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VOLUME XXII.
A liu-sian I’nciflce railroad is content
plated, and live year* are neecssnry to
Imilil the line. When finished the world
uni be traversed in fifty-three days.
It is estimated that the amount of
money spent by workingmen in strikes
in this country during the last two years
■would have paid the wages of 100,000
men during that period.
The Pittsburg Manufacturer describes
a novel craft nearly finished there, which
is designed for the rapid transfer of coal
from boats or barges to the holds of ves
sels. It can handle 50,000 bushels pur
day, and will be taken to New Orleans
for use there. Its draft will he only two
feet, and its cost about SIO,OOO.
The United States owns about $75,000,-
000 worth of buildings, and has not a
cent of iusurance on any of them. Most
of them are practically fire-proof. The
Government believes that it is strong
enough to carry its own insurance. Th
Astors and syme other large real estate
owners in New York act ou the same
policy.
The total wealth of the United King
dom, according to Mr. Mulhall, has
doubled since 1840, the total now being
£9,•.*10,000,000, against £4,100,000,000
in 1840. It is interesting to note, as
llradstreet's remarks, that while every
other item of Great Britain’s national
wealth lias shown an in reuse, the value
af lnnd records a heavy decrease from
1840.
A Boston man, who has crossed the At
lantic fifty-two times and been seasick
every time except the last trip, exp'ains
that exception by stating that he had a
rubber bag, which he filled with ice, and
he laid down every morning on this,
pressing it against the spine at the base
of the brain. It had a soothing effect,
and he frequently fell asleep while repos
ing on it. lie afterward felt braced up
for the day, enjoying every hour and
every monl.
The loss of life in India from man-eat
ing tigers was appalling last year, and
Borne study of the fierce beast has lately
been made by English officers. Tigers,
it appears, do not attack human beings
until they become very large and old, and
unable to run down animals that are fleet
of foot. One of these creatures is know n
to have killed 108 persons in the course
of three ycart. Another caused thirteen
villages to be deserted. A third is
credited with killing 127 travelers on a
public road.
The Ehctricrd Ila ieir thinks many will
be surprised by the statement that more
than .1,500,000 passengers arc carried nn
nually in this country on street cars
moved by electric motors. In Mont
gomery, Ala., electrieity is used on eleven
miles of road, and the cost is reported by
the general manager to be only one-lialf
the cost of horse power, lloads on which
electricity takes the place of horses are
found in Baltimore, Los Angeles, Port
Huron, Detroit, Scranton, Appleton
OVis.), and Denver. Electric railways
are in course of construction or under
contract in twelve other cities, ami in
thirty-seven,companies have been formed
or other steps taken for the building of
such roads. Upon none of the roads now
in operation in this country, however, is
force supplied by storage batteries at
tached to the ears. In most eases power
is communicated by an overhead con
ductor.
It is estimated that the losses by fire
in the United States this year will
amount to $130,000,000. In 1884 the
loss was $10.4,000,000. During the past
six weeks no less than four towns in the
V nited States have been destroyed by
fire, two of them totally. The largest
loss was occasioned by flic burning of
the village of Marshfield, Wisconsin, on
•lune 27, when nearly $1,000,000 worth
°l property went up in smoke and flame.
lhi< fi re was caused by sparks from a
locomotive. Clarendon, Pennsylvania,
"as partially destroyed by fireworks,
with a loss of $500,000. New York city
lost upwards of $.700,000 from tlic same
cause. There is no wav to account for
the great increase of loss during the
present year except on the ground of an
increase of carelesshess on the part of
the public. The great majority of the
disastrous fires of the year have been
directly attributable to negligence, the
(•aretes* use of matches, want of means
to prevent nr extinguish conflagrations,
and other preventable causes.
It is well known that, for some years
past, a prize of SIO,OOO has been offered
to inventors for the first bales of jute
grown and prepared for market in the
United States, at a cost which will ad
mit of successful competition with that
from India. The principal and appar
ently insurmountable obstacle w hich con
fronts all efforts in this direction is the
lack of a machine which will prepare the
jute fibre for use at a cost low enough to
offset the very cheap hand labor of India.
In tue jute plant the fibre lies between
the pith and the hark, it being necessary,
therefore, to remove the latter and sepa
rate the jute from the pith, it being also
essential that this be done without injur
ing the fibre, which is one of the most
delicate known. Bnt, as the natives of
India do this work for seven to ten cents
" day, a substitute machine would not
only have to overcome this matter of
Cheapness, hut would have to perform
Hie task in ti perfect a manner as is now
dene !>/ Imliati flngerv.'.V well asfequal
mother stages to the work of prepara
tiou required before the fibre is ready to
Intar the factory,
The Georgia Enterprise.
SOUTHERN ITEMS.
BUDGET OF NEWS GATHERED
HERE AND THERE.
Hnnr Knllrond ArcMi-nin Whut la Trim*
lilrlng in Tern pern nee 31a I leri—Hoelnl
And Krllnioiia (••■alp*
The remains of Judge Samuel Hall, of
the Supreme Court of Georgia, were laid
at rest at Albany.
I. O. McDaniel, the father of cx-Gov
ernor 11. I). McDaniel, of Altoona, On.,
is dead. He was born in South Caroliua.
The mayor of Savannah, Ga., has or
dered the police to arrest every person
displaying swinging signs or signs erect
ed Oil top of posts.
Warren Frazier, a colored brakeman on
the Georgia Railroad, fell between two
box cars as the train was passing Grove
town, and was instantly killed by the
wheels passing over his body.
The extensive works of the St. Louis,
Mo., Car Wheel Company, situated in
the western suburbs of the city, were
destroyed by tire. The loss is estimated
at about $100,000; fully insured.
At Jackson, Miss, Chief Justice
Cooper refused to issue a writ of habeas
corpus in the ease of Hamiltou and
others, charged with the murder of Gam
brel), the editor of a prohibition paper.
The Board of Aldermen, of Albany,
Ga., refused permission to the Salvation
Army to parade the streets or make any
demonstration 9, on the ground that the
army was a nuisance, and the majority
of the people opposed them.
The Atlanta, Ga., police have got on
to the new racket of the drinkers who
wish to evade the prohibition law—in
dependent clubs. Recently, several ar
rests were made of porters, waiters and
barkeepers of such places.
A meeting of citizens of Atlanta, Ga.,
was held, to consider the advisability of
holding an election about Nov. 20th, to
repeal the piesent prohibition law. One
citizen offered SIO,OOO as a campaign
fund to defeat prohibition.
Unprecedented rains have fallen
throughout North Texas. All the rivers
are over their banks, and many washouts
are reported. Trains are all delayed.
Eleven persons have been drowned at
Cleburne, seven of whom belonged to a
family named Schmidt.
Hon. C. G. Memminger, of Charles
ton, S. C., who was secretary of the Con
fe lerate States treasury and one of Pres
ident Davis's most trusted friends and
confidential advisers, is seriously ill at
his Bummer residence at Flat Rock, and
not expected to recover.
An accident occurred on the East Ten
nessee railroad, Home division, at Long’s,
fifty-five miles from Atlanta, Ga. Freight
train No. 39 ran into the second section
of No. 30. Both engines were damaged
considerably and a delay of three or four
hours caused. No lives were lost.
Chester, S. C., is very much excited
over the reported indications of a gold
mine there. An expert from Colorado
reports that from specimens of ore found
there, he has faith enough iu it to pay a
large amount of money for a plantation
where the specimens were found.
The heaviest rain of the season fell at
Raleigh, N. C., and extended ox r er a
large area. Some streams rose at the
rate of nine inches per hour and flooded
crops. Liuge quantities of hay in the
low grounds were washed away. Great
damage has been done to all low-ground
crops.
The total vote east on the liquor ques
tion in Meriwether county, Ga., was
2,850. Of this, 1,014 were cast for pro
hibition, and 1,830 votes were cast
against prohibition. The prohibitionists
make the claim that hundreds of negroes
wlio voted wire disqualified because of
non-payment of taxes.
Frank W. Harper, of Versailles, Ky.,
has ordered a beautiful and costly monu
ment of pure white marble to be placed
over the grave of Ten Broeck, the cele
brated trotting horse. It will be seven
feet and two inches high, surmounted
with an urn. The date of Ten Broeck’s
birth and death and his famous records
will he inscribed on the monument.
The rate committee of the Southern
Tariff Association, which is composed of
all the freight agents in the Southern
States, met at Atlanta, Ga. The matters
connected with rates and classifications
were discussed. Anew rate was made
on the goods manufactured in cotton fac
tories, and the classification was changed
from the fifth to the sixth class.
A fire occurred at Branchville, S. C.,
and destroyed nine bui dings, as follows:
Hamilton’s general store and residence,
Black's general store, A. F. 11. Dake’s
general store and residence, J. Ivarrish’s
millinery store, Pearlstine, Karish & Co.’s
general store, J. H. -Mayes’ general stoic
and D. D. Myers’ general store and dwell
ing. Loss $40,000; iusurance SO,OOO.
Cal Toliver, the lad 12 years of age
who was spared by the Logans during
the massacre at Morehead, Ky., was tired
on from ambush near town. Several of
Logan’s followers, who have been in
dicted for supposed participation in the
massacre, are hiding in the mountains
near town, heavily armed, and cannot be
arrested. Troops will leave when court
adjourns, and it is expected fighting will
begin then.
A fire broke out in Riggs's livery stable
at Richmond, Ky., destroyed it, mid
then spread to the business portion of
the city. Arnold’s grocery, Gentry &
Co.’s hardware, then the new opera
house, Neff's produce store, Douglas’s
butcher shop, Green’s opera house, the
Adam Express Company’s office, Dinnell
& Co.’s restaurant, and Smith Belton’s
shop were destroyed. Loss about SOO,-
(-00; insurance $20,000.
A fire was discovered in the kitchen of
the James Hotel at Deaton, Texas. The
proprietor seeing the flames beyond con
trol, had the guests aroused. Col. A. J.
Hitchcock, a Texas veteran, was warned
and started from his room, but lost his
way and ran into the flames. After a
long search his charred remains were
found in the ruins. He was one of the
survivors of the Fannin massacre at Go
liad in March, 1837. He was 73 years of
age, a native of Georgia, and leaves a
large estate.
TARGET I’ll U TICK.
Another attempt was made to assassi
nate the czar of Russia. A nihilist, dis
guised as an officer of (he guards, ap
proached tlic imperial guards while they
were escorting the czar on his journey
from St. Petersburg Jo Kroznoc-Selo, and
twice fired a revolver at the emperor.
The first shot went wide of its mark, but
the secoud perforated the czar's coat.
The assailant was promptly seized aud
disarmed,
A COLORED SAVIOR.
Georgia Color 'I IVoplt- Are flopped Krmo
I’rodnrloM A I’lhv.
In 1033 the villagers of Ober Amnter
gau, in the Bavarian Highlands, on the
cessation of a plague which desolated the
surrounding country, had vowed to per
form every tenth year the Passion of our
Savior, out of gratitude and as n mentis
of religious instruction, a vow which has
ever since been regularly observed. It
was afterwards somewhat remodelled,
and is perhaps the only mystery or mira
cle play which has survived to the pres
ent day. The last performance in Bava
ria took place iu 1880. The persecutor
of Christ considers his part an act of re
ligious worship, and lie and the other
performers are said to be selected for
their holy life. There are usually about
live hundred players. Some seven or
eight years ago, Salmi Morse, who had
visited Obor Ainmergau, formed a com
pany of about one hundred players in
San Francisco, Cal., with James O’Neill,
who impersonated the Savior, and gave
one performance in the Grand Opera
House. The building was packed to
suffocation, but immediately after the
play the principal characters were ar
rested and lined, and were not allowed
to give another performance. Morse
then went to New Y'ork and made prep
arations to present it on a grand scale.
Hundreds of performers were engaged,
hut the authorities there prevented its
presentation. Moras then gave it up,
having lost his fortune in attempt
ing to present it, and shortly
after committed suicide. The ne
gioes of Summerville, Augusta’s
Ga., pretty suburb, were to produce the
far famed passion play, and at the hour
of 8 o'clock a large audience, composed
of both white and colored, congregated
at the hall to witness the play. However
just before the performance was to have
commenced, the marshal of Summerville
mounted the stage and informed the ac
tors that if they attempted to imperson
ate the Savior he would arrest them. As
to the other portion of the perfoimance
they were at liberty to produce it, but lie
had been instructed by the commissioners
of the village to stop the show immediate
ly if any one tried to impersonate Christ.
The action of the authorities disconcerted
the colored people considerably, as they
had gone to the expense of getting up
handsome costumes for the occasion.
Most of those who were to take part were
bright mulattoes, but the person who
was to impersonate the Savior was as
black as the ace of spades.
RIOT IN FLORIDA.
Bad Colored 3lon Kan Things Tlieir Own
Way on a Steamer.
A lot of negro gamblers took passage on
the steamerThronateeska at Apalachicola,
Fla. When about twelve miles from the
city they became engaged in a quarrel
with a lot of negro raftsmen. Pistols
were drawn and a fusilade of shots be
gan. The captain of the steimcr, assis
ted by his crew, attempted to quell the
disturbance. A negro drew a weapon
upon the officer and told him to vacate
the lower deck. The captain and Ids crew
being unarmed, retreated to the upper
deck. The steamer was then put about
aud headed toward the city. Just before
she made the landing at the wharf
Capt. Randlette ordered the police
to let no man come nshore.
The negroes then took a small boat,
when the officers began firing upon them.
The fire was returned, but with no effect.
About two hundred other negroes had
congregated upon the wharf, armed
with sticks and weapons of various kinds,
and several of their number were urging
the blacks to pitch into the whites. Sev
eral arrests were made and some thirty
shots were fired. The militia were or
dered out, and it was only by the cool
ness and determination of the whites that
a serious riot was prevented.
CUT IN TWO.
A watchman in the employ of Wiescl
Bros., at 9 White street, New York, on
opening the store discovered a man inside
the railing. Knowing flic intruder had
no business there, he quickly locked the
door and went for a policeman. When
the officer appeared on the scene the
supposed thief started for the front of
the building, and without hesitation
sprang headforemost through the plate
glass window. A large sign outside the
window impeded his descent, and he lay
face downward on tlie shattered glass,
which was fast cutting his body in two.
He was rescued fiom his position, but
died in ten minutes afterward without
uttering a word. He was identified as
Jimmie McDavitt, a well-known pvofes
sioual thief. On the officers searching
the premises, a confederate of .51 Davitt’s
was found and captured. He is known
to the police as “Rats.”
EARTHQUAKE IN MEXICO.
A brisk earthquake shock was experi
enced in tlie City of Mexico, agitating
houses and making the people dizzy. Iu
some streets the people ran out of their
houses and fell on their knees, praying.
Tlie shock was not severe, and mostly felt
in the outlaying portion of the city. The
direction of the earthquake was from
north to south, and its duration was
eight seconds. In the capital of th#
state of Guierro, two arches in the ar
cade iu the main square were thrown
down. Earthquake shocks were felt at
Orziba, Flaps and Ottumba.
A I‘IOU-t GAME.
Albert llowcll, aged 30 years, a letter
carrier, was arrested in Boston, Mass.,
on the charge of embezzling letters. He
was held in $1,500 for the next term ol
court. Howell i ever stole tlie letters on
iiis own route, but took letters from t e
boxes of other carriers before they had
been put in the pouches. Howell is a
church member and carried his religious
zeal into his business, always keeping a
Bible upon his desk, which he tend dur
ing noon time and made himself verv
conspicuous in this particular.
THE DBCATI R, GA., RIOT.
From a careful investigation of all the
circumstances connected with the Dcca
tur. Ga., riot, it appears that the shoot
ing of Marshal Hurst was done by a
negro named Pritchett, who has not yet
been captured, and is supposed to lv
hiding in Tennessee. Two negroes
named Gather and Lovejoy have been
arrested and are now in the jail nt At-
Junta,
“iff COUNTRY MAY BUR KVSR UK RIOUT. RIQIIT OR WBONO MY COUNTRY. ” — Jeffn-sm
COVINGTON, GEORGIA. FIiIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1887.
DOTS FROM WASHINGTON.
P iBPARiNO ran hard work
NEXT n isi Ell.
A|i|tolntHipnl. of Atiiulirrn Men liilerr.tlA*
l(*l>orin of Depart uieut tl(II’r-Notr
About Noted OltloluU.
THE C’HICAOO CAMP.
The President has issued a proclama
tion allowing the free entry of the arms,
munitions and baggage of such foreign
military organizations os may desire to
participate in the militia encampment
and drill to he held in Chicago, 111., in
October next, upon satisfactory assur
ances being given that none of the ar
ticles shall be sold or permitted to re
main in this country.
LANDS BKSTORED.
Acting Land Commissioner Stokslager
1 as issued the necessary instructions to
carry into effect Secretary Lamar’s recent
order restoring to settlement aud entry
certain railroad indemnity lands, among
others the following: Alabama it Chat
tnnooga road, Alabama, about 2,500
acres, covered by unapproved selections;
Vicksburg <t Meridian Railroad of Miss
issippi, about 1,500 acres, also covered
by unapproved selections.
tiie president's programme.
President and Mrs. Cleveland on their
arrival at St. Louis, Mo., Saturday even
ing, October Ist, will proceed immed
iately to the residence of Maj. D. R.
Francis, whose guests they will he utrHl
Monday morniug, when they will take
quarters in one of the hotels. The Pros
ident and wife will, on Sunday, October
9th, in Madison, Wis., be the guests f
Postmaster-General Vilas, aud will lje
the guests of Senator Howell E. Jackson,
it Nashville, Tcnn., Sunday, October
10th.
gen. crook’s movements.
Gen. Mefeclcy, Acting Secretary l
War, said that the department had not
heard from Gen. Crook since he was or
dered to go to the scene of the Indian
troubles in Colorado. Gen. Macfeely
discredits the published reports of a fu
rious fight near Rangley. and reiterates
what himself and other army officers
have said, that if the civil authorities
will leave the settlement of the difficulty
to Gen. Crook, the trouble will soon be
ended aud the Indians all brought hack
to their reservation; and that this will all
be done without the United States troops
firing a single gun.
AN EXTENSIVE FRAUD.
The Pension Office has information
that Henry S. Anderson, of Sexton,
Washington Cos., Ark., has been convict
ed in tlic United States Court of the
Western district of Arkansas of six sepa
rate offenses against the pension laws,
namely: Taking illegal fees, one count;
presenting fraudulent papers, two counts;
and forging evidence, three eounts.
The special examiner having the ease in
charge reports that material was in hand
for convictions almost ad infinitum, hut
six convictions afford scope for the in
fliction of punishment to more than fill
the measure of life remaining to the of
fender, these were deemed sufficient.
WHAT THE PRESIDENT IS DOING.
It is the intention of the President to
spend the next few weeks at Oakview.
He regards this as his vacation time, and
while he will spend it near the capital so
that he can attend to actual public busi
ness, lie will not feel obliged, when nec
essarily called to tlic White House, to de
vote any time to persons seeking places
or merely desirous of paying their re
spects. The President appointed Prof.
G. Brown Goode, assistant director of
the national museum, to be commissioner
of fish and fisheries, Vice Professor S. F.
Baird, deceased. Judge McCue, solici
tor of the treasury who was first tended
the office, declined it because of his lack
of scientific knowledge.
The President has been invited to be
present at nil all-day jubilee at the East
ern Sehuetzen Park, Bdtimore.
Tlie President has appointed Robert
C. Crowley, of Mississippi, to be marshal
of the United States Consular Court at
Ningpo, China.
The finding of a court-martial has beeu
approved,dismissing Capt. Cyrus N. Gray,
25th infantry, from service for appear
ing at inspection for duty as officer of the
day while drunk.
The Blit i'll government has notified
the Department of State that the date of
receiving applications for space at the
Melbourne International Exposition has
beeu extended from August 31st to Oct
ober 31st, 1887.
Mayor Hewitt aud a committee of tlic
Board of Aldermen appointed for that
purpose, sent an invitation to Mrs. Presi
dent. Cleveland to attend tho New York
firemen’s parade and inspection next
month and present a stand of colors on
that occasion to the fire department.
The Acting Secretary of the Treasury
made the following appointments in the
Internal Revenue service: Fulton J.
Williams, gauger, District of Georgia;
Winfield S. Morris, Samuel C. Fontain
and Thomas K. Do Witt, gaugers, Sixth
district of Virginia; Wm. F. Campbell,
gaugers. Fifth district of Nortli Carolina;
I,tike Verner, storekeeper and gauger,
District of South Carolina.
WILL HE MI NI’KNDEI).
The Chicago 111., Herald says, the
seven condemned anarchists arc to hang.
Information has beeu received through
reliable source 9, that the supreme coutt
will affirm the death verdict against the
anarchists when they meet. The opinion
in the case will then be filed by the jus
tice who made it, and it will receive the
signature of all other justices, who, it
wou’d appear, are fully acquainted with
its contents. Chief of Police, Ebersold
and Sheriff Matson have already received
an intimation of what is coining, and
they have been making active preparation
to meet any emergency that may arise.
That Sheriff Matson also had received di
rect intimation of tho action of the court, is
evidenced by the extraordinary precau
tion* lie lias been taking lately in keep
ing suspicious persons out of the jdl.
Everybody who calls to see the anarchists
is closely watched while in jail, and not
a few visitors arc denied admission.
VIMTING KTATI'.IMKN.
Arthur O'Connor, member of l’arli.i
ment for Donegal, and Sir Thomas Henry
Grattan Esmon.de, yiembcr of Path a
ment for Dublin county, will visit the
United Stall’s and nddvess monster im it
ings to be convened by the Irish Nut ion
al League of America. Sir Henry L •
moodo is a great-grandson of Henry Grat
tan, tbs famous Irish patriot,
SOUTH CAROLINA QUAKES.
Tlie l’cop> Snmrwlml Frljffetrnrd find
tJmrrlir* HI lid With Slim urn.
Three shocks of earthquake occurred
in various parts of South Carolina. Tho
disturbance was very slight in C’hnrlos
ton, which would indicate that the center
of the trouble was northwest. Neverthe
less the excitement there is very great. A
large number of white people have left
the city on summer excursions. The no
grocs were greatly demoralized, holding
nightly prayer meetings in churches, and
many conversions occurring nightly.
Hrtuthnlfl labor is utterly demorailaad.
Among the whites a vague feeling of
I'nptsmsissM {irsvaila but there is no
interruption to business of any kind.
Au earthquake shock was felt at Or
angeburg. It was accompanied by the
usual rumbling nois •, which was quito
lengthy and loud. The shock was general
ly felt. Columbia must got the full benefit
of the earthquake. Houses shook uml win
dows rattled to a decided degree. The
trembling lasted about teu seconds. A
pronounced earthquake shock was felt
at Shunter last night about a quarter
of 11 o'clock at night. The rumbling
sound was particularly heavy and the
tremor very perceptible. A loud roar
with a small shake was experienced at
Camden.
COLOR LINE IN VIRGINIA.
The city of Petersburg, Va., is in n
feverish state of excitement, caused by a
clash between the colored people and
whites. Mrs. Dejaruett was struck in
the street by a negro man, while she was
interferring in behalf of her child, who
had trouble with a young negro. Tlic
negro man was arrested, fined SSO and
sent to jail. Dr. Samuel Hinton, a
prominent physician, interferred in an
alteration lietwecn his young son nud
some colored children, among whom was
a girl. The girl with a stick threatened
his son. Hinton expostulated, and the
girl’s response was that she would kill
the boy. Dr. Hinton then shot the girl.
He was arrested and brought before
the mayor’s court, and the case was con
tinued. The colored people have be
come very violent anil have demanded,
through a colored lawyer, that the same
punishment be inflicted on Dr. Hinton
that was given in the rase of the negro
who struck Mr*. Dejaruett. A card
published in the papers and signed by
prominent colored men, has incensed the
white portion of the community. War
rants were issued and the editor of the
Index-Appeal and the signers of the card
were arrested on the charge of libel.
The excitement has become so intense
thut the mayor ordered three companies
of militia to hold themselves in readiness
to preserve the peace.
•’BETTY AND TIIK BABY.*
Frankfort, Ky., was crowded with
people from all parts of the state, and all
was a bustle of excitement, the occasion
being the inauguration of Gen. 8. B.
Buckner. The grand stand in the state
house yard was beautifully decorated
with flags, festoons and flowers. Seats
were provided for the people in front of
it, and back of the state house were 150
tents spread for the use of the soldiers.
A procession composed of the state mili
tin, officials, judges of court of appeals
aud superior courts, and Qic city fire de
partment and police, escorted Gen. Buck
ner to the state house, where the oath of
office was administered to him by Chief
Justice Price. The retiring governor, J.
P. Proctor Knott, w ill make his home in
Louisville and resume the practice of the
law. It is uaid one of the first nets of
Gov. Buckner will he to stamp on the
lawlessness now prevailing in Rowan
county.
RIVALLING WOOI,FOLK.
Albert Mead did a terrible murder at
the Mcadville mining camp, at Santa Fe,
New Mexico, in which he was partner.
He had fallen out with the company and
went to the camp to secure certain papers.
He hid in the bushes to ambush his part
ners, two of whom were expected to pass
in a wagon. When the team was within
fifty yards of the camp. Albert stepped
from the brush with a Winchester rifle iu
his hand and ordered a halt. He ordered
a Mr. Hands to call Harvey Mead and
Joseph Downing from the cabin. Mead
and Downing came out. Albert fired
and Downing fell dead. A second shot
killed Harvey Mead and a third fatally
wounded Hands. Fred Mead, who was
in the wagon, attempted to fire on Albert,
but his weapon snapped, and the two
men clinched and struggled for the weap
on. Fred securing it, shot Albert through
the heart.
CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS’ HOME.
One of tlic most popular movements
that lias been started in the South, is the
suggestion of Samuel Inman for the es
tablishment in Atlanta, Ga., of a Con
federate Soldiers’ Home nt Atlanta.
The principal citizens of the state of
Georgia have expressed their approbation
of the scheme, and at the Piedmont Ex
position, boxes will be placed to receive
the donations of those who desire to aid.
At the time the Home was projected,
which was finally located at Richmond,
Va., Gen. J. A. Gordon endeavored to
have it placed at Atlanta, and undoubt
edly he will take an active put in the
Home now proposed. A large portion of
the money to build the Richmond Home
was contributed by Northern veterans.
quickly REIIKADED.
Pranzini, the murderer of Marie Rcg
nault, was executed in the jail yard in
Place de la Roquette, Paris, France.
A crowd of 20,000 gathered during the
night, and the police had great difficulty
in keeping them within bounds. The
majority was of the rougher element, but
quite a number belonged to the respect
able class. Pranzini emerged from the
prison, accompanied by the prison ch ip
lain and guards: he stopped for an in
slant and seemed about to breakdown,
lie kissed the crucifix held by the abbe,
and knelt to receive the knife. An in
stant afterward ami Mario licgnanh was
avenged.
GRAY AND III.UK.
Elaborate preparations have been made
for tlie reunion of the 23d Georgia in
fantry, at Adalrsville. A colonel in a
Pennsylvania legiment, who was for a
time a prisoner of the 231, has had made
a large diamond cross of unique design,
valued at $2,590, which he will present
to his former ciptors as a mark of his
esteem. The cross will be presented by
a delegation of ten Pennsylvania young
ladies, who will come to Georgia in a
special car. At the state line they are to
he mot by a delegation of Georgia young
ladies and veterans.
GENERAL NEWS.
PHOTOGRAPHS OF HATTERS 7-V
AMERICA AND EUROPE.
Homo l(ulo Alinilon —llnlllnc Pol of
I.Hroprnn Pnllllm Labor .Maltora
at Homo ami Abrond* ric.
McGarriglc, the Chicago, 111., “boo
:llor" who eocaped to Victoria B. C., has
tied to Hong Kong, China.
Isaac Lucas, treasurer of Wapoketta,
Ohio, and $31,000 of the county fund,
are missing. A reward of $2,000 is of
fered for information of the whereabouts
>of Lucas.
A conspiracy against the Spanish gov
■rnment has been discovered at Ponce,
Porto Rico. Forty persons have been
irrested, including the president of the
iutonomist club.
Yom Plum Lee, the Chiuiunuii, who
recently married an American heiress of
New Haven, Conn., has accepted a posi
tion on the editorial staff of the New
Haven Register.
Frank C. McNeally, 19 years of age,
-mploycd in the Biddeford savings
hank of Saco, Me., ran away with all
the hank's money and securities amount
ing to nearly $300,000.
Henry George’s friends in New York
have subscribed sls, 000 for the estab
lishment of an evening paper to be called
the Evening Standard. It will make its
appearance on September 15th.
The collector of customs at Suspension
Bridge, N. Y., has seized the Canadian
steamer Hastings, for violation of navi
gation laws in carrying passengers be
tween Lewiston and Olcott, two Ameri
can poits.
Gen. Ferron, the French secretary of
war, has caused two of his private sec
retaries to be arrested on a charge of
high treason. It is charged that they
disclosed to the Paris Figaro the [dans of
the war office for the mobilization of
French troops.
The London Times protests against the
treatment to which British scalers, in
Behring sea, are subjected by American
authorities in Alaska, and suggests that
the government send a cruiser to Alaskan
waters, to secure strictly legal treatment
for British vessels.
George A. Ely, of Pottsville, Pa.,
docket clerk to the county commission
ers, suddenly disappeared. Subsequent
investigation bar revealed the fact that
Ely has been engaged in forging and ne
gotiating county bonds, one of S4OO
having been traced to him.
The police order forbidding the so
cialists to celebrate the death of Ferdi
nand Lassalc at Berlin, Germany, did not
have the desired effect, as thousands of
the followers of the great labor union
organizer made a pilgrimage to Grunau.
A serious row occurred during tlic day,
and several arrests were made by the po
lice.
Two cattle dealers of Womeladoorf,
I*a., purchased a number of car loads of
cattle at the Buffalo stock yards, which
were sold to different farmers. Some of
the steers showed signs of alarming
sickness, and were found in their stalls
dead. Dr. Bridge, state veterinary sur
geon, says the disease is Texas fever.
Farmers arc greatly alarmed, fearing a
spread of the disease.
Robert Bonner drove Maud S. on the
three-quarter-mile track on his farm, at
Tarrytown, N. Y., the fastest mile that
lias every been made to wagon. The first
Half was made in 1:08J, and the lust half
in 1:04}, making the mile in 2:131.
Mr. Bonner urged the mare only on the
last half, when she made the marvelous
time of 1:04| to a wagon on a three
quarter track.
Fresh condemnation of Pasteur has
been stirred up by the death of Lord Don
eraile, in France. Doncraile was bitten
by a tame fox, and although he under
went the Pasteur treatment, he died in
frightful agonies, and with all the symp
toms of hydrophobia. Pasteur declares
that be did not see Doncraile until two
weeks after the fox had bitten him, and
when it was too late to announce a cure
w ith absolute certainty.
An attempt was made to burn a bridge
over a culvert ou the Wabash Railroad,
ono mile east of Lafayette, Ind. A
freight train came around the curve at
full speed and the engineer seeing the fire,
put on steam and passed over safely. The
second section of the train was flagged
and stopped before it reached the bridge
and the trainmen put out tlic fire. As
the engineer of the first train reached
the burning bridge he saw men run cut
from a hiding place near by aud disap
pear in the woods.
The American ship Hopes, 4,200 tons
burthen, the largest ship that ever sailed
into Puget sound, arrived in Tacoma,
W. TANARUS., being 29 days from Yokohoma
with 3,771 tons of tea and other mer
chandise for Chicago, Boston and Phila
delphia merchants. The ship, Alexander
Gib-on, is due in a few days from the
same port. The arrival of the Ropes is
the beginning of direct trade between
Yokohoma an 1 Tacoma, goes Eastward
by 180 cars of the Northern Pacific rail
road. The value of the cargo of the
ship is $1,500,000.
Asa freight train on the Cleveland &
Marietta Railroad neared Oldham’s tres
tle, four mites north of Cambridge,
Ohio, the bridge was .seen to be on fire.
The engineer called for brakes, but as the
trainmen thought it was too late to save
the train several of them jumped. The
fireman, Wm. Adams, had a leg broken
and was otherwise hurt. Other jumping
trainmen were severely injured. The
engine and all the train, except three
cars, passed over the trestle, sixty feet
of which fell with the three lust cars,
dropping them forty-seven feet.
AN EXPRESS SOLD.
The present franchises and business of
the Baltimore & Ohio Express Company
have been sold to the United States Ex
press Company for a period of thirty
years. Thes.de was made directly by
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company,
no other parties being recognized. The
negotiations for tho sale have been pend
ing about a month, having begun with
President Garrett before h s departure for
Europe. The price paid was $2,500,090,
a million in cash and the balance in
United States Express Company stock.
FOOLHARDY MAN.
Charles Alexander Percy, of Suspen
sion Bridge, N. Y'., 27 years of age, and
by trade a wagon maker, made a safe trip
through the whirlpool rapids, Niagara
Fads, i-i a lifeboit built by himself and
up hi the constitution of which he has
been engaged during the past summer.
Tue strangest part of it is that Percy has
uo practical kuow ledge of boat building.
BUDGET OF FUN
HUMOROUH SKETCH KS FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
An Infitllllilc Sign -Food loir Tramps
No Ooojimloii to Iks AfYald—/
llnd Standing—Practlxlng
Economy, Etc., Etc.
"That peddler must have very good
bananas,” remarked Merritt. "I guess
I’ll go over and get some.”
“ What makes you think they are
good?” asked Cobwigger.
“Because,” returned Merritt, "I see
the |Kiliceman samples them every time
he passes. — dude/e.
Food lug Tramps.
“I don't believe in feeding tramps at
the door,” said Mrs. C’rimsonbeak. "You
feed them once and they are sure to come
back.”
“Well, I don't know,” replied Mrs.
Yeast; “I always give them bread when
they come to my door, and I can't say
that I ever knew a tramp to come tlic
second time.”
"Oh, well, Mrs. Yeast, you make your
own bread, do you not?”
Tins was all that was said, and yet
Mrs. Yeast went down the street like a
straw hat on a windy day.— . Statesman.
No Occasion to Be Afraid.
"Why don’t you propose to her, Joe?"
"Well, I'm half afraid.”
“She loves you, don’t she?”
“Oh, awfully.”
“You agree with her father in politics?"
"Y T es,”
“And with her mother in religion?”
“Yes.”
•And w ith her brother as to who is the
best pitcher?”
“Yes."
"Then blow me if I can see what you’re
afraid of— Harper's Bazar.
A Bad Standing.
"Do you kuow anything about the
defendent’s character,” asked thecounsel
of a colored witness.
"1 reckon he got one, boss.”
"You don’t understand me. Do you
know anything about his standing with
the people among whom he moves.”
"His stan’in’, sah?”
“Worry bad, sah.”
“Bad!”
“Yessah. Yoh see he hah a wooden
leg an’ uulirally takes ter settin’ down.”
— Merchant- Traveler.
Practising Economy.
Omaha Girl—“My dear, now that we
arc engaged, we should begin to take
practical views of life.
“Accepted Lover —“So I have been
thinking.”
“I feel very muchlikc having some ice
cream, but first 1 want you to tell me
frankly how much money you have in
your pocket.”
“Just twenty-fivo cents, and no more
coming until pay day.”
“It’s so nice to begin figuring on ex
penses of living; seems as if we were
married. Have you only twentyfive
cents left, dear?”
“That’s all.”
“Well, we will get along with two
plates to-night, and you save the other
five cents for a nest egg, you know.”—
Omaha World.
A Fond Fattier.
An over-indulgent and recklessly ex
trvagant father was lately heard to say
to his son, a tender youth of twenty-five,
six feet three in height:
“Now, Bub, if you’ll lick in like the
smart youngster you kin be when yer a
min’ to, an’ hoe them five acres o’ taters,
an’ hill-up that ten acre lot o’ corn, an’
weed out that acre o’ onions, an’ grub
out that back lot. an’ cut yer ma her win- 1
tcr’s stove wood, an’ split a thousand:
rails, an’ weed tlie turnip patch, and do
a few other little chores, I’m blamed if I
won’t give you fifty cents to go to tlie
circus with! Yes, I will! An’ if you’ll
hoe down the jimson weeds in that ten
acre lot o’ seed corn I’ll throw in ten
cents extry that you kin lay out in
lemmy-nade an’ peanuts 1 Blamed if I
don’t bleeve in payrentslettin’ their chil
dren have some enjiyment in this world.”
Tid-Bits.
Slie Was Ready to Lend.
Borrowing Neighbor —“Have you a
drawing of tea to lend me this morning,
Mrs. Greene?”
Mrs. Greene—“lndeed I have not, Mrs.
Maloney.”
Mrs. Maloney—“Then have you a cup
ful of sugar against next Saturday night,
sure?”
Mrs. Greene —“Not a drop of sugar
have I in me house, Mrs. Maloney.”
Mrs. Maloney—“And could you spare
the children two or three slices of bread
till me old man gets his pay ?”
Mrs. Greene—“We haven't so much as
a crust of bread in tlie house,ashamed am
I to say it.”
Mrs. Maloney—"Then in heaven’s
blessed name, wlmt. have you at all at
all?”
Mrs. Greene —“Wove a house full of
measles and mumps anil scarlet fever
and plenty to spare. Which will you
have ?”
The borrowing neighbor quietly sub
sided. —Ohiengo National.
A Stein Winder.
Stiggins was passing a watchmaker’s
establishment, and looking into the win
dow he noticed a very pretty girl at the
counter.
"Ha!”he soliloquized, "I’ll go in and
take a look at her under some pretext or
other.”
lie entered, and was waited on by the
young lady’s father.
“What can I do for you?”
“I want to get a key for my watch,”
lie stammered, feasting his eyes on the
young lady.
"Let me see your watch,” said the
watchmaker.
As if in a dream he took out his watch.
The watchmaker examined it, and said
with surprise:
"Why, your watch is a stem-winder.”
Stiggins don’t remember how he got
out, but lie docs remember that the young
lady smiled audibly at his discomfiture.
Jt wderi Weekly.
Driving Home the Crackers.
It was ail amusing sight, a few weeks
since, to see one of those stiff, upright,
imitation English coachmen sitting on
his box in front of a grocery store, whip
well poised, reins properly grasped in
white gloved hands, gaze directed
straight forward between the ears of the
well groomed horses. ,
Anon out comes a clerk from the store
with a well Hilled paper bag, opens tlie
carriage door, places the bag within up
on the scat, ana recloses the door with a
■lam,
NUMBER 42.
Scarce had lie turned awny when fhs
coachman started off his team with a
stately trot, nor halted till lie errivetj at
the mansion of a wealthy resident in an
aristocratic quarter, before which ho
halted and solemnly waited.
In a few minutes a maidservant rushed
out.
"Why, what is the matter John?
Where are the ladies?”
“Eh? liinside, I suppose. Carn’tyou
hopen the door?”
“Open the door! Why, there uo ono
in tile carriage. Where did you iDivo
from?”
“Bless my'art! no ono there? Why,
I just drove from the grocery store tt|id
'curd tho eoaeli door shut when they got
in.”
“Got in! Why, they did uot get iu,
and you have given a bag of soda
crackers a ride home and left the ladies
behind.”
Such was the case, and the solemn
John went hack at u brisker pace, resolv
ing to trust to eyes rather than ears for
the future. — Boston Bulletin.
Youth No Bar to Greatness.
Charles James Fox was in Parliament
at 19.
The great Cromwell left the University
of Cambridge at 18.
John Bright never was at any school a
day after be was 15 years old.
Gladstone was in Parliament nt 22, and
at 24 was Lord of the Treasury.
Lord Bacon graduated at Cambridge
when 111, and was called to the bar at 21 .
Peel was in Parliament at 21, and
Palmerston w;is Lord ot the Admiralty
at 23. %
Henry Clay was in the Senate cf tho
United States at 29, contrary to the Con
stitution. w
John Hamilton, after graduating at
Oxford, was a student at law in the Inner
Temple at 19.
Gustavus Adolphus ascended tlic throne
tit lti; before ho was 34 he was one of the
great rulers of Europe.
Judge Story was at Harvard at 15, in
Congress at 29, and Judge of the Supremo
Court of the United States at 32.
Martin Luther had become largely dis
tinguished at 24, and at 56 had reached
the topmost round of Ilia world-wide
fame. a
Condo conducted a memorable uun
paign at 17 and at 22 ho, and Turenne
also, were of the most illustrious men of
their time.
Webster was in collego at 15, gave
earnest of his great future before be was
25, and at 30 was the peer of the ablest
man in Congress.
William H. Seward commenced tlie
practice of law at 21, at 31 was president
of a State convention, aud at 37 Governor
of New York.
j Washington was a distinguished
j colonel in the army at 22, early in public
affairs, commander of the forces at 43
I and President at 57.
Maurice, of Saxony, died at 32, con-
I ceded to have been one of the profoiunl
[ cst statesmen and one of the ablest gen
! ends which Christendom had seen. *
Napoleon at 25 commanded the a rosy
of Italy. At 30 he was not only one of
the most illustrious generals of all time,
but one of the great law-givers of the
world. At 46 be saw Waterloo* '
The great Leo X. was l’ope at Thirty
eight ; having finished his academic train
ing he took the office of Cardinal at
eighteen—only twelve months younger
than was Charles James Fox when lie
entered Parliament.
Only one civilian out of the Presidents
! of tliis country gained Ids first election
after lie was sixty, and that one was
James Buchanan. The chance for ilie
Presidency after sixty is small, and grow
ing less.
William Pitt entered the university at
fourteen, was Chancellor of tlie Exchequer
at twenty-two, Prime minister at twenty
; four and so continued for twenty year*,
and when thirty-five was the most power
j fid uncrowned head in Europe. -y
The lute Lord Beacousfield left tlie
| cloister and entered the great world
early—-as did John Bright—and cotn
i radioed his career by writing a book at
seventeen, in which he predicted that irf
would l>c Prime Minister.
Hamilton was in King’s College at Iff;
when IT he made a notable address on
public affairs to the citizensof New York;
at 20 he was entrusted with a most im
portant mission to General Gates; was in
Congress at 25 and Secretary of the
Treasury at 32.
John Quincy Adams, at the age of 14,
was secretary to Mr. Dana, then Minister
at the Russian court; at 80 he was him
self Minister to Prussia-. at 85 lie was
Minister to Russia; at 48 he was Minister
to England; at 50 he was Secretary ot
State, and President at 57.
There have been twenty-two Presi
dents of the United States. Five of them
were elected at 57, and six attained that
great office before the age of 50. Three
military men. past 00, have been elected;
two died very soon, and the other was
General Jackson, and he was but 01
when elected.
Jonathan Edwards acquired early re
nown ns the greatest metaphysician in
America and as unsurpassed by any oat
in Europe. He commenced the reading
of Latin when six years old. At ten iu
wrote a remarkable paper upon the im
mortality of the sou!. At the nge ol
thirteen he entered Yale College, whew
he graduated four years later.
General Grant was elected President
at 40. But when a very young man, in
the Mexican war, he so distinguished
himself at the battle of Molino del Key
that General Scott named him for pro
motion on the field, and at the storming
of Chapultap'ec, his courage and ability
caused him to be specially commended
by General Worth, and for these young
acts of skill and valor he was made
Captain in the regular army. He was
but 3'J when he gained his victory at
Fort Donclson, and only 41 when he
took Vicksburg.
A Soldier’s Great Endurance.
C. B. Tower, the private in Company
K, of the old Pennsylvania “Hucktails,'
who has just been grautc 1 a medal by
President Cleveland, must have been a
man of wonderfully vigorous constitution,
The snecial nets for which the medal was
granted were for continuing in the hat lie
of the Wilderness after being wounded;
for participation in the battles ff Spottsyl
vania, North Anna River and Belhc-de
Church while suffering from his wound,
and for escaping from the Confe leiates
while being transpoitcd from Libby
prison to A ldcrsonviilo by jumping fro’C
a train and makiug hi- way across tin
mountains into West \ irgini iand thorny
baok to his command, —iV.-nt York Gum
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