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VOLUME XXIJ.
■OUTHKRN BRIEFLETS.
■z s run u iir nra kd rit*:n #•:.
K// | / / V It.IIKST PEOPLE.
ni \. :l>< Mminluml mid (nr Mortal*
I
■ .lllilaNinmrr Mud ©*•*.
■ ( U .lay* Ernest Rogers, a son
H c. Rogers, near Columbus, (la.,
■;i larg<* splinter in his foot. He
Kttaekcd by lockjaw and died.
Hu,-in named James Terrell, about 30
■ old, afflicted with cancer of the
Bii-h, is kept alive By being fed with
Hnite in a hospital at Atlanta, (Jit.
Hi iv is an impression in the minds of
■licnds of Senator Riddleberger, of
Kina, recently arrested at Winchester,
■ for contempt of court, that he is in-
Hr<> locomotive on the E. T. V. A
■ ia Railroad collided recently under
■ i |>mii street bridge in Atlanta, and
H. Ma iderably ynadie-l up. No per
Has hurt.
H.f. Calvin S. Weld died at his
H in Banks county, Georgia. He
H><vii teaching in northeast Georgia
Hinmiberof years, having come South
H.\e\v York fifty years ago.
Hint this season of theyeir quite a
■ lin t of Neapolitan vessels leave for
Bay ports tor cargoes of
Hi staves. The most rigid quaran
■)f these vessels will be enforced on
of cholera, which is epidemic in
Hr family of William Turner, of Mo
consisting of a wife, two
Him i-, two grandsons, grinddaugh-
Htwo female and one male servant,
sick from the effects of poison in
Hi. The case of Mrs. Turner is con-
H'd quite serious and the sufferings
Hi are very severe.
train No. 27 on the East Ton-
H Virginia A Georgia Railroad, was
d l>y an axle breaking near Sugar
Ga. Seven cars were thrown
H the track and badly torn up but no
H\as hurt. The top brakeman cs-
Hi by jumping from one car to anoth-
Bout as fast as they left the track.
Hdge Govern Bryan, a prominent
■ter and citizen of Lumpkin county,
■died at the age of 84 years. Judge
■n was for several terms a state sena
■uii l was also a member of the House
■ sentatives. His death is general
■'..neiited, as the judge was a very
■mu man and citizen.
urn s Thomas Brewer, a mailing clerk
i Knoxville, Tenn., post-office, was
ted on suspicion of theft, and he was
jht by means of decoy letters. Upon
g confronted with evidences of his
t, Brewer confessed. He waived pre
nary examination and gave bail in
sum of sl*ooo for his appearance at
next term of the United States court,
•he jury in the Langston murder case
h tersburg, Va., rendered a verdict of
der in the second degree and fixed
term of imprisonment at eight years
he penitentiary. The trial lasted cx
y two weeks and the court and jury
v exhausted by worry and heat. Five
< - the jury declared their inability to
ne, and finally rendered a verdict un
positive instructions of the court.
■ . Tom," 11 lidcr order of Judge
■ (lie United Slates circuit court,
HU \ C drill, Va 7, was turned over to
H-i I,i I' lie for liik new committee, Mr<.
H. l It i luinc, of New York, by ,1. A.
Hi in the United States court room,
at first declined to go, but finally
fout 1 v consented and left for New
ish. di daring, however, that he would
H play again until he came baok to
■ginia.
Hlfter twenty-six years, Governor
Hliardson, of South Carolina, is about
■' •' v a joint resolution of the lcgisla
■> "f 1861, which was indorsed and
Bowed by the legislature of ’B6, that is,
Hpn - nt a gold medal ns the gift of the
■>c to Gen. N. G. Evans, of the Con-
B' rate army, for conspicuous gallantry
—burg, Va., 1861. This is the only
H’iimmial presented by the state to a
■dier in the late War. It will cost
Hun.
HA severe storm of wind, accompanied
Bli tierce lightning, passed over Ander-
B S. C., lasting over twenty minutes.
H Blnan, a negro, was standing in the
Hut door of Ids house, when lightning
Hn k the chimney, tore away the man
Hand setting tire to a box on which
Hither negro was lying. Sloan was in-
Hntlv killed, while the other man was
H'rcly shocked. The city suffered
Her damage to buildings and fences,
Ht no other persons were hurt.
Huhrns, Ga., was visited by one of the
H>t terrific wind storms ever experi-
H'd by the oldest inhabitants. Large
H- ; nnl strong fences that happened to
H 1" '!"• path of the destroying clement,
■ r "Tcm-hcd from their places and
H ; I ill every direction. Several streets
H 1 almost blockaded with limbs and
Hr If es. The windstorm was followed
H- very hard rain, which did consider-
He damage to property injured by the
H ! d Nearly every street in Athens is
■ " ilh some reminiscence of the storm.
■Anderson county, South Carolina, votes
B” prohibition” by a majority of two
■'iisaiid. The election passed off very
Hiotly. Tlie election was held under an
F passed by the legislature at the last
’ inn, applicable to the counties of
sdorson and Laurens, providing that
“m the petition of a majority of the
and estate owners of the county, an clec
m should be held to decide whether
not the sale of liquor should be abso
b‘ly prohibited in all parts of the
hnty, in incorporated towns ns well as
outlying districts.
blank Morton returned to his home
llr Kansas City, Mo., from attending
'■ services of the Salvation Army, and,
bidding good night to an acquaint
*'*> a member of the army, said:
rood night, I’ll meet you in hell in the
lining.” He immediately fell to the
or apparently lifeless. He was carried
his room, and, after medical assist-
Vl had been rendered, he recovered
nseiousness, but up to the present time
,s Keen unable to utter an articulate
Ul| d. Soon after his return to con
loiisHesa he wrote on a slip of paper:
d'd not know [ was so near bell.”
■e Salvation Army are making great
pit and of the circumstance.
STARVING!
Dispatches from St. Johns, N. F., es
tate that 50,000 people in Newfound
nd and Labrador are in danger of
leedy starvation, owing to the failure of
le fishing season f,or three successive
jars, together with summer di oughts,
nich have intervened. The situation
mid not be worse, and there is certain
1 be widespread starvation.
The Georgia Enter
AUNT AMANDA
%n Old fnlornt Women In Indtnnn, MnTi'nn
ICiillrond Truln I'roin lllnnuicr.
Amanda Barker, nn aged negress, was
walking along the track of the Cincin
| imti, Hamilton & liirlitiiiajtolin Railroad,
near Glcnwood, ludiHim, on her way to e
farmhouse, where she was to work dm
I log the day. Site had just passed Glen
I wood, a lonely dismal spot between In
] diaimpolia and Connersville, freipiented
only occasionally by the farmers living
around, when, on turning a sharp curve
in the road, she was horrified lo see
some distance ahead the smoldering re
mains of what lmd a short while before
been a stout, substantial bridge, con
necting embankments 030 feet apart
| and spanning a chasm nincty-tivc
feet deep. Tile bridge had evi
; dently been burning during the
I entire night, for the superstructure
was entirely eaten away by the lire, and
only a few weak timbers and tin: three
stone piers were left to tell the tale. The
old woman could not collect herself for
several moments, but it suddenly dawned
upon her that a train generally passed
that point some time in the early morn
ing. She had no idea what time it was,
or when the traiu was due, hut she knew
that it was a fast one and never stopped
at Glenwood. She turned her steps
backward, intending to Hag the train at
the station, but had got scarcely n linn
dred yards when she heard the shrill
scream of the whistle, ns she thought,
directly ahead of her. It was the east
bound lightning express, due at Glen
wood ut forty-five minutes past five
o’clock. She tried as hard as she could
to get around the bend which obstructed
tlie train from view, all the time tearing
and tugging away at an old
brown apron which she .wore,
which she used as a signal fiag.
Raising the improvised flag high above
her head, she waved it frantically,
standing in the center of the track,
where her presence could not go unno
ticed. For a while it seemed to her that
no one saw her, but she kept her position
determined to stop the train or die in the
track. At last the engineer saw her and
reversed his engine, bringing it to a stand
still a few yards in front of the old woman.
All the passengers were around
the spot in a short while, and
when they saw how narrow their escape
had been, they could scarcely speak.
A large purse was made up for their ben
efactress, but she positively refused to
take any money, and said she was to i
happy to touch anything, that money
would only make her feel bad again.
When every one on the train was con
gratulating themselves on their escape,
the old woman became so happy that she
hurst into tears, and was so joyful for a
while tha she hugged several of the
ladies and gentlemen and danced au old
fashioned jig. An effort will be made
to present old “Aunt Amanda” with
something substantial, if the names of all
the passengers tan he secured.
STRIKES.
Important Action of n Trad© liCa|ne—Engi
neers Quit Work In Mexico.
At a meeting of the Builders’ Trade
League, in Augusta, Ga., composed of
carpenters, bricklayer* and painters, the
following resolutions were adopted;
“No union man is allowed, under any
circumstances, to work with a non-union
man. No journeyman shall act as fore
man in any way for less than twenty-five
cents per day in advance of any other
man on the same job. No union ninn
shall work or handle any building mate
rials, or work on buildings where any
material is used that is manufactured or
sold by any company that does not rec
ognize 58 hours as a week’s work. If it
In' found by any one of the several unions
represented by this board of delegates to
be advisable to refuse to work or handle
tiny building material of any kind on ac
count of convict labor, or the refusal of
the manufacturers to recognize the 58
hour system, all the unions shall unite in
the same. There shall be no general
strike of any union for wages, without
serving the general contractors with 15
days’ notice.” The league is not yet thor
oughly established throughout Geor
gia, but efforts are being made to do so.
Tbc engineers of the first and second
divisions of the Mexican Central Railroad
struck. The cause of the strike is sup
posed to be the discharge of one of their
number. These divisions extend from
the city of Mexico to Calera, over
1.200 miles long. The freight con
ductors of the Memphis & Charleston
Railroad notified the superintendent that
th. y could no longer afford to work for
$75 per month, and asked for an increase
of $lO. Not hearing from him, they quit
work and no freight trains are now run
ning.
TWO RASCALS CAIJUIIT.
Two men have been arrested on the
charge of being the incendiaries who
caused the Chatsworth, 111., horror, where
nearly 150 persons were killed and 400
wounded. The authority givea for the
information is a man named L. Dobbs,
who has been working for some time
past for a fanner named Norris Kenoya,
about three miles from Kentlaud, lnd.
Dobbs informed a newspaper correspond
ent that two men were arrested on Sus
picion of having set the bridge on fire.
They were given a preliminary examina
tion before the justice of the peace, and
the proof against them was considered
strong enough to hold them in jail, where
they are now confined pending other pro
ceedings.
RACE TROUBLES.
For a year or more, bad blood has ex
isted between the Austrians and Sclavo
ninns in San Francisco, Cal. Recently,
the Austrian flag was carried by the 111
Griac society on their way to some picnic
grounds and was guarded by the police.
That evening fifty armed Russians, Bul
garians and Poles, under the leadership
of one Gropetevieh, a Bulgarian, awaited
the returning picnic, when nn onslaught
was to be made. The police, however,
had been warned, and a strong force sent
to the scene caused the bloodthirsty Scla
vonians to withdraw. The latter are
more incensed than ever against the Aus
trian colony, and a terrible fight i■> pre
dicted.
CHOLERA STATISTICS.
Eight new cases of cholera and five
deaths were reported at Malta. The
cholera returns for one day in Italy are
as follows: Naples, 8; 6 new cases and
8 deaths; Palermo, 7 cases and 6 deaths;
Syracuse, 5 cases and 8 deaths; at other
places, 93 cases and 46 deaths. Medical
returns show that 79,000 persons died
from cholera in the northwest provinces
of India, during June and July.
CURRENT NOTES.
WHAT IS DOING ON IN THE NEW
AND OLD WOULDS,
IVn riinlogrnplilrla of Inlrrrailnn Kvrntn In
Europe, Aula,Africa, ih# Doniininu*. anil
lhr I Simula ot tlu* Men,
Rev. Bmn Jones preached at Round
Lake, N. Y., to audiences literally pack
ing the great auditorium.
Five fatal accidents to Alpine tourists
lire reported from Zurich, Switzerland,
making eighteen deaths in the Alps
within ii month.
John Joyce, a well-known highway
man, was sentenced in New York to
twenty-four ycarsand nine months in the
State prison at hard labor.
Russia decidedly objects to Prince Fer
dinand occupying the Bulgarian throne.
France tacitly backs up Russia, by de
clining to have any official relations with
the prince.
A cyclone ravaged a great part of the
southern France. It was the severest in
the department of Ardencs, where a num
ber of houses were destroyed and several
persons were killed. The storm was se
vere at Bordeaux.
The murderers of James B. Duvall, a
Southern man, was sentenced eacli to ten
years’ imprisonment at Santa Rosa, Mex
ico. A man in the court room made a
very insulting remark about the dead
man and Americans generally, and lie
got ten years’ imprisonment as well.
The tenants on the Ponsonby estate in
Ireland, have engaged a civil engineer to
supervise the construction of works of
defense in preparation for expected evic
tions. Barricades are being erected and
trenches and drains made, and in ease of
of emergency the farms will he flooded
from the bog.
Two dynamite cartridges were ex
ploded on the West Clare Railway bridge
at Ennis, Ireland. No serious damage
was done. Two other cartridges were
found on the bridge, which had failed to
explode. The town hall at Crusheen,
county Clare, was fired into but no
damage was done.
J. X. Page, book-keeper of the large
wholesale stationery house of C. O.
Beaclmian & Cos., of Montreal, Canada,
raised a twenty-five dollar check to $25,-
000 on the Jaques Cartier hank, cashed
ft and absconded. He has been specu
lating in the bucket shops, and it is said
lost SI,OOO in one of the establishments.
Archbishop Corrigan, of New York, has
demanded of Rev. Dr. Curran an expla
nation of the latter’s recent appearance
with Dr. McGlynn at a public meeting of
the United Labor party. Dr. Curran was
not penitent, and on being requested by
the archbishop to apologize for his action
refused to do so. He was then warned
not to repeat the offense.
JohnJ. Reily, foreman in the scratch
shop of Rathbun, Sard & Co.’s, stove
foundry, disappeared recently ami his
body was found in an oven for baking
ladles. It is presumed he went in there
and laying down, fell asleep. Fire w'as
started and the door of the oven was then
locked. His presence not being noticed,
he was baked for about forty hours.
Two Canadian steamers, the Hastings
and the Kathleen, were seized by the
custom-house officers at Charlotte, N.Y.
The seizure was made on the ground that
neither of the boats had been inspected
by United States inspectors. The for
feiture is S3OO, and the boats were al
lowed to return to Toronto upon giving
bonds to the amount of SI,OOO.
A disease said to he Texas fever, has
broken among cattle in Oswego, N. Y.
John C. Rowe brought a herd of twenty
eight cows from Jefferson county to
butcher for market. Seven were killed
and sold, when it was discovered that
the others had Texas fever. The cattle
took the disease from a pasture where a
car load of Texas cattle were received
two months ago.
An election in Northwick division of
Cheshire, England, to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of P. Verdin, liber
al-unionist, resulted in another victory
for the Gladstones. The votes stood:
Brunner, Gladstonian, 5,112; Lord Hen
ry Grosvener, liberal-unionist, 3,983.
Grosvener is a son of the duke of West
minster. In the last election, when the
liberal-unionist candidate was successful,
the vote was as follows: Verdin, 4,416;
Brunner, home rule, 3,998.
The president of the World’s Woman’s
Christian Temperance Union, Mrs. Mar
garet Bright Ducas, of London, England,
and Miss Frances E. Willard, of Chicago,
UL, vice president for the United States;
Miss Hannah Whitall Smith, of Philadel
phia, secretary, have sent out a call to
every Christian woman in every land and
of every denomination who are interested
in temperance reform, to observe the 12th
and 13th of November next as days of
prayer, for the success of the work in
which they are engaged.
INDIAN WARFARE.
Tho People nt Fori Meeker, Colorado, Ex
pecliiiff nn Attack.
Tlie Rocky Mountain News correspond
ent. of Denver, Col., telegraphs from
Glcnwood Springs the following, which
was received from Meeker by a courier:
Van Chief, the courier whom Gen. West
sent out to find Sheriff Kendall, arrived,
having r dden from Kendall’s camp, near
Thornburg’s cattle ground, in less than
13 hours, a di-tance of 105 miles. Forty
of Kendall’s men had weakened and de
serted him, leaving him only 15 men. lie
is greatly reduced, his horses are worn
out, and he is working toward Meeker
for assistance and supplies. The messen
ger says the Utcs arc coming up from
their reservation and the Augustincs band
from D uglass creek. The worst has
been realized and the citizens of Garfield
county are wrought into the highest
piten of excitement over the fact that
the whole White river country is swar n
ii g with Indians, and that an attack bv
them is imminent on all ranches lying
away from Meeker. The most thorough
preparations are being made, and if the
Indians should attack, they will meet with
a w arm reception.
NCMAR MBS PROTEST,
There is much excitement among the
sugar dealers in New York on account of
the expected arrival at this port of 10,-
000 tons of sugar from the Hawaiian
Islands. This sugar, which comes via
San Francisco and Cape Horn, will be
admitted free of duty under the recent
reciprocity treaty. Additional cargoes of
the same kind are expected to follow.
As this sugar will be placed on the mar
ket in competition with the sugar on
which duty has been paid, some of the
dealers are making protests.
"UY COUNTRI MAT BUB BY HR BB RIGHT.
COVINGTON. GEORGIA. FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1881.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL IN THE
IIEAT OF MIDSUMMER.
t tin linen In Ihe t.ovrrnment Drpartinrnta—
rrmlilcnt t'levelnml'n tlrn.r “liivlin
llon** .Hall—Army and Nnvr Nolen,
LANDS FOUFKITED.
Secretary Lamar revoked the order of
withdrawal of indemnity lunds for tho
benefit of the Atlantic <te Pacific Rail
road Company, and in a letter to the
< ommissiouer of the General Land office
directed tltMt these indemnity lands bo
restored to settlement under the pre
emption and homestead laws. It is
stated that between 25,000,090 and 30,-
090,000 acres are involved in this decision
in the case of the Atlantic & Pacific
Company alone.
Kentucky’s invitation.
A delegation of prominent citizens of
Louisville, Ky., including the president
of the Ijouisville board of trade, and ed
itor of the Louisville “Commercial,” and
beaded by Hon. J. A. McKenzie, secre
tary of state, called at Oakville and, on
behalf of Governor Knott for the state of
Kentucky and the city of Louisville, pre
sented nn urgent and flattering invitation
to the President to visit Louisville on his
western tour. The President expressed
an earnest desire to meet the good people
of Louisville, and said that he would
gladly accept the invitation if he found
it possible to do so.
ARMY OFFICERS QUARREL.
Lieut. Gen. Sheridan has under con
sideration charges preferred by Col. W.
D. Whipple, stationed at Governor’s Is
land, New York, against Col. W. W.
Burns, who is stationed at the same post.
Both officers are on the staff of Maj. Gen.
Schofield. The charges allege “conduct
unbecoming an officer and a gentleman,”
and grew out of an altercation between
the two officers over a personal matter.
Col. Whipple asserts that Col. Burns
abused him shamefully, applying most
opprobrious epithets to him, and struck
lmn when his back was turned. Col.
Burns was placed under arrest by Gen.
Schofield.
NOTEB.
The Secretary of the Treasury has ap
pointed John H. Ball to be a gauger at
Jouesville, N. C.; L. H. Lewis to be a
gauger at Danville, Va.
The receipts of the Government in two
weeks of August, amount to $18,306,833
and the disbursements to $4,990,433, be
ing an excess of receipts of $13,316,400.
The President has appointed Rev.
Cleveland and Henry T. Stanton, of Ken
tucky, commissioners to appraise and allot
certain lands in the Umatilla reservation
belonging to confederate bands of Cayuse,
Walla-Walla and Umatilla Indians.
Tin* Secretary of the Treasury has ap
pointed George S. Fockler to be store
keeper and gauger in Washington county,
Md., and J. H. I{. Turner, David J. Hill
and James L. Dysart to lie gauger in the
sth district of North Carolina.
MAN'S INHUMANITY.
] uiigrnntfi From (•(tiiuiiiv Sold Into Slav
ery In Yucatan.
Ernest Schoeltz. who has just put in
an appearance at Au Sable, Mich., tells a
startling story of personal outrage.
With his wife and one son, Schoeltz. sail
ed from Germany for the United States.
Their ship touched at a Yucatan port and
Schoeltz and his family, together with a
number of other emigrants, were sold in
to slavery. They remained in the inter
ior of the country eighteen months and
then escaped to Campaelie, only to be
again taken into custody and subjected
to the most inhuman treatment. They
were compelled to work in tlie broiling
sun, without covering to their bodies,
llis wife was driven iuto the field to work,
three days after the birth of a chilli.
They were provided with but two pounds
of cornmeal a day, and this continued
nearly two years and a half. When
his wife fell ill and was sent to
a ho-pital. The husband was allowed to
visit tier occasionally, and while making
one of these visits lie fell in with a Ger
man sailor, who agreed to carry his fami
ly to Logona, whence t hey were sent to
the United States, by the German consul.
Schoeltz and his wife show upon their
persons the effect of the inhuman treat
ment given them.
DYNAMITERS ARRESTED.
The latest dynamite sensation in Eng
land is the arrest of a well-dressed wo
man and her maid at the fashionable re
sort of Cowes. Tho arrest was made by
London detectives, who claim to have
obtained information that the women
were acting as accomplices of dyna
miters. The statement is made that
forty pounds of the dangerous explosive
was found in a satchel in the possession
of the suspected parties. The theory is
that this means was taken of smuggling
the dynamite into London without
arousing suspicion, or that the intention
may have been to use it at Cowos in case
ceriain objectionable personages should
make their appearance at that place.
THK TniSTI.K US HERE.
The Scotch yacht Thistlo arrived at
New York. Capt. Harr reports a pleasant
passage, except three days of rough
weather and three without a puff of wind;
the rest of the time they had a light
breeze. Tho Thistle is certainly a pretty
model and her appearance does not belie
her claims to speed. It will take about
two weoks to clean her up, set her lop
mast and bend her l-icing saiis. The best
day’s run was made August 21, when,
with all sails set, including her spin
naker, she reded off 247 miles in a heavy
breeze, with a cross sea which is consid
ered remarkable for so sinail aerait under
short a i'.
THE OI.I) DODGE.
Woolfol k, the Bibb county, Ga., man who
reddened his hands with the blood of his
entire family, will hereafter drill in the
ta- tics of the madhouse occupants. His
attorney, Frank M. Walker, had a long
consultation with the prisoner and after
leaving the jail declared that Woolfolk
could not be held as a sane man. Mr.
Walker first met Woolfolk while in jail
consulting with another client, and ac
cepted his case after a careful considera
tion. The lawyer says that he has strong
circumstantial evidence which will not
only acquit the prisoner, but will indi
cate who the guilty parties are.
REA 1,1,Y DEAD.
A dispatch received at the office of the
French Secretary for Foreign Affairs, in
Paris, dated at Zanzibar, states that
Hei ry M.Stanley,the African explorer, was
deserted by his escort, and massacred by
the natives.
RIGHT OR WRONG MY COUNTltY.Jefrrm
FARMERS’ COLUMN.
INTERESTING NEWS A ROUT COT
TON. RICE, CORN, ETC.
Til® World*' \ I Millie Supply of Col lon Trou
j Mr Pi'iiin ihr Iterrnt I'rpaheta—Krport of
*h<* I Mill’d Mliilcm M|gmil Oiliest,
AUGUSTA'S II)KA.
A well known Beech Island, 8. C.,
firmer took the first hale of the season
Ito his Augusta, Ga., factors. The cotton
men of Augusta generally are of tho opin
ion that tin'receipts this year will greatly
exceed those of the past few years. In
tact, they ail seem confidant that the re
ceipts will e .t he less than 200,000 bales.
Last year's receipts were only about 145,-
000, while those of the previous year
were about 163,000.
HICK CROP DISASTER.
An earthquake does not cause groatei
local interest in Savannah, Ga., than a
threatened disaster to the rice crop. For
-onto days the planters were in suspense
awaiting the freshet’s arrival. For a
week they have been in far greater sus
pense wailing for it to subside. At first,
nearly every planter said that if tho crop
was submerged it would be ruined. Then,
after they had lain awake a few nights
thinking over tho matter, they remem
bered that an August freshet wns anew
experience. What it would do they
could not tell. The probable result,
though, would be a total loss. Nino
thousand and sonic odd acres were under
water for several days. In 1881 when
the memorable storm came, salt water
was backed up the river for 10 miles
above the city, .and the rice crop was
ruined. In 1854, a September gale caused
such havoc that the foreign and coastwise
shipments of rice from the port the
following year amounted to only $214,-
000 against $700,000 the preceding year.
In 1853 2,996 barrels of rice were shipjied
from Savannah. From tne way the plan
ters feel now that is quite as much as will
be grown next year along the Savannah.
The planters are discouraged, and many
of them talk about giving up, but by
next Spring they w ill probably decide to
try it once more. If the crop proves a
total loss along to Savannah, it will be a
severe blow to that city. The first esti
mates, which put the probable loss at
$350,000, may be exaggerated, and it
may turn out even yet to be too small.
. VISIBLE SUPPLY OF COTTON.
The visible supply of cotton of the
world, as made up by cable and telegraph,
is as follows:
1887. 1886.
Total East India, Brazil,
etc., bales 616,100 401,800
Total American 728,390 801,588
Total visible supply. .1,344,490 1,203,388
The above figures indicate an increase in
the cotton in sight of 51,102 hales as
compared with the same date of 1886,
an increase of 14,672 bales as compared
with • ( .c corresponding dn*e of 1885, and
a decrease of 348,320 bales as compared
with 1884.
WEATHER CROP BULLETIN.
During the week, according to the U.
S. Signal office reports, the daily average
temperature was from 2 to 3 degrees be
lmv the normal in the states on the At
lantic coast. It has been decidedly
warmer than usual in the central valleys,
the daily excess ranging from 3 to 4 de
greis, and in the region from Texas
northward to Nebraska the daily average
excess ranged from sto 9 degrees. In
California the daily average temperature
was 3to 7 degrees below the normal.
The average temperature for the season,
from January 1 to August 13, has been
generally in excess from the Alleghanics
westward to the Rocky Mountains, the
daily average excess in this region rang
ing from 1 to 4 degrees. The rainfall
has been slightly in excess in the drought
legion of Northern Illinois, Southern
Wisconsin, Southern Michigan, Northern
Indiana and Eastern Iowa; slight ex
cesses are also reported from Northwest
ern Missouri, Eastern Kansas, Nebraska
and Southern Minnesota, and general
rains are reported in the drought
region from Missouri and lowa east
ward to Ohio. In all other sections
the rainfall was less than usual, except in
the eastern portion of the cotton region,
Eastern Virginia, and southern portions
of Louisiana and Mississippi, where the
rainfall for the week was slightly in ex
cess. The large seasonal deficiency in
rainfall previously reported in the west
ern portion of the cotton region and in
the corn belt from Ohio westward to lowa
and Missouri continues, although recent
rains have decreased this deficiency in the
northern portion of the corn belt. Dur
ing the past four weeks less than 25 per
cent, of the usual rainfall has occurred in
Southern and Central Illinois, Western
Kentucky, Southern Missouri and
Northern Arkansas. The weather has
been generally favorable for all crops in
in the states on the Atlantic coast, from
Georgia northward to New England, and
reports from Mississippi, Arkansas and
Alabama indicate that t lie weather for the
week has been favorable for the cotton
crop, although this crop needs more rain
in portions of Tennessee and Arkansas.
Less than 50 per cent, of the usual
amount of rain was reported in the to
llmen region of Kentucky and West
Tennessee during the past four weeks.
During the same period in Virginia over
75 percent, of the usual amount of rain
oceuired, and in North Carolina, Penn
sylvania and Connecticut the rainfall lor
the month has been largely in excess.
FATAL SEARCH.
Several cowboys left Holbrook’s, New
Mexico, some days ago in search of a
man named Blevins, who had been miss
ing fyr several days. They were leiu
forced by four other-cowboys who joined
in the search. The next day they reached
the residence of Tewksbefry, in Tonto
basin. After making inquiry about the
missing man they turned to ride away,
when a volley was fired from the house,
killing John Paine and J. R. Oillesme
and severely wounding G. F. Tucker.
Tucker died before they reached the
rauche.
ABOUT TOBACCO-
A meeting of the committees from the
various loaf tobacco innrkcs to take ac
tion against the mi-leading report ot the
United Slates Agricultural Bureau o
warding the tobacco acreage, -s he'd in
Louisville, Ky. l"he meeting addressed
a memorial to Commissioner Colmaa, at
Washington, asking that in fur isli I lie
tobacco trade with statistics upon which
he founded his report If t-h s< be found
inaccurate or wanting, or if he refuses to
furnish information, it was decided to
appeal forredressto President Cleveland
REY. DR. TALMAGE.
THE HROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN-
DA* SERMON.
Subject, “Christian Principles In Lift
an<l Pir Insurance.**
Text: i, Lot him ttppni if officers over the'
lond.and ta.ie up the fifth part of tlielancLy
of Kgypt in the seven plenteous i/earsf*
—Genesis xli., 3i. >
Those wore tne words of Joseph, tho Prusi
dent of the first insurance company that
the world oversaw. Pharaoh hu<lo dream that
distracted him. He thought he stood ou the
hunks of the River Nile, and saw coming up
out of the river seven fat, sleek, glossy cows,
and they began to browse in the thick grass.
Nothing frightful about that Rut after
them, coming out of tho same river, ho saw
seven cows that wen; guant and st irred, and
tho worst looking cows that h id ever lieen
Been in the land, and in the ferocity of hunger
they devoured tip ir seven fat pi e-U cess :s.
I’btM'Hoh, the King, sent for .Joseph to .!•;
cipher these midnight hieroglyphics. Joseph
made short work of it. and intimat'd the
■even fat cows that came out of the river
arc seven years with plenty to eat, the
■even emaciated cows that followed them
are seven years with nothing to eat.
“Now,” saitl Joseph, “Let us take one
fifth of the corn crop of the seven
Drosp MOUS years and keep it as a provision
ror the seven years in which there shall lie no
corn crop.” Tho King took the counsel
and appointed Joseph, because of his integ
rity and public spin tednees, as the President
of the undertaking. The farm* rs paid
one-fifth of their income as u premium. In
all the towns and cities of tho land there
were branch houses. This great Egyptian
life insurance company had millions ol dol
lars as aasets. Alter awhile tho dark days
came and the whole nation would hive
starved if it ha 1 not 1-een for the provision
they had made for tho future. Rut now
these suffering families had nothing to do
but go up and collect the amount of their
life policies. The Bible puts it in one short
phrase: “In oil the land of Egypt there was
bread.” I say this w::s the first life insurance
company. It was divineiy organised. It
h.’iti n it all the edv inta of I
life plan,” of the tontine plan," of the “it
■erred endowment plan,” and all tho other
food plans. We are told tliat Rev. Dr. An
ate, of Lincolnshire, England, originated
the first life insurance company in Nol
it is as old as the corn cribs of Egypt; and
(Jod himself was the author and originator.
If that were not so I would not takt* your
time and mine in Sabbath di'mission of this
subject. 1 feel it is a theme, vital, religious
and of infinite import, tho morals of life ami
fil e insurance.
About ten or twelve years ago there was a
great panic in life insurance which did good.
Under the storm the untrustworthy and bo
gus institutions were scatterei, while tho
genuine were tested and firmly • tublished,
and where does the life insurance institution
stand to-day? What amount <>f comfort, of
education, of moral and spiritual advantage
is represented in the simple stat :-i ic that in
this country tho life insurance companies in
oneyuar paid $7,000,000 to tho families of the
bereft; and in five years they paid * i 1 >0.000,-
000 to the families of tlw bereft; and are
promising to pay—and hold themselves in
readiness to pay—ooo,ooo,o JO to tho fami
lies of the bereft!
They have actually paid out more by divi
dends and death claims than they have ever
received in premiums. 1 know <*f what I
speak. The life insurance companies of this
country' paid more than $7,000,u0d of taxes to
the government in five ycuiSo, instead of
these companies being indebted to the land,
the lan* lis indebted to thorn. To cry out
against life insurance because here and there
one company has behaved badly i as absurd
as it would be for a man to burn flown 1,000
acres of harvest field in order to kill the moles
and potato bugs—as preposterous os a man
who should blowup a crowded steamer in
mid-Atlantic for tiie purpose of destroying
the barnacles ou the bottom of the hulk.
But what does tho Bible say in regard to
this subject? If the Bible favors tho institu
tion, I will favor it; if the Bible m uouncoait,
I will denounce it. In addition to the fore
cast of Joseph in the text, I call your atten
tion to Raul's comparison. Here is one man
who, through neglect, fails his
family while he lives, oi after he di *s. Here
is another man, who abhors the Scrip tart ■
and rejects God. Which of those men is the
worse? Well, you say, the latter. Paul says
the former. Paul says that am m who neg
lects to care for his household is more obnox
ious than a man who rejects the Scriptures:
“He that provideth not for his own, and espe
cially those of his own household, is worse
than an infidel” Life insurance companies
help most of us to provide for our families
after we are gone; but, if we have the money
to pay the premiums and do not pay them,
we have no right to expect mer y at the hand
of God in the judgment. We are worse
than Tom Paine, worse than Voltaire,
and worse than Shaftesbury. The Bible de
clares it—we are worse than nn infidel.
Alter the ertificato of death has iM-en made
out, and thirty or sixty days have passed,and
the officer of the life insurance company
comes into the bereft household and p tys
down the hard cash on an insurance jHlicy,
that officer of the company is performing a
positively religious rite according to the
Apostle James, who says: “True religion
and undeffled before Goa and tho Father is
this: To visit the fatherless and the widow
in their affliction,” and so on. The religion
of Christ proposes to take care of the tem
poral wants of the people as well as the spirit
ual. When Hezekiah was dying the injunc
tion came to him: “Set thy house in
order, for thou shalt die and not live.”
That injunction in our day would
mean: “Make your will; settle up your
accounts; mike things plain; don't de
ceive your heirs with roils of worthless
mining sto k; don't deceive them with
deeds for western lands that will never
yield any crop but chills and fever; don’t
have for them notes that have been out
lawed, aml secon 1 mortgages on property
that will not pay tho first." “Set thy house
in order.” That is, fix up things, so vour
going out of the world may mak; as little
consternation as possible. Sue the lean cattle
devouring the fut, cattle, and in the time of
plenty prepare for the time of want. The
difficulty is, when men think of their death,
they are afraid to think of it only in connec
tion with their spiritual welfare, and not of
the devastation in the hou-.ehold which will
come becam eof their emigration from it. It
is meanly selfish for you to be so absorbed in
the heaven to which you am going that you
forget what is to become of your wife and
children after you are dead. You can get
out of this world without leaving a dollar and
yet die h ippy if you could not provide for
them: you can trust them in the hands of the
God who owns all the harvests, and the herds,
and the flocks: but if You could pay the
premiums on a policy and neglect them it is a
mean thing for you to go up to heaven while
they go into the poorhouso. You, at death,
move into a mansion, riverfront, and they
move into two rooms on the fourth story of a
tenement house in a l>ack street. When they
are out at the elbows mid knees, the thought
of your splendid robes in heaven will not keep
them warm. The minister mav preach a
splendid sermon over your remains, and the
miartot may sing like bur angels in tls
organ lolt, but your death will lie a swindle
You had the means to provide for the com
fort of your household when you left it and
you wickedly neglected it. “ Oh,” says some
one, “1 have more faith than you; Ibelieva
when I go out of this world tho Lord
will provide for them.” Go to Black
w. Is Island, go through all the poorhouses
of the country, and I will show you how
often God provides for the neglected children
neglectful parent*. That is. he provides
for them through public charity. As for
myself, I would rather have tho Lord provide
for my family in a private home, and through
my owm industry, and paternal and conjugal
faithfulness. Rut says some man: “I mean
in the next ten or twenty yeirs to make a
great, fortune, and so 1 shall • ivemy family,
when I go out of this word very comfort
able.” How do you know you are going to
live ten or twenty years? If we could look
up the highway of the fulnr >. wo could see it
crossed by pneumonia, and pleurisies, and
consumptions, and colliding rail trains, and
runaway horses, and breaking bridges, and
funeral processions. Are you so certain you
are going to live ten or twenty years, you can
warrant, vour household any comfort after you
go away from them? Besid that, the vast
majority of men die poorl Two only out of
a hundred succeed in business. Are
you very certain you are going
vington's Victory.
Inßton Dofeats Conyers In
a Game of Baseball.
onel Guinn and his
Champions” feel
Sick over the
Result.
Friday last Col. 11. J. Guinn, of Con
ame down with his aggregation of
'll sluggers with the avowed inten
f doing the Covington ‘ nine" up!
Rumors were rife that the Colonel
is associates had been undergoing
practice for quite a time and talked
atly of a “shut out" —a regular nest
se eggs,’’ etc , for their opponents,
le prestige of a former successful
with our boys, they seemed to fear
short of the famous Chicago White
£8 or the world renowned St Louis
In truth ourpwu people were ap*
n r tlw. i ,x7> rf ““ " 1 • ‘ *■ tn. 4 ii art te-on
bills of the d<'tor and the un
tier u* md tin* torn! tone cutter have been
/e is nothing 1 'f. That means the
are to coino home from school and
go, ork. That mean* the complete ha rrl
, - hip of the wife, turned out with nothing but
m n l'e to fi :ht the great battle of tho world.
Tear down the lambrequins, close the piano,
rip up the Axminstor. sell out the wardrobe,
| end lot tho mother take a child in each hand
and trudge out into the desert of the world.
A life insurance would have hindered all
that.
But, so vs someone, “I am a man of small
moans, and I can’t afford to pay the prerni
i um.” That is sometimes a lawful and a genu
ine excuse, and there is no answer to it; but
| in nine cases out of ton when a man says that
he smokes up in cigars, and drinks down in
wine, and expands in luxuries enough money
to have mid tin* premium on a life insurance
policy wh' h would have kept his family from
beggary wh'Mi ho is dead. A man omrht, to
put hfmsclf down on the strictest economy
until he can moot this Christian necessity.
You have no right to the luxuries of lifo un
til you have made such provision. I admire
what was said by Rev. Dr. Guthrie, the great
Scottish preacher. A few years before his
death he-food in a public meeting and de
clared: “W hen I came to Edinburgh the peo
ple sometime.* laughed at my black stocking*
and at my cotton umbrella, and they said I
loooked like a common plowman, and they de
rided me be niiso 1 live l in a house for which
l paid * a year rent, and oftentimes I
walked when i would have !>oon very glad to
have a cab; but, gentlemen, I did all that le
-cause I wanted to pay the premium ou a life
insurance that would keep my family com
fortable if 1 should die.” That l take to be
the expression of an honest, intelli
gent, Christian man.
The utter indifference of many people on
this important subject accounts tor much of
tho crime and the paujjorism of the day.
Who are these children sweeping the cross
ings with broken broom and bugging of you
a penny as you go by? Who are these lost
souls gliding uiid r the gaslight, in thin
shawls? Ah, they are the victims of want;
in many of the cos - the forecast of parents
and grandparents might have prohibited it.
God only Knows how they struggled to do
right. They prayed until the tears froze on
their cheeks, they sewed on the sack until the
breaking of the day; but they could not get
enough money to pay the rent; they
could not get enough money to de
cently clothe themselves; and one day
in that wretched home the angel of
purity and the angel of crime fought
a great fight between the empty bread tray
and the tireless hearth, and the black winged
angel shrieked: “Aha! J have won tho day.”
Says some man: “ 1 believe what you say;
it is right, and Christian, and 1 mean some
time to attend to this matter.” My friend,
you are going to 1 * o the comfort of your
household in the same way tho sinner loses
heaven, by procrastination. 1 see all
around me the destitute and suffering families
of parents who m*ant some day to attend
to tins Christian fluty. During the process
of adjournment the man got' his feet wet,
then comes a chill and delirium and the
doleful shake of the doctor's head, and the ob
sequies. If there lie anything more pitiable
than a woman delicately brought up, and on
her marriage day by an indulgent father
given to u man to whom she is the chief joy
an<l pride of life until the moment of his death,
and then tliat same woman going out with
helpless children at her back to struggle for
bread in a world where brawny muscle and
rugged soul ore necessary—J say, if there lie
anything more pitiable than that, I do not
know what it is. And yet there are good
women who are indifferent in regard to their
husband s duty in this respect: and there are
those positively hostile, as though a life
insurance subjected a man to some
fatality. There is in Brooklyn to-day a
very poor woman keeping a candy shop,
who vehemently opposed tho insurance
of her husband’s life, ami when application
had been made for a policy of SIO,OOO she
frustrated it. She would never have a doc
ument in tho lions > that implied it was pos
sible for her husband ever to ilie. One day,in
quick revolution of machinery, his life was
instantly dashed out. What is the sequel?
She is, with annoying tug, making the half
of a miserable living. Her two children have
liecn taken away from her in order that they
may he clothed and schooled, and her life is
to be a prolonged hardship. O man, before
forty-eight hours have passed away, appear
at the desk of some or our great life in
surance companies, have the stethoscope of
the physician put to your heart and lungs,
and by tin* seal of some honest company de
cree that your children shall not be subjected
to the humiliation of financial struggle in the
day of your demise.
But i must ask t ie men engaged in life in
nranee business whether they fe-d tho im
portance of their trust, and charge them I
must that they need divine grace to help
them in their work. In this day, when there
are so many rivalries in your line of busi
ness, you will b i tempted to overstate the
amount of ass ts and the extent of the
surplus, and you will be tempted to
abuse the franchise of tho company,
aid make up tho deficits of one year by
adding some of the roeeiyts of another year;
and you will be tempted to send out moan,
anonymous circulars derogatory to other
companies, forgetful of the fact that anony
mous communication means only two things
—the cowardice of the author and the ineffi
ciency of the police in allowing such a thing
to be dated anywhere save inside of a peni
tentiary. Under the mighty pressure many
have gono down, and you will follow them if
you have too much confidence iu yourself,
and do not appeal to the Lord for positive
help. Butifanyof you belong to that mis
creant class of people who, without any finan
cial ability, organize themselves into what
they call a life insurance company, with a
pretended capital of $.100,000 or $300,000,
tic n vote yourself into the lucrative position,
and then take all the premiums for
yourself, and then, at the approach
of the State Superintendent, drop all into the
hands of those lifo insurance undertakers
whose business it is to gather up the remains
of defunct organizations uud bury them in
their own fault—then, I say, you had better
got out of the business, and disgorge the
widow s houses you have swallowed. But my
word is to ail those who are legitimately en
gaged in the business. You ought to be bet
ter than other men, not only because of the
responsibilities that rest upon you, but be
cause the truth is ever confronting you that
your stay on earth is uncertain, and your life
a matter of a few days or years. Do not those
black edged letters that come into your office
make you think? Does not the doctor’s cer
tificate on the death claim give you a thrill?
Your periodicals, your advertisements,
and even the lithography of your policies
warn you that you are mortal. According
to your own showing the chances that you
will die this year are at least 'J per cent. Are
you prepared for the tremendous exigency?
The most condemned man in the judgment
day will l>e the unprepared lifo insurance
man, for the simple reason that his whole
business was connecte 1 with human exit, and
he cannot say: “I did not think.” ilis whole
business was to think on that one
thing. O, my brother, get insured for eter
nity. In consideration of wh it Christ has
done in your behalf, have the indenture this
day made out, signed and sealed with th* red
seal of the cross.
But I have words of encouragement and
comfort for those of my hearers who are en
gaged in the fire insurance business. You
are ordained by God to stand between us and
the most raging element of nature. We are
indebted to you for what the national board
of underwriter* and tho convention of chiefs
of the fire department lmvo effected through
your suggest ions and through your encour
agement. We are indebted to you for what
you have effected in the construction of
buildings, and iu the change in the habits ot
Gsorda Mmiis! Fnm
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Covington, Georgia.
BOARD OF INSTRUCTION,
Rev, J. TANARUS, McLaughlin, A. M„
President
Mathematic!, Beiloalcttrca, ami Mental
Science
Rev. li. J. BIG HAM. A M.,
Mnrul Science.
Rev. J M. BRITTAIN. A. M ,
Latin, I ranch, Moral ami Natural Science
Rev. JESSE BORING, M D., D. D.,
Anatomy. Phvaiolotfy, nml Hygiene
Mm. L. N (J KEEFE,
... ... Primary Department.
Mine LL LJ K Mi'IN'TOSH, uaHiatcJ hv
I’rol it. M McINTOSH, ofEmoijrCollege
Instrumental nn<i Vocal Music.
Mrs. SALLIK ROGERS CHANCELLOR
School of Art.
BATES OF TUITION.
n . Enll Term B.l’.
i runary Department $ 9.00 sl4 00.
Intermediate Department 13.00 20.00.
Freshman and Sophomore
Classes i7.00 26.00.
Jutror and Senior Classes 21.00 32.00.
CHARGES FOR MUSIC PER MONTH.
Advanced pupils in instrumental
Ml01(1 to Ufno y wur SOUI. Ay.
that risk lost it lie said hereafter that win id
in this world you had keen business faculty,
when you went out of the world you went
out everlastingly insolvent The sclent!flo
Hitchcocks and Sillimans and Mitchells of
tho world have united with the sacred writers
to make us lielieve that there Is coming a
conflagration to sweep across the earth, com
pared with which that of Chicago In 1881. an£
that of Boston In 1873. and that of New York
in 1885, were mere nothing, Brooklyn on firel
New York on fire! Charleston on Are! San
Eranriscoon fire! Canton on fire! St Petera
buijg <>n lire! Paris on fire! London on fire!
the* Andos on fire! tho Appeniiun on fire! the
Himalaya on fire! What, will b* peculiar
about the day will bo that the water with
which we put out. great fires will itself take
fl ime; and the Mississippi, and the Ohio, and
the St. Ijawrence. and Lake Erie, and the
Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and tumbling
Niagara, shall with red tongues lick the
heavens. The giologieal heats of the center
of the world will burn out toward tho cir
cumference, and the heats of the outside will
burn down from the circumference to the
center, and this world will become not only
according to the Bible, but according to sci
en< e, a living coal, the living <-oal aferward
whitening into ashes, the ashes scattered by
the breath of the last hurricane, and all that
will be left of this glorious planet will be the
flakes of ashes fallen on other worlds. Oh! on
that <lav will you be fireproof, or will you be
a total loss? Will you le res *ued, or will you
b -consumed? When this great cathedral of
th • world, with its pillars of ro ks, and its
pinnacles of mountains and its cellar of
golden mine, and its upholstery of morning
cloud, an 1 its ba[>tismal font of the sea, shall
blaze, will you get out on the fire escape of
the Lord’s deliverance? Oh! on that day
for which all other days were made, may
it lie found that these life insurance men had
a paid up policy, and these fire insurance men
ha 1 given them, instead of t ie debris of a
con mined worldly estate, a house not made
with hands, eternal in the heavens.
THE CUSTER MASSACRE.
Capt. Harry Horne Says No).
Single Man Came Out Al'
At Solomon’s Wild West show C.
Ruggles street, nearTremont, Capt. Har
ry Home, who has passed many years
among the Indians, gave an interesting
talk recently on the traits of the Indians.
Capt. Home was with Custer three
hours before the battle in which he met
his fate. The speaker strongly intimat
ed that others besides the Indiana were
concerned in the affair. After the bat
tle, while examining the trail to dis
cover the number of Indians in the light,
a network of wire was found stretched
in the grass in the valley near the pla
teau where the battle occurred, the pur
pose of which was to throw tho horses
of the soldiers should they attemp to es
cape, making it an easy matter for the
Indians to shoot them down. Not a
single man who went into the battle
with Custer came out alive, notwith
standing the fact that it has l>een assert
ed that a man known as “Curley, the
half-breed,” escaped.
“That individual,” said Capt. Home,
“was with Iteno, and rode at his side
to tho battlefield after the massacre.
It lias been asserted also that Custer’s
body was found neatly rolled up in a
blanket. On the contrary, he was
found lying upon the ground with his
men. Custer was led into one of the
greatest traps ever set. Reno heard
Iho firing, and while knowing that it
was Custer giving battle, waited for 20
minutes ljefore going to his relief and
then by a trail which he knew was
roundabout. Reno said, when it was
suggested that he go to assist Custer,
that Custer knew how to get in, and he
could get out, All of the bodies were
found side by side as they fell, and the
Indians bad plenty of time to escape.
About ten days after the battle, accom
panied by certain Government < officials,
I visited the scene of the battle, anil
found that tho wire had been removed
the field had been fixed. Gen. Reno
was ordered to Washington and court
martialod, but allowed to return to his
command. One of his first acts upon
his return was to assault a woman. The
wife of an officer said to him: ‘General,
yon ought never to hold up your head
again after what has happened.’ In re
ply he struck her square in the face with
his hand, knocking her down, for which
he was again called to account. ” — Button
Trantcript.
AN INHUMAN MOTHER.
Ann Bransteter, of Mexico, Mo., color
ed, left her two children, aged five years,
and ten months, in au eight by ten room,
closely shut up, while she went to a
neighbor’s to spend the day. At night
when the room was opened, a horrible
sight presented itself. The older child
was almost suffocated and the younger
was dying; a portion of the flesh of the
breast and stomach had been eaten away
by the older child, who was almost
starved. The mother is under arrest.
UAH.ROAD WRECK.
The Chicago limited express, which was
20 minutes behind, and runniug fast,
jumped the track nt a “Y',” within the
city limits at Washington, D. C„ and
plunged into the signal tower, killing
the engineer and wounding 16 people,
i vend so severely that they may die.
Cutting An Acquaintance.
— Life.
Mrs. Matilda Vose of Hyde Park,
Mass., has just celebrated her niuety
ninth birthday. She is the mother of
ten children, four of whom are living,
and she has twelve grand children anil
nine great-grandchildren. She retains
her faculties in a remarkable degree,
reads the newspapers, and takes a lively
interest in daily events.