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LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
T ' "'" 11
From our regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, I). (.'. Dec. f, 1880.
The Capital of the United States hns,
as usual, gotten herself up regardless nf
expense, in anticipation the annual vis
it of her heart's delight—Congress.
The lovely brunettes and blondes in the
Government offices are bedecked in
their most witching costumes, and,
when the hour of 4 i\ m. strikes, they
pour out of the Treasury Department,
the Patent, office, Census office, from
all offices and promenade on Pennsyl
vania Avenue, until that classic thor
oughfare resembles, in fashion and co
quetry, the boulevard ties' Ital'wnx. If the
truth must be told, the average govern
ment clerk is not as young and charm
ing as she once was ; hut what she lacks j
in youth and freshness is more than !
compensated for in experience. lam j
writing now of her utility as a public
servant, and not of her spectacular ef
fectiveness in a street panorama. In
the halcyon days of .Johnson's admin
istration and of General Grant's first
tern) she was young, and, in some in- I
stances, it cannot be denied, was Hp
po<nted because she had beauty and
knew how to use it, but continued Ke- j
publican success has presented that :
rotation in office whictf might have !
kept the public offices supplied with
young and pretty girls ; those that were
young and pretty have, by a process of
evolution, gone into matrimony or else
where, and we have now in the public
offices, through a double process ol nat
ural selection, a survival of the fittest,
and while they may not he so effective
from a merely n-sthetic point of view,
they are much more effective in legiti
mate clerical accomplishments.
As intimated in previous letters there
is every disposition among Democrats
to work for a quiet session. Though a
majority of conservative members of
the House were undoubtedly in the
city on Saturday, nnd the usual prac
tice is to hold a caucus as early as possi
ble, none has yet been called, and it is
likely none will he until after the ses
sion commencing to-day is fairly at
work. If the course of the Kepubli
cans is such as to admit a decision I
doubt not the Democratic caucus will
decide to eschew political subjects dur
ing the session.
The last annual message of Mr. Hayes
sent to Congress to-day, has several not
able features. It is long enough to have
them. Observing men will smile at
the claim of a reform in the civil serv
ice. There has been a change in public
sentiment—a reaction from the de
moralization which followed the general
financial crash of 1873, which has pre
vented such public dishonesty as char
acterized the last years of Grant's term.
Jtesides, the public business has resum
ed the systematic methods of anti-war
times, and this ensures regularity, or
rather prevents glaring instances of
irregularity in its transaction. Hut Mr.
Hayes has reformed nothing. In neg
loct of official duty for party principle,
in levies upon officials for campaign
purposes, tho present administration
has been as a sneak thief compared to
the highwayman-like predecessor, Mr.
Hayes thinks his "reform" is shown
by changes in New York Federal offi
ces. What the people think is shown
by the election to the Vice Presidency
of Mr. Hayes' chief New York victim.
The appointment to office of o many
men who managed, or aided in carrying
out the villainies in Louisiana and Flor
ida, had, of course, no precedent and
will never be followed as an example.
The army is becoming demoralized, for
no officer, however unworthy, can be
got r'd of at this time, if he possesses
even slight political influence, and this
is a condition of affairs never known
before. The message which claims any
"reform" as the work of the present
administration will excite laughter
when the history of the administration
is fully and fairly written.
•Secretary Sherman joins Commission
er liauni in recommending to Congress
the abolition of the stamp tax on match
es, bank checks and patent medicines.
Why on patent medicines? The one
or two cent tax on each bottle of medi
cine is paid out of tremendous profits.
It is one of the few taxes which is not
oppressive to any one.
The National JtrpuL/ican appears this
morning under new management. Hon.
Thos. .1. Brady, of the l'ost < Mice de
partment, and ex Secretary of the Sen
ate, George C. Gorham, aro understood
to be utnong its managers, but a formal
announcement of particulars is not
made in the issue of to-day. KKNO.
EUROPEAN LETTER.
Prom our regular Corr-*|K>mltmt.
HF.RI.IX, Germany, Nov. 2 ), 1880.
Considerable excitement has been
aroused throughout Germany by a duel,
resulting from a deplorable anti Jewish
agitation recently set on foot by Court
< 'haplain Stoeckerand other injudicious
fanatics, which took place a few days
ago in the I.agenaelbolder Forest. It
appears that a young lsraelitish gentle
man, named Goldschmidl, who, after
taking his University degrees, hud en
tered the legal career as a referendary
at Hanau, fulfilled his obligatory term
of service in the army as a one-year vol
unteer, under the immediate command
of Lieutenant von Kapphengst, a Prus
sian nobleman of ancient family, whose
anti-Semitic prejudices prompted him
to inllict many petty persecutions upon
the youthful soldier, which the latter
endured with commendable patience so
long as he was precluded by the rules of
the service from giving expression to
his resentment, however justifiable.
When his year was up he sent Son
Kapphengst a challenge, which was re
ferred by that officer to a military Court
of Honor, according to a custom ob
taining in such cases. The Court, after
carefully considering the circumstances
submitted by both parties to its judg
merit, decided that sufficient provoca
tion had been given to justify the chal
lenge, and that the duel must take
place without fail. Accordingly Gold
schmidt and Von Kapphengst met on
the 7th instant, and were paraded at
thirty paces, with liberty to advance
after the first fire to the so-calied bar
rier, at which a distance of only fifteen
feet would intervene between them.
Several bullets were exchanged, and
finally the resolute young Hebrew shot
his aristocratic persecutor through the
body, inflicting upon him a wound from
which he is not expected to recover.
As the Esquimaux at present visiting
Berlin belong to a tribe that is nearly
extinct, and are consequently, from an
anthropological point of view, excep
tionally interesting personages. Profess
or Virchow, the eminent German eth
nologist, recently obtained permission
from their exhibitor to subject thetn to
a scientific inspection, involving the
measurement ol their skull*. While
he was engaged in feeling the heads of
the male Esquimaux, an old woman,
named Paigmi, highly respected in the
tribe as a potent witch, watched his
movements with manifest interest and
perturbation of spirit. When, however,
lie approached tier in her turn, with
outstretched hands, ttie conviction
that he was a white sorcerer, bent upon
robbing her of her supernatural powers
completely overcame her sense ol deco
rum, and she fled from him round the
room leaping over tables nnd chairs
with astonishing agility, for otic of her
sex and age, and yelling out the strong
est spells she could think of, as likely
! to prove efficient against the Professor's
i necromalie manipulations. Somewhat
j startled by good mother Paignu's gym
nastic feats, Virchow and his two assist
ants instinctively drew hack, where
upon the Esquimaux Abraham, who
has been converted to Christianity, but
obviously retains a respectful recollec
tion of his former faith, grew deadly
pale, and was heard to mutter, "The
| gods of rny country are mightier than
i the Christian Deity. See how the white
i magician recoils from Paignu's words of
power." C. S. A.
The Fish Commissioners.
From the Altoona Trilmn**.
The Pennsylvania Eish Commission
held a meeting in Harrisburg last Thurs
day to outline the report to be submit
ted to the Legislature. It will he the
most exhaustive ever prepared in the
State, showing the progress made in
pisciculture nnd describing the various
kinds of fish and the character of the
steams they inhabit. There are in the
State about two hundred varieties of
native fish and about seven kinds in
troduced by the Kish Commissioners.
The forthcoming report will contain n
scientific and generic description of
fishes by Professor Cope, of Philadel
phia, and will be embellished with forty
illustrations. Fish culture is yearly
growing in importance and adding to the
wealth of Pennsylvania. Commissioner
Hewit is of the opinion that enough
bans were caught this season to exc*-d
all the appropriations if sold at five
cents a pound. These fih now inhabit
l,f>oo miles of streams in the Htale, and
are multiplying with monstrous rapidity.
The nearly 10 000 members of the
National Guard of the Ntate have been
supplied with overcoats of the regula
tion pattern. The past few days 2.800
of these garments have been forwarded
from the .State arsenal to the Second,
Third and Fourth brigades.
EQUALITY IN FREKtIITS*
JL'DCIK lil.Ark's PROTEST AGAINST IKKI'JIIT
Dlftrßl 111 NATIONS.
Mm k'M U'tk'r to N. V. Cluiiiilier t i'omnium*.
The two companies between Omaha
and Sun Francisco raised in cash out ot
government bonds, lands and mortgages
of their franchises four or five times as
much as they necessarily expended upon
the roads. Tho stock holders, with
out paying anything, put the enormous
surplus into their pockets. These roads,
thus built at the public expense and in
some cases paid for by tho public five
times over, are now claimed as the priv
ate property of the companies, and the
right of the public to use them as high
ways is utterly denied; nevertheless I
think the claim of these companies to
take reasonable tolls stands upon the
same foundation as that of companies
whose roads were built by the stock
holders themselves at their own proper
expense. The grant of the lands in
vested the grantees with a title which
could not be revoked if the conditions
of it were performed. If they sold or
mortgaged the lands end invested the
proceeds in tho construction of a rail
road under a charter from a State or
general government which authoriy.es
them to take a fair prolit in the shape
of tolls, they have as good aright to the
tolls as if the capital to build the road
had been raised by themselves; that is
to say, those companies which built the
railroads with capital donated by the
public have the same right as other
companies to charge a reasonable toll,
but their demand of excessive tolls,
though not worse in law, seems in the
eye of natural reason a greater outrage.
If railroad corporations have unlimited
power which they claim, then all busi
ness is at their mercy—agriculture,
commerce, manufactures must suffer
what they choose to inflict. They may
rob labor of the bread it wins and de
prive all enterprise of its just reward.
Though this power does not belong to
them legally they have been permitted
to usurp it, and 1 need not tell you that
they have grossly abused it. They avow
that they make their exactions with an
eye single to tlie'rown advantage, with
out considering any right or interest of
the public. They boldly express their
determination to charge as much as the
traffic will bear; that is tosnv, they will
take from the profits of every man's
business as much as can be taken with
out compelling him to quit it. In the
aggregate this amounts to the most enor
mous, oppresive and unjust tax that ever
was laid upon the industry of any peo
pleaunder the sun.
The irregularity with which this tax
is laid makes it still harder to bear.
Men go into a business which may
thrive at present rates and will find
themselves crushed hy burdens uticx
pectedly thrown upon them after they
get started. It is the habit of railroad
companies to change their rates of
transportation often and suddenly and
in particular to make the charges ruin
ously high without any notice at all.
Th farmers of the great West have
made a large crop of grain, which they
may sell at fair prices if they can have
it carried to the Hastern points, even at
the unreasonably high freights of lat
summer, But just now it is said thai
the railway companies have agreed
among themselves to raise the freight
five rents per hundred weight, which is
equal to an export tax upon the whole
crop of probably $75,000,000. The
farmers must submit to tlos highway rob
fiery or cl-e keep the products ol their
land to rot on their hands. Tliev submit,
of course, as all other classes of indus
trious people submit to similar impos
ition". t'ornmon justice imperatively
requires that freigfits be fixed, settled
prescribed by law. and that they be not
changed at the mere will of the railroad
companies. Hut the discriminations
which make the rates unequal are the
most odious feature.
A grain dealer at Haltimore gets a
reduction or drawback which is denied
toothers nnd he makes a fortune for
himself while he ruins his competitors
by underselling them. A single mill at
Rochester csn stop the wheels of all
the rest it its flour lie carried at a
rate much lower. Hy discrimination*
of this kind the profits of one coal
mine may fie quadrupled, while an
other, with all its fixtures anil machin
ery, is rendered worthless. Such wrongs
as these are done not only in a few
sporadic cases, but generally and habit
ually on a very large scale. Certain oil
men, whose refinery wason Hong Island,
got rebates amounting to $10,000,000 in
eighteen months, and seventy nine
house* (I believe that is the number)
engaged in the same business were
broken up. The creditors of t lie Read
ing Railroad having coal lands of their
own made discriminations between
themselves nnd other* which drove all
competition out of the field, gave them
the monopoly of the Philadelphia mar
ket nnd enabled them to charge for
their coal as they charged for their
freights—whatever they pleased. Thus
producers, dealers and consumers all
suffer together. Worse still than that,
the prosperity of large communities is
blighted hy the refusal of railroads to
carry tho product" of their farms, gar
dens and shops unless they submit to
the payment of rates much larger than
what are charged on similar good* from
other regions much further away from
the common market. The case you
mention of $4 from New York to Salt
Hake and only #2.50 to San Francisco is,
perhaps, not the most unrighteous, hut
it is as gross a violation of legal princi
ple as can he conceived. If the railways
belong to the people then the rights of
all citizens are precisely equal and all
discriminations are unlawful.
Unity Siued.
We are so thankful to say that our
baby was permanently cured ot a dan
gerous and protracted irregularity of
the bowels hy the use of Hop Hitters
hy its mother, which at the same lime
restored her to perfect health -and
strength.—The parents. Rochester, N.Y.
See another column.— liuJf'alo Krprtnt.
The largest cotton planter in the
world is Colonel Kd. Richardson. His
plantations lie along the Mississippi
river, partly in Mississippi and partly
in Louisiana. Hi* crop last year waa
13,000 bale* from 17,000 acres. Thia
year his crop is estimated at 15,000
Adventures of n Postal Card.
ONE OF THE CHEAPEST JA C NTH ON' RECORD
ABOUND THE WORt.D AT A COST OP ONI.V
TWO CENTS.
From the llitrri*l'iUK Patriot.
Some time since a gentleman in this
city was requested by a friend at Mel
bourne, Australia, to forward by a des
ignated route from some United States
post office, via. New York, a universal
postal union trip around the world. It
will he seen that the route was not tho
direct and regular one, but somewhat
of a doviulion. The card was sent as
requested and the trip accomplished in
123 days. It was dropped in the post
office in this city August 4, and reached
here in return on last Saturday, Decem
ber 4, in as good a condition as when it
left, notwithstanding it had paid its
respects to postmasters in Europe, Afri
ca, Asia and North America.
<>n tlie face, the card was directed to
a gentleman, giving the street and
number, "Ilariisburg, Henna., United
States of America." Hy the side of
this appears "Via London, England;
Marseilles, France; Naples, Italy; f'on
stantinople, Turkey; Uairo, Egypt;
Suez Canal to Calcutta, India; San Fran
cisco, U. S. A. tin the hack appears in
English, "This card is on its way around
the world; please forward by route di
rected on other side;" virtually the
same instructions follow in French to
the postmaster at Marseilles, then the
same in Italian to the postmaster at
Naples, again in French to the postmas
ter at Constantinople, then in French
the following to the postmaster at Cai
ro : "Please forward to Calcutta via Suez
Canal.
Nineteen post office cancelling stamps
adorn the missive, tront and back,
showing the date of its respective ar
rivals. They are Harrisburg, August 4 ;
New York, August 5; London, August
Hi; Calais, August lf>; Marseilles, (can
not he read); Naples, August 2D ; Hrin
disl, August 20; Constantinople, August
27; Alexandria, September 5, arrived ;
Alexandria, September 5; Cairo, Sep
tember 5; Suez, September 5; Sea post
otlice, September 9; Calcutta, October
S; Hong Kong, October 23; Hong Kong,
October 25; >an Francisco, November
27; ami Ogden, November 29; N.
5". and R. P. 0., December 4.
The course taken in detail was as fol
lows: Harrisburg to New York, thence
by Atlantic ocean to Liverpool, thence
across England to London, thence to
Dover ami across the English channel
to Calais, thence over Frunce to Mar
seilles, thence via. the Mediterranean
sea to Naples, thence across Italy to
Hrindisi, thence by the Adriatic sea,
the strait of Urnrito. the Mediterranean
sea and on between Greece and Candia,
up tho Archipelago, through the Dar
danelles and the sea of Marmora to
Constantinople, thence back by the sea
ol Marmora, the Dardanelles, the Arch
ipelago, and across the Meditetranean
to Alexandria, thence along the Delta
and across ihe river Nile to Cairo,
thence back to Alexandria, thence by
the Mediternnean to Suez, thence by the
Suez canal, Red Sea, gulf of Aden, Ara
bian sea, Indian ocean around Ceylon to
the Bay of Bengal, and up it to Calcutta,
thence by bay of Bengal, strut* of
Malacca between Sumatra and Malacca,
and up the China sea to Hong Kong,
thence by the Pacific ocean, vis. Sand
wich islands to San Francisco, thence
overland to Harrisburg.
Here is an opportunity for geograph
ical scholars to figure out the distance
t lie card went. It left Harrisburg about
4p. in. of tlie fourth of August, was
four months on the journey, and arriv
ed in Harrisburg about 4 p. m. on the
fourth of December. Another gentle
man further tested the experiment by
directing a similar card around in the
op/io/iite direction two dava alter the first
one had been mailed. The little trav
elers passed somewhere about Calcutta,
going different directions, but both
tound for tfie same destination. Owing
to the present rough condition of the
Atlantic, the other card will not proba
bly reach here for at least ten days yet.
Some time since the British govern
inent complained to the United States
authorities that some cards of this char
acter had passed its mails, ami request
ed that, as they occasioned great incon
venience, the forwarding of them in
future should he forbidden, whereupon
the postmaster general at Washington
issued an order in compliance with this
request.
The card is quite a curiosity, nnd has
a further journey to make of two
months before arriving at its final desti
nation, (Australia.) It will bo inclosed
and forwarded in a few days to Mel
bourne. It is at present in the window
of C. A. Boas' jewelery store, where the
curious may take a glance at the little
traveller.
Bur Postal Service.
Postmaster General Maynard has just
issued the report of his Department
for the past fiscal year. Among many
items mentioned, it is stated that the
money order system continues to grow
in popular favor, its operations having
been increased from a little over sl,-
000,000 in 1805, to more than SIOO,-
000,000 in the past year. At the pres
ent rate of charges the lees have cover
ed the expenses with a slight margin of
profit. Fully one half of the orders
issued are for sums less than $5. The
report suggests the reduction of the fee
for money orders not .exceeding #5 to
5 cents, and the extension of the maxi
mum limit of an order from #SO to
SIOO, so taat the increased commissions
received for large orders may oftset the
loss resulting from the reduced fee for
small orders.
The establishment of a postal savings
system is recommended, and tbe post
office control of the telegraph aystem.
Mr. Maynard renews the recommend
ation of Postmaster General Key that
newspapers containing lottery adver
tisement* be deprived of the privileges
of the mails.
The privilege of registration, previ
ously restricted to letter*, waa extended
in 1878 to all other mail matter, and
the registry system has been greatly
improved by the introduction of through
registered pouch exchanges and other
means to secure the safety of registered
matter, so that the loss for the past
year waa only one out of every 6,258
pieces handled.
The number of letter* and parcels
registered during the fiscal year ended
June 30 last was 6.996.513. of which, in
round numbers, 5.250,000 were domes
tic letters, 450 000 domestic parcels of
third and fourth class matter, 250,(XX)
letters to foreign countries, and upward
of 1,000.000 letters and parcels of offi
cial matter forwarded for the Govern
ment, and by law exempt from payment
of' registry fees. The amount of fees
collected was #595.794, which is an in
crease of nearly 30 per cent, over the
preceding year. The increase in the
number of letters and parcels registered
was 1,567,491. A newly authorized
registration of third and lourtb class
matter, (merchandise, See..) is reported
to he still attended with extraordinary
success, 153,253 parcels being registered
during lh fiscal year at the New York
t'ity Post Office.
Only it Short Look Ahead.
Vr oDi ths Washington font.
" This third stage in the history of Un-
American Capital is already started. Com
petition will give it rapid development. It
will carry the city to a population of 250,-
• XX) by *l*9o, arid to 1,600,000 within a
generation thereafter, ft will bring in its
train splendor in public arid private build
ings, magnificence in living, wealth, vice,
corruption, but a concentration of jiolit'e.
al power at tho heart of the Republic
which will efface the memory of that some
time popular heresy—.State rights—arid
Nationalize popular sentiment in every
State."— Sri J i J/fi nciser, ('/ironist*.
Not an improbable forecast. The
Capital City of the country has already
entered on its third stage, with more
than half the population credited to it
in 1890. Ten years may double the
present census, and the concentration
of political power and political corrup
tion is likely to more than double. The
bent of the Republican party is in this
direction, and there i* no leader in its
councils able to check it if he would.
Allowing to President tiarfield a vir
tue further above suspicion than her
of Rome and a greater than Spartan
courage—all that is pure of purpose
and resolute of will—he will be no
more than a puppet in the hands of a
showman against the tide ol ccntraliza
lion that is setting in upon the Federal
metropolis, freighted with it* splendid
travesties upon constitutional liberty.
Ihe memory ol "that sometime pop
ular heresy—State rights," will endeed,
tie effaced, but wherein are the people
to be gainers by the exchange? Wfial
is to compensate them for the surren
der of self-government to the govern
ment of a tnonied oligarchy, upon
whose skirts they will be condemned to
hang like beggarly dependents? What
is to be accomplished m behalf of hu
man freedom, of human virtue, of
human happiness, by a " Nationaliza
tion" of sentiment that is to convert
Washington into a Babylon, tbe people
into servitude and tlieir boasted sover
eignty into a farce?
1 here will lis vice and corruption in
high places—profligacy and venality on
every hand— "hut" all these things will
be more than counterbalanced by " a
concentration of |>olitiral power." In
this will be found a remedy for tbe ill*
of its own creation—the tummum honvm
of our National hope—a something to
be embraced as an idol ol unchaste
worship by men who once esteemed it
a distinction above all price to lie free
American citizens. It i* not a vi-ta to
which the patriot looks forward with
pride or pleasure, but it i prefigured bv
the oracles of the Republican party, it
is a condition that the Republican par
ty appears to covet, it is a destiny that
cannot be averted if tbe Republican
party remains permanently in power.
The Worst in the World.
COI.ONEI CORDON'S OI'IMON OL THE CONDI
TIO* OF THE IRISH I'ROIT.E.
I/IMMI.N, I >ec.—The excitement over
the Irish question is increasing. Colonel
Gordon, who has been on a tour of the
whole west of Ireland, writes that the
condition of tiie people i* worse than
that of any other in the world. A gulf
of antipathy exists between them and
the landlords. Citing as a precedent
the measures taken to afmlish slavery
in the West Indies he presses that the
government should buy out all the
landlords west of the Shannon at a cost
of £XO.OOd,(XXI, of which a great part
will be repaid by tenants, and the can
cer will be cured. He also proposes
that the lands thus acquired be admin
istered by a land commission supple
mented by an emigration commission,
laird ("ranbrook (Conservative), speak
ing nt Beach Hampstend last night, de
clared as tho government hail failed to
suspend the habeas corpus act, if fur
ther outrages were committed the blood
would he on their heads. Lord Justice
James writes to the Timet that the rent
of Irish holdings should be fixed at
twenty to twenty-five per cent, over
Griffiths' valuation, and that any land
lord dissatisfied with this should be en
titled to call on the government to pur
chase the land at a tair price.
A Dublin dispatch says that the affi
davits of Messrs. Parnell, Biggur, J. D.
Sullivan, Sexton and Dillon, on which
to base an application for postponement
of the trial of the traversers, on the
ground that the date already fixed will
interfere with their constitutional right
to be present when I'atliament meets,
were filed in the Crown offices at 8
o'clock last evening. The traversers
will apply for a postponement of the
trial until the 25th ot January.
Tho government has ordered the
prosecution of the Sligo Champion for
publishing a notice calling on a tenant
to relinquish his farm.
The Jhiilg Telegraph't Plymouth dis
patch says that her Majesty's ship Val
orous starts for the south of Ireland on
Monday with small arm ammunition,
buckshot and steam pinnaces, armed
with seven-pounders, for river transit.
A dispatch to the Timet from Dublin
says: There are persons who are mark
ed for the assassin's bullet and are
obliged to have their houses guarded by
tho police. Several resident* in the
suburb* have received threatening let
ter* and the authorities warn them not
to venture out after nightfall. Among
them are professional gentlemen who
have acted in ejectment proceedings.
Dimux, Dec. 3.-—The landlord com
mittee baa adopted a resolution declar
ing that the ordinary law* are utterly
insdequate to check agitation.
The GatiUt publishes a proclamation
declaring the county Leitrim in a state
of disturbance, requiring additional pi.
lino. Cpwards of K'i, fKK> had already
boon subscribed for the defense of the
traversers. The rumor that novoral
; magistrate* intend to resign in confirm -
i ed. Mr. Darnell will attend a land
| meeting at Wnterford on Sunday. Mr.
! Boycott's farm is a complete wreck.
GENERAL, NEWS.
There has never been a legal hanging
in I'ike county.
The new silk factory at llawley,
Wayne county, is manufacturing the
; finest quality or ribbon.
The Pittsburg < 'hronirh: says that the
rush of freight over the Pennsylvania
railroad is unprecedented.
General Joseph Johnson is rapidly
recovering from the illness occasioned
l,y a fall from his door steps in Wash
ington.
Senator Lamar's health is improving,
arid it is believed that 'luring the corn
irig session it will be dangerous to call
bun a " sick ilarnlet."
Ihnhtheria has carried off an entire
family in Wilson, Grayson county, Ya.,
and six deaths in a family have reja-at
edly occurred during the epidemic.
James Thompson died at Birming
ham, Huntingdon county, on the 26ih
ultimo, in bis y.'id year. He was a ju
tice of the peace for forty consecutive
years.
Gov. MeClellan, of New Jersey, has
been presented with an elegant silver
mounted flint lock pistol of Kriglish
make, which was carried by Lieutenant
General Winfield Scott during the Mex
ican war.
Mrs. K. L. l'rake, wife of the discov
erer of petroleum, has written to Mr.
H. I'. Bloss, of the Titusville /AraM,
stating tfiat any monument erected to
the memory of her husband should be
located at tfiat city.
A queer-looking buck was killed near
Graetienburg Springs, on the South
mountain, the other day. He was a
noble fellow, but one of his horns stood
upright, while the other grew straight
down. The hunters of the neighbor
hood say that buck must have had a
furious encounter with one of his fel
lows years ago.
A number of farmers of Let Nant
meal, ' Lester county. have concluded
to enter into a c rnpetition next tear
for the purpose of ascertaining who can
raise the largest amount of corn on two
acres of ground, each farmer to use
such fertilizing material as he may
deem best, and keep a careful account
of the quantity used.
In North I leaver, Lawrence county, is
a school district that, a few years ago,
was one of the most populous in the
county. To: the past eight years not a
child has been born within its limits.
At the present time there are but four
teen children in the district, and this
and the next winter's operation* will
close up the school for want of pupils,
• 'iptain Kennedy, of the steamship
City of Berlin, was presented with a
silver tea service in New York on 4Yed
tjesday of last week as a testimonial of
Ins skill in bringing bis ship through
" the stormiest passage which she ever
experienced." He has crossed the
Atlantic four hundred and fifty six
times, but his lat voyage WHS much
more severe than any of the preceding
ones.
Ihiniel Smith, colored, who attempt
ed to outrage a young white girl in
Giles county. Tenn., some time ago, has
been sentenced to 21 years in the peni
tentiary for assault with intent to com
mit murder. As soon as this verdict
was found a mob marched into the
court room, overpowered the shentF
and posse, dragged Smith through the
streets and hanged him to a bridge.
Moses Kane, the brakeman who was
arrested for opening a switch on the
l'lill tdelphia and Trie road, causing a
collision and the loss of one life, near
Corry, WHS tried in the Krie court re
cently and found guilty. Go account
of the good character of the prisoner
unci the fact that the accident was
caused from carelessness and not in
lent, sentence was suspended aud the
young man set free.
% Gen. John A. McDowell has brought
suit at ' iiicago for $20,000 damages
against Wm. 11. Smith, collector of cus
toms. and Win. -1. Kuhns, for conspiracy
to injure McDowell's reputation. The
suit is founded on a charge that defend
ants encouraged and pecuniarily sup
ported a suit against McDowell by Miss
Annie Coe for seduction, which was
abandoned, Miss t'oe confessing that
the charge was a fabrication.
The grain receipts at St. Louis for
the t resent year will probably aggre
gate 60.000,000 bushels, an increase of
nearly 60 per cent, orer last year.
These figures do not include the flour
receipts of St. which would add
about 10,000,000 bushels to the grain
aggregate it reduced to grain, making
the aggregate for the year 1880 close on
to "0,000,000 bushels. The St. Louis
papers are naturally jubilant over tilts
handsome exhibit,
I'hitrlos H. Germeyer, a Pennsylvania
railroad brakeman, residing in Harris
burg, one day last week while running
over the top of his train near Columbia
wss seized with a violent attack of ver
tigo, which completely blinded him,
and, making a misstep be went down
between the butnpers. His cries were
heard by the conductor, who stopped
the train, and going back, found the
poor unfortunate in a horrible condi
tion. The left leg was literally ground
up and the right leg and left arm
nearly cut otf. He was put on the ca
tloose and taken to Columbia, where he
expired in a short time.
The annual report of fhe director of
the mint shows the grand total of the
coin in circulation and bullion avsilable
for coinage oi the Ist of November of
$612,203,603, $453,882,692 ol which ia
golil and $168,320,911 silver, as amount
of United States gold coin in the coun
try on November 1. $62,167,141 was in
the treasury, $112.777,602 held by banks
and $200,379,138 in private hands. Of
silver coin 47 084,459 standard dollars
and $24,629,489 in tractional silver waa
held by the treasurer. The National
banks' report waa $5 330,367 as amount
of silver held by them, leaving $75,-
238,239 in other banks and in general
circulation.