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1st of January, 1875, authorize the Secretary of 
tho Treasury to borrow one hundred millions 
of dollars In gold at that time, stop the scale 
of gold now, and by the 1st of January we 
would have two hundred millions in gold to 
begin the redemption or our legal tenders. Ho 
opposed any increase In the volume of t he-cur- 
ren even the Issue of the $44,000,(KK) reserve. 
Senator Gordon of Georgia, opposed a speedy 
return to specie payments, Outdid not desire to 
bo understood as opposing It when it should he 
consistent with the interests of the producing 
classes of the country. Any day that emigres:; j 
might set for a return to specie payments would 
not relieve the country. It was not just, not 
practicable, not expedient, to adopt such a 
plan. Should we contract or should wc give to 
tbe country more currency? To his mind, sup- I 
ported as he was by experience and history, the 
latter was tho shortest, surest, and easiest 
method. We cannot pay gold for greenbacks 
until we get gold, and wc cannot got, gold until 
we bring It back to this country. Wc cannot, 
get It until our efforts firing It back to us, until 
photograph of George Washington. This world 
has no further pleasures for him. 
A witty Cincinnati lady writing from Wash- 1 
ington, saysBoston draws herself up severely, 
scans your cerebral developments through her 
eyeglass, and coolv asks: “What do you know?" 
New York displays her silks and diamonds, and 
pertly asks: “ What are you worth ?" Philadel¬ 
phia, with prim bands and pursed-up lips, asks: 
“who was your grandfather?” While Wash¬ 
ington stops between tbe waltz and I he German 
to inquire, “Can you dance? ” 
Tho Fall River School Committee, at. a recent 
meeting, adopted a resolution ordering all the 
teachers In I he public schools of the city to re¬ 
train from corporeal punishment, of any pupil 
until the day following the committal of the l aid of January. 
Thiers declared that the Republic was the only 
government possible in France- 
Prince Bismarck holds the French Govern¬ 
ment responsible for the violence of the ultra¬ 
montane press in France. 
A delegation of workingmen headed by Mr. 
Arch has waited upon Mr. Gladstone, urging 
the propriety ol' extending the elective fran¬ 
chise to agricultural laborers. Mr. Gladstone 
was in favor of their object, but advised them to 
be patient. 
The marriage of the Duke of Edinburgh, 
second son of Queen Victoria, to the Grand 
Dnebess Marla Alcxnndrovanna, the daughter 
of the Emperor of Russia, was celebrated with 
great pomp and rejoicing at St. Petersburg tho 
offense. 
Gov. Leslie of Kentucky, is able to announce 
that the State debt is virtually liquidated in 
full, with the exception of the school debt, 
which is a permanent loan, and therefore not 
redeemable. 
In Morgan County O., some children named 
we increase our production*. To Increase those Hurst made candy from sour sorghum In a 
Ityujss of the oSedi. 
CURRENT TOPICS. 
The Siamese Twins Dead* 
|8ce Portraits on Last, Page.) 
The Siamese Twins died Jau. 17, near Salis¬ 
bury, N. C. About a year ago Chang suffered a 
paralytic stroke, took to drink ns a relief from 
suffering, and the two lived a wretched and in¬ 
harmonious life. Finally Chang died and in a 
few moments Eng became delirious and raved 
wildly,dying t wo hours alter his brother. They 
had married two English twin sisters, Chang 
having live children and Eng live. Four of these 
children lire deaf and dumb. It was well un¬ 
derstood by sclent)Do men that neither of these 
twins could live without tho other- though at 
times one seemed to enjoy perfect health while 
tho other suffered. Thoy were bern on the 
Coast of Siam where their parents lived by fish¬ 
ing. None of their fifteen brothers and sist ers 
were deformed, although many of them were 
twins. 
The Siamese Twins were born In 1811, and 
came to this country in 1830, when 18 years old, 
having been previously exhibited in Europe. 
They engaged themselves to Barnum in 1850, at 
which time 1 bey spoke English Imperfectly. 
Chang was larger than Eng and looked several 
years younger. Ho Was also tho mental superior 
of his brother. Eng was often sick and always 
morose and peevish. Chong was tho moat ro¬ 
bust and good-natured. The Twins frequently 
fought each other; and yet Chang nursed Eng 
when he was ill. They remained with Barnum 
until 1855, and it in believed they had then saved 
$$0,000 each. Their wivcB were twin sisters, as 
stated above: had been servants, and it Is said 
that, a Lancashire dialect still clings to them. 
The making of the double match Involved much 
trouble, for although the twins were not unduly 
exacting, it was hard to find women who were 
both willing and at all desirable. There was no 
love-making before the engagement, l he court¬ 
ing was done by proxy and correspondence, and 
the ladies had seen their future husbands only 
at a show In London when they accepted the 
Offer of marriage. The twin* based their choice 
upon likenesses forwarded by their agent, who 
gave assurances of the respectability of the 
girls. All having been arranged they were 
brought to America, tho twins paying their 
expenses, and the marriage was solemnized 
quiently in Salisbury. The wives were not. 
beautiful, but were strong, healthy English 
working girls. The domest io lives of the coup¬ 
le: were peculiar. Each family had its own 
house, servants, and domestic establishment. 
Tho plantations were owned and managed sep¬ 
arately, althsugh in matters of consequence 
Chung was usually the master. The wives lived 
entirely at their respective homes, and tho hus¬ 
bands alternated—staying one week at Chang's 
house and the next woek at Eng's. Each looked 
aft er his plantation and other business during 
the weeks of living at his own place, and the 
visiting brother was not supposed to int erfere. 
Toe wives did not agree very 'well, and the 
strangely tied families quarrelled so seriously 
that the sisters frequently had periods of com¬ 
plete estrangement, lasting for weeks at a time. 
Thus they lived and thus they died. On tho 
last page of this issue we give their portraits. 
productions we must cheapen the facilities, and brass keltic. The candy was poisonous, and 
the facilities for cheap productions are, first, t lire© of the children were dead at last accounts 
cheap money. lie quoted from several author- and two very sick. 
itles to show that England and France had a Gov. Whyte of Maryland, gives the interest- 
larger per capita circulation than the United bearing debt of the State at $10,741,215. to offset 
estates. If Congress would announce that It which the State holds productive and unpro¬ 
intended to give more, money to the. people, and ductive asset < to more than l wire the amount 
give It flexibility, that every hour would bring During eight months past eight million lb,, 
relief to the country nnd bring out millions of olcomargarim*. a commercial substitute for 
greenbacks now boarded up. butter, have been consumed In this country. 
There is said to be dally a production of over 
Madame Euphrosyne Parepa-Rosa. twenty-three tons. 
The death of this great songstress is an- Gov - Washburne j n | lis aonual message to 
nounced. She died in London, England, the the Massachusetts Legislature, says the com- 
night of tho 22d of January; She was born in mercial and industrial interests of (heCommon 
Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1839. Her father was n. wealth, notwithstanding tho financial depres- 
Witllaohlah nobleman -Baron Qoorglades do are represented to be prosperous. The 
Boycskee of Bucharest. Her mother was Mrs. 1 ,n tal funded debt of Iho State Is $28,477,804. 
Seguln, t.ho Sister of tho once eminent basso of favors the enactment of a ten-hour law for 
that name. At the death or tho Baron his a11 the laboring clauses, and supports the cxlst- 
widow, only twenty-one years of age, was left ing prohibitory law. 
in poverty. To support herself and her Infant Mount or Sumner has introduced int.be 8en- 
oh lid she adopted tho lyric stage as a profession, ate a bill providing $1,300, or so much of that 
and shortly after began the education of Ku- mini ns may be necessary, for the purchase of a 
phrosyne for the same pursuit. At the age of marble bust of the late ( liter-justice Chase for 
sixteen the daughter made her debut in flic ^ho Supreme Court room. The bill provides 
City of Malta as Amina In “The Sonnambula." | 1 hat the selection shall be made by t.ho Com- 
Wc have not space to trace her history and mittee on blbrary, and it was accordingly nv , 
triumphs us a singer. In ism she married ('apt. , ferrod to them. 
O&rvil, an English officer In the East India ser- I CUifornia elects four members of Congress 
vice, wldtffi marriage proved unfortunate. Her * n September, but they will not take their seats 
husband dted In 1805 and she came to America un, ila >’® ar and a half later, unless a special 
in 1806. In 1807 she became the wire of Carl session shall ho held in 1875. 
Rosa, the violinist. Her career he*e In America The Detroit Board of Education has Just 
was very successful in nil respects, and those dropped algebra from the union school course, I 
who knew ho? beat speak of her personally as a. tho course being too full, and t he teachers i 
gonial, sensible wornac. No one who has asked 
her for advice and aid in the prosecution of 
musical studies has failed lo find :i sound and 
sympathetic adviser. 
Effect of the Abolition of the Franking 
Privilege. 
The Postmaster-General says that had the 
transmission of Congressional publications not 
been discontinued, the rates awarded in tho 
readjustment now being made with l ho railroad 
companies would be higher In exact proportion 
to the Increase in the weight of the malls, 
which the transmission of this .heavy matter 
would have caused, whatever that increase 
might bo. The general interests of i he postal 
service arc promoted, however, by relieving the 
great mail linos of the pressure caused by the 
carriage of tho immense amount of mail matter 
formerly sent over them. So rapid is the in¬ 
crease of post al business that 1 lie through lines 
arc taxed to their utmost capacity to carry the 
letter correspondence and paper matter dis¬ 
patched from tho commercial and publishing 
centers of the country. He recommends a re¬ 
duction of postage on books, and cannot see, 
If this suggestion is adopted, why postage 
should not be paid on public documents by an 
appropriation from the Treasury. 
Financial Talk In the Senate. 
Tnr. National Board of Trade petitions Con¬ 
gress against any Increase of tho volume of 
currency and asks that tho volume of fractional 
currency be reduced. 
Senator JSrownlow of Tennessee Is opposed 
to an immediate return to specie payment, Lu- 
lioving it would be destructive to the business 
of the country, tine of the defects of the pres¬ 
ent financial system is tho unequal distribution 
of currency, arid he asserts that the South and 
West want more of It and measures should be 
taken to relievo those sections, 
Senator Chandler of Michigan asserts that the 
time to return to specie payment was in 1805; 
values had then shrunk and the people were 
out of debt. Since then wa have been drifting 
further and further from specie payment. He 
thought the only plap v, as for the Government 
to say It would resume specie payment on the 
Chief Justice Morrison R. Waite. 
After the withdrawal of the name of Caleb 
Cushing for the position of Chief Justice, the 
President, sent, to the Senate the nemo of Mor¬ 
rison It. Waite, of Toledo, O., one of the coun¬ 
sel ef the United States during the Geneva 
Arbitration, and Jan. 21 ho was unanimously 
confirmed by the Senate, every member present 
voting In his favor, nine being absent. Chief 
Justice Waite Is a native of Connecticut, Ills 
father having been for many years one of the 
Judges of the Supromc Court and finally Chief 
Justice of Connecticut. Ho is a modest, able 
man and lawyer, of irreproachable character, 
judicial in his habits of thought and. it is be¬ 
lieved, will worthily Ill) the place made vacant 
by the death of Chief Justice Chase. 
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HOME NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
Down in Texas horse-thieves go in gangs 
headed by a pretended clergyman," ho gets up 
protracted and zealous meetings, and while he 
is taking the congregation upward on the wings 
Of his eloquence the rank and file make a 
descent, steal all the horses, and are off before 
their presence is known. 
Wild horses are reported to have become so 
numerous in parts of Australia, that farmers 
are obliged to take measures for their destruc¬ 
tion to protect their crops. 
Tho editor of the Vicksburg Herald spent. 
$800 on a church fair, hoping to get the prize of 
$3,000 in gold, and drew a brass chain and a 
generally being in favor of leaving out that 
study. 
Natural coke, or something similar to it, 
has been discovered in Virginia, and has made 
it-, appearance In tho market. II is said to burn 
without smoke, and docs not give off cither 
sulphurous odors or gas, and in steam-pro¬ 
ducing power it fully equals anthracite. If this 
should turn out to be a fact it will prove highly 
valuable. 
The arsenal at Rock Island, HI., when com¬ 
plete, will have a capacity equal to thelmanu- 
facturo of munitions of war sufficient to equip 
one million men every six months. 
It is noteworthy that out of seventy-seven 
storm-warning signals displayed at United 
States ports last month, sixty-two are known 
to have been actually Justified by the storm 
following. This gives the gratifying percent¬ 
age of 80.51. 
Tho Jlayor or Philadelphia has an abiding 
faitli iu the success of the projected Centennial 
Exposition. In his message yesterday ho says : 
“ Perhaps millions of our own people and thou¬ 
sands from abroad will be our guests upon that, 
occasion, and it behooves us to present an 
appearance equal at all events, and if possible 
superior, to any city of the Republic." 
Rockford, III., Is to have a large manufac¬ 
tory for turning out flour barrels, tubs, tobacco 
casks, cigar boxes, washboards, &e., of paper. 
The proprietor, who is aisc. the inventor of the 
new process, claims for his wares the advantage 
of lightness, durability and cheapness over 
those made of wood. 
Congress Is discussing the propriety of taking 
lull charge of the mouths of the Mississippi 
River and establishing regulations for their pro¬ 
tection. 
The wives of the Siamese Twins refuse to 
allow a post mortem examination of the bodies 
of their husbands, although scientific men are 
extremely anxious to determine whether it was 
possible to safely separate them during life. 
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FOREIGN NOTES, 
It is reported from London that Mr. Glad¬ 
stone and Mr. Lowe have “ a serious difference 
of opinion,” and that It is probable Mr. Lowe 
will retire from the Government. 
The Government of Japan refuses to throw 
the whole country open to foreigners as it is 
urged It should do by tho diplomatic represent¬ 
atives of other nations. 
Gen. Burrlol has arrived in Havana. 
The question of education now .agitating 
Chill is so warm as to have resulted in the 
Church party having threatened the legislators I 
with major-excommunication if they voted 
against its wishes. 
Minister Washburne has presented Ex-Presi¬ 
dent Thiers with a gold medal in behalf of the 
French Citizens ofPhUsd'elpbla. In responding, 
The Pope is again reported to be ill. 
In England during the day of the marriage of 
1 the Duke of Edinburgh to the daughter of the 
' Emperor of Russia, t.ho bells throughout tho 
1 entire country were rung iu honor of the nup- 
, tials and marriage services were performed in 
the churches. 
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THE SEASON, CROPS, PRICES, ETC. 
Norfolk, Vn., .Inn. I I. The weather this 
winter thus far has been remarkably warm and 
pleasant; no snow; considerable rainy weather. 
Truckers have been busy putting In peas, mar¬ 
rowfats, since tho first of December more or 
less; some report marrows three or four inches 
high. The early peas are now heir,,; sown quite 
extensively. Tho ground has been frozen but 
very little during January. Apples, Northern, 
$30:5 per bbl.; corn, white, Hfle.; yellow, 80c.; 
oats, 55?/60c.; onions, $6.50 per bbl.: peanuts, 
$2.50per bah.; black peas, firm at $1.10@1.12H 
per bsh.s potatoes, sweets, $3.50 per bbl.; Irish, 
$3.5004 per bbl. There i a large amount of cab¬ 
bage put out this winter, also kale, for the 
Northern market.—w. b. w. 
role’s station, Jan. 32—The past season 
was very unfavorable for t he farmers, as it was 
an unusually wet spring, then dry for awhile, 
•hen wet, until crops on all the flat lands w. re, 
in most places, u failure. There was not inure 
than a half crop of corn. Wheat was an aver¬ 
age crop; oats very short; onions and potatoes 
! also.—j, j, b. 
Jefferson. Imon Co., I). T., Jnu. 19.—Weath¬ 
er fine so far; no mud nor snow; roads splen- 
. did; grain much injured by grasshoppers last, 
season. Wheat, now worth $1.00; oats, 50c.; 
corn ; 50060c.; potatoes, $1; butter, 20025c. 
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WHAT SOCIETIES ARE DOING. 
The Michigan Stale Grange of (he Order of 
Patrons of Husbandry, In session at Kalama¬ 
zoo, adopted t he report of the Committee on 
Transportation, which is to the effect that rail¬ 
roads are amenable to State regulation, as 
much as plank and grave! road companies, and 
l luit tho Legislature has as much rigid to regu¬ 
late their charges as to fix turnpike tolls or the 
charge of millers for grinding grain. Accom¬ 
panying the report of llu: Committee lg the fol¬ 
lowing resolution : " Theohvd, That while we 
deprecate any and all attempts to cripple or de¬ 
stroy the railroad interests, w< would remind 
them that our interests are Identical, We em¬ 
ploy them, not to kill the roose that days the 
golden egg, l>y taxing u- exorbitant rates toen- 
able them to compete with uthor great trunk 
lines, leading from West to Last." Other reso¬ 
lutions deprecate class legislate.n, and declare 
that the public lands should be devoted rigidly 
to the purposes of actual settlement. 
The N. Y. Male Hx-ip Breeders' njnl Wool 
Grower*.'Association will meet nt Canandaigua 
Feb. lltli, at 12* o clock M., or tin: purpose of 
electing officer*, making arrangements for 
holding a spring Fair, and transa< t ing other 
business. All persons interested, and especially 
all owners of sheep, are invited to attend 
IIEXBY 8. IUruai.l, President N. Y. State 
Sheep Breeders' and Wool Grovers’ Ass’n 
Cortland Village, N. Y., Jan. 16, 1874. 
Indiana Slate Hoard of Ag.—The following 
are the officers for 1874: Pres- Joh.n Suther¬ 
land, La Porte. V. Pres .—William Grim, An¬ 
derson. Set 1 .— Alex. Heron. 7’mj.s. - Carlos 
Dickson. Gen. Sup'l —T. \ . Mitchell. £U, < Oni 
-H- W. Caldwell, Jacob Nintz, A. 13. Claypooi, 
L. A. Burke. 
Lancaster Co., Neb., Ag. Soe.—This society 
has elected the following officers for 1874•— 
Pres.—L. J. Lodkk. V. Pm,—J. V. Wolf Scr 
—T. J. Pierson. 1'nw.-M. M. ( h!k r. Direc¬ 
tors.— R. Field. Wm, Mitten, M. L. Fruster 
O. S. Bridges. W. R. Jacoby. 
dbio’Ag. College.—The Board of Trustees of 
this institution have elected the following 
officers:—Pm.—V. B. Horton. Sac,—J ames 
Sullivan. IWfll.-H. J. Babbitt, E.r. Com —T 
C. Jones, J. R. Buchtil, M. M. Munson. 
The Wisconsin Agricultural Convention of 
Agricultural and Hort icultural Societies is to 
occur at Madison Feb, 4-6. An elaborate pro¬ 
gramme is published. The State Horticultural 
Society meets at the Kami.; place Feb. 3. 
Ohio Stale Board of \grlruUiire. This or¬ 
ganization has elected the following officers 
for 1874:-Pm.- L. G. Delano. Tram. Simp¬ 
son Harmount. Cor. Sic. — J. U. Klippart, 
Fincmvial See.-U. s. Babbit. 1 ’ 
The Michigan Store Fair for IS7 I vvill 
probably be held at East Saginaw, as the citi¬ 
zens of that place have subscribed the amount 
required by the State Society, and also signed 
tbe necessary contract, 
Adams Co., III., Ag. Soe.— Officers for 1874:— 
Pm— James Shinn. V. Pm.—S. 13. Turner. 
/Wc. Sec. — 'J'. Bin tor worth. Cor. See. — J. H. 
Hargis. Tram.— Thos. Sinnock. 
Jefferson Co., Wis.. Ag. Hoc.— This society 
has elected:—Pm.—D. C. Olxn, Oakland. See. • 
—D. W. purtis, W. Atkinson. 
The Northwestern Dairymen's Association 
holds its annual meeting at Woodstock, Ill,, 
Feb. 10-13. 
