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VOLUME XXII.
% Siorgia Bcterpnse.
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ILpr. gi^-ssive Democratic paper, pub
lished werkl.v at Covihgtrm, Newton
County, Georgia, icrms, $1.50 per an
num, Fstrictly in advance. Established
OeKer 2Stb, 1805. Burnt out on
Au|nat 31st, 1881, ami again on Decern
beifelst, 188.1. Both times it wont ilowd
indues without any insurance.
lisTr.uumsßis an uncompromising
allocate of the principles of the organized
and living Democracy of to-day.
While it grants equal justice to all
men before the law, it holds thiH to he a
W)Ac Man’s Govorunient, helongilig to
him by the right of discovery—he
quitlicd to him by the blood and suffer-
H{ the Fatliers. None but Anglo
names weie signed to the Doclaras
ttpn of Independence, and uono but
men bled and died to wrench tho
eoMnii s from England’s crncl grasp, to
•utfhliah the proud youDg Republic of
Ame.ica.
upon these issues the paper is wiling
to go before the public, asking no other
summit than that which its merits de
serve. The paper will he free and out
spoken on all questions of public interest,
and will not endeavor to accomplish the
ridiculous feat of 1 ‘running with the hare,
and baying with the hounds.”
’ In other word-, The E.ntEKPjuse will
notrbe a “fence rider” in any of the po
fltteui campaigns. Those who desire a
live newspaper, are earnestly request**
,©.sive it a trial.
S. W. HAWKINS, Editor.
gfA TERRIBLE DISASTER.
■
A fetalb<*r of Mon are Se.lloraf e<l in a Mine
at Havnniiu, I. T.
A spec ial from Venita, Indian Terri
tory) referring to a mine disaster ut Sn-
TEiinn, gays: Tice body of gas tired must
have been immense, to render flames of
sußi magnitude. It was followed with
■UCh eoucussiou as to startle every one
fo| miles around, and people in the im
mediate vicinity were severely shocked.
The engine house and lifting works struc
ture, over a hundred feet long and two
jMrics high, was blown into splinters by
H? current driven out of the slope and
in: a few minutes was enveloped inflames.
Fsoji the character of the building and
bmng literally saturated with oil, it was
I possible to save anything from the
tea. There were six men in the mine
he moment of the explosion, which
arred at ten minutes past one o’clock.
:se men were all killed. Their names
as follows: .Miles Jarrett, Dave Jones,
jh Dooley, William Baines, Charles
sons, und Bert French. The most
ressing part of the accident is the
ering of thirteen more, who were at
pting, with others, to reach the fated
i through an adjoining mine.
’ollowing are their names: James
Ward, James McGinniss, Fred Rates,
■homas Novell, Mike Kelley, Thomas
fcaniels, George Hill, Pat Glaney, Robert
■iller, Pat Fagan, John Williams, Peter
Benold and William Hudson. The
Workings of the two mines ruu together
Wr down in the mine but these means of
Bnimunication have never been attended
jfa or the men could have beeu rescued.
Out of the first party attempting to reach
tl(|mber two, five were lost and are still
ini the mine.
[A second party of twelve or fifteen
rent down. At this writing, eight of
hese are reported lost in the mine, over
ome with fire damp. This makes tliir
een already sacrificed to inattention,
'here is no telling what may be further
oss of life in the attempt to rescue the
odies of those now in the mines. Cut
ing is now being driven through into
ae of tiie upper lifts or entiies. When
one, it is hoped they will be able to at
st rescue the bodies of the unfortun
)es. Fans have been started in No. 2,
y attaching the boiler of a switch loco
lotive to steam pipes. Everything that
i possible is being done to enable the
len to reach the bottom of the slope.
TO HI! TURNED OCT.
■ A singular difficulty has arisen in Chat
tanooga Tenn., as a result of the real
-State boom which has been prevailing
pit three mouths. Some time since u
Syndicate of capitalists purchased a large
ttct of land almost in the center of the
4Hy, called Stone Fort, which, on ac
count. of its rocks and uneven condition,
has been allowed to become occupied by
Ipgru tenants, at least two hundred small
Houses having been put up for their oe-
Hipancy. Over two hundred families
Htcupied these houses, A few days since,
Hie new purchasers notified their tenants
t<> vacate this property at once, and they
will have to leave. There is not a va
afcnt house in the city that they can get.
Hftd what to do with 200 families who
eaje turned out of house and home is a
Hob I era to be solved. The purchasers
to improve the property, level it
Hr and make it available for business and
|Bsidences. In several other parts of the
Hty where property has heretofore been
Hfecupicd by the poor classes, and which
bo|)erty has passed into new hands, the
Mhants have been ordered off to make
room for improvements.
| SNOW HTdIOIS IN tIH HIUAN.
Ht'mcAao, Ili..—A special from Han
ek. Michigan, says: Decidely the
vyorst snow storm of the season is just
oyer. The snow is thrty-four inches deep,
and drifted badly. The Hancock and
Calumet railroad is blockaded. The Mar
quette train was delayed several hours,
and it took the Mineral Range train sev
enteen hours to go thirteen miles, from
Cjflbmet to Hancock. For the first time
for the season all traffic on the street was
jHpped.
PROHIBITION DEFEATED.
HJI)ETRorr, Mich. —A special to the Eve
long Journal indicates that the prohibi
tion amendment is surely defeated by
••pout 5,000. Gogebeie county, in the
Wper peninsular, which has not been in
cluded in the Journals earlier statement,
“gives 2,000 majority against the amend
§ent. The latest returns from the souih
#n part of the state favor prohibition.
Jut the adverse vote in the upper peu-
more than over-comes this.
B Teacher (in geography class)—“What
Hi a desert ?”
■ Young Student—“ Don't know, mum.
I always eat at the second table.”
The Georgia Enterprise.
SOUTHERN PROGRESS.
the improvements in vabiovs
SECTIONS OF THE SOUTH.
Xlamjfaf'lurliiN hikl Ollier llu.limia lutrr
.Nl. Ilowmlna Nfw Kslljronria.
Knox county Texas will build a $lO,-
000 jail.
A brick yard will be started at Monte
zuma, Ga.
A hotel will be built at Athens, Ga., to
cost about SIOO,OOO.
A large roller flour mill is to be erected
st Greenville Texas.
It is rumored that n silk factory will
be built at Waldesboio, N. C’.
A. B. I.ovejoy will build a SIO,OOO
hotel, at Alexexander City, Alu.
There is talk of a cotton factory being
ecrected and Slate Springs, Miss.
A large brick-yard has been started
lately at at Mount Pleasant Texas.
A company has been formed to build a
hotel, siix 100 feet at Benton, Teun.
There are prospects of a large hotel
being erected at Morristown, Tenn.
Elias Hurley has established a shuttle
block factory at Swift Island, N. C.
A 200-barrel flour mill will, it is said,
soon be built at Santa Anna, Texas.
A large 8-story building will be erect
ed at Lynchburg, Vn., by .George Mur
rell.
Works will be built to manufacture
steam engines extensively at Anniston,
Ala.
Arrangements are being made for the
erection of a canning factory at Raleigh,
N. C.
S. Rosenbaum & Cos., and others will
build a furniture factory at Columbus,
Miss.
A company will be organized soon to
erect an electric light plant at Winston,
N. C.
A canning factory will be started at
Blue Ridge Springs, Va., by T. F. Weeks
& Sou.
A stock company has been formed at
Goldsboro, N. C., to start a furniture
factory.
Bishop & Son contemplate erecting a
new wagon and carriage factory at Rice
ville, Tenn.
Macon. Ga., will decide by vote April
23rd whether or not to build a $20,000
market house.
Mr. Cook has purchased 13 acres of
land and will start large brick works, at
Portland, Ivy.
The Louisville-Kentucky Woolen Mills
Cos. will build a brick factory, two stor
ies, 05x75 feet.
A. Potts, of Danville, is organizing a
stock company to build a roller flour mill
at Somerset, Ky.
Parties from Irontou, 0., will erect a
wheelbarrow aud wood-working factory
at Decatur, Ala.
$15,000 have been raised for building
a glass factory at Blackwater, Fla. A site
has been secured.
A. S. Emerson is erecting a corrugated
iron building for his steam laundry at
Charleston S. C.
A company is being organized at Mor
ristown, Tenn., to build a sash, blind
and door factory.
An SBO,OOO stock company is being
formed at Pine Bluff, Ark., to erect
a cotton Compress.
A company has been organized at
Mansfield, Kv., to build a cotton seed oil
mill and ice factory.
The Newport Tanning Cos., has been
chartered at Newport, Ark., aud will
build works shortly.
Efforts are being made to organize a
company to build a large cotton factory
at Mooresville, N. C.
It is reported that G. W. Owens, of
Dalton, Ga., is organizing a company to
develop a marble quarry.
Tiie Wilmore Town Cos., has been or
ganized at El Paso Texas to build anew
town in the Rio Grande Valley.
T. J. Mitchell has purchased the Sadlei
mill at SadlcrsvQle, Tenn., and will put
in machinery for a woolen mill.
p. Schillinger has purchased a 25-ton
ice machine for his brewery, at Birming
ham. Ala., at a cost of $13,000.
The Woodward Iron Cos., at Wheeling, j
Ala., are opouiug anew mine, and I
will build some new coke ovens.
A company has been formed to build
an ice factory at Van Buren, Ark., and
will purchase machinery at once.
A stock company has been organized
to build a cotton compress at Thomaston,
Ga., and will begin work at once.
W. M. Nixon and others have leased
and will develop the Half-Moon Island
ore mines near Chattanooga, Tenn.
I). J. Chandler has contracted to erect
a bank building at South Pittsburg, Ten
nessee, to cost not less than SIO,OOO.
A company has been organized to erect
a large sash, door and blind factory, at
Athens, Ga., and have purchased a site.
The paid-in capital stock is $15,000.
The Church of the Advent, _<t Louis
ville. Ivy , will erect anew edifice to cost
about $20,000. It will be of brick, COx
104 feet.
A canning company, with a capital
Stock of SIOO,OOO, has been ( bartered at
Fort Smith, Ark., with R. E. Doylo as
president.
The Columbia & Greenville Kailroad
Cos. (office, Columbia, 8. C.j will at once
extend the Blue ltidge Railroad to Wal
hulla 8. C.
The Florence Compress, Packet and
Ferrv Cos., with a capital stock of $50,-
0,10 has been organized at Florence, Ala.,
for a compress.
The Young Men's Christian Association
will erect a building at Anniston, Ala.
The cost will not be less than SIO,OOO.
A. J. Twiggs, of Augusta, Ga., has
leased land and water power and will
build a wood pulp mill at Ai.ien, 8. C.
A $250,000 company has been char
tered to build a canal to bring the waters
of the Guadalupe river to Cuero, Texas.
The Selma Land Cos. will build a large
packing-house and refrigerator at Selma,
Ala., for Armour & Cos., of Chicago, 111.
The Hope Manufacturing Cos., of
Mason City, W. Va., will at once re
build their large salt works, which were
burned,
Surveys are being made fm thepropos
ed St. Johns River. Luke Weir A Gulf
Railroad, torun from Norwalk to Anclote,
Fla , 120 miles.
Tho cotton mills of the West Point
Manufacturing Cos., at West Point, Ga.,
will be rebuilt at once. The loss is re
ported to be $250,000.
It is reported that plans are being pre
pared for the erection of a large ice fac
tory and rcfiigeraliiig and bottling
works at Paris Texas.
Tho Standard Gas Marion <.q>-
■tal (took SIOO,OOO, li'- been organized
at Chattanooga, Tenn . with John C.
Anderson ns president.
Robert llousscls of Linden, has sold
mineral lauds to Memphis parties, who
will develop them and build a furnace
on the Tennessee rivi r.
The Charleston & Savannah Railroad
Cos. (office, Charleston) are building a
branch railroad from Ravenel Station to
1 oung's Islaud, 5j miles.
The C hattanooga, Cleveland A Duek
t.nvn Railroad Cos., has been incorporated
at Nashville, Tenn., by .1. T. Wilder, of
Roan Mountain and others
The Newport News A Mississippi Val
ley Railroad Cos., (office, Richmond,)
contemplate building a coil pier 275 feet
long at Newport News, Ya.
(’. C. Huekubec, owning a cotton seed
oil mill in Southern Alabama, has formed
a SBO,OOO stock company to move it to
Oxanna, Ala., and enlarge it.
The Forestvillc and Printup City
Street Railroad Cos. capital stock $35,-
000, has be: n formed at Rome, Ga., to
build a dummy street railroad.
The Newport, Jonesboro A St. Louis
HulwayCo., has been incorporate 1 at
Newport Ark , to build a 40-mile railro id
to Jonesboro. The capital stock is SOOO,-
0)0.
The Dayton Oil A Gas Cos., capital
stock SIOO,OOO, has been organized at
Dayton, Tenn. The company are leasing
lands and will shortly begin developing
them.
The Newport News A Mississippi Val
ley Railroad Cos., (office Richmond. Ya,,)
will enlarge their machine shop and
build anew paint shop, at Huntington,
W. Va.
A company has been organized at Seim i
Ala , to manufacture stoves, also one to
est ihlish chain works - The capital stock
of each is SIVO )0 and has been sub
scribed.
A meeting has lately been held at
Shreveport, La , for the purpose of or
ganizing a stock company to build a cot
ton factory to cost from $300,000 to
$400,000.
The Gerards’ Rectilinear Propellor A
Rotary Engine Cos. lias been incorporated
at New Orleans to manufacture engines,
etc. The capital stock authorized is
$t,000,000.
A bill will be introduced in the legis
lature of Virginia to allow Danville to
appropriate SKJO,OOO of a certain fund
for new gas works and for improving the
streets, etc.
A Brick Cos., has been incorporated at
Birmingham, Ala., by Mr. 31. T. Sum
mer and others. The company will
build works to manufacture 100,000
bricks daily.
A $400,000 stock company will he or
ganized at Florence, Ala., to erect a
charcoal furnace aud chemical plant with
W. B. Wood as president. The site lias
bee i secured.
i lie Memphis, \rkansas and Texas
inilroad company, capital stock $2,500,
000, has been chartered to build a rail
road from Memphis. Tenn., via Mariana
and Clarendon, Ark.
The Birmingham Street Car Factory
Cos., capital stock SIOO,OOO, has been or
ganized at Birmingham, Ala., to maun
lacture street cars and will s >Oll begin
building their works.
The consolidated Coal & Iron Cos., of
Chattanooga, Tenn., huve made a propo
sition to build the Cincinnati, Huntsville
& Birmingham Railroad from Huntsville
to the Tennessee river.
The Warren County Manufacturing
Cos., capital stock SIOO,OOO has been in
corporated to manufacture all kinds of
goods from cotton, and oil from cotton
seed at Vicksburg, Miss.
The St. Helen's Laud, Coal and Iron
Cos., capital stock $1,000,000, has been
incorporated at Frankfort, Kv., to de
velop 12,000 acres of coal and timber
lauds in Lee county, Ivy.
The American Wire lloop Cos., ol .lack
ton, Tenn., has been reorganized, and
the capital stock has been increased to
SOOO,OOO. The company will build their
works at West Nashville.
The Southern Natural Gas <fc Oil Cos.,
of Wheeling, W. Va., have issued $5,-
000,000 of bonds for the purpose, of de
veloping their mineral, oil and gas lands,
embracing nearly 200,000 acres.
F. Pence, of Rome, Ga., proposes to
organize a $5,000 chair factory, $5,000
trunk factory and $5,000 broom factory,
and in connection with J. W. Rounsa
ville, a $35,000 woodenware factory.
The Soddy Coal Cos., of Chatanooga
have sold out their property to parties in
C incinnati, 0., who will organize anew
company, with a capital stock of SOOO,-
0)0, to develop the property. The new
company will build additional coke
• veils.
The Fort Smith and Van Buren Street
:tailway Cos., at Fort Smith, Ark:, cap
1, ii stock $50,000, lias been chartered to
:> >ild a street railroad to Van Buren. At
a:ue place a Belt Railroad company has
,*■ u incorporated to build a street rail
run I about 8 miles long.
A Philapelphia company, (represented
Evans It. Dick, 147 Fourth street,)
i'vning 0,000 acres of iron lands in the
ripple Creek region, in Virginia, and
I i.OOO acres of coal lands, contemplate
a ning coal aud manufacturing iron and
oke on a large scale, but as yet have
i.limed no plans which they care to make
public.
IMPORTANT ENTERPRISE.
Montgomery, Ala., —A movement was
inaugurated here Wednesday by one of
the wealthiest corporations in the south
to establish car wheel manufacturing
works near Highland park. Some of the
shrewdest business men and capitalists
are concerned in the enterprise, and there
is no doubt of its establishment, with
prospects of great success, as Montgom
ery is a grand distributing point.
Three courts have decided that a
marriage by telegraph is illegal. If you
want to make an üboHolutly sure tiling
of it, get married by a minister.
“MY COUNTRY MAY BMC RVRR RH RIGHT. RIGHT OR WRONG MY COUNTRY." Jeftrmn
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, APRIL la, 1881.
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
H EMS OF INTEREST FROM Ol R
NATIONAL CAPITA E.
,Miut la llcliia Dune bv llie limits ol Our
(■overniuenl The II cell's Ki-vliu.
THE NATIONAL DRILL.
Tlic entries for the national drill to be
hold the last week in 3lay closed Satur
day night. A number of entries not yet
recorded are on their way, and will be
received, having been mailed before the
date of closing I lie entries recorded are
distributed ns follows among the differ
ent branches of the service: Regimental
drill 4, battalion 0, artillery 7, gatling
gun 2, infantry companies 05, school
cadet corps 7. zouave 5. individual drill,
about, 82, rifle practice, about, 88, mili
tary bands and drum corps, about, 22.
The Montgomery (Ala.) True Blues,the
Atlanta (Ga.) Rifles, the Mobile (Alu.)
Lomax Rifles, and one or two other com
panies from the south, who had previous
ly entered, "have announced their un
willingness to enter the contest with ne
gro companies and have therefore with
drawn, This action the part of these
companies has caused considerable com
ment.
THE NEW SECRETARY ANU ASSISTANT.
The president signed the commissions
of Charles S. Fairchild ns secretary of
the treasury, and Isaac H. Maynard as
assistant secretary of the treasury Friday.
Mr. Fairchild at once entered upon the
discharge of his new duties. The officers
and many clerks of the department waited
on him early and extended their congrat
ulations. The crowd became so great
that he was compelled to abandon, for a
time, all ideas of attending to the cur
rent work claiming his attention. Ho
mused a temporary halt by announcing
that he would receive his official friends
informally in the afternoon after he hail
disposed of his mail. He received a
profusion of flowers and congratulatory
letters and telegrams from till parts of the
country. A majority of the telegrams
were from bankers and business men.
Judge Maynard in accepting his new
office will suffer a loss of $5,000 a year in
salary. lie makes the change at the
peisonal solicitation of the president and
Secretary Fairchild, with the latter of
whom ha" enjoys the closest personal re
lations.
THE COMMISSIONERS MEET.
On Thursday all of the interstate com
merce commissioners had arrived in the
city. Mr. Bragg, the last cue to arrive,
came in ou an early morning train.
They all met at the white house and
were introduced to each other by tho
president. They were besieged during
the day by numerous correspondents, all
of whom utterly failed to get any ex
pressions front either of them. At 3
o'clock they called on the secretary of the
interior, before whom they took the oath
of office aud received their commissions.
From tlienee they repaired to rooms pre
pared for them’on F street, where for
some time to come they are to perform
the duties of official railroad regulators.
Judge Cooley was made chairman of the
commission. Further organization will
be perfected at once, but nothing will be
done before April sth, at which time the
law goes into effect.
There are no five men in these United
States who are attracting the attention
of so many people. This little body of
men is to hold in its control thousands of
millions of property and the rights of
sixty million people.
TIIE DISUT STATEMENT
issued Friday shows the decrease of tho
public debt during the month of March
to he $12,808,467,71. The decrease of
Urn debt since June 80, 1886, was $70,-
012,824,70; cash in the treasury, $453,-
117,086.64; gold certificates out-stand
ing, $04,046,015; silver certificates out
standing, $131,930,480; certificates of
deposit outstanding, $7,135,000; legal
tenders outstanding, $340,681,016; frac
tional currency, not including amount
estimated as lost or destroyed, $6,948,-
407.37. Total interest bearing debt
$119,571,112. Total debt, including
matured bonds, accrued interest and
debt w hich bears no interest $1,708,207.
513.04.
KNDROTI AND MAYNARD DISAUBEE.
We clip the following from the Eve
ning Slar of Wednesday: There have
been numerous points of controversy be
tween Second Controller Maynard and
Secretary Endicott. The secretary of
war Inis' not In all cases been willing to
accept the decisions of the second con
troller, and has tried on several occasions
to have them reversed or overruled in
some way. There has been a conflict of
authority and Judge Maynard has held
the key to the situation. Two or three
months ago, Mr. Endicott wrote a letter
to the second controller m relation to the
aecounts of Surgeon Billings, Lieutenant
Ray and Captain Wheeler for mileage
while journeying abroad, which had been
disallowed, reopened by request of tho
secretary of war, and again disallowed;
and also to certain accounts of Capt. J. B.
Rawlcs, Majors Smith and Tucker and
others. In the letter Mr. Endicott an
nounced that he intended to submit the
cases to t tic court of claims under the
provisions of section 3 of the act of
March 3, IHB4, which permits matters
controverted in the departments to he
sent to the court of claims.
Yesterday just befoie retiring from tho
office of second controller Judge Mayn
ard wrote a sharp reply to the secretary
of war. lie said tlint the cases had been
settled and'the papers turned over to the
second auditor; that the re examination
had resulted in postponing the decision
reached in the first instance, and tint the
matter would not he again icopened. As
to the announcement that the secretary
of war intended to send the eases to the
court of claims he calls attention to the
fact that the cases are entirely under the
jurisdiction of the treasury department
and cannot be taken to tho court of
claims by the head of any other depart
incut. Moreover, he reminds Secretary
Endicott that the court could only give
an opinion and not a decision in the
cases, should the secretary go there. In
conclusion he says:
“If the secretary of war had any doubt
with reference to the correctness of his
own views upon any or all of the abstract
questions of law propounded in his let
ter, the opinion of the court of claims
thereon might be of value to him; but as
this office has no doubt, and, so far as it
can lie learned this department has none,
with reference to the correctness of the
adjustment of accounts referred to, it is
not seen how a reference of these cases
by another department to the court of
claims can affect the past or coutrol the
future action of the treasury department
thereon.”
THE NEW DOCKS.
Secretary Whitney lias approved the
report of the board appointed to select
sites for tho two now dry docks author
ized by the last congress. The docks
will bo located at the New York ami
Norfolk navy yards, and will ho built by
contract on the general plan of thcHimp
•ou dry docks. They will be constructed
of timber, and the dimensions will he
about us follows: Length, 485 feet;
width, at top, 125 feet; and the widthat
(ho bottom 00 feet. The amount of
money available for their construction is
$4,100,000. The New York dock will
cost more than the dock at Norfolk,
owing to the diffleulty of obtaining a
; ><j foundation. A good foundation of
l ... utm* clay and gravel can Is* obtained
t Norfolk at a depth of 85 feet, while at
uav York innumerable quick sands and
springs are found at a similar depth, ire
i e -bating heavy piling to obtain u foun
dation capable of supporting a vessel of
0,000 to 10,000 tons in weight. The
i xar t location ill the yards of the two
docks can not he determined, lint borings
will tic made within a short time to as.
certain the nature of the foundation.
A CIVIL SEIIVH H DEC I ION.
The district supreme court, in general
term, rendered a decision Monday in the
case of Morris 8. Miller against the civil
service commission, brought before tho
court upon a petition.of right, in which
the petitioner complained of acts of the
commission and asked to have the civil
service law declared unconstitutional.
Judge Hagner, who deliverer! the opin
ion, said that the court had given the pe
titioner a hearing, lint could not grant
the relief prayed for. The application
was, therefore, dismissed. ’l ire inter
state commerce commissioners are being
flooded with petitioners from every sec
tion, and from present indications they
w ill have their hands full for some time
to come. The following rule of procced
ure has been promulgated by them : Ap
plications made for official action by this
commission shall he made by petition
which petition shall set forth the facts
on which they are founded, anil he ver
ritied by the oath of the applicant or
some authorized agent.
THE NEW W Alt VE.-SELS.
The secretary of the navy lias invited
sealed proposals fiom ship builders of
the Vnited States for building five new
vessels; the 'Newark,” authorized bv
the naval appropriation hill of 1885; two
nineteen knot cruisers knownns numbers
four and five; and two 1,708 ton gun
boats, designated as numbers three and
four.
THE LINES TO CONNECT.
A I unlraet Itelwetn llie Louisville A- Niasli
, illeaucl the Norfolk A Wcelero.
Official anno.uncement is made from
Philadelphia that a preliminary contract
has beeu executed between the Louisville
aud Nashville and the Norfolk and Wes
tern railroad companies by the terms of
which each eomany undertakes promptly
lo cause surveys to l>c made, with a view
to construct an extension of its lines to
a point of counectiou in Wise county,
Virginia. The extension of the Louisville
and Nashville railroad will be from Cor
bin station, on their present Knoxville
branch, through the Cumberland valley
of Kentucky, and the extension of the
Norfolk ami Western railroad will be from
Graham station, on their New River di
vision, through Clinch valley of Virginia.
The total length of the line to he con
structed is about two hundred miles, and
as the meeting point will be east of the
Cumlx?rland mc*intain, in Wise county,
Virginia, each company will have about
one hundred miles to construct, and the
work will bo pressed to completion as
rapidly as possible, Engineers have been
engaged for several months past in loca
tion of tbe line. The Louisville aud
Nashville railroad company has already
thirty-five miles of their portion of it un
der contract and to be completed during
the month of August of the presentyear.
It is expected that the entire line will be
completed and connections made within
the next twelve months.
INSTANTLY KILLED.
HI, H. (irny Killed liy S. T. t-rlnce—Tk
Particulars*
M. 11. Gray, a citizen of Fannin coun
ty, Ga., was "killed Sunday afternoon at
State Line, in said county, by J. T.
Prince. The parties are both well known,
Prince being a bailiff. rhe particulars
are as follows: Gray was having some
words willi a negro who worked for
Prince. Prince came up am! tried to
Stop the difficulty. Gray thought Prince
w anted to arrest him and began cursing
him. Prince told him to stop or he would
shoot him. Gray continued to curse
and picked up a rock to throw. Then
Prince began to shoot. Tlie first shot
went through Gray’s coat. The second
shot hit him in the left eye, killing him
instantly. After firing the second shot
Prince turned and fled.
Alt inquest was held, the verdict was
that ‘‘the deceased came to his death by
a pistol shot ball tired from a pistol in
the hands of John Prince, and that it was
a case of murder. Prince is at large, a
reward of $305, is offered by John Dray,
of Blue Kidgc, for his apprehension and
delivery.
FOUR MEN DROWNED
J lie, a o Under While Knllin# Timber llovvn
Ihe Oconee River.
J. M. Smith, of Dublin Ga., started,
last Thursday, a large raft of timber
down the Oconee river to Darien, with a
crew of four men. He ordered the crew
to ruu night and day
On Friday night, while turning a bend
in the river, the raft broke to pieces and
all of the crew except tho pilot were
drowned, lie saved himself by clinging
to the floating timbers until be could
roach the hank. It is said that the raft
contained eighty-six pieces, which would
average 1,000 feet each.
The raft, it is said, was poorly put to
gether, and one crew refused to go oil it,
when Smith employed another. Smith
was warned by old river nieu not to at
tempt the running of such a raft, as it
would be wrecked, but psid no attention
to the warning. His timber is a com
plete loss.
EFFECT'D!-' THE INTERSTATE LAW.
llarrisbcrg, Pa. The Chesapeake
nail works, employing 200 men, and the
Loekhill and Paxton furnace have ceased
operation until the railroad and trans
portation companies reach some conclus
ion regarding freight rates. Mill owners
say they cannot continue business under
the interstate act as interpretted. Sev
eral bundled men are thrown out of
employment.
liliY. 1)11. TAI:)I AGE.
TIIE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SI N"
HAY SERMON.
Kii!iJ*’l ol* DU<-niirfi<>: \ Rrojiri Gos*
|>H.” (I'rruchetl at !><*
Mol nos, Iona)
Tk.KT: ‘ Com#* thou amt all thj/ house into
the ark.'' —Ot*vii., 1.
W* do uot lit**,l tlu> Bible to prove th
Deluge. The geolngint's hummer announces
it. Sen shall* and marine formations on the
top of some of fclie highoNt *,( Ou*
earth prove that ut some time the water!
" i h.tl over tin* top of the Alp* and the
Andes. In wlmt way the catastrophe came,
we know not; whether bv the stroke ot a
comet, or by flushes of lightuiug, changing
the air Into water, or by a stroke of the hand
of God, liketlK stroke of the x between the
horns of the ox. the earth staggered. To
meet the catastrophe, God ordered a great
ship built. It was tola* without prow. For it
was to sail to no shore. It was to lie w ithout
helm, for no human hand should guide it. It
was a vast structure, probably aslargeas two
or t lire:* ('unard steamer*. It was the Greut
Eastern of olden time's.
The ship is done. The door is open. The
lizards crawl in. The cattle walk in. Tho
grasshoppers hop in. The birds tty in The
invitation goe* forth to Noah: “Come thou
and all thy house into the ark.” Just one hu
man family embarktsl on the strange voyage,
and I hear the door slam shut. A great storm
sweep* along the hills, and liend* the cedars
until all the branches snap in the gale. There
is a moan in the wind like unto the moan of a
dying world. The blackness of the heavens
is shattered by the ilare of the lightnings,
that look down into the waters, and throw a
ghastliness on the face of the mnuntains. How
st range it looks! How suffocating the air seems:
The big drops of rain plash upon the upturned
facets of those who are watching the tempest.
< rash! go the rocks in convulsion! Room go
the bursting heavens The inhabitants of the
earth, iiLstead of fleeing to house-top and
mountain top. as men have fancied, nit down
in dumb, w hite horror to die. For when God
grinds mountains to pieces, and lets the ocean
slip its cable, there is no place for men to lly
to. See the urk pitch and tumble in the surf;
whih* from its windows the |ussengers look
out upon the shipwreck of a race, and the
carcasses of a dead world. Woe to the moun
tains! Woo to the Sea!
lam no alarmist. When, on the “JOth of
Rcptcmlier, after the wind has for three days
been blowing from the northeast, you prophe
sy that the equinoctial storm is coniiiiff, yoii
simply state a fact not to be disputed. Neither
am l an alarmist when I say tnat a storm is
coming, cornered with which Noah s deluge
was but an April shower; aud that it is the
w isest and safest for you and for me to get
safely housed for eternity. The invitation
that went forth to Noah'sounds in our ears:
“l ome thou and all thy house into the ark.”
“Well, how did Noah and his family come
into the ark? Did they climb in at the win
dow, or come down the roof? No; they went
through the door. And just so, if weget into
the ark of God's mercy, it will be through
Christ the door. The entrance to the ark of
old must have lx*en a very large entrance.
We know that it was from the fact that
there were monster animals in the earlier
ages; and, in order to get them into the ark
two and two, according to the Bible state
ment. the door must have been very wide and
very high. So the door into tho mercy of
Liud isaiiii ge door. We go in not two by
two, but by hundreds, aiuluy tliousauds. and
by millions. Yea, all the nations of the earth
may go in, ten millions abreast.
The door of the ancient ark was in the side.
8o now it is through the side of Christ—the
pierced side, the wide-open side, the heart
side—that we enter. Aha! the Homan soldier,
thrusting his spear into the Saviour's side,
exi**cte<l only to let the blood out, but he
opened the way to let all the world in. O,
what a broad Gosjiel to preach! If a man is
about to give an entertainment, he issues one
or two hundred invitations, carefully put up
and directed to the particular perwons whom
he wishes to entertain. But God our Father
makes a banquet, and goes out to the front
door of heaven and stretches out his hands
over land and sea. and, with u voice that
penetrates the Hindoo inngle and the Green
land ice castle, and Brazilian grove, ami
English factory, and Amerean home,
cries out: ‘Come, for all things are
now ready. 1 It is a wide door!
The old cross has liuen taken apart, and its
two pieces are stood up for the door-posts, so
far apart that all the world can come In.
Kings scatter treasures on days of great re
joicing, So Christ, our King, come* and
scatters the jewels ol heaven. Rowland Hill
said that he hoped to get into heaven through
the crevices of the door. But he was not
obliged thus to go in. After having preached
the gospel in Surrey Chapd, going up toward
heaven, the gate keeper cried : Lift up your
heads, ye everlasting gates, and let this mun
come in.* 1 The dying thief went in. Richard
Baxter and Roliert Newtown went in. Europe,
Asia, Africa, North and South America may
yet go through this wide door without crowd
ing. Ho,every one!- all conditions,all ranks,all
people. Luther said that this truth was
woith carrying ou one's knees from Rome to
Jerusal mu: but I think it worth caiTying all
round the globe, and all around the heavens,
that “God so loved the world that Ile gave
His only-begotten Son, that whosoever Le
lieveth in Him should not perish, but have
everlasting life. Whosoever will, let him
conic through the large door. Archimedes
wanted a fulcrum on which to place his lever,
and then he said that he could move the
wm 11. (Calvary is the fulcrum, and the cross
of Christ is the lever, and by that power all
nations shall yet lie lift<*d.
Further: It is a door that swings Is tli ways.
1 do not know whether the door of the ancient
ark was lifted, or rolled on hinges; but this
door of Christ opens loth ways. It swings
out toward all our woes; it swings in to
ward the raptures of heaven. It swings in to
'i ‘.t ns in; it swings out to let our ministering
-ties come out. All are one in Christ < ’hris
tians on earth ami saints in heaven.
“One army of the living God,
At His command we Ism ;
Part of the host have crossed the Hood.
And purt crossing now.”
Swing in, Oh blessed door! until all the
earth shall go in and live. Swing out until
all the heavens come forth to celebrate the
victory.
Hut. further, it is a door with fastenings.
Tho Bible says of Noah: “The Lord shut
him in.” A vessel without bulwarks or doors
w ould not he a safe vessel to go iu. When
Noah and his family heard the fastening of
the door of the ark, they were very glad.
Unless those doors were fastened, the lirst
heavy surge of the sea would have whelmed
them; ana they might as well have perished
outside the ark as inside the ark. The Lord
shut him in.” Oh, the perfect safety of tho
ark! The surf of the sea and the lightnings
of the sky may be twisted into a garland of
snow and fire—deep to deep, storm to storm,
darkness to darkness; but once in the ark, ull
is well. “God shut him in.”
There comes upon the good mail a deluge of
financial trouble. He had his thousands to
lend; now he cannot borrow a dollar. Ho
once owned a store in New York, and had
branch houses in Boston, Philadelphia and
New Orleans. He owned four horses, and
employed a man to keep the dust off his coach,
phaeton, carriage and curricle; now ho has
hard work to get shoes in which to walk. The
great deep of commercial disaster w as broken
up, and fore, and aft, and across tho hurri
cane deck, the waves struck him. But he was
safely sheltered from the storm. “The Lord
shut him in.”A flood of domestic trouble fell on
him. Hickness and bereavement came. The
rain pelted. The winds blew. Tho heavens
are aflame. All the gardens of earthly de
light are washed away. The fountains of joy
are burled fifteen cubits deep. But, standing
by the empty crib, an l in the desolate nurs
ery, and in the doleful hall, once a-ring with
merry voices, now silent forever, he cried:
‘ The Lord gave, tho Lord hath taken away;
blessed be the name of the Lord.” “The Lord
shut him in.” All the sins of a lifetime
clamored for his overthrow. The broken
vows, the dishonored Sabbaths, the outrage
ous profanities, the misdemeanors of twenty
years, reached up their hands to the door ot
the ark to pull him out: The boundless ocean
of his sin surrounded his soul, howling like a
simoom, raving like an euroclydon. But,
looking out of the window, .lie saw his sins
sink like lead into the depths of the sea. The
dove of heaven brought an olive branch to
the ark. The wflpth of the billow only pushed
him tow ard heaven. 4 4 The Lord shut him in.”
The same door fastenings that kept Noah in
keep the world out. lam glud to Know that
when a man reaches heaven all earthly
trouble* are done with him. Here be may
have Imd it hard to get bread for hi* family ;
there Ik* will never hunger any more. Here
hi* may have wept bitterly: there ‘‘the Lamb
that, in the midst of the ihrone w ill Jo.td him
to living fountains of water, and God will
wqie awtu all tours from his eyes.” Here he
may have hard work to get a house; but in my
Futhers house art* inaiiy mansions, aud rent
day never come*. Here there aie Ueut h bed*,aud
eoilins, ami graves; there no sickness, no
weary watching, no choking cough, no con
suming fever, no chattering chill, no tolling
bell, no grave. The sorrow* of life shall corns
iii) tuul knock at the door, but no a<lmittance.
The jierploxilic* of life shall comu up ami
knock on the door, but no admittance. Safe
forever! All the agony of earth in one wave
dashing iigaiust Lb * bulwarks of the ship of
celestial light shall not break them down.
Howl on, ye winds, and rage, ye seas! The
Lotti- - tile Kurd shut him ui.' 1
(J. what u grant 1 old door ! so w ide, so
easily swung both way*, and with such .sure
fastenings. No burglars key can pick that
lock. No swarthy arm of heU can shove back
the bolt. 1 rejoice that Ido not usk you to
oomeatioard a crazy craft w ith leaking hulk,
ami broken helm, and unfastened door; but
an ark fifty cubits wide, and three hundred
cubits long, and a door no large that the
round earth, without grazing the posts, might
lie bowled in.
Now, if the ark of Christ is so grand a place
in which to live, and die. And triumph, come
into the ark. Know well that the door that
shut Noah in shut the world out; and though,
when the pitiless storm came jielting on their
heads, they beat upon the door, saying:
“Let me in! let me in!' the door did not open.
For I*JO years they were invited. They **x
pected to come in; but the Antediluvians
said: We must cultivate these fields;
we must be worth more flocks of
sheep and herds of cattle; we will wale
until we get a little older; we will enjoy our
old farm a little longer. 11 But meanwhile
the storm was brewing. The fountains of
heaven were tilling up. The pry was being
placed beneath the foundations of the great
deep. The last year bad come, the last month,
the last week, the lust day, the last hour, the
lart moment. In an awful dash, an ocean
dropped from the sky, and another rolled up
from Iteneath; and God rolled the earth and
sky into one wave of universal destruction.
So men now put off going into the ark.
They say they will wait twenty years first.
They will have a little longer tune with their
worldly associates. They will wait until they
get older. They say: “You cannot expect a
man of my attainments and of my position to
surrender myself just now. But Before the
storm comes, I will go in. Yes, 1 will. I
know w hat lam about. Trust me.” After
awhile, one night about twelve o'clock, going
home, he panes a scaffolding as a gust of wind
strikes it,and a plank falls. Death! and outside
til** ark' < )r, riding in the park,a reckless vehicle
crashes into him. and his horse becomes un
inauugcable. and he shouts, “ Whoa! Whoa!”
and takes another twist in the reins, and
plants his feet against the dash-board, and
pulls back. But no use. It is not so much
downi the avenue that he flit's as on the wav
to eternity. Out of the wreck of the crash
his body is drawn, but his soul is
not picked tip. It fled behind a
swifter courser into the great future.
Dead! and outside the ark! Or, some
night, he wakes up with a distress that
momentarily increases, until he shrieks out
with pain. The doctora come in, and they
give him twenty drops, fifty drops, sixty
drops, but no relief. No time for prayer. No
time to read one of the promises. No time to
get a single sin pardoned. The whole house
is aroused in alarm. The children scream.
The wife faints. The pulse* fail. The heart
stops. The noul flies. Oh, my God! dead!
and outside the ark!
I have no doubt thafcd**ri*km kept many
jieople out of the ark. The world laughed to
see a man go In, and said: “Here is a man
starting for the ark. Why, there will be no
deluge If there is one, that miserable ship
will not weather it. Aha! going into the ark 1
Well, that is too good to keep. Here, fellows,
have you heard the news! This man is going
into the ark.” Under this artillery of scorn
the man's good resolution perished.
And so there are hundreds kept out by the
fear of derision. The young man asks him
self: “What would they say at the store to
morrow morning, if I should become a Chris
tian i When Igo down to the club-house they
would shout: “Here comes that new Chris
tian. Suppose you are praying now'. Get
down on your knees and let us hear you pray.
('ome, now, give us a touch. Will not do it,
eh/ lYetty Christian you are. 1 ” Is it not the
f ear of being laughed at that keep you out of
the kingdom of God/ Which of thesescomers
will kelp you at the last? When you lie down
on a dying pillow', which of them will lie
there? In the day of eternity, will they bail
you out/
My friends and neighbors, ('ome in right
away. Come in through Christ, the wide
door—the door that swings out toward you.
(’ome in, and be saved. Come and be happy.
“The .Spirit and the Bride say, Come.” Room
in the ark! Room in the ark!
Hut do not come alone. The text invites
you to bring your family. “Come thou and ,
nil thou house.”. That means your wife and \
your children. You cannot drive them in.
If Noah had tried to drive the pigeons and
the doves into the ark, he would only have
scattered them. .Some parents are not wise
about these things. They make iron Jules about ■
Sabbaths, and they force the catechism down
the throat, as they would hold the child’s nose
and force down a dose of rhubarb and calomel.
You cannot drive your children into the ark.
You can draw your children to Christ, but
you cannot coerce them. The cross was
lifted, not to drive, but to draw. “If Ibe
lifted up I will draw all men unto me.” As
the sun draws up the drops of morning dew, j
so the Hun of Righteousness exhales the tears 1
of rerientnnee.
“Come thou and all thy house into the ark.”
Be sure that you bring your husband and
wife with you How would Noah have felt
if, when he heard the rain pattering on the
roof of the ark, he knew that his wife was
outside in the storm/ No; she went with
him. And yet some of you are on the ship
“outward bound” for heaven, but your com
panion is unsheltered. You remember when
the marriage-ring was set. Nothing lias yet
been üblo to bleak it. Sickness cam*, and
the finger shrank, but the ring staid on.
twain stood alone al>ove a child’s gravi,
the dark mouth of the tomb swallowed up a
thousand hopes; but the ring dropped not
into the open grave. Days of poverty came, j
and the hand did many a hard day’s work ; ;
but the rubbing of the work against the
ring only made it shine brighter. Hhall that
ring ever be lost/ Will tho iron clang of the
sepulchre-gate crush it forever/ I pray Cod
that you who have been marred on earth may
lx- together in heaven. Oh! by the quiet bliss
of your earthly home; by the babe’s cradle:
by all the vows of that day when you started
life together, I l>eg you to see to it that you
both get into the ark.
Come in, and bring your wife or your hus
band with you—not by fretting about re
ligion, or ding-donging them about religion,
but by a consistent life, and by a compeling
prayer that shall bring the throne or Goa
down into your bedroom. Better live in the
smallest house in Brooklyn and get into heaven
than live fifty years in the finest house on
Madison Square, and wake up at last and
find that one of you, for all eternity, is out
side the ark. Go home to-night; lock the
door of your room; take up the Bible and
read it together, and then fence 1 down and
commend your souls to Him who has watched
you all thesj years: and, before you rise,
there will be a fluttering of wings over your
head, angel crying to angel: “Behold they
pray!"
But this does not include all your family.
Bring the children too. God bless the dear
children’ What would our homes be with
out them/ We may have done much for
them. They have done more for us. What
a salve for a wounded heart there is in the soft
palm of a child’s hand! Did harp or flute
ever have such music as there is in a child’s
“goodnight?” From our coarse, rough life, the
angels of God are often driven back; but who
comes into the nursery without feeling that
angels are hovering around? They who die
in infancy go info glory, but you ar3 expect
ing your children to grow up in this world.
Is it not a question, then, that rings through
all the corridors, ami windings, and heights,
and depths of your soul, what is to be
coirte or your sons and daughters for time
ami for eternity. “O!” you say, “I mean
to see that they have good manners. Very well.
•'I mean to dress them well, if I have myself to
go shabby.” Very goo 1. “1 shall give them an
education, and 1 shall leave them a fortune.”
V ery well But is that all/ Don’t you mean
to take them into the ark? Don’t you know
that the storm is coining, and that out of
Christ there is no safety / no pardon / no hope?
no heaven?
How to get them in/ Go in yourself. If
Noah had staid out, do you not suppose that
hie sons, Shein, Ham, and Japhet, would have
staid out? Your sons and daughters will be
NUMBER 21.
* 4 Ml
apt to do just a* you dot RejJbKfertat your
self, and the probability is Umt your children
u iii rsjiit Him
An account was taken of the religious con
dition of fumilies in a certain district. In the
families of pious pnr< ut*, two thirds of the
children were Christians, in the families
where the parents wore ungodly, only one
twelfth of the children were Christian*. Re
sponsible as you are kr then: §emporal exist
ence, you are also respupsinio for their eter
nity. Which way will you tnbe them? Out
into the deluge, or into Jhq iuk? Have you
ever made one earnest pr*y#r for their im
mortal souls/ WJiut wiiCyou *ay in the
judgment when God asks: "Whoreis George,
or Henry, or Frank, er flfery, or Anna?
Where arc those prc> wuj whose inter
ests 1 committed into vouf
A dying s<>n said t* his father: “Father,
you gave me an education, and good man
ners, and everything tluit the world could do
for me: but, father, ybn n*vtr told me how
to die, and now inv soul is guuig out in the
darkness.”
Go home and erect n family altar. You
may break down in your pr.iwr. But never
mind, God will lain' wkatatflhneaii', whether
you express it intelligibly not. Bring all
your house into the ni*t Ts there one son
whom you have given up hUjo so dissipated
that you liave stopped edunaqiing and pray
ing? Give him up? Ilow daxc you give him up?
Did God ever give thee up? Whilst thou husta
single articulation of speech left, cease not tc
pray for the i-ctum of mat prodigal. He
may even now' l>e stiiudiigf on the beach at
Hong Kong or Madras, mcdiWting a return
to his father's house. Give mm up i Never
give Inin up. Has God pfiomised to hear thy
prayer only to mock tin * f It i.-, not too late.
In Bt. 1 aids, Loud mi, there is a whispering
gallery. A voice uttered unjft feebly at one
side of the gallery is hoard distinctly at the
opposite side, a great distant cell'. So, every
word of earnest prayer gdr*>Tall around the
earth, and makes heaven a wliijgAermg
gallery. Go into tho ark—not to down,
but to stand in the door., and call until all
the family come in. Aged Hoah, where is
Japhet? David, where i* A Lwiiom t Hannah,
where is Samuel' Bring tfiftiu in through
Christ the door. Would it not be pleasant to
spend eternity with our families? Gladder
than Christmas or Thanksgiving festival will
l>e tbe reunion, if we got all our family into
the ark. Which of them can we si>are out of
betm
On one of the late steamers there were a
father and two daughter* joufldeying. They
seemed extremely poor. A benevolent gentle
man stepped up to the poor man to proffer
some form of relief, and sahi: “You seem
to be very poor, sir.” “Poor, sir,” replied tho
man, “if there’s a poorer man than
me a troubling the world, God pity
both of us!” I wili*. take one of
your children, and adopt it, if you
say so. I think it would be u great relief to
you.” “A what'” said tho poor man. “A
relief.” “Would it be a relief to have the
hands chopped off from the body, or the heart
torn from the breast? A relief indeed! God
b? good to us! What do you meon, sir?”
However many children we may have, we
have none to give up. Which’of our fami
lies can we afford to spare out of heaven?
Come, father! Come, mother! Come, son!
Come.da lighter! Come, brother! (’ome,
Only one step, and we are in. Christ, the door,
swings out to admit us; and it is not the
hoarseness of a stormy blast that you hear,
but the voice of a loving atvT patient God
that addresses you, saying: “Cyme thou and
all thy house into the ark.” *
And there may the Lord shut us iu.
LABORERS* FIGHT.
A Tragedy at a Cotton Coiiijpreoe iu New
Orlenmi, La
in a right in the Factors’ cotton press
at Oew Orleans, L., between members
of the old and new councils, Tuesday
afternoon, Patrick Gilchrist was shot and
dangerously wounded by Alexander Paul,
a colored yardman. The wounded man,
who is also a yardman, was sent to the
charity hospital. Paul was arrested and
taken to the central station.' Police Su
perintendent Adams is concentrating his
force at the presses. Paul was seen at
the central station, Gilchristhe said, had
been threatening him for several days.
Today, while standing at the press, cor
ner of Robin and Tochoupitpulas streets,
Gilchrist approached him. man nam
ed Burke held Gilchrist baMf, but he
broke away, drew a revolt qr and lired
four shots. He (Paul) returned the tire,
emptying live chambers of his pistol, one
bullet taking effect in Gilchrist's abdo
men.
Paul is chairman of the executive com
mittee of yardmen No. 2, and is vice
president of the trades assembly. He
was also vice president of the cotton
council before the press association diffi
culties originated. Gilchrist is well
known in cotton circles, and has always
borne an excellent reputation.
ACCIDENT AT STEET. WOItKS.
At the Edgar Thompson steel works,
at Braddock, Pa., about 10 O’clock Tues
day morning a boat of stent had been
dumped to a portable ladle,preparatory
to pouring it into ingot molds, when the
liquid metal exploded and was scattered
iu all directions. Five piemen were
frightfully burned from head to foot. A
coke boy passing to the pit fct the time
was caught by the flesh and his clothing
burned from his body, l’tva pitmen, it
is thought, are fataliy burned. AH oth
ers very seriously. All the physicians in
Braddock were promptly summoned and
everything possible done foe (he relief of
the sufferers.
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WRECKERS AT WORK.
The south bound passenger train on.
Mobile and Ohio railway was wrecked at
Caroll station, eight miles from Jackson,
Tenn., Monday night. No one was in
jured, though the passengers were con
siderably shaken up. The accident seems
to have been due to train wreckers, as
the switch was partly thrown and an
iron bolt was found tho
rails. The railroad authorities lay tho
deed at the door of residents of that
vicinity, who they claim are seeking
revenge on the engineer for running over
some of their live stock recently.
RAILROAD# AND NEWSPAPERS.
Cincinnati newspapers appeared Friday
without the customary columri giving the
time of arrival and departure of trains.
This is in accordance with the proposition
made by the newspapers, jointly, in view
of the stoppage of passes to stop the free
publication of matter for the* benefit of
tho railroad but but to accent tickets iu
payment for all advertising. The railroads
replied, accepting the proposition for ad
vertisements which they should Older,
and intimating that the daily publication
of time tables should not be regarded as
an advertisement.
r\n HEEL MOONSHINERS.
Information has just been received in
regard to several cases of ©rooledness in
the management of the govenfruent dis
tilleries in Rutherford county, N. C.
Two of these establishments have been
seized by a government official from
Washington, who, as a detective, worked
up the case. The storekeeper and dis
tillers were in copartnership and con
spired in defrauding the government.
The parties have fled. They are charged
with wholesale violation of the revenue
laws on a large scale.