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VOLUMES XXII.
SOUTHERN BRIEFS.
CONIPENSATiON OF TIIE RUST
HAPPENINGS OF A WEEK:
I.oiml Crops Annum! Mortal* l{dlflauit and
Temper uncr 4 Jnt lierlnn llolled Dawn
I icin'* I onniry (Jmcrally Healthy.
The Indies of Stone Mountain, Ga., are
making strenuous efforts to have wine
rooms abolished in that |>lacc.
The Eagle Hour mills ou the corner of
Vance and Ten lies sec streets, in Mem
phi-, Tenn., were destroyed by fire. Loss,
$30,000; insurance, $1,600.
The hoard of directors of the Decatur,
Ala., Land company formally ratified the
contract with the Louisville it Nashville
Jtailroad Company for the location of
theirconsolidated car shops at that place.
Mr. Wilson, a farmer on Peachtree
street road, six miles from Atlanta, Ua.,
icporls that he found nearly 200 snakes
in a thick grove on his farm. They were
rattles, black, spotted and wood varieties.
Thomas Keeter, and who is employed
in the Nashville, Tenn., penitentiary as
a guard, made an unsuccessful attempt
at suicide by laudanum, taking 10
drachms. He was discovered and saved.
He was drunk.
The new Pearce cotton factory has
been completed at Columbus, (la., and
has begun operations. Sixteen looms are
iu place, but it is intended to increase
the capacity to fifty looms. The new
Muscogee factory is rapidly nearing com
pletion.
Albert Herman Feese, a young Ger
man watchmaker employed iu Harry
Mercer’s jewelry store, left Birmingham,
Ala., taking with him eight fine gold
Matches belonging to his employer.
Feese was in the habit of putting the
Matches iu the safe before closing the
store at night.
During a heavy rain anil thunder
storm, a heavy bolt of lightning struck
a tree in Messrs. Simeon and William N.
Edwards's pasture at I'pshaw, Ga,,
around which three fine milch cows were
feeding. The tree was torn to pieces and
all three of the cows killed, one of them
struck by the bolt and the other two
were killed by the shock.
Bill Stratford, of Jernigan, Russell
county, Ala,, out his throat while in
church. A protracted meeting is in pro
gress there and the preacher was calling
up nnmrners, when Mr. Stratford pulled
out Ids knife and cut his throat. He is
a w ell to do farmer and religious excite
ment is supposed to have been the cause
of the rash act.
The Knights of l.abor (colored) in
session at Mobile, Ala., devoted a day to
hearing charges of insubordination and
rebellion prepared by Grand Chief Men
tor Moses Dickinson against Sir Knights
J. W. Wheeler and C. L. Martin. The
chief mentor then made his annual ad
dress, advocating the formation of state
grand lodges of the order.
Abe Bonner, a colored fireman em
ployed on the East Tennessee, Virginia
A Georgia ltuilroad, was found on the
track at Macon badly bruised, and died
from bis wounds. The theory is that he
sat down on the track to await the leav
ing of No. 803, of which he was the
fireman, and fell asleep, and was killed
by a passenger train, which, having no
headlight, tailed to discover him.
f John Clay, the only remaining son of
Henry Clay, died near Lexington, Ky.
While giving instructions to some work
j nu n about a pump, he fell dead, without
| any premonition, of heart disease. Mr.
• lav was l',~ years old. He had no chil
dren. lie was married about 20 years
ago to bis nephew’s widow, Mrs. Col.
Irwin. Col. Irwin was killed at the
battle of Perryvillc while in command of
a Confederate regiment. He was a farm
er and became a Catholic twenty years
ago.
A passenger *<ain on the East Tennes
see, Yirgi-fa <k Georgia Railroad col
lided ”fth a switch engine half a mile
northwest of Chattanooga, Tenn. W.
H Burgess had hia shoulder broken and
breast crushed in. Will Henderson had
a hip mashed, and Fireman W. 11.
Brandon was so badly injured that he
"ill die. Engineer King was struck in
the stomach by the lever while trying to
reverse his engine and was seriously hurt.
Many passengers were slightly bruised,
t>ut none others were dangerously hurt.
’Three workmen, in the employ of the
Southern Granite Company, at Litlionia,
re., were engaged in swabbing out the
Idles for a second blast, the ledge settled
ml the dynamite cartridges were ex
iloded by the friction. At the time of
lie explosion, a heavy drill, eleven feet
nag, and weighing 40 pounds, was lying
;rOSs the top of the hole. This drill
as carried 300 feet in the air, striking
n'niati Clark, colored, one of the men
.Work, and tearing his face completely
' lb died almost instantly. Tobe
ttrnor, also colored, had his right arm
mai nin | W o places and was otherwise
'Hourly injured.
remarkable occurrence is reported
"m Jackson county, Ga., and the
lughlmrs of Newtown district will ex-
I' 1 no other explanation than that of a
nlerspout.. Dan Mathews’s mill is a
story frame structure, situated on a
null branch ten miles from Athens,
here is not enough water in the branch
1 create a freshet, and even the heavy
intinuous rains of last week did not
event Mathews’s mill from grinding,
bile other mills and dams were washed
' ll y. 'here was not enough water at
athews’s mill to down the wheel,
hd a rain of three hours, the mill was
""dished, its foundations hud been
dtered, and its huge millstone had
washed three hundred yards down
" wu, h. The dam had been broken,
ie 'aeeway flooded, and the mill wheel
■i>ki u to pieces.
UNI’ROPITAIII.K FROL.IC.
Charles Hopkins played ghost on a
ici nt night in Baltimore, Mil., wrapping
linself up in a sheet, and attempted ti.
Ighten a few laborers in a brickyard at
ie corner of Gorey’s Lane and iicddle
rct - All trie laborers with the excep
-5,1 of Win. E. Goodwin ran. William
e d upon his to halt, and
ll obeyed, tired his revolver.
* e ,)}i " entered the ghost’s mouth, lodg-
behind his ear. The spectre uttered
fell aud fell to the ground.
A It VKTAKIU.Y CRIME.
A plot to wreck the Council Bluffs
’ im ago east bound train on the Chi
h">. Rock Island & Pacific road, was
Hovered and frustrated. Had not ’lie
nll'.'T th, ‘ misplaced rail an I
Tpcd the train, it would have phm • and
O the nver and a fearful wreck would
vc nsued.
The Georgia enterprise.
WHAT DOES IT MEAN ?
lil.m.roh la M,,|,t 'l'll Hr Making a .Move On
I liillHuil’n Mnrilrr.
The following dispatch from Antwerp
lias been published iu the Brussels (la
r.'ttc; “1 am informed that the Berlin
government is about to construct, just
beyond the rail way station of Sihpclpuld,
"u the Dutch frontier, on German terri
tory, 20 sidings, each long enough to
convey a train witli 1,500 men to the
land central line from Aix-la-Chappclle
lo Antwerp. Gradients ami railways
M ill l>oconstructed at this purely military
station for the landing of cavalry, and a
m servoir will bo built for the purpose of
feeding locomotives. The whole works
will cost 1,200,000 marks. The German
e'atmajor, which has 000,000 men con
centrated in fortresses between Cologne,
Dusseldorf, Aix, etc., estimates that,
with such ail installation, within an hour
it would be in a position to throw 50,000
troops upon Macstrecht, to occupy the
bridge there and to prevent the Dutch
1 tom blowing it up. This britlge is un
dermined for military purposes. The
German etat-inajor is also contemplating
measures to put the government in a po
sition to throw an army of 50 000 men
under the walls of Antwerp nt 24 hours’
notice,” The European correspondents
of tlie New York papers report, that
Bismarck has designs on Holland, and
has agreed with France to restore Alcase-
Lorraine if she will agree not tointerfere.
This will account for German military
movements.
LABOR NOTES.
Secretary Martin, of the Amalgamated
Association, received notification that the
strike at Brown Bunnells, at the exten
sive mills in Youngstown, 0., over the
“two job” question, had been settled,
the firm agreeing to the rales of the
Amalgamated Association, that one man
shall not hold more than one job. The
leather workers’ trouble at Newark, N.
J., culminated when the manufacturers
issued orders that none but non-union men
would be employed in their shops. This
is the commencement of a fight between
the Knights of Labor and the manufact
urers. The strike of tlte employes of
the Midland railway in London, Eng
land, is collapsing. The Birmingham en
gine men have resumed work. The
company announces that it lias ob
tained a full complement of drivers
and firemen to fill the vacancies caused
by the strike. The West Clare railway
in Ireland has been boycotted, owing to
hatred of Traffic Manager Sullivan. Pla
cards have been posted warning the peo
ple not to patronize the road until Sulli
van is dismissed. People who travel by
this line, the placards say, will be iti dan
ger of being shot. All gondoliers in
Venice, Italy, have gone out on a strike
beeause a light service lias been started
on the grand caual. All bakers in the
city have also gone out on strike, and
waiters in the hotels and cafes threaten
to go out. The leather council of the
Knights of Labor nt Newark, N. J., it is
understood, decided to order out all the
bag, harness and shoemakers in that city
on account of the decision of the manu
facturers to lock out the union men.
I,OOK Ol’T FOR HIM !
John W. Hallock, a compositor, who
went from Atlanta, Ga., to Montgomery,
Ala., was arrested at the latter place on a
warrant which read as follows: “One Jno.
W, Hallock, did unlawfully and mali
eiously utter incendiary and inflammatory
language, by sending assassin-like docu
ments through the United States mails,
and delivering copies of the same to th 1
youth of this State, against the peace
and dignity of the State of Alabama.”
The following card speaks for itself:
“John W. Hallock. I am in ba
in favor of revolutionizing the existing
condition of society; undeniably, it con
flicts with the liberties guaranteed by our
ancestors, and infringes upon tlic rights
of the American people, in violation of
the faith due to tlic Constitution of the
United States.” Judge Screws, before
whom Hallock was arraigned, had to
discharge him, and said: “I dismiss this
case because 1 am powerless to do other
wise. There seems to he no law in Ala
liama to overtake anarchists, cowards
and assassins. That there is no such law
is not the fault of this court. This man
Hallock is evidently a dangerous charac
ter, whose motives are not pure and whose
principles are corrupt. He belongs to
that vast army of society destroyers who
envy their neighbors and love not their
country.”
COLLAPSED WALLS
llury Many Firemen it ml .Some oi them
are Killed nnd Wounded.
A most terrible catastrophe has befall
en the tire department of St. Louis, Mo.
The walls of the ruinsof Bishop & Spear's
peanut warehouse, 510 and 512 North
Second street, fell and carried with them
a portion of J. Aik ires & Co.’s whole
sale grocery house. In the ruins w r.
buried a number of firemen, three of
whom, Barney McKcrnan, Frank Mc-
Donald and Chris, Hoell wen* bead when
found; several more were badly hurt, and
may die. A number of firemen were en
gaged in raising ladders to get water on
the smouldering peanuts when suddenly
the east and west walls of Bishop A
Spear’s wavered and crashed; then down
came the north wall and with it a portion
of Allures’ south wall, tearing out Al
kires’ south side right in the middle.
As the middle ami north walls came
down the front of the peanut warehouse
fell out, and the pressure from the side
walls forced the debris out Into the street.
Kll SOIIA ON SU NDAY.
In the suit of the Law and Order So
ciety against a number of druggists, at
Pittsburg, Pa., for selling soda water on
Sunday, Judge Collier affirmed the con
vii ti lis of the defendants Vn the ground
that ihe sale of soda was not an over
powering necessity and that it was not
sold as a medicine, but as a beverage.
The defendants claimed that it was a
necessity, and endeavored to prove by
the testimony of several physicians that
it was medicine.
A COSTI.Y HWOIID.
The anniversary of (Jeronimo’s surren
der to Gen. Miles has been set apart as a
day for the presentation of a sword 1c
the general. The sword will be madi
by Tiffany & Cos., of New York, at :
cost of $1 000.
t'HATTANOWJA’M INVITATION.
At a citizens' meeting in Chattanooga,
Tenn., it was resolved to send a big del
egation to Bt. Louis, September 30th, to
invite the grand encampment of thi
Grand Army of the Republic to meet in
Chattanooga iu IS3S.
NATIONAL CAPITAL DOTS.
i M H IT IS 110/.VO AT THE WHITE
HOUSE AMI 11l I‘AItTMESTS.
I'rt’klilcul Cleveland lltinv Iteerlvlua Invi
tation* i ill rrnl ale I ii in in Uni on 4*ov
rriimeul Aflaim (inini Well
HA V ANN All's 1N VITATION.
I Jin foil wiug has )>asaod the City
( ounril of Savannah, Ua.: “Whuruun,
It is the ih’siro of tin* < iti/.ens of Savan
nah that his excrllrnry, President Clove
laud and Mrs. Cleveland visit our city,
nnd the desire being fn accord with the
feeling of the council, Resolved, That
the mayor and aldermen of the city of
Savannah join in this request nod ex
press the hope that his excellency will
accept the invitation.”
DELEGATES APPOINTED.
Miss Clara Barton, president of the
American national association, of the
Ked Cross, and l)r. J. B. Huhhcll, gen
eral field agent and secretary of the asso
ciation have been appointed by Presi
dent Cleveland, delegates to represent
the United States at the fourth interna
tional conference of the lied Cross, to lx
held at the court of the Grand Duke and
Duchess of Baden, which opens at Carl
stiihe, Germany, on the 22d of next Sep
tember.
A UOOD APPOINTMENT.
An important change in the Navy De
partment has been made, by which Chief
Engineer Charles 11. Loring, who has
been for some years at the head of the
Bureau of Steam Engineering, has re
signed and the President has appointed
Chief Engineer George W. Melville in
his place. The new chief is the well
known explorer who took an. important
part in the Jeannette Arctic expedition,
and has shown splendid executive quali
ties in connection with the plans for the
machinery of the new cruisers.
NOTES.
The Secretary of tho Treasury has ap-
Sointed M. J. Harris to boa United
tates gauger at Youngsville, N. C.,
and James Wiggins to be a United
States gauger at Williamston, N. C.
A representative meeting of profes
ional and business men have adopted
unanimously a scries of resolutions ex
pressing a desire that the President and
Mrs. Cleveland should visit Charleston,
8. O.
Secretary Whitney has decided to send
a number of naval officers abroad to study
hull designing nd machinery construc
tion. The officers will first go to Paris,
and will probably remain abroad four
years.
Prince Devawongse, of Siam, and his
party, twenty-two in all, including five
of the children of the king of Siam,
have arrived. They have been and will
continue to be subjects of much official
attention.
Assistant Secretary of State Porter has
conveyed to the President an invitation
from the people of Nashville and Middle
Tennessee, to visit that city, and another
from the chamber of commerce of Knox
ville to pay that city a visit.
The State Department is informed of
the death of Vice-Consul-Gcncrs' John
T. Miller at Rio Janiero. Coes' l ! M. C.
Call, at Santos, has been dirKted to take
charge of the consul-gemral’s office at
Rio, the consul-general ocing absent on
leave.
1 he Indian received the fol
lowing from endian Agent Sheehan, at
Atkin Mir* l -: “The killing of the three
Indians at Kimberly was done by the
India* B themselves No serious trouble
between the Indians and whites. Will
remain here with Indians until they are
quieted. Reports in newspapers are sen
sational.”
QUICKLY KILLED.
The Htrnn*c*t llnel Recorded on this
(•rent Continent.
Senor Victoria, a mining speculator,
mu! Senor Pedraza, an extensive ship
owner in Mexico, fought one of the
strangest duels on record. While at a
hall a few days ago, given at Tampico
by one of the chief ladies of the Spanish
colony, the two gentlemen quarreled in
the presence of a lady and Victoria chal
lenged Pedraza. As Pedraza had rhoice
of weapons, he demanded that Victoria
meet him in a dark room where should be
placed a hundred tarantulas of most
poisonous character, and that each should
devote his energies to killing tarantulas
instead of lighting his opponent, and
neither must leave the room till all the
poisonous spiders were killed. The duel
was fought in a room dark as a dungeon.
There were no seconds, nnd no one in
Tampico suspected tile fact. Wlieu the
doors were broken open both men were
found dead, surrounded by horrible spi
ders, some dead and some alive.
BAN~KIIA.M'IHCO’B SCANDAIa
If New York has its boodle aldermen,
and Chicago its hoodie commissioners,
Ban Franeiseo, Cal., has wealthy jury
bribers. Robt. F. Morrow, a wealthy
capitalist, and late president of the Gearv
street cable road, and James McCord,
late superintendent of the Butter street
cable road, who became notoriously
prominent during the cablo car strike
and riots, have been arrested for bribing
juries. These eases had been previously
brought before the courts, but owing to
some occult influence, were dismissed
with trivial fines. Recently, however,
Frank Northey, who claims to have been
paid by Morrow to bribe jurors in a case
for damages against the Geary street
road, fell out with his patron and brought
suit against him for, as he boldly alleg and
in his complaint, services in bribing the
jury.
Drill If!) TOGETHER.
The remains of the widow of the late
Col. Benj. Stiles, of Savannah, Ga.,were
taken to Winchester, Va., and buried in
the same grave with that of her husband,
in accordance w ith a request made before
her death. Col. Stiles, aged 28, fell at
the head of his regiment, the 10th Geor
gia volunteers, of Wofford's brigade,
Longstreet’s corps, at Guard Hill, near
Front Royal, on August 10, 1804. This
was the tirst burial of a woman ever
made in Stonewall Cemetery, at Winches
ter.
I.ARGE PORCH A HE.
A Pittsburg, Pa., syndicate has pur
chased 100,000 acres of land in the South;
the lands are along the northern line of
South Carolina and Georgia, most of it
being in the latter state. The price paid
was a million dollars in cash. The inten
tion of the purchasers is not to develop
the lands, but to hold them as an invest
ment until the advance in the price of
lumber greatly incereaaea their value.
“Mr country mat ana a van aa right, right or wrong my country." j& km.
COVINGTON. GEORGIA. FRIDAY, AUGUST I‘J. 1887.
SOUTHERN CHOPS.
Oftlrlnl II sport f Iks I nll.-d Nlntrs Depart*
mcnl af Aarlrnllere.
The report of the department of agri
culture at Washington, D. C\, is as fol
lows: Cereals—The prospect a month ago
Mas for a very heavy crop of corn, ami
the rate of yield about the average. Its
condition in ull the states of the Atlantic
coast is now unimpaired, and of a very
high promise. In Texas and Tennessee
tin- condition hiss declined materially.
The past month has been favorable for
cotton, except that the rainfall lias lieen
uneipially distributed in point of time—a
drouth threatened at one period and
damaging Hoods following. In the east
ern twit the excess of moisture predomi
nates as a factor of the depreciation. The
weed is, therefore Inrge Hnd sappy, and
Die fruit fall appears iu some fields seri
ously, and in some cases rust appears. In
Louisiana similar conditions have pre
vailed, and only very partially in Missis
sippt. Texas has been too dry, though
the drouth has uot as yet been disastrous
or severe. The prevalent status of the
crop is very good for the first of August,
while reporters recognize this as a criti
cal t ime, and fear the effect ot subsequent
drouth upon the green and succulent con
dition of the plant. In a comparison of
ten years, the August condition is only
exceeded by that of 1082 and 1885, one
producing a large crop, the other undei
a medium yield. The general average
condition is 9.1.5, which is lower by three
points than that of July. The state aver
ages are: Virginia, 94:JNorth Carolina,
90 ; South Carolina, 95; Georgia,
94 ; Florida, 90 ; Alabama, 93;
Mississippi, 90; Louisiana, 94; Te-xas,
87 ; Arkansas, 07 ; Tennessee, 95.
Tlte first brood of caterpillars has ap-
I cared in several states, but is not gen
etally mentioned in the returns. It is
re-porteel in Orangeburg and Berkeley,
South Carolina; in Calhoun, Taylor,
Dooly anei Laurens, Georgia; in llall ami
Dallas, Alabama; Starkey, Newton, Is
saquena and Oktibbehae, Mississippi; in
Red Biver, Bossier, Richland, Natchito
ches and Therville, Louisiana; and in
Stephens, Camp and Jackson, Texas.
The boll worm is much less frequently
mentioned. Tobacco—Tlte tobacco crop
is in high condition in seed, the leaf
state averaging nearly .100 Except in
Wisconsin, the shipping and cutting dis
tricts of the West make an unprecedented
report of low condition; Tennessee, 70;
Kentucky, 59; Ohio, 35; Indiana, 50;
Illinois, 52; Missouri, 00. In view of a
heavy reduction in acreage, only a small
fragment ol the usual crop may be ex
pected. The official investigation of aret
now in progress, will determine authori
tatively the breadth cultivated the pres
ent year.
DESTRUCTIVE FRESHETS
Caim Great Losses On tha Klo© Plsnlallsas
Alone Ike isar-oaah Hlne.
A few dsj“ ago, the rice plantters
along the Savannah river were hopeful
of the best crops for years, and in one
day it'eir lands are overrun with water
mid the prospect is utter ruin of the crops.
From the city of Savannah, Ga., up the
river towards Augusta there is the
Charleston bridge of the C. & 8. Road.
Three miles this side of the bridge is the
Little Vernezebte croek. Before the
Savannah river reaches this creek it di
vides and runs into two narrow streams
around Argyle Island, and, indeed, a se
ries of islands. The stream next the
Carolina shore is known as the Back
river, and fronting ou this stream, both
from tlte Carolina shore and the islands
mentioned, are the great fields. In times
of freshet the river rises over the low,
swampy lands that lie on the Carolina
banks of the Back river and are above
Vernezebre creek. Just this side of the
creek begin the rice plantations. Vern
ezebre freshet bank was built 35 years
ago. It runs back inland from the Hack
river and at right angles to the river, and
is about 2 miles in "length. The Vern
ezebre freshet bank is not a financial
institution, but it is a corporation wdth a
president aud other corporate officers,
who keep it up, and who assess the plan
ters xvho are subjacent to it. I hia bank
has never before been overflowed. It
was supposed to be 4 feet above the high
est freshet. The waters are way above
it, and have rushed all over the rice fields
of the Carolina coasts. This means the
ruin of 9,000 acres of cultivated rice
land, which, at a calculation of 40 bush
els to the acre, and a dollar and a quarter
to the bushel,means a loss of about $450,-
000, besides the immense damage to the
banks. The rice is in' a condition when
water will rain it. Three-fourths of it
has just allot up and flowered. The rest
has headed and begun to fill. The water
will prevent the milk from rising from
the belly, and the rice will be blighted.
KANSAS BOOM.
Boomers arc now gathering at Gcncda
Springs, a small town six miles north
west of Arkansas City, Kansas. They
have been issuing a paper there, and an
nounce thoir intention to take possession
of the coveted country in the Indian Ter
ritory. No Iroubie is apprehended, as
the boomers arc not thoroughly organ
ized. Companies E, Capt. Price; 1),
Capt. Thomas, and 11, Capt. Sclmpler,
of Gen. Miles’ old Fifth United States
Cavalry, n dcrcominand of Maj. Uphum,
just from Fort ltiley, are encamped on
the outskirts of the city for the purpose
of crossing into the Indian Territory and
joining several companies stationed thero
to head off the boomers.
NEW I.AIIOII ORGANISATION.
Anew secret organization known as
“The Brotherhood,” in many reaper's
similar to the Knighis ol Labor, has
been formed and has already grown ti
considerable proportions in Boston.
Mass., and through New England. It
organization is kept a proto nd secret.
The principles of the organization an
contained in a printed circular, which
begins witli announcements that the or
ganizatimi does not believe in strikes,
but uses the ballot and co-operative in
stit utions as weapons of warfare. Italsi
asks that the government obtain posses
siou by purchase of all telegraphs, tele
phones and railroads.
A WOMAN AVITH GRIT.
Alice Barry defied the police who went
to execute a writ of eviction against her.
at Knockdale, county Antrim, in Ireland
She barricaded her house, and with the
assistance of some friends, defended it
for a long time against a large force of
officers, who attempted to take it by
storm, and who were many times repulsed
by volleys of stones aud streams of boil
ing water. The police finally captured
the house by a charge with fixed bayo
nets, but not until many of them wore
butt, .ami one wan hadiy pitchforked.
GENERAL NEWS.
CURRENT EVENTS ON THIS CON
TINENT A NIP ACROSS SEAS .
Kfsrta al llot Weather Drewnlngn, Hlmiii*
It on i mid llfillroitri Arrldt'iiln The
Deadly liiliik. rie.* elc.
Tlte heat is very intense ’at Chicago,
111., the mercury going up to nearly 100.
There was a white frost at Wcllsville,
N. Y., and the thermometer registered
only forty degrees above zero.
Iu n fight between strikers and new
men at the Aden miucs, near Wilkealmire,
l’n., about a dozen men were wounded.
By neglect of a telegraph operator,
two freight trains collided at White Hill,
N. J. Fireman George T. Powell, of
Jersey City, was killed.
The King of Abyssinia, who i? hold
ing for ransom Maj. Havoiroux of the
Italian army, captured at Manowuh, de
mands SIO,OOO for him.
Baron Billings, late French embassa
dor to Sweden, while visiting friends
in Alsace was expelled front the province
by German officials.
M. Magnier, editor of the Evenment,
has fought a duel with M. Rctttaeh of the
ltepubliquc Franeaise in Paris. The weap
ons were swords. Heinaeli was wounded.
A fire occurred at Concord, N. 11., in
a large warehouse. Eight members of a
brass band practicing in the fourth story
were injured by dropping from tlte win
dows.
The scarcity of farm hands in tlte
wheat belt of northern Minnesota and
Dakota has become alarming, and farm
ers are offering exorbitant wages to save
tlte abundant crops.
The roof of Charlcton’s Opera-house,
in Springfield, 111., fell, carrying a huge
miss of debris into the center of the
building. The accident was caused by
heat shrinking the timbers. No one was
hurt.
Sam Woo, a Chinese latindryman,
brought suit for libel iu the United States
court against the Detroit, Mich., Free
Press, claiming SIO,OOO damages. lie al
leges that the Free Press falsely stated
tliat he fought sparrows in his establish
ment.
A dispatch from St. Thomas, West
Africa, received at London, England,
says, tiint letters have been received at
Stanley Pool from Henry M. Stanley,
announcing his arrival at Aruhwiinie
Falls, and stating that all of his party
were well.
An immense anarchist meeting took
place in the city park of Kansas City,
Mo. W. H. Clemens, a local agitator
uiged the tearing down of police courts
and jails, and said if the Chicago 11 ay -
market scene was repeated the authori
ties would be to blame.
Prof. Tyndall has written another
scathing article to the Loudon Times at
tacking Mr. Gladstone, ft. ~it
the facts tend to verify the fact that Mr.
Gladstone is merely the resonant mask
throug i which John Morley Mows over
the land his fanatical treason.
Mme. Elluini, while traveling in the
country, some distance from Paris,
France, left the coach to relieve the
horses upon reaching a hill. When she
resumed her seat she discovered the loss
of a valise containing valuables worth
SIOO,OOO. Her male servant has been ar
rested on suspicion.
Williuni M. Gibson, the deposed prime
minister of the Hawaiian kingdom, who
was tried on charges of robbing the pub
lic treasury, and who escaped from the
island after his acquittal, hu9 arrived in
San Francisco, Cal., from Honolulu on
the brig John D. Bpreckles. He will soon
go to South Carolina, where he formerly
lived.
While Sheriff Charles 11. Lacy, of At
lantic City, N. J., was absent ut the fun
eral of his wife, there was an attempt on
the part of the prisoners at the jail, at
Maye's landing, to escape. They were
led by a housebreaker, named Slocum,
who, with an iron pump handle bout a
hole through the ceiling and effected an
entrance into the attic. 1 hey were driven
back at the point of the pistol and se
cured.
Hiram Schoonavnr, of Browsville, Neb.
shot his mother-in-law in a watermelon
patch under the impression that die was
a skunk. He was watching for thieves,
and aliout 10 o’clock at night an object
appearedfin the corn and slowly approach
ed* A dog sprang at it and suddenly
retreated. This convinced Schoonavar
that the intruder was a skunk, and he
tired.
At the meeting of the Indiana State
Board of Health, reports were presented
showing that the jails in Lawrence and
Perry Counties are unfit for human hah
italion. In Lawrence County the over
seer of the poor-house hired the inmates
out al $1,75 a week and pocketed the
proceeds. Young children were forced
to sleep with old inmates who were af
fectcel with loathsome diseases.
A SECOND DELUGE.
Aiifuata, <*a*. i Overflowed, mid Much
Destruction of Property Occur*-
The rapid rising of the Savannah rivei
at Mount Carmel threw Augusta, Ga.,
people into a fever of excitement, and
everyone commenced immediately mak
ing preparations to keep the water from
their business houses and homes. The
force of water in the third level canal
blew out one of the gates on Marlmry
street, at Clarke’s Globe mills, and the
water flowed through very rapidly, ami
flooded many houses down through Dub
lin, and extending out by the Central
railroad to the south commons, which
were completely Hooded, and there join
ing the water from the bend in the river
below the city, thus encircling Augusta.
The water extends on every street be
tween Greene and the river down as far
as Cumming, on Greene as far down as
Campbell, on Telfair to Mclntosh and on
Walker all that entire portion of southern
Augusta down to the east boundary, ex
cepting the extreme eastern portion,
which is much higher than the city prop
er. The water is, of course, over the
first floors of at lea*t one hundred houses.
Many persons sought the second story,
but those who reside in one story houses
were compelled to desert them ands. ek
shelter with friends who were fortunate
enough to own or rent a tw< -story house.
Many people are greatly excited over the
rapid rise, which is without parallel.
nsIBLU COTTON SUPPLY.
The total visible supply of cotton for
the world is 1,923,233 bales, of which
801,133 hales arc American, aga.nst
1,350,233 and 924,533 bale* respectively
last year. The receipts at all the interior
towns are 2,561 bale*. The crop in sight
U 6,864,010 bales.
THE HEIGHTS AND THE VALLEY.
There are gray clouds iu the valley,
Clouds and mists anil chilling rain,
Rat the heights are Itathed in sunshine.
There we look with longings vnln.
Silver moonlight In the valley,
(-litters on tlte heights alsive,
While the dew-droiM lit tlte valley,
Kiss the lilies that they love.
On the heights there are no lilies,
They love beet the valley low,
All tliat glitters on the heights, is
Diamond, ice and pearls of snow,
THE ABANDONED BRIG.
A SAILOR'S STORY.
A more singular incident Ilian one
which occurred white I was one of the
crew of the ship Stranger, is not to he
found in the records of the sea. We
loaded at Liverpool for the Cajte and
ports lieyon.l, on the west coast of Africa.
Our last port of call was to lie Zanzibar.
Before leaving the docks at Liverpool
two or three of us took down the map
hanging on the wall at our boarding
house and traced out the course. When
we came to figure up tlte distance We
were amazed. When we eatne to figure
on the perils of such a voyage wo won
dered how many of us w ould live to see
the palms of Africa. The average lands
man sees a ship pull out of Iter dock
without asking or caring which way she
is to go, how long the voyage is to be,
or what the perils of Iter course. Per- I
haps it is uot his business to ask or care, j
Each vocation In life has its profits and ■
jterils, and it is seemingly left to each i
toiler to work out his own salvation.
Well, we had touched at Port Natal to
unload some machines, and were hended
up for tlte Mozambique channel, wheu
we got caught in a cyclone. It came on
about 10 o’clock in tlte morning, and we
had everything snug to meet it. Two |
coasting schooners, both hound our
way, had come out of Natal with us, aud
when the storm came howling down both !
were in full sight. Inside of twenty
minutes one foundered and went to the
bottom, and the other we almost ran )
over as she drifted bottom up. We had
a big craft, and she had taken out enough
cargo to float like a cork; but within an
Hour the sea got up until a mill pond
constantly washed our decks, and now
nnd then a wave came over the rail, i
which filled her until we stood hip deep
in the frothy water. We had to knock
away a portion of the bulwarks to give
her a chance to unload, but even then
there were occasions w’hen it seemed as if
she could not rise with her burden. I
don’t remember that any of us were
frightened. Both watches were on duty,
the officers alert, and we knew that noth
ing could be done, except to stand ready
if any sudden jicril menaced us. We
were not lying to, as would have been
tlte case in a roaring gale. With the
wind screaming and shrieking along at
the rate of eighty or ninety miles an
tiour, no snip coui.i L...*, i,,.i,t „j> ...
it, even if she were not driven under
stern first.
I had been sailing for fifteen years,
and yet had never encountered
anything like this storm. The an
ger of it was appalling. It seemed
determined that nothing made by the
hand of man should survive it. When
we slid down into the great hollows be
tween the waves the wind was lost to us
on the decks, but it roared and shrieked
through our tophninper like ten thousand
mad devils. 'Then, its we slowly climbed
the steep hill of water, the ship seeming
to stand almost perpeudicttlpr on her
stern, the wild blasts struck us again,
until every man had to hang on for his
life, When we were in the full embrace
of the storm the report of a field piece
could not have been heard twenty feet.
I had only one look astern of the ship. A
five-pound note could not have hired me
to look again. A great wall of water,
crested with six feet of froth, was rush
ing down as if to roll over us, and I shut
my eyes and held tnv breath. It lifted
the snip and Hung iter forward as a boy
might toss a chip, but I would not look
again.
It was about noon, and I was making
my way aft to tell the Captain that we
could make out some sort of a wreck on
our )K>rt bow, when we were swept by a
wave from stern to stem. My grip on
the life line was broken as the waters
rushed over me, and next instant I knew
1 was being carried over the rail. As 1
went I bumped against two of the men,
buried over their heads in water, but
hanging on for life. I clutched at one
of them-, and tore u piece from
his jucket, and thirty seconds later
1 was overboard for good and
trying to get my head above the
foam, which piled up on the surface like
yeast. When I did get a look around
me the ship was a quarter of a mile away,
and just sinking into a hollow. I know
it has been the case with most sailors
who have been put in such peril that no
hope of salvation existed, that a feeling
of exultation was born. It was so with
me. I had a profound pity for the poor
fellows on board the Stranger. Their
danger seemed far greater than min*.
They would drive on tin il the ship
grounded or struck a rock, and every
soul of them would perish ou the cruel
ledges or be drowned in the clutch of the
deadly undertow. My death would lie
easy and without pain. All I had lodo
was to cease struggling cud sink down,
down, down to a peaceful sleep below
the vexed surlace. 1 was doubtless
drowning when this feeling was upon
me, but somethtng occurred to arouse
me. Some object bumped against me,
and instinctively I reached out toward it.
It was a part of the cook’s galley or house.
The wave which had swept me overboard
had smashed the house and sent one
whole side of it after me. I can remem
ber that 1 knew what the object was, and
that I grasped it aud felt that 1 had a
chance for life, but then comes a blank.
I suppose I was buffeted about until I
lost consciousness, but I had a grip on
the wreckage which even death would
not have released.
The next thing I remember was a feel
ing of thirst. 1 thought 1 was wandering
in the woods itt search of a spring, and
the longer I hunted the more jtliirsty I
became. I was about to slide down a
bank into a dark ravine when I opened
iiiv eyes and found myself extended on
the wreckage, either hand gripping so
firmly that it was only after several trials
that 1 could open my fingers. The wind
had gone down a good deal, and with it
some of the fury of the sea, but I was
still being tossed about in a very un
comfortable manner. The sun was about
half an hour high, and as the events of
the day slowly came back to my befogged
brain, I figured that it was now coming
on to sunset. Half an hour later, greatly
to my surprise, the sun was much higher,
and by aud by I was forced to the eon
elusion that it was morning, and tha' I
had floated all the afternoon and all night.
Uuuger and thirßt soon proved the cor-
rectnes* of this conclusion. As the sun
came up the wind and sea went down,
nnd before noon I was pretty comfortably
fixed, though stiff and bruised front
being so much knocked about. Hope
and ambition Mere slow in coming, and
it was fully midday before my mind was
clear. Did I hope I Yes, Hope is the
last thing to desert a sailor, no matter
how desperate the circumstances. It was
almost hope against hope, however. I
understood something of navigation, and
knew that it was a circular storm which
struck the ship. There was no telling
I how large the circle, or whether the
| Stranger was on the outer or the inner
' edge. I afterward learned that Me were
very near the centre, and did not feel the
force as much as ships 100 miles to the
south or west. A great part of the
island of Madagascar was ravaged, and
terrible havoc was created seventy-five
miles inland from Port Natal, East
i London, Georgetown nnd tho Cape.
Two whalers 120 miles to tlte west of us
were dismasted, and two others went
doM’n with all hands.
1 think it M-ns about ten o’clock in the
forenoon when, as I Mas heaved up on a
sea, I caught sight of a craft dead ahead
of me and not more than a mile awav. I
didn't make her out very well for a time,
as there was a haze in the sky and the
spray flying about me, but when I drifted
nearer I found her tobcadismasted brig.
It was a mercy that I was driving straight
down upon her, for I had’nt the strengtli
to turn my unwieldy float in either direc
tion. There w ere no signs of life about
the wreck, and I made up my wind for a
tremendous struggle to get aboard of
iter. She was a hulk, and being tossed
about like a cork, and there was no telling
how long she would float, but I felt that
if I missed Iter I should drift away to an
awful death from hunger and thirst. It
seemed as if Providence guided my float.
The wreck was stern on to me. This
was proof that her wheel hail been lashed,
and that her steering gear was all right.
You would have thought she would have
drove faster than my float, and I was sur
prised that she didn't. It was found.as I
may tell you here, that one of her an
chors was overboard, with ten fathoms
of chain attached to it. This gave
her a heavy drag, and my pace was
twice as fast as hers. When I came up j
I drove past her stern on the port side,
missing her by not more than four feet. !
There was a lot of her top hamper on the
port side held there by ropes which hnd j
not been severed and I drove into this
mess as we went into the trough of the !
sea. Climbing up the height beyond,
the wreckage slewed in toward the hulk,
and I seized the opportunity to grasp a
rope and draw myself on board. I did
not get there before receiving several
hard bumps, and when I was safe on deck
I had to sit down for a while to recover
my breath.
The decks were in a terrible litter, and
a good share of the bulwarks on the star
board Bide had been washed awav. Boats,
, booms and everything else movable had
j gone, and it was plain enough that the
! Grig had been wave-swept. Asa sailor I
eouid tell by the feel of her that she had
little or no water in her hold, and that
was the main question with me just then.
The first move I made was to begin at the
ropes holding the wreckage alongside. I
had my sheath knife to work with, nnd
later on found an ax, and in about half an
I hour I had the satisfaction of seeing
; everything go clear. The hulk made less
| work of it riding the waves after that,
and the danger of having a butt started
was disposed of for good. It was only
after I had cleared tlte wreckage away
that I felt hunger and thirst coin* upon
me, and I put awav tlte ax nnd looked
around for water. The scuttle butt was
lashed firmly in its place, with a rork in
the bung, and after a little hunting I j
found the drinking can and indulged in
a long and refreshing draught. Not a
drop of saltwater had entered tho barrel.
To satisfy my hunger I must go below.
The brig was built in the old-fashioned
way, with the cook’s galley, steward’s
pantry, and all that sort of thing below
decks. I found everythingmuch knocked
about and broken, but in the coppers was
a piece of beef, thoroughly done, and I
soon turned up a fair supply of ship’s
bread. With these articles of provender
I returned to the deck nnd ate until I was
thoroughly satisfied.
Not the slightest suspicion that any
one living was aboard had crossed my
mind. Indeed, I was only too thankful
that I had not encountered any dead. I
was alxnit through with my meal, nnd
was thinking of making a careful inves
tigation below, when I was suddenly
seized from behind, flung violently to the
deck from my seat on the main hatch,
and I found myself on my hack with a
man on top of me, his hand on niv throat,
and his knee on my chest. It came upon
me so very sudden that I had no strength
for a time. It was only when the stranger
raised his other hand, which clutched an
iron belaying pin, to give me a blow on
the head, that I put forth any effort. It
was well for me that I was in the prime
of life and possessed of lots of strength,
for he was a burly fellow and determined
to do for me. I tore his clutch loose, and
put forth a great effort and turned him
over, but we had a terrible struggle be
fore I conquered him. I did not get the
better of him until I had given him a rap
over the head with the same pin. While
he was unconscious I tied him hand and
foct, and then for the first time got a
good look at him. He was a common
sailor, strong as a bull, and without
doubt, a lunatic. Fear of death had un
settled his mind, and led him to hide
himself away when the others left the
brig. He had looked upon me as an
enemy, and no doubt intended to take
my life.
Wdl, after I had the man securely tied
lie recovered consciousness, and it was
well that I had not been sparing of the
rope. lie made herculean efforts to
break loose, and, being now r in a sort of
frenzy, he would have been more than a
match for me. His screams and shrieks
and curses were awful to hear, and I left
him securely tied to the deck and de
scended into the cabin. Scarcely any
thing here had been disturbed by human
hands. I found the brig’s log, and from
it 1 made out that her name was the Saint
Joseph, and that she had been up the
coast on a trading voyage. She lmd a
cargo of fine woods, hides, furs, spices,
and dried fruits, and carried a crew of
twelve men. The last entry in the log
told of a fair run and fair weather. Her
cargo I got from her papers. When I had
thoroughly ransacked the cabin I went
forward to the forecastle. The men had
gone without their bags. Then I w’ent
on deck, found the sounding rod, and
sounded the well. The brig did not
have two inches of water in her. I was
fussing about for a couple of hours, and
during all that time the lunatic never
ceased to scream and shout and try to
burst his bonds. It hen 1 finally got
around to see if I could not do something
f>r him he all at once subsided, and
would neither look at nor speak to me.
I luring the afternoon the wind was
NUMBER 3l>.
constantly falling nnd the sea going
down, and the weather put on such a
settled look that I grew very hopeful. I
was aboard of a hulk, drifting 1 knew
not where, ami had a dangerous man for
a comrade, but there was plenty to eat,
the brig was dry. and tlte chances of
Iteing sighted and rescued were good. It
was a long afternoon to me, though I was
kept busy rummaging about and clearing
up the litter. When the sun tinally Mi nt
down the night came on hazy, and the
wind fell to a two-knot breeze. [ Mas ill
a great quandary as to what to do with
the man, who seemed to have been asleep
for several hours. I lighted the ship’s lan
terns and hung them overboard, and
then, about two hours after dark, I car
ried the man some tea nnd bread and
j canned fruit. Ho lay on the broad of
his back, and was deaf to my soothing
words. I held up kj head pit *-l-i
tea to his lips, and in anstanfc he seemed
to go wijjf. By a mighpy effort lie
looset.d the ropes—l afterward found he
hadgnaned some of them in twain—and
next instant he was upon me. Neither
jof us had any weajtons, nor was there
I opportunity to secure one. We grappled
| each other, and in less than a minute I
san' tliat it was his life or mine, or per
haps both. He was seeking to drag me
to the broken bulwarks, anil I m'as seek-
I ing to prevent. He had a grip like death,
and as we struggled hark and forth
amidships we tore tlte clothes off of each
other, and used our hands and feet
whenever there mbs an opening. lie
M’as the stronger of the two,
but I could use my fists tlte better,
and this evened us up. I said that we
had no weapons. I Hail my sheath knife,
but I did not propose to use that until
I felt that my life depended upon it. Tito
j time finally came. I was growing weak,
and while he seemed as strong as ever. I
was just about to loosen the grip I had
on him witli my right hand and reach for
my knife when there was a great shout
from tlte bows, a number of men came
running along tlte decks, and a voice
which I recognized as that of the master
of the Stranger called out;
“What is it? Who are you? What is
going on?”
“Lay hold of him, Mr. Jameson; he’s
crazy!” I shouted, and with that four or
! five men seized him and flung him to tlte
deck.
Now, let me tell you what had hap
j peneil. I was lost overboard from the
ship about midday. Six hours afterM ard
she sprung aleak, and was abandoned
ii ust before she went down. The crew
got away in two boats, outlived tho
storm, and were heading up the Mada
gascar when they spied my lights and al
tered their course to make the wreck.
They had hailed the hulk several times,
and finally came aboard just in time to
prevent a deed which would have been
a burden to my peace of miud forever
after. The crew which left the brig were
never heard of more, while the lunatic
died next day after our men came aboard.
Not a man from the Stranger was lost,
anti we rigged up the brig and took her
to the Cape, and the salvage more than
paid for the loss of our ship and cargo,
j —New York Sun.
('ashing Big Checks.
, a gathering recently of fire or six
men, most of whom are at least reputed
to be wealthy, doubt was expressed by
each one if there is a man in New York
who could draw hia check for $1,000,000
and have it honored in actual cash.
(>ne of the group, a prominent financier,
said: “I know of an instance not long
since which is a fair illustration of these
1 million dollar checks. A London man
had a business transaction in which a
payment was to be made to him of
008,000. For business reasons lie did not
wish the checks to be passed as inordi
nary business transactions. A check hnd
been given to him ou Mills, Glynn, Cur
rie it Cos., who are the recognized outside
bankers of the Hank of England. Ho
went to them and demanded the cash foi
the check. They had not so much money
on hand and were obliged to ask him to
wait until they could go to the Bank of
England anil procure it. When he had
secured the cash he went to the other
I bankers to make a deposit. The second
house refused to accept the money on
deposit until he ha 1 explained to them
in the fullest manner where he got it.
They Hail never hnd so large a deposit
made in cash at one time. They would
1 not accept it without knowing where it
came from, and looked upon him with
suspicion for having so much cash in his
l possession until lie had explained the
circumstances of his business. Of course
the Bank of England had money enough
to meet such a check or a much larger
one, the same as tlte United States
Treasury would be able to meet a great
demand. But the fact that £68,000
should be a stumper for two of the big
gest banking establishments of London
indicate how small a part actual cash
plays in the business transactions of the
i day.”— New York Tribune.
The Richest Man.
In speakingof the wealthof some of tlw
ancients, writes a correspondent of tlio
New Orleans Time*-Democrat , you class
Tiberius as the wealthiest, $118,125,000,
and give that cf Croesus, the Lydian, at
about $8,01)0,000. You have not men
tioned one wealthier than them all, who
was Pythius, son of Aty, the Lydian, who
! possessed in silver and gold together,
! $24,516,000, which, added to his posses
sion of land and slaves at a proportionate
value, would swell his wealth to about
$.->00,000,000. I mean his gold at the
Doric value of $5.22; if reckoned at the
value of the stater siebus it would give
him in coin $0,036,000, and with slaves
and lands iu proportion, a wealth of over
$120,000,000. This man Pythius, with
out touching his silver or gold, enter
tained at the city of CeUeme the army of
Xerxes, over 5,000,000 strong, in his in
vasion of Greece, and on a pr rvious occa
sion made King Darius, Xerxes’s father,
a magnificent present —a gold plane tree
and vine. This Pythius, then, was the
wealthiest man in the world, and it is
doubtful if there lias been anyone before
or since to equal him.
A Blacksmith's Expedient.
The other day a Philadelphia Call re
porter saw a blacksmith examining an ax
from which he hail been asked to remove
a portion of the handle which had been
broken off close to the iron. The wood
j could not be driven out, and as nails had
! been driven in at the end it could not
Ibe bored out. "What will you dot”
asked the reporter. "I’ll burn it out’’
was the reply. But, you’ll injure the
temper of the steed,’’ suggested the re
porter. “Well, may lie not," said the
smith. He drove the cutting edge into
and moist earth, and built, a tire around
tin- projecting part. The wood became
(h n red and was easily removed, while
the tempered part of the ax sustained
l no injury