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VOLUME XXII
Tto Giorpa Umi
A progressive Democratic paper, pub
lished weekly at Covington, Newton
County, Georgia. Terms, $1.50 par an
num, strictly in advance. Established
October 28th, 1 Burnt out on
Au <usl 31st, 1881, and again on Decem
ber 31st, IRS3. Both times it wont down
in ashes without any insurance.
TiiKENTiini’RisTtis an uncompromising
advocate of the principles of theorganized
sud living Democracy of to-day.
While it grants equal justice to sli
men before the law, it holds this to be a
White Man's Government, belonging to
him by the right of discovery—be
queathed to him by the blood and fill tiff
ing of the Fathers. None hut Anglo-
Saxon names were signed to the Declara
tion of Independence, and none hut
white men bled and died to wrencli thu
colonies from England’s cruel grasp, to
establish the proud young sKepublio of
Ameiica.
Upon these issues the paper is wiling
to go before the public, asking no other
support than that which its merits de
serve. The paper will ho free and out
spoken on all questions of public interest,
and will not endeavor to accomplish the
ridiculous feat of “running with tho Laro,
and haying with the hounds.”
In other words, The Enterprise will
not be a “fence rider” in any of the po
litical campaigns. Those who desire a
live newspaper, are earnestly requested
o give it a trial.
8. W. HAWKINS, Editor.
A DARING BURGLARY.
A Rallrsad Agent C’ompalled lo I'ulock his
Safe at Richmond Texas.
Between one and two o’clock Monday
morning, three masked men entered the
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe railroad de
pot, at Richmond, Texas, and under
cover of a pistol compelled a watchman,
named Gregory, to open the doors lead
ing to inner offices. They then attemp
ted to drill through the safe in the sta
tion agent’s office. After drilling for
seme time, the men became impatient and
two of thorn w ent to the residence of Sta
tion Agent Ilagen and roused him out of
bed, telling him the freight house was on
tire. As the agent came out of the house
they seized him and forced him at the
muzzle of a revolver to accompany them
to the depot, where, under threats to
take his life if he refused. Hagen opened
the safe. The robbers then secured sl,-
400 in money. After rifling the safe they
ordered Ilagen and Gregory to remain
quietly in the room at the peril of their
lives. When Agent Hagen Anally looked
out the men had fled. It is not known
whether they left on horseback or on
foot. There" is no clue to their identity
THE SAVANNAH FIRE-
The Fletnee Destroy Three Brick Bnlldlnxs.
About nine o’clock Monday night a lire
was discovered in the renr of Ruw'e’s
steam bakery and candy factory, on Bay
street. Savannah. The flames spread
rapidly, and in an hour the inside, w ith
the whole stock, was completely burned
out. The bakery comprises two four
story brick buildings, and will be a total
loss. The adjoining building of tlio
same block, occupied as n lager beer de
pot and sales rooms, by George Meyer,
caught, and was destroyed. Ruwe had
uu insurance for $30,000 and $14,000 on
stock, Meyer has insurance on his stock
for $5,000, M. A. Cohen $3,000, C. G.
Filligant SI,OOO and ,1. F Wheaton &
Cos. SI,OOO. It is thought the total loss
will approximate $50,000, about SIO,OOO
of which is not covered by insurance.
The origin of the tiro is unknown.
A STEAMER HAS A MI Si IT A P.
The Clyde line steamer Delaware, from
New York via Charleston, bound for Fer
nandina, went on a north breaker oil St.
Andrew's sound, in a slight fog, at 0 a.
m. Sunday. The sea broke over her, and
when the tido rose she pounded heavily.
The captain sent a boat to Brunswick,
twenty miles distant, and obtained three
tugs. The ship got off with the aid of
the wind at 7 o'clock Monday morning,
just before the tugs arrived. Her rudder
and main boom wer lost. The tugs
hauled her out of tho breakers, aud got
her safe into Fernandina harbor. There
was no panic among the passengers, and
the vessel does not appear to be material
ly injured.
RAILROAD FREE PASSES.
The Texna I,r*llaturn Passes a Law Pros
htbitiiiff Their l.'eo by Stale Officials.
Saturday a bill passed the House
to engrossment, at Austin, Texas, mak
ing it unlawful for any judicial, execu
tive, administrative or legislative officer
in this State or of any district or county
in this state, excepting sheriffs, consta
bles or other peace officers, to accept free
passes or tickets or any device, instru
ment, article .or substance that may be
recognized or accepted in lieu thereof,
from any railway company, its agents or
employes, or to use, cairy or display tho
same upon any arilway in the state. The
penalty is a fiDe not exceeding SI,OOO.
ACCIDENT TO A YAWIv
The yawl “Outing,” on which Captain
F. A. Clautiman left St. Augustine, on
a voyage around the world, was wrecked
in a storm on Tuesday last at a point on
the Florida coast a few miles north of
Jupiter inlet. Captain Claudinan and
mate, George Miller, saved themselves
from being submerged with the boat by
using kerosene, which stilled the waves
and abated their fury. The boat and
everything was lost. The men had an
extremely narrow escape from drowning.
A LACK OF TRANSPORTATION.
Coal operators along the Baltimore and
Ohio district have been c mpellcd to
close down a number of their works on
account of the scarcity of cars. They
say that it is almost impossible to get
cars from the west, and that sidings of
many of the mills are full of unloaded
ears. A scarcity of curs has been partic
ularly noticeable within the last few
days. About 1,000 meu are thrown out
pf employment by thsse suspensions.
The Georgia Enterprise.
THE NEW SOUTH.
NEWS NOTES GATHERED
FROM VARIOUB SECTIONS.
FLORIDA.
The Tampa Tribune, rising to the
growth of tho towu, has hseome u serai
weeWy. *
An immense black hear was recently
killed near lfick’s prairie, not over three
miles from Eustis. llis captors hold a
magnificent skin to testify to their prow
ess.
There arc now in the course of con
struction and in contemplation within the
city limits of Tampa, about seven or
eight brick blocks, costing from *O,OOO
to ♦-lO.UOO each, making an aggregate of
about *116,000.
Oranges are still being forwarded north
from I’alatka, and tho returns arc very
satisfactory to the growers and shippers
A better average price has been received
for tho fruit this season than for some
time past.
A meeting of the citizens of Mantee
county has been called to assemble Satur
day. February 5, at Pine Level, to advise
with their senator and representatives on
the questions of dividing the county and
the line of the division.
The scales, gauges and all the custom
house implements have arrived, and the
preparations are now complete to put the
immediate transportation act in force.
In other words, the customs dues on goods
imported into Taranu will he collected at
that place, instead of at Key West as
heretofore.
Johnnie Williams, a white boy of Pen
sacola, while out huning last week, near
Magnolia Bluff, took deliberate aim at
what he thought to he a bird in the
hushes, and filled the face and neck of a
negro with what is known ns “mustard
seed.” For a two-dollar note the darky
signed a contract agreeing to forego his
right to prosecute.
The grand jury of Orange county have
found a true bill for forgery and uttering
a forged note against F. H. Black, the
senior member of the now defunct firm of
Black & Nan way. The decease of that
firm resulted in the sudden disappearance
of Air. Black and the leaving behind of a
number of sorrowful friends. He was
arrested in Tampa a few days ago, taken
to Orlando and lodged in jail, where he
is now awaiting trial.
GEORGIA.
Thore is talk of starting a bank in
Greenville with $25,000 capital.
The Presbyterians of Griffin are about
to build a new T church to cost $3,000.
A widower in Oglethorpe county has
recently taken unto himself a thirtcen
year-old bride.
Ordinary Gilliam, of Oglethorpe, sold
one hundred and fifty-three marriage li
censes during 1886.
The county commissioners of Houston
have contracted to put uew cells in the
jail at an expense of $4,000.
The town clerk of Fort Valley has pub
lished a notice for on election in March,
to determine whether the council shall
issue bonds to raise money to build anew
school house.
A large land trade was perfected last
week, in Screven county, by which Mr.
L. F. Pfeiffer becomes the owner of about
seven or eight thousand acres of the Gib
bous lands uear tlie Ilaga Slaga lauding,
on the Savannah river. This is the big
gest transaction of the kind that has oc
curred in tho county in manv years. It
was a cash trade.
The first damage suit for injuries re
ceived against the Rome and Carrollton
railroad lias been filed in the clerk’s of
fice, in Floyd county. Henry C. Boyd,
a section liand, is the plaintiff, and lie
sets forth that on account of a collision
of a lever car and an engine on the road,
about the 15th of last December, he had
one of his arms fractured, and was other
wise injured. He claims damages to the
amount of SB,OOO.
Missrssipsr.
During the last six months the Vicks
burg Building Association, lias made a
profit 0f519,331.17 on a capital of $90,-
000, or nearly S3 per cent per annum.
Joe Thomas, who killed Chas. Murphy,
editor of the Rolling Fork Review anil
Mayor of that town, in 1871, and who
was sentenced to the State penitentiary
for life, has beau pardoned by the gov
ernor,
Mr. J. E. Carter, living a few rndes
east of Ripley, accidentally dropped a
pistol on Tuesday last, when it was dis
charged, the ball passing through the
back part of the head of his wife, inflict
ing a severe, if not fatal wound. The
lady was alive at last accounts, but her
final recovery is involved in doubt.
Captain AV. 11. Rdrington. of the
steamer Phil. Armour, states that two
negro mail w ere drowned near Ben Eagle,
Sunday night, while bis boat was at that
place. The men were out in a dugout,
aud their craft was turned over while a
short distance from the shore. Neither
of the men could swim, and both drowned
before help arrived.
Mr. L. C. Dulaney, of Boliver, coun
ty, was ambushed and shot from his
horse near Rosedale. llis wounds from
goose shot, arc dangerous if not fatal.
Two negroes Were arrested on suspicious
circumstances. There being much in
dignation aroused by the crime, they
were carried to Greenville to prevent
lynching.
The second lire in three months on W
IV. Johnson's place, uear Bed Bone, on
Wednesday evening destroyed his new
steam gin and thirteen bales of cotton.
The gin was anew one and valued at :
$2,500. It was built but a short time
ago to replace ono was destroyed about
three months a3o, and was one on the
finest in the Bed Bone neighborhood.
The dead liody of one George Harper
was found on the Loughborough planta
tion, in the northern part of Washington
county, on the 11th inst. Harper was
from Memphis and hud been employed as
engineer at the Plantation Oil Mill, and j
was discharged, liis death was from h
fractured skull, probably with n car-pin.
He was probably killed for the small sum
of money he may have had.
Lem Smith, a well-known planter in
the Deer Creek neighborhood, last Thurs
day night was badly wounded by a shot i
from ambush, but it is thought that he
is not dangerously hurt. He slates that :
he started from his home to ride on
horseback to Watsonia station, on the L,,
! N. O. nnd T. road in Sheikcy county,
i and was still traveling when night fell.
He was in a thinly settled district, when
| two men suddenly appeared on the road
side and began shooting at him. Five
•1 ots were tired before ho drew In's own
pistol and began shooting hack. His as
sailants drew off when he opened on them
nnd escaped. Mr. Smith was wounded
ill the left side hut managed to stav on
his horse until he reached a place where
ho received assistance.
It is reported that anew oil mill is to
he started at Vicksburg ns un udjunct of
which an improved paper mill will he
built. Anew process of making paper
is to he used and a recent patent for mak
ing tine paper of cotton seed hulls will
he introduced. The lint from the cotton
seed has been utilized by paper makers
for some time, hut the hulls have hereto
fore been used only as fuel. The new oil
mill will have a paper mIII connected with
j it, and the material used for paper unik
-1 ing will come from the oil mills. The
new use for the hulls will uiaku the mills
1 an extraordinary good investment, and
the solid business men of Vicksburg are
I much interested in tho projected mills.
' Several of the most enterprising of these
have been organizing a company, which
is to begin operations with a capital of
*1,000,000.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Surveyors are at work on tho Wilmiug
■on Coast-Line railroad from that city to
Wrightsville Sound, and it is stated au
thoritatively that within thirty days
grading will begin.
The Carolina Central railroad company
has under construction nt its depot in
\Vilnyngtou a largo building to be used
for the storage of fertilizers, 218 feet in
j length, and 78 foet in width.
Peanuts have advanced in price, as tha
result of a small “boom” that began tha
| latter part of last week. The supply in
Wilmington and other markets is repre
♦nted as light, and but little stock is
1 coming in.
While 11. A. Neill, of Davidson eoun-
J ty, was at work at his cotton gin last
I Friday, his left hand came in contact
with the saws, and the baud and arm,
half way up the elbow, were horribly
mutilated, the flesh being torn off and the
J leaders t irn out.
j A new find of magnetic iron ore is re -
I ported near Webster, in Jackson county.
It was found by a miner named Schrer
ber, who has b"Cu exploring in that seo
! t’.on of the State. The ore is said to
form a bed covering a large area, and is
claimed to b:.' highly magnetic.
Two brothers in south Iredell were
sleeping together last Saturday night,
when one of them “dreampt a dream.'’
He was accused of crime and an officer
was after him. He resisted arrest aud
dealt the officer a stinging blow iu tho
face. The other brother caught the force
of the blow aud is goingaround now with
a black eye.
W. S. Sisk, of Union Grove township,
and family, left a couple of weeks
ago for Kansas and carried in a gourd the
provisions which were to last them
throughout the journey. It was oue of
these old-fashioned Jacksonian democrat
ic gourds, and a gentleman who
saw them unpack it for supper as they
struck camp two miles north of town,
observed araoug other things they took
out of it six cooked chickens.
At Egypt, in Chatham county, a Penn
sylvania company has purchased a largo
area of coal fields, and propose to begin
operations there in the near future They
propose to begin by supplying local de
mands along the lines of road most con
venient to them, and to gradually broaden
the business. There are also parties con
tracting for the Ore Hill irou property
here, for the purpose of erecting a fur
nace. The indications for that particu
lar district are brightening. When
work is once begun there in earnest, a
large aud permanent business will result'
ALABAMA.
Huntsville lias a matress manufactory.
Selma's boom is backed with $2,000,-
000.
Another bank is talked of at Scotts
boro.
A rich vein of gold has been discovered
seven miles from Greensboro.
A natural born one armed man killed a
man in Franklin county recently while
under the influence of “bust skull”
whisky.
All the money necessary has been sub
scribed to build a railroad from Bessemer
to the ore beds in Murphce’s valley,
Blount county.
Troy has already stored 28,000 bales of
cotton this season, every bale of which is
reported to have been purchased by the
merchants of that thriving city.
A. G Lee, proprietor of the New Age,
at Atalla, Alabama, is getting up a spicy
seven-column weekly and only charges
one dollar a year for it. The New Age is
making rapid strides in the field of jour
nalism
The boom has struck Ashville and a
$50,000 Land Company has been organ
ized among the business men of the town.
Ashville is locuted in a fine section nnd
, has a bright future before her. The iron
ore and coal near the town is most inex
haustible.
A fight to the finish with soft gloves
was to have taken place at Birmingham
, Wednesday between B. Baldwin, of
Butte City, Montana, and Billy Bobcrts,
: of Council Bluffs, lowa, but was post
! polled because the sluggers have not been
able to reduce their surplus flesh. The
light will come off at some future time.
TWO MEN KILLED.
Fatal Accident on the Louisville and Nash
vllle Ilond.
An explosic® on the West bound Louis
villa and Nashville passenger Sunday
morning killed the engineer and fireman,
injured several others and wrecked the
entire train. The brakeman slipped from
the freight train and was horribly
mangled.
A special from Carmi, Illinois, says the
Louisville and Nashville railroad accident
! was caused by the breaking of a driving
wheel while the train was running at high
speed. The engine was ditched and the
express and baggage cars completely
wrecked. The express manager mid the
baggage master escaped with slight inju
ries. The smoking car was turned over
on its side, but the passengers sustained
only a fewtiruises. The inmates of the
■ ears were rudely shaken up, but none
| were injured.
MY COUNTRY MAY SHR RVisit DR Main'. RIGHT OR WRONG my COUNTRY."— Jeffertan.
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1887.
THE GREAT STRIKE.
VESSELS UNABLE TO LEAVE THE
PORT,
The Ntrlklittf l.ung.lior.iiicii oi New York
Pfiriiil© the Klrerll Hum .Nlertlng
ul the Cooper I'nlon.
Thirty-three thousand men were on u
strike among the coni shovolcrs, long
shoremen. freight handlers anil men em
ployed on the river front in almost every
capacity, on the Brooklyn and Jersey
shores, Wednesday. Au order went forth
from the headquarters of the longshore
men’s union, which was hacked by the
Knights of Labor, sssombly 4U. and the
men turned out. Beach walkers were
sent out to cover all the various points on
the river fronts where trouhie was con
centrated and they had particular in
structions to use every means in their
power to prevent any disturbances, and
none worthy of mention occurred.
The White Star steumship Britannic,
which was to have sailed from New York
to Liverpool Wednesday, was delayed,
owing to inability to obtain her supply of
coal, on account of the strike. The Stnto
of Georgia, of the State line, and the
Servia of the Hamburg line, and the In
dependent and the Torto Ilubatino.of the
line to Italy, were also delayed hv the
strike. Coastwise and southern hound
steamers, Quinidad for Bermuda; City of
Columbus, for Florida ports; City of Col
umbia, for Charleston aud southern ports
and the Algiers, for Galveiton, were also
delayed.
One of the incidents of the great strike
reported is that one of the East River
Ferry companies became so abort of coal
that it sent out grocery wagons nnd other
vehicles and bought coal by half tons
from small yards, both in Brooklyn and
in New York, but that the frequent calls
of this kind exposed the scheme and
the dealers refused further supplies to
their new customers. In Brooklyn,
longshoremen, grain shovellers, freight
handlers, coal handlers, trimmers snd
other laborers went out quietly, peace
ably and determined, The entire police
force of Brooklyn, including reserves,
were put on duty. Sound steamers suf
fered along with the rest, although they
employ a large permanent force by the
month. The French steamship line is
doing more work than any of the ocean
companies, having large gangs, princi
pally green hands, and tho White Star
also has a considerable force. Late in
the day more or less men went to work
unloading all tho ocean steamers which
arrived this morning, hut they arc work
ing at a disadvantage. The striking
longshoremen aud coal shovellers had a
large parade previous to their mass meet
ing at Cooper Union. They included
men from New York, Jersey City and
Brooklyn. They formed at Pythagora
Hall, with about five hundred men in
line. The music was a drum and fife
corps. They marched through Broad
way to Eighth, then to Cooper Union.
There was no disorder. Lower Broad
way was deserted, as the stores had
closed up for thedav. When the parade
arrived nt Cooper Union, they were una
ble to gain admission, a tho hull was
packed, so an outdoor meeting was or
ganized.
Cooper union hall was packed with
men engaged in the strike and their sym
pathizers. Resolutions were presented
to the effect that in view of the alleged
oppression of workingmen by coal barons,
all granted franchises should be repealed,
nnd thnt the system of hiring men for the
purpose of robbery and murder is highly
condemned. The resolutions were adopt
ed with a yell. The principal speakers
were Victor Drury, a prominent home
club Kniglit of Labor; a limn named
Grecnau, a socialist, and John McMackin,
Henry George's lieutenant The speech
es all denouncer! corporations in general
and coal corporations in particular. Me
Mackin laid the existing labor troubles to
the prevailing lend system.
INNOCENT BOYS IMPRISONED.
Whipped t'ntll Willing la Hay Anything,
They Contese lo n Crime.
Three years ago, next May, Malilon
McCullough and William Puetz, two
hoys connected with some of the leading
families of Bayview, were sent to state
prison for three years, upon conviction
of having shot and robbed August
Grothc, a street car driver. Today
Father Decker, pastor of St Anthony’s
church, announces that the boys are in
nocent, and' that the guilty man Ims
made himself known to him through the
confessional. He refuses, however, to
divulge the uarne of the lutter: but has
asked Governor Rusk to pardou l’uetz
and McCullough.
The assault on Grothe was made one
dark night in the suburbs of Milwaukee
in true highwayman style. Grothe re
fused to surrender his change box and
was shot, it is supposed, fatally. At
sight of the bleeding body Mis. Grothe
became a raving maniac and is now con
fined in an asylum. At the trial, a de
tective testified that the boys confessed
their part in the set and roblrery. Puetz
and McCullough say that the confession
was forced from them; that for ten days
they were beaten, starved, hung up by
the thumbs and otherwise ill treated, and
that they confessed to escape starvation.
Twenty witnesses testified to an alibi,
but they were convicted. McCullough
is said to be dying of consumption.
A TRAIN DEMOLISHED
Ex|>lnftlon of Two Hundred Pounds ol Glnnl
Powder on a .lliMQiiri Pttcifie Train.
About two hundred cases of giant
powder exploded while in transit over
the Missouri Pacific road a half mile west
of Fort Scott Texas, at one o’clock Tues
day morning. It was being transported
ill a magazine car. The train consisted
of 23 freight ears and 15 of them were
completely demolished. The magazine
car was blown to atoms. The engine was
badly broken up, but not blown off the
track. Scott Hooker, brakeman, was in
stantly killed. A great bole was blown
in the road bed and rails and ties ground
to powder for several rods distant. En
gineer K. R. Dillon and Kicrman S, Shu
ford, although badly frightened and
stunned, were not seriously hurt. Con
ductor Elliott and a rear brakeman who
were in the caboose were injured. The
shock from the explosion was simply ter
rific. Ten thousand dollars' worth of fine
plate glass nnd window glass was broken
in buildings throughout the central and
western part of the city. Many thought
it was an earthquake and left their beds
and ran from their houses panic stricken.
It is reported that several window glasses
were broken at Nevada, Mo., twenty-five
miles distant, and also at Rich Hill.
Houses were shaken all over this country.
THE ENGLISH PREBS.
They lllsi-um the Ael 100 <>l Ihe lulled Mint©*
Semite Will There be War V
The London I’n-t, in an article ou the
pi,-sage of the fisheries hill in tho l uited
States senate, says;
We are ure I list Mr. lukull'b outspuken bit
tern- ft against England does not represent tho
feeling of either tho American m-nato or two
pi . On tho other hand it would ho foolish to
idiut utir evoa to tho impu tonceuf the question
involved.
Tho Chronicle thinks the fact that Mr,
Ingnli’s splcuitic outburst neither sur
prised nor shocked the more respectable
senators is r. fur more serious matter than
tlk- dispute itself, nnd hopes that the
Washington authorities will early dis
e.aim any community of feeling with
Ingalls. The “Daily News” says:
Todsi’o telegrams from Ntw Yoik, Montreal
and Ottawa are of a vmy reusem ing i baractor.
Nobody bora regarded tho violent spoechea of
Nr- j.oie Ingalls, lUlo ant Trio oeiioiiely.
E n dignified Amoi icon senators are not a hove
P aying to the gallery. It is much to be hoped
ii. ... sips will he' takiii to exasperate llio
qirnrel. mi that tho good email of Canada
Will insist upon a policy of peace.
The Standard soys:
I'reaidciu Cleveland will probably have the
g. >d oense to veto the measure, or a<ree to it
in ilv in form, a* a prelude to amicable nei;o
lu lions. We protest agoimt tho idea of either
F.,■i > t"ii jor Canola being coerced into yielding
a ,o. or tittlo of their lights by such empiy
threats. \\ e have none of llio ult. rior motives
a-signed by Messrs. Ingalls, Frye an 1 Hale,
b.u Americans, by demanding such terms as
those indicated, ark more tiian justice. The
dispute, however, ougtit not to tie beyond the
power of diplomacy.
BOARDED BY BANDITS.
A Texas Train Kolibcd ofn I/nro Amount.
Sunday morning, an the east bound
lexas nnd Pacific express was pulling
out of Gordon, a small station 6ixty miles
west of Fort Worth, two masked and
armed men jumpeei on tho engine and
covered the engineer and fireman with
their revolvers. The engineer was forced
to pull ahead until the train reached a
high trestle two miles cast of Gordon,
A.? soon as the engine and baggage and
mail ear had passed over the trestle, the
train stopped, leaving the passenger
eoaeh on the trestle. At this point tho
masked men were reinforced by six as
sistants. The robbers then went through
the express car, taking all the money and
valuables in the safe, the amount l>eiug
estimated at from *2,000 to *1.1,000, al
though the Pacific express officials re
fuse to state the. exact amount stolen.
The robbers then proceeded to the mail
ear, where they obtained twenty-eight
registered packages. The passengers
were not disturbed, and the:r coaches
being on a high trestle they could not
get out to assist the train men. There is
no clue to the robbers.
BMALL-POX IN NEW YORK.
•.real Hunger thul the Disease .tiny Heroin©
Epidemic.
The health • commissioners of New
York city held a special meeting Tues
day to discuss the danger of email pox.
Doctor Junes, sanitary superintendent,
nnd his nssisstaiits and Doctor Taylor,
chief of the bureau of coutagious dis
eases, each represented that with now a
dozen centres of Infection on hand
and much cold weather yet in store, more
help was necessary in Dr. Taylor's bn
reau to ward off danger.
The board is short of funds, audit was
stated that before more could he demand
ed u formal declaration would have to he
made, in effect that small pox was epi
demic in New York. The board thought
such a statement would cost the city *l,-
000.000 of trade, and it was resolved to
ini reuse the vaccinating .force by using
about seven hundred dollars now on
hand from the sale of virus. Six addi
tional doctors were appointed at once.
CHILDREN UNDER WATER.
*— nuii a | Wjijir jviul nrc Itencnod
A sewer a quarter of a mile iu length,
running under Niagara Fall* Out., form*
part of the bed of Muddy Run cieek,
which, during thaws iu winter, is swol
len into a rushing rivi r of large volume,
which empties itself into Niagara river
over the precipice near the w liirl pool
rapids. This river was running fifteen
miles an hour Saturday evening, when
Bertha Parrel, aged four years, who was
seated in a hand sled, slid into it. Her
sister Blanche, aged ten, jumped in after
her, and both were swept iuto the river.
A rush was made for the other end of the
sewer, and men secured by ropes, jumped
into tho water and waited for the chil
dren to appear. Bertha came first, under
ths water, and Blanche folio .veil on top.
When taken out both were apparently
lifeless, but after much difficulty both
were resuscitated. The children were in
the water ten minutes, most of the time
submerged.
PROHIBITION IN IOWA.
Two De Noluca Brewer* Kei ike Law hi
Defiance.
Two brewers, Aultinaii and Mattes, of
Des Moines, lowa, recently asked Judge
Love, of the Federal court, to discharge
on the habeas corpus proceedings under
Judge Brewer's decision that.. antecedent
brewery property should be compensated
to the owners. Judge Love notified At
torney-General linker of the proceedings,
and at bis request the hearing was post
poned till April. It is understood that
the brewer's attorneys have advised them
that they are now wards of the Federal
court and therefore oxempt from the
Clark law. The began selling beer again
Saturday. It was next to impossible to
get near the bar at either brewery. 8 iz
ures were made hourly by constables, but
the amount carried away was only small.
The two brewers were arrested in the
afternoon, aud gave bond for appearance.
They are determined to carry on the re
tail business over the bar again, and will
contest tho ease vigorously.
THE WHITE PLAINS TRAGEDY.
The Baffle* wit ht- Tint Murderer* Identified
—They Were Twi New \ ork Bays.
The two dead bodies of the murderers
of George A. Mead, who committed sui
cide to avoid arrest, have been identified
as Thomas and John Trcstham, brothers,
aged 15 and 19. They belong in New
York, where their father and oldest
brother are respectable manufacturers of
wire goods. The third man wtio was in
company with the dead boys on the train
the night they wore killed, and who re
mained on the train and went on past
White Plains, was another brother named
Henry. Toe eldest brother. James I.
Trostham, who has identified his brothers’
bodies, says they only left home Wednes
day, and were only absent one day before
losing their liras.
SOUTHERN PROGRESS.
STILL WE ABE BOOMING.—NEW
BA 11. BO AOS IN TENNESSEE.
I. it ii it Naira In Annlatoii, Alabama.—A 'l’m
Ntory Ilouor for llltnilufhaiu.
Records of the Secretary of the State s
office of Tennessee show that twelve rail
road charter* have been granted within
five weeks, us follows: Tennessee Cen
tral, from llrydstou, N. C., to Tennessee
points; Knoxville and Nashville; Ten
nessee and North Carolina, from Last
Tenneseee to Murphy, North Carolina;
the Bristol and South Atlantic, from
Bristol castvrardly; the Baltimore, Nash
ville and Memphis, from Bristol to Mem
phis; Chsttauoogu aud Southwestern,
from Chattanooga to Columbus, Georgia;
Cumberland Valley snd L'noka, from
Cumberland River to North Carolina
lino; Memphis and Nashville, from Mem
phis to Nashville; Cincinnati and Bir
mingham, from Chattanooga to Birming
ham, Alabama; the Missouri, Tenuessee
and Georgia; Tennessee Midland, from
Memphis to Bristol, and the South Pitts
burg and Sequahntchie, from the Ten
nessee line to South Pittsburg.
Charters have also been granted to four
large street railway corporations, two min
eral paint companies, four marble compa
nies, one oil company, eleven large man
ufacturing corporations and six land com
panies. Thirty minor manufacturing
companies have applied for charters, hut
have not received them yet.
AT ANNISTON ALA.
The auction sale Monday was sixty-four
lots, amounting to two hundred aud
seventy-two thousand dollars.
Purchasers are from every state in tho
union. There was some delay and de
ficiency in the way, owing to the hurry
in getting ready. The sale was publicly
continued Tuesday, after which the sales
were private by tile agent aud officers of
the company. A noted contractor and
corps of surveyors from Minnesota have
gone to work on the Anniston and Cin
cinnati railroad. To realize the situation
aud enthusiasm it is necessary to be
present. Knowing ones can count up
seven million dollars represented now for
investment in real estate. Ninety-five
cents has been refused for the company's
stock. Very little on the market ut any
price.
AT CUATTANOOOA.
The sale of 110 feet, corner of Market
and Seventh streets, was consummated
Monday, at eighty-four thousand dollars,
to Mississippi parties. They will at once
erect a one hundred thousand dollur
building.
A company has been formed and all
the stock subscribed for the organization
of it *300,000 national bank. The head
of the institutiou is E. E. IVutkins,
president of the Meridian National bnak,
and Charles A. Lyerly, president of tho
First National hank of Meridian. All
the money is pledged and every detail is
already arranged. Tha hank will he
ready for business as soon as the charter
can he procured.
AT BtItMINOIUM.
Josiah Morris, of Montgomery, is hav
ing plans drawn for one of the finest
buildings in the south, which he will
erect in Birmingham at once. It will
coutain ten stories and one hundred and
fifty offices, and will have all the modern
improvements.
The committee of citizens called by
the probate judge examined the county
courthouse, and condemned it as unsafe.
Anew courthouse costing *250,000 will
be built.
OUR BIG BOOM.
Further Lvideimea •l ike Influx of Nortkora
Capital Into (ht) Ho utb.
The boom in Alabama continues. Bir
mingham is to have a large coal storage
house. Sheffield has its sixth furnace.
**. 1 ■*—: -t— --.n*c East .Bir
mingham, the largest loundry and ma
chine works in the South. Mobile an
anti friction metsl foundry. Florence a
hundred ton furnace. Elytou u SIOO,OOO
daui. Gadsden two one hundred ton fur
naces aud water and gas works, and the
new town, Besemer City, a $500,000 roll
ing mill. The influx of Northern capital
continues unabated, and a majority of the
heavy capitalists now developing the re
source* of Alabama and Tennessee are
officered and conducted by well known
Northern men.
In Arkansas, the DeSha Land and
Planting Company, headquarters at Ar
kansas City, and owning 05.000 acres of
cotton amt lumber land, are putting up a
SIOO,OOO saw mill and engaging over
1,000 hands in plant ng. An immense
brewery is to be erected in Little Hock,
and coj per and gold in paving quantities
have been found near Golden City. A
fourteen feet thick vein of tine coal has
been struck at Bnrtlevillc, Indian Terri
tory. Two fifty ton charcoal furnaces
are to be erected fit once near Nashville,
Tain.
A POSTOFFICE ROBBED.
Sunday evening, between four and six,
o’clock, the safe of the post-office at Col
umbus, Miss., was robbed of about SSOO
in money and several registered packages,
value unknown except one belonging to
Morgan, Robertson & Cos., containing
SSO. No description of the money taken
is known. Nine hundred dollars in
stamps was unmolested. The safe was
found open and tbs supposition is that
the combination had not been turned off
when it was closed. It being Sunday no
one was in the office at that hour, as the last
mail goes out at 8:20, and no one is re
quired to be there until 0 o’clock p. in .
when the evening mail arrives. The back
door of the building was found unlocked,
and tracks leading to the fern and
around another building to the street,
showing how, the thief made his exit. A
man was seen coming from around the
building about dark.
THE I.IMIIIKIOIFN IN HNOXVII.iI!.
Tiic lumber manufacturers and other
citizens of Knoxville, Tenn., held a
meeting Saturday night and invited the
union association of lumbermen to visit
Knoxville next week. About four bun
dred and fifty members of the associu
tion from the northwestern stales are
now making a tow of the southern
states.
IMPORTING ENGLISH FIG IKON,
I
The Roan# Iron company, ot Chatta
nooga. Tenn., has just closed the. son
tract for the purchase of 40,000 tons of
English pig iron, which will be used in
the manufacture of steel. The company
, will begin making steel rail nest month.
A BOY HERO.
The Bravery *1 Little Willie l.niub Move© a
Train from Dr ul run ion.
Tuesday tho bravery and thoughtftil
iiohh of u bright little boy proveutnl the
wrecking of u train nnd saved the lives of
h number of passengers on the western
division of the Newport News and Mis-
MiHNippi Valley rail road. Between HeotN
burg aud Dawaon Springs, on that road,
in a sharp curve through it deep cut. As
the morning train from Paducah to Lou
isville came rushing along, it waa met nt
tie* entrance to thiw curve by a very small
hoy in a very large pair of boots, who
came running down the track waving a
white handkerchief. The train was stop
ped, nnd the little fellow led the way
Into the cut showing where a large rock,
weighing several tons, had fallen from the
top of the hank across the track. On ac
count of the curve, it was impossible to
see the rock 200 feet away ou either wide,
and hud the little fellow not flagged the
train, it must inevitably have duiped into
the obstruction. While it was is ing re
moved, the passengers made up a purse
fur the boy, who, when he was presented
wi'h ths money, said modestly, *‘l didn’t
expect nothing: I just didn’t like to see
the train busted up.” lie stated that his
name was Willie Lamb, and that he was
18 years old. He had discovered the
rock on the trac k about an hour before,
and had waited for au up train to prevent
it from being wrecked. Such thought
fulness on the part of so young a person
deserves recognition at the hands of the
company, who wen* probably saved sev
eral thousand dollars by this little fellow
and his white handkerchief.
GOVERNOR LEE BANQUETTED.
If© ll..|ionil. to a Tonal to Ike "New Mouth*t
t Ml. Paul, Jllsa
Over one hundred guests sat down to a
reception and banquet given by the Mag
nolia and Qpossum Clubs in honor of
General Fitz Hugh Lee, of Virginia, and
party, Tuesday night. Senator C. K.
Davis and Governor McGill were among
the guests. Judge Flaudreau made the
welcoming address, recalling early recol
lections of 'possum hunting amid the hills
of Fairfax county, and paying a warm
tribute to Virginia, the “land of brave
men and fair women.”
Responding to the toast “The New
Northwest," E. V. Smalley thought that
all that remained of the great struggle
was the memory of the courage and ideal
devotion to duty it called forth. His
toast to the descendant of “Light Horse
Harry” was drank standing with many
hearty cheers.
General Johnson recalled some amusing
reminiscences of Gen. Lee’s early adven
tures in fighting Indians in Texas, and
called upon General Lee himself to re
spond to the toast “The New South.”
General Lee declared meetings of this
sort would do a great deal of good. If
we had known each other bettor before
the war, that struggle might have been
averted.
ICE GORGE AT FORT DEPOSIT.
It©cli lining.' Don© to Property— People flee
lo (lie 1111 l for Safety*
The Susquehanna river ut Fort Deposit,
Md.. became blocked with ice Wednes- i
day causing the river to overflow with
disastrous results.
In thirty minutes after the flood from
above reached the towu the water had
risen dear over the wharves aud to the
liight of six feet in Main street of the
town, doing uucalculable damage. Every
house on the river side of Main street was
flooded in the cellars and the first floor j
and some on the opposite side, and iu- ]
habitants had to take to higher ground or :
to the hills and the country back of town.
The water alternately rose and fell during
the night and all day Wednesday varying
several feet in a couple of hours. In the
meantime the pile of ice increased hourly,
became more dangerous. The damage up
_tn Wednesday evening had beeu confined „
to flic I umber, cull, icrnni.ei l. ind red
objects oil the wharves and such build- 1
ings as were built of wood. The outlook j
is not encouraging, for even substantial
brick and stoue warehouses and factories
in the submerged district. The remark
able sight drew throngs of sight seers
from the country to the hills above the
town.
OPENING THE COAL FIELDS.
The Tuekalooea Ala., People to Hava An
other Rood.
The board of directors of the Tuska
loosa Coal, Iron and Land company met
Tuesday, and agreed to take immediate
steps to build a standard gauge railroad
north into the company’s coal and iron
fields. An engineer lias been engaged to
make the survey, and the company’s
agents are iu the field to secure the right
of way. All other preliminary actions
have been taken, and the building of that
road is now an assured fact. Captain
Early Hardaway has been employed to
survey tbe five thousand acres of subur
ban land belonging to the company, and
to lay this body of land out iu lots, and
to make it all that an addition to Tuska-
Iwosa should be. A corns of engineers
hare been selected, amt both schemes
will be pushed to completion by tbe com
pany.
DESPERATE ROBBERS.
A Merchant l.oscs Hi- Right Hand iu n
Fill hi with Two Itu ft'lan*.
As John Degsaw, a hardware merchant
at Camden, New York, was closing his
store Friduv night, a desperado entered
and hit him with a slung Bhot. Degsaw
grabbed his assailant and rlung to.him
until ruffian number two entered and re
leased his grip by chopping off Degsaw : s
right hand at tlio wrist. He then
knocked Degsaw dow and robbed the till
of S4O and left the merchant lying sense
less in a pool of blood on bis store floor.
There is no trace as to the whereabouts
of the criminals, or any knowledge as
to their identity. Although suffering
from the blows, shook and loss of blood,
Degsaw may live.
COTTON RAISING IN MENU O.
A great deal of suffering is reported
among the Chinese in Muzatlan, Mexico,
arising out of differences between the la
borers end companies which brought
them out.
The cotton crop iu Mexico tins year
will amount to about 300,000 quintals,
and as 100,000 quintals a month are re
quired to supply the mills of the country,
a sufficient quantity to make up the de
ficit will have to be imported from the
United States.
A UMBER 11.
LITTLE SNOWFLAKE FALL.
Tho little snowflakes fall
And molt upon the pano,
While all wound tho russet ground,
Is growing white agalu.
Fail, fall, MR, . ,
Little snowflake bright;
Fall until tho russet earth
la mantled o'er with white.
Across the village street,
A cottage stands aloof,
There’s joy withiu and children’s din—
Snow gathers on the roof.
Fall, fall, fall,
Silver snowflake bright,*
Fall until tho cottage roof,
Is covered o'er with white.
Two little ones are there,
A looking at the snow*;
Two little girls, in chestnut curie, -
With sweet cheek* all aglow.
Fall, toll, toll,
Tiny snowflakes bright;
Fall until those little eyes
Rce nothing out but white.
With heart o'erbritnmed with joy,
Along the shining street,
A whittling lad, attired in plaid,
Gambols with nimble feet.
Fall, toll, fall, „ /
Little snowflake bright;
Fall until his little shoes
Are covered o’er with white. •
The cheery souud of bells
Comes floating through the flakes;
How sweet the spoil, when music's sweH
Upon tho daydream breaks!
Fall, fall, fall,
Little snowflake bright;
Fall until the sleigh runs smooth
Upon a bed of white.
O, little snowflake, fall!
Aud whiten all the earth;
That eyes may beam, that hearts tnfly dream,
Of nothing else but mirth
Fall, fall, fall,
Silver snowflake bright;
# *■
Fall until the russet earth
Is mantled o'er with white.
—Caleb Dunn.
PITH AND POINT.
Weather profits—The coal dealers.
Not a windy affair —Meeting a draft.
A cyclone is like three school girl*
walking abreast—it doesn’t turp out for
anything.— Waterloo observer.
An exchange says the Jersey cow is
making her way into France. That’s
what comes of not having a goqd fence.
Qondall’s Sun.
“Which author. Mis Evanston, do you
most lovo to devour;” Miss Evanston
(Chicago girli- “Lamb, although I don’t
object to Hogg.’’—.Veto York Journal.
The ladies— Ijleis 'em—it I—ats all!
When th. y are young and squafiers,
Their hearts ere set upon the doll— 1
When grown, upon tho dollars,
— Tid-Bits
Two merchants of Bak-raviUe, Penn.,
have purchased 35,000 pounds fof dried
apples this season. Evidently somebody,
is going to have a swell dinner.— Boston
Transcript.
Someone wants to know what the
work of a great man is. Well, we don't
know, unless it is to have his picture in
an imported soap advertisement.— New
Harm Neies.
We always know what to expect when
a public speaker says: “One word more
and lam done.” And when a woman
exclaimed : “There’s no use taltfing," we
understand that she is going to talk until
her tongue is tired. — Boston Tr nwipt.
Thompson's as much as he tan do,
He nluys and writes his pie *es. too.
A listener, though, is soon a dozer*
His music is not known to fame.
Yet through it he cun fairly claim
The merit of a rare composer.
After the clerk hail pulled down ev
erything iu the store without satisfying
his customer, a woman, she askbd him if
there was anything else ho shad not
shown her. “Yes, ma'am,” he said,
“tlio cellar ; but if you wish it I will have
broujfntxvp .w.l shown to you.”— l.vacM
Citizen. "“““PSiJj
He was trying to teach the rules _
With which grammar is heavily laden—
’Twas in one of tile “Ucestrect” scbaols—
And bis pupil, a very fair maiden.
Now, 1 vow by the blue sky a base you.
In his teaching—though they ; f iilied A
“schooling”—
When he said: "Now gay this: I Jove you!”
She answered: ‘'.Vow you quit your fool
ing.”
— Uoodall's Sun.
Burniah's Utily Mine!)*
They are situated about eight mile*
from Mandalay, and are unquestionably
very valuable. Indeed, they are .the only
mines in the world where really valuable
rubies are found, there are a few mines
in Ceylon; but Ceylon iub'ei*of the true
red are very rare, mo>t of theta being of
the pink topa; color In Mum, toO, rubies
are plentiful, but they are of tlirfcolor of
garnets. Within the last twenty year*
stunll rubies have gone up about fifty per
cent, in value, and largo ones about 300
per cent. The best rubies go to America.
In the British crow n jewels tbcqiM’e none
of any size and color. So dear are th
perfect stones that few enri dffoid to
purchase them. The French 1 ojjischilcl*
have a fine collection, so have the Or
leans princes, and there ate Bifme line
stones amongst, the Russian crown
jewels. Very lately, a fine stone was
sold to one of the Russian Grunt} Dukes
for about $35,000,
Nothing certain is known about the
Burmah ruby mines. They are supposed
to con-ist of the beds of old livers that
have dried up. because the stones always
have a water worn appe iraned. The only
Europeans that have ever visited them
are a Frenchman and anltalian, who were
in the service of King Tluobitw' So far
as is known, tiiey are worked hy the vil
lagers upon a curious system. All stones
below twenty one “rtiitis” itf weight
(twenty-one “rhitis” are equivalent to
twenty-two carats—i. e., ab*ut oae
seventh of an ounce troyi belong to the
villagers, all above to tuc crown. A per
fect specimen ruby of twenty one
“rhitis” would be worth s*o,ooo, a
moderately good one $5,000, aud an in
ferior one about $250. —AVuylW/. Hour.
Merely a Suggestion.*
The late Rev. Joel Hawes* of Hart
ford, is remembered by many ** an elo ■
quent divine. Singularly per
son and quaint in manner, he preached
truth in a most forcible manner, t none
occasion, after announcing that tho usual
collection would be taken f<j*\ foreign j
missions, he added, iu lii.s most in pros**
sive manner: “And f ivou’d sify to thosa
persons who are in the habit otoputting 1
buttons in the box that 1 would thank I
them not to hammer down the eves, fori
the Lord is not deceived, ami a-fbutton* |
they are valueless " It need nuj be said !
that there were no buttons that day.
Harper’s Magazine. 1