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The Georgia Enterprise.
VOLUME XXIII.
The Enterprise.
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Covington, Ga.] President.
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-COVINGTON, GA.—
Physician & Surgeon.
Gynecology, Diseases
“P'J Children, and all Chronic
Have , e , P'i'ate nature, a speeialtyl
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H ’ANKLIN B. WRIGHT, M. D
f arm loans,
b YW. SCOTT,
| Covington, Georgia.
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Five y ' .'./on and Rockdale counties
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W. SCOTT.
SOUTHERN STRAYS.
A CONDENSATION OF HAPPEN
INGS STRUNG TOGETHER.
MOVEMENTS Or ALLIANCE MSN—RAIL
HOAD CASUALTIES— THE COTTON CROP
—FLOOD* -ACCIDENTS—CROP RETURNS.
ALABAMA.
Near Jasper, H. M. L. Strickland, a
"hue braknnan on the Sheffield & Bir
mingham Itailnn I, fell from the top of a
niocing train and twelve cars passedover
h'* bo ly, crushing it into a shapeless
mass of flush. Strickland was formerly
marshal of Sheffield.
Iho Memphis A Charleston and the
Louisville it Nashville Railroad* are pro.
paring to locate extensive yards and build
■h"ps at Sheffield. The Memphis it
Charleston owns sixty acres of land at
Sheffield, which will be occupied by
tracks and sheds. Fully fifteen miles of
track will be laid in the yards.
The color-blind law which the state
put in force, requiring an examination for
defects of visiou by all railway employes
iu that state, had just been declared
constitutional by the United States su
preme court. A great objection which
has been urged against this ltir is the
fact that the cost of the examinations
was considerable, and could be ill af
forded by many of the railroad employes.
The newspapers of the state are working
lo secure a reduction of the examination
lees.
Fl.OlillM.
Sttrgion General Hamilton lias written
lo Governor Perry, ot Florida, *uggcst-|
ing the enactment of a luw by the leg
islature for the establishment of a state!
board of health and auxiliary boards in
each of the counties, for the better sani
tary protection of the state.
Tire new cases in Fernundina were 14,
white, 2. No deaths. There is no diffi
culty in shipping lumber, srews being
left on Tiger Island iu a shelter prepared
by the Government. The stevedores de
sire to resume work. The steamers can
come on the same regulations or by re
turi ing to the quarantine station at sun
( O vn. The Government has taken
charge of the guards.
MJITII CAROLINA.
The AdgeT Pre byterian college, at
Walhalla, was consumed by fire on Men
lay. It was the property of the town,
ft was not insured.
Thirty-nine colored barbers from eight
counties in the state met at Greenville
and organized a state barbers’ union for
“mutual benefit, regulation of pricesand
elevation of the trade.”
Boland Chnsteen, a suspected revenue
informer, was waylaid by three moon
shiners iu the upper rcction of Pickens
couny, beaten and cut, and lett in the
road in a 'lying condition.
George W. Susong, a prominent rail- 1
road man, and a member of the Georgia
Construction Cos., broke his leg at Ashe
ville on Monday while pulling off a tight
boot in bis room at the hotel.
The Georgia Construction Company of
Greenville, elected A. Susong, of Green
ville, Teuu., superintendent, and W. A.
Susong, of Savannah, secretary and
treasurer. Arrangements were also made
to tide over the recent financial difficul
ty*.
On Monday, Founder's day was cele.
broted at Wofford College, in Spartan
burg. The Alumni Association determ
,ui J last Summer to build n hall, and
the corner-stone was lnid with imposing
Masonic ceremonies, with Past Master
W. K. Blake, presiding.
The existence of an underground river
running from the mountains of Virginia
through North and South Carolina, is
pretty well settled. It is reported from
Black’s Station, a town almost on a di
rect line from Hvleigli, N. C., through
Laurens and Abbeville counties, that two
farmers named Bycr, who live there,
were engaged in digging a well on thcii
farm, which is on the line of the C. C. &
C. It. It., wheu they stiuck a limestone
formation which gave out a hollow sound
under the tools used. In further prog
ress of the work a few feet of the stone
had been removed, and a workman strik
ing the point of the bar forcibly into an
apparent seam in the rock, was surprised,
first to sec a hoi# open under him, and
his bar disappear wholly from sight.
Later, the depth of the hole was attempt
ed to be measured by use of a long pole,
hut it failed to reach anything solid, and
when dropped gave no sound to those
who listened at the opening.
TEXAS.
County Judge J. W. Brnckenridgo was
ariested at Austin under an indictment
found by the grand jury. It is charged
against him that he has charged and re
ceived fees in cnees that have been dis
missed without trial. Last November ho
made up, it is alleged, a list of 112 cases
that had been dismissed or not tried, and
collected $439 from the county treasurer.
A wholesale system of freight robbery
has just been di-covcred on the Mexican
Central Railroad, at Eagle Pass, and it is
believed that the total loss to the compa
ny will he in the neighborhood of $50,-
000 At Quanajuato there are three con
ductors and one brakeman in jail, and a
former agent of the Mexican Central rail
way company, named Smith, at Jutmtto,
has also been arrested.
VIRGINIA.
Past Assistant Surgeon Cunningham
W. Deane, U. 8. N., died on board the
c oat survey steamer MacArthur, at San
Francisco, Cal. He was a native of Rich
mond.
The Old Dominion steamship Roanoke,
arrived in Norfolk, on Monday, having
been delayed bv a collision. Capt. Hul
phur reports that at 11:25 p. m., Satur
day, Absecom Light, hearing west, wpa
in collision with the brig Hyperion,
from Philadelphia to Portland, Maine,
with 400 tons of coal. Five men were
put on the brig to assist the crew ami
she was taken in tow, but she sank. No
one was injured and the captain and
crew were taken oa board the steamer.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive En
gineers, in session at Hiehmond decided
fo hold their next convention atDenver,
Colorado, October 17, 188,1. The fol
lowing grand officers were elected:
Third grand engineer, J. B- Sprngge,
of Toronto, Canada; first grand assistant
engineer, Henry Hays, of Cleveland,
Oh1o“ and second grand
eer A. W. Covener, of San Irancisco
Eiecu ive committee-Edward Ken ol
Jersey City; R. M. Clark,Denver, Ccff.;
Edward Sinsley, Hamilton, ° nt '-
iam Johnson, Rock Island, Ills., and J.
F. Regard, Atlanta, Ga-
‘‘MY COUNTRY: MAY SMC JCVSJR US MOST; t MIGHT Uli WItONQ, MY COUNTRY !"— Jkffkiison.
UKOUUIA.
A Grand Army post is being organ
ized at Dalton.
Coroner Haynes of Atlanta, who, du
ring the War was one of Stonewall Jack
son’s soldiers, died on Tuesday.
Calhoun was again afflicted by a fire
ou Monday, which destroyed property to
tho value of nearly $15,000.
llead-bookkepcr Forbes, of the Capital
City Bunk, of Atlanta, was found snort
in his accounts. lie is u native of Vir
giaia.
Tax Collector Wilson, of Atlanta, fins
been invest gated by the grand jurv, ana
his booß-i show iliin to be SOI,OOO shoit.
He bus been suspended.
In honor of the comrades who have
died in the last three years, the Confed
erate Veterans of Fulton County held
memorial services on Suuday in the Cent
ral Presbyteriau Church in Atlanta. All
the prominent pastors of the city took
part and O. M. Mitchell PostG. A.'!!, at
tended iu a body.
MISSISSIITI.
The steamer Phil Armour sank Bt Wil
ton’s landiug, a tliort distance above
Vicksburg. She was engaged in the
Vicksburg and Greenville trade.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Tho residence of John Robinson, state
DomnimissiontT of agriculture, near Ral
eigh. was Lurned ou Wednesday. Part
f the furniture was saved.
The fibre factory of the Acme Manufac
turing Company, at Wilmington, was
burned. The spinning and weaving mill
and fertilizer factory were saved.
At Newbero, on Wednesday, the
large machine shops, known us theCuth
bert shops, took fire from some unknown
came, and burned so rapidly that they
could not be saved by the fire depart
ment.
All the prisoners in jail at Troy, Mont
gomery county, made their escape by
cutting through tho wall. There wire
nine pri-oners. Home of them had been
very carelessly put in a room used in old
limes for the confinement of debtors.
They cut through the wooden walls of
this, and released the other prisoners. It
appears there was also great carelessness
in pursuing the prisoners after discovery
of their escaj e.
Henry Harris, night watchman of the
Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta
freight yard, climbed into an open freight
car, at Wilmington to shield himself
from the rain, in a car where car wheels
were stacked. A few minutes later the
freight cars came down the track, strik
ing the cars with such force as to throw
leveu of the heavy wheels upon Harris.
His leg caught under them and was
arusbod from the hip joint to the foot.
The limb was literally crushed to splin
ters.
A woman’s screams, as if in mortal
agony, were heurd, aud thrilled hundreds
of people near the dtp t at Greensboro,
on Thursday. There was a rush, and the
body of a negro woman was found lying
partially in the door of abtore. Her
throat was cut from ear to ear, and she
lay in a pool of blood. The wound was
so dreadful as nearly to cut off her head.
Her name was Laura Ilyatt, and she was
a young mulatto. She had left her home
but a little distance away, only a few
moments before, as the door of her house
was open and her baby, aged ten mouths,
was lying in the bed. No reason can be
assigned for the crime.
A horrible murder was perpetrated at
Columbia, 8. C., on Saturday. Iu bold
ness, mystery, and the class of the victim,
it resembles the Whitechapel murders.
Those liviug in the vicinity of the Trini
ty Episcopal church heard three p’stol
shots, the uight before. It is a most or
derly portion of the city. The moon
made it as bright as day and no signifi
cance was attached to the shooting until
Sunday morning, when the sexton, going
to open the church found the dead body
of Claudia Han is, at the church door.
Three balls bad entered her breait, one
penetrating the heart. The burning
powder had ignited the bosom of tbe wo
man’s dress, and burned it away. Tbe
murder was committed within ten steps
of the street corner, and in twenty yards
of occupied houses. There was no out
cry of any kind and the firs', shot must
have been fatal.
TENNESSEE.
The Stanton House, of Chattanooga,
changed hands ou Monday. Phil Brow n
retires and will be succeeded by Samuel
Skinner, of Chicago, 111.
Copt. Kellogg, of the U. S. Army,
detailed by the War Department to ar
range a correct map of tho battlefield of
Cbickamauga, commences his duties
Nov. 15th, at Chattanooga.
Elizabeth Frayer, the wifo of a promi
nent farmer, was killed by a South bound
freight on the Cincinnati Southern rail
road, ten miles North of Chattanooga, on
Monday. Site was attempting to drive a
cow off the track, when the engine
struck and horribly mangled her body.
A lawsuit is tojbe filed to recover the
land on which the shops of the Alabama
Great Southern Railroad stand in Chat
tanooga. This property was donated to
the inilrond on condition that the shops
of said company would be built and
used by the corporation, but the main
shops having been located in Birming
ham, the Whiteside estate will seek t>
recover the land, which is now very val
uable.
Tbe East Tennessee, Virginia & Geor
gia company has leaded the Knoxville &
Ohio Railroad, which is sixty miles long
and runs from Knoxville notth to Jellico,
on the Kentucky border, where it con
nects with the Louisville & Nashville for
Louisville and the Northwest. The East
Tennessee ns rental guarantees the inter
cst on tlie Knoxville & Ohio six per cent,
bonds, which aggregate $2,000,0110. It
operates under a charter granted by the
state of Tennessee under which it is ex
empt from taxes, and it has received state
aid on several occasions. The line cost
a little over $4.000,000.
PROHIBITION SUSTAINED.
The United States Supreme Com t, in
Washington, D. C., sustained the eonsti
tutionality of the prohibition law of lowa.
The point at issue was the right to manu
facture intoxicating liquors solely for
expoitation to other s ates, despite the
state law, and it was pleaded that the
prohibitory feature, iti so fur as the manu
facture for exportation is concerned, was
in conflict with the constitutional provis
ion giv.ng Congress the sole rightto regu
late inteistate commerce. The ease is that
of J. S. Kidd, distiller, plaintiff in error,
vs I. E. Pearson anil S. J. Lougliras.
The court holds that the stn'e law pro
hibiting both the manufacture and tin
sale, except for mechanical, medical, cu
linary and sacramental purposes is not in
conflict with the interstate commerce
provisions of the Constitution, and the
decision of the lowa court is sustained.
COVINGTON. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER I. 188S.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
WHAT THE UNITED STATES OF
FICIALS ARE DOING.
President Cleveland went to New Yeik
to review a Democratic business mens’
parade.
P Tho Comptroller of Currency has de
clared a dividend of five per cent, mak
ing In all fifty per cent, upon the claim*
of tho creditors of the Exchange Nation
al Bank, of Norfolk, Va.
Among the bills which failed to be
come laws for the want of the Presi
dent's signature, is the act granting the
right of wy to the Pensacola & Mem
phis Railroad Company over aud through
the states of Florida aud Alabama, Miss
issippi and Tennessee, and over and
through the military reservations near
Pensacola.
Several bills passed at the last session
of Congress, and approved by the Presi
dent are nevertheless inopertive, be
cause no appropriations were made to
carry them into effect. Among them are
the acts authorizing the establishment of
a light off Pamlico Point, N. C.; provid
ing for ths construction of a toad <>n
Hay island, N. C.
Acting Secretary Thompson, received a
telegram from the collector of
customs, at San Francisco, Cal.,
asking if Chinese laborers, arriving from
China in transit for either Panama or
across the territory of the United States
to Cuba, can be landed at San Francisoo,
and if so, bow they are to be guarded.
Secretary Thompson replied that Chinese
laborers cannot land on United States
territory, whether in transit to foreign
countries or otherwise.
Chief Justice Fuller delivered hi*
first opinion iu the supreme court of the
United States on Tuesday. The case
was that of the Western Union Telegraph
Company, plaintiff in error, vs. the
commonwealth of Pennsylvania, brought
on an appeal from the supreme court of
Pennsylvania. The commonwealth lev
ied a tax on all telegrams passing over
the company’s lines within the state,
tliia tax being regarded as a fact, much
business was not confined wholly to the
stale, but was sent to points in other
states. The supreme court held, through
Chief Justice Fuller, that the state was
not entitled to collect the tax except fot
messages between points within the bor
ders of the state.
The interstate commerce commissiot
on Monday, issued an order upon the rail
road companies comprising the Southern
Railway aud Steamship Assosiation, di
recting them to appear before the com
mission tn Washington, on December 18,
for tbe purpose of a gcni ral examination
and investigation of their tariffs and
classifications. The order is based upox
inspection of tariffs and classifications
and upon inform.tioa tnd complaints,
filed from time to time in the office of the
commissioner, from which it appear*
among other things, that the companict
in many cases, make a greater charge for
transportation of a like kind of property
for a shorter than for a longer distance,
over the same line in the same direction.
Dr. Knott, of Atlanta, Ga., is in Wash
ington in a'tendance on Surgeon Genera]
Hamilton about his discovery in regard
to yellow fever. He says: “Wherevei
yellow fever is epidemic I have always
noticed that there was a blue mist in the
foggy air which arises from the earth af.
ter nightfall. It ia then that the real
and greatest danger of infection is to be
found. This bluish tint which I speak ol
is caused, in my opinion, by the presence
of a dangerous amount of phosphorus in
the air. And this phosphorus is really
what develops the geun. It givei
it vitality, something to feed upon,
and as the infection is more cer
tain after nightfall, I consider that one
of the best foundations for my theory.
The blue mist I speak of is never notice
able during the hours of sunshine.
Now, if the presence of a large amount
of phosphorus in the air really produces
the disease and propagates it, I certainly
have a remedy. Everybody is familial
with the phosphorescent Jack O’Lantern,
which ia swampy and marshy countries
is so common. I contend that the same
causes which produce this wizard of the
swamp, produces the fever-breeding
germ. I was in Chattanooga in the ep
idemic of 1878, and I observed this blue
mist, and the air seemed poisonous and
sickening.”
The following is an accurate and com
plete account of all of the governmental
expenditures authorized during the past
session, in which the South is interested:
In the matter of public buildings, the
following is a complete statement: To
improve and repair the courthouse and
postoffice in Atlanta, Ga., $120,000;
completion of the courthouse and
postoffice in Augusta, Ga.,
$100,000; purchase of site snd commence
ment of building at Birmingham, Ala.,
$150,000; completion of building at
Huntsville, Ala., $50,000; continuation
of Savannah, Ga.. courthouse and post
office building, $75,000. Protecting the
liuht station on Sand Island, Ala., from
encroachments of the sea, $12,000. Pro
vision is made out of the general appro
priation for maintaining post lights, to
aid navigation on the Savannah, Ga.,
river. To continue the primary triaugu
lation, from Atlanta towards Mobile,
$3,000; resurvey of Mobile bay eutranre,
$3,000. The appropriation of $5,000
made in 1885, for the construction of a
roadway to the National cemetery near
Marietta, Ga., is made available for ex
penditure, notwithstanding the limitation
imposed by the original act. The ap
propriation for providing the heating ap
pnratus of the Macon, Ga., public build
ing is also made nvnilablo without the
original limitation. Expenditures to be
made m the.imptpvcmeut of livers and
harbors during the present fiscal year:
Brunswick harbor, $35,000; Cumberland
sound, $112,500; Altamaha river. $lO,-
000; Chattahoochee river, $20,000;
Coosa river, $00,000; Flint l iver, $20,000,
of which sum $5,000 is to bo expended
between Albany and Montezuma, and
$15,000 below Albany; Ocmulgee liver,
$15,000; Oconee liver, $12,500, a portion
of which may be expended on the river
between Skull shoals and the Georgia
railroad bridge; Savannah river
b tween Augusta and Savannah, $21,000;
Jckyl creek, $5,000; Romerly marsh,
$4,033.77. Iu Alabama the following:
Mobile harbor, $250,000; Alabama river,
$20,000; Black Warrior river from Tus
caloosa to Daniel's creek, $100,000; Tal
lapoosa river, $7,500; Warrior river be
low Tuscaloosa, $18,000; Tombigbee
river from Walker’s br:dge to Fulton,
$4,000; Tombigbeo river from
Fulton to " Vienna, $5,000;
Tombigbee river below Vienna, SO,OOO.
Provision is made out of the general pro
vision for the following surveys with
the vie® ol future imuriixuments. should
they be deemed nccotsaryT Flint
riVi r, rock reefs at Albany and above;
Savannah river, above Augtbta nni be
tween Augustaund Andersonville;Oc<neo
river; Ocmulgee river. In Alab.mu:
Channel iu and along the Coosa River,
from the tnpids at Wi'lumpku to connect
with tho improvements ulieudy com
peted above tho Ten Islands; Warrior
Kiver, Iroin Tuscaloosa to Demopolis for
deepening and widening the chauuel
with a view to the easy transportation of
coal; Choctawatchee iiivcr, for low wa
ter navigation.
TOOK HIS LIFE.
Royal M. Pulsifer, president of thi
Herald Publishing Company, of Boston,
Mass., wa* found dead in bed on Suuday
at his Summer residence at Islington,
under circumstances which compel the
belief thut he had taken his lile. Ou
Thursday, Col. Pulsifer informed his wife
that he would go to Springfield that af
ternoon and return the following morn
ing. Later he announced that as he was
desirous of obtaining much needed rest
lie would go to his country house aud
remain overnight. He was not seen
again alive. Mrs. Pulsifer became
alarmed and sent a servant out to Isling
ton in search of her husband. The
man was horrified on entering
the colonel's private chamber to
find his employer cold in death.
Col. Pulsifer died from an over
dost of chloral, self-administered.
He had been a sufferer from nervous
prostration and insomnia for some time,
und business troubles weighed heavily
upon him. Unwise investments and in
numeruble wlld-cat speculations had
drawn heavily upon his resources, and it
aas been an open secret for months that
he was financially embarrassed.
At the time of his'death he was a direc
tor of the Savannah, Florida A Western
Railroad, vice president of the Florida
Southern, one of the executive committee
of the Plant Investment Company, and
president of the Marietta & North Geor
gia Railroad. lie at one time had a very
large interest in the last named com
pany, but recently sold it all out except
a small amount of stock sufficient to
qualify him as president; hence his death
will in no wise affect this enterprise, his
relation to it of late having betn purely
aominal. At one time he talked of buy
jig the Atlanta Journal and issuing it as
i morning paper. He was a liberal sub
scriber to the fund lo inaugurate tha
Augusta, Ga., Exposition.
criminal negligence.
Tbe district attorney of Carbon county,
Pa., issued warrants ou Tuesday for the
arrest of Henry Cook and Thomas
Major, engineers; John Mulhcarn und
Joseph Phol, lookouts; James
i Ilarnigun, flagman, and Charles Terry
and Joseph Keithlein, conductors, charg
ing them with gross negligence and wil
ful misconduct for failing to observe the
precautions and rules winch it was their
duty to obey and observe while they
were employed in the conveyance of
passengers from the Lehigh Valley rail
road company, causing the great acci
dent at Mud Run, which resulted iu the
killing and injuring of many persons.
The coroner’s jury in the caso of the re
ctnt railroad disaster at Washington, Pa ,
rendered a verdict at a late hour
placing the responsibility of the
accident on Conductor Heck, of the
shifting engine, and cnarging him with
involuntary manslaughter, iu causing the
deaths of Engineer Noonan aud Fireman
McAuliffe, the testimony showing that
he had ordered a switch open and then
failed to see that it had bren closed.
Edwin Boon, tho new switch hand, who
opened the switch, was condemned fot
gross negligence. The coroner has is
sued a warrant for Heck’s arrest.
QUICK WORK.
F: W. Adams and a companion known
as “Dutchv,” two hunters, found gaml
in abundance in the Snake country, Wy
oming, and began a wholesale slaughtct
of the animals. They were not hunting
for vension, but for hides and limns.
Tom Johnson, a ranchman, met them
and remonstrated with them. He said
they were v iolating the game laws of tho
territoiy, and lie threatened to have them
niretted if they did not cease the useless
slaughter. This threat enraged Adam*,
and at night, he rode down to Johnson’s
ranch and set lire to his house. Adams
rode away, accompanied by liis partner,
and Johnson set out for a little settle
ment on Snake to alarm Ins friends. He
reached the settlement about daylight
and within an hour he had gathered a
force of forty men. The pursuers rods
until noon, when they came upon a little
dinner camp, of which the huntcis were
the only occupants. The two hunters were
made prisoners, and after being tied se
curely to their own horses, were slartcd
back to the settlement, whero they were
confined in an adohe hut. That night
a hundred men took them out and liung
th*m to the limb of a tree,
A GREAT MYSTERY.
At Tuscaloosa, Ala., four murders have
recently been committed, and in mystery
they equal the Whitechapel crim s.
About two weeks ago the dead body of
John Hill, colored, was found near n no
gro dance hall in the suburbs. His
throat was cut and there were fifteen
knife wounds in various parts of the
body. The dead and decomposing body
if an unknown negro was found recently
in tho woods near town. This man’s
throat had been cut from car to e ir. The
coroner spent two days in investigating
the case, but learned nothing, not even
the name of the dead man. The dead
body of nnother negro man was found in
the Warrior River, just below the town,
two days after. This man’s throat had
been cut and his skull crushed in by a
blow with some heavy instrument. This
crime remains as great a mystery as tho
other. On Sunday morning tlie body of
the fourth victim was found in the woods
just outside the town, and again tho
throat had been cut from ear to ear. Tho
colored people of the town are wildly
excited aud believe that some murderous
hoodoo is nmong them. Many of them
have left tho town, and even the boldest
cannot be induced to leave their houses
after night.
FAVORED AMERICANS.
The Neueste Nachrirhter of Munich,
publishes a sensational article in ralation
to the Wurtemberg court scandals. It
denounces the favoritism shown by tho
king of Wurtemburg to three Americans,
who, it says, by means of spiritualism,
have gained an enormous influence ovo*
.'he invalid monarch, which they are
using for blackmailing purposes. It
says that one of them, who was formerly
secretary in the American legation at
Stuttgart, has recently beyi eunofilcd.
THE WORLD OVER.
INTERESTING ITEMS BOILED
DOWN IN READABLE STYLE.
THE FIELD OF LABOR—SF.ETIIINO CAUL-
DltOtr OF ECKOrKAN INTKIUUE —FIHES,
SUICIDES, ETC.—NOTED DEAD.
Typhoid fever is epidemic at Fostoria,
Ohio.
The Derbyshire (Eng.) colliers are on
a strike.
Russian troops are maneuvering on the
Ausirian frontier.
The Sultan of Turkey, has approved
the building of a railroad from Jaffa to
Jerusalem.
'flic trouble in Rio Grande city has
been settled by the arrest of the Mexican
malcontents.
The forty-second annual meeting of
the American Missionary Society was
held in Providence, R. I.
The Chicago & Alton Railroad tracks
have been blockaded several time* re
cently by train wreckers.
At a meeting at Lyons, France, M. De
Lessens declared that the Panama canal
would bo opened for traffic in July, 1890.
Justice Law rence, of tbe supreme court
in New York, handed down u decision
sustaining the will of Samuel J. Tilden.
Tlie North German Lloyd Steamship
Elbe, from Bremen which arrived at New
Y’ork, on Tuesday had several cases of
small-pox among her 515 steerage pas
sengeis.
The Neus Free Press, of Vienna, says
that the idea of a marriage betweeu
Prince Alexander, of Batteuberg, aud
Princess Victoria, sister of the German
emperor, has been abandoned.
George Frauds Train delivered a lec
ture in Harrisburg, Pa., for the benefit of
the yellow fever sufferers. The net re
ceipts xvere $293.10, and a check for that
amount was forwarded to Jacksonville,
Fla.
A riot broke out at May, Ireland, be
tween Orangemen and nationalists. The
police were reinforced and charged the
mob with bayonet. Several policemen
were injured by stones thrown by the
rioters.
The strike of the colliers in England
is assuming alarming proportions, und it
is feared the movement will become a
general one. Iu Yorkshire 15,000 work
ers went out on Wednesday.
The national assembly of Hayti have
chosen Gen. Francois Denys as president
of the republic. Cupe Haytien, Connives
and St. Marc having revolted against tbe
legitimate government, have been closed
to foreign commerce.
Ihe Pope, in donating SOO,OOO to the
anti-slavery movement, has written to
Cardinal Lavigerie, in terms of praise
and encouragement of the scheme, iu
which he was commissioned by the Pope
to invite the co-operation of Europe.
Tlie minister of war, who has been
making a tour of the Southeast of France,
has informed the budget committee that
it will be necessary to spend £400,000,000
for the purpose of defending the Eastern
frontier against a possible German invas
ion. The inspector found the present
defenses useless against the new explo
lives.
Albert A. Shaver, ex-county treasurer
of Clare, Mich., is under arrest on the
charge of appropriating between SI,OOO
and SI,BOO of county funds during his
term of office in 1884. On the night of
May 14, 1884, Shaver was found Bound
and gagged in his office, and he declared
he bad been robbed of $4,000, but bis
story wus found to be false.
The steamship Atlas, of the Atlas line,
arrived at New York, from Port Simon,
land was on her way up the river to her
Uoek. When off Liberty street she was
tun into by the New Jersey Central rail
road ferry boat Plainfield, and ten min
utes later the Atlas sunk off Vesey street.
She rests on an even keel, and her topmasts
and smokestack show above water.
Police Inspector Byrnes, of New York
City, arrested three Italians named lata,
6abatano and Canizsrro, for murdering
Antonio Flnccimio. Flaccimio was
markid out for death some time back,
because he violated an oath. He be
longed to a society known as Maflo. It
punishes by death any member who di
vulges its secrets or gives information to
the police concerning the identity of any
of its members who have violated tho
laws of the laud.
A fast West bound freight train on the
Erie Railroad ran into the rear of another
freight nsar Otisville, N. Y., on Wednes
day. The brakeman, George McMullen,
was instantly killed. Engineer Willard
Hector was badly scalded. Conductoi
John Hawkins had his foot cut off, and
tho leg of the fireman, A. A. Cronk, was
Bevered from his body. Before the flag
man could be sent forward, the East
bound express No. 14, dashed into tin
wreck and cut off the leg of Hawkins,
who was lying on tho track insensible
from tbe injuries received in the first col
lision. Two engines and a dozen freight
cars were demolished, but no passengers
were hurt.
At the annual session of the American
Missionary Society, held in Providence,
R. 1., three colored men made addresses.
First, Rev. Joseph E. Smith, of Chatta
nooga, Term., spoke about the evils of
caste to the colored race. President
Taylor told of the colored delegate to
the world’s missionary conference in
London, who was for ten days the guest
of Lady Kiunard, and said he never
knew anything of color-caste feeling be
fore cotniDg to America. He thought
this prejudice is deeper than color, that
it is a matter of race. Rev. B. A. Jones,
of Memphis, Tcnn.. took for his subject,
“Evils to the colored race of secret socie
ties.” Rev. J. B. McLean, Paris, Tcnn.,
spoke on the evils to the colored race of
intemperance.
BIG THING.
Negotiations arc being made with
Alvin Clark, of Bosibh, Mass., by the
University of Southern California, located
at Li s Angeles, for making a telescope
that will have a 42-inch leuge, 8 inches
larger in diameter than the great Lick
equatorial. With this glass the stufacc
of the moon-will be visible as it would
be to the naked eye if it were only sixty
miles away.
RATHER SHORT.
City Treasurer Axwoithy, of Cleva
i land, Ohio, rar. away to Cnada, an 1 lie
; was found to be deficient nearly $500,-
j 000. iie carried off on hii tiip S2OO,
I 000 in cash. _llia losses were heavy i a
! the recent wheat squeeze.
YELLOW FEVER.
The news that Bishop Weed, of thfi
: elpiscopai Church, had fallen a victim at
ast to the yellow fever scourge in Jack
louville, Fla., created the liveliest inter
est. Mrs. Weed, who had been with her
hildren at their Summer home, on the
fiandhllls, near Augusta, Ga., left for
Jacksonville on the fir*t train after ru
eiving the intelligence of Bishop Weed’s
irkness. Mrs. Wood was notified before
die started that she would not be ul-
I'wed to enter Jacksonville, but nothing
sould deter her and she said she would
get to Bishop Weed before she stopped.
The epidemic is fast ebbing away and
many new c*'cs are reported daily, bul
the typo is much milder and deaths arc
rare. All of the volunteer physicians
will depart for their homes. After Hat
irday, only three commissioners will dis
tribute supplies. Dr. Neal Mitchell,
President or the Board of Health, reports
is fellows; New case*, 83; deaths, 1;
total cures, 3,872; total deaths, 383.
Of the new cases 10 are whites. Sur
geon-General Hamilton sent tho follow
ing teh giam to Dr. Porter, at Jacksnn
vil’e, Fla., on Tuesday: “Your author
ity to keep refugees out of the city must
come from the City Council. With such
authority you need nothing further from
ibe Government. In regard to the dis
infection of bedding, the Government
only proposes to pay for tho destruction
of mattresses, pillows and comforts ne
ces-arily destroyed in the bouses of tue
poor. Persons able, must sustain their
own loss The City Council should pass
an ordinance exacting a penalty for the
concealment of articles in houses. The
use of the public laundry and disinfect
ing building, when constructed, will be
free. Carpets need not be destroyed,
but should be subjected to tbe steam pro
cess.” At Fernandina, Fla., the report
is: “New cases, 14, white* 4; no deaths.
Weather very warm. Reports from
Chester say there w ere six cases in twen
ty-four hours. V* ssels can enter ths
port and come to the city by leaving
crews at Tiger Island, where the Govern
ment has provided shelter for them. The
cry is Btill for more funds and provis
ions.” The following appeal
was issued from Pensacola, Fla.,
'To all Lodges of the Independent Odd
Fellows, Greeting; Whereas. Tho dread
pestilence of yellow fever has made sad
havoc among our brethren of Jackson
ville and Fernandina, and has not been
confined to local lodges at those points,
but many brothers from othi I
jurisdictions have been strick
en down by the fatal di-ease; and
Whereas, The fund subscribed so liber
ally by lodges in this jurisdiction and
other voluntary contributions, have been
exhausted and much suffering and dis
tress is now imminent, with permission
of Grand Sir John C. Underwood, dated
Columbus, Ohio, October 20th, 1888, I
would make au earnest appeal by this
means to the brotherhood at large to
make small contributions for their relief,
which may be sent to me .at Pensacola,
Fla., anu which will be promptly ac
knowledged and forwarded by me to the
Odd Fellows’ relief committee at Jack
sonville and Fernandina. C. E. Yonge,
Ir., Grand Master I. O. O. F., State if
Florida.” There was one new caM of
yellow fever at Decatur, Ala. Hall C.
Johnson, former piesident of the relief
committee, died. The Bick have a hard
time.
GIGANTIC RAILROAD DEAL.
At a meeting held in New York on
Monday of the Richmond and West
Point Terminal Company, a bargain was
closed for tlie entire capital stock of tbe
Georgia Central Railroad Company,
amounting at its par value to $12,000,-
000. This Georgia company’s stock is
pri dicated upon a majority of the capi
tal stock of the Central Railroad and
Banking Company o£f Georgia, the most
prosperous and one of the largest rail
road systems in the South. Hence, by
the purchase which the Terminsl com
pany made, it acquired absolutejand per
petual control of the great Georgia Cen
tral, and thereby increased the mileage
of its own alrendy exteusive system from
five to eight thousand miles. This trade
has been pending for a long time, hut a
lack of harmony in the syndicate owning
the Georgia company stock has hereto
fore prevented anything like agreement
on a prico at which all parties would
sell. For the last six months tho Geor
gia company has been divided into two
irreconcilable factions. About a week
ago John Inman secured from all the
Georgia company slockliolders an option
ou their stock at $35 per share. This
option he transferred to the Terminal
company. This purchase by Mr. Inman,
as president of the Richmond Terminal
Company, of twelve million dollars of
Georgia Central securities gives him con
trol of that vast system; is the most im
portant trade in railroads made in the
South in twenty years. It puts him in
direct control of the Richmond A Dan
villo system, the East Tennessee system,
and the Georgia Central system, covering
eight thousand miles of railway, and
twelve of the finest steamers that float
the ocean. Besides this, he i-t a leading
director in the Louisville A Nashvil'e
Road, in the close confidence of its pres
ident. This makes him a leader in the
management of twelve thousand miles
of railroad, and an immense line of
ocean steamers. This means the control
of every road that enteis the state of
Georgia, it means direct rail lines from
Baltimore to New Orleans, and from Sa
vannah to St, Louis.
HORRIBLE CONSPIRACY.
The border counties of Kansas and
Missouri have been greatly excited ovei
the discovery of au organized anarchist
movement that is spreading with alarm
ing rapidity. At Winfield, Kan., Coffey
vide, Kan." Nevada, Mo., brunches oi
tlie organization have been discovered,
and it was ascertained that the general
headquarters was in Chicago, 111. Right
on the heels of these disclosures came a
dynamite explosion at Coffi yville that de
stroyed a house and fatally wounded
txvo women. At 4 o’clock one evening
astranger called at the Pacific Express
office, xvhich is in the residence of 11. M.
Uphum, who is the local agent. 'lhe
man handed in a package consigned to
a party iu \\ infield, Kan. It was
marked, “Glass. Handle with care.” Mr.
Upham placed it among the other freight
and thought no more about it. Next
morning ut 4 o’clock a tcirible explosion
| took place in tho house. The n sidence
: was blown down, and Mrs. Upham aud
her daughter, a young lady eighteen
y, ais old, was wounded in a shocking
manner. 'I he mother’s limbs were fiac
tured and stripped of flesh, while the
girl lost one of In r eyes and was danger
ously burned. Thi wreck of a'l the
friight was found ex\ept the mysterious
! package. It was no tsoubt au anarchist
weapon.
NUMBER 52.
A FRONTIER SKETCH.
J ust a cabin In a “i-lesrin*,"
A wild rose clambering o’er,
Ami a woman with a baby
Standing in Mia cabin door.
In the field a man is ploughing^
Anil whistling os he goes.
While the woman and tba baby
Are counting all tha rows.
And the forest stands around thm.
The sky is spread above.
Ami every wlierj is vritteo.
The mystery of Lov*
Ti* a home that Love is planting
W lie re strong, young life shall grow,
Would I had the artist’s power,
That simple home to show, i
1 would paint the lights and shadow
Of that young face so fair;
Td copy al 1 the poesy j
“Baby” h*J written there.
1M paint thi wondrous symbols
That itaby Ungers trace
Upon the father’s cheek and brow*
The love illumin and face.
The promise and the mystery
Enfolding Itaby life,
And Love s divine fulfillment
In wedded man and wife.
Just a cabin in a “clearing,”
And a wild rose clambering o’er,
And a woman with a baby
standing in the cabin door.
But Love is reaching downward
To lighten toil and care,
And Love, on swift wings mounting
Heavenward those hearts doth near,
— M. W. Dorsey, * Mercury ,
PITH AND_ POINT.
A shipbuilder should know tha hull
business.
A double tenement house is apt to be
rent in twain.
A broken eyeglass may be called *
woful spectacle.
A high old time—The ancient clock
in a church steeple.
Bicyclists are allowed the privilege of
pedaling without a license.
Convicts are the only persons who da
not Lcl.eve in their convictions.
Asa rule orchestra leaders are morel
heroes. They all face the music.
It seems queer that tho “hold” of *
ship is not used to anohor her with.
A cordage store would make an ex.
celient place in which to learn the ropes.
Keep an eye upon the children. Kid.
napers sometime, go abroad to take the
heir.
Queer that the Lose baltist who make*
the fewest errors has the n-o a-o-otieat
record.
Taken as a whole, the Indians, al
though illiterate are the best red race in
the world.
The Chinese farmers often gain,
And very rarely lose.
Aecause they never fail to mind
Their peas and queues.
Bnzar,
“Are you engaged to Miss Eclat?”
“No, not exactly. But when I asked
for her hand she gave me the refusal of
it.”
We have it from a reliable source tht
it has been called the “pail moon” evei
since the cow kicked over it. — State*
man.
Mrs. Jones—“ Don’t trouble to see ms
to the door, Mrs. Smith.” Mrs. Smith
“No trouble; quite a pleasure, I assure
you.”
Marc Anthony must have been ter
ribly down on umpires when he ex
claimed: “Judgment, thou art fled to
brutish beasts.” —Detroit Free Frees.
“Mother may I go out to popP
“Yes, my darling daughter,
[f you fail this year you must shut up shop.
You've kept longer than you'd orter.”
Siftings.
Cutting—(Uncle takes Tommy to the
barber to have bis hair cut). Bar
ber —“Well, Tommy, how do you want
your hnir cut?’’ Tommy—“Oh, short,
please, with a hole in the middle, likt
uncle’* I”— Fun.
A Remarkable Mushroom Farm.
A correspondent of the ( hicago Tri
bune has paid a visit to the mustroom
farm under the earth near La Salle, 111.,
in the Utica Cement Company’s aban
doned tunnel. According to his ac
count, they are marketing about BUO
pounds of mushrooms a week, and ex
pect shortly to increase ih s to one thou
sand pounds a day. '1 he price obtained
in summer is fifty cents per pound; in
■winter, $2. They are shipped first to
Chicago, and thence to New York and
all the large cities. The-e tunnels are
said to he forty acres in extent, 1,000
feet from tho face of the cliff, and 200 or
300 feet from the top. '1 he temperatme
does notvary over half a dozen degrees
all the year round, standing aboxt sixty
degries in summer and fifty four degrees
in winter. About three ear loads of ma
nure a week are used. It is not eve y
locality that affords such a spot for such
a purpose, anil probably tho only other
similar place is in the catacombs of
Paris. \\ itli a constant supply, such as
the tunnel affords, a maiket wll he
forced, and by and by mushrooms will
be asked for as regularly as any other
vegetable.
A Drummer’s Close Call.
“A close call? Yes. I had one once,”
and the drummer sighed as though the
reeollec ion gavo him pain. “I was
standing in the Balt truce and Ohio
depot at Washington on the day that
Garfield was shot by Guiteau. I don't
know what resemblance there was be
tween myself aid Garfield, but 1 heard
a man sav, as he pissed near me as ]
stood at ihe door of the waiting room,
T will kill you in about an hour.’ This
startled me, of course, and 1 would have
asked for police protection had not the
man walked hurriedly away. 1 went to
my hotel and in just about an hour I
heard the news that Garfield had been
shot. I suppose I would have been mis
taken for the President if 1 bad been at
the depot, and i consider this the closest
call 1 ever The drummer walked
away,and the reporter is still tiguriug on
the possibilities that surrounded tho
truthful commercial tourist on that
eventful day.— At'aUa Constitution.
Big Winnie, the Freak.
Baltimore has lost herchampion freak,
a colored woman, Winnie Johnson, who
weighed Bt'J pounds. Her co tin was
nearly four feet xvido and three and a
half feet deep. She was born in Henry
county, Ky.. in the yea." 18)3. Asa
child she was as other children are, and
gave no sgns of attain ng any unusual
si/e. When she was about twenty years
of age she began to gnw large. Every
year added to her size. She the
mother of ten children. — Ne*o n'rrti Tel*-
Irani,