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VOLUME XXII.
Till! school officials of Boston have
nutted notice* in nil Ihc school Iniihlin s
of ilint city forbidding the chewing of
tobacco by the pupil*. Tiny have even
[polled notices in the girls' high-school
building, much to the indignation of the
young women.
Oleomargarine costs nt wholesale thir
teen cents a pound, andscllset eighteen,
twenty-flve, nod sometime* thirty cents.
Though no sudden deaths may lie traced
to its use, it may not be wholesome for
ail that. A Boston man says: “It is
probable that nine tenths of all the 0100
gold is sold to those who do not wish it
fur their own use.
The fastest passenger steamer alloat is
said to be the Queen Victoria, which is
to ply between Liverpool and the Isle of
Man. On the trial trip from Greenock
to O verpool, she made an average of
twenty-two and one-fourth knots or
twenty-five and one-half miles an hour.
This was accomplished in hail weather
snd against a rattling gale.
The Presidents of the various Repub
lics of the world are, for the most part,
men in about the middle period of life,
pew of them are over sixty, and for va
rious reasons, none of them are so young
is many monarchs have been when they
noun ted the throne. The oldest is the
President of France—Francois P. Jules
Srcvy —who will finish his seventy
fourth year in less than three months
trom the present time. Our own execu
tive, Mr. Cleveland, completed his half
teuturv some months ago.
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The little State of Belgium, says flic
Cultivator, has always been the battle
[round of Europe. More decisive
battles have been fought on its soil than
jn any other of equal area in the world.
Should war occur between France anil
jermany, Belgium must take the brunt
if the conflict. This small nationality
ippears to have been kept distinct as a
Sghting ground for its bigger neighbors
when they fell out, Just now the people
if Belgium are taking great interest in
French and German politics, though
unable to do anything in either, except
to patiently await the turn of events.
Building railroads in China is an old
fbrme. Circumstantial details have ap
peared from time to time with accounts
of concessions obtained and with pre
dictions as to the time when that country
would be covered with a network of rails,
fhe latest account is given in the London
'Colliery Guardian, based on news from
Pekin, which declares positively that
China is at last to have railways. The
report is that the Chinese court has ad
vised the empress to order the construc
tion da railroad from Kaiping toTakoo,
the port of Tientsin, and a line from
Takno to Tientsin. It is considered
prohable that the coal mines in the
vicinity of Pekin will be connected with
that eity by rail, thus permitting the cost
Df coal to be cheapened. The building
)f these roads, and positively others, is
ooked upon by British iron and steel
nanufacturers as likely to open a large
field for British goods of this character.
The cential provinces of Spain (the
Madrid correspondent of the London
Chronicle says) have been visited by so
terrible a plague of locusts that whole
districts arc ruined. Within the space
of a few hours these pests have destroyed
every trace of vegetation —grass, wheat,
vines and olives. Over considerable
tracts of country not a vestige of green
is to be seen, and the reports state that at
times the sun has been obscured when
these fearful pests have been winging
their flight from place to place. In La
Mancha the trains have been stopped by
them, and gangs of workmen have had
to go ahead of passenger trains in trucks
to clear the lines of the myriads of locusts
that have descended upon them. In many
cases the insects have lain so thick on the
ails that trains have not been able to
cavi l faster than three or four miles an
tour. The cortcs are about to vote a
argr credit, in aid of the sufferers and to
Wcvidc for a means of destroying these
’orncious swarms of insects.
The Chicago correspondent of the New
Vork Star says that Nina Van Zandt, the
>roxy bride of August Spies, the con
demned Chicago Anarchist,is in decided
ly ill health and probably dying. She has
cut loose from her family and is having a
hard time. The correspondent reports
Miss Van Zandt saying: “Oh, this worry
is killing me. Not only the anxiety about
the outdome of the case, but the intoler
able throngs of callers, curious only to
see me, and the army of beggars who
have read that I was rich; and then the
letters, bushels of them, from every con
ceivable sort of people, some of them
threatening my life and some asking for
money; many abusing me, and no end to
the marriage proposals from unknown
vagabonds who say they are much better
than any Anarchist; that Mr. Spies will
be hanged anyhow, and I had better con
clude to accept their offer. A great
many include photos, so that I can see
how good looking they are. Oh, I did
not know the world was so full of silly
feols as it seems to be. I am nervous,
sleepless and nearly worried to death.
The injunction suit cost me a great deal
of money, and my income has been shut
off on every hand. I have nothing now
hut the income of ray book on the life of
Mr. Spies, and the attacks of the pre-si
have made its sales very slow. 1 have
not spoken to mother or father for
months;then came that cruel edict from
the jailer that I should not be allowed to
See Mr. Spies even through iron bars.”
The Georgia Enterprise.
NATIONAL CAPITAL DOTS.
WHAT IS IMJIMI AT Till. ff 1111 I.
HOUSE AMI HE PA HIM IMS.
President t'lrvrlnml Ilnur Itrri'lvtuii Inti
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NAVY TO lit llKl'lll* sKN I’ll).
The Secretary of the Navy Inn is-ue I
instructions that the United Stales
steamer Michigan shall beat Detroit on
the 14th and loth of Septem ber to take
part in the ceremonies ol the reunion of
the Array of the Tcnncssie, ait I at Uhi
cago from the Ist to the 20th of October
for the military encampment.
WATERWORKS DEFALCATION.
At a meeting of citizens resolutions
were adopted asking tie- President to re
move the District (h mmissioners lot ic
fusing to make pub ic, information about
the admitted defalcation in the watei
department, and for using public funds
for private pui|K)scs. The commit tie ot
one hundred of the District also a topic 1
resolutions calling on the President to
investigate the reported water diq art
meat defalcation, and to remove the
engineer officers in chaige of the water
works.
THE ATLANTA AM. RIGHT.
The report of the hoard of naval offi
cers appointed to examine the warship
Atlanta and to ascertain the damage sus
tained during the recent target practice,
was receivea by the Secretary of the
Navy. It is too technical for a newspa
per article for many readers, but Secre
tary Whitney says that the debits re
ported and the damages sustaine I by the
ship are trifling, as compared to those
rumored to have been discovered, end
that they are such as can lie easily and
speedily remedied.
THE PRESIDENT’S VISITING.
It is probable that President Cleveland
will leave the capital during the l ist days
of September and go directly to St.
Louis, and from there to Kansas ('it' .
St. Paul, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Chi
cago, Nashville and Atlanta. The St.
Louis and Atlanta dates being fixed, it
will not be practicable to deviate much
from this progiamme. The journey will
be made by the ordinary route of travel
between the cities named, and the dispo
sition of the President will be to gee as
much of the country and the people on
his route as will be consistent with lim
ited time and positive engagements.
LEAF TOBACCO DECISION.
As-istant Secretary Maynard gave a
decision in regard to the classification ot
leaf tobacco which will be of interest to
the tobacco trade. The question aro-e
on a decision of the collector at El Paso,
Texas, assessing duty at the rate of 75
cents per pound on certain leaf tobacco
imported from Mexico, of wlitfi 50 out
of every 100 leaves were of the requisite
size and fineness for use as wrappers mid
100 of which leaves weighed less than a
pound. Mr. Maynard decided that the
tax referred to leaf tobacco, and not to
bales, bundles or packages, and that,
therefore, every leaf should be ta'cd.
He, therefore, decides that 50 per cent
of the invoice was dutiable at 75 cents
per pound and 41 per cent at 55 cents
per pound. The collector at El Paso is
instructed to reliquidate the entry ac
cordingly and to refund the excess of
duty.
IMPROVING SOUTHERN RIVF.IIS.
Col. A. Gilmore, United States en
gineers, in his annual report says of the
work of improving the entrance to
Charleston, S. C., harbor, that the ap
propriations have been inadequate to an
absurd degree, for the successful prosecu
tion of operations, having in view the
completion of the project within the
present century. He recommends an
appropriation for the next year of 4750,-
0 rt. He asks for 416,000 for Wappoo
Cut, S. C., SIO,OOO for Edisto river, S.
C., and 48,000 for Salkahatehie river, S.
C. He asks for 4*8,000 for next year's
expenditures in Savannah harbor. Of
the projected improvements of Savan
nah river between Augusta and Savan
nah, the original estimate of 461,600 will
have to be increased to 4176,000 This
is owing to meagre appropriations in the
past. He is confident that if the pros
pect be now carried out, a channel of five
feet depth at low water will he secured.
He asks 421,000 for next year. Hr esti
mates that 44.633 can be profitably ex
pended next year at Romney Marsh, Ga.;
43,000 in AJtliamaha river, Ga. : 4*5,000
in Brunswick harbor, Ga., and 4600,000
on entrance to Cumberland sound, Fla.
Capt. W. M. Black, United States en
gineer, submits the following estimates
for expenditures during the next fiscal
year: Upper St. Johns river, Fla., 410,-
000; Key West, Fla., 430,000; Caloosa
hatchie river, Fla., 413,060; Manatee
river, Fla.. 415.000; Tampa Bay, Fla.,
473,000; Withlacoochee river, Fl.i., 420,-
000; Cedar Key, Fla., 415,000: Suwa
nee river, Fla., 420,000.
NOTES.
Mrs. Cleveland has gone to Marion,
Mass., where she is the guest of the fain
ily of Gen. A. W. Greely.
It is estimated that the reduction of
the public debt duringthe month of July
will amount to 45,000,000.
The President has virtually decided to
make short stops at Columbus and In
dianapolis on his way to St. Louis in Oc
tober.
A delegation of citizens, of Memphis,
Tenn., headed by Senator Harris, ar
rived in the city to urge the President to
visit Memphis during his western trip
this fall.
Prince Devawongse, of Siam, and U s
party, twenty-two in all, including live
of the children of the kinor of Si mi
have arrived. They have been aud w,ll
continue to be subjects of much official
attention.
The State Department is informe I o
the death of Vice-Consul Gencral John
T. Miller at Rio Janiero. Consul M. C.
Call, at Santos, has been directed to take
charge of the consul-general’s office at
Rio, the consul-general being absent on
leave. __
CHINESE BANK.
The earl of Roseberry, in the House of
Lords, asked Prime Minister Salisbury to
confirm or contradict the report tele
graphed from Shanghai that an American
company of financiers (Jay Gould and
o’hers) had established a bank in China,
a ith a capital of 4200,000,000, and had
obtained from the Chinese government a
franchise which secured to the corpora
tion exclusive control of the financial de
velopment of the empire. Lord Salisbury
'denied that such was the case.
A shady transaction—the purchase of
an awning.
CONFLAGRATIONS.
The Fire Eland In Ilia lllftri In cliln swel-
Irrlna W'-niln-r
A fire broke out in the extensive
crackery bakery of James I) Mason fc
Sons, on Pratt street, near Light, Balti
more, Mil., which was entirely destroyed,
with all its contents and machinery. It
extended on the right to a double build
ing occupied by Henderson, Laws A Cos.,
cracker, rake and candy factory, which
was also destroyed. William Schulte,
foreman nf engine No. 12, was buried
beneath the ruins and killed. Ch cf
Engineer Hrnnick, of the fire depart
ment, was seriously injured and his
death is feared. Flames continued to
spread to the right to the atove ware
house of Liebrnndt. McDowell & Cos.,
which was destroyed, and to the agricul
tural warehouse of E. Whitman & Suns,
the upper part of which was burned out.
A fire was discovered in the upper win
dows of the New Era flouring mills sit
uated on Chestnut street, Nashville,
Term. The heat was so intense that
dwelling houses on the other side ol
Chestnut street were smoking, and tin
engine at the nearest plug had to be re
moved to prevent its being damaged. It
took persistent and well directed work
to save the Nashville Canning Company's
works on one side, and the New Era
mills warehouse on the other. The oil
mills seemed in danger at one time, and
one hundred and filtv cars on the Louis
ville and Nashville Railroad side tracks
would have been burned had not the yard
master moved them with remarkable ra
pidity. The mills cost about 460,660, but
the property was not considered worth
that amount of money. The building,
machinery and stock were insured tot
432,000 in small amounts in a score ol
companies. The fire is supposed to have
originated from a hot box. The sixth
attempt to burn out the New York
Zeitung was frustrated. The tire
started on the third floor in Rome old files
of the Deraokmt. None but employes
are allowed in that part of the building,
and the owners of the paper are at a loss
to know how the blaze came about. The
watchman had found everything right
only fifteen minutes before the alarm.
The flames were quickly extinguished.
At Tampa, Fla., a serious fire took
place, destroying all buildings on two
blocks except three. Thirty-five business
firms were burned out, with an aggregate
loss of 475,000 and only 4L 800 insu
rance, owing to high rates. The fire oc
cut red on the blocks surrounded by La-
Fayette, Jackson, Tampa and Monroe
streets. The origin of the fire is un
known. The Calumet and Hccla coppei
mine is on fire at the sixteenth level near
Calumet, Mich. Immense volumes of
smoke are issuing from No. 3 shaft.
In the Hecla branch of the mine, miners
have gone down to shut off the tire from
black holes in a portion of the mines.
A fire damaged the exten-ive saddlery
hardware manufactory of the Frazer &
Jones company at Syracuse, N. Y., 4100,-
000, which is covered by an insurance of
about 4150,000. The town of Winns
boro, 8. C., recently disturbed by the
frequency of fires, apparently incendiary,
is now much excited over the burning of
the residence of R. E. Ellison, a promi
nent citizen of the town. The house
and contents were entirely consumed, the
inmates escaping with their lives. The
tire was plainly incendiary
DEFENDING THE FLAG.
The Way in Wlitrh an Irislimnn In New
York Hhowed his Patriotism.
At 12 o’clock, noon, an attempt was
made to hum the British steamship
Queen, while she was lying at her dock
at the foot of Houston street, New York.
Tnere were 200 people on board the
steamer, and she was loaded with a cargo
worth half a million dollars. The crew
were getting the vessel ready to start,
when suddenly a bottle of phosphorus
was thrown from the river on to the
steamer, and instantly after the deck was
enveloped in flames. The fire was quick
ly subdued, but not until it had burned
a hole in the deck twenty feet long and
ten feet wide. A man on the pier volun
tei red the information that he had seen a
man throw the bottle on the steamer. Hi
pointed out the man, who was rapidly
rowing over the river. George L. An
drews and Detective Vail, of the Nation
al line, boarded a steam tug and followed
the man. He was caught and taken to
court, where lie described • himself as
Thomas J. Mooney, 37 years old, of 267
Warren street, Brooklyn. Andrews
i barged him with having attempted to
burn the steamship Queen. C'apt Neland,
of the barge Echo, said that he saw
Mooney in the row boat with three bot
tles wrapped up in paper. The captain
asked what was in the bottles, and was
told that it was whiskey for the officers
of the Queen. When the prisoner was
searched there was found on him a Smith
& Wesson revolver, dagger, new, anil a
number of clippings from newspapers re
lative to the fishery question in Canada.
There was also found upon him a West
ern Union Telegraph blank, upon which
was written the Welch song, “Men ol
Harlech, march to Battle.” Mooney said
that he was born in County Clare, Ire
land, and had been in this country fifteen
years. At one time he was in the cloth
ing business in Sixteenth street. When
asked why he tried to set the ship on tire
he said: “The fact of the matter is 1
neither admit nor deny anything till 1
have legal advice. I should like to know
if it is lawful to haul down the American
fl ig in Canada, why it is not lawful to
haul down the English flag in America.”
GEORGIA LAWS-
Governor Gordon, of Georgia has signed
the following bills:
To amend section 4003 of the code re
lating to the sale of lands by commis
sioners when the same arc sold under pro
ceedings of partition.
To repeal part 5, section 3854 of the
code to make an amendment in lieu
thereof.
To incorporate Williamsburg in Cal
houn county.
To amend section 168!) (N. N.) of the
code by inserting after the words “paid
in” in the fifth line, the words “if the
necessities of the road requires more than
one-half of the amount of capital sioc'<
paid in to the amount of 43.000 per
mile.”
A bill for the protection of cemeter c
and to prevent and punish umiuthorz and
traffic in dead bodies.
Also for the promotion of medical
science by the distribution and tixo of
dead !todies through a hoard created fur
hat purpose.
It is reported from the fishing resort*
that the fish are very plentiful this season,
but the lying seems to he mu-h below
tho average. — Philadelphia Call.
‘'MY COUNTRY MAY 8118 KVRR DR RIOMT. RJOOT OR WRONG MY COUNTRY."—Jefferson
COVINGTON. GEORGIA. FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1887.
it AIN I WIND! FIRE! HEAT!
ALL COM HIM It, MAKE THE LIFE
OF Hit DIALS VIS HAPPY.
I’ll© lloporli Which Ih© Wire* Kliuh of Ih©
l*hciiomi>nml WcHllicr All Over
llic C ouutry.
A heavy storm in the mountains has
caused a big rise in the upper Tennessee
River. Thousands of lugs lying in the
liver have escaped. The steamer Citico,
a mail boat plying between Kingston nud
Loudon, was caught by a raft at Shoe's
Bluff, near Loudon, and dashed against
ihc bluff with such force ns to burst the
cylinder head and tear away the smoke
-tack and pilot house. Capt. William
Allison and officer Dcarmond were
thrown into .the river. Dearmond lias
liecn badly scalded by the escaping
steam.
The Armstrong Furniture company's
lumber yards and works at Evansville,
old., were discovered- oil fire and were
destroyed, together with several million
eet of lumber and a number of cars.
The loss is over 4>00,600. The water
-apply became exhausted and the fire had
little opposition. Ten cars of wheat,
flour and grain were totally deatroyed
nd several empty cats, and one section
of the Peoria, Decatur & Evansville !
Railroad round house.
A severe wind, rain and hail storm
swept over Louisville, Ky. It rained in
torrents, and large hail stones fell, cov
' ring the streets. The storm on the
liver did considerable damage and life
saving crews and harbor boats were kept
very busy.
A terrific rain storm swept acrosi
Yallohusha county, Miss., leveling both
cotton and corn to the ground. Young
corn is almost totally destroyed.
The trestle at Mount Madison, on the
\ir-Ltnc railroad, 110 miles from Atlan
ta, Ga , was washed out and the passen
ger tinins were badly delayed.
A Pittsburg dispatch says that a fre
oecuned by which the glass manufactur
ing firms of Mi-Key & Cos. and King, Son
& Cos. sustained heavy losses. The local
loss is estimated at 4150,000, of which
Me Key & Cos. lose 4100,000 ai.d King,
Son & Cos. 450,000. The insuranoe was
about 4*5,000.
During a heavy thunderstorm one of
ti e tanks of the Atlantic Oil Refinery,
at Point Breeze, near Philadelphia, Pa.,
was struck by lightning, and 500 barrels
of oil were destroyed.
The month of July goes on record as
the hottest ever known in Philadelphia.
Pa. The highest number of deaths from
the effects of the heat in any one day
was thirty-three, on the 16th, and there
have been but few days when there was
none reported, the numbers ranging
lrom three to a dozen.
The steamer Umbria, of the Cunard
Line, reached her pier in New York in a
very dilapidated condition. Her for
ward decks were swept clean and her
bridges were washed away. While go
ing at full speed, in heavy seas, twp
huge waves, said to be about fifty feet
iiigh, struck her and broke over the deck
ahead of the foremast. The cabins and
steerage were flooded and a panic oc
curred. The passengers put on life belts
aud prepared for the worst. The vessel
trembled violently when the masses of
water deluged her decks.
Union City, S. C., reports a singular
circumstance of a cloudburst, described
as follows: “The wind,when first noticed,
was from northwest to southeast and ex
tended about a mile wide across the
country; blew over the country about
two miles, then turned exactly in the
oppo-ite direction, southeast to north
west, blowing down considerable com
in opposite directions and in the differ
ent localities through which it passed,
injuring it in some places seriously. Tht
stone cloud came down suddenly while
l he ground was dry, the cotton withered,
and the sun was so hoi that the cottou
was literally scalded, from top to bottom.
The oldest inhabitants say they never
knew anything iike it, and there are
whole acres that apparently look dead,
presenting the appearance of frost having
fallen on it. It is really a curiosity, and
is wortli coming from Union to see.
What will be the outcome of it is uncer
tain. The forms and stalks seem alive,
but the leaves are as crisp as when frost
f dig on them. Our crop looked unusually
fine before this and it would have been
best for us not to have had the rain at
the time it came.”
At Haledon village, two miles north I
from Patterson, N. J., John W. Camp- !
bell, a wealthy milkman, sat in liis ele
gant parlor, surrounded by his family.
They were so much alarmed that they
closed tiie windows aud pulled down the
curtains. Then came a crash more fear
ful than all the others combined. Mr.
Campbell, who weighs 270 pounds, was
picked up and thrown bodily through
the French window in front, through
rash, curtain and all. He landed twenty
feet off, out on the lawn. Mr. Campbell
thinks the bolt came thro gh the roof
and down the chimney, und then went
out of the window along with him, for
it tore off a corner of the piazza in mak
ing its exit.
A CRAZY MOTHER.
Mrs. W. 11. Lisle, of Lansingburg, N.
Y’., with two small children, left for
Glen’s Falis. The train stopped nt Fort
Edward, and something occurred to ex
cite the lady, and she attempted to jump
from the coach to the platform. She
threw one of the children first and then
sprang alter it with the other child. She
fell under the cars and was killed, with
the child she had in her arms. The other
child w.is hauled out from under the mov
ing curs just ahead of the wheels.
THE COTTON PROSPECT.
Dr. W. L. Jones, of Athens, Ga., the
well-known writer on agricultural sub
jects, s iys that upland corn was injured
hut slightlvand on branch bottoms it was
not materially hurt, but on the rivers and
creeks it is disastrously damaged. As to
cotton. Dr. Jones said, he thought all the
blooms that have appeared since the rain
began will fall off. and as the crop has
but about two weeks longer to make, he
thought that farmers could only safely
count on the fruit already on the stalk.
“QUITE ENGI.I-H, YOU KNOW.”
About a yeir ago, a low-sized young
man with fine eyes, handsome beard and
bronzed face, went behind the prescrip
tion counter of Dr. Samuel Prioleaux at
Summerville, S. C., under the name of
“Qr. George Simons.” Recently, he
married Miss Mary Frances Vose, the
belle of the place, aud assumed his real
Dame and title as “George Richard Si
mons Visser, Earl of Harinxsma.” The
happy pair went on a bridal tour to
Richmond, Va.
GENERAL NEWS.
CURRENT EVESTS ON THIS CON
TINENT AN l> ACROSS SEAS.
Blicu of Hot Wrnthrr l>rovnin*. Mlram*
boat and ltullro.il Accidrnla-The
llnadiy l.lghining. etc., ©to.
A statue will be erected at Essen to
Hi rr Krupp, the great German steel man
ufacturer.
An earthquake shock occurred early in
the morning at Evansville, Inti. It was
very pronounced and lasted abdut eight
seconds. ~
The Pennsylvania Railroad cannot sup
ply enough freight cars, especially at
Pittsburg, Pa., so great is the crush of
business.
There have been five caaet of cholera
.T7rl one d<ath from cholera at Malta,
len days’ quarantine against that place
has been established at Gibraltar.
At a meeting of the board of trustees
of the New York Soldiers' ami Sailors'
Home at Bath, N. Y., Treasurer Holiic
was ousted. His accounts were 4'- M •. t.HH>
short, which friends made good.
All the Swiss commanders have been
ordered to pay the strictest attention to
the effectiveness of the troops, in order
to ensure a proper working of the arinv
iu the event of an outbreak of war in
Europe.
The Samgerfest committee, at Colum
bus, Ohio, has developed the fact, that
the loss on the last Sa-ngerfest will be
slightly iu excess of 456,600. Guarantee
subscribers will be called upon to make
up the deficit.
The bill to allow the construction of a
tunnel under the English Channel con
necting England w ith France was iciutra
duced in the House of Commons by Sir
Edward Watkio, was defeated by a vote
of 153 to 107.
Crown Prince Frederick William un
derwent another operation l>y Mr. Mc-
Kenzie for the growth in his throat, at
London, England. The result of the
operation was so good that the prince re
turned to Cowes. His general health is
excellent.
During the naval manoeuvers in the
British Channel, the Nordenfeldt gun on
hoard the Curlew burst, seriously injur
ing severely several seamen. One of the
guns on the Black Prince, one of the
great iron-clads, also burst, injuring
three men.
A beer kettle exploded in Ruhr’s brew
ery, at Grccnbay, \Vis., scalding 7 no n.
6of whom died during the night. The
cause of the explosion is unknown. The
kettle held 70 barrels of boiling water,
which poured over the unfortunate men,
literally cooking their flesh.
Duringthe festivities at a picnic, of the
hod carriers’ union at Arsenal park, in
Pittsburg, Pa., u gasoline lamp sus
pended from the ceiling of the dining
hall exploded, scattering the burning
fluid over a number of people, many of
whom were seriously injured.
Mrs. Fannie Hainewas gored and tram
pled to death by a mad bull at Tuscola,
111., while attempting to drive the brute
out of the front yard. She fought the
animal as long as her strength held
out, but as no one came to her assistance
she was killed before the eyes of hi r
little children.
There are now seven Canadian cruisers
on the mackerel grounds iu Nova Scotia,
looking after the American fishermen.
The mackerel are very plentiful in shore,
and Americans very daring, but ith the
presence of so many cruisers on the look
out,opportunity for them to get Canadian
fish are not many.
News from Aitakan, Minn., is to thi
effect, that a squaw confined in jail there
for threatening to kill a white woman
has been released, as the authorities were
in awe of the Indians, who hid assembled
in large numbers. Couriers have arrived
at Aitakau from Willow river, bearing
the intelligence that the Indians are kill
ing stock tielonging to the settlers.
Three children of Marti u Dapp, a
German shoemaker of Harrisburg, Pa.,
were poisoned by eating sausage which
their father had purchased in the market.
The youngest child, John, died in two
hours, and the others were saved with
great difficulty. The father, who took
some of the meat to his shop for lunch,
noticed the queer taste and did not eat
it.
Prince Krow Luang Devawougsi Varo
prakaw, half brother of the king of
Siam, and suite have arrived in New
Y’ork. The party consists of besides tht
Prince, his cousins, Princes Kiliya Robi,
Pranit and Cluru; the new Siamese Min
ister, Count Phra Dasun Raksa, several
aids, three tutors, Nat Chit, a student
and an interpreter. The prince is about
31 years old, and speaks English readily.
Billy Moloney, the man who acted as
Jake Sharp’s tool in bribing the New
York aldermen, while out in his yacht
with a party of friends at Montreal,
Canada, saw two men struggling in the
water just above Lachine rapids. Their
boat had capsized on account of the
strong current, and they were in great
danger. Moloney headed his yacht for
them and succeeded in getting them
aboard and landing them at Lachine.
While worship was progressing at St.
John’s Catholic Church, at Scranton, Pa.,
Mrs. Steele, whose home was near by,
rushed from the dwelling with her cloth
ing in flames, and somebody in the con
gregation seeing her, shouted, “See the
w oman on fire.” At the mention of “fire"
the congregation was in an uproar. A
wild rush for the doors ensued, and many
people were trampled upon and severely
hurt. Mrs. Steele died soon after in
great agony.
Delegates to the seventeenth general
convention of the Catholic Total Absti
nence Union of America at Philadelphia,
Pa., before entering upon business which
drew them together from all parts of the
country to that city, proceeded in a body
to the cathedral to engage in the solemn
services of high mass. The delegates
numbered about four hundred, and
among them were many priests who are
active members of the Total Abstincnee
societies.
The curious feature in the bat s hit©,
says an African traveler, is that it ii
hardly ever felt, even when the person
attacked is awake. I myself had a re
markable illustration of this, and stood
with a man who was remarking that he
could not understand Low people always
got so unaccountably bitten, though
while he was actually making this re
mark in tho dusk a bat was sucking one
of liis toes, as was evidenced by the bat
being seen by me and himself to fluttei
away, while the man’s toe, to his grea
surprise, was found to he bleeding se
verely.
SOUTHERN BRIEFS.
CONDENSATION OF THE HVSY
HAPPENINGS OF A WEEK.
(ji>oil Crops Assurril *orinl. nml
Trm pc ruurc 4m! lirrliiKS llollnl lion'll
linns I onnirv 4rncriill> llruliliv.
The Montgomery, Ala., Street Car
drivers struck for 414 a week and twelve
hours a day to constitute a day’s work.
The First Baptist church at Osyka,
Miss., was strurk by lightning, tearing
the whole of the north aide of the steeple
to pieces.
The Board of Health of Atlanta, Ga ,
intend to close up all the wells of the
city, as it is found the water is impure
from sewage.
Maxwell, the condemned Bt. Louis
murderer,will not be executed at present,
as his case has been appealed to the
United States Court.
A man named Ferguson was killed on
the East Tennessee Railroad near Bras
well, Gu., while attempting to jump on
a train, while in motion.
A tine of the ammopia chamber of the
Central City Ice works blew out at Ma
con, Ga., creating a great deal of conster
nation among the emplpyes.
W. J. Whaley, a clerk for Graut, Mon
day & Cos., contractors of Savannah, Ga..
has been arrested charged with raising
a check from 4434 to 44,034.
Charles R. Jones, proprietor of the
Daily Observer at Charlotte, N. C., made
an assignment for the benefit of his cred
itors. He places his liabilities at 49,500.
Reports received from Manchester, Clay
county, in the southeastern corner of
Kentucky, state that a riot occurred dur
ing the election in which six men were
killed,
Hon. E. W. Robertson died nt Baton
Rouge, La., aged sixty-four. He served
three terms in Congress and was elected
ig November last a member of the 50th
Congress.
The Chattanooga, Home & Columbus
Railroad have located its line and work
will he begun on the road within the next
ten days. The line will he 142 miles long
and will pass through a rich country.
The capital will be furnished by New
York and London bankers.
The choking of the great sewer or
Loyd street, Atlanta, Ga., has puzzled
the city authorities for several yeats and
it has just come to light, that the ga"
company had tapped the sewer in several
plates anil run their pipes through it, tc
save them from digging up the street.
All the women and children have left
Morehead City, Rowan county,Kv., and
there is no one therq except those who
intend to engage in the tight, if one lake
takes place. The Tolliver gang are armed
with Winchesters, and the Loganitet
would have little show of holding out
agaipst them.
Joseph 11. Rainey, once a prominent
colored man in South Carolina, has just
died at Columbia, lie figured extensively
in politics, his superior intelligence and
good stock of information giving him
prestige among liis pat ty followers. Be.
fore aud during the War he w as the bar
ber at the Mills’ house in Charleston.
At a depth of 900 feet, a small flow of
gas has been struck at the Logan well,
six miles from Chattanooga, Tenn. The
gas was lighted and blazed up five foot
high, and the flow is continuous. There
is considerable excitement, ami a stock
company with a capital of 420,066 Ims
been organized to sink five more wells.
The son of John Flayer, of Kershaw
county, 8. C., aged 6 years, accidentally
shot his little brother, aged 3, inflicting
a severe and perhaps senous wound. A
gun had been loaded without the know -
ledge of the father, and while the elder
boy was playing with it, it went off with
the result stated.
By the breaking of a brake beam on a
freight car on the Georgia Pacific Rail
road, near a station called Henry Ellen,
several cars were derailed while on the
Cahawba mountains. The cars went down
the mountain side and were knocked
about badly. Conductor Dooley and
Brakeman Tucker of Atlanta were badly
hurt.
Dr. W. H. Saunders, the physician up
pointed to make examinations of locomo
tive engineers and other railroad cm
ployes, “under the new law which went
into effect recently, abandoned his work
at Stevenson, Ala. He was arrested on
a writ of mandamus, which requires him
to complete his test as to color blindness.
His reason lor abandoning hi" work is
said to be trouble with railroad men, 20,-
006 in number, who dislike the i.ew law.
Gen Samuel Jones, of the judge advo
cate general’s office, died at Bedford
Springs, Pa. Gen. Jones was born in Vir
ginia in 1820, and was consequently six
ty-seven years of age. lie was appoint
ed cadet at the Military Academy at
West Point, and after graduation en
tered the army, where he served with
credit in the Mexican war. Hecontin
ueil in the service until the breaking out
of the War, when he resigned to enter
the Confederacy.
DENOUNCE THE MEASURE.
A large meeting of white and colored
citizens was held in North Russell street
Methodist Episcopal Church, in Boston,
Mass., to protest against the enactment
of the bill recently passed by the Georgia
House of Representatives, prohibiting
the mingling of white and black pupils
in the schools. Addresses wore made uy
the Rev. Dr. Woodworthy, trustee of At
lanta University, against which it is said
the bill is principally aimed, and E. C.
Carrigan, of the State Board of Educa
tion. Resolutions were adopted declar
ing the bill unconstitutional, and likely
to call down the judgment of Heaven
upon the heads of the people of Georgia.
THE DUKE’S RELATIVES STARVING.
A young woman of refined and pleas
ing manners applied to the New York
police for lodging for herself and two
children. She gave her maiden name,
Mary Morton, but investigation reveals
that"she is the wife of Arthur Wellesley,
a distant relative of the great Duke of
Wellington. Wellesley’s father owns a
large sheep ranch in Loanceston, Aus
tralia, and his family is wealthy and well
connected. Y'oung Wellesley married
the daughter of a well-to-do captuin who
lived near his father’s ranch, and then
removed, with his wife, to New Zealand,
thence to England and afterwards to
New York, lie is sdd to he acting as a
cook in Bostou, Mass
Always a Teuton —A OermaD band
master.
HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
lining off Threads.
Many ladies uo their artificial teeth as
substitutes for scissors, and such use of
them soon renders repair necessary.
When told that they should not bite
threads with them, they are surprised.
But they should lie taught not to n o
even their natural teeth for such pur
poses. But few think that ill biting "IT
a thread the entire muscular force of the
jaws in use is concentrated into the small
space measured by the diameter of a
thread. Besides, thread after thread is
applied to the same place on the teeth,
and thus the enamel is soon broken there.
How lt> Unit Potatoes.
No doubt every woman who pretends
to cook thinks that if there is one thing
she can do well it is to boil potatoes; yet
it is very rarely that one lias the privi
lege of eating a palatable boiled potato.
It is either broker, into scraps or hard at
the centre. An evenly-boiled white po
tato is a treat. The New York Poet
contains the following recipe, which is
worth trying: “Let them he carefully
rublied with n hard brush, disturbing
neither the eyes nor the skin. Select
them of equal size, and put them in a
saucepan, with a tablespoonful of salt,
and sufficient water to cover them.
When boiled five minutes pour off the
hot water, and replace with cold, aud
half a teaspoonful of suit. The reason
for this innovation is that, the
heart of the potato being peculiarly
hard, the outside is genet ally done long
liefore it is softened. By chilling its
exterior with cold water the heat of the
first boiling strikes to the centre of the
vegetable: the force gradually increases
when the water boils again : by the rime
the outside ha* recovered from its chill,
the equilibrium is restored, and the whole
potato is evenly done. Potatoes must boil
steadily, with the covers on, three-quar
ter* of an hour, gently tested with a fork,
if they be not cracked ; when done, drain
them dry, put n clean cloth upon them,
cover closely with the lid, and let the
saucepan stand until tho dinner is ready
to be served; then take out each one
separately with a spoon, that they may
not be broken in their floury state.”
Recipes.
Tea Cakes. —Bub together four tea
spoonful* of butter and one cup of sugar,
add one well-beaten egg, one teaspoon
ful of cream and two cups of flour, into
which has been sifted two table spoon
fulsof baking powder. Bake in small pans
and eat while fresh.
Green Pea Soup. —Fm pounds of
beef, one half peck of green neas. Cut
the beef into small pieces and noil slowly
for an hour and a half. Half an hour
before serving adil ttic shelled peas, sea
son with salt and pepper and add a little
thickening; strain through a colander be
fore serving.
Snow Puddino. —Soak one-half box
of gelatine in a little cold water, then add
one pint of boiling water, the juice of
one lemon, and two cups of sugar and
let cool. Beat the whites of three eggs
to a stiff froth, add to the gelatine and
beat together until quite light, put into
a mold and place on ice to harden.
Make a custard of the yolks of three
eggs; let it become perfectly cold, and
when the jelly is turned from the mold
pour the custard around it and serve.
Broiled Fresh Cod. —When the fish
is thoroughly cleaned, wipe drv and split
open from head to tail, and remove the
backbone carefully; suit well and putin
a cool place for an hour before cooking,
as the flesh becomes firm by so doing;
broil over a bright fire of coals; place
the inside to tne tire first, then when
turned over skin side to the coals, all
the juices are retained. When thorough
ly cooked, place on a warm platter, and
dress with butter anil bits of parseley.
Mackerel are excellent when prepared
and cooked in the same manner.
Shoulder of Mutton Broiled. —
Place the mutton over a bright fire of
coals; let it broil gently, placing the in
side to the fire first; cover it with a tin;
when nearly done through turn it. Let
it brown nicely; when it is done place it
on a hot platter, sprinkle with salt and
pepper, allowing about a teaspoonful of
each; butter it freely; turn it once or
twice in the seasoning; turn the inside
down. Served hot, with boiled hominy
or potatoes, it makes a nice breakfast
dish. Itis well to have the shoulder boned
before broiling. A breast of lamb can
be broiled in the same way.
Stewed Rhubarb. —To one pound of
rhubarb, cut in pieces of one or two
inches in length, allow one-half pound of
loaf sugar and the grated rind of a lem
on. Have ready a large saucepan of
boiling water, throw the rhubarb in and
stir the pieces down with a wooden or
silver spoon. Put the cover on, and for
three or four minutes it may be left, then
the cover taken off; the rhubarb is not
again left until it is done. It may be
quietly turned in the sauce pan with the
spoon so as not to break the rhubarb.
The moment it boils it softens, and in
three minutes or less time, according to
whether the rhubarb is old or young,
strain it off quickly with the cover tilted
on the sauce pan. Let it slip from tiie
saucepan into a pie dish; sprinkle the
loaf sugar and grated lemon over it, and
leave until cold.
Less Food Needed In Summer.
Growth and waste and repair go on in
a nearly uniform way the whole year
through, but the amount of food neces
sary for these operations or purposes is
surprisingly small. The generation of
bodily heat requires a more variable
quantity of food. In winter, with the
temperature of the external air at zero,
the temperature of the blood in healthy
persons is 98.3 degress; and when the
heats of summer drive the mercury of the
thermometer near to or above that mark,
the blood still registers 98.3 degrees.
The marvelous mechanism by which this
uniform blood temperature is maintained
at ail seasons it is not necessary to con
sider, but it must be evident to every
one that the force needed to raise the
temperature of the whole body to nearly
106 degrees in winter is no longer needed
in summer. The total amount of food
needed for repair, for growth, and for
heating, physiology teaches us, is much
less than is generally imagined, and it
impresses us with the truth of the great
surgeon Abernetliy’s saying, that “one
fourth of what we eat keeps us, the other
three-fourths we keep at tiie peril of our
lives.” In winter we burn up the sur
plus food with a limited amount of ex
tra exertion. In summer we get rid of
it literally at some extra risk to health
and, of course, to life. We cannot bum
up. Our vital furnaces are banked, aud
we worry the most important working
organs with the extra exertion of re
moving what had better never 1 *ve been
taken into the stomach.— Philadelphia
ledger.
NUMBER 38.
HAYMAKING SONO.
Work altogether!
Who would laugh or play
In the right bright weather.
To rake and make the bay!
With a wind light-blowing,'
Across the field to run,
And broad above us glowing
The good warm sunt
We can't see to-morrow—
Round the wind may slip!
We may wake to find sorrow—
The country all a-drip.
Work while the sun shine*,
And give your brave best:
On wet days, when none solas
Time enough to res*.
4ioh sunny minute
Is made of molten gold;
Whoso works to win it
May gather wealth uni. >!d.
If all are whole hearted
This bright, mellow night
Shall see the last load carted.
The rick built right.
In all life's doing
There's still a Now to grip.
And he will leant melng
Who lets the Now slip.
Fools, the h"’-, ’Mining,
Think “some other dayl*
While the sun is shining
Wise men make their hay.
PITH ANDPOin.
After dinner—A hungry tramp.
Light weight—A pound of c radles.—
Merchant- Tru reler.
A Western man has had a neecdle
taken out of his body. He le.' -z know*
how to account for the stitches in hi*
side.
“Listen to your wife,” says a medical
advertisement. As though one didn’t
have to listen to her. Boston Tran
v'rij’t.
Tennyson’s last poem is in blank verse.
Some critics are mean enough to insinu
ate that he ought to fill out the blanks.—
Cleveland Sun.
Dialogue between two blind men—
“Do you know the gentleman who gave
you a franc just now?” “Only by sight?”
—Paris Gauloii.
The parents of a pair of Boston twins
named one Simul and the other Taneou*
because they were born at the same time.
Washington Critic.
He always loved the joys of home.
At home at night he always tarried,
And never thought abroad to roam
Until he'd ben for six months married.
Boston Courier.
There are men in New York who spend
half their theirtime dodging people they
have borrowed money of, and the other
half in. hmfting up fresh victims.—Sift
ings.
According to an eminent English au
thority a goose lives fifty years. Pro
vided, of course, he refrains from blow
ing out the gas when he retires, —Yonkers
Statesman.
Farmers in the summertime don’t need
to buy the funny papers. All they have
to do is to go out and watch the city
boarders trying to swing the scythe.—
Journal of Education.
Talks About Law” is the title of a lec
ture a man is delivering in central Da
kota towns. We have heard it given
several times by men who were coming
out of a court-room and we shouldn't
think that the authorities would let a man
deliver it in public. It's about as sul
phureous a talk as you ever heard.—
Dakota Bell.
WHAT BEFELL MR. BELL
There was a young fellow named Ernest P.
Bell,
Who got very mellow at the Planters’ Hotel:
But he punched
The proprietor.
And he lunched ,
Then much quieter
In the chilly retreat of a dungeon cell.
Expense: 1100 and costs as wet).
—Hotel Mail
Floral Peculiarities.
Every blossom has its precise hour for
unfolding its petals and for shuttiug
them, says a writer in llarpor's Young
People. The daisy, or “day’s eye,” spreads
its lids to the earliest rays of the sun,
usually about 5 o'clock, and goes to bed
just before sunset. The morning glory
does all its blooming between 0 and 9
o’clock in the morning, and never opens
a second time, the life of each flower
being limited to a single morning. Dan
delions awake between Hand 7 o’clock
and are put to sleep sometimes before
evening, when the heat is excessive. Th#
yellow goats-beard, so common in the
meadows, ends its day at noon, and is
therefore familiarly called “go-to
bed-at-noon." The pink little pimp
ernel blossom is known as “the
shepherd’s clock,” from its custom of
closing exactly at 2 o’clock in the after
noon. The old-fashioned “4 o’clock”
either was falsely named or has lost its
reckoning, as it does not appear until
about 6 o’clock. Of all the plan ts which fold
together their flowers and hang their heads
at sundown for the night’s rest perhaps
the most noticeable are the asters, which
invariably hide their faces at U o'clock.
Many leaves do the same. The clover
trefoils and the wood-sorrel (oxalis) close
between 6 and 7 o’clock p. M. and stretch
out from (1 to 7 o’clock a. m. This action
is very marked in all pod-bearing plants,
as the acacia and locust, and specially
the sensitive plant, which all double up,
or rather double down, with the closing
day. In a country walk toward sunset
you may see the drowsy leaves and blos
soms nodding one after another in slum
ber, and setting a fine example of early
dreams.
Street Cars in Mexico.
The street cars run in groups, one
never being seen alone nor two together,
but always three or four in a row less
than half a block apart. Instead of
starting from the terminus one every
five or ten minutes, several are started
every half hour. To run each car it re
quires two conductors besides the driver,
and also in many places two or three sol
diers armed cap-a-pie. The first con
ductor approaches a passenger, sells him
a tii ket and pockets the money, and soon
the second conductor comes along and
takes up the bit of printed pasteboard;
meanwhile the brass-buttoned guardian*
of the peace stand glowering upon you
with suspicious eyes and loaded i arbines.
In some respects the double-conductor
system is better than the "punch iu-the
presence-of-the-passengaire” mode of the
United States, but though the soldiers
are provided to insure the safety of pas
senger- from robbers and revolutionists,
a timid person is more worried by their
presence than by the possible dangers
they are supposed to avert. -Saeratiunto
llixord,.