long to repeat
itself. The treaty of Tien-Tsin had
barely been signed, when the Langson
affair upset it, and the informal war
went on. 1t is only few weeks now
since the second convention was signed
with China, and now comes Il report of
an attack on the French troops at Hue.
Instantly the cry goes up from France
that she must be paid in hard cash for
this afiront to her honor. Possibly
she will get this indemnity but if his
tory repeats itself only few para
graphs further she never will see a
cent of it.
Smyrna times., 1885-07-15
BOGUS JEWELRY AND PAWN.
BROKERS.

There is more chance for fraud and
imposition in heavyweight jewellery
than in light.
There is a certain class of manuiaC-
turers ut work all the time producing
goods for working the pawnbrOkers.
In New York, Philadelphia and other
large Northern and Eastern cities the
circulation of these goods is much
greater than in Chicago.
Sometimes paWnbrOkers buy quanti-
ties of these goods in bulk, but as arule
they are pledged in single pieces at
busy hours.
The pawnbroker, whether he discov-
ers the imposition or not, does not
eventually lose. If the stuff is good
enough to impose upon him no layman
can distinguish it from the honestly
made article, and he dispOses of it out
| of his window or ut auction at the full
rate. No article, large or small, es-
Capes the attention of these bogus
manufacturers, but chains, lOckets
pendants and rings are the great spe.
cialties.
The whole production may be rough
| ly divided into three classes-the FILL
cd, #" edged" and mixed" The fill
ed" method is generally brought tC
bear on the heavier goods.
From 1875 to 1882, when heavy
chains of cable and bar pattern weI,
worn by both sexes, about % per cent
of all those made were more or les
bogus. These chains were made by
the usual filled process-that is thil
plate of gold was welded to the bas
substratum before the chains wer
fashioned. In one link-the marked
One-the bar and swivel were almos
made solid. After finishing they wer
thickly electrOtyped.
Smyrna times., 1885-07-15

TREATMENT OF INFANTS" You
should have a thermometer to ascer-
tain the proper temperature of the
water, said fond mother to the col
ored nurse who was giving the baby a
bath.
Whaffor?"
"To tell when the water is too hot
or too cold"
Don't need no sich dockerment.
IF de chile turns blue de water am too
cold, and eff hit turns red hit am too
hot"
And now the colored lady is open to
an offer.
Smyrna times., 1885-07-15

A nickel saved is a beer gained.
Smyrna times., 1885-07-15

The first air pump was made in
1854.
Smyrna times., 1885-07-15
House Carpentering,

II, GRAHAM ~ SON, Car Il
penters and Builders, hereby give notice lii
ihat they are prepared 10 make COntracts
far buildings. Shops IN the rear Of the lumber
ward OF VanGasken g Cats. Residence one door
"e'O" +. GRAHAM & SON.
aug 6-tf smyrna Del
Smyrna times., 1885-07-15

Speaking of Hendricks, hear that
he went to Mr.. Bayard not long ago
and said 81 want three good consul
lates." The polished Secretary looked
up and said "Are you aware, Mr..
Hendricks, that Indiana has already
had three good missions? There is
Mr.. DENLY, the Minister to China,
who l am sure is a good man; Mr..
Magee, who is the Minister to Sweden,
and your friend, Bayliss w. Hanna,
with whom you have come so. Uery
many times to see me-" 81 know that, "
said Mr.. Hendricks, "but they were
not specially my appointments" "Ah,
but their papers bore your earnest
recommendations" "That is true
but they were not the special appoint
ments that | wanted. Now / want
these three cOnsulates for my friends. y
"Well Mr.. Hendricks, the only means
l have of knowing what your real de-
sires may be are the papers you sign
and bring me. You have brought me
your signature on the papers of the
gentlemen | have named, and that is
really Sll that l can go by. Good
morning, sir. Washington cOrrespOn
dent Philadelphia Daily Ne'Cs.
Smyrna times., 1885-07-15

GoOD FOR CRoPs.-" What Won
derful thing the electric light is"
Yes, it is wonderful l expect
after while it will be used to make
the crops grow, instead Of the sun"
"There are some crops now that
thrive by electric light"
Nonsense"
No nonsense about it. There are
lots of young men who SOW most of
their wild oats by the electric light
Smyrna times., 1885-07-15

In the early days of Indiana prose-
lvtine, the presiding elder of the In
d;ananolis District, Samuel Hamilton,
one dav held the rapt attention at
Damp meeting of a large aHdlenee, .Ss
when a SMALL dog trotted up 70 the
stand aud commenced barking furious
Iv' A Hoosier reached out, caught
the dog and holding him up, broke
ont .-@Tree a preacher, will you, you
i'll bred pupP"
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TEE East

CHARLES FOSTER, the test medium OF
worldwide reputation, departed this life at
Salem, Mass, ON the 10Th, at the age of
tlftytwo years.
GENERAL FRANZ SIeEL has been appointed
Pension Agent at New York City.
AT the recent municipal election the vot-
ers of Boston, by majority of 5000, de-
clared for liquor license and defeated all
the women candidates for school offices.
JOHN G. WHITTtER's seventy eighth birth
day was quietly observed at Danvers,
Mass, on the 18th.
The Boston Grant Eulogy Committee has
expended S215 for watch TO present to
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, to replace one
recently stolen from him.
THE Singer sewing machine factory at
Elizabethport, N. j., owing 60 dispute
over taxes shut down on the 18th, throw
ing three thousand operatives out of EN-
ployment. #
WAITER which broke in from the Susque-
hanna River on the 18th flooded mine of
the Susquehanna Coal Company at Nanti-
coke, Pa. Most of the miners were warned
in time and escaped but it was feared that
thirty miners who were in the lower levels
were drowned. s.
Ex-GovERNoR HILANp HALL, OF Vermont,
expired very suddenly at Springfield
Mass, ON the 18th, in his ninetieth year,
THE first Republican Governor of Ver-
mont Hon. Ryland Fletcher, died on the
10th at Cavendish, in that State. Under
President Taylor he was Second Comptrol-
Ter of the Treasury.
DOLPHIN, the United States steamer, left
the Brooklyn navy yard on the 10th for a
sixty-day cruise to the southwark
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-12-25
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

The Sultan of Turkey on the 18th ap
| pointed Prince Alexander Governor OF
Eastern Roumelia for life with rights Of
succession.
| In letter written on the 18th, speaking
of home rule for Ireland, Mr.. Gladstone
says: "Only an Irish Parliament will meet
the case. The suggestion Of an Irish Privy
Council is unworthy Of attention. The
| substitute is Cabinet. The questions OF
commerce and police are difficult ones, but
| with limitation I believe that home rule
| may safely be granted"
FIFTEEN vessels were wrecked and fifty
sailors lost their lives by recent cyclone
| at Aspinwall.
A LARGE body of Shans, led by o Bud
dhist priest, Were reported on the Itch as
raiding in Southeast British Burmah The
raiders had looted and burned four large
| villages, .FA 21oI E&Aa4
IT was stated on the 18th that Queen Vic
| toria had intiInated her approval Of a
| measure for an Irish Parliament under i'm.
| perial control t
AT Montreal smallpox made its reap
| pearance on the 18th, and also prevailed
extensively among the Indians at Okla, q
| suburban town. 3NS .&@A
THRoUGHoUT Great Britain on the 18th
| the excitement on the subject of home rule
| for Ireland continued without abatement
| The Loyalisbs apprehended civil war.
ANAM advices of the 18th say the Chris
| tians encamped in Andinh resisted numer-
Gus attacks by the natives, and in final
| battle dispersed the Anamese. Three
y Al l.
TIE belief that Gladstone intended to
| push the home-rule project was gaining
| ground on the 10Th. He had written a let
/ ter saying that should he have at any time
| any plan or intention to announce on the
| question of Irish government it would be
done publicly. E
| THE arrest of the Duke of Seville was
made in Spain on the 10Th for libeline
| Queen Christine
ST. PETERSBURG advices of the 10Th state
| that terrible dynamite explosion occurred
| in the Plerjuchin mine in Siberia The &C
counts were conflicting, some placing the
| number killed at four hundred, and Others
| as high as one thousand. 2
THE. death of Stephen B. Guion, the
| steamship owner, a native of New York
occurred in Liverpool on the 10Th, Of apo
plexy, at the age of sixty five years.
RECENT reports from Koa Chung, in the
province of Kwong Tung, China, state
that war broke out between the neighbor
ing villages of Ko and Ju, in which both
villages were almost exterminated, and
nearly four hundred people were burned
alive in one of the sacred temples.
AT Venice cholera has broken ont, four
deaths having occurred on the Goth.
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FROM WASHINGTON.

IT was stated by Assistant Secretary
jerks, of the Interior Department., on the
18th that about $500 appeals had been made
from decisions of Land COMMISSIONS
Sparks.
THROUGHOUT the country the business
failures during the seven days ended on
the 18th were 225, against 247 the previous
seven days.
The exchanges at twenty six leading
clearing in the United States during
the week ended on the 10Th aggregated
$i,096914,659, against 81, OBJ, 746,649 the pre-
vious week. As compared with the CORE
sponding week Of 1884, the increase amounts
to 361 per cent.
TIE Boards Of Managers Of the United
States National Soldiers Home reports the
yearly expenditure at $1,156,372, and state
the number of inmates at 9,000
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-12-25
WEST AND SOUTH.

AN insane woman named Miner residing
at Long Prairie, w. T., fired her house with
coal-oil on the 10th, destroying herself and
four children.
THE canvassing board of Ohio completed
Foraker rep y, for Governor, has plural
ity over Hoadly of 17,451.
JERRY BARDwELL (colored), of Starkville,
Miss, upon leaving home recently locked
his three children inside the house which
caught fire, and the children persisted in
the flames. tssn sss
AT Jacksonville, Fla, flames on the 17th,
which originated on the dock destroyed
business houses valued at $4,000. One
fireman was killed aud three others were
badly injured.
JAMES GuNTER, of Big Laurel, N c.,
while abusing his wife on the 18th was shot
dead by their little son, eight years old,
A GREASE tank exploded on the 18th in
the packing-house of Hart & Hensley, at
Nashville, Tenn, causing the death of three
employees. f
THE late Vice-President's cousin, Paul
Hendricks, dropped dead at Madison: Ind,
on the 18th
WILLIAM PARSONS killed three men dur
ing a quarrel in the Beaver Creek mines
near Somerset, KY, on the 18th This made
eight men Parsons had killed within ashort
time. He made his escape.
AT Atlanta, Ga, Judge Mccoy decided
on the 18th against the liquor interest, and
refused to continue the injunction restrain
ing the announcement of the result of the
recent election, which was carried by the
ProhibitionistS
SAM WILSON (colored), murdered Celia
PeITyman and her two children on the nth
at LAUREL Miss, and attempted to burn the
bodies by firing the dwelling He was speed
lily captured and lynched. N
THE recent burning to death of Frank
Knoch, his wife and two children, in their
home near Detroit, was ON the 18th decided
to have been the work of murderers, bullet
holes having been found in the heads of
Knoch and his wife. There was no clew
to the perpetrators.
THE Legislature of Dakota adjourned
sine dc on the 18th to meet on the call of
the Governor.
AT CaTollton, No, two murdsrsrs being
dlssatisaed with 4 sentence OF isnpgison-
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-12-25
BURIED I'M A MINE,

A Pennsylvania Colliery Flooded by Sur.
face Water-Sixteen Miners Cut off from
Escape Gallant Efforts for Their Res.
cue, Which 1t Is Thought win Prove
Successful.
WILKEsBARRE, Pa, Dec. 19.-No. l
slope of the Susquehanna Coal Company IS
mines, at Nanticote was flooded yesterday
morning, and a large number of the work.
men are supposed to have been drowned.
The water flowed from pool on the sur
FADE. 1t followed the rock to a fault in the
seam, ran into the gangway and slopes,
thence to the lower working of No. / slope.
When the water was discovered rushing
into the slope there We're nearly thousand
men and boys at work on the various open
ings, but atthe particular spot where it frs
appeared there were not over thirty persons
1t is reported that there are now about
thirty men in the face of one of the drifts,
shut in by the water and quicksand that
have accumulated in the west gangway. II
is impossible to say what their fate will be.
A rescuing party is following the face OF
the chambers of that part of the gangway,
with hopes of reaching them in q
short time. The officials say there is nc
danger of the men sutfocating, as they
ewilfget plenty Of air from the faces of the
chambers that are not cIogged. The
pumps were put into operation last night.
They have a capacity Of removing two
thousand gallons of water per minute, ane
it is expected that the mine will be clear By
Monday next Old miners are of the opin.
ion that the men who are shut up will be
rescued alive
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LATER.

A SECOND cave-in on the 22d at the Nanti-
coke (Pa.) Mine, destroyed all hope of
| the rescue of the twenty eight imprisoned
workmen. Even the bodies of the victims
| can not now be recovered for month a
EX-SENATOR THURMAN was OF the 22d
chosen arbitrator to settle the differences
between the Ohio miners and operators.
| THE Catholic priests of Montreal have re-
ceived orders from Bishop Fabre to NEEDLE
| in no way with politics.
G. w. LUPToN, wool merchant of Brad
ford, Eng, failed on the 22d for $500, 900.
JOSEPH WALSH, aged fifty years, was
crushed to death by machinery in the Brook
lyn IN. " sugar works on the 22d, and
Frederick Bird, aged forty-five, fell dead
from horror at the sight. sa
THREE men were killed in d collision OF
trains on the 22d near Ashcyille, N. c.,
caused by conductors watch being one
hour slow.
GUsTAvUs ME1sTER, collector for a Buff
falo On. - brewery, abseonded on the 3d.
and his books showed a deficit of ST, 900.
THE locl1ed-out employees of the Singer
sewing machine factory at Elizabethport
Nj, numbering $500, were set to work on
| the ed. sss ss M ra.e
/ "A CONSPIRACY to establish republic in
| Spain was discovered at Tar on the 22d
| The New York Produce Exchange ON the
ed figured the visible supply of wheat and
corn at s.. 161 ,95S and 7,S3S,256 bushels, re-
| spectiyely s. slsl Bsa ss gss
S II was announced on the ed that nine
| collieries near Pittston, Pa, would soon
a.
hundred employees out of work.
Dow, SHORT & Co., bankers at Syracuse.
n. X, failed on the I'D for over S100,o0a.
PHIILIP BRADY and his wife were killed
by the cars few days ago while attempt
| ing to cross the railway tracks in a car
riage at Goshen, N. Y. They had only
been married four weeks.
A sNow2sLIDE on the 22d near Silverton.
Col, did much damage TO property and
| killed two men.
AFTER continuous publication for sixty
two years the Richmond (Va.) Hhig sus-
pended on the 22d.
Mr.. PATRICK EeAN says that the Irish Ma
tional League Of America has forwarded
$4,000 to Mr.. Parnen during the last two
months.
II Venice, Italy, people were fleeing from
the city on the I'D owing to an outbreak of.
cholera.
Ar Greenville, Ga, Chunk MeIenden dur
| ing dispute on the ed killedhis father-in-
law, Judge Rufus johnson, but himself re-
ceived fatal wounds. S&6s#
A TREATY Of peace has been concluded be
tween France and Madagascar. French
troops are to occupy Tamatave until an In
dsnanity Of 100000 francs Is paid, aud
France viii establish protsctorate over
the whole country. a
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-12-25
THE NEWS.
Compiled from Late Dispatches.
XLIXth CONGRESS-.

ts XLlxth CONGRESS-.
WEDNESDAY Dec. 16.-In the Senate Mr..
Teller introduced a bill to provide for
the free and unlimited coinage Of the sill
yer dollar. Mr.. Butler offered resolution
directing the Committee on Territories TO
report by what authority asLegislature has
beenaorg anized III the Territory Of Dakota.
A message from the President was re-
ceived, asking authority to use certain
funds for the relief of the Cheyenne In
dians. The remainder of the session was
taken up in discussing the Presidential-Suc-
cession bill. In the House the Senate bill
removing the political disabilities of Alex
ander r. Lawton, of Georgia, was passed.
Debates upon the proposed rev ision of the
rules completed the days work
THURSDAY, Dec. 1.-THE Presidential
Succession bill was passed in the Senate.
John Nipple Mitchell, of Oregon, was
sworn in. Bills were introduced for
the sale of the Cherokee reservation in
Arkansas; to encourage the erection of
monuments ON Revolutionary battle-ields;
to locate a branch soldiers home, costing
$250,000, in the Northwest, and to provide
for the issue of silver certificates. In the
House the time was principally occupied
in the discussion Of the revision Of the
rules.
FRIDAY, Dec is. In the Senate Mr..
Hampton introduced a bill making it a
misdemeanor for any Senator OF Represen-
tative to recommend OF solicit appoint
ments to office, under penalty Of fine Of
$500 to $1,000. A bill was passed to pension
Mrs. Grant at the rate of S., 600 year Adj
journed to the 2Ist. In the House the rules
were amended in substantial accordance
with the report OF the committee, thus dis
tributing the appropriation bills among
seven committees. The Senate bill to give
Mrs. Grant a pension of $1,000 per annum
was passed.
SATURDAY, Dec. 19.--The Senate was not
in session. In the House unanimous
consent for the consideration of the
Presidential Succession bill was refused.
Mr. Browne, Of Indiana, introduced bill
to pension survivors of the Mexican war.
Mr. Morrison, OF Illinois, from the Com
mittee on Rules, reported resolution
which was adopted, for the creation of the
following select committees: On the cleo
ton of President and Vice president of the
United States, on reform in the ciVil-sei-
vice. ON ship-building and ship-owning in
terests and on the alcoholic liquor traffic
Adjourned to the 21st.
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nient for life, secured new trial The jury
convicted them on the 1sth Of murder in the
first degree, and Judge Davis fixed March
II as the day Of their execution.
In a school ard quarrel recently at West
field, Ind, John Carver, the son of Judge
Carver, struck Henry Steed on the head
with a stone, killing him Instantly. The
murderer is sixteen years old, and his Vic
tim was about the same age.
A FEW evenings ago Edward McGhae, q
Mckenzie (Tenn.) student, aged seventeen,
while illustrating to Miss Jessie Clark, six
teen years old, low a Mississippian once
killed his sweetheart, discharged what he
supposed to be an unloaded revolver, kill
ing Miss Clark Instantly
NATURALIZATION papers were taken out
by eight Cinnamon in FL Paso, Tex, on the
18th, and il was alleged to be the purpose
ofthe two hundred Chinese in that town to
become American citizens.
IT is stated BY an experienced navigator
Of the Mississippi River that despite the
large sums expended for its improvement
it is more destructive to vessels and prop
erty along its banks now than it was fifty
years ago.
THE Houston (Tex.) Bank failed on the
10Th, with about S1,00O,OOO liabilities. Il
was one of the Oldest banks in the city and
had paid-up capital of 100000
AT Salt Lake City the Grand Jury dis
charged on the 10Th found during its three
months service sixty eight indictments
under the Edmunds law.
ENGINEERS have made a survey for a ship
canal from Lake Erie to the Ohio River.
The entire expense is put at $40 600 900. 1t
would furnish an inland water route from
New York to all Mississippi Valley points.
A COMPANY of the Eighth United States
Cavalry was ambushed near White House,
N. NJ, by hostile. Indians on Che 10Th, and
Eve OF the soldiers were killed.
FIRE destroyed The wool house Of Oberne,
Hosick & Co., at Chicago on the Goth caus-
ing q loss of $500, 900 ... .s@.
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The Failure Record.

NEW YORK, Dec. 19.-The total num-
Der OF failures in theaUnited States report
ed to Bradsheefs this week is 2l7, against
a21 last week. decline Of four and as com
pared with 305 in the like week Of December,
1884, $50 in 1888. 236 in 1882 and 165 in
1881. This continues the marked decline in
the total unnlbes of failures weekly during
the last quarter OF the year as against 1854.
The grand total of failures in the L lited
States from January / to December IS is
1871, against 11,0sS in a like portion Of
1854, decline of 316. The totals for fifty
weeks OF 1883, 1852 and 1881 respectively,
sare 1891. 7,7gl2 and $3.50.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-12-25

IT is related of the late General
Toombs, Of Georgia, that while 4 menI-
Der of Jefferson Davis Cabinet he rode
to Libby Prison and had an interview
with boy prisoncrfrom New England,
whose release and safe conduct to the
Union lines was ordered few days
later. The appeal of the boy mother,
who had once been Toombs' sweet-
heart, had not been made in vain,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-12-25

The Chicago Sun says; "The
weather prophet who sent the San q
prediction that the winter OF $500 will
be milder than any since the'fire proof
winter of 1912, is requested to call,
prove property and take it away. It's as
good as new, and may be worked off
next year with the customary romance
about the hardy goose-bone that intends
tc wear his linen-duSter all winter"