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Like the American Indians, the black

Like the American Indians, the blacks
Of Africa like frewater. The superin-
tendent of Lutheran missions in West
Africa writes: "The vilest liquors i'm
aginablc are being poured into Africa in
shiploads from almost every quarter Of
the civilized world. On one small YES
sci, in which myself and wife were tho
only passengers, there were in the hold
over 100, 900 gallons of New England
rum, which sold on this coast for 81 a
gallon in exchange for palm oil, rubber,
camwood and other produce common to
the country. I have seen landed from
one steamer at single port 10000 cases
of gin, each containing twelve three-pint
hotties
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| A Tennessee man finds there are 300, 900
worthless dogs in that State, which con-
sumo food enough, if fed to hogs, to make
100000 900 pounds of bacon, which would
be equal to feeding meat to 100000 able
bodied men a whole year. At 10 cents
per pound the bacon would be worth
Sc, 900, 900, and if in silver would load
down ninety-four two-horse wagons and
make wagon train more than half mile
long. Again, the worthless ours prevent
farmers from keeping 1000, 900 sheep, the
mutton and wool from which would be
worth s5,OOO,OOO, Including the sheep
annually killed, the whole expense of
keeping the dogs of ths State amounts to
the pretty sum of $4,000. 900.
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

BISHOP FOSTER (M E.) has lately preached
and lectured in the City of Mexico.
FIvE-sIXTHs of the Irish people, according
to Herbert Gladstone, are followers Of Par
nell
UNITED STATES SENATOR DAWES for some
years edited rural newspapers. in MasSachu-
settS.
MRS. TALMAGE, the wife Of the Brooklyn
preacher, lectures every Sunday to q class Of
three hundred men and women.
DR.. FILLMORE BENNETT, who wrote th
hymn Sweet By and By" in 1868, lives a
Richmond, ILL.,, and is quite poor.
PRINCESS IsABEAU, who recently inherited
Sl,GO,OOO from her mother, keeps in her Par
iSian palace twenty dogs and twenty cats.
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THE FALL OF SALISBURY.
The British Cabinet Defeated in
the House Of Commons.
Its Downfall Accomplished by Glad
stone and Parnel. ,...5

Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, conservative
leader, gave notice in the house Of commons
on the afternoon of the Goth that the govern
ment would introduce on Thursday bill to
suppress the Irish National league and other
dangerous societies, to prevent intimidation,
to protect life and property, and to maintain
public order in Ireland. This an
nouncement was greeted with loud cheers by
the conservatives and by the Parnelite men,
bers with cries Of .sCowards!" "Shamel" and
ironical laughter-the uproar continuing for
several minutes. Sir Michael said he would
ask the house to give the bill precedence. He
added that this measure would be followed
by bill dealing with the Irish land question
on the lines Of policy indicated by the land
purchase act Of lastsession. Referring to the
ment was not prepared to oppose that gentle
mans right to sit and vote in the house OF
commons. The appeal Of Mr.. Bradlaugh is
still before the house of lords The matter
now, said Sir Michael, is the concern Of the
courts OF law.
Mr.. Parnell moved that the debate on the
address in reply to the speech from the throne
have precedence over bill to suppress the
national league, Of which Sir Hichael Hicks
opposed by Sir Michael. Mr.. Parnen subse-
uuently withdrew his motion: l't@
Mr.. Ceilings then moved bis amendment to
the address, which expresses regret that no
measures are announced in the queens speech
for the relief of the sufferers by the depres-
sion in trade and agriculture, particularly in
regard to affording facilities to farm labor
ers etc., for obtaining allotments Of small
holdings on equitable terms as to rent and
security Of tenure.
Mr.. Gladstone strongly supported the
amendment.
The amendment, although supported by
Mr. Gladstone, was opposed by the Marquis
of Harrington.
Sir Michael Hicks-Beach said that the gov
ernment would willingly accept the decision
of the House, as they had assumed Office with
reluctance and would resign without regret.
The amendment was adopted by a vote Of
500 to $50, the government thus being de-
feated
The result of the division was received by
the Irish members with derisive cheers and,
cries OF "Boycottedr" The House, at the
suggestion of Sir Michael Hicks-Beach,
adjourned until Thursday. Sir John
Lubbock, Mr.. Courtney and other inoder-
Mr.. Gladstone, Mr.. Chamberlain, Sir Charles
Dixie. Mr.. Trevelyan, Mr.. Labouchere, Mr..
Bradlaugh, Lord Richard Grosvenor, and
seventy-three of the Parnellites voted against
the government.
The London Standard predicts that tho
new cabinet will be shorter-lived than the
last. It says: "The outlook is gloomy.
Either England and Ireland will be torn apart
or there will be succession of short-Gved
governments, weakening the executive at
home and abroad" =.
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SEVEN MANIAC BROTHERS.
Misery Victims of Swindler Become
Violently Insane.

Misery Victims of Swindler Become
Violently Insane.
Seven brothers, all raving maniacs, en-
route for the Jacksonville Qll.) asylum, passed
through st. Louis few days ago.
The commissioner in charge of the lunatics
states that prior to the war a wealthy farmer
by the name Of Arson Arnold settled in
Hickory county, Mo-, with large family.
The requirement of wealth seemed to be their
highest aim in life, and the whole family of
seven sons and five daughters deprived them
selves of the necessities Of life in order tc
hoard money.
About three years ago stranger visited
their home and after convincing them that
they could in a short time largely increase
their wealth. induced them to invest their all
in what proved to be mythical silver mine
in Nevada.
After months of anxiety they learned that
they had been imposed upon, and all seven
Of the brothers upon receipt of the news i'm
mediately became afflicted with violent
form of insanity.
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Foreign.

MANY workmen, their wives and children
were compelled to jump from the windows of
q number of burning cabinet factories, at
Belleville, France. Several bodies were taken
from the ru;ils
ASoTH; :: dynamite scare prevails in Lon
don, and ; police are taking extraordinary
precautio il guarding all public buildings.
A spE" dispatch from London predicts
the spec: iowli!all of the Salisbury cabinet,
owing tc he friendly attitude of Gladstone
tsTaSj 49, Irish home rulers, who will Prob
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There are still some Christians in the
Russian empire who sacrifice beasts as
part of public worship, in imitation of
their pagan forcfathers. This practice
prevails among the Karetes at Wyborg,
in Northern Finland, who are devoted
adherents of the Orthodox Church. The
same custom is now observed near
Walaam, where every year three oxen are
slaughtered amid the ringing of bells,
and then boiled, the villagers and pill
grims making dinner out of the sacred
Hoeb
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TwENTY-E1GHTH DAY.-Mr Weaver intro
luced bill to provide for the organization Of
the Territory of Oklahoma, for the allotment
If honesteads to Indians in severalty and to
open up unoccupied lands to actual settlers.
Mr. Wheeler, from the committee on military
affairs reported bill authorizing the Presl-
iant to restore officers to the army in certain
cases. The bill applies to the case of
Fitz John Porter, and it was
placed upon the public calendar Mr..
Robertson offered resolution calling for an
investigation into the accounts Of the sigEal
service bureau: referred. >. Resolutions
touching ethe death Of Representative Ell
wood, Of Illinois, were passed, and eulogles
delivered by Messrs. Hopkins, Henderson,
Hit, Durham and Adams, Of Illinois, Till
man. of South Carolina, Peters of Kansas, and
Mcmillan, OF Tennessee.
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An astronomical lecturer recently gave
good advice to artists and poets. When
artists paint the moon, they should not
make it too large. Sometimes the moon
is represented with its horns pointing
downward. The horns, of course, must
always point away from the sun. When
poets talk about moonlight, they should
be sure that the moon did actually shine
on the night in question. The author of
the well-known poem on the burial of
Sir John Moore has fallen into this error.
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Washington.


A MEMBER of the House committee On pub
lie lands says it has now under consideration
bills to forfeit all land grants that were NJ
actually earned by tho railroads tx
which they were given by Congress
within the time specified in the law. Thes'
bills contemplate the restoration Of about
100, 900 900 acres of land to the public do
main, considerable part Of which has beer
sold by tho railroad companies, and is now il
the hands of innocent settlers.
CONGRESSMAN JOSEPH RANKIN, Of Mani
towec, Wis, died at his residence in Wash
lngton the other afternoon. He was born al
Passaic, n j., in 1885, and was Democratic
member of this and the last Congress.
DoRMAN B. EATON has sent the President
his resignation as civil service commissioner
to take effect March 9.
THE Senate in executive session has con
frmed the nomination of Charles j. Canda
to be assistant treasurer Of the United States
at New York.
THE total collections Of internal revenue
during the first six months of the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1885, We're 36S, ,549, ,611, an in
crease of 81, ,029, AGA over the collections dur
ing the same period of the last fiscal year.
THE President has nominated William H.
Parker, of the District of Columbia, to be
minister resident and consul-general Of the
United States to Corea.
THE House committee on labor has ap-
pointed q subcommittee to draft bill
amending the eight-hour law so as to provide
that eight hours shall constitute days work
for men employed by contractors on govern
lnent work.
DAVID P. MORGAN, q native Of the South,
who alnassed fortune in New York, where
he was leading Wall street operator, died in
Washington few days since, aged tfty-hve
years. His estate is variously estimated at
between $1,000, 900 and $50, 900.
MEMBERS of the House committee on labor
say that as q result of the conference between
the subcommittee of the committees on ag
riculture and labor, bill will be reported
making the commissioner of agriculture
cabinet officer and providing that the depart
ment shall he known Us the department OF ag-
riculture and labor.
president CLEVELAND, with party from
Washington, was present at the charity Dali
in Baltimore.
THE Senate committee on public buildings
has decided to report favorably bills making
appropriations for public buildings as fol-
lows: Huntsville, Ala, 100000; Fort
Smith, Ark, sl25, 1000; Pueblo, Col, $780,
U0; Jacksonville, Fla, $l25, 900; Augusta,
Ga, sl5O, 900; Sioux City, Ia, 100000: Mon
roe, La, 100000; Annapolis, Md, 100000:
Worcester, Mass, $3.50 900; Vicksburg, Miss,
$lOO.0DO: Camden, N. j., 100000; Whining
ton, =. g., sl5C,0OO; Portland, Ore, $3.50 900,
tireenville, S. c., s5O,OOO: Norfolk, Va,
S2jO, 900; Oshkosh, Wis, Sl0O,OUO, and Wash
ington, D. c., s64O,0O0.
SENATORS HALE AND FRYE, Of Maine, ap-
peared before the Senate finance committee
and opposed the confirmation Of E. F. Pills
bury and Charles H. Chase, nominated for
internal revenue collectors at Boston and
Portland respectively.
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ably combine with the liberals to GUST the
tories.
AT the instance of England the six great
European powers have notified Greece that
naval attack by Greece upon Turkey would
not be permitted.
VOLCANIC disturbances accompanied by
showers OF earth and ashes and loud 1umbling
noises arc reported from Ecuador.
SCOTLAND is suffering from the hardest
winter experienced in twenty years.
GOLD fields of extraordinary richness are
reported to have been discovered in Hon
dIlras Central America
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LANDS UNDER WATER.

Enormous Damage Done by Floods
in California.
A Stockton (Cal.) dispatch says that "the
San Joaquin river has been gradually rising
for the past week. On Sunday about one
fifth of this city was covered with water
The Moss tract, comprising about
5000 acres of wheat land, was
flooded by the giving way of a flood gate
The damage is estimated at s15,OO At
Roberts Island, which is protected by levees,
the water rose nine feet above the level OF
the land. The pressure was too great for tic
levee, and break occurred, through whi"h
the water rushed, soon converting 13,'mD
acres of wheat lands and orchards into g
miniature lake. The damage is estimated at
$500
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NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle States.

MALIGNANT diphtheria has caused many
deaths in the vicinity of Reading, Penn.
The ferry house of the West Shore railroad
company in New York has been destroyed
by fire; loss, about $4,000.
MISS LILLE TODD, aged 1O5 years, died o
few days since at Newcastle, DEL
A FIRE in Philadelphia destroyed the st.
Cloud hotel, the London Temperance hote
and number of business houses in Arch
treet; estimated loss, s534,00
FROM various towns and villages along the
Hudson come reports of an earthquake shock,
accompanied by "a dull rumbling sound"
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OUR COAST DEFENCES.

An Appropriation Of $21, ZOO, 900
Recommended for Ordnance.
The secretary of war has submitted to the
President the report Of the fortifcation
board. It is long document, and describes
fully the necessity and advantages Of better
coast defences. It isestimated that it will
require about s1o6 OOO, coo to establish good
system of defences. A recommendation is
made that an appropriation from $21, 900 900
be made at the present session of Congress to
secure the necessary plant for beginning the
construction of such heavy ordnance as will
be required The board also suggests the es-
tablishment of two government foundries,
and recommends the construction Of torpedo
boats for harbor protection.
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Forty-one Men EntomDed in q Coal
Mine

Details of the terrible effect of an explo-
sion at coal mine in the village of Newburg,
W. Va, were given in dispatch as follows:
The little village, perched half way up the
western side of the Alleghanies, is in mourn
ing. The extent of the calamity which be-
fell it yesterday in the explosion at the Orrell
mine is not fully realized, nor will it be until
the bcdieS Of the imprisoned miners are
brought to the surface. Strong men
gathered in groups to-day and discussed the
affair in subdued tones, or passed down the
single street of the village with tears stream
ing down their faces There is no hope that
any of the men in the mine at the time of the
explosion are alive. A revised list Of the
victims makes the number forty-one, thirty
nine being miners, twenty-five of whom are
village. Beside the miners two strangers
who were inspecting the works were in the
drifts. Their names are not known.
At the mouth of the shaft, which is situ
ated just at the foot Of high and steep hill
on the outskirts Of the town, about a mile
from the depot, were congregated to-day up
ward of 800 people. many Of whom had been
on the spot for twenty-four hours, anxously
awaiting the report of the reScuers at work
at the bottom of the pit. Little was said by
the watchers, and thesilence was broken only
friends. The shaft is 255 feet in depth, and is
divided into three compartments, two of
which are fitted with cages and hoisting ap-
paratus for bringing the coal to the surface,
while the third is the ventilating shaft. The
main heading of the mine extends for 1000
feet on the east side OF the hill, and parallel
with it in southwesterly direction, and from
Is to 100 feet east of it is an air passage join
ing the main heading at the foot of the
shaft, and being also connected with it by
cross drifts at intervals of about fifteen feet.
The galleries or rooms extend for about five
hundred feet eastward. In these rooms the
unfortunate miners were working, scattered
all along the eastern side of the mine Forty
men composed the shift which went to work
yesterday morning, and of that number all
but one are supposed to be dead. The man
who escaped was John Miller, who
came up five minutes before the explosion
Up to the Goth twenty bodies had been re-
covered.
SEVERAL additional fertilizer factories are
being built i'll Georgia, in order to keep pace,
with the growing demand for cotton seed
cOmDOInd which iS raDjdy increasing in
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-02-10

It may be interesting to know that at
Lake Nyassa Africa, strong young man
can be bought for forty yards of white
cotton cloth, young woman for fifty-six
yards, and a young mother for thirty-six
yards. Age is evidently at a discount,
for an old man can be bought for four
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The Weather Signals.

A sun of red is weather warm,
A sun of blue is general storm,
A crescent red is weather cold,
A crescent blue is fair foretold,
A star of red no change implies,
A blue star, local stormy skies,
A square Of black on flag Of white,
A cold ware comes in all its might.
-l2ochester Chronicle.
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GENERAL SroNEMAN, the once famous cav
airy leader, who is now governor of Califor-
MIA has lived for most OF the time since the
war at San Gabriel Mission, near Los Ange-
les. His health was completely undermined,
and it has taken almost twenty years to over
come his severe dyspepsia.
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The day of tie wooden nutmeg is not
altogether past. Two hundred patents
have been issued at Washington for ma
chimes to polish low grade coffee that it
may be palmel off on the innocent as
first quality.
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SEVERAL additional fertilizer factories are
being built in Georgia, in order to keep pace
with the growing demand for cotton seed
compound, which is rapidly increasing in
popularity.
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AN APPALLING DISASTER,

The Greek ministry has resigned.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1886-02-04
ArizOna's Wonder.

The silicifed forest of Arizona,
known as Chalcedony Park, is I'M
doubtedly one of the greatest Of
American wonders, remarks Mr.. Geo.
F. Kunz. This marvellous deposit,
eight miles south of Carriza, covers a
thousand acres, and consists of fallen
trees which have become buried and
slioi6ed into probably million tons
of, agate and jasper. Some of the
trunks are $50 feet long and 10 feet
in diameter, and others are broken
into every conceivable shape. Silici-
fed wood is obtained from many parts
of the world, but nowhere else is it so
beautifully colored as here, every I'M.
aginab'e shade of red, brown, and
green being presented. The most re-
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1886-02-04
Information for Miners.

The weight of one cubic foot Of
solid quartz is 1G5 pounds; of broken
quartz, "a pounds; of fine sand, dry
100 to 115 pounds; of fine sand, wet
81 to 80 pounds; Of ordinary gravel
dry, 80 to 100 pounds; of ordrny
gravel, wet, 80 to 80 pounds; of boul
ders not over SIX inches in diameter
IS to 1O3 pounds; of gold l,175
pounds; Of water, 62.5 pounds; OF
ice, 37.3 pounds; of one gallon OF
water, 1872 pounds. The estimated
average quantity of ordinary ground
worked per day of ten hours per mar
by different methods, is as follows
By pan, one cubic yard; by rocker
two cubic yards; by long tom, five
cubic yards; by sluice, fifteen, and by
hydraulic, 100 to 1000 yards. The
above statement is correct and valua
BILE, and should be preserved for ref.
erence.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1886-02-04
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Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1886-02-04
Living Muscles In Dead BOdiea.

DR.. Brown-Sequard, the French
psychologist, has demonstrated that
for several weeks after death, or dur
ing the persistence of the rigid con-
dition hich immediately follows the
cessation of life, the muscles of an
animal undergo slow alternate con.
fractions and elongations; and he
reaches the startling conclusion that
the muscles in rigor mortis are not
dead, but are still endowed with vital
powers, being, however, in a certain
chemical condition which is antece-
dent and preparatory to final death.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1886-02-04
Era Items.

There are about 40 persons winter.
ing in Era, including four children
AT the mines roundabout there are
probably 30 more; at Lava creek
about rs, and at the sawmill seven
or eight.
Communication is open across to
Houston, Mr.. Hurst and Samuel
Colnon having arrived at Era recent
lv on snowshoes from the sawmill-
to which place they broke the road
with team.
A party consisting of Cal. Claw.
son, Hank Thomas, and Ned. Head.
rick will leave Era about the fourth
or fifth instant for Wood River OH
snowshoes. They expect to make
the trip in three days.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1886-02-04

clean, and restoring gray hair to its
youthful color.
The WEEKLY TIMES, issued every
Wednesday, contains all the local
news of the week. 1t tells more
about this region than ten letters
could. The price of subscription is
only 50 per year, $3.50 for six months.
Send it to your friends. Single
copies, 10 cents.
Chinese candy should be partaken
of moderately, if at all, at any time,
as it is we'll known that it contains
more or less opium. This small guam
tity of the drug, while harmless to
the Chinese, suffices to make even
grown people drowsy, as has been no.
ticed frequently; and when partaken
OF by child may havea very serious
effect, F
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1886-02-04
Falling Into Line.

G. H. Moore, lessee of the Nevada
Hotel, Informs the TINES that, in three
or four days, he will have an entire
new crew of white or colored men in
and about his hotel and dining-rooms.
The kitchen staff will consist of three
first.class colored cooks who would
already be here but for the fact that
they were compelled to give notice
before leaving their present employ
ment. The washing will also be done
in the hotel, in future, instead of be.
ing sent out to laundries, as hereto
fore.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1886-02-04
A Trans.COntinental Excursion

The spring, 1886, issue of John
Gilman & Co.'S United States Farm
Register announces the plan of an
excursion from Boston to the Golden
Gate, which is to come off this fall.
The trip will last 1875 days, the route
being so arranged as to take in most
of the new industrial centers of the
West, including Wood River, and
the cost of tickets (all hotel and other
travelling expenses paid) will be
$1,000 to $1,000.