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The Georgia Enterprise. VOLUME XXIII. The Enterprise. Published w eek ly at <jOVINUTON Globqia. OM.V *1 IN CLUBS OF FIVE. [Entered at the Covington Postoffioe secoud class matter. Terms, $1,25 per annum. In dubs of live or more One Dollar. Six months 75cts. Four months, 50 ds always in advance. PATRON IZE me Old Enterprise. It “rides no fences.” Jumps no nominations $1,25 in advance. In clubs of five sl. Advertising Rates. Local Notices lOcts pcfcjine first inser tion— 20 cents per month. Business Ad vertisements $1 per inch first time —50 ets each subsequent insertion. CONTRACT ADVERTISING: .Space. | 1 mo. | 3m. | fi m | 12 m. 1 inch I $2.50 I 5.00 I 8.00 12.00 2 | 4.00 I 8.00 I 12.00 18.00 4 | 000 I 12.00 I 18.00 27.00 jcul'm 7.00 I 15.00 | 25.00 40.00 12.00 I 25.00 I 40.00 00.00 1 I s .oo I 40.00 I 00.00 100.00 When any issue of interest to the people of this county arises it may lie depended upon that The Enterprise will be ready to discuss in a way and manner which no sensible mail enn misconstrue or misunderstand. We stand ever ready to labor “For the cause that lacks assistance, For the wrong that needs resistance For the future in the distance, And the good that we can do.” Georgia Methodist FEMALE k 10000-9. Fall Term begins August 29, and closes December 14. Spring Term begins January 9, and ■toes June 19. ftiard $lO to sl9 per month. —HATES OF TUITION. Tuition and Incidentals Fall Term, 4 months, $9 to sl7. Full corps of teachers. Apply for "Catalogue. Rev, J. TANARUS, McLaughlin, A. M„ Covington, Ga.] President. IL SIMMS &St Real Estate Agents, COVINGTON GEORGIA. Be sure to give ns the selling and renting of your property. Rates of commission low. Valuable property on Jjanci for sale. Try us. Titles traced and per fected. Pay unless a sale ! s made or rents col lected. & L - SIMMS & CO. franklin B Wright, -COVINGTON, GA.— Physician & Surgeon. Gynecology, Diseases “P'J Children, and all Chronic Have , e , P'i'ate nature, a speeialtyl i,lj| p orse nt my command, which wil to a,tf,n 'l the calls of the sur . tir-p ~ C(m, itry. as well as my city prac- H ’ANKLIN B. WRIGHT, M. D f arm loans, b YW. SCOTT, | Covington, Georgia. 1T vipr v . i I Newton* r iate r°ans on Farms in Five y ' .'./on and Rockdale counties 7 , . Jou I,! "‘‘O' Cnali, and see how Credit 1 Interest will cost you less 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,