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August 31st, 1881, and again on Decent
bei !Uaf, 18811. Ilotli times it went down
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I Tut: I’.NTKHi'iusKis an uncomproiniaiug
■advocate of the principles of theorgunized
Eand living Democracy of to-day.
I While it grants equal justice to all
Bleu before tho law, it li dds this to W ft
White Man’s Government, belonging to
him by tho right of discovery—be
queathed to him. by tho blood and suff--r
--lug of the Fathers. None but Anglo-
Saxon names weie signed to the Deelnra
jjiiou of Indepeudence. and none but
Hahite men bled and died to wrench tho
from England’s cruel grasp, to
IBi.tabliflU the proud young Republic of
■America.
I Upon theso issues the paper is wiling
■to go befoto the public, asking uo other
£| support than that which its merits do
< serve. The paper will bo free and out-
Bppoken on ail queslions_of public interest,
and will not endeavor to accomplish the
. ridiculous feat of “running with the bare,
and baying with the hounds.’’
r In other words, The Enterprise will
Igfoot boa “fence rider” in any of the po-
Blitical campaigns. Those who desire a
B live newspaper, are earnestly requested
g o give it n trial.
S. W. HAWKINS, Editor,
ARRESTED AND JAILED.
Mrs. Parsons, Ibe 1-Yinnl* Annri-lii.t, strikes
u Town and is Not Tolerated.
tit At Columbus, 0., Friday, Lucy B,
Marvins, tho lecturing anarchist, was re-
Yjaised a hall by a local military, where
•lie proposed to speak. She called on
the mayor to protest against such action,
•nd became so abusive and demonstative
that she was locked up.
at When Mis. Parsons called on the man
agement of the armory, where the speech
was to havo been delivered, and found
that she could not secure the ai mory for
that purpose, and also that the mayor
had been requested to prevent the meet
ing being held, she proceeded to the eity
fcrison, and was considerably enraged at
||ilie time. She told the mayor emphat
ically that she wanted protection at the
armory, and that she wanted his assist
ance in securing the hall, as it had been
paid for. She was informed that the
police would be sent to the armory, and
that no meeting of the character would
c held, and she proceeded to upraid him
yin the name of freedom, saying that he
' •was a scoundrel and unfit for the position
he occupied, else he would extend the
protection asked for; that there would in
time be a revolution and a deal, by which
the working people would secure their
• fights. She finally informed the mayor
that lie was of little consequence, and
and that the meeting would be held re-
Sgardless of him or his police protection,
fin the height of her excitement the
I mayor ordered her to be taken to a cell,
I and refused to let any of the local sym-
I pathizers see her, although a number
■ called. Quite a crowd gathered at the
■armory to attend the meeting, not know
t ing that Mrs. Parsons had been arrested,
■but none of them were allowed to come
in, being informed that the meeting
would not take place. They held a sort
of indignation meeting about the hall,
I but soon dispersed, ill's. Parsons was
seen in her cell, and stated that this an
effort to muzzle free speech; that she has
lectured in seventeen Stntes, and this is
the first time she has ever been molested.
She sent the following telegiam:
“A. R. Parsons, County Jail, Chicago:
|| Arrested to prevent my speaking. Ain
■jail right. Notify press. Lccv.”
UNDER WATER.
Much l)nin tiift* by 11 iver Overflows in Lou
tsiann,
| Advices from Richland and portions of
Madison parish report the outlook in that
Section gloomy. The Epps plantation is
partially submerged, and the water is
ri-ing in the Bayou Macon at the rate of
an inch in four hours. The Pugh place,
on Jones bayou, is about half covered
Witli water, which is rising there at the
rate of about three inches in twenty-four
hours. The Cunningham place, on Ten
gas river, is all submerged and the water
is rising about six inches a day. The
Gasquet place, at section five, is also
Covered with water. The private levee,
built by the late Colonel Edward Rich
ardson and other planters, which is about
six miles long and four feet deep, and is
intended to protect the east bank of the
bayou Macon, has given away in about
twenty places above Wylcys Monticello
place. Although a general overflow is
not anticipated, there will be much dum
age done by the water coming through
the openings in the Arkansas front, ulso
by that coming in at Diamond island
bend, and Reid Crevasse. The news was
received from Reid Crevasse Sunday to
the effect that the United States Engineer
Corps had succeeded in protecting the
ends of the levee, thus arresting a fur
ther cutting away of the embankment.
A SERIOUS AFFRAY.
gfT<rnl I'nini!ir# ilnve n I onto i ail lliinoin
< liinvh Cirouail.
■Ln old feud between the Hanks,
Combs and Roberts families, of Omega
township, Illinois, culminated Tliurs lay
night at a church gathering in a genc.nl
cutting and shooting affray. Austin
Hanks slipped up behind Charles Roberts
who was escorting two young ladies into
church, and struck him on the head with
bhnrrow tooth, cutting a frightful gash
n&d causing profuse bleeding. Before
Roberts could release himself from til :
Indies, a pistol shot was fired by some
Unknown party, believed to be one of the
Combs boys. Tho hall cut through one
of Roberts’s lingers and entered the palm
Of his hand.
■ At this juncture Roberts drew his re
volver and began firing, tho second shot
sired taking effect in Austin Hank’s ab
domen, and when his followers saw their
leader fall,they at oucc ceased hostilities.
(• Roberts was immediately placed under
BHUTest and his preliminary trial is now in
progress. There are so many witnesses
fatin' trial will probably last all night.
|ttlankg lies between life and death. The
§&>arties are all prominent citizens.
The Georgia Enterprise
SOUTHERN ITEMS.
NEWS NOTEB GATHERED
FROM VARIOUB SECTIONS.
LOUISIANA.
George W. Bennett will erect u broom
factory at Chencyville.
The New Orleans Elevated Railway
company contemplate beginning work on
their road shortly.
.Sheriff Cook, of St. Tammany, leports
that the polecats are killing the hogs,
sheep and cattle in his neighborhood.
The Petroleum Prospecting company,
capital stock $2,000, lias been incorpo
rated at New Orleans by B. F. Hitchcock
and others.
A statement bus been made in several
papers of the state that Governor Mc-
Euerv is a native of Virginia. This is
an error. He is a Louisianian, born in
the city of Monroe.
The St. Tammany Farmer says lliat a
large force of men will be put to work on
the Poiteveut railroad in u few days, and
that the road will be finished to Abita
springs by June 1.
The Cypress Shingle and Lumber com
pany, capital stock $30,000, lias been in
corporated at Plaqucmiucto manufacture
shingles, lumber,&c. S. D. Carpenter is
president and treasurer.
The Kaufman Fibre and Manufacturing
Cos., capital stock $1,000,000, has been
organized at New Orleans to manufacture
machinery for decorticating ramie, jute,
Ac., to decorticate und treat ramie and
jute fibre by the Kaufman process and to
encourage the culivatiou of fibrous plants.
Messrs. Thompson and Compton, of
Texas plantation, Iberville parish, have
erected upon their premises a substantial
saw and shingle mill, and have just en
tered into a contract to furnish 10,000,-
000 shingles to Cameron, of Waco, Texas.
On the 25th ultimo they shipped to
Wheeling, W. Yu., 350,000, shingles.
A correspondent of the Point Coupee
Banner advocates the establishment of a
cotton seed oil mill at New Orleans in
opposition to American Oil Trust. Such
a mill, be says, could purchase seed in
Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee.
Alabama and Mississippi, which furnish
about 500,000 tons of seed annually. The
independent mill would only want about
30,000 tons, but it is believed that its
competition with the Oil Trust would
run up the price of the whole product
about $4 per ton. Oil Trust has to pay
dividends on $40,000,000 of capital, and
could not afford tho correspondent thinks,
to fight the new company to the extent it
has heretofore done. The capital stock
would be $250,000, a portion of which
would Ire held by the planters, and a
profit of $4 per ton on the product,
would result in a dividend of 40 percent.
A deplorable tragedy took place at
Slaughter station, on the Mississippi
Valley railroad, in which Ike Higgin
botham was shot and killed by Captain
W. B. Porter, of East Feliciana. Porter,
Higginbotham and a number of others
were at Ripley’s store at Slaughter, and
had been drinking some during the even
ing. After a while Higginbotham left
and went toward the water tank, at
least 150 or 20 J yards distant. When
Higginbotham git neirly there, Porter
said lie believed he would shoot at him,
und cracked away. Higginbotham turned
around and in the same reckless way shot
back. Three or four shots were thus
fired from each pistol, when at the last
report of Porter's pistol lfiggiubothiim
dropped dead with a bullet in his brain.
Higginbotham was a grandson of John
Higginbotham, known for forty years as
a devout Methodist minister. Captain
Porter is a leading citizen of East Feli
ciana, and was a member of the legisla
ture in 1887.
AKKAKSAS.
A company has been organized at
Newport, to develop gold mining prop
erty near there.
A company will be organized at Van
Burcn, to bore artesian wells to secure
water for fire purposes.
M It. Denning, of Michigan, has pur
chased about 4,000 acres of coal lands
near Ozark, and will develop them.
Tho Houston, Central Arkansas &
Northern Railroad Cos., capital stock
$450,000, has been incorporated, to build
a railroad from near Pine Bluff to the
Louisiana State line in Aslilcy county.
One of the citizens of Lonoke shot in
to n gang of little school children, put
ting a number of small shot into several
of them, and he was held over in a bond
of S4OO, and further bound to keep the
peace.
The Pine Bluff Athletic association
was organized with a capital stock of
$5,000, Suitable buildings for a boat
club, gymnasium, bicycle, baseball and
all athletic sport will be commenced at
once.
$50,000 has been subscribed towards
organizing a $500,000 company at Fort
Smith to build a large cotton factory; a
$50,000 compauy to start a wagon fac
tory; also a $50,000 company to erect a
canning factory.
Wednesday, the Rev. John White,col
ored, born in South Carolina, and aged
112 years July 9, next, obtained from the
clerk license to marry Edie Smith, aged
between 05 and 75. Rev. W hite has
been preaching 81 years. When the stars
fell lie had several children, and this is
his third wife. His age was duly attest
ed by a responsible white person, who has
known him many years and is familiar
with his history. The clerk donated his
fee and all hands congratulated him up
on his third venture, and great expecta
tions exist in the minds of all as to re
sults. He lives in Greenwood township.
The town and neighborhood of Searcy
have for weeks past been greatly excited
over the running at large of mad dogs.
Tlie excitement wus increased when it
became known that Mrs. Mary Pitts, a
well known lady, had been bitten by one
of these rabid canines. The animals at
tacked Mrs. Pitts and bit her in several
places, her arm and body being dread
fully lacerated. A madstone was pro
cured and applied to the wounds. It re
mained upon each some time and was re
peatedly applied. This is the fourth
person who has been bitten by a mad dog
in tho locality named. All of these
treated the wounds with a madstone. No
cases of hydrophobia have yet developed
but there is naturally considerable anx
iety among all concerned.
TKNNKBBEE.
It. N. Irvine has erected a tobacco fac
tory at Dresden.
A twenty thousand dollar college is to
be built at Greenbrier.
A street railroad and water works are
to be built at Athens within one year.
A company lias been formed at Chatta
nooga to manufacture fence machines.
J. P. Ferguson, Nashville, has received
the contract to build a hotel at Kingston
Springs.
A company to build a railroad from the
Nashville and Florence railroad to West
Point lias been chartered.
Isaac Rosenstein, the Hebrew who shot
and killed Jessie Harris in Memphis, was
admitted to bail in the sum of $5,000.
Parties are negotiating with Paine &
Montgomery, Dayton, for a foundry
building with a view to establishing a
stove foundry.
It is said that Dr. J. F. Hicks owns a
vein of solid manganese six hundred feet
wide, situated on the road from Bristol
to Elizaliethton.
There arc no vacant business or dwel
ling houses in Bristol. The population
of Bristol would have been five hundred
more than it is to-day if new-comers
could have found residences.
A one hundred thousand dollar stock
company has been organized at Athens
to build a cotton factory. F. B. Mc-
Elwee, of the Mount Verd Cotton Mills,
Athens, will be superintendent.
V. H, Staples, one of the jurors in the
late Goodwin case in Memphis, is on trial
in the criminal court, charged with per
jury. lie swore when being examined as
to his qualifications as a juror that he
was a householder, and afterward stated
that all his possessions in the world were
four dogs.
A shocking accident happened at the
Craighead Marble quarks Tuesday that
cost a laborer his life. The unfortunate
man, Wush Yarks, was removing some
dirt from between a larg|e stone, and the
wall of the quarry, w hen tho stone became
undermined bo much aa to cause it to
topple over and crushed the man against
the rock wall. The man was taken out
but soon expired. Drs. were summoned,
but on arrival found the unfortunate
man beyond medical raid.
NORTH CAROLINA.
W. B. Crews will develop a coal mine
at Oxford.
The Salisbury Water Works company,
capital stock $85,000, has been incorpo
rated at Salisbury.
The Salem Water Supply company has
contracted for the construction of an iron
reservoir at that place.
3 he North Carolina Millstone company,
Parkwood, have purchased two eighty
horse power steel boilers and a heavy saw
mill. They will add other machinery
and arc making arrangements to build
small roller mills.
W. C. Bain, Graham, has contracted to
build a two-story addition to the Oneida
Cotton Mills, in which about 100 plaii
looms and necessary spindles will be
placed. It will be 50::120 feet, witli a
lapper room 20x50 feet.
At or near Brown’s cross roads in Ran
dolph county, one York, white, hired a
negro man to set fire to the barn of Wil
liam Brown, Esq., and the negro was
caught and confessed, but not until the
barn was in ashes and tvro horses had
perished.
The people of Richmond county voted
down the bill for the country subscription
of SIOO,OOO to the capital stock of the
Soutn Atlantic and Northwestern rail
road, which is planned tq extend from
Smithville on the sea coast of this state,
to Bristol, Tenn.
The Christian Brotherhood, with head
quarters in New- York city, are discussing
the project of establishing ?i first-class
school in Hickory for the education of
boys and young men. The school would
be under Catholic management; and the
buildings and grounds of Mt. St. Josephs
academy would proba t>ly be purchased by
the Christian Brotherhood for the pur
pose in view. The society is backed by
large capita!.
Recently a company lias been organized
in Chicago for the purpose of developing
certain large iron ore beds which aro
known to exist in the northwestern part
of North Carolina. These iron beds are
immense, and are traceable for aix, eight
and ten miles. They arc of a quality to
justify the expenditure of vast sums in
developing and workiug them. This
Chicago company "was organized with a
capital stock of tiwo and one-half million
dollars, and the entire stock was taken
by six men.
0 EOIIGtA.
There arc thiity-fivc prisoners in the
Dougherty jail.
A canning factory is reported to be
erected at Marshallville.
J. Taliaferro and others will develop
a slate quarry at Plainville.
A stock company lias been formed at
Dalton to build a planing mill.
E. A. Fincher contemplates develop
ing his black lead mine, eight miles from
Canton,
T. Tray has bought an old laboratory
at Macon, and will, it is said, use it for
a soap factory.
Parties at Rome eont cm plate erecting
a large factory to manufacture buckets,
tubs, pails, etc.
Newton county lias more available
water power than any three counties in
middle Georgia.
The Forestvillo Land nsid Improvement
Cos., capital stock $30,000, lias been in
corporated at ForcsAviUe.
The Eureka Cos., Silicon, contemplates
erecting a threostory builiding, 78x100
feet to ire used us a soap factory.
The Rome, Iron, Laud and improve
ment Cos., Rome, are negotiating with
Northwestern capitalists for the location
of a large rolling mill at that place.
Mr. T. J, Pallin, of Lowndes county,
was chopping fire wood, when a piece
flew up and hit him on the nose, knock
ing him down and causing a profuse
hemorrhage.
Mr. If. Simmons, of Chokce, Lee
county, has one hundred acres of the
finest oats ever seen in the State at this
season of the year. The entire field is
over two feet high, and are already be •
ginning to boot. _
“MY COUNTRY MAT ana RVKH DR RIGHT. RIGHT OR WRONG MY COUNTRY."—Jtferwn
COVINGTON/GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1887.
A HORRIBLE ACCIDENT.
A bridge breaks down on rut:
BOSTON £ PHOVWESt'E R. U.
Flv ( iim I.un<l*tl With lliimmi Frrlfli
<• Down to Doairiiriitin Tblriy-llireo
IVriom filllfil iiiml Twice ■
Man? Inl it ml.
One of the most appalling railronu
accidents that lias ever licen experienced
occurred on the Boston and l’rovi lence
railroad last Monday. The scone of the
horror was between Rosendnlc und For
restville und was caused by a defective
bridge giving way under a heavy loaded
passenger train. Five ears fell through
the bridge instantly killiug thirty-three
persons and horribly wounding man
others. The train was crowded with
working people principally. The engi
neer, when liia engine broke from tho
train, kept right on to Forest Hill to
give the alarm instead of stopping to
ascertain the extent of the damage, and
on that account it was impossible to get
uny assistance at once. Three cats went
over safely with the engine, hut the five
others fell to the road beneath a distant},
of thirty feet. The last car, which wi
a smoker, turned completely over an<
struck on top of the others.
LIST KILLED.
Following is a list of killed nnd those
who have died of their injuries:
Conductor Myron Tilden, Dedham.
Alice Burnett, Roslindale, aged 18 years,
W. M. Johnson, Roslindale, violinist;
Mrs. Hormidias Cardinal, Roslindale;
Mr. Clapp, Central station, West Rox
bury, 21 years old; Miss Norris, West
Roxbury; Edward E. Norris, Dedham,
freight clerk of the Boston and provi
dence railroad; Edgar M. Snow, Spring
Street Station, West Roxbury; Waldo B.
Lailer, police officer. Spring Street Sta
tion; Lizzie Maudeville, Dedham, Lizzie
Walton, Dedham; William S. Strong, in
nal injuries, died after removal to the
city hospital; William E. Durham, badly
crushed, died after removal to the city
hospital; Stephen T. Ilaughton, gas fitter,
Corinth street Roslindale; Harry Gay, a
clerk, Spring street, died after removal
to the city hospital; Miss M, L. O Diornc,
Dover, N. 11., employed by Salem, Wil
der & Cos., Summer street; Miss Ida
Adams, Kat ridge street; Miss Lizzie H.
Price, Dedham; Miss Sarah E Ellis,
Mcdfield, who was stopping witli friends
at West Roxbury; an unknown woman,
about 30 years old; Albert E. Johnson, 40
years of age, employed by George H
Morrill & Cos., jewelers; Peter S. Warren,
Central station, about 15 years old, tailor;
Emma P. Hill, 25 years of age, worked
for It. 11. White & Cos.; Hattie J. Dud
ley, residence unknown; M-s Laura
Price. West Roxbury; Miss Rosa Bella
Welch, 53 years of age, West Roxbury.
The remaining parties killed have not
been identified. Of these there are three
men and two women at the Morgue.
It is impossible to obtain any absolutely
correct account'of the number if injured;
but it will reach one hundred or more.
Of these at least twenty-five are quite
badly hurt, and the remainder received
only slight bruises.
The bridge evidently gave way when
the fouith car was passing over it. Tho
five rear cars went through to the road
way, landing in a mass of splinters in the
street. The strain of the five falling cars
pulled the three cats in advance from the
rail. They remained on top of the em
bankment, but were pulled off tlreir
trucks and the floor of each was forced
nearly to the roof, while seats were
jumbled together in great confusion.
The end of the second coach was a mass
of splinters,caused by a carhead grinding
against it when the others went down the
embankment.
The third coach was flattened to the
ground as if it had fallen on its trucks
from a great height, although it remained
on the edge of the embankment. The
roof of the fourth car also remained on
the embankment, having evidently been
torn clear from its fastenings while tho
coach went through. The next four cars
went down in a heap, the smoker, which
was on the rear of the train, falling in
the midst of the coaches and being actu
ally ground into splinters. The inmates
of the smoker were all either killed or
injured, not one escaping without injury
of some kind. Two of the coaches went
clear across the roadway,landing against
a stone wall that bounded a large field at
the foot of the hill. As the cars lie in
their present location they present a pic
ture of such absolute demolition that it
seems remarkable that any person in them
escaped alive.
A curious feature of the disaster is
fonnd in the fact that the entire bridge
went down with the wreck, not leaving a
piece of scrap iron attached to the abut
ments, and but for the chasm and awful
wreck beneath there is nothing to indi
cate that a bridge had once spanned the
abyss.
Twenty-seven of tho dead bodies have
been identified.
IMMENSE FLOODS.
The Rivera nml Creeka ot DhUolh Over
flowing.
A Northern Pacific train from tho west,
which was delayed seventy hours, by the
Hoods, reached Bismarck, Dak., Wednes
day evening. Reports indicate that the
Missouri must break within a week, and
there is great alarm among the people
living along the banks. The Yellowstone,
Little Missouri and Prior rivers are free
of ice, und are flooding their banks.
Over thirty bridges on the Northern
Pacific, between Bismarck and Billings,
have been swept away, and much damage
has been occasioned by the floods. Pas
sengers report that Miles City has "been
twice inundated within the last week,
and a report says that the town is again
under water. Water flowed in all the
streets and in one street, in rear of the
town, it wus over ten feet deep, compell
ing tile business men to remain from their
homes all night.
At Wedora, water in the Little Mis
souri lias surrounded the extensive
slaughter houses and refaigerutors of
Marquis de Mores; nnd Mandnn, five
miles west of Bisinsrck, is preparing for
tlie worst. The Little Heart river, just
south of Mandan, is now open about
twenty miles above its confluence with
the Missouri and when the ice in tlie lat
ter stream breaks at Bismarck, Mandan
will then be inundated, as she is built on
low ground. Dynamite shipped to Bis
marck by the Northern Pacific company
will be used in blowing out the ice along
the piers of the massive iron bridge, and
every precaution taken to prevent disas
ter. There can be no protection for set
tlers along the banks for many miles
south. Never in the history of the coun
try has there been so much snow. It is
now pouring into the Missouri in immense
torrents, and every creek is swelled to
the dignity of a river.
THE FLORIDA CIGARM AKERS.
A llvimrl of Tlii-lr Work Ylnda la New York
Clly.
Tlie Central Labor union, at its meet
ing Saturday in Clarendon hall, in East
Thirteenth street N. Y., elected anew
set of officers. The cigurmakers railed
attention to u dispatch from Key West,
relative to the adventures of ltamon Kti
biera in Florida. Mr. Rubicra is secre
tary and organizer of the Cuban confed
eration of clgnrilinkers in this city, editor
ol L i Republics, and delegate to the
Central Labor uniou. He went to Flor
idn ostensibly to settle the difficulties of
tlie cigar manufacturing firm of Ybor &
Sanchezly. Haya, with its employes,
but really to organize the cigar makers in
Florida. The Central Labor union
adopted resolutions that the proceedings
of the board of trade at Tampa betrays a
desire to precipitate a class confiict in this
republic in that the expelled citizen*
were informed that the only cause of
their cxpulsiou was their actiou in con
nection with the lalior organization.
There is also a story to the effect that the
Spanish consul offered the board of trade
$50,000 to have the expelled men. who
are all Cuban revolutionists, put aboard
lire Spanish gunboat in the viciuity of
Key West. I his seems remarkably im
probable, but the Central Labor union
calls the attention of the United States
authorities to it, and desire that peace In
preserved in Florida,
TIRED OF BEING INSANE.
Jnn.en, ibe Wife Murderer, elves la and
nnd A>k fern Warm Yfeal.
Henry Jansen, of Chicago, who was re
cently sent to Joliet for life, for the
brutal murder of his wife, has been con
fined in the crank cell at the prison ever
since his arrival, constantly under the
eye of a doctor. Jansen stood it for thir
teen days. Tuesday last he lell upou his
knees and begged for something warm to
cat, saying:
“My blood is so cold. Give men warm
meal. ”
A few questions from the physician
caused Jansen to confess everything and
own up that lie was not insane. He stated
that he had not meant to kill his wife,
but that when the fearful deed was done
his only thought was to save himself by
playing the insane dodge and possibly he
might escape the penalty of hanging.
After his conviction and sentence to the
penitentiary he determined to keep up
the idea, thinking that possibly he might
be transferred to an insane asylum, where
he would be better treated and from
which he might make his escape, hut the
medicine and diet he had bean forced to
live on was too much. Jansen fairly
danced and shed tears of joy when a bowl
of hot coffee and some warm meat and
potatoes were given him. He will be
placed in the prison shop tomorrow
morning and be made to labor.
WRECKING TRAIN WRECKED.
A Number of I'orsona Severely Injured
aud One Hilled.
A special from Galveston, Texas, says:
Wreck master Nelson, of the International
and Great Northern railroads, left early
Tuesday morning with an engine and
crew of ten men and proceeded to Prince's
switch, fourteen miles east of Palestine,
to collect the debris of the passenger
trains wrecked at that place on Sunday
morning last. When half a mile this side
of the switch, the engine flew from the
track and was hurled against a high
embankment, crashing itself to pieces,
and scalding and wounding in a more or
less severe degree, every man of the crew.
The spine of John Finley, a colored la
borer, was broken, and lie will die.
Wreck master Nelson was badly scalded
and cut in the arm aud htad. Section
foreman, J. McElyea, had his left arm
broken in two places and arm and hand
terribly scalded. Young McGowan was
badly scalded on tlie legs, and a machin
ist was scalded on the head and face.
From the nature of the catastrophe it is
miraculous that no more than one lilc
was lost. The cause of the accident is
believed to have been a broken shoe drop
ping on the track. The badly injured
were brought in and placed in the com
pany’s hospital.
AWAITING THE OBSEQUIES.
Many Thousand, of t:hic*so‘, Peoplo* YVlt
n<*„ Mr,. Neebe*, llurlnl.
Extra quiet marked the burial of Mrs.
Neebe. Fully forty thousand people
shivered three hours in the bleak wind
waiting for the obsequies of the noted
anarchist’s wife to commence, and wore
only awarded by the sight of a procession
that, except in size,differed only in a few
minor details from any ordinary funerals.
Saturday evening the master ofeeremoni
ies estimated tliut 20,000 sympathizers
would be in line. Whether the absence
of the anarchist widower dampened the
enthusiasm, or the fact the police were
taking extraordinary precautions to quell
disorder, had a like effect, the demon
stration fell far short of its promoter’s
predictions. Including the persons in
one hundred snd seventy-seven carriages
and buggies, there were probably 5,000
in the procession. The prohibition of
the red flags was scrupulously observed.
A few banners were carried and they
were furled and totally hidden in black
draping. Not a dozen mourners were in
uniform, A single band furnished the
only music in the procession. The police
men were almost wholly kept out of
sight, nnd the entire affair was character
ized by sombre decorum.
THEY MEAN BUSINESS.
Tlie (.'ottonweed Oil .Mill* lo lie lluili, i '*-
trary Iteporta Not withstanding*
The Baltimore Manufacturers’ Record
states that it is officially authorize i to
announce that the new cotton seed oil
mills about which there lias b-en incuh
discussion will positively be built, all re
ports to the contrary notwithstanding.
Henry C. Butcher, of Philadelphia, pres
ident of tlie Southern Cotton Seed Oil
company, telegraphs the Manufacturers’
Record as follows:
“You can assure the press and people
of the South that this company means
business in its broadest sense. We have
taken but one position since the start and
will maintain it. We have all the funds
in hand necessary to accomplish our pur
pose and have no favors to ask on that
score. Our company proposes to build
mills at the most desirable points as fast
as the machinery can be turned out and
to go into business on a purely legitimate
mercantile basis and develop it as it
should be. Large contracts for machinery
have already been closed, and tlie work
of building the mills will proceed as
rapidly as possible. The mills will be of
not less than 150 tons capacity per
twenty four hours.
BOLD ROBBERS.
A Ttißi Itnllrond mid ftCkprra* Office
Ilrved of Over WU.OOO.
Sunday morning the Gulf, Colorado
and Sunte Fe railroud office at Coleman,
Texas, was tlie scene of a “hold up,” re
sulting in a loss to the express and rail
road companies nnd employes of over
$3,000. James Muse, the express messen
ger, Henry Brent, the night operator,
und two men were in the depot. Muse
had occasion to go out about 3:45
o’clock, nnd cume running book and said:
“Someone is robbing the cars.” The
party started to the cars, when Brent
told Muse to run buck and get something
to shoot with. Muse went back toward
the depot to get his six shooter, when
three men jumped out from the south
door of the depot, thrust six-shooters in
his face, and told him with oaths to open
tlie safe. Muse opened it, and the rob
bers got two express packages, nnd $2,-
500 and the other S3BO, and another of
SBO of railroad money, and the pocket
book of Muse with $135 in it, and his
gold watch, worth $125. While this was
going on Brent nnd the yardman were up
the road a few hundred yards, at the oar
which Muse saw tlie man get out of, and
which they found had been brokeu open
and a load of bran set on fire. After
some trouble they succeeded in putting
the fire out. It is believed that the rob
bers do not live far from Coleman. AH
the men wore long black mnsks that con
cealed their faces.
A TOWN BURNED.
Hlnrkville Nonili < nroliun 1$ Yialled by a
u Dentrnrlive Fire.
The entire business portion of tlie
little town of Blackvilie, S. was
burned Wednesday. The fire originated
in the rear of the general merchandise
store of P. W. Farrell and had gained
considerable headway before it was dis
covered and notwithstanding the efforts
of the entire town to check the fire in
a remarkably short time the fiames had
spread to adjoining buildings, and in less
than half an hour almost the entire town
was one mass of fiames and at night the
other portion of the town east of the rail
road was one mass of ashes, twenty seven
houses having been consumed.
Among the buildings consumed were:
P. W. Farrell’s and Martin tfc Sou’s gen
eral merchandise store; J. L. Huso’s large
Wrick grocery house; J). K. Biigg’s drug
store; \V. A. Jarrell’s general store; Simon
Brown’s new brick general store; Martin
Keeler’s grocery store and bar; Brown's
livery stable and a handsome residence;
the large warehouse of the South Carolina
railroad; half a dozen small stores and
many residences. Tlie depot wa9 one of
the few buildings in town that escaped
the fiames. The lo? 9is estimated at
1200,000. Insurance about $30,000.
VINCENT CAUGHT.
Ike Vincent the Delimiting Treasurer in
Jail.
A special from Montgomery, Alabama,
brings the information of tlie arrest of
Ike 11. Vincent, Alabama’s defaulting
State Treasurer, which was effected at
Big Sandy Wood Cos., Texas. Most every
body is conversant with the story of his
sudden leave taking on the 20t!i of Jan
uary 1883, while serving his third term,
as Btatc treasurer.
The arrest was not due to tiny clever
detective work but is to be attribute 1 to
a mere accident. Mr. E. C. Ray now a
deputy sheriff of Wood county Texas,
but who formerly resided in Randolph
county Ala., and who had known Vincent
for many years previous to liis defalcation
was the one to make the arrest. Thirty
two indictments hang over the unfortu
nate man. Mr. Ray delivered his prisoacr
to tlie sheriff of Montgomery county, and
taking liis receipt for him went and re
ceived from Governor Seay the reward
of five thousand dollars.
Vincent declines to talk shout bis fu
ture prospects. Able counsel have been
employed to defend him.
aware not :me burned.
The warehouse at Ziegler's Station, on
tlie Sylvania railroad, was burned on
Tuesday morning, nbout seventy barrels
of rosin and ten tons of guano being con
sumed in the conflagration. The rosin
belonged to Mr. It. Eastman and the
guano to Mr. Z. M. Ziegler. The house
caught from a small tire that a negro had
built upon the ground near by. There
was a freight car standing on the track
near the platform, which w ould also have
been destroyed by the flames had it not
been for Mr. Ziegler’s daughter, who re
moved tlie chocks from the wheels and
sent the ear flying safely to the other end
of the switch, where it ran off. There
was no insurance upou the warehouse.
THE FOREST HILL ACCIDENT.
It nr3l; Ihr Drnd Other* Dying from
Their Injuries.
A number of victims of the Forest
Ilill (Mass.) accident were buried from
Roslindale, Dedham and West Roxbiu v
Wednesday. There are many who art
seriously, if not fatally, injured in Ros
lindale, whose death at any moment may
1 e looked for any the probability is that
the dead will number over thirty. Some
of the injured are so badly shaken up and
internally injured that their recovery will
be a matter of months. There are many,
too, who were removed immediately
after the aceident to various points in
Roslindale, whose names did not appear
at all iu the papers.
PREPARING TO VOTE.
' lie Women of Khiinh* Preparing to Help
Elect Officer*.
A dispatcli from Leavenworth Kansas
says: Duriug ths last two days over 1,-
000 of the leading women have registered,
and will vote under the recent law grant
ing municipal suffrage to women. Mrs.
Helen M. Granger, of Indiana, is here
doing herculean work, she is paying
special attention to organizing colored
women, and has aroused great enthus
iasm. Meetings of the law and order
party are being held every nfternoon and
evening. The whisky alliance is also
fully organized and at work. The spring
election will therefore be hotly contested.
COUNTERFEITS IN CHATTANOOGA.
It was discovered Friday by a number
of merchant! that a very dangerous coun
terfeit silver dollar is in circulation in
Chattanooga, Tenn., of the coinage of
1882. A number of the spurious coins
have been collected by the detectives and
a systematic effort will be made to cap
ture the culprits. It is said that the
same counterfeit is being circulated in
several other southern cities.
the flower of fame
At morn a bud,
WhoM leave*, still dampened by the morning
dew,
Give promise of a beauty unsurpassed,
And lay upon thi* altar of our view
The posni bill ties the future may posses*.
At noon a full blown rose,
Whose fragrance, which it scatters on the air,
Is equaled only by its loveliness.
The nuclei which tho artist (taints with care,
And the never-dying substance of the poet's
song.
At night a faded ftbwer,
Whose withered leaves are trampled into
dust
I'nheeded by the busy by ,
Whose perfume, which was borne by every
gust,
Is lost amid the tempest of the night
And so with fame.
At morn ’tis brightened by hope’s fairest
dr arns,
To bloom into reality at noon;
At eve the Min's refulgent beams
Find but the ashes of ambition's flame.
Ed. Cooley in the Comet.
“STOP THE SHIP.”
It was a dark, moonless night, in the
middle of December, and the rising
wind was whistling in the rigging and
piping among the taut shrouds of the
steamship Sardinian, as she plunged
through the Atlantic surge*, homeward
for Liverpool.
The sloping decks were silent aud de
serted, save for the figure of the officer
on watch, pacing suddenly up and down
before the wheclhouse, and a little group
of saloon pass ngers clustered under the
lec of the, starboard lifeboat on the quar
ter-deck. There was some hall dozen of
us in all. Two fair < anadiaus on their
way to spend the holidays in the ‘ old
country; '; a couple of young “subs.,”
coming homo on leave from their regi
ment in Halifax, and one other careless
plcastuc tecker, like myself, returning
from a visit to the har \N cst. Wo had
been whiling away the evening by
singing glees aud telling stories, until
the quartermaster striking five l ells—
-10:110 o’clock- warned us that lights
would soon have to be put out.
Not feeling inclined to turn in, I bade
■ly merry companions good-night,
watched them laughingly dowu the com
panion way, and then turned aftto have
a chat with the second otficer who was
keeping the deck watch.
“You seem to have had a pleasant time
under the boat there,” he said, after a
few remarks upon the look of the
weather and the speed we were run
ning at.
“Yes, and ive ended up with a ghost
story, which Mr. 1 urton told about his
old grandmother seeing tlie figure other
husband .standing beekoning her ear
nestly sway from a terra e walk which
ran under a brick fruit wall in the hall
grounds. She followed hiin.and scarce
ly had she got out of danger before it
fell with a Crush just where she had been
walking but half a moment before His
friend, Wyvill, made fun of it all, and
then we got into a hot discussion upon
warnings and second sight and tho rest
of it.”
“And do you believe in such things?”
“Not a bit,” I answered, promptly.
“Such things, as you call them,never ap
pear to cool-nerved people in every-day
life, but only to timid, scared, and ner
vous persons.”
“I don't know that. lam not partic
ularly nervous, I fancy; aud yet a queer
thing happened to me aboard this ship
not very long ago,” and he turned to
glance at the swinging compass at the
mizzen crosstrccs. ‘lf you caro to hear
about it, I’ll spin you the yarn—unless
you want to turn in,”
So he began his story, whilst the
creaking of the spectre-looking spars
aloft sounded like the moan of troubled
spirits, and the swi-hing of the water
under the counter kept up a mournful
rhythm as he spoke as follows:
“We left the Mersey the first week in
May, bound for New York, with a full
•hip—saloon und steerage both crowded
—nnd made a quick run, for she .is a
fast boat, and the captain never gives
her a chance of getting far off a straight
course.
“We were five days out, and that
evening some of the gentlemen had got
up a concert, which was a great success,
and everybody seemed in high spirits nt
the prospect of the quickest passage on
record. (If course this was before the
Arizona, Alaska, and Etruria had aston
ished the world by the wondrous smart
ruus which they have ma le. I relieved
Mr. Jones at four bells aud took the
br.dgc, remarking to him, as he turned
to go down the ladder, that it felt un
commonly cold for the time of year.
‘lt's leaving a warm cabin makes* you
feel it,’ he said, wishing me u pleasant
watch, and the next moment I was up
there alone.
“It was a pitch-dark night, and a
thick veil of blackness seemed to wrap
the ship from stern to stern. There was
no wind und the sea was quiet, the still
ness only broken by tho dull, regular
throbbing of the great engines us they
steadily drove her along. I glanced
ahead and could barely distinguish the
watch forward and then 1 turned aft
and saw the dim form of the otficer in
charge of the deck leaning against the
port door of the wheel house.
“All was right, and I begau to pace
slowly a ross the bridge from side to
side, watching the white gleam of the
phosphorescent water as it raced past
and trailed away into the dark expanse
behind us. I remember thinking what
a nutshell this powerful ship was there
in the m’dst of the boundless ocean, and
how but a thin plate of iron was between
the hundreds of souls now sleeping help
less below decks aid the graves thou
sands of fathoms down among all th -
hideous creatures that live in the sunless
depths. I was roused out of my musing
by the voice of the captain, who had
come up to see if all wus right, os he
generally did several times during the
night, for he was always alive to the
tact that he had a valuable ship and pre
cious lives under liis care, and nothing
ever made him forgot it. I have heard
him say to some gentlemen who pressed
him to join them in a bottle of i ham-
Eagne to celebrate the speedy arrival of
is vessel off the Irish coast:
“ ‘I am much obliged to you for the
kiminess which prompts the request, but
we aro nearing land, nnd this night, of
all others, I must keep a cool head and
a clear eye for your sake and my own. ’
“Well, as I was saying, the captain
eame alongside and suid :
“How’s her head, Mr. Brown?”
“ ‘W. N. W., a quarter W.. sir,’ I an
swered, with a glimpse at the binnacle.
“ ‘bight it is—keep it so;’ he bade me
good night, and I watched him go along
the deck forward to speak to the watch
on tin- fok’sel.
“Then I began my walk again, and
my thoughts slipped away home, and I
NUMBER 18.
wondered how my wife and youngsters
were. 1 lived over again in fancy ths
days 1 had spout ashore during my last
leave, and then, romehow, memories of
my boyish days crept in.
“Suddenly a curious sensation came
over me aud utterly banished all dream
ing. I cannot tell you what < ail cd it,
but a powerful folding of terror overt ame
me, and I trembled like ii palsied old
man. A great sense of a dread of some
thing terrible about to hnppen sei cd mo
—something, I knew not what; and I
strove against it in vain I clung to the
bridge rail in front, nnd tried to pull
myself together, and I grew calmer as
the low voices of some of the men for
ward fell upon my car.
“ Thomp-on!" I called: and the
burly boatswain's mato came toward
me with the easy roll of a seaman, and
touching his cap, said—
“ ‘Did yo want me, Mr. Brown? : ”
“‘Everything right the watch
awake?’ ” 1 asked.
“‘Yes, sir; but it's pitch dark, and
we can't see five yards ahead. Jim Dix
on's for’ard’”
“ ‘Take a look round yourself,’ I re
plied.
“While the mate was gone, the terri
; tied feeling seemed to leave me, and in
! its place an indefinable and lia y but
: powerful impression gained upon me that
I must do something: but what I could
not make out. Vou have no idea
of the awful agony I was in, and how I
strove to find out what it was that I now
felt impelled to do. My brain seemc lon
tire, my temples throbbed as though they
would burst, and a strange buzzing
sounded in my ears. I felt as if I was go
ing mad, and the thought of the great
ship in charge of a made an on the
bridge flashed across me. A wild feel
ing, that it would be better to throw niv
self overboard crept into my soul and I
believe I did make a step over to the
side, when a ray of light broke in upon
me. The turmoil in my brain grew- still,
and a voice distinctly said in my ear--
“ ‘Stop tlie ship!’
“I looked round sharply left and right,
but there was not a creature on tho bridge
except myself. I leaned over and looked
down onto the deck, but it was deserted,
silent, nnd dark. I even glanced aloft,
but of course saw nottiing there except
gaunt yards and the slender braces and
lifts.
‘“All right fore and aft, sir,” came
Thompson s voice, aid his dusky form
loomed out of the shadow
“ ‘What order did the Captain give
just before you came up?’ I asked. Not
that I for a moment thought that it was
liis 'Oiee which I had heard, but I
wanted to see if the boatswain's mate
had noticed anything. ’
“ ‘Order, sir ? Why the cap’cn bo
turned in.’
“ ‘But did not you hear someone say
“Btop tlie ship,” just as you got to the
ladder foot?’
‘ ‘No, sir, that I’ll take my davy
on.
“‘Very well, you may go, but mind
you keep a sharp lookout.’
“ ‘Ay, ay, sir'.” aud the man moved
away.
‘I felt inclined to laugh at myself for
an old woman, when a chdly feeling
crept once more up in me, and something
within me this time earnestly said:
“ ‘Stop the ship!”
“I shook the feeling off, however, and
determined to give way no longer to
morbid fancies I lighted a pipe, and be
gan to pace briskly to and fro, from port
to starboard and starboard to port. But,
though all traces of fear at:d terror van
ished, yet ever those words came ring
ing in my ear, and the faster I walked
the more plainly 1 heard—
“ ‘Stop the ship 1 Stop the ship!’
“Again I hailed tlie watch: ‘All
right forward? Can you see anything
ahead?’ and I peered out into the dark
ness round.
“ ‘All clear for'ard, but we can't see
more than ten yards,’ sang out Thomp
son, sullenly.
“So once mere I began r.iy measured
tramp, but louder and louder came the
command in tones of frantic entreaty —
“Stop (be ship! Stop the ship!’
“It was no uso striving longer; I felt
some potent influence force me to the en
gine-room telegraph. I seized the han
dle, and for a moment paused as I
thought of the (onfusion and alarm
which I was about to cause, and how an
gry the sleeping captain would be at my
daring to do such a thing without his
orders. The next instant I rang: ‘Easy
ahead.’ I felt ti e engine’s throb more
slowly. Yet again I heard, almost mad
>y—
•‘ ‘Stop the ship!’
And without a moment's further hesi
tation I rang “Stop,” and soon the throb
bing ceased entirely. I heard exclama
tions of surprise from the fok sel. There
was a rare commotion on the deck as the
captain rushed up the ladder in anxious
haste, but before he could reach my side,
the resistless power had overcome me
again, and I rang down “Full speed
astern.”
“ 'ln heaven's name, what's the mat
ter, Brown?' I heard the astonished cap
tain say as tlie mighty screw began to
race astern, and forcibly pull up, as it
were, the great ship, which still forged
gently ah' ad.
“Before I could answer, or even glance
around, a loud shout from the lookout
on the bows ‘\n iceberg right on usl’
was followed by a slight shock and a
quiver and rattle as we ran stem on to
the towering monster. What our fate
would have been had we been steaming
at full speed, you may guevs; instead of
carrying you home to-night the old Sar
dinian would be lying fathoms deep,
and her loss would have added one more
to the mysteries of the sea ’ ’
There was a dead silence as the speaker
ended, and we puffed our pipes thought
fully for a few moments, until he
added—
“ That is a queer yarn, I know, and if
you can explain it, so much the better.
1 have often tried to do so to myself,
but cannot. I believe some unseen spirit
was sent to save those helpless souls that
night, in spite < f all the clever reasons
which scientific men find for the exist
ence of such things, and I know that,
but for that powerful impulse which I
could not resist, we shou and have rushed
upon our doom. My \arn is a true one.”
Then glancing up aloft, he said
“The wind is hauling round, ami we
must have some of that canvas off her
at once.’
With a cheery good-night lie left me,
and I went below and turned into my
birth, the shrill notes of tho bo’sun's
whistle, mixed up with the creaking ol
blocks and the “haul i-oy” of the watch
in my ears, as I thought over the curious
story which was told me by the second
oflitcr.
Professor Herzen has recently shown,
from vivisectional experiments, the inti
mate relation between cold and touch,
and that an injury to the cortex of th*
brain that destroys the sense of touch it
any region will usually also abolish cor
respondingly the sense of cold.