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The Actual Loss in Battle.

As regards the number killed in regiments,
the prevailing ideas are indefinite or incor-
rect, seldom approaching the truth. Nor are
these errors confined to civilians clone; they
are prevalent among the officers and men
who were there and would be supposed to
know. All this is largely due to the reckless
and careless statements too often made
regarding such losses. The error is n some
what excusable one, as neither officers nor
men have the means of knowing tho actual
loss in every engagement. They remember,
perhaps, some of the official reports of their
colonel MS rendered ct the close Of certain
battles, but not all of them. These casualty
reports, as given in, arc divided into killed,
wounded and missing, the latter term gen.
orally including the captured Many of these
wounded and missing return: some OF them
during their absence die in hospitals or mill
tary prisons; nothing is definitely known
about them at the time; so the tendency is
to consider only tho total Of these casualties,
and in time to think Of them us all killed or
lest.-Col William F. Fox in The Century.
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plcturo of poua,d G. Mitche1i.


Almost phe last of the old school of courtly
American gentlemen Of letters which did so
much for our literature, Donald G. Mitchell,
or six Marvel" as ho is better known to
th6iisands is an interesting study. Tho old
author is short of stature and small of bone,
with rudy tinted skin toned to yellow, rip
encd, but neither wrinkled nor roughened by
lifelong exposure, struggling, unkempt hair,
clean by reason of the great quantity of sun
and wintl that passes through it, sharp,
twinkling eyes and mouth made to go with
it-both hung on smiles pickering strings
IN undesirable nose, the smooth old coun-
try turn OF cheek and chin, shaggy side whis
kers like wisps hanging from an overloaded
hay wagon, face old only in not being
young and breaking constantly in whole
punches of smiles.
He wears loose buggy pants, en- easy sack
cont, shoes that show they have been Kissing
more honest clay than asphalt, and looks the
very fac smile of a happy little old Scotch
farmer on gardener, standing beside q wagon
load of garden stuff in market place Of any
one of the British Isles, cracking bis whip
and his jokes, and loving every blade and
bleat, sheaf and low that keeps him company
till he returns back "hornc.' If any other
thor The faint Scotch brogue addressed you,
sou would feel surprised. Anything moro
unlike college graduate, writer, ono of the
most valuable lights of the American day, it
would be hard to imagine. One looks in vain
all over the unremar llnble person for place
to rest even tho majestic Donald Grant
Mitchell which has been his massive door
plate for these sixty odd years.-William J.
Box i'll New York Graphic.
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A VALU ABLE T y RM FOR SALE

By virtue of Il power of attorney
from Mrs. Sally B. and Miss Silly
Is. U. Handy, Of Maryland, | offer
for sale at private contract, on real
sonahle terms, their valuable farm
in Upshur'S neck, known as rhe
"llanly Farm" on the eastern side
Of this comfy, between Machipun
20 creek and the Atlantic ocean,
nearly opposite Exmnre station on
n. Y, p. & Nh. r., adjoining the
lands of Jas. II. PaTamure, Up
5ssllnr 3. Quinhy, john L. Pow
ell, aud Bennett FentreSs, contain.
ing BY estimation, three hundred
aild twenty tiye> acres $50 a. Of,
..,risbles antlT@woo,lsfanal, aid from
300 to 800 acres of saltwater pas
turage appnrtcllant thereto. This
farm call be very conveniently di-
vitlel into two, with sufficient re
sources for manure, irewood aud
log timbers for each and will DO
sold as Il whole or divided to suit
the purchaser. The land is Of good
quality and much of it is already
improved for trucks, 10 which, AIS
we'll as the cereals. it is well
adapted, has fair buildings, which,
at Il small expense can be put in
good repair and has two tenement
houses. Fish, oysters aud wild
fowls abound in The adjacent wa,
ters. The locality is very healthy
live stock raising on it can be
made specially profitable. There
is Il gond landing tor shipping, less
than 100 yards from the dwelling
house. Tile good. For further
particulars, see or address
l.. FLOYD Mock,
Attorney for the owners.
Accomac .. H., VA, May. 26, 'SS. =
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n1is. Aloott,s prirate rapers.

Despite the fact that the late Louisa NJ.
Alcott ordered that all her manuscripts and
papers be burned after her death, some very
interesting material has been selected by the
remaining members of the Alcott family for
publication in biography now being written
and shortly to he published. hiss Alcott's
chief aim in ordering the destruction Of her
papers was that no part of her privnte and
extensive correspondence should seq print.
ard this wish will be carried out in every
particular But number of other papers.
unpublished and most interesting, will be
given to the public. These manuscripts are
scraps of autobiography which doubtless the
author herself wrote for publication at some
time, Us they were found neatly tied in a
package apart from the papers which she
desired should be destroyed. New Yorl;
Ginphic
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Journalism in Japan.

Y. Ozaki is tho namo of japanese jour.
nalist who was recently banishcd from Toxic
and from Japan for having printed in his
newspaper something that did not please the
mikado. Liberty Of the press" be says, 'is
privilege which japanese journalists have
not set secured Their business is transacted
under excessively severe regulations, and
VOC betide the unlucky scribe who ventures
to criticise the government through the col
unins of his paper. The obnoxious passage
no sooner meets the owe of the official censor
than he hurries to the Office, seizcs und burns
the edition, and frequently s,ispends the pub
LEGATION of the paper for weeks" Nh. Ozaki,
whose paper is The Court and Country, is
also president OF the municipal council Of
Toxic but that fact did not save him from
sentence of three years in cxile.-Philndel-
mia Tines
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Losing Tl,eir Good breeding.

Yes, cir, the men Of Chicago arc not what
they used to be- said well known man
about town to reporter. "There has been
within the pust few years decided decline
m gallsntry aud courtesy. The men are los
ing. their good breeding, their deferential
manner toward women, their respect for the
sex. 1t used to he tho rule in Chicago and
that not SO long ago, either, that any woman,
old or young, pretty or honcly, met with q
certain amount of consideration ut the hands
Of the men. Such sight as woman stand
ing up in horse car and man seated at the
same time was not to be met with in those
days. And it cut no figure then whether the
woman was elegant and handsome or the re.
verse
lit ives the sex which found universal rev.
erence. Look at the facts to-day. Where
formerly men used to chaperono women te.
theatres or concerts, nine times out Of tel
from mere kindness of heart, so Gs to give
the dear creatures pleasure, even If they
happened to be wrinl;lcd III the face, or my
thing but good looking, you will now see men
take nobody but pretty woman to any
place OF amusement. am speaking OF tie
unmarried half of tho woricn, Of course.
ASK Iue uorSIS nNu Lie COHlecIioHciSI
They'll tell you the same thing about this de-
cadence of gallantry in Chicago Of which
( I'm speaking. Not one-hnlf tho amount of
bouquets and boxes of candy comparatively
speaking bought to-day by tho husbands
and fathers of this town as formerly. The
Same | am told, is truo CT jcwelry. Tho
wish to give woman pleasure, springing
merely from Kindness OF heart md having
no sordid or other reasons back Of it, reigns
no longer in mems hearts, at least not SO uni
versally "-Chicago Journal
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Tho Cost OF I.einr snrcd.

a Chicago mathematician Of on inquiring
mind has just completed q curious table, tho
data of which arc taken from the reports of
tho various missionary societies Of that city,
as to the actual cost In dollars and ceuts that
Is necessary to convert each individual:
heather to Christianity, !, whether he DO. CHI:
scagoi born; or otherwise. He figures that to
Tcather in" an ordinary Illinois pagan Is
worth as high as S3394.2233
For example, to make good Methodist of
rim costs sos To induce the Same man to
become BAPTIST $50 must be spent. Con-
grcgationalists come ut si5. To persuade
him to be Presbyterian is worth ego; to be
Episcopalian 500, while before he joins tho
Lutheran or Catholic church $3.50 must be
expended. Outside nations, of course, havo
different prices. To make an African q
Christian is worth sl4 Oh Italian, s42; q
Spaniard, s55, and all East Indian, $50. jap
anesc, Chinese and jews cannot be brought
to proper way of thinking under $50, 500,
and for the latter race 1880. From these
estimates it would seem that conversion is an
expensive matter, after oil, and perhaps Ma
hornet may have bud Some such figures in his
mind when he adopted his famous plan Of
conversion with tho sword. At any rate, it
was u much cheaper proceeding, whatever
may be said of its Observation-Disclosures
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American magazine, In scotland.


The Mitchell library In Glasgow hos hit
upon oil original method OF ascertaining the
relative popularity OF current periodical
literature by examining the magazine tables
100 times during 1887, and noting the periodi-
calls In tho hands Of the readers. Some curl
GUS results are arrived at by this process.
OF course, Scotch Journal, The Peoples
Friend, heads the list with 81 times, The
Graphic is a-good second with rs, Harpers
Weekly, Scottish Nights and Pictorial World
following cleSo with 03 Then come Harper 8
Monthly and The Illustrated London News
with d; The Era, 30; Chambers journal, 3d.;
Broad Arrow, S.: Vanity Fair and Truth,
&c; Coed Words, 81: Scottish Umpire, S.;
Scottish Athletic Journal, Sc; Scribner's
Magazine, 81; Blackwood and The Century,
so; Longmnn's and All tho Year Round, 10;
Nineteenth Century. II; Punch, &c; Baltic,
Chicl. and Quiz Tall three Glasgow comic
papers,, Is; Murray's Magazine, "a; Macnlil-
Ian, 10; Leisure Hour, 81; Engineer and
Gcntlcmnn's Magazine, G5; CornhIl, CA;
Saturday Review and Fortnigh5ly, G': Field,
Atlantic Monthly, and North American Re
view, Ga: Christian Leader, Gl; Spectator
and Time, 60.
It is interesting to note tho high position
taken by the American journala The SAM
tary Journal has the honor of being read
once, and tho SHINE with The chronological
Magazine and Fhe Personal Rights Journal,
whatever that may be. Tho Trade Marks
Journal can boast of couple of readers, ind
The Friendly Societies Journal three The
Vaccination Inquirer has attracted but six
Glaswegians, and only four individuals havo
taken an interest III their hereafter by con-
sulting The Undertallcrs' Journal = st.
James Gazette
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White Hat Year,


"This is white hat year. as We call the
presidential year." said State street batter,
land the manufacturers and dealers are pre-
pairing for the abnormal demand tile former
by turning out immense quantities Of cheap
white hats and tho latter by getting in their
orders for stock early White hats as u poll
tical badge were first worn in the Greeley
campaign The editor candidate set the fash
ion himself, but his generally rusty looking
tile wasn't exactly initiated. The well to do
among his followers wore u white silk plug,
u good many brushing the fur the wrong
way. This hat was rs expensive as it WIS
eccentric 1t cost from ST to So Tue sale
of whito hats each presidential year there.
after showed steady increase. In the lust
campaign enormous numbers were sold.
Why, fitted out three big clubs in one day.
It is the members of The organizations that
are formed, CHIEFLY who wear white hats.
Still, individuals who will not join political
clubs take this method of showing fcalty to
their party l notice that a big white hat
trade affects the fall trade. Why' Because
many of tho white hats, when the leaves be-
gin to fall, go into the dycr's poland, as black
ones, arc made TO last until Christmas. ~
Chicago Herald.
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5L0C0N[B Amos.
-
Large Double Store Rooms,
DIN AN COCK, va.

4 IRGINIA: At a court held Tor the
y c0upty of Accomac, at the Court
House thereof, by adjournment. on
"Wednesday, the 301h day OF May,
AID. 1883.
in the matter of the payment!
and delivery of the estate OF Sam
uel j. Wheaton; deceased, to his
distributes withGllt refllnding
bonds being given.
son molten Of Samuel j. Davis,
one of the distributes of the said
Samuel !. Wheaton,. deceased, by
James FL. Fletcher, Jr., his attor-
.ney, happening to the court that
asreport of the accounts of the
Transactions of Charles Feddeman,
administrator of the personal es
tate afttlle. said Samuel j. Wheal.
deceased ,andlolglhe debts aud.
demands against tile s;rd edece
CENTS estate, has been filed in the
Office ofthiS court; and it further
appearing 10 the court that more
titan one year has elapstd since the
qualification of The said admins
tlalor, it is ordered that the credit
urs OF the SAID dccedent do show
cause il any they can. on the sec
und day of he next July term Of
this conrt against The payment and
delivery OF the estate OF The said
,irccdelu 10 his distributes with
OUT reii.nding bonds beng
gwen by the said distributes;
and that a copy of this order shall
he published once a week for four
successive weeks in the PENINSULA
ENTERPRISE a newspaper pub
llSbed ut Accomac G. Ii (, Val, and
also POSTED ut the front door of the
court house of said county Of Ac
comack, Oh the first days OF two
successive terms Of this court.
A Copy.
TEST. NJ. Oldham, Jr., c. a. G.
JAS. II. Fletcher, Jr., attorney.
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crep,ntIon OF the Kinn,s Sons.

From Siam wo lcnrn that the cremation Of
the two sons Of the King, which .was ''ccle-
brated" at the end of February, was cere-
mony eclipsing in magni6cence even TINT Of
the kings unclo, whose body, was cremated
last year On that occasion the chief features
Of. the proceedings were illustrated in a; Lon
don pictoria weeIly bus tho present. occa-
sion seems to have passed diced For:
fifteen days Bangkok was given up to rev
ery. No work was done, and such anuse-
ments as fireworks, illuminations and inter-
n1inable dramatic performances were pro-
vided nightly and kept up till 2 or 3 o'clock
O. N.
The building in which tho cremation was
effected had been erected at cost exceeding
1900, fact which, as it is now being de-
lnolished, as having served its purpose, shows
munifccnce, if not extravaganza. Ex-
terlAlly this "premane" presented the ap-
peafance of palace Of gold, SO gorgeous
was its ornamentation, aud internally its
chief feature was the electric light with
which it was Illuminated throughout. There
were two separate cremation days during tho
fortnight, and the final procession for each
was so long that it occupied over an hour in
passing u fixed point. Siameso funerals may
DO expensive ceremonies, but ut least they
cannot be called lugubrious.-PaL Mall Ga
znt1n
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s,axe rraaao In Africa.

Tho latest accounts from the east coast Of
Africa leave no room for doubt that large
numbers of slaves drawn from the Lake Ny
ASA district are now regularly exported to
Madagascar. A recent eye witness of some
of tho atrocities committed by the Arabs
states that they haveino regard for human
life or suffering. Large numbers of kid
papcd villagers who are taken to the ports
OH the coast are conveyed in dhows to Mad
agascar. Mojanga is the headquarters Of
this notorious traffic, and there is too much
reason to believe that few Europeans rs
we'll as large nuniberof British Indians are
concerned in these ventures. Being we'll
acquainted with the movements of the ships
OF war, tho foreigners OF Mojanga are always
able to warn their Saknlva or Arab accom-
plices of impending danger. The Hova
authorities are bound by treaty to prevent
the landing of slaves, and it would be intor-
esting to know what reasons they give for
relaxing their vigilance There is O general
opinion that things will not improve until q
greater amount of consular supervision rs
exercised on the west coast of Madagascar.
london Daily News.
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Gen. Gonzales, formerly president of the
Republic, and now governor of the state of
Guanajuato, has taken q bold and decisive
step in decreelng the suppression. of bull
fighting in that state. He declares TINT tho
sport is demoralizing and leading the people
into habits Of wastefuness aud disorder and
that the employment of large stllns for con-
structins bull rings and maintaining them is
entirely improper III the present state OF civ
ilization
He declares that educational interests aad
manufacturing enterprises suffer from tho
use of so much money in this barbaric sport,
and that habits of public order and economy
arc destroyed by It. Accordingly he orders
the summary prohibition of bull lighting
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sailors corrali.d by sl,nrl.s.

A dinghy with grass from Dwarlsa foun-
dcred not very far from Bate, u port OH the
Clutch coast, while she was on her way to
Karachi, when the crew, consisting of seven,
took TO the mast, which had urshipped. At
the time she foundered the vessel was very
close to the shore, and the crew were grad
ually working their way toward the beach
when ono Of their number was heard to
shrek, and Immediately disappeared, and
the others, to their horror, realized that they
were surrounded by sharks, with no means
of escaping, as the mast not only gave with
their weight, but coulG ret be kept steady
on account Of tho rough state of tho sea.
The men were in state t:f anxiety and fear,
not knowing whose turn would como next.
One by one the men suddenly disappeared,
until only one remained, and by this time,
the storm having subsidized, he managed to
balance himself steadily on the mast, which
drifted toward tho beach on the following
lay. He was thus tossed about upon the
Sea, expecting every moment to be his last,
Tor two days and night.-l.ondon Times.
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ReducInc a Turkey.s age.

All traditions vanish, all rules are thrown
aside, all tests are set at naught, at least i'll
the mind of one observer who saw a perform
nnce on South Market street recently. He
had ever been taught and always firmly he
licvel that the infallible Indication of
young turkey, 10 matter how plump or
heavy, was the flcxibility Of the pointed rear
end of tue breast bone. He hasiollowed the
rule for twenty years as householder, and
rarely found it to fail.
Judge of his surprise and the ruin of his
heretofore good reputation, in his own and
his wire's estimation OF him at least, wren
he detected an outside lnarkctlnan engaged
in the lusty use OF u club on the under sides
of string of gobblers or hens OF goo'lly
weight, beating them into tho flexibility COLI
sistent with juveniity. The man did not
seem DESTROYS OF fracturing the bone, but
how lie could avoid it with the blows he gave
could not be OWNED OF course that discovery
would end the Dealers little game with cH-
perts; but those were not the prey he was
seeking. Good marketers will bear in mind
that there is a vast difference between re-
juvenatcd and honest young poultry.-Bos-
ton Transcript.
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= SUGGESTION for scl,ool SUPERINTENDENT.

a very ingenious Indicator Of the amount
of carbonic acid in the uir has been invented
By Professor Wolpert, of Nurnberg. The
principle of the apparatus is that when the
red solution Of sodium phenalphthalide is
acted upon by carbonic acid it loses its color.
at regular intervals Of time, say every 100
seconds, drop of the rcd liquid falls from a
syplron OIL thread behind which is u scale.
AS the drop tricllles down the thread it loses
its color slowly or quickly, depending on the
amount of carbonic acid present in the air.
If the air is perfectly pure, the drop stays
rcd during its whole course. The scale shows
or parts of carbonic acid i'll 1000 for
''purc airs and 4 to parts in 1000 for
''oxtremely bad" 1t would be capital
idea to have some such apparatus in our
public schools, where SO oftca the atnos-
phere is simply villainous. Children sit in
overcrowded rooms, with feet like ice, heads
like fire, and brains like glue brcath thing and
srebreathing disease germs and old gaseous
nastiness, and this, too, in the present civil
izatior, when ventilation and THO results of
the lack of it IRE so well understood. When
the children sicken it is, Of course, q dds
pensatiop of Providence" How ingenious
men are in unloading responsibility Oh the
miehtvl-Philadelph Times
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sla,nns Arr Not Money.

Wo hopc that the brethren will learn thcss
postage stamps arc not money. We cannot
buy bread with postage stamps; We cannot
buy paper with pos age stamps; VIC cannot
nay printers with stamps; we cannot even
nav postage on our publications with post
ago stamps. It helps the country postmas-
tiers, Of course, to sell stamps to our sub
scribers instead of sending us the money.
Please, brethren, do not send us stamps when
you owe us money, unless it be p cents OF
under, to make change. 1t seems to us thas
the brethren had nearly rs well send US dry
goods, and let the merchants make their
profit on them, to pay their subscriptions.
The postmaster gets the profit OF the stamps.
American Baptist.
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The pope,s Jubilee Presents.

Will Carleton, tho poet Of the farm and
fireside, was taken by one of the attendants
at the Vatican to sec tho popo's jubilee pres
ents He says that besides all the gold, sill
vcr and jewels, there are enough slippers to
have shod every pope that ever lived. more
topboots than regiment could use, sofa pill
lows, and clocks galore, while hundreds of
now church bel,s are stacked i'll the gardens,
waiting stecples from which to send forth
their silvery calls.-Harper's Bazaar.
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Economy of corea,s King.

The Corcan embassy has not been nban-
boncd, and the Coreans were not sick Of
Washington or of America There wcro
only three who returned, and they did SO at
the request of their king, who had mo
mentary Ct OF economy. Tho pay Of the
ordinary aids WIS $1,000 year. and of the
secretary $4,000 So the Corean ruler saves
$4,000 by his action.-Boston Transcript.
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,,attbav A,pol.l,s Consolation.

A London correspondent contributes thil
as personal recollection Of Matthew Ar
mold ut the time the latter's eldest son
Thomas, dieil, as schcoiboy ut Harrow
alt WIS my privilege to he With the bcreavet
father OH the morning after his loss. and The
author with whom he was consoling himself
was Marcus E.urelius. New York Graphit;