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VOLUME XXII.
-j 1,. / ,/r ,i / Gautte states tlmt it is a
vafa !am r mill >ad hu m that
, ;] |, ai- running north ami Mouth tin*
. , r;l i|s wear out the faster; that live
jl,ill wear out ou the west side of (lie
, ■ wliile three are doing service oil the
st si le.
•j l: , . |i'i!i erop now maturing in the
I,lth promises to he the largest ever
awn in the United States. It is csti
,l, il at 7,500,000 bales—soo,ooo hales
i him were ever before grown in a
iale year. Cotton may no longer 1 e
n r, hut it is still in the royal family.
Tin' fih* (ml Isathif I’e/ioilv says
~• ih*’ strikes in Ihe shoe trade during
Inst year have cost in wages from
,000,0110 to $0,000,000. Nearly half
is min is said to have been lost in the
e months’strike in Worcester county,
, The Wilmington slrikeof moroc-
Vin kers lasted seven months and cost
20,000. The strikes at Salem and
aliody, Mass., entail a loss of $2,000,-
(I in wages, l.csmr strikes bring up
total.
Ihe monument over the grave of Israel
nain, the Revolutionary hero, at
okline, Conn., for which the State
ropriated SIO,OOO, will be dedicated
a- 17, 1888, the anniversary of the
:le of Bunker Hill. The remains of
ami l’utnani, in remarkable prfe-cr
on, were lately removed from the
okline cemetery to the new site, and
old tombstone, with the inscription
pared by President Timothy Dwight,
Yale College, was deposited in the
ms of the State Historical Society at
Iri ford.
\ careful estimate has been made by
1 i ials connected with State Attorney
inncll’s office in Chicago as to the
ount of money stolen by the Cook
mty thieves in the two years from Scp
ibcr 1884, to September, 1880. Not
than SIBO,OOO was stolen in 1884-’BS,
fully $580,000 in 1880-’B7. The
tl is estimated at $1,000,000 for the
i years. The tax levy for county pur
's for the same period was $2,500,’
$1,200,000 for 1881-’BS and
100,000 for 1885-’BO. The stealing,
liding to the estimate, amount to
v per cent, of the levy in both years.
nder the Constitution adopted by
laud in 1811 women were allowed to
the requisite qualifications, how
r, being that they should pay taxes on
party and be able to read and write;
few of them have eared to exercise
ir privilege. Now that peril threatens
: nation in the extinction of the royal
use of Orange by the death of the
l' cut king, the women have become
'ai.vil, and regularly attend the polls,
ri by their presence and their ballots
hold the leaders who are arranging to
fed their country. But more is to
ue. Of the 17,000 persons just en
luhised great numbers are women;
1 ■ Holland, which ha; led the world
many things, will lead it again in
HTI o Electrical World presents some re
■rkable figures as to the use of the tcie
■o.ie in four European countries —Bel-
■>n>. Holland, Italy, and Russia. The
■>!<s give a list of the exchange sub-
in each con try. The total of
■tli Is. allowing for a few untabnlated
■•hinges, about 10,000. In otic r words,
H tlies ■ countries, with a total popula
■ of 136,000,000, there are only 10,000
■ > ■ i! i rs, all told, or one in every TANARUS, 158;
■til' in the United States there are 147,-
■) subscribers in a population of 50,-
< 00, or one in every 310. The dis
■ is remarkable. There are as many
Ht’l'lione subscribers in New York and
'klyn ns in all Italy with its twenty
■' millions of people: as many in Ilos
:1 in Holland with its four millions;
in Chicago than in all the domin-
tl'ie Czar.
i' : iiiinent and experienced railroad
1 r n li,. Ims long held an important
m 'lie West, declares that he had
rii iir under him men simply edu
■ ' in high schools and practical work
■ ci id nates of technicals schools, lie
■ ti e latter are unwilling to take the
Be" and orders of their superiors be
they are so full of impracticable
■>k theories which they regard as the
authority. There is something
■i< ally wrong in teaching which does
■ impress upon the mind of the stndcn :
■ fact that practical experience is the
■mate appeal. All young men just
■rting out are apt to be over-wise in
■ir ow n conceit, and this fact needs
cially to be kept in mind by instruct
■ in institutions which claim to send
■' out trained for special branches of
tvork.
■An eminent English statesman, Mr.
■m n, lias compiled tables which show
■iart the enormous sums sent back to
■ l nited Kingdom to tlie relatives and
■*'ds of emigrants who have gained
|>'i in the United States. From 1848
■ both, years inclusive, there
■ forwarded from ‘America through
■(■Tin hanks and mercantile houses
■5.092,935. a large part of which
Bfntually passed into the pockets of
■li landlords. In the last six years
■fin and by tlie tables the contributions
■egn at I v increased,the annual average
■ng $i,427,474. Of course the stnte
■d is incomplete, for certain bankers
Bhti'-il to furni-h the required infonna-
B>- and a great deal of money has
■filed Ireland from America without
Bng through the hands of bankers.
■ average annual amount remitted
■“ Australian colouies since has
■c only $289,000
The Georgia Enterprise.
DOTS FROM WASHINGTON.
PREPARING FOR HARD WORK
NEXT WINTER.
A|>|ioliilinenla nl'Suuihrrn Ulrn-lnterralluf
Heparin of Departinrnt Olllrrra -Note*
About Moled OUleiata.
THE TltoF.llH-CARI.ISLK CASE.
The testimony in the contested election
case of George 11. Thoebo against John
O. Carlisle, uth Congressional District of
Kentucky, was opened by the Clerk of
the House and ordered printed. Mr. Car
lisle appeared in his own behalf and
Gen. J. Hale Sypher, ex-member from
Louisiana, appeared ns counsel for Mr.
Thoebc.
RESIGNED.
Assistant Secretary Porter has tendered
his resignation. He leaves the Depart
ment of State with the best feelings for
alt of its officials and is only influenced
to adopt this course by reason of Mrs.
Porter’s ill health and other reasons pure
ly personal and private. He will return
io his home in Tennessee upon the re
linquishinen of his office.t
AMERICAN SCIENTIST IN CIIINA.
The Department of State has been in
formed that Prof. Church, of Columbia
College, of New York, a distinguished
mining expert, recently arrived at Tient
sin, China, and entered the service of the
Viceroy, Li Hung Chang. He has made
a personal examination of and full report
upon the interior Chinese copper and sil
ver mines, in which he deprecates the
continuance of the old system of hand
labor in mines and recommends the
adoption of machinery, which will be
bought in the United States.
LAND OFFICE METHODS.
Chief Clerk Walker, of the General
Land Office, has issued an order ti the
c hiefs of the divisions where applications
for land patents are examined, which it
is said will facilitate issuing of patents
in cases where no questions of irregularity
have been raised. These eases are to lie
passed upon ns rapidly ns possible, and
where there is any defect or omissions,
or where an amendment is required, the
necessary steps are to be taken forthwith
to close the case. The filing away in
definitely of suspended cases is expressly
prohibited. The clerks examining the
cas.s are required simply to report the
facts, and they will be rated for efficiency
ou the record thus made.
THE DOCTORS CALLED.
The President and Mrs. Cleveland
received members of the International
Medical Congress with their wives and
lady friends at the White House. The
time assigned for the reception was one
hour, a visit to the Corcoran art gallery
having been planned for the latter por
tion of the evening. When, however,
the hour had expired, there still remained
a line extending to the west gate and
thence along the entire front of the
White House grounds, composed of la
dies and gentlemen still waiting an op
portunity to pay their respects. The
reception was therefore prolonged until
all had been presented. It is estimated
that the number received was not less
than 5,000. The reception took place in
the blue parlor, where several of the
leading local physicians, with their
wives, were stationed.
MRS. CLEVELAND'S ANSWER.
The President’s wife has declined the
invitation to present flags to the New
York fire department in the following
letter: Executive Mansion, Washington,
September sth, 1887.- —Hon. Abram 8.
Hewitt, Mayor of New York City; Hon.
B. Beckman, president board aldermen,
lion. James. E. Fitzgerald,—Gentlemen :
I have received your pleasing note, re
questing me on behalf of the donors of
certain flags to be presented to the New
York fire department, as well as in behalf
of tlie citizens of New York generally,
and the executive and legislative branches
of the city government, to deliver the
colors mentioned by the fire department
on such a day in September, as shall suit
my convenience. It would certainly af
ford me a pleasure to contribute, in any
degree, to the significance of this occa
sion, and to the satisfaction of the brave
and gallant men, whose services are thus
to be recognized. I hope, however, that
I shall not be misunderstood when I
base my declination of your kind invita
tion upon my unwillingness to assume
that I, as the wife of a President, ought
to participate so prominently in a public
ceremony, in which he took no part.
Yours very truly, Francis Folsom
Cleveland.” The letter is in Mrs,
Cleveland’s own handwriting.
NOTES.
The Acting Secretary of the Treasury
has appointed John It. Milliken to be a
gauger at Pittsboro, N. C.
The Acting Secretary of the Treasury
has appointed William B. Webb to be
United States gauger at Grain Valley,
Mo.
The Acting Secretary of the Treasury
has appointed John A. Davis to be
gauger in the Cth district of Virginia,
and David Poindexter to be gauger in
the sth district of North Carolina.
The contract for furnishing 300,000
pounds of distinctive paper for use in
printing internal revenue stamps has been
awarded to the Fairchild Paper Company,
of East I'eppcrell, Mass., at seven and
one-fifth cents per pound.
NINtiUI.AK MINS NKI.NO.V
A rare case of emotional kleptomania
is exciting the scientists of Boston, Mass.
The culprit, patient or victim, whichever
she deserves to be called, is Minnie Nel
son, whose age is put down in the police
record as 23. She is a line-looking wo
man, whose strange mental condition re
sults entirely from excessive use of li
quor. She was arrested recently for
kidnapping the four-year-old daughter of
Mrs. Donovan. The singular part of her
mania is that she never thinks of steal
ing a child when she is sober. At such
times any mother is perfectly safe in let
ling her children run around where Miss
Nelson is without the slightest fear.
Bagged or richly dressed, pretty or
homely, tidy or soiled, all children are
alike to her under these circumstances.
The cause of this remarkable mania is a
puzzle to the .physicians, and she will
doubtless be placed in custody soon and
do ely watched to see if it is possible to
solve the mystery.
ItIMNIA’S COTTON MILL.
The Utiss'an court chamberlain, Mit
•chagofl, Prince Demidofl and a party of
millionaires, are inspecting the cotton
fields of Bokhara with a view to select
ing a suitable site on the line of the
projected Smnarcaud railway for a cottou
mill. A large portion of the material
and the overieen will be American.
GENERAL NEWS.
PHOTOGRAPHS OP MATTERS IN
AMERICA ANH EUROPE.
Home Halo Agitation llallinjr l*ot of
European I’ullllr* l.nbor .Hatter*
nl lloitir anil Ahronit, etc.
A razor was found in the cell of A. It.
Parsons, the condemned Chicago, 111., an
archist, with which he Intended to com
mit suicide.
E. S. Wheeler it Cos., of New Haven,
Conn., failed for $2,000,000. The firm
carries on, among other enterprises, the
New Haven Wire Company.
The Liberal League, at a meeting in
Alexandria Palace in London, resolved to
establish branches oft Hut association
wherever National League lodges ore
prohibited in Ireland.
The proposed evictions on the Ponson
by estates, in Ireland, have been aban
doned. Under the provisions of the land
act, twenty-six of the Ponsonby tenants
are protected and cannot be evicted.
While a big gun was being cast at Vick
cr's foundry, in Sheffield, England, the
mould exploded, killing four men on I lie
spot and injuring many others. The
buildings of the establishment were more
or less shattered.
Greenway, Smith & Grcenway’s bank
at Warwick, England, has failed. The
bank had b en established for a century,
and had the highest reputation foi
soundness. It is feared that the failure
will cause widespread ruin.
Clara Barton, president of the Ameri
can National Association of the Bed
Cross, and Dr. J. B. Hubbell, general
field agent of the association, sailed on
the steamer Arizona to attend the inter
national conference of the Red Cross, to
lie held at Carlsruhe, Germany.
An official note issued by the Brazilian
legation, at Paris, France, indicates an
intention on the part of the Brazilian gov
ernment to suppress an attempt made
under the auspices of Frenchmen in
Guiana to found a republic in the neutral
territory of Counania, between Brazil and
Guiana.
A 6tate of anarchy prevails at Hono
lulu, and the British government having
sent several warships there to make de
mands in connection with a loan recently
negotiated in England, it is not unlikely
that the United States government will
assume a sort of protectorate over Ha
waii until affairs are straightened out.
A schooner loaded with naptha was
lying near the wharf opposite John H.
Cunningham’s great oil store, near the
Chelsea end of Chelsea bridge, Boston,
Mass. Four men were on deck and one
below. Suddenly there was a puff of
black smoke and then a tremendous ex
plosion, and a man on the bridge saw the
deck of the vessel rise into the air. In
the midst of flame and smoke were the
bodies of four men. They were hurled
high above the schooner and then fell
back into the flames. The fifth man
jumped overboard and was drowned.
The flames quickly spread to Cunning
h m’s store-house, which was soon de
stroyed.
TERRIFIC BLOW.
•
Ohio In Visited by n Tornado, Which Causes
31urh Damage—No Lives Lost.
A tornado struck Sylvania, Ohio, blow
ing down two gas well derricks and
wrenching a boiler from its brick foun
dation. Three horses in a pasture were
killed by falling trees. All tall tre s
were leveled. One farmer had fifty
acres of fine timber all blown down. A
brick school-house, at Micliie, was de
stroyed. The track of the tornado was
south by east from there along the line of
the Toledo & Ohio railroal, and is from
one to two hundred yaids wide. No
fences or tall trees are standing. Corn
is scattered and houses and barns are un
roofed for miles. At YVatersvilie, and
other villages to the southward, much
damage was done. The slate roofs of ii
number of buildings were Ixtdly damaged
and the towering chimneys of the main
building of the insane asylum were blown
down, crushing in the roof. The total
loss to the insane asylum is SB,OOO. Dr.
Embry, assistant superintendent of the
asylum, was driving into the grounds at
the time. Ilis wife and little daughter
were with him. His buggy was over
turned and all three were thrown out.
The doctor hold on to the horse, which
with the vehicle, was lifted and carried
several rods. Ilis wife and child wen
carried over a hundred feet an i dropped
into a ditch of two feet of water, from
which they were rescued unhurt. The
Wabash train met the center of the tor
nado and the smoke stack of the locomo
tive was blown oil.
SINGULAR SUICIDE.
John M. Bramlett, a clerk in the drug
store of .1. W. Posey & Bro., at Union,
S. C., committed suicide recently, and
was found dead in his bed. He left this
litter on bistable: “Union, Sep. 3d,1887.
I’m weary of this world it has no
charms for me: I don’t believe thersany
heaven or hell, I am a miserable being to
lihold, don't grieve after me dear friends
& relatives.” On the back of the letter
and, presumably after he had taken the
deadly narcotic, was written in pencil:
“What is to be will be. What is not to
be won’t be.” He looked very natural,
and Ids position in bed was ns perfect as
if he had been laid out for the coffin.
The verdict of the coroner’s jury was:
“That John Bramlett came to his death
by a deadly poison of a character and
kind unknown to the jury, administered
by liis own hands." It was a most de
liberate self-murder. No one can assign
a reason for the deed. Bramlett was a
young man of good moral habits—a
member of the Baptist Church, about
twenty-two years old ami a native of
Laurens.
HUNTING SILVER MINES.
Prospectors are roaming about the
mountain country of Tennessee, through
which railroads are to p iss, seeking ore
beds. Lands can now be bought for
merely nominal prices. Rich lead aud
silver have been found in several localities.
In an immense cave in l’utmtm county
five distinct veins of lead have been
found. Lead and silver are said to ex
ist in the upper edge of Smith and the
adjoining portion of Jackson county.
The lead ore is said to be the causa of
deadly sickness there, the poisonous salts
becomiug dissolved in the water. There
is large cave on tho premises of Hop
Lee in the same section, from which val
uable specimens of lend ore have been ob
tained. This oie is also said to give off
noxious gases that tender the cxplpralion
of the cave very dangerous. Three men
who went into the cave recently were suf
focated.
“HY COUNTRY MAY 811 8 BVBR BB RIGHT. RIGHT OR WRONG MY COUNTRY."—Jcffrrwm
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1887,
SOUTHERN ITEMS.
BUDGET OP NEWS GATHERED
HERE AND THERE.
Munr Railroad Accident* Who! Is Trail*-
Firing |o Temperance .Uniter* Suctnl
Ami ICrllgloii* tlo*lp-
Should Atlanta, Gn., go “wet” in the
proposed election on tiic prohibition
question, a license to sell will cost $1,500.
Savannah, Ga., has been visited by a
gang of professional burglars, who do
up their work in the most scientific man
ner.
A strike of the Louisville & Nashville
Railroad brnkemen was started at Bir
mingham, Ala., for higher pay and many
firemen followed suit.
The steamer Avollon, of the Maryland
Steamboat Company, was totally burned
at Qucport, Va., on' the Great Wvomica
river; loss $110,000; insurance SOO,OOO.
Judge Thomas J. Simmons has been
chosen by the Georgia Legislature to fill
the judgeship in the Pautaula circuit
made vacant by the death of Judge Hall.
A fire started in the engine house of
the Barren Fork Coal company, near Flat
Rock, Ky., and destroyid costly ma
chinery used in mining. The loss is
$200,000.
M. E. Reid alias James Merwin, agent
of the National Express Company at
Glen's Falls N. Y., was arrested at Hen
derson, N. C., charged with the theft of
$6,000 from the company.
The Union Waiters’ Association, of At
lanta, Ga., at their annual parade, made
the best show in appearance, good man
ners and marching, of any colored people
that have appeared in public in the South.
I>. R. R. Adair, of Gainesville, Ga.,
who is stopping at the St, James Hotel,
in Washington, D. C , was Knocked
down by a horse and wagon while cross
ing Pennsylvania avenue, and was in
jured.
The corn fields in the Dismal Swamp
of Virginia are overrun with bears, and
some of the farmers have killed or cap
tured several in a single night. ’ihe
Norfolk markets are well supplied with
bear meat.
Roy Sisk and Dock Stat, two boys
aged about 16, were hunting doves near
Huntsville, Ala. Sisk’s gun was acci
dentally discharged, the whole charge
striking him in the face, blow ing off his
nose and the top of his skull, causing in
stant death.
At the last term of the superior court,
in Augusta, Ga., Sirs. Killian got a ver
dict of $12,000 from the Augusta A Knox
ville road on account of her husband be
ing killed while working ou it. The road
asked anew trial, but it was refused by
Judge Roney.
At Greenville, Ga., a negro brakeman
named Dave got into n quarrel with a
negro, Bill Kendall, and threw a brick,
struck Kendall on the head, glanced and
hit Edgar Mitchell, a white railroad man,
just above the ear. Kendall was not hurt
much, but Edgar is unable to be about.
E. A. Pledger was run over and killed
by a freight of the Central Railroad at
Midville, Ga. Mr. Pledger was about
fifty-five or sixty years of age, a mechanic
by trade. His remains were buried in
the cemetery by the town authorities.
He was under the influence of whiskey
at the time it is said.
The fast mail train leaving Richmond,
Va., for West Point, when nearing Fair
Oaks station on the Richmond, York
River & Chesapeake road, ran into a
mule team, which was crossing the
track, killing both mules, demolishing
the wagon, and so injuring the driver, a
farmer named Vcrrell, that ho died soon
after reaching West Point, where he was
taken.
The Committee on Education of the
Georgia House of Representatives has
reported a school bill authorizing a levy
of one-tentli of one per cent on the tax
able property of the state for school pur
poses. This law would raise, it is said,
$306,000 net which, with other moneys
appropriated, would give a total fund of
$806,000, sufficient to keep the schools
open four months in the year.
The people of Charleston, 8. C., have
just issued an official document showing
the wonderful progress made in the
resurrection of a year, since the earth
quake. It shows that 6,956 residences
and other buildings were rebuilt or re
paired; 271 new buildings erected; a
town in itself. The cost of the rebuild
ing and repairs was $4,204,775; Charles
ton spent on this work $3,000,000, the
balance coming from outside the city.
A white man named Houston in Au
gusta, Ga., bus engaged lawyers to pros
ecute Berrian Rachaels, a county convict
guard, for having bis nephew whipped.
Houston stated that his nephew, who is
a small boy, was employed on the Sand-
Bar Ferry road, near where the convicts
are working, and that a few days since
he refused to do something Rachaels de
manded him to do, when Rachaels had a
burly negro convict to catch and whip
the boy severely.
Two women were caught at work in an
illicit distillery in Habersham county,
Georgia. They were Mary Ann Dover
and Sarah Adalinc Dover. Deputy Col
lector Strong and Deputy Marshal Nix
were scouring the country near Clarkes
ville, when they came upon the distillery
in active operation, the women being en
gaged in making corn whiskey and apple
brandy. The officers destroyed the still
and other apparatus, but when it came to
arrests, their gallantry got the best of
them and they let the women go.
When Sherman left Columbia, S. C.,
on fire, there was but one house on too
principal thoroughfare left, No. 243, on
the cast side of Main, between Richland
and Lumber street. This sole survivor
was destroyed by fire a day or two since.
The house was a two-story wooden
structure, occupied by Mrs. M. C. Bo
land mid family, and was owned by Al
exander Civil, who built it in 1862. At
the time of Sherman’s visit it was rented
and occupied by Theodore Iluchct and
family.
t'NKASV I'Eomt.
The revolutionary force under Bahona,
it is reported at Panama, surprised and
took possession of Port Haunion. The
gariison was betrayed by two officers.
The tight between the revolutionists and
government troops is r- ported to have
been very severe. A general rising is
feared in San Salvadore, Gu item da and
Honduras.
PLEIRO-PN^IMOMA.
Thirty-three cows belonging to John
Clav, a milkman in Baltimore county,
Md', affected with phmo pneumonia,
were killed and buried, The state paid
sls per head for them,
ROASTED TO DEATH.
BURNING OP THE THEATRE ROY
AL AT EXETER, IN ENGLAND.
During llie Performance of “ttamnny Kir’’
A Fire llrenli* Out, nail 150 I'ropla
Lane Tin Ir Llrr*.
I The Theatre Royal, at Exeter, England,
took tii luring a performance of “Ro
ta ny l The occupants of the pit,
af.i. ,'m awful struggle, escaped, but
ninny uf them were greatly injured.
There was only ono exit from the gallery,
and the rush tiiore was terrific. Scores
were trodden under foot and suffocated.
Fire oarapes were brought to the win
dow and many inside were rescued.
Sixty corpses have been removed. The
! injured survivors were sent to the hos
pital. The mortality is estimated at 100.
IJm structure was built after tlio latest
if igns, and was elaborately fitted, being
considered one uf the prettiest iu Great
Britian. There was a full house, and
everything was all right until the end of
the third act, at half-past ten o’clock,
when a drop scene fell and in a moment
the whole stage was n mass of fire,
and a wild panic ensued. Occupants of
the stalls, pit and dress circle escaped
after a dreadful crushing, many being
b idly bruised. The actors and actresses
were in their dressing rooms when the
fire began, and all escaped. The fire
originated in the flies and spread rapidly,
filling the theatre with a dense smoke.
Occupants of the upper circle and gallery
rushed to the windows screaming fran
tically, and many jumped from the win
dows and were injured, and others were
rescued with the aid of ladders from the
verandas. The fire blazed fiercely, light
ing up the whole city. People were seen
flocking to the scene in thousands, in
quiring for friends.
The scene inside the theatre when
the fire broke out was an awful
one. Some men implored the au
dience to be cool, but it was impossi
ble to check the frantic rush. The thea
ter hose was brought into use in a few
minutes, but the water had little effect
on the flames. The actors and actresses
were taken out from windows with the
aid of ladders. Tlicy lost everything
except what they wore at the time. Up
to the press time one huudred and thirty
bodies have been recovered. They are
almost unrecognizable. Thirty injured
survivors have been taken to the hospi
tals. Fire burned throughout the night.
Search for the bodies proceeds slowly.
In many cases every shred of clothing is
burned off and the bodies look black and
raw. There are various reports as to the
origin of the fire. It is only certain that
the flames broke out in the scene-shifters’
lepartment. The fire brigade arrived
ive minutes after the breaking out of the
flames, but the efforts of the firemen were
without effect. A majority of the vic
tims were men and boys. About thirty
women were burned.
When the fire started, a drop scene was
lowered to prevent the draught. Some
of the actors opened a door to escape,
causing the fire to burst through the drop
scene and to ignite the gallery. The
flames overtook people who were wedged
iu an immovable mass and roasted them
to death, and many who were rescued
ajiye died soon after being brought out
of the burning building. The occupants
of the dress circle escaped without seri
ous harm.
LABOR'S HOLIDAY.
The annual parade of labor organiza
tions was more general this year
than last . In Chicago, Boston, Cincin
nati, Detroit, Indianapolis, Baltimore,
Newark, New Haven, Buffalo, Albany,
Brooklyn, Philadelphia and other large
labor centers, the ceremonies were elab
orate and crowds of workingmen paraded
the streets. At New York fully 25,000
men, belonging to nearly every trade or
ganization in the city, were in line. In
the ranks were printing presses in opera
tion; baker's ovens in full blast; a num
ber of large safes, sailing boats fully
equipped and a group of “squaws" rep
resented by cigarette manufacturing girls.
The procession was headed by a platoon
of mounted police, and the route wns
down Broadway from Thirteenth to
Fourth street, to Fifth avenue, to Union
square. At this point fully 10,000 peo
ple were massed, and the reviewing stand
was located there. On the stand were a
large number of representative labor men
and women. Among them was Henry
George, General Master Workman Pow
dcrly, and Rev. Dr. McGlynn, who were
announced to attend, was not present.
Notwithstanding the tabooing of red
flags, there were many of them in the
line, hut the red in each case was relieved
by colors less suggestive which, in letters
of gold, told which labor organization
was carrying it. No distinctly socialijiic
flag was to be seen.
ATTEMPTKD INCENDIARISM;
Three detectives from Birmingham,
Ala., went ftp to Decatur and caught six
men in the act of setting fire to a caboose
in the yard. One of the strikers gave
away the plot to the detectives, stating
thnt the strikers had planned to destroy
all the company’s cars in the yard, six
men were detailed to set tire to them.
The three detectives were on the spot in
time and captured four of the men as
they were setting fire to the second car.
Two of the six men escaped in ttic dark
ness, but the others were lodged in jail.
The men arrested are John Henry Epaine,
Davy Foreman and A. ,C. Thomas. The
arrest of the ringleaders stopped all
troubles and the rest went back to work.
One new man was assaulted by three
strikers, but was not seriously hurt. A
train was wrecked by the strikers, but no
one was hurt.
FOUND AT LAST.
Mr. Gamble, a citizen of Anniston,
Ala., who has just returned from a visit
to the City of Mexico, reports that he
saw and recognized in that city Marsh I .
Polk, the defaulting state treasurer of
Tennessee. He says that he knew Polk
well, and that he is now engaged in bus
iness in Mexico. It will ire remembered
that circumstantial accounts of Polk’s
illness, death and burial in Tennessee
were published several years ago.
RECKLESS RAILROADING.
A train of five loaded flat cars went
through a bridge five miles cast of
Swonia, N. Y., on the Erie railroad, and
a man named Smith was killed. 35 bile
the track was being cleared, a Buffalo
excursion train approached on a sharp
curve, and before the train could be stop
ped tlie engine was buried in the debris
beneath tlie bridge. The forward truck
of the first car left the track. No other
dwsfigc dose.
THE SOUTHERN FARMER.
GENERAL PROSPERITY IS THE
RULE ALL OVER THE SOUTH.
tVluu Mwpnl Point u la the ]lc*l-Trcitf iiirnt
ot Hors**- Fine Outlook In South tlr*.
lino--Poultry Mole*.
BWF.ET POTATOES.
Of the varieties of sweet potatoes, most
generally cultivated for table use that
known ns the Georgia yam or sugar
yam is considered best for the Southern
taste which demands a “wet” potato.
Tii is variety, however, is not very pro
ductive, nor will it bear late planting.
Next in quality, and more productive, is
the variety known as the pumpkin yam,
which is deep yellow when cooked,
hence its name. The flesh of the Gem
gin yam is of a light yellow when cooked.
For stock, the more productive varieties,
such ns the St. Domingo and Hayti yum,
ure preferred. Under identical circum
stances, these two varieties will produce
two or three times as much as the Geor
gia yam.
HOME COMFORT.
Sweet pillows may he made by the
thousands nt very trifling cost by shred
ding, with the fingers, or with a wide
prolonged steel fork, out of the shucks
taken from green corn, and placing them
in the sun for bleaching. After being
thoroughly dried, without rain or dew,
they will be white, sweet and nice and
ready for a tick of uny size desired. For
summer use, pillows made in this wav will
be found elegant upon which to rest a
weary head, us they arc much cooler than
feathers, moss, or curled hair. The
beauty about it is that every family can
manufacture their own pillows almost
without cost, and from shucks generally
thrown away.
SOUTH CAROLINA’S PROSPERITY.
The outlook for the planters and farm
ers in South Carolina is especially bright,
in spite of the discouraging statements
which have been received. The special
report furnished by the State Department
of Agriculture, shows in general terms
that, as compared with the crops of last
year, there will be 600,000 hales of cot
ton, an increase of 67,000 bales, 6,000,-
000 bushels of corn, 400,000 bushels of
wheat, and 450,000 bushels of oats, to
gether with a slight increase in the rice
crop and an increase of about twenty ]t
cent, in sugar cane and sorghum. This
is almost as encouraging a prospect as
could be desired, for the reason that the
planters anil farmers have worked this
year nt comparatively small expense, and
have but few debts to pay. Their deter
mination to make sure of their meat and
bread is marked out in the enormous in
crease in the crops of corn and small
grain.
TREATMENT OF HORSES.
Never ride a horse without first mak
ing his acquaintance and securing his
good will. Go to his head, speak kind
ly, pat him, look in his eyes. Whether
you are a friend or foe, he will judge by
your voice, your eye and your breath.
Horses judge a man as quickly as u man
does a horse. Feed and wuter abundant
ly at night after work and the animal
has had time to rest and cool off. Feed
moderately in the morning or before
work. Parthians and Arabs prepare their
horses for hard drives by fasting rather
than feasting. More horses arc injured
by hard driving on a full stomach than
by any other process. Never let a horse
eat or drink much when he is hot from
work. Study your horse, treat him ac
cording to his nature, make him your
friend, and he will do better and safer
work.
POULTRY MATTERS.
A Tennessee Receipt:—One of the best
cholera preventatives is the Dougins mix
ture: One pound sulphate iron, (copper
as) and one oz. sulphuric acid, put into
two gallons of water. Put one table
spoonful of this mixture in each pint of
drinking water daily for cure, and week
ly as a preventative.
Exhibit Your Birds:—lf you are n
breeder of flue poultry, you of course aim
to exhibit your fowls at tlie poultry
show this season, and lucky will be those
who win prizes, for tlie prospective pur
chaser will closely examine the list ot
awards to see who has won first prizes on
the variety lie wishes to purchase and
will invariably send his order to the
breeder who has won. as it is good evi
dei ce that said breeder lias good stock
and is much more convincing proof than
a flaming advertisement or circular. Any
breeder ran get up a fine circular or an
attractive advertisement, hut only the
owner of fine birds can win first prizes at
our poultry shows where competition
is generally keen. —Southern Poultry
Yard.
Feed Board : —For feeding the young
chicks we urge the use of a smooth
board easily cleaned, lienee not capable
of carrying disease to the chicks. Throw
the feed oil tlie board, which should have
on it some sand and charcoal. Thorough
ly cleanse the b aril at least three times
each week. As the chicks grow older
and capable of wasting the food by trampl
ing it, protect it by a light lattice frame
with tlie slate running perpendicularly,
so the chicks can reach through for then
food. At this stage the feed board should
be narrow, so that the chicks can reach to
the middle.— Atlanta , On.,Southern Farm.
Hardy Fowl: The Wyandotte will stead
ily gain favor in the South. It is a me
dium-sized fowl, hardy, easily confined
in close quarters, but active and a good
forager when given range; heavy-mcat
ed, small-boned, good layer, rapid grow
er, good sitter and mother; clean-legged,
of high yellow color, rose combed, small
crop and small eater, small offal, and
beautiful form and feather.
TRAIN WRECKING.
Aii attempt was made to wreck a ( hie
ago, Milwaukee and St. Paul train, con
veying Burr Robinson’s circus from Scot
land to Yankton, Dak. Old rails and
telegraph poles were placed across the
track fifteen miles north of Yunkton, hut
as the train was running slowly the engi
neer saw the obstruction in time to stop.
Three hours later, a southbound freight
came to a stop before a large pile of tics,
which had been wedged between the rails
at the same place.
DEATH OF AN KX-GOVKRNOR.
Ex-Governor William Aikin died at
his country place at Flat Rock, N. C.,
aged eighty-one. He was governor of
South Carolina in 1844, and congressman
from 1851 to 1857. He was before the
War the largest slave-holder in the slate,
and was a successful rice planter. He
consistently opposed nullification and se
cession, and took no part in polities after
leaving Congress. He was also one of
the first appointed trustees of the Pea
body fund.
BUDGET OF FUN.
HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
Ho Popped—No Occasion to Itc
Afraid—Too Late —A Swin
dled Millionaire —Another
Wrecked Life, ole.
She—“l saw a funny thing in the pa
per. It says that somewhere out West
the weather is so hot tlmt a framer who
went into his corn field found that all
the corn had popped. It must be awfully
nice to have such weather."
He—“ Why, what are you talking
about! Think how you’d suffer!”
She—“ Yes, I might suffer. But then,
perhaps, other things besides the corn
might pop.”
lie popped.- ISonhm Tranteript.
No Occasion to lie Afraid.
•‘Why don’t you propose to her, Joo?”
“Well, I'm half afraid.”
“She loves you, don’t she?”
“Uli, awfully.”
“You agree with her father in politics?”
“Yes."
“And with her brother as to who is
the best pitcher!”
“Yes."
“Then nlow me if lean see what you're
afraid of.”— Harper't liautr.
Too Late.
A couple of young Indies, bosom
friends: “My dearest Olga, I could not
rest until I had come and made an effort
to dispel the gloomy thoughts which, to
judge from your letter yesterday, threat
ened to develop into suicidal mania.
’Tis true Allred has jilted you —the
wretch! Still, try to act like a sensible
girl and look out for another engage
ment.”
“Your advice conies too late, darling.”
“Good gracious! Olga, you surely
haven't taken poison!”
“Well, n-n-no; ihe fa t i3 I-I became
engaged again yesterday.
A Swindled Millionaire.
Mr. Moneybags, who lias recently ac
quired a fortune—"lt's a shame and a
disgrace the way everybody conspires to
rob a rich man.”
Friend—“ What's the matter now!”
“Well, you see I had a little party at
my mansion last night.”
“So I saw by the pipers.”
“And to amuse my guests I ordered
some music.”
“Yes, I heard you ordered a quar
tette.”
“Just so, and burst my buttons if four
singers didn't crowd into the room and
sing and I had to pay all four of them,
and mind you I only ordered one solitary
quartette. That's the way I’m swindled
every day of my life and I am tired of it.”
— Sifting*.
Another Wrecked Life.
First Omaha Youth— “Seems to ine
Jiukin looks rather shabby, lias he lost
his position?”
Second Omaha Ycuth—“No, he is
making seveial thousand dollars a year
right along."
“Well, well! gambles, I suppose?”
“Gambles! You couldn't hire Jinkin
to play cards.”
“Don’t see how he can drink up so
much money.”
“lie don't drink.”
“What under the canopy does he do,
then ?”
“Poor fellow! He has become an in
veterate amateur photourapher. ” Omaha
Ilerabl.
An Aurora Ole Change.
A housewife on Antoine street hud
cleared off the breakfast table the other
morning, and just as she gave liar pan of
dishwater a brave into tiie back yard a
man came around the corner of the house
and received the full contents from chin
to heels.
“O! dear, but I beg a thousand par
dons!” exclaimed the woman when she
realized what she had done.
“Not a pardon, ma’am,” he calmly re
plied.
“Rut it was so careless in me!”
“Not a bit careless, ma’am. I am a
gentleman out of work and witti no
means. I make it a practice to call at
various houses iu search of cold victuals.
In most cases they sling the bull-dog or
the axe at me. I lay my band upon my
heart and assure you that this is an inno
vation —a change—a diversion that I can
really enjoy, and I thank you for it.
Good-day, ma’am." —Detroit Free Press.
The National Game.
“Hero you are, arc you, you young
reprobate?” said Mr. Badgerly, as lie
came across his son playing baseball on
the common. “So this is the way you
spend the time you ought to be putting
iu at school, is it! Here the teacher’s
been sending word wantin’ to know if
you was sick, and T'vo been hunting for
you for the last ho No, sir, I don’t
care if it is yourstr.ke, or whose strike it
is. I won't have any more of this blame
nonsense. You just—”
Here the boy made an ineffectual pass
at the ball, and the old gentleman
paused.
“Great Scott!” exclaimed the old man
under his breath as lie peeled off his coat.
“How many more strikes you got?”
“Two,” replied the boy who had re
treated to a safer distance as he observed
his father's preparations.
“Well, just hand me that bat, and I'll
show you what your old father can do in
the way of a home run. Pitch ’em up
there, huh.” —Merchant Traveler.
Tradedy in Five Chapters.
I.
“Who was that in your box the other
night, Mollie?" asked a bceutiful blonde
being, framed by Nature to support the
struggling milliners at tho expense of
the head of the family first and some
other mnn after, to a brunette being of
the same kind.
“Oh, that was Mr. Smith of New
Y'ork. He’s awful handsome, isn’t ho,
Josie?”
“He’s just splendid.”
“He’s of good family, too.”
‘'lntroduce me, won't you?”
“Oh, he's poor.”
“Poor thing!”
“I tell you what we’ll do. I’ll keep
him for the Santa Cruz trip and you can
have him fur the springs.”
11.
Extract from a letter from A igustus
Osar Smith, Sail Francisco, to ins sister
in New York:
“You will be pleased, my dearest sis,
to know that I am progressing finely in
California. I have just met a most charm
ing young lady, Miss Mollie Blank, whose
father has devoted many years most sue
ceisfully to doUarcuUure. She is much
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struck with me, and it seems to lie quite
genuine. She has invited me so strongly
to go to Santa Cruz while her family Is
there that I trust to consummate Ihe
matrimonial scheme very shortly. I feel
that I only need speak now to be accepted.
Congratulate me!”
111.
“How was he, Mollio!"
“Who?” ii
“Smith.”
“Smith? What Smith?”
“Smith, of New York.”
“Oh, he was splendid. The first two
weeks we had an clegnnt time."
“Well, you remember your promise?”
“What about?”
“To give him to me."
“Certainly. You can have him. He's
all right; very pleasant mid agreeable
until he proposes to marry you. Then
he’s no good. Look out for him. He
made eight holes in the sand with his
knees at Snnta Cruz imploring me to be
come Mrs. Smith.”
IV.
Extract from a letter from A. C. Smith
to his sister:
“You will he pained to learn that I
found the Mollie Blank that I told you
about a little fool. I couldn't stand her'
after two weeks’ acquaintance. You
would nut have like her, I know. I have
become smitten with a true and noblo
little woman. Miss Josie , who is in
every respect the antithesis of that
coquette. She will make a lovely little
wife—and she is quite as wealthy. lam
happy this time, for I know she loves
me. ”
V.
Brief note from A. C. Smith to his
sister:
“My Dearest Sister: Strike father for
$250 for me to get home with. Your af
fectionate brother.” —Chicago Tribune.
Patagonia.
Patagonia is the territory occupying
the southern extremity of the Continent
of South America. It extends from tho
Rio Negro on ttic north to the Straits of
Magellan on the south, a length of 1,000
miles. The peninsula ft 475 miles wide
at its northern boundary and 175 miles
wide near the straits; its area, including
both sides of the Andes, is about 350,000
square miles. Patagonia is Iraversca
from north to south by the Andes Moun
tains, which here lie nearer to the coast
than anywhere else south of the Isthmus
of Panama. At many points the spurs
of the mountain chain extend to the
rocky edge of the ocean. The narrow
strip of laud west of the mountains aud
the border of islands fringing the coast
belong to Chili. The remainder of the
peninsula is attached to the Argentine
Republic. East of the mountains the
country is generally flat. How
ever, the territory has been
very imperfectly explored. There
are several rivers that traverse the east
ern plains, of which the most important
' are the Santa Cruz, the St George, the
I Chuput and the Rio Negro. There are
! believed to be several fine lakes in the in
j terior of the country, but only one of
I these, Lake Niedma, in the southern
part, has been explored. As to tho
climates, the winters are long and cold,
and the brief summers are very hot, and,
in the interior, droughts are frequent. ’
But on the coast there is more rain, and
! tlie seasons are more temperate. There is
| a general similarity in the vegetation
throughout all Patagonia. There are
I trees which grow along the rivers, but
the plains are generally covered with
grass only, or dwarf spinyshrubs. Wild
cattle and horses are found on the plains,
and pumas, guanaeos, wolves, foxes and
other large animals abound. Patagonia
was discovered in 1520 by Magellan.
He named the country, it is said, from
the Spanish Word patagon, a large foot, -
because of large footprints he saw on the
sand, but it has since been noticed that
1 lie Patagonians have feet that are rather
small in proportion to their size.
Since then tlie country lias been,
to a limited extent, explored by
various Europeans, and the Ameri
can liassler expedition, in 1871, made
a survey of the coast. Colonization lias
not been altogether successful. There is
a Scotch colony at Port Desire, which
was established for the purpose of sup
plying and repairing ships. Other
European colonies have been attempted,
but have been given up. Settlements
of llie Chilians and Argentines have been
more permanent. Since 1881 the claim
of the Argentine Republic to Eastern
I’atagonia, before contested by Chili, has
been fully conceded. The Argentines
have quelled the hostile Indian tribes,
and have made considerable exploration
of tlie countr/. They find the northern
plains of little value except for grazing,
but farther south, the land is better
fitted for cultivation, and some promis
ing colonies have already been planted
upou it. The original Indian inhabitants
of Patagonia hnve now dwindled down
to a few thousands. They have always
been regarded as one of the lowest of
known races in point of development.
They are described as most repulsive in
appearance, and though some impression
lias been made upon their savagery in
i certain districts through the missionaries
they are still a rude, wild race, hut are
rapidly passing awnv before the inroads
! of more intelligent nations.— lnter-Ocean
Wlint, New York Drinks.
Under ordinary circumstances New
Y’ork manages to consume daily about
31u,000 gallons of ale and beer, and
some days the grand total must show up
something like 500,000 gallons. New
Y'ork disposes of 12,000 gallons of brandy,
whiskies and other distilled liquor per
day. During July and August the aver
age falls down to between 9,000 and 10,-
000. YVith this falling off there is a
proportionate increase of non-intoxicants.
About 50,000 quarts of iced milk are
drank, in New York and Brooklyn per
diem. As to the business done in soda
water it is something enormous. At
Hudnut’s, on Broadway, 5,000 glasses
are handed over the counter every day.
At other points on Broadway, which
need not be mentioned, the sales range
all the way from 1,200 to 3,500 glasses.
At one establishment on Park Row, the
small room is crowded constantly by
patrons of vanilla and lemon.— New York
Letter.
The Advance of Civilization.
The closing of the great cattle trail in
the Southwest is the clearest evidence yet
given of tlie rapid advance in civilization
in that region of country. The trail
I grew narrower year after year as settlers
| came in and took up the unoccupied land,
until last season it was only three miles
xvide, barely sufficient to give a scant
sustenance to cattle on their xvay to mar
ket. Now, it is announced that the cat
tie men have teen compelled to abandon
it altogether, and that, henceforth,Texas
cattle will be coasunnd by Texans, or
shipped from their ports direct to Europe,
—Baltimore African.