Ad Epitome of (he Principal Events Now
Attracting Public Interest
The next convention of the National
Educational Association will be held
at San Francisco.
Nino negroes returning from a fu
neral wero killed by a Htroke of light
ning at Jit. Pleasant, Tenn.
Tlie commission nppointcd bv the
English Parliament reported favorably
on Pasteur's treatment of hydrophobia,
Jacob Sharp, convicted of bribery,
was sentenced to four yearn imprison
ment and to pay a fine of $5,000, in
New York.
John Coady.who eloped from Stono
county, Ark., with Elizabeth Lump-
kins, was followed by the girl s father
and brothers and shot.
The St, Lawrence sugar refinery, at
Montreal, was destroyed by fire. One
man was killed and two injured by
jumping from windows.
The boiler at the Shawnee coal mine,
near Cheyenne, exploded, fatally in
juring James Kirby, night engineer,
and two men, Thomas Jones and Chas.
JJartlett, who were sleeping iu tlie en
gine house.
The Northern Pacific Express Com
pany for the year ending July 1, 1S87,
shipped 175 tons of fruit and vegeta
bles from Walla Walla. The only of
fices which exceed the business of
Walla Walla are Portland, St. Paul
anil Minneapolis.
A hirge quantity of herring oil was
recently taken to Sun Francisco Irom
Alaska. One company at Killsnoo is
engaged solely in catching the fish and
trying out tho oil. The carcasses, af
ter the oil is tried out, are chipped to
Europe as guano.
Tho Governors of New York. Massa
chusetts, Connecticut and Pennsyl
vania have called a conference "of
all the Governors of tho different
vStates and Territories to meet in New
York August 23rd, to consider tho
adoption of a uniform system of State
extraditions.
Advices from China state thai a re
bellion took place at Chang Chow,
near Shanghai. The uprising was
suppressed by the authorities. Ninety
of the conspirators were executed. A
number of secret societies had also re
belled in tho province of Kiangsi. A
military officer and eloven soldiers im
plicated in the rebellion were captured
and beheaded.
Half the new quay at Zue, Switzer
land, fell into the lake. Forty houses,
a crowded inn and the Hotel Zu
rich, a four-story structure full of vis
itors, vanished entirely. The occu
pants of the buildings were engulfed
while they slept. At least 100 persons
perished, including M. Collins, the
President of the canton. Men are at
work trying to recover the bodies of
the victims. An infant was found
alive in a lloating cradle.
Miss Maggie Uostwick, aged 11) years,
and Miss Geneal Watkins, a young
lady of Dallas, Texas, retired to their
room in a one story cottage, at Gimes
ville, Texas. At 2 o'clock Mrs. Post
wick hoard a struggle in the young la
dies' room and reached the room just
in time to see a man leap through tho
window. Both young ladies were wel
tering in blood and unconscious, their
skulls having been beaten in with a
hatchet. Both died. No clue to the
perpetrator of the crime hap. been dis
covered. Over 2f)0 men have been
deputized as deputy sherills to scour
the country. A reward or $2,500 has
leen offered for the capture of tho
murderer.
A party of uine workmen omployed
in grading a portion of the Georgia,
South Carolina and Northern Railroad
in Chester county, S. C, were blasting
rock and had on hand about 1,000
pounds of giant powder. Tho camp
where a majority of tho workmen wero
was some distance awoy from tho
place where tho nine workmen were
blasting. Just before sunset a terrible
explosion was heard, but no attention
was paid to it, and as none of the
workmen returned that night a search
was made next morning. When near
the place whero the blasting had been
going on a large Hock of vultures were
seen upon the trees, and the searchers
made a horrible discovery. The 1,000
tons of powder had proniaturely ex
ploded, and not one man was left to
tell tho tale. A spark from some iron
being hammered is supposed to have
ignited the powder.
When off Barren Island, Now York,
en route for Canarsio, the yacht Mys
tery capsized and only thirteen of the
forty eouls composing her pastongers
and crow are known to have been res
cued. The party was mado up chiefly
of German families resident in Brook
lin and Long Island City. When the
passengers of the Mystery and Chris
tiana gathered on the pier to embark
for Carnasio so many of tho men of
the party showed the effects of beer
that they had drank that the skippers
thought best to put the women and
children aboard tho Mystery, which
rates as a much safer boat than her
consort, Tho women protested, but
their protest was unheeded. Capt.
llendrickson, of tho Mystery, said ho
was going to get to Carnusio first or
blow a stick off. Reef knots wero un
fastened nnd tho boom dropped just as
a squall of considerable violence struck
tho sail. In a second eho was on her
beam ends and all tho peopio were
struggling in a choppy sea. Fully
half tho drowned peopio wero children.
A negro in a rowboat put out from the
shore and succeeded in saving seven
lives, and n tug which was iu the vi
cinity saving nix.
OREGON NEWS.
Everything of General Interest in
Condensed Form.
Albany proposes to erect a $100,000
woolen factory.
A $6,000 Congregational church is
to be irected in The Dulles.
Through mail is now being carried
between Albany and Newjort.
Pendleton supjwrts fifteen lawyers,
five doctors anil three dentists.
The hay and grain crop this year iu
Crook county is going to bo scarce.
The Lebanon road across the Cas
cades is open, tho snow all being gono.
A glass factory for making bottles.
jars and plain ware is in prospect at
:VH)lllll.
It is estimated that Umatilla county
will harvest 0,000.000 bushels of grain
this year.
Roseburg school directors have lot
the contract for a new school house to
cost $13,000.
A man named Brown, living near
Corvallis, was drowned in the Wil
lamette at that place.
A. six-year-old bov named Hatton
was drowneiWn Couch lake, Portland,
by falling from a raft.
Red fish are beginning to ascend tho
Grand Rontlo river, and the Wallowa
lake will soon be populated with them.
James Mclnroe, an old nioneer of
Baker City, was killed nt that place bv
falling under the wheels of a caboose.
The infant son of J. A. and Sarah
Wright was drowned in tho Hume of
the Hurricane creek saw mill
at
Joseph.
A book-kcenor named Al. Shcrfin.i
omployed in the brewery at Lakeview,
shot and killed a sheen-herder named
C. F. Pone.
The little child of Samuel Mills.
living in Fox Vallov. Linn countv.
was scalded to death by falling into a
tub of boiling water.
Theio is u force of 0,000 or 7.000
men at work on the Oregon and Cali
fornia grade, which is nearly com
pleted. Staging has been reduced to
twelve miles.
C. P. Dixon pleaded cuiltv to em
bezzling some $2,000 of the funds of
the Canadian Pacific Railroad Com-'
pany, and was sentenced to three vears
in the penitentiary.
(lug Larson, a fisherman, was drowned
at Megler's cannery at Brookiield.
1 lie boom wi a boat struck him and
knocked him into the water.
p10l
body was recovered.
A limn lvimrwl .rnnn:ii fiill 1iwm,,t1, I
n t.ridcrn win. n (,.,.. P....i..,,..;ii I
near Gervais, and presented a claim to j Development Company for $i0 000
to the county court for $250. The damages for injuries sustained in fall
matter was settled by the court tuning "i do.wn 1 ,0, V'"Vuy of tho steamer
to him $8") ' aquma at ban I' rancisco.
Tho Jacksonville Sentinel claims that i
there has leen $200,000 worth of
gold dust brought into that town dur- ;
mg the past year. The Grant's Pass
Courier iigures the amount sold in Jo
sephine county at $223,000.
Eddie Graham, a sheep-herder on
Willow creek, near Prineville, was rob
bed of his watch and pocket money a
few days ago, while he was going to
his camp. The man met him on the
road, drew a pistol and told him to "de
liver up," and ho did so.
A settler named Ball, while clearing
land on his claim near Carrico valley,
on the Nehalem road near St. Helen's.
felled a tree ujion himself. In order !
to extricate him it was necessary to
saw the tree in two. Bull's injuries
arc pronouncod fatal.
Suit was begun in the U. S" Circuit
Court by Mrs. Thomasnm Lowrvl
against R. Koehler, as receiver of tho
O. fc C. Railroad, to recover $5,000
damages for the loss of her husband,
Arthur T. Lowry, who died from inju
rios received by tho premature explo-
sion of a blast while working on tho
bluff near Oregon City. The citizens of Ritzville, W. T., have
William Egan, of this vullev, has organized a Board of Trade, with Dr.
discovered an extensive salt marsh, I J,''SSutt President, and W. E. Black
about eighty feet across, savs tho Lake- j mer secretary. It will be the object of
viow Jixaminer. Around tiio edges the thi(i organization to promote, the best
ground is covered with a three-inch , -"tereHtsof Ritzvilloand Adams county,
layer of good salt ; all through tho ! An old man by the name of O'Con
center tho water bubbles up like water! nor, nearly SO years of ago, and living
boiling. All tho water is thick with j at the county farm, whs struck by the
salt. It is considered a valuable find i cars while walking tho track near So-
for the community as well as for. Mr.
Eagan. It is located ten milps east of
north of Silver Lake. Mr. Egan is
now busy building vats to evaporate
the water into salt.
Citizens living in Tygh valley, Wasco
county, have tent to Gov. Peunoyor
tho result of the proceedings of a pub
lic meeting hold there recently, in
which action was taken upon a change
of the northern boundary of tho Warm
Springs reservation, so as to include a
number of farms of Settlers in that
valley. It is claimed by them that the
boundary is twolvo miles south of
where tho government survoyors now
locate it. Gov. Pennoyer ' was re
quested to write to the Commissioner
of Indian Affairs, protesting against
fctich action on tho part of the govern
ment and ho has done so.
A dreadful accident happened at
Tillamook by which four men lost
their lives. It appears that a man
named Albert Uriggs, who runs a sloop
from Lincoln to Hobsonville and Gari
baldi, started from tho former place
carrying five passengers. When otT
Hobsonville a flawttruck the boat and
ehe capsized and sunk. The owner of
tho boat and a boy named Woodruff
got on tho ilats and were 6aved from
tho cannery, tho other four unfortu
nate men wero drowned. Tho names
of three of the drowned men uro: W.
W. Hepburn, L. IeBaron and J. L.
Hoover. They wero from Pennsylva
nia, looking for timber land for a syn
dicate of capitalists.
COAST CULLINGS.
a'08! Principally to . Washington
iernwjiy uuu vtuuuriuu.
An unknown man was drowned in
the b.iy at Seattle.
The Fire Department of San Fran
cisco costs about $30,000 a mouth.
Joseph Sw.uter, of Yreka, was fa
tally shot by the accidental discharge
of a gun.
A failure to vaecimto is punished at
Phasuix, A. T., by $300 tine or six
months in jail.
Wages of deep water sailors at San
Francisco have leeu advanced from
$20 to $30 per mouth.
A young man named George Ahrens
was drowned while bathing in Hang
man creok, near Spokane Falls.
Flovd Sc Mackay contributed $5,000
to the relief fund of tho Virginia mi
ners. This swells the fund to $25,000.
A. J. Knott and Millard O. Lowns
dale have purchased the Arlington sil
ver mine, iu the Cuuir d'Alenu region,
for $-10,000.
Dayton, W. T.. will build another
woolen mill. Enough money has
been subscribed. Tho old mill burned
down three years ago.
Mrs. H. G. Brainard committed sui
cide at her residence in Pleasant Val
ley, Idaho, by shooting herself through
the head with a revolver.
A Press Association is to bo organ
ized in Idaho, and a meeting for ttiat
purpose is called for tho 10th of Au
gust, at Great Shoshone Falls.
Wm. Gaby shot his wifo at Alturas,
Cal., then shot himself. Mrs. Gabv
j will probably recover, while the would-
be murderer is expected to die.
Catalina Island, two miles distant
i from San Pedro, Cal., has been pur
chased by a syndicato for $17U,H)0. It
will be mado an immense summer re
sort. Whitman county, W. T., has the
smallest woman living. Slio resides
tnreo nines irom l ine Uitv, is 'H years
old, 21) inches high, and weighs 33
pounds.
A man named Harvey I.angdon, a
civil engineer, lately in the employ of
the Seattle & West Coast Railway,
committed suicide at Seattle by taking
morphine.
Two children of Thomas Waymock,
of Thompson's Falls, Montana, aged
rcsjK'ctively 3 years and 20 months,
were burned to death while the house
was destroyed.
One thousand tin boxes, containing
tho bones of dead Chinamen, nil roadv
for shipment to tho Flowery Kingdom,
j were lound in a liou
so in uninaiown,
John Mcl'loin has sued tho Oregon
Tlie
war cruiser Caroline bus sailed
from Victoria. Her mission is to pro
tect BritUh settlers from any un
friendly acts on the part of the Amor-!
lean authorities in Behnng sea.
On Joseph Hathaway's ranch, near
Beckwith, Cal., an artesian well at a
depth of 350 feet struck water which
flows 180 gallons per minute, hot
enough to cook an egg in eight min
utes. At Seattle J. Schreibring refused the
command of two highwaymen to throw
up his hands and was Bhot iu the neck.
The robbers then tied. The sheriff has
offered a reward of $500 for their cap
ture. The remains of Rev. Starr King
have been removed from the church
yard on Geary street, San Francisco,
to tho Masonic conietery, where it is
proposed -to erect a $50,000 monument
to his memory.
At Mountain View, Cal., a boiler of
a threshing machine engino on the
farm of B. H. Martin exploded, killing
Edwin T. Carn, the engineer, and
Louis Salicita, tho fireman, and several
others wero slightly injured.
attle. He was returning homo from
tho city, whero he had been attending
church.
Tho Wonchow river in China has
j overflowed its banks, submerging miles
of territory. J lioiuands of persons
are believed to have boon drowned.
The sufferings of survivors are do
scribed as terrible. Cliu Chow City in
submerged, its inhabitants having
taken to boats.
A special from Greenwood, Miss.,
says: Threo negro children wero
burned to death near Tchuhi. Their
parents went to church, leaving four
children in the house. The eldest,
aged 10, seta lighted lamp near the
bed, which caught lire, and three chil
dren wero burned to death.
The United States Assay Office at
Boiio City, received for assay,' and pur
chased, during tho fiscal year ending
June 30, 1887, 33,280 ounces of gold
bullion, valued at $157,338 21). Dur
ing the same period of 1880 the re
ceipts wero 7,010 ounces, valued at
$122,230 85, showing an increase in
the business of tho office this year
over last of nearly 300 per cont.
John and Garlie Whito, sons of Dr.
G. A. White, county physician, aged
12 and 9 years respectively, went out
dove shooting near Sacramento, John
was in advance, nnd carrying a shot
gun over his left arm, when in some
manner the weapon was discharged,
striking his brother in the head and
killing him instantly. The entire top
of his head was blown off.
PRETTY ORNAMENTS.
How Picture froni'lllint intrd Pnprri Cnn
rniturrrrrit to Wood.
A great many of tho panel picture
which serve .is interim- decorations for
cars and steamboat saloons, and which
have n frequently been admired for
thou- artistic beauty, are first trans
forrcd to tlie wood from ordinary illus
trations in the pictorial panels and
painted by the artist afterward.
11
i no process h simple, and can be
done by most any boy or girl of ordinal'
iiiieiugvnce. Poplar wood is regarded
as the beit for the foundation, as its
Mil-race is oven after lieing planed, and
it is not so porous as pine, and is there
lore less m)h to absorb the ink-mark
upon it.
Select any picture that the fanev may
suit from some illustrated paper, sav
""'". a nnuseapo or marine
scene. Cut. it out of tho paper, clip oft
uic superuiioiiN portaons around the
edges, and lay it upon the board, loav
ing aljont un inch margin all around on
tun hoard. YY hen the picture is trans
f .l !.! . ....
"" iiiiii-gni uiav no gilded or
stained, which gives tho picture tho ap
poar.mee oi neiug inclosed in a frame
The board must be thoroughly dry and
. ..1 1 r . , . " .... -
nimoihii, sum uvo irom Knots. The sur
face should then be gone over with
thin coating of copal varnish (which
can he purchased at almost any paint
store;, evenly laid on.
The picture to be transferred, firs
immig a care 10 see that no creases
or wrinkles are iu it. should be placed
upon the hoard upside down that
with the face of the picture to the
board. Having accomplished tin
much, tho hoard and picture should
then he put. away to dry, am
securely cm ered with some light Mull,
io uevciii. uic nii'i irom settling upon
. . it i ....
H. I lie drying should notbe forced by
ariiueiai means, such as facing near
tlie Move, as it is liable to blister and
destroy the client of tho picture. Let it
remain in this condition until it
.1 .. It i .i
inoroiigiiiyiin : iiiou. with a hue sponge
slightly dampened with water, go slowly
over the back of the paper. The paper
will conic oil easily. leaving the picture
upon the surface ot the wood. With
box of paints, a bov or girl may thus
have a handsome picture that will last
tor years.
The picture, however, iu the original
transfer to the wood, without any add!
tion of paint to enhance its beauty
makes a very pretty ornament. Shields
medallions, easels and ovals can hi
shaped out of the wood for .small pic
tures, which tiirnisli attractive orna
incuts for tahl-t.1 and mantle-nieces.
i Golden )ttx.
TOO MANY STUDIES.
Tim C'rai in iitlntr rroo-ss In C'nl ami
Itralll-l'diclllL' In tint I'lilillc SrliooU.
One of tho greatest mistakes mad
in our present system of educating
children is that they are given ton manv
siidjccis lo siuuy in once. 1 lie power
1 dissociation that is. ot keeping oik
subject entirely clear of another stib-
J''1'1
is not great in tho munis ot chil
dren. Thev therefore have a mass of
confused ideas when thev have got
through with their daily taNks. which it
is always difficult, and sometimes ini
possible, fur theni to separate one from
the other. It is true thiil sonic chil
dren arc, from the beginning, able to
concentrate the attention lirst on out
. . . . .i , . . ,
suoieci aim men on aiioiucr; nut uicse
are quite exceptional instances, and the
brain is very likely to bo strained in
the effort. It is as though a person
should spend six hours iu looking al
ternately through a telescope and a mi
croscope, giving a few minutes to each
It would certainly be found at the end
of that lime that the sight had been
injured for the time being, at least,
and if the practice should be continued
there can be no doubt that permanent
impairment of vision would be the re
sult.
Tin- effort to form and maintain clear
and forcible ideas of several subjects at
once is a dilliciilt matter, oven for
adults. It has been found by experience
that it is advantageous to reduce the
number of branches of medical science
which students are required to study
simultaneously. Several of the better
class of medical colleges iu this country
a few vears ago cut down the list of
from eight or ten to less than half the
number, and extended the period of
study from two sessions of four months
each to three of from six to eight
months. I speak from personal exper
ience when I -ay that 1 am aware of the
most lamentable results of the "cram
ming" process hi medical students. I
have been a teacher iu medical schools
for nearly twenty-live years. Iu the
('a'tirso of my examinations it has often
happened that I have put a question in
one branch of medicine to a candidate
for graduation and have received an
answer in an entirely different branch.
How much better it would be for the
future man or woman if the boy or girl,
instead of being required to learn a
dozen different subjects at once, should
have the number reduced to two, or at
most three! . William A. llammond,
in I'viulur Science Monthly,
Proper Indignation.
Chappie, I was gwossly insulted to
day, doncher know," remarked Fitz
perey. "Ahlhowdiditoccuh, medeah boy?"
inquired Do Sappy.
"I went to buy a hat, you see. and I
.disked the eweaeliah.at thestoh: 'Ah,
what sold of a hat do you think would
suit mo?" and the wuteh replied, as
bwnzeii as you please, A soft one, sir.' "
"Did you wesent the insult?
"Yaas, pwotnptly."
"How did you wesont It?"
"I said 'Wats!' weal loud and
iilamtnod tho door as I went out,"-
I'illslurgh L'hroukle Tekyruph.
CHINESE P TRACY.
tlow Vlc.tl:il Coriilri Comltirt Ttirlr No
liiriotu Put I'rolltuliln Trnlllr.
Piracy on the high seas is now.
fortunately, a i-rinio long since dead
among European nations. We must
go back to the early period of Marryat
and Cooper if we desire to know of the
atrocities and iniquities committed by
the hordes of lawless ruffians who used
to infest the sea at the beginning of the
present century and carry on their
merciless business of butchery and
plunder. Our brethren in the Celestial
Hnipire, however, are slow to remove
evils, and piracy with them seems to
die hard. Reports occasionally reach
this country of some European vessel
being attacked in Chinese waters by the
natives; but, fortunately, owing to the
extreme cowardice usuaily displayed bv
the attacking party, those attempted
depredations do not often lead to any
serious result.
The China sea is. principally, the
happy hunting-ground of theo das
tardly pirates; and nature seems to have
adapted it specially for that particular
purpose. The China Sea is, in many
places, exceedingly shallow, strong cur
rents sweep along its course; while num
erous islands, with wooded creeks, dot
ted here and there, afford capital
shelter and points of observation for
piratical junks to lie iu ambush, until
some unsuspecting merchantman shall
heave iu sight. Vessels ;u traversing
these seas, except during the season of
the monsoons, have often to contend
against dead head-winds or calms that
hist for ihivs and days. During these
periods sailing ships have frequently, if
in proximity to land, to east anchor, to
prevent being carried ashore by the
various swift, and coullicting currents,
and at such times present capital op
portunities for the marauders of the seas
to carry out their nefarious desiirns.
Although as the Chinese pirate is, as
a rule, a most abject coward where
Europeans are concerned, he is. al
least, capable of striking terror into thi'
hearts of Ins countrv men; and a coupl
of pirate junks, mounting but a singl
two-pounder gun between them, havi
been known to blockade a port of four
thousand inhabitants, and to plunder
every ship that passed. In anothc
ease a pirate gang of Ihc hundred, who
had yielded to a iminIi of twenty or
thirty bluejackets, had previously defied
a native force ot one thousand live him
drcd troops and forty war junks
Diivctly, however, a small gunboat.
manned by Europeans, appeared upon
the scene, their career was at an end.
Chinese piracy is, at times, almost a
business. A pirate merchant, in tin
wholesale wav, will infest certain vil
lages on the seaboard or islands. Hi
will keep lifleen or twenty junks, with
a corresponding retinue of ruilians. and
when he has secured his plunder, he
stores it in safeh. A pirate in a small
way of business, having once made
good haul, will divide the spoil, and
then his followers immediately disperse
forVarot an attack from another gang.
I he old saying of "dog eat dog" an
plies with striking force to the trans.
actions of these plunderers ofthe China
sea. .hi lite lenr Jioiimt.
R.IVAL ROBBER BANDS.
llillliiK 0MrulloiiH of Two IIiiiiiN of Alld-
ulclit MiuiriiiHli'i-it In 1'iirlH.
Mime rcceni, nurgiaries winch were
committed in the suburbs, and the per
petralorsof which were arrested, have
led to the discovery of two bands of
midnight inaiiraudcrs, whoso exploits
me worthy of record by a Sue. Two
leading representatives of Parisian
rascaldom, respectively named Poussin
and Bouloiinc, hud founded two rival
schools oi niirgiarv. j ne i'oiissimsts
broke into an isolated villa, the ordln-
uy occupant of which (an olllcer) was
ibseut. Being unable to carry away
all their plunder during the night, they
returned to the charge toward morning,
only to find their rivals, tint ltoutou-
uists. installed in their places. There
upon a row eusucd among the robbers.
'flic disused arms which were hung up
is monuments in theollieers museum
were taken down from their pegs, and
(ie combatants attacked each other
nergctically with sabers, the butts
if muskets and old-fashioned arms,
such as halberds and battle-axes.
Tim sight of llowing blood, however,
soon damped the ardor of the antagon
istic thieves, and thev also feared that
Ifie noise of the struggle would be hoard
by the police. A treaty of peace was
accordingly entered into, .-mil the whole
gang cemented their union by a grand
banquet, iu the villa at the expense, of
ouiMsof its absent owner, whose larder
mil wine-cellar were reiiiiisitiourd tn
nine purpose. I'outonne, one of the
hiefs, drank six bottles of champagne
tin! one of cognac, after which, being
in doubt unable to oblige the company
villi a song or a recitation, he nmuseil
lis companions by turning somersets
ivcr the chairs and tables, anil doing
(he Gallic equivalent for n double shulllc
iu lop of an Era id piano. After this
he amalgamated baud worked with the
itmost boldness and energy indifferent
ubiirbs of Pans. They did successful
I n ikes of business in lonely houses, in-
ariably ransacked the meat and wine
Icpartments, and left grateful notes of
icknowlcdgeiiient on the dluliig-rooni
tables for the disconsolate proprietors.
In oni! instance Poussiu and Boutoiiuu
ongratiihiteil a despoiled house-owner
in tho excellence of Ids poultry, and
promised to return iu order to render
the customary visito du digestion. The
hole of this audacious band, number-
lug about twcnty-livo men, has been
irrcsted. Poussin is an old zouave, and
ISoiitonne Is a good-for-nothing date-.
evil of highly respectable origin, who
was educated in the School of Arts and
Manufacture!!. 1'arii heller.
TOBACCO CULTURE.
Illll Njro Contribute: III nil to tn Hurnln
(Jurstlon of thn l)ii)-.
AsitKVii.u:, N. C No doubt soma of
the linest flavored smoking tobacco in
the world is grown in this region and
manufactured In this State. It is a.
bright and beautiful golden color, as
thin as tissue paper, and smells well
while feeding itself to the devouring
element.
Tobacco has been known to our raco
for about four centuries, and during
that time it has made wonderful
strides.
It is a sad thing to think of the suf
fering that existed throughout tho
length and breadth of tho land before
tobacco was discovered.
'Tobacco is grown upon, the rich, red
hillsides of North Carolina and Vir
ginia by means of agriculture. Tim
Vonotian-reil soil of the South has to
bo fertilized before it will product
much tobacco. The best fertilizer is tho
handiwork of Signor Guano, of Pom,
whose works are very popular in the
South.
The soil is then tickled with tho hoe.
and African humorists who can amnso
a plantation in this way readily cmu
inand a salary of alnnit seven dollars,
per month.
Fertilizing is quite expensive, and it
requires a good crop to get even on the
year's expenditures for labor, fertiliz
ers, etc. One man I heard of the other
day sold his crop two weeks ago, and
still lacked $ I.I s.'i of having enough In
pay off Mr. Guano.
Such things as these do much to dis
courage the use of agriculture as a
means of relaxation in the South.
Tobacco is a strong, growing, her
baceous, fu..v annual, rising frequent
ly to a height of Nix feet unless previ
ously "topped." The only ornament
worn by the adult tobacco plant is a
targe, iiuck-sci worm, which may in
secured by imbedding him between tho
leavi s of Mr. Webster's verbose dic
tionary and then deftly closing the vol
ume. On opening the liook years after
ward the still features of the worm may
still be detected.
Tobacco is not sold at tho South by
the producer at a regular price per
pound, but he hauls it into the ware
house, and when there is a break, or
sale, his tobacco is sold at auction,
though sometimes it is bought at pri
vate sale.
The pinhookor is a peculiar fcnttiro
ef the private sale business. Pin
hookers work iu threes. Pinhookor A
goes to the horny-handed producer and
says: "I will give, you $H0 for your
lot; tobacco is falling a little to-day,
and I will not hold that offer good more
than an hour." The producer refuses
to accept the offer.
Pretty soon Piuhonker B comes up
to him and says: "I'll oiler you $08
for your lot if you give nic a reply
soon. What do you say?"
'fhe planter gets a little scared over
the falling market, but refuses to soil.
Then C comes iu and offers. $00 if ac
cepted promptly, and tlie now thor
oughly frightened toiler rushes around
to tint! A and accept his offer. But A
says it is too late the market is too
shaky. He then scours the promises
for B, who reluctantly takes tho goods
nt about. $1' less than they tiro worth.
This is another reason why tho
domain of agriculture at the South is
nowiarely Invaded by tho white man.
Tobacco is used iu tho preparation
of snuff, line-cut tobacco and plug to
bacco. It is frequently used also t
flavor cigars, and sometimes in tho hot
tor graiie of cigarettes.
Tim exports of tobacco from 1850 to
187o increased from $6, 127, 2.1 iu vuluo
to .!28.o 17,8(52. Ten years ago tho in
ternal revenue from tobacco was near
ly -10,000,000.
For years if has been a favorite
amusement on the part of the United
States to jerk a few millions of revenue
now and then out of the poor' tobacco
agriculturist and sock the amount into
the various avenues whore tho great
sausage grinder of government need
ed morn means.
That is tlie reason "why so many
nickel cigars are being sacrificed uttho
rate of two for a quarter.
Oilier information rogardlng tho
great tobacco industry is liable to fol
low close upon tho heels of this treatise.
Hill Xye, in Boston Globe.
GENERAL.
New York Statu produced 11.003.
000 bushels of wheat last year from
C80.-I!).') acres.
The Dauvers yellow onion, intro
duced to American growers iu 1819 or
1850, is just coming to bo appreciated
iu European gardens.
The Puritan rose, tho latest pro
duction of the queen of flowers, hits :u
compact blossom, Is of a delicate
creamy white, and will last for days.
Fifty thousand tons of soot wero
taken from Loudon chimneys lastyear.
Its value was sot at two hundred and
four thousand dollars as a fui tili.or.
Mrs, Mary Savage, of Groonwood..
Mass., has a daughter, granddaughter,
great granddaughter, and great-groat-
graiiihlaughler all residing Iu Norway,
Me. It is an unbroken line of females
of live generations. 1'holr ages nro as
follows: First, eighty-four; second,
llfty-slx; third, thirty-six; fourth, .seven
teen; tilth, eight months. Umlon.
Journal.
A San Francisco statistician de
monstrates that ;i;t:i,000 pounds of
opium aro smuggled into the Facih'o
slope every year, entailing u nf
duties to tho Govuriimont of over $3,-
000,000 a year. As each Chinaman In,
California smokes four pounds of tha
drug annually, it is probable that a -
it'ge amount of tuts smuggled odium
must bo charged to that race.