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The AhOrigines of CHINA.

The southern portion of the present
domain of China, comprising nearly
one-third of the whole, is O compare
lively recent addition to the empire,
having come under the jurisdiction of
the "Son of Heaven" only 1000 years
ago. The original inhabitants of this
broad territory were easily subjugated.
Portions of them were attached to their
conquerors as vassals or slaves, and
gradually, by intermarriage and the
adoption of the customs of the Chinese.
lost their identity and were absorbed
by the more powerful race. Traces of
this original element are still to be
fonnd in many localities, especially
among the mountains, and may be seen
in peculiarities of speech, customs and
physiognomy. The boat people, every
where regarded rs an inferior race, and
g0650T souls, i are are "iitpp6Gaan 70 pc the
descendants of this Indigenous race.
In the mountain range which forms the
northern border of the three southern
provinces, and is continuation of one
section of the great Himalayan range,
are over 100 tribes of these aboriginal
people, who have constantly maintain,
their independence against Chinese
aggressions. Comparatively little is
known of them, but from the informa-
tion derived from travellers, they seem,
with but few exceptions, to be all of
one race, and to be nearly allied to the
Shans and Karens of Burmah, the
Laos tribes, and those Of the interior
regions of Cambodia and Cochin China.
The sublime self-conceit of the Chinese,
and their indifference to everything
outside of themselves. is strikingly seen
in the fact that in all the centuries dur
ing which they have lived in constant
contact with these various tribes they
have learned but little that is reliable
concerning their customs, habits of
life, traditions, language or govern
ment. A few individuals have become
interested, and have left brief accounts
and some rude sketches, which are oil
the sources of information from the
Chinese side that are available
c. B. Henry, in Washington Rep1tb-
Hpn1
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MISCELLANEOUS.

mrs. Eliza DIaIne w aIKer, only sister
of James G. Blaine, died at her home In Baltt
more last week.
The proposed canal treaty between
the United States and Nicaragua has unani-
mously passed the Nicaraguan Senate.
The failures are announced of George
w. West g. Co., bankers, OF Boston; NJ. r.
Kennedy, liquor dealer of Dover, N. H.;
and John L. Peters, music dealer in st.
Louis.
Three sailors who deserted from O
German steamer were found dead in a
Baltimore boarding house, having been suf-
focated by gas, which, It is surmised, they
blew out upon retiring.
The California railway kings have
placed under one management the Southern
Pacific Road and its branches TO New Orleans
and the steamship lines thence 10 New York.
The gross earnings of the Northern
Pacific and Louisville and Nashville Roads
for February are respectively SI9,477 and
S6G,29l greater than for the same month last
year.
Charles L. Adams, Jr., President OF
the Union Pacific Road, has written 10 Sena-
tor Hoar that his company would not be able
to meet semiannual payments TO the Gov
ernment ut the rate of S9OO,OOO to 81, 900
per year for sixty years. AS to the scheme
OF cqualized payments of Sl,sO0,0O0 per
annum, he thinks there is a fair prospect
that the company could carry the burden.
lie complains that through Federal legisla-
tion tho company has been rendered unable
to meet com petitors on equal terms. and he
desires the public 10 know that he is not a
fgurehcad put forward by Jay Gould.
There were 222 failures in the United
States during tho week reported to Brad
streets. as compared with a5l I'm the preced-
ing week, and 2I1, 2Os, and III, respec-
lively, in tire corresponding weeks of 1884,,
1888, AMI 1882. About ss per cent. were those
of small traders whose capital was less than
$4,000. Canada has 3s, decrease of g..
Special kilograms 10 Brddstrcers from lead.
ing trade centers give brighter look to the
general trade situation than has been re-
ported for some months.
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SOUTHERN.

While celebrating the Inauguration
of Cleveland, the people of Hopkinsville, KY,
thought they saw q meteor that looked like
a burning cabin, which exploded with the
noise OF a dozen cannon.
The safe in the postollice at Ozark,
Ark, was blown open and robbed of $500.
One hundred thousand cattle are
ready TO take the trail north from Southwest
Texas IL the quarantine laws OF other States
will permit their passage.
The steamer Waves boiler exploded
at Wilmington, N. C., blowing into the river
three persons, who were drowned, and badly
injurng several others. The boat was COM
pletely wrecked
Lee Slater (colored) was taken from
jail ut Monroe, N. c., by a mob and hanged.
The Newcomb- Buchanan distilleries
at Louisville covering thirteen acres, were
sold at public auction, the sum realized being
$685. 600.
Three persons were killed and q
dozen injured eight miles south of Grenada,
Miss, on the Illinois Central Road by coils
lon between mail-train and an express
train. Both were running at full speed, aud
the engines two baggage ears, one maiLcar,
and smoker were wrecked.
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NEWS CONDENSED



Dr.. Albert G. +. Goerson was hanged
at Philadelphia for poisoning his wife, nearly
I'VE years ago.
The following bulletin in regard to
Gen. Grants health is te,esraphed from
New York:
There is no longer doubt that the Generals
malady has assumed an alarming form. DIR.
Douglas thinks there IL no reason TO expect any
improvement OF n permanent character. The
great danger lies I'm the loss OF strength Incl
dent to the difficulty of giving him nourish-
ment which he can retain on his stomach.
The retching which food induces aggra-
Yates the terrible agony he suffers from
his malady At such times not even cocaine IL
powerful enough to neutralize the pain.
The recent prostration following the reception
OF the news from Washington, which was neces-
sarily exciting and bracing. indicates how little
strength the General has. The disease ITSELF
too. has come to the surface at other points, in
dicating that 1t has been progressing rapidly
within the past few days The diseased tissue
lies in such place that the knife can not be
used, and there is no hope OF proloneing the
life OF the distinguished patient beyond a few
weeks. Only fewof the most intimate friends
of the family are admitted to the house, and no
visitor enters the sick chamber
Judge Moore, of Brooklyn, SEN
fenced a Coney Island hotel proprietor TO
three months in the penitentiary and fined
him $3.50, for poolseling. A Brooklyn land
lord was given two months.
The Directors of the New York Cen
tral Road report that owing to the snow
DIOrk0da nOfhtnO xvaa aornod nm tho stoot,
during February. The balance for the quar-
ter was $780, 600, out of which $s94,2s4 was
appropriated for a dividend of per cent.
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The Seal OF Fidelity.

Quite recently the Canadian papers
reported an anecdote of canine fidelity
which, had il been told of Roman
soldier or q Hindu nurse, would have
been bruited throughout the civilized
world as an instance of humanity's
supreinest devotion to duty. The story
as told to us is that when nearing Mon
treal the engine-driver of train saw
great dog standing on the track and
barking furiously. The driver blew
his whistle, yet the hound did not
bulge, but, crouching low, was struck
by the locomotive and killed. Some
pieces OF white muslin ON the engine
attracting the driver notice, he stopped
the train and went back. Beside the
dead dog was a dead child, which, it is
supposed, had wandered on to the
track and had gone to sleep. The
poor watchful guardian had given its
signal for the train to stop; but, un-
needed, had died at its post, victim to
duty.-ChdmLerS' Journal.
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POLITICAL.

The Michigan House has passed o
bill making six the number of jurymen In
courts of record
The Massachusetts House ordered
engrossed u bill interdlctng the selling OF
liquors between the hours OF IL D. m. and 9
q. m.
-ThA- -aanfos,as.Aa- a4... 49,: .:ah~~-->s- A.
Minnesota Legislature agreed to the clause
In the railway bill that a party shipping one
car of grain shall have the same facilities
and rates as the man who ships 100 or more
cars.
The Senate of Arkansas passed o
county originally named for Stephen w.
Dorsey.
Both houses of the Dakota Legisla-
ture have passed a bill removing the capital
from Bismarck 10 Pierre.
The Dakota Council passed the wo-
mitting the question to popular vote.
Representatives Bayne, Hiscock, and
Millard called upon President Cleveland, at
Washington, and had quite long talk with
him They 10 the President they approved
the attitude he had taken in his inaugural,
and in carrying out the policy therein de.
clared he would have their hearty support.
said sal tic they 'Ni N6eieved they SPOKE POKE for large
majority of their party. The President
received their advances in the best possible
spirit, and thanked them with much feeling
and earnestness for their promises.
Gen. John G. Black, of Danville, Ill,
went to Chicago the other day to attend re-
union of his old comrades of the Thirty
seventh Illinois Volunteers. Shortly after
his arrival he received telegram from
Washington reading as follows:
The President thinks your official connection
with his administration will contribute TO his
success, and desires me to ascertain IL you Will
assume the duties of Commissioner OF Pensions
cordially join in the request.
After a short consideration the General re-
piled as follows:
Toll. @. G. LAMAR: / thank President Cleve-
land and yourself. II my appointment viii
contribute TO the success OF the administration
j will accept the position. telegraph when
should arrive in Washington. J. G. BLACK
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American Originally.

There is no doubt large fund of
originality in North America, yet very
little of il seems to have been expended
on tho naming of towns in the United
States, for "Kynes' American Business
Directory" contains references to 80
Washingtons last year there were only
28), 20 Bridgeports, 10 Londons, Is
Buff'alos, 18 Newarks, IL Brooklyns, II
Clevelands, II Rochesters, 16 Hart
fords, 10 Louisvilles, 13 Bostons, 13
Pittsburghs, IL st. Pauls, 3 Romes, 8
Cincinnatis, Philadelphias, Detroits,
6 6Chicagos, 8 Milwaukees, 8 st. Louises,
Baltimores, Franklins, and New
Yorks. This perplexing multiplication
of names is partly due to the fact that
in the earlier days Of the States it
sometimes became the duty of q single
citizen to provide off-hand designations
for several hundreds Of places. In 1882,
for instance, the Attorney General Of
New York was directed by the Legis-
lature to find names for 400 new town
ships. Assisted by Rollins Ancient
History" and an old atlas, he managed
to execute the greater portion Of his
task in one night, and next morning he
triumphantly fulfilled the remainder
by utilizing the Christian and surnames
OF his friends and relations. 81. James
Gazette.
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WESTERN.

During the season ended March J.,
3S5,435 hogs were packed at Cincinnati,
against 365, 45l the preceding season.
w. r. Lemon, student in medical
college at st. Louis, killed himself because
he failed TO pass the final examination.
Gen. Francis Darr and other Cali
fornians have rendered Gen. Grant and his
family. as a loan, a large bearing vineyard
in the State, which would be conducted by a
skilled viticulturist, with a residence and
necessary outbuildings. All the expenses of
the General and his party to the Pacific coast
would be paid, the Central Pacific Road guar
anteeing to send special cars to New York
for their conveyance Westward.
The California Supreme Court has
decided that Chinese children must be adj
m1tTcu 10 une ptrUrTU scuoUTs.
Six convicts escaped from the Michi-
gan Penitentiary through tunnel forty
feet I'm length, on which they had probably
worked a year. They cut through twelve
feet of solid masonry, forming the basis OF
the prison wall.
Near Sault Ste. Marie. Mich, Tim
othy Coughlin killed two Indians who threat.
money. He fired but one shot, the bullet
killing the first instantly, aud wounding the
other so that he died next day.
The damage to winter wheat in Ohio
from severe freezing will reach % per cent
From reports received by Mr.. S. w. Tall
madge, of Milwaukee. he estimates that the
yield of 1896 throughout the country will fall
largely below that of last year.
Since Feb. five manufacturing es-
Establishments at Detroit have put 1900 men
TO work.
,5dP6 best fr9% s th SMsst tr tstots that
Arkansas City. A dozen or more of their
leaders waived examination by United
States Commissioner at Wichita, and gave
bail Five companies of cavalry have camped
near Arkansas City, and two companies of
infantry are at the Ponca agency.
A Mitchell (Dakota) dispatch reports
that interest in the rush for the newly
opened Crow Creek reservation is greatly
increased on account of the report, which
NAE reached that place, that the Indians
are sweeping down on the white set
tiers, driving them of the land, and
destroying tnelr improvements Dlspalches
have been received from COL King, of Cham
berlain, requesting rifles and ammunition to
be forwarded Immediately, and carload OF
munitions of war was sent to the front by
special train. The whole country is prepar-
ing TO arise en- masse, and, IL the Indians
persist in impeding settlement, trouble of a
serious character may be apprehended.
unanln6asly nl adobted TTeisSintf6nsG fSGiSSsfYGSG
the new Secretary of the Treasury to pay out
the silver coin now boarded in the vaults OF
the Treasury, in order 10 stop the contraction
of the currency, and thus relieve the busi-
ness depression of the country.
1t being expected that the National
Encampment, G.. A. r., will bo held at Sac
ramento in 1885, the California Legislature e
has appropriated s25, coo TO defray the ex-
penses.
The dry-goods firm of w. H. Gum
ersol g. Co., of ST. Louis, which recently fail
ed for $1l0,0 900, has settled in cash and notes
atthe rate of so per cent, and will resume
business.
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Is seldom injured by surreptitious rivalry.
Imitators OF Hostetter's Stomach Bitters have
not only lost money by attempting underhand
competition with It, but have actually con-
tributed to enhance the estimation in which
the genuine medicine is held The public at
large has for many years been acquainted with
the ear marks that distinguish the real from
the spurious, and cannot be persuaded that
other articles sold in a somewhat similar guise
are equally good. Fever and ague constipa-
ton, dyspepsia, and liver complaint are not
durable by cheap local bitters, eye-openers, and
tonics. but the fact is too well proven and too
generally known TO admit of conscientious dis
pute, that for these and other maladies the great
household medicine is a safe and thorough rem
edy Not only In the United States, but in
Mexico. South America, and the West Indies
It's merits are widely recO. nized and its reputa-
tion too firmly established to be shaken.
Crawford avalanche., 1885-03-12

A FASHIONABLE Chinese lunch con.
sists of little bits of cold chicken with
sauce, little bits of hot chicken boiled
to rags, morsels of pork with mush-
rooms, fragments of cold duck with
some other sort of fungus, watery soup,
scraps of pigs kidneys with boiled
chestnuts, very coarse rice, picked GU
cumber, garlic and cabbage, patty of
preserved shrimps, all in infinitesimal
portions, so that but for the plentiful
supply of rice, hungry folk would find
it hard to appease the inner wolf All
theKs. ~metr are aass easy e6 use as 't two
Faber lead pencils. Tiny cups of rice
wine, followed by more tea, complete
the repast.
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FOREIGN.

Fire-damp caused an explosion in
colliory at Sunderland, England, from which
forty-sIx corpses nave already been taken.
A recent sortie by the British gar
rison at Kassala, which has been defending
the town for a year against the MahdI, rc-
suited dIsastrously, twenty-eIght officers OF
tho garrison and $50 privates being killed.
Earl Granville stated in the British
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WASHINGTON.

The first official act of President
Cleveland was the nomination Of his Cab
met; his second, TO affix his signature to the
commission OF u. S. Grant as an officer on
the retired list of the army with tho rank of
General.
The resolution introduced in the Sem
ate by Mr.. Van wyck, calling upon the Sec
retary of the Interior for information touch
ing the issuance of land patents to tho Now
Orleans, Baton Rouge and vicksburR Rail-
road, is likely to lead 10 lively debate, says
q Washington correspondent. Il Il alleged
Crawford avalanche., 1885-03-12

Hon. James Harlan, ex-vice Chancellor
Of Louisville, KY, brother OF Justics
Harlan, U. s. Supreme Court, says Of ST.
Jacobs Oil: Il use II. and know full we'll
whereof speak in prononncing it most
extraordinary cure for oil that is claimed
for Il by its proprietors. Every family
shotlld hava IL ~
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] had a severe attack OF catarrh over a
rear ago, and became so deaf could not
hear common conversation. / suffered ter
-ibly from roaring in my head. / procured
l bottle of Ely's Cream Balm, and I'm three
weeks could hear as well as ever could, and
now i can oheerfully say TO all who are
afflicted with the worst of diseases, catarrh
and deafness, take one bottle of Ely's Cream
Balm and be cured. 1t is worth $1,000 to
my man, woman or child Altering from
L. Newman, Graylng, Campbell
inh
Crawford avalanche., 1885-03-12

EO restore sense of taste, smell or hear
ing use Ely's Cream Balm. IL cures all cases
OF Catarrh, Hay Fever Colds in the Head,
Headache and Deafness. It is doing wonder
ful work. DO not fail TO procure bottle, as
In II lies tho relief you seek. il is easily ap-
piled with the finger. Price 80 cents at drug
gists, co cents by mail. Ely Bros, Owego,
n Y
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The results which are attending the ad-
ministration by llrS. >iarkev & I'alcn, 100
Cirard ST., Phila., OF ihoir Titali2ing remedy
foQrt telhiterRiGu vRPv ff ydfi
have any allmcnt about which you arc con-
ccrned, write for information about their
treatment IL will be promptly sent.
Crawford avalanche., 1885-03-12
II Should Be tieneralIy Know.

that the multitude Of diseases OF a scrofulous
nature generally proceed from torpid con-
dition or the liver. The blood becomes inn
pure because the liver does not act properly
and work on the poison from the system, and
the certain results are blotches, pirnples.
eruptions, swelllngs, tumors, ulcers and
kindred affections, or setting upon the lungs
and poisoning their delicate tissues, until
liberation, breaking down, and consumption
Is established. DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical
discovery VIII, by acting upon the liver
and purifying the blood, cure all these dis
eases.
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Pile TunOrs

when neglected or improperly treated often
degenerate into cancer. BY our new and
improved treatment without knife, caustic
or salve, We cure tho worst cases I'm ten to
thirty days. Pamphlet, references and
terms, three letter stamps. Worlds Dispen.
sary Medical Association, 66) Main street,
Buffalo n. Y.
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"Put up" Mt the Gault House.

The business man or tourist will find first
class accommodations at the low price of 81
and S2. per day at the Gault House, Chica-
go, corner Clinton and Madison streets, This
far-famed hotel is located in the center of the
city, only one block from the Union Depot.
Elevator; all appointments first-class.
HoYT a. GATES Proprietors.
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ANY person having bald head and failing to
see the benefit to be derived from the great pc
troleum hair rcnewer, Carboline, as now inn
proved and perfected, in tho face Of the vast
number Of testimonials from our very best citi-
gems, Is surely going 1t blind.
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Important.

When you visit or leave New York Olty,
save Baggage Expressage and Carriage Hire. and
stop at the Grand Union Hotel, opposite Grand
Central Depot: 600 elegant rooms fitted up at q
cost Of one million dollars, reduced 10 81 and
upwards per day. European plan, Elevator.
Restaurant supplied with the best. Horse cabs.
stage, and elevated railroad to all depots. FRm-
lies nan live hettar for lesa a. 'i. 1I--'
A COMMENTED man is better than riches;
and yet you can't buy brick block nor pay
board bill with IL.
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THE wages of the paragrapher-his ink
come. e.-GOitrerneur Herald.

LYDIA L. PINKHAMs Vegetable Compound
was first prepared il liquid form only; bu'
now IL can be sent in dry forms by mail 10
points where no druggist can readily be
reached and to-day the Compound in lozenee:
and pills finds its way 10 the foreign cliines OF
Europe and Asia.
Crawford avalanche., 1885-03-12


d.. Guysotts Yellow Dock and sarsaparilIa
The long cold winter freezes
up the smaller streams, and
filth accumulates around every
home. The welcome spring
freshet opens up the clogged
brooklets and washes away the
debris, leaving oil the hills and
valleys and brooks and streams
clean, sweet, and clear.
In like manner, the human
organization needs renov ting
and cleaning as spring time ap-
proaches. Greasy foods, want
of exercise, over-eating, poor
Digestion yets rhes -eifGs Hfoales
need to be opened, the passages
cleaned, the functions of the
body strengthened, ETC., in or
der that good health may be
maintained. To this end no
remedy is so good and effective
as DIR. GUYsoTT's YELLOW
Dock AND SARsAPARILLA, a
remedy widely indorsed by
physicians who have examined
into its composition and be-
come cognizant of its many
virtues. 1t is a positive cure
for WEAKNESS and DEBILITY,
and all Diseases arising from
a state of blood impurity, such
as SORES, ACHES, PIMPLEs,
STIFF AND LAME JOINTS, scRoF-
UI.A, .RHEUMATIsM, etc.
EB" Insist on your druggist
getting this remedy for you.
troEa M o,,1NCksA,,ka
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Pretty Wives.
Lovely daughters ana noble men
MY farm lies in rather low and loias.
matte situation, and
MY wifel"
"Who?"
Was very pretty hlondel"
Twenty years ago, became
"Sallowl"
"Hollow-eyed!"
"Withered and agedi"
Before her time, from
"Malarial vapors. though she made no par
ticular complaint, not being Of the grumpy
kind, yet causing me greee --neasiness.
"A short time ago purchased your rem
edy for one Of the children, who had very
severe attack Of biliousness, aud it occurred
to me that the remedy might help my wife,
as found that our little girl upon recovery
had
LOST"
Her sallowness, and looked as fresh as
new-blown daisy. Well, the story is soon
told. Ny wife to-day has gained her old
time beauty with compound interest, and is
now as handsome a matron Gf do say IL
MYSELF as can be found in this county
which is noted for pretty women. And /
have only Hop Bitters TO thank for it.
The dear creature just looked over my
shoulder and says, I can iatter equal to the
days Of our courtship, and that reminds me
that there might be more pretty ,sives If
my brother farmers would do as have
DONE"
Hoping you may long be spared to do
good thankfully remain,
@. L. JAMES.
BELTsvILLE, Prince George Co., Nd,
Nay 26th. 1888.
@None genuine without a bunch of green
Hops on the white label Shun all the vile DoIs
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"Brown's bronchial rroches ~
7 hod a sororo a,taclr of cat

arc widely known as an admirable remedy
for Bronchitis, Hoarseness, Coughs, and
Throat troubles. Sold only IN bOres.
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Horsford's Acid Phosphate.

DECIDED DENEFIT.
DR.. John =. Wheeler, Hud dson, n. Y, says:
"I have given it with decided beneht in a
case of innutrltion OF the brain, from abuse
OF alcohol
Crawford avalanche., 1885-03-12

THE only way to get murderer convicted
In the West is TO put q rope manufacturer on
the Jury
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~ HERD" is the way the cowboy begins
his conversation. Chicago Eye.