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The Georgia enterprise.
VOLUME XXIII.
"T™.l .croM 'T
. , t lUo Adriatic and the Mud iter
[ ( evidently wishes to at
,T| o-t.iii emigrants. Tliuio nre iUBt
. ii o;ic bean field out there.
v , ~i nt j,i I'inttm di*coveric have
in Maricopa county, Arizona,
'../.listen pur coat, which is
\ t 8 . largest in tho world.
Ti e .rarity of halibut in tho Atlantic
i., , grounds have compelled fisher
. i', ■ o to tho I 'aci ic Ocean, where
ile lid"can bo taken in immense num-
The; arc now b 'ing shipped Hast
refrigerator cars over the Northern
, , l: J the business promises to he
me nß re4t industry.
c.onator Ponza t’ueirnz. of Brazil, has
t ippearod in the tenato for. forty
g a „,l lh. salary, which he Inis not
sn, now amounta to 5933,199.53,
eluding interest at seven per cent,
ie salary h calcuia.cd at S3OOO pet
mam from 1848 to 1873, and S9OOO per
mam since tho last named date.
i correspondent reports that Ilamdi
l. director of the .Museum at Cou
autinople, intends to visit Smyrna,
sis Minor, and order a careful search
ihemidc for the remaining portions
fthestatua of Apollo, of which the
• idand arms were recently unearthed
;inca:ant. It is sad that for the
3 ionc the sum of 159,000 francs has
.-aoffered by thu Turkish Government,
he statue was not in one piece, the
a] and arms having he n attached to
e body in a most skillful manner.
Pre-M ‘".t Willit”, of the Agricultural
bllegcf f M:< hig-in, while lie disputes
ttc.u' f ;i and irect influence of forests
opr r.v t nir moisture— saying that all
ietrees in tin: world will not put il
iliero i' i' n u— believes that the mois
ire on the continent is advancing to
;d the we-t, and that the planting oi
ms;. a:.d in reused cultiva-ion will
IK-the rainfall to advance farther west
rery year. : even hundred thousand
■■oil t liavc already been planted
iNi-bra-k.v the cotton-wood and the
rilow : r-t, and then the soft maple and
ieUrd woods.
1 -ewa-i of tlio New Orleans
iiot ini }i a;- proved to lie tlie greatest
■ettiie i -taiilishmcnt has b. en built
hrwinb -how that $'2,009,1100 more
tee (oin- >1 ihan ever before in one year,
kefollowing are the figures:
®onnt of silver operated upon
dar.n-r fiscal year, ended June
■ isss, standard ounces 10,875,21)
momt of gulil operated upon.... 32,796
S.dollar.!, < oine I sll,Boo,oi<
eagies. eolueJ (810) 135,000
Wexpeases during the year. .. 189,15 C
Xumbcr of males employed, 116; num
ftnf fetuiles employed, 47; average
t of silver bullion per standard ounco
1.8640,
The rural letter-carriers in Germany
bid industrious class of public serv
*• According to the statistical ac
sunt of the J’ostal Department tho
Sgtegute number of pieces of postal
“tter distributed in the rural districts
W, in round figures, 323,000,000. Of
hse, about 34,0)0,000 pieces were
tl.cdfor at tho respective post-olliccs,
remaining 289,000,000 pieces
teuvered by 23,500 carriers, who, to ac
®Phsh the work, had to travel an ag
m distance of 176,29-!, 621 kilo
•f-es. Th's makes a daily travel of
®iooo kilometers, eijual to 65,094 geo-
Wplical miles—in other words, daily
-Wthan twelve times, and annually
** bme3 the circumference oi the
Wh.
There are over 1000 well-fed, well-
well-paid young women in New
Ws city who earn their living making
%’is for t)ie tie id. The “Song of
1 Shirt” was not written for them,
•f sing no songs with voices of do
foas l’ioh, and, indeed, they have
'T little reason for doing so. Thier
” s aro as merry as tho day is long,
J* trusting to the busy hum of sewing
®l<Wnes, less doleful melodies it
j*™ lie bard to find. There are
■ c "(ill-knowu firms in that city en-
Pr'T ,u tho manufacture of shrouds,
( 1 ‘‘is in their factories that all the
. rli is done. The wages are well
_ ntl ned, although fixed by no union,
"aploynuMit is guaranteed the year
for tho sale of shrouds is not
f| T by any cf the fluctuations which
. lot cd in somo other branches of
"Wacturc.
J once in n while wo discover,
C th “ Tv r ew York Hw>, that some
4- l' ca; must give up the undc
p. I'tinction conferred upon it of
'"Jaiir '* ** '''ll' ll -' l ' than nil other
kta 2 ' S * or 11 ' on S time Mount Chitn
- oflU n. supposed to be the highest
®**s of 1 '- '** *' 10 "' ol 'ld until in the prog-
Ete,,., 11,,i i! 'Malayan surveys Mount
" a< found to overtop it. Four
'■ Graham, who has been
iSotmt- \ ~JV° ** lo Sl a 'li lll any oilier
ti] . “t climber, assorted that Everest
'Hi,, ( '* '* ,c palm of supremacy toai.
it. j l(:a ' ; about seventy miles from
F.i' Si °"s supposed that Mount St.
fujri, -a I mountain of Nortii
kojrit ij, i ll "° now kn °w that that
k '' ' ,( > Mount Wrangel, which
ltj, a i 11 b’et higher than St. Elias.
V, ' 3 PP os oi 1 that Mount Kilima
!:t'.ition ’.' 1 “°thigh, was tlie greatest
Ttl-kj ip," ’ -tea,l>ut now-comes Count
**•%„ ~ ''"’ffariau traveler, with tlie
W;'" I'* 1 '* mountain must play
aoni ' tIJ Mount Konla, about 200
Seta*, ' - 1,0 * 8 l * le on ‘y man who
••cended Kcnia.
FEVER INCREASING.
JACKSONVILLE’S SCOURGE MAK
ING DEADLY INROADS.
TUI-: PEOPLE OF TUB AFFLICTED CITV
MARK AN APPEAL FOB AID —HCItOKON
OKN. HAMILTON'S ItECOMMENDATIONS.
The regular meeting of the executive
committee was held in the board of trade
rooms in Jacksonville on Wednesday,
Vice-President McQuaid, in the absence
of President Daniel, presiding. Mr.
MacDufT.on behalf of the special commit
tee to locate a c-imp, repotted that the
committee had selected a siti? on the
Flmida Railway and Navigation Com
pany’s road, at the (even mile post, and
hud purchased twenty acres of land at
$7.50 per acre. Mr. MacDußsttted that
the committee recommended the pur
chuc of twenty acres in addition if de
sired and the authority to employ a sur
veyor, and suggested thut the camp be
called Camp Mitchell, in honor of the
president of the board, as a mark of ap
preciation of his valuable services. The
committee accepted the suggestion of
the special committee and adopted the
name of Camp Mitchell. Bishop Weed,
on behalf of the central committee of re
lief, said that the committee had re
ceived some complaint about food,which
had been investigated and proved to be
unfounded. He also sdd that his expe
rience in the committee had been that
such food as hud been furnished to the
parties who had promised to pay, had
generally remained unpaid for, and men
tioned other practical difficulties in the
way of supplying nourishment to parties
who were able to pay.
President McQunde read a telegram
W. D. C'hipicy,rclativctocxeursionsfrom
to Kentucky. J. M. Schumacher, chair
man or tlie nuauco committee, in a lew
words of regret, stated that he believed
it was time to call upon outside assist
ance; that we could not expect much
assistance from the government, and
that our owu people wore financially
crippled, and moved that the executive
committee lie authorized to publish an
appeal for aid. The motion was adopted.
Prisident McQuade was directed to wire
the authorities at Washington and make
requisition fur necessary sup] lie > and
funds to pay for the sanitary work and
guards, and also try and arrange to ob
tain two hundred tints from 11 -in nt.
Ivy., on authority of Surgeon-Gei era!
Hamilton. The meeting then adjourned.
Tho following appeal for aid his been
issued: “To our Friends and Fellow
C.tizens of the United States: We, the
au hoiized representatives of tlifc citizens
of Jacksonville, recognizing the fact that
tlie epidemic lias icached sucli a stage
tint our own funds are insufficient cither
ty 1' qx mth-WSSf. CISI'S “/-.absolute ne-_
Cisstv, for the engageunut of nurses,
or the numerous oth. r demands upon us;
and, Whereas, owing to the absence of
all business, many of the mo.it liberal
citizens are unable to furnish further
funds, we now think we are justified in
accepting the many willing tilers re
ceived from you. Wo, therefore, wish
our fellow citizens of tlie Unit and States
to know that we will gratefully receive
the aid they have offered, and that any
contiibulions will be used fur the benefit
of those in nee I, and where they will
effect the greatest good. We riqu-st
that any such contributions may be for
waided to Jollies AJ. Schumacher, p;es : -
dent of the Fi,st National bank, and |
chairman of our finance committee. N- al
Mitchell, President of Duval County
Board of Health; I). T. Gerow, acting
Mayor; I”. McQuiid, acting President of
the Citizen’s Auxiliary Association, Jack
sonville, Fla.”
The conference at Camp Perry, between
the citizens of Jacksonville and Surgeon-
General Hamilton and Col. 11. S. Haines,
relative to transporting tefugee*, quar
antine alfa rs, etc., may lead to some
beneficial results in future and open a
way lor refugees t > get out better
than now exists. C inp Perry, it was as
certained, is anything but a comfortable
place for corralinghuman beings After
arranging the details of tecuring tlie
government fund for certain specific
purposes for use in the Jacksonville epi
d-mic, Surgeon-Gen 1 ral Hamilton said
that as far as could be learned, Murphy,
N. C.. and other places which had of
fered a tefuge were entirely inadequate
in way of requisite accommodations.
“Now,” he continued, “why don’t you
ask tlie governor of North Carolina what
towns in his state will receive your peo
ple. Then put yourself in communica
tion with Thomas F. Wood, secretary of
the board of health at Wilmington, to see
if any opposition will be met with from
that quarter. You will thus have tome
definite projective points iu view and can
go ahead intelligently."
On Tuesday, the new cases footed up
45 and on Wednesday increased to 50.
The mayor of Charleston, S. C., tele
graphs tlie following to the Associated
Press: “My attention lias been called
to several dispatches expressing feats for
tne health or tins city ana other cities ot
the S-m h, win reus no infection lias ex
iste l in this city, and whereas there is
every guarantee, founded on like expeu
ciH.-' of the past, that wo shall remain
free from infection, 1 earnestly protest,
in the name of Charleston, against these
3 „ ali eal and alarming reports. Ihcy
can do no possible good. They will
work great wrong and evil. I challenge
the strictest investigation of our condi
tion In this matter of vital welfare to
the healthy Southern cities, I wull co
operate with you always in ascertaining
and circulating actual facts.
Dr Jerome Cochran, state health ofll
ccr of Alabama, icturned on Wednesday
from a trip to Atlanta and other points m
Georgia and made an official report of las
(ri „ nn d its results to W. T. Ketse, trmyor
of Montgomery. Among o lier things,
Cochran said: “I left Montgomery
on tlie 29th ofAugustfor Atlanta, where
1 remained two days. I talk'd wtih tlie
doctors, the people and the .iffimis of he
couh. sns; j
not dangerous, t i”, mran .
hS^ lll A .r a nta untU the a y ctual oc
eurreufee there of cases of yellow fever.”
Thirty refugees from Jacksonville nr-
•riVF COUNTRY: MAY SUK EVER UK RIGHT; JUGHI OR WRONG, MY COUNTRY!" — lkffkiison.
a box cir which wait being brought up
from tho South, and which they lmd un
doubtedly entered at some point in Geor
gia. Both health and police officers are
still on tho lookout for these prisons.
Dr. Gray, of Pulutkn, Fla., surgeon for
one of the Florida railrouds, called at the
health olfico in Chicago, 111., to get Ids
baggage out of the fumigator’s hands,
lie said that yellow fever would reach
St. Augustine without doubt in a few
days, and in his opiuion it would spread
throughout the South. He hns no hopes
of a cessation of the plague until frost
comes iu November.
DEATH OF “ Of’ JANUARY.”
The Man Who Won $-10/ 00 with a
Candy hoieiiye for a Check.
[From the N. Y. Sun.]
Ira Jetiree, once a noted New York
gambler, is dead. He died on Monday
evening at the Gedney House, where ho
had been living with his wife. Ho will
be better remembered by Now Yorkers
who were men about town in his day ns
: Ira January, fur that is tho nay his
name was usually rendered. In fact,
j many who wore quite well acquainted
with him thought that was iris real
namo. In those days faro was king,
and backers and dealers were in a peoit
niary standpoint where successful book
makers aro to-day, and, in a social po
sition, vastly better than their modern
prototypes.
“January” graduated from the posi
tion of card writer iu the old St. Nich
olas Hotel, and began his career as a
gambler in 1851. After that time, as
banker, dealer, and player on both sides
of tho layout, ho went through the cus
tomary vicissitudes of a gambler’s life.
He made and lost half a dozen fortunes,
and was more than once worth half a
million dollars. His first venture was
at Broadway and Fulton street in part
nership with Ed Kline, where both of
t hem made a couple of hundred thousand
dollars, which was then as much as a
| couple of million is now. His next
room was at 573 Broadway, where gam
-1 ilers and visitors from Southern cities
were the principal customers. Ho was
? afterwards iu Barclay street, Ann street,
Twenty-eighth street, and had games in
a dozen of other places at different times.
His varied luck in these places gave
him experience ranging from those of a
“high roller” to those of a “check char
mer. ”
The incident that gave him the most
fame among gamblers verged closely on
“cheek charming.” Ho was on the out
rid- of the table one night playing
pvnsi the bank in Matt Dancer’s place
ii Broadway, near Bond street. Luck
was against him, his last chock had been
swept up by the dealer, and lie hadn’t a
cent to buy any more Putting his
hand idly into his pocket, lie felt a can
dy lozenge there. As he drew it out it
looked so qpiali likg check that
h° inspired to play it. \As he laid
lFdown on a card and put it~ih , ftvi e.C2B
it to copper tho bet, it looked all right.
He won, and tho dealer pain him a good
white check for tho bet. The whites
were a dollar apiece in that game, and
“January’s” luck proved to be on tbe
turn when that bet was made. He ran
his dollar up to 53,000 before leaving
the table, and three days later he had
$40,000 iu liis pocket, al! won upon the
candy lozenge. He was fond of telling
tiiis story himself, and John Morrissy
lias often vouched for its truth.
Lately lie lias been little known out
side of a limited circle, where he was
called “Old January.” He died with
out means, and the funeral expenses will
lie defrayed by his Masonic lodge.
The Lass Took Baer.
One cf the “sample rooms” which line
the northern side of Alabama street, was
tlie scene yesterday of un amusing inci
dent. *
Seated at a table was a well-known
New York-drummer, a prominent lawyer
and a prosperous shoe merchant. These
gentlemen were engaged in a pleasant
conversation, when in walked one of tlie
female soldiers of tho Salvation Army.
She was attired in the regulation uni
form of blue, and carried under her arm
a bundle of the Hattie Cry. Asshe walked
along she distributed coph s of this
sheet.
Seeing what she evidently regarded as
a trio of promising sinners at the tab.e,
she walked over to w here the three gen
tlemen were drinking their beer, bno
tapped the New York drummer on the
shoulder. Ho looked up in astonish
ment. ,-
“Take this.paper,” she said, thrusting
a sheet iuto iris unwilling hand.
“Thanks,” he replied.
“Now,” s .ill lie, “won’t you have a
glass of licori”
“Yes, sir, thank you,” was the unex
pected answer.
The astonished bai tender drew a glass
of foaming beer and handed it to the
woman in blue. She took it- and tho
drummer placed a nickle on tho couuter.
The soldier held up the amber liquid
a moment and looked at it. Ihe beer
was certainly tempting. \\ hat her in
t lit was could not be divined. In n
moment she settled tho question. Bhe
walked to the front dour .mid dashed the
cositiuts of trio gin s into tho street.
Then she began to pr-. neh u temperance
sermon. ~
But tho drummer was mad and would
not hear her; and tho others were mad,
”• Mie loft the ilaco as the New Y'ork
drummer snid, “gi\o us throe moro
i)R(U’S. * till fit (l
Chinese Bones.
Tho Kong Clin Company "of San Fran
cisco lias sent its agent on a tour of the
entire country to gather up the bones of
defunct Chin imen and ship them back
to their respective places of birth in the
Flowery Kingdom for interment in their
family burial ground, 'i bey began opeia
tions in New Yoraud Brooklyn theoth-
e ‘ r t ]. iv in tho various cemeteries where
their dead have been given temporary
sepulture, ami having opened tlie graves
put the dry hones they found into bags,
which in "turn were packed in stout
1 oxes They were marked in both
Chinese ami English characters for their
ultimate destination in China. The reas
ons given for this action mo founded iu
the profound reverence felt by the Chin
ese for their dead. During three days,
while tin- preparations for the trans
shipment aro in progress, sacrifices and
festivities in honor of tho dead are hold
in tlie houses and meeting roomß of the
living Chinamen, and then their bones
are shipped with ceremonies such as
would accompany tho return of living
relatives.
The steel tubing mado in Cleveland
for the Lick telescope lias reached
California. It is fifty feet long anil
three feet in din meter.
COVINGTON. GEORGIA. Till liSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13. 1888.
THE SOI 1 11.
CONDENSED FACTS, ARRANGED
IN READABLE SHAPE.
LIUIITNItCO PLAYS HAVOC EVEHYWIIEIIR —
COTTON STATISTICS—SUICIDES —HAIL-
ROAD CASUALTIES, ETC.
Alabama.
A negro car coupler named George
i li urns was knocked down aud run over
by a freight train ui.d instantly killed
while making a tunning switch in tilt
localynid of the Georgia Pacific ltoad
on Wednesday.
Frank Barker, a colored laborer re
cently from llirminglum, was kuoekid
off a freight car on Thursday by tele
phone wires in Huntsville and was run
over by tlie dummy cars and killed. He
tis standing up and had been cautioned
about the danger. Had he been fitting
down lie would have been in no danger.
11- race Atkins, one of the engineers at
the Tennessee coal, iron and railroad
company’s furnace®, r.t Ensley, met a
horrible death on Wednesday. While
oiling his engine, his clothing w as caught
by the big fly wheel, and in nit instant
lie was dashed against an iron beam and
his head was crushed to pulp. He had
no time to even make an outerv.
Ou Wednesday, as the routU hound
Louisville A Nashville mail train was
leaving Blount Springs, Jim Coleman, a
negro hotel waiter, jumped on a plat
form of one of the coaches, meaning to
ride a little way down and get off. Con
ductor Crenshaw made him climb down.
Coleman picked up several r- cks and let
fly at Crenshaw, whereupon a pistol shot
was fired from the platform, hitting tlie
negro in the stomach and wounding hint
fatally it is thought.
Texas.
The fishing schooner Laurel sank at
Galveston on Tue dry. She struck the
remains of a wreck and tore a hole in her
side.
The Texas cotton men passed resolu
tions urging their senators and represent
atives to favor the removal of duty from
cotton bagging and jute.
Passengeis an 1 crew on a Texas Pacific
train were c usiderably excited over an
attempt to wreck the train near Wood
lawn. Three miles we t of Wood
lawn station the train was brought to a
very abrupt stop, which I umped several
heads and shook the passengers up con
siderably, hut caused hut little interest
until it became known that un attempt
had been made to wreck the train. From
the means employed by the wreckers, it
was generally agreed to be tho work of
robbers, aud they were expected every
in ment to swoop down upoa the train
from the surrounding jungles. Two tics
were securely spiked in the ccgfiVfjf TEe”
trackjji'Hij (/i these so
ff;s to r. st upon either rail. One theory
is that there is a crazy wrecker at large
in the thickets whose grievances are all
imaginary, and who has undertaken de
structive schemes of various kinds re
cently, one being an effort to blow up a
neighboring saw-mill with dynamite.
Trniiemtpp.
Decent rains li-ive increased tbe dam
age to grain and fruit crops in East Ten
nessee considerable.
While working at a fire which was rag
ing in Jonesboro, on Wednesday night,
George E. Sabine, chief of the fire depart
ment, fell from the roof of a house and
broke his neck.
E. Carpenter, a postal clerk on the
Cincinnati Southern Railway, has been
robbing the mails for the past three
weeks by opening letters addressed to
the Louisiana State Lottery. The offi
cials have beeu on his track for several
days, hut he skipped to Canada. Car
penter is a married man, his family re
siding at Florence, Ivy.
There was filed with the county court
clerk of Hamilton county, on Thursday,
an application fora charter incorporating
a cew railroad to be built to Murphy, N.
C., aud thence to Augusta, Ga. The
name of the road is to be the Chatta
nooga, Cleveland & Murphy Railroad,
and is to be run by a practicable route al
ready surveyed from Chattanooga
through the city of Cleveland to Mur
phy, N. C., and thence, if desired, to
Augusta, Ga.
North Carolina.
At Kingston, a meeting of members ol
the Lenoir county Farmers’ Alliance wa<
held on Thursday. It represents nine
hundred farmers. A resolution wire
f.doptcd iu busing the action of the
s ate alliance in regard to the cotton
bagging trust, and instructing theil
agent to order at once six thousand yards
of burlaps. They are also urged to stand
by tlie action of the alliance in the fight
against tlie jute trust.
e.eoi-ain.
Atlanta has the modern improvement
of dummy engines on the street railway
tracks.
Maj. J. F. Jones, assistant secretary of
state and a prominent Confederate vet
eran, died at Atlanta, aged forty-eight.
Heavy rains have proven disastrous to
crops in the Chattahoochee valley. Many
large plantations are inundated by the
Chattahoochee river which is now seven
teen feet above low water mark. Tho
Eagle and Phoenix miil.iti Columbus will
he shut down until the water subsides.
Arkansns.
The vault in the county clerk’s office,
at Little Rock, was broken open on
Thursday night and poll books showing
the returns of the election iu niue town
ships were taken out. Entrance to the
vault was gained by chiseling and prying
open with a crowbar the iron door of
the vault heretofore considered secure.
Other returns have been removed to one
of tlie banks, to guard against further
depredations. Fear of detection in
“doctoring” the returns, caused the
robbery.
Virginia.
Capt. McCauley, of the United States
n oniti-r fleet, inspected the James River
I clow Richmond with a view of select
ing su anchorage place for the fleet now
nt City Point, lie will present a report
to the Secretary of the Navy, recom
mending Randolph Flats, three miles
from Richmond us suitable auclrorago
grounds.
GOT WHIPPED,
Tho labor paraders, on Labor Day, in
Cleveland, Ohio, adjourned to a gat-dec.
when a few anarchists, who had slipped
in, displayed their red flags. They were
immediately attacked by hundreds of
workingmen, whose indignation was be
yond control. The flag was trampled
under their feet, and one anarchist after
another went to the ground in the fight
that continued for at least ten minutes.
Non ill Cnrolinn
Jhtj. R. A. Willis, of Walterboro,
clerk uf the courts, who served as a sol
ditr iu the late War, died on Tuesday.
11. M. Da-, is, of the United States
Railway Mail Service, formerly postal
vh ik oil the route between Wilmington
and Jacksonville, leaves Charleston to
lake charge of the department of Flori
da. Mr. Davis will have his headquar
ters at Live Oak, aud will have charge
of the Railway Mail Service in the state
of Florida.
The fanners of Oconee county met and
sent a c< luinittee to interview a president
of a cotton mill in that vicinity, Tlie
outcome of the interview was that the
mills agreed to buy the cotton in any
k:ud ofc.v, ring but boards. Tlie mills
in that section of the state use 2,000
1 lies a year, and should they all come
ii to the arrangement the situation will
In- considerably improved. There arc
shout twenty-eight cotton mills in the
state, which use perhaps 100,000bsies of
cotton per annum.
Tlie farmers of Barnwell county have
combined to reduce the wages of faim
hands twcuty percent, presumably to get
even with tlie cotton bagging trust
squeeze. The hands claim that they can
scarcely support themselves honestly on
tire old rate of wages, and have stiuek.
Cotton is maturing very fast now, and a
general strike would involve a serious
loss to planters. As yet, the reduction
in wags is confined to one county.
Should it extend, there will be consider
able trouble.
An experiment was made at Charles
ton, ou Thursday, with the new pine
straw bagging which is offered as a sub
stitute for jute bagging for cotton bales.
The pine straw material seems to have
tt and the test of compressing, and the
experiment was made to test its inflam
mability. A piece of the pine straw
cloth and one of the jute were fired sim
ultaneously. The jute was extinguished
in two seconds, while the pine straw
b irned and smouldered some fifteen or
te ' ntv seconds before it could be extin
guished. Notwithstanding this, how
ever, attention lias beeu directed to the
pine straw industry and the plants for
several manufactories have already been
off-red in different portions of the state.
At present there is but one known fac
toiv engaged in th s work. It is situated
near Wilmington, N. C'., and has here
tofore been manufacturing nn article of
nr '.ting which is claimed to be valuable
incases of tubercolosis owing to the odor
of the pine leaves.
Maryland.
Winnie Johnson, the largest colored
woman in tills coumry, weighing 849
pounds, died at Baltimore. Ihe door
wuys had been especially enlarged
for her benefit. She was called “Big
YV iunie” and she had been exhibited as
J woman” in the world for the
last lea years. Fatty - ‘jj'ffiflfMUitU of
the heatt paused her death. She was
horn in Kentucky. The coffin was five
Let eleven inches in length, Ihree feet
eight inches iu width aud three feet two
inches dee]). Fourteen men acted as pall
hearers and they had all they could do to
shove the dead giantess into her final
resting place.
Florida*
It is claimed that the sewers of Jack
sonville are in a vety poor condition.
The Knights of Labor in St. Augus
tine have tendered the services of one
hundred men for quarantine duty, sub
ject to the rules of the Bonr-.1. Tlie of
fer was received with thanks, and will he
accepted in the event of its being
needed.
I>IIs8oiir!-
Tlie bagging trust t St. Louis Ins ad
vanced the price of jute l agging another
quarter of a cent per pound, making th<*
I rice range from 11J to 13}. It is rsseit- and
that a still further advance is to be made
-‘ 0011.
Delaware.
The tug Argus, i\ported at Delaware
Breakwater, that the tchooner Adele
Thackatay is off the Capo with yellow
fever on board and two men dead.
Kentucky.
The great Fall celebration at Louisville
opened with an industrial parade five
miles long. Twenty thousand strangetl
were present.
GOD CALLFD THEM-
Information has been received dis
closing a terrible state of affairs in the
town of Bayard, a small settlement on
the line of the Jacksonville & St. Au
gustine Railroad, Fla. William Ortgers,
son of a farmer, living at Sampson, five
miles from Bayard, had occasion to visit
tlie latter place. On nearing a settlement
he was attracted by a strong steueh ema
nating irom tlie vicinity of a house
supposed to be vacant. Through
curiosity he proceeded to in
vestigate. On reaching tlie house
a ghastly spectacle met his eyes.
Stretched upon a couch was the body of
a woman, aud in the same room were
the bodies of five children. They had
evidently been dead several days. It it
-upp -scd that the unfortunates were
refugees from Jacksonville and were
stricken with the disease after leaving
town.
SOUTHERN PROSPERITY.
The Baltimore, M>!., Manufacturers
Record presents *p> cial statistics as to
tlie development <ri the railroad interests
of tho Smith during til ■ lst eight years.
In 1880 tin- S ,uth had 20,012 miles oi
tailroad, costing without iqnipment
$099,800,000, while at the present time
it has 30,090 miles, costing $1,450,000,-
000, a gain of 10,000 milts in track and
$570,000,000 in 1 lie amount invested in
railroads. The growth of the iron inter
ests has a markon (fleet in stimulating
railroad construction, and next year the
South will mike 1,800,000 toil* of pig
iron, against 397,301 tons in 1880. TANARUS! e
traffic in coke, ore and iion developments
by this business will furnish Southern
railroads in 1889 over 12,000,000 tons of
freight, which is equal to the wheat crop
of the country, and seven times as great
as the cotton.
SINGULAR,
Miles Hunter, of the firm of Hunter A
Nunualy of Augusta, Ga., died on Wed
need ay from the bursting of a blood ves
sel in his brain. On Tuesday Mr. Hun
ter’s little son was playing in front of his
store, when be was knocked down by a
negro hov. Mr. Hunter was greatly in
censed, and pursued the flying negro.
He captured him, hut it was a long chase,
in which Mr.Hunter was much exhausted.
He went home complaining of pain over
one of his eyes, and died as above stated.
WASHINGTON, 1). 0.1
BUSY TIMES STILL. IN THE NA
TIONAL CAPITOL
OONOII ESS IN SESSION VIST MOVEMENTS
OF l-KESIDKNT AND MHH. CLEVELAND -
WUO AUK OBTTINO FAT SLICES.
COMIItENSIONAL.
On Thursday, the debate on tho Chi
nese immigration bill was c -ntiuuod in
tha Senate, hut m thing waadi ue, a
vote show.ug tin re was no quorum pres
ent. . . . In the House, the rcialia i-m bi'l
was considered, and Mr. ficott, of Penn
sylvania defended tho ctionof President
Cleveland.
In the Senate, on We-dn sduy, Mr.
Sherman offered a resolution, which tu<
adopted, requesting the President to in
form the- Semite whether the present
treaty with China and the amendments
adopted by the Semite have been ratified
by tlie emp ror of Chinn. The House
hill for the relief of the Roman Catholic
ihurchofSt, Peer, and St. Paul at
Chattauooga, was passed, with foiuc
minor amendments. The Senate then
proceeded to the consideration of the
resolution heretofore offered by Mr.
Chandler ia relation to the election in
Louisiana, and wnsuddres-ed by Mr. Pas
co, and nt thcconclus on of his remarks the
Chinese bill was taken up, but no quo
rum being pri sent, further notion was
postponed... .The retaliation bill was
taken up iu the House, and several mem
bers made remarks. Nlr. Oriel, of Ala
bama, created applause by the introduc
tion of a coucurreut re olution providing
for a tiual adjournment of Congress ■ n
‘ llie 20th iust. It was referred to tlie
I committee on ways and means. Mr.
Forney, of Alabama, from the committee
| r.n appropriations, reported a Dill appro
pria nig 5200,000 to suppress infection
! in the interstate commerce of the United
States. Referred to committee of the
whole. The House proceeded to the
I consideration of a bill to limit the juris
diction of United States district and eir
; cuit com t®. After a brief discussion the
’ bill was passed.
In the Senate, on Tuesday, Mr. Cullom
introduced a bid to declare trusts unlaw
ful and had it referred to the committee
on finance. After a desultory political
debate, which la-ted for some time, the
St natc resumed consideration of the
House hill to prohibit Chinese immigra
tion, and was addressed by Mr. Teller in
support of the bill and defining tlie dis
tinction between the violation ot a treat}
and abrogating it in the manner pro
posed. At the close of Mr. Teller’s
speech, the Chinese bill went over with
out action, and the Senate, after a short
executive rcssiou, adjourned.... The
principal feature of the House was the
reihit 1 - Mr.h was
ugvhixo on the i m—
the special order. On motion of Sir.
Henderson, of North Carolina, a bill was
passed for the relief of certain persons
who paid additional taxes ou tobacco, j
cigars and cigarettes nrsessed against
them under the act of March 3d, 1875;
also the bill for the establishment of a dis
trict and circuit court at Johnson City,
Tenn.; nlso ttie bill punishing by a fin-,
of not more than SI,OOO, or imprisonment j
for not more than three years, dealers
and pretended dealers in counterfeit
money, or other fraudulent devices, for
using the United States muils.
a ossip.
The Senate has confirmed the nomina
tion of NV. G. Allen, of South Carolina,
to be consul at Kingston, Jamaica.
The President has nominated NVillinm
E. Bond, of North Carolina, to ho col
lector of customs for the district of Al
bemarle.
Judge Crisp, from the committee on
commerce, reported favorably the bill to
include Sapolo Island in the Brunswick
collection district.
F. A. Belts’ planing and saw mill,
corner Thirteenth street and Ohio ave
nue, in Washington, was burned on
Wednesday. The loss is estimated ut
$20,000.
The nominations of Jos. W. Preston,
of Georgia, Indian agent of the Mission
Tule River agency, and W. G. Allen, of
South Carolina, as consul at Kingston,
Jamaica, have been confirmed by the
Senate.
Representative Elliott, of South Caro
lina, requested the State Department to
wire. Mr. Russell, the United States con
sul nt Liverpool, to ascertain if cotton
sheeting would be acceptable as a substi
tute for jute bagging for haling cotton.
Mr. Itusscll replied on Tuesday: “In
lerviewed leading merchants. Their
prejudice favors jute bagging, however,
as a covering lawful and acceptable; the
merchants suggest cotton sheeting as a
substitute.” J. L. Rives, acting secre
tary of the state, writes to Col. Elliott
inclosing the telegram: “It would ap
pear, therefore, that there is no nils of
tlie trade in Liverpool, which prohibits
the covering of cotton bales with mate
rial other than the ordinary jute bag
ging.”
Surgeon-General Hamilton was sum
moned to the White House on Thursday
for conference with President Cleveland
and B iF retary Fairchild, in regard to the
measures taken to aid the yellow fevet
suffetets in Florida, and to prevent the
spread of the epidemic, lie made a
statement of all thut hud been dcuie so
lar and defended his aetii n in detaining
refugees from Jacksonville at Camp Per
ry, as essential to the safety of tlie sur
rounding country. The President ex
pressed great sympathy for the people ol
Florida, and instructed the sutgeon-gen
eri Ito do all that is possible for their
relief. Asa result of the President’s
confere nee with Dr. Hamilton, it is prob
able that another refugee camp will be
established near Jacksonville, and this,
it is thought, will remove one source of
complaint.
SUBSTITUTE FOR JUTE.
Capt. J. A. Peterkin, a largo cotfon
planter who lives near Colombia, S. C.,
has solved tlie problem tint lias been ag
itating cotton planters since the forma
tion of the jute trust. He hns ordered
extensive machinery for the purpose of
making wood bagging for cotton to take
the place of jute. The bagging can be
made of sweet gum, elm, or any swamp
wood, nnd will be of veneer onc-eiglitli
of an inch thick. When this is used,
the cotton will be thoroughly boxed and
not liahlo to catch fire. The stuff ran
be taken green irom the log and will not
injure the cotton. He will be able to
make 200,000 feet a day, nnd furnish it
at five cents per yard. He predicts that
in a short time everybody who owns a
gin will bo able to rip out his own hag
ging at a small cost.
OYER TIIE GLOBE.
WHAT THE ELECTRIC WIRES
POUR INTO OUR EARS.
LABOR NOTES - ACC I DENTS ON BBA AND
LAND— TERKinLK ACCIDENTS ON THE
KAII. Hu ADS—NOTED PEOPLE DEAD.
The twentieth nnuual convention of
the liih Catholic Bo.icvoltnt union met
tit Columbus, Ohio, ou Weflursday.
Letter \Y a Irek, the famous actor and
manager, died n Thursday at Stamford,
Conn., where he has been lor his health.
The Pope, assisted by Abbot Pe&sn ns
editor, is writing a history of Horne in
the middle ages. Particular attention
v Hi be paid to Gregory the Great.
News from Pesth, Hungary, atei
that six villages in tho valley of Poj rail
are submerged. The village r* have fled
to the mountains, end crops and grana
ries l ave b cn swept away.
A special from Cygnet, 0., says u
twenty-five thousand barrel oil tank ex
ploded, aud tlie oil scattered in every di
rection, killing two persons and injuring
a number of o hers.
The floods in Bohemia have reached nn
alarming proportion. At Uudwer3, 15,-
300 people aro homeless. The inhabi
tants have taken icfuge on the hills. The
Danube i* rising steadily.
Asa qang ot men were working on the
new highway nt Monroe, Vt., an em
bankment fell and lltnry Bedell, Win.
McKay and William Vtite were ki led.
Several others weie injured.
Tlie Ohio ccntenninl exposition, which
is intended to show tlie growth and de
velopment of the state in the first him- j
elred years of i a history, opened recently ■
under most favorable auspices at Coluni !
bus.
The London Chronicle's Rome corns i
ponrient says that King Leopold, thr- ugh
Cardinal Schinffino. has offered the Pope
a residence in Belgium in tho event ot
the neccs-ity arriving for him to leave
Rome.
The casting of the prow of the new
United States cruiser San Fiancisco,
which took place a week ago nt the Union
Iron works, San Francisco, has been
placed in it-* bed and the casting found
to he a complete success. The prow
weighs 12,000 pounds.
The wlio’esal: grocery and supply
store of Klavebcu <& Levi, at Diego, Cri.,
was entirely destroyed by tire on Tuesday.
The loss upon the stock is estimated at
$200,000 aud upon the building $45,000.
The stock was insured for $125,000 mid
(lie building for $30,000. Several firc
nen were buried iu the ruins.
An express tr .iu from Dijon, France,
left the rails while ou its way to l’uiia,
'-TsSSnig -
intlil tram ran into tho eu-ahled train
anil was wrecked. Twelve persons were
killed nnd forty injured. Tho collision
occurred between Malnin and Velars-sur-
Ouclic.
Wiiliam A. Swart, L. 11. Johnston, and
Elijah Beeklcr, president, teller, and so
licitor of tlie savings bank at Roseland,
111., have disappeared. About $30,000,
composing the entire funds of the bank,
arc nlso missing. Roseland is tlie south
ern suburb of Chicago. The village lias
a population of 2,000, nearly all Hol
landers.
A Havana special says: An expected
cyclone struck the Bland near Sagua and
reached Havana about midnight, Sever
al vessels were foundered oil the coast
and two sailors were drowned. Many
persons were injured. Many street
lamps, walls, trees, fences, etc., were
blown down, nnd much damage was done
to the wharves.
Easy to Give Advice.
There aro tlireo things about which a
man knows more Ilian his wife, yea four
tilings üboufc which he will not hearken
to wisdom—when he ought to take liis
umbrella, when he ought to put on dry
clothes, when lie ought not to remove
his flannels and -when lie ought not to
go out on a steamer without hii overcoat.
Thousands of people went out from Tor
onto by liont on Dominion Day, nnd
probably 75 per cent, of tho total of
male excursionists were aelvLeel by sis
ter, mother, or wife to take overcoats.
But not 2 per cent, xvero persuaded. It
13 a fact that it was a cold day on the
lake nnd that the want of heavier cloth
ing spoiled the day for hundreds. Tlie
women were as lightly clad ns tho men,
and suffered even more seriously from
the chilliness of tlie atmosphere. And
probably half of these shivering women
find urged their brothers or fathers or
husbands to take overcoats. It is
usually safe to trust a woman to think
too much of ttie comfort of tlie men
around tier and to neglect to provide for
Iter own wants or to insure her owu
pleasure. But tho moral of this is that
you should very rarely go out on tho
lako without an overcoat, nnd that when
tlie women of your household attack you
along this lino you should yield like a
wise man, and then institute a rigid
count, r-inquiry into tho provisions the
women have made for their own comfort.
The lako has been here long enough,
and wo have been hero long enough to
have better sense than most of us ex
hibited ou Dominion Day. —Toronto
Globe,
GLADSTONE’S OPINION.
Mr. Gladstone, in a speech at 'Wrex
ham on Tuesday, maintained the truth of
liis former statement that lie hud seen
political prisoners in Naples better treat
ed than were the imprisoned Irish mem
bers of Parliament. It had not been
denied that tome ol the Parnellites had
broken the law, but the framers adminis
ters of that law were nit re guilty than
tlie Parnellite offenders.
ENTBAXO2 AND EXIT.
Charley—Jack’s very inattentive. A
blight thing goes into liis head atone
ear and comes out at tho other.
Harry—Then I must always be on tho
wrong side of him.
Charley—How’s that?
Harry—The bright things never come
out of his head on tlie side I’m wntch
in•
In His Line.
“Wlmt a terrible clamor that man does
makel” remarked Mrs. Yeast, us a c am
vendor passed the lion e.
“Well, that's liis business,” remarked
her husband
“What's liis business?”
“He’s a chimwer."
\ UMBER 45.
THAT LAST. LAST NIGHT, q
The moon hung glorious In the sky,
Ah heart to hpart, and eye to eye,
l T nht*Hling all the flew by
That last, last night.
The trees were brilliant red and golt!|
How pa-a’ng sweet the story told—
Ah! never long and never old—
That last, last night.
Wo pledged each other to attain
To I'isgah bights of heart and brain,
And oauh to eaoh should true romain,
1 hat last, lost night.
Your hand, electric to my own.
Your lips more precious than a throne.
Were mine, ah, joy! and mine alone,
That la&t, lust night.
I wonder, if in years to be, „
You will romemlier glado and tree,
And whispered vows of constancy,
Tbnt last, last night?
—Siirak I\. Bolton, in Detroit Free Frets.
PITH AW POINT.
Light minded—The g.-is man.
Still life—ln a whisky factory.
’I ho fortune teller is apt to find in her
Did :iga some of her palmiest rinys.
Among the fresh novelists is Mr. Saltus,
of New York. — W<nhinylon Critic,
Opportunities me like vacant lots.
They must bo improved to be profitable.
The I ing of the Dudes lias been mar
ried about six months aud is now sub-
Jude.
Now is the time to cone liate the girl’t
father or make friends with tho dog.—
Mcrchmi' Traveler.
NYhy is a doctor like a broken windlass?
I’pc us..- he can draw nothing from the
well.— II a< ii/i 7 ton Crittr.
The reason that birds clean out a fruit
tree so qu ckly is tha: iliey take the fruit
away a ] cck nt a time. —Boston Bulletin
“I will now disguise myself so that
even my m st intimate acquaintance
would not recog. iz.c me,’’an and the tramp
us he entered the free bath.— Hotel Mail,
Ths roses smelt swo-t
And tho gi o cries cheesy
T.ie laii-es look neat
And the Lutter spreads easy.
—Oil C tij B i-iard.
A phrenologist sa;. s that “fullness
under the eye.denotes language.” When
the fullness is caused by another man’s
fist it denotes very bad language, gen
erally.
Miss Highborn—“l tell you, Mr. Wild
west, there is nothing like blood here in
the hast.” Wild west —“It’s the same in
the We t. NYe always keep it ou tap.”
—Burlington Free I‘rtti.
A camping enthusiast loudly declares
His kind ot vacation immense,
For tho man who a cool canvas dwelling
plat e shares,
Finds living a pleasure in tents.
Boston Budget.
. CW.Uka U-Aiiiui
j of Russian fill n't oink wno'prhy nre ire/-
Tour piuno3 simultaneously is coming to
!h s country next season, and we are
still without a navy and coast defences.
—Boston Fust.
An Allentown tailoring firm employs a
young woman to "collect from swell cus
tomer- who are inclined to shirk paying
hono-t debts. This seems to explode the
old saying that woman’s work is neve
dun.” — Aonistoicn Utrald.
Oh, the skoeter possesses an airy wing,
Ank it helps him to hustle around,
While lie’s somewhat,alas! inclined to sing
And his voice has a doleful sound
As he Lores away with his little sting
Till we wish we were under the ground.
—Boston Budget.
It is stated on reliable authority that
Miss Mathilda Sheckels will marry
the Duke of Baugkrupsie,in the autumn.
Mr. triioi-kels came to this country forty
years ago and is worth $10,(100,000 to
day. tie has given an order to a florist
to make a grand floral emblem for the
wedding, hearing tlie words: “From
the steerage to the peerage.” —Neio York
Hun.
Hie bridegroom keeps his secrets, for his
secrets Rre his own;
Few p -i pie know how large a crop of wild
o.ils he has sown.
the bride, 1 ■'fortunate than he, upon the
wedding day
Finds, by some fr.oad or relative, that she is
given away.
—Boston Courier.
Foinc carpenters were putting a fence
iround the yard where little M. lived.
Night coining on before they finished,
Iliey roughly nailed some long strips of
timber across tho posts to protect the
ihrubs. M., looking at it, said : “That
fence is just basted! And, my! what
ong stitches, uiantna!” Christian Reg
\-ter.
MJ slcrious Warnings.
AVc see ami hear through the medium
of tile whole body. Close or bandage
jour eyes ever so tightly, and if the
visual organs be healthy radiations of
light, and even forms and scenery, will
singly or •panoramically appear. Stop
(he ears ever so well and still sound is
not shut out. There have beon well
accredited signalizing warning appari
tions to closed eyes, and the cla rauuient
nerves have repeatedly, when the earg
have been artilicia ly stopped, heard
warning words. In their natural condi
tion l oth eye3 and ears have seen and
heanl remarkable things. Lord Broug
ham and John Wesley had their experi
ences, and I’roctor, the astronomer, has
averred his belief in such marvels. The
American Psychical Society investigated
the case of a nan at Oil City, Penn.,
who, on approaching a clock in his room
which had suddenly stopped, although
wound up, heard the voire of his brother
at Grand Rapids, Mich.,utter the words:
“Pm gone, I’m gone The next day he
receivid a telegram that his brotncrdied
at that time, and four days afterwards
received a letter stating that the last
words of the dying man were: “Pm
gone! I'm gone!” The British Psychical
Society narrates the eases of two sisters
living miles apart, and who at night met
in their carriages at the cross-roads on
their way to their mother, who had ex
pressed a dying wish to see them and
which the daughters had heard at night.
The evidence is cumulative. So, also, is
cumulative the testimony relating to the
transference of sounds of consolation to
living persons. Jessie Brown, while in
India, heard the Scotch pipers of Gen
eral Havelock marching to the rescue of
Lucknow whon no one else heard a
sound. The quick ears of some Edin
burgh people are said to have heard the
voices in the air wh eh told that King
James lay dead on Hodden Field with
many a knight and noble around him.
The Induing have acute ears and aver
that they hear voices constantly by which
they are guided. The emotions are
mysterious, but we know that they
quicken preternaturally tho senses, and
especially the sense of hearing. There
are ears that can dete t coming footsteps
when others are dea*' to them as posts.
There are hearts that feel the approach
of loved one? — Weu> Yurk Mercuif.