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The Georgia Enterprise.
VOLUME XXIV.
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fungton, Ga.] President.
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-COVINGTON, GA.—
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THE WOULD OVER.
INTERESTING ITEMS BOILED
DOWN IN READABLE STYLE.
THE FIELD OF LABOIl —SEETHING CAUL
DRON OF EUROPEAN INTRIGUE—FIRES,
SUICIDES, BTC.—NOTED DEAD.
Thu German government has ordered
another cruiser to proceed to Zanzibar.
The Pope has appointed Monseigneur
Pcrsieo to he vicar of the Basillico of St.
Peter’s, in return for his services in Po
land.
An explosion of fire damp occurred in
Frederick Pit, at Dury, in the province
of Haimite, Belgium. Thirty • miners
were killed.
The Tagus, Douro and I.izo rivers in
Portugal, have overflowed their bonks,
flooding the surrounding country, and
doing extensive damage.
Messengers who haveariived at Wady
Haifa report that the mysterious White
Pasha in Bahort G ilizi district has fought
a great battle aud killed many dervishes.
The yellow lever has broken out at
Santa Cruz de la Palma, Spain. The
contagion was carried to the port by a
steamer from Cuba.
Mr. Kecly, the celebrated motor man,
of Pennsylvania, is to be lodged in jail
in the course of a few days, unless he
comes into court umlrevetls the secrets
of his invent : ou.
The Paris 7>mp*and other journnis, re
gard the speech made by Baron Deßret
cnil at the royalist banquet at Marseilles
as an indication of the abdication of the
monarchists in favor of Boulanger.
The masters of the colliers in Lanark
shire, England, have made a 5 per cent
advance in wages. The trade committee
has advised the jute spinners of Dundee
to give their employes a similar increase.
The British steamer Black Watch
foundered in latitude 36 north, longitude
19 east. The fate of her crew is un
known. She was an iron screw steamer
of 936 tons, plying between Naples and
Odessa, ami was probably returning
from Odessa when foundered.
S. L. Botts, an insurance broker, agfd
thirty-five years, shot, himself through
the head at the Hotel Royal, in New York
on Tuesday and died within an hour.
Disappointment over the election and fi
nancial losses caused by it led him to
drinking. Botis was a member of tiie
famous Botts family of Virginia.
Asa result of an improvement in the
iron trade, the Heading ltuilroad Compa
ny on YVednesday issued orders for a re
sumption of work at its large furnace at
Bechtelsville, which has been idle for
some months. The other company fur
naces will resume as fast as they can be
repaired. Tho Glendale rolling mill, a
few miles away, also resumed.
Treasurer James J. Daily, of the
Ohilds-Drexel fund of the International
Typographical Union reports that up to
Nov. 1 the amount on hand was $20,000,
which more than doubles the amount of
the original gift of SIO,OOO by Childs &
Drexel in 18s6, aud which was the
nucleus of the fund named in their honor.
The entire fund is drawing a good rate
of interest.
The puddlers at Jones & Laughlin’a
American Iron W orks, 000 in number,
struck against tho change in working
hours, made necessary by the scarcity of
nature? gas during the day time, at the
m iJM of Oliver Bros., and Phillips and
tVharton & Cos. The men have agreed
to work the new hours until Mon
day, when arrangements will be made
for a heavier supply of gas.
The strike of the Louisville, New Al
bany & Chicago brakemen continues, and
no freight lias been moved into, or out
of LuFayette. The company, on Wednes
day, made up a train at LaFayet-'"?,
which was moved under protection of
the sheriff and police, and witho“‘ brak ®'
men to a station ten miles where it
was side-tracked. The strikers endeav
ored to board tho ca>", ant l draw the
loupling pins, but *erc prevented.
The biggest check that even A\ all
street has seen for along time was drawn
Thursday to the order of the Central
Trust company of New York, and signed
by president John H. Inman, of the
Richmond Terminal company. The
check was for $3,950,000, which, with
s°so 000 previously paid, makes the en
tire $4,200,000 that the Terminal com
pauy bargained a few weeks ago to pay
for the Georgia company.
A fast freight train running east on
the south track of the Burlington road
on Wednesday at Downer's Grove, 111.,
struck a “frog” and jumped the track
just in time to catch the engine of a
crowded suburban passenger train which
had just pulled out. At the end of a
minute there was not much left of the
passenger engine, and both the engineer
and fireman were so badly bruised and
mangled that they will die. A number
of freight cars were wrecked.
A fire on Tuesday destroyed Watson’s
store, extending from 150 to 150 Furman
street, which are about midway between
Fulton and Wall street ferries, Brooklyn,
N Y. The fire was prevented from
spreading to Hnrbccks fc Robert’s stores
adjoining. The cause of the fire is not
known, but it originated somewhere
about the engine room, bo s on gram
is about $400,000, and on machinery
$25 000. Loss on the budding is bou
$100,0.;0, making a total of $500,000.
The commission appointed Inst Spring
will be successful in removing the South
er,, Utcs from Colorado. Two w. eks
„„o the commissioners and a delegation
of the Utcs appointed for the purpose re
turned from Utah, where they -went to
look up the new reservation. Thc coun
Ml was held at the agency on W c<ln " 7
Mid all the Indians ore-sent—one-fourth
of the tribe—signed the treaty providing
for the removal to a new reservation in
Utah.
In the English House of Commons in
the debate on estimates in connection
with the supreme couit of judicature,
Louis J. Jennings (conservative), moved
,o reduce the appropriation by ai conncl
erabie sum. Lord Randolph Churchill
al,proved the proposed reduction. lie
said that the money squandered on court
officials was a public scandal and nation
al disgrace, amounting to a malversation
of public money on a large scale Mr
Jennings motion to reduce' Mg?
was rejected by a vote of 148 to 1-J.
A dog owned by Patrick Waslsh, went
mad in Indianapolis, Indiana, on W
nesday, and attacked Miss Cora Walsh
an 18 year old daughter of the ovner
spates? iz
"MY OOUXTHY: MAY SUB KYKH UK KIOIIT; RIQUT OH WIIONQ, MY COUXTRY Jefferson.
witn several ponce Ultilt tu uuskwv
hit fully fifty animals and finally at
tacked a small child, tearing out one of
the little fellow's cheeks and devouring
an eye. After u chase of two miles the
dog was killed.
Two farmers, Hiram Rotter and Wil
liam Ashley, living in Custer couuty,
Nebraska, called on a neighbor named
llalsteiu, to see him about some turniture
which hail disappeared from the
school house in that section. Ashley
and Hotter were directors. 'They failed
to return and after waiting some time,
their friends became suspicious, and in
stituted search for them. On Tuesday
they saw some hogseating at some object
in a hay stack in llalstein’s field, und
going to the B|>ot found the dead bodies
of the two directors. Rotter's face had
been badly eateu by the hogs. Halstein
eanDot be found, and it is believed he
took the team which the men had, and
left the country.
BAGGED IN MEXICO.
Capt. T. B. Logan, commanding
United States troops at Fort Hancock,
on the Hio Grande, some several miles
below El Paso, thought there was good
hunting on the Mexican side of the river
and took with him some members of his
command, all good hunters, and one
civilian, L. W. Evans. They were
armed with rifles and shot guns, and af
ter enjoying some fine sport, they came
■cross a force of Mexican frontier guards,
who took them into custody as soldiers
of a foreign power found on Mexican ter
ritory under arms. Civilian Evans was
released, but the captain with his United
States soldiers ore still in the lock-up.
COLORED MAN’S SENSE,
While cro-sing the mountains the Pul
aian sleeper, “Arragon,” of the New York
sxpress train, No. 9, on the Pennsylvania
toad, when near Cuvanaugh, Pa., caught
lire and before the flames could be ex
tinguishe l one-half of the car was con
sumed, together with ilie-clothiDg of a
number of passengers. The passengers
were quickly awakened and, half-clad,
they lushed panic-stricken from their
berths to the adjoining car. A colored
porter, with the assistance of a fire ex
tinguisher and a few cool-headed pas
sengers, soon had the fire under control.
'1 here were twenty passengers on the
car, but fortunately no one was injured.
STRIKE THREATENED.
A general strike against a re-arrange
ment of working hours is threatened by
the iron workers of Pittsburg, Pa. On
account of the shoitage of natural gas
during the daytime, the gas companies
have requested mill owners to arrange
working hours so that the In aviest work
will be done at night, in order that the
consumption of gas can be made more
uniform. The manufacturers agreed to
ihe change, but their employes at meet
ings of the various amalgamated lodges
throughout the city on Wednesday re
solved to strike against any change in
“turns.”
ENGLISH ONLY.
A dispatch from Rome states that a
petition had been presented to the Prop
aganda protesting against the predr-p'
nating influence of German Catb~' ICB 1D
America. Archbishop Ireland. B ®*® D
Catholic bishops made a ret- 1 , t . : be
catechism shall be - v. u ‘ the
English language, “ ld ,hat in I Ger ‘
man parishes? wl r -’ were here
tofore preached V>. Gma “' * he y Bh °“ ld
now be pr acbed ln i-nglnh, and that
no m or,*‘® B,lvitieß of an y German nature
shou u ' be tolerated; in short, that every.
German should be abolished.
INDIANA DISPUTED.
The official returns of the vote for gov.
ernor of Indiana were completed on
Tuesday. The total gubernatorial vote
was 536,624 against 495,000, for gov
ernor in 1884. Gen. Ilovey, Republican,
263,194; Col. Matson, Democrat, 261,-
003; Hughes, Prohibitionist, 9,776;
Milroy, Labor, 2,661; Hovey’s plurality
is 2,191 against 1,392 for Governor Gray
in 1884. The official returns on presi
dential electors are not yet complete, but
returns thus far indicate that the presi
dential vote was only a few hundred in
excess of the gubernatorial.
GRAND INCREASE.
Treasurer Jas. G. Daily, of the
Childs-Drexel fund, at Philadelphia,
Pa., of the International Typographical
Union, reports that up to November Ist,
the amount on bund was $20,333, which
more than doubles the amount of the
original gift of SIO,OOO by Childs and
Drexel in 1886, and which was the nu
cleus of the fund mimed in their honor,
SCHURZ HONORED.
A grand farewell was given on Tues
day to Gen. Carl Schurz on the occasion
of his departure from Hamburg for the
United States. The Prussian minister,
Von Kusserow, president of the senate,
the board of trade and many other dis
tinguished persons, accompanied Schuiz
to the steamer.
A LIGHT VOTE.
Mrs. Cynthia Leonard, mother of Lil
lian Russell, the singer, candidate forth*
equal rights party for the myorality in
New York, received a total of eight
votes.
TROUBLE AHEAD.
German guards on the eastern frontier
of France, ‘hot three French, sportsmen
on Tuesday, killing one of them.
The British Boy.
“Fnjoyed your party, Bobby?”
“Oh, awfully!”
“Well, what little girls did you dance
with?”
“Oh, I didn’t dance. I had three
fights down stairs with Willie Richard
son-, and I licked him every time.”—
Time.
Jamaica Ginger Blbblers.
The number of “Jamaica ginger
drunkards” in Georgiy is said by an At
lanta newspaper to he increasing at an
alarming rate. A confirmed drinker
takes four ounces, or thirty-two tea
spoonfuls, of the fiery fluid at a time, and
the effects are much worse than those of
whisky.
A fult. cargo of iron. 121 carloads, from
Birmingham, Ala , the first shipment from
Savannah north, left that port for Philadel
phia some days ago.
COVINGTON. GEORGIA. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22. 1888.
SOUTHERN STRAYS.
A CONDENSATION OF HAPPEN
INGS STRUNG TOGETHER.
movements of alliance men—rail
road CASUALTIES—THE COTTON CROC
FLOODS—ACCIDENT* —CROP RETURNS.
ALABAMA.
Dave Kinney und John Cunningham,
two policemen, of Gadsden, went to a
negro house to make an arrest, and in the
performance of his duty, Mr. Kinney was
murdered in cold blood by a negro
named Charles Johnson, alias Holmes.
The officer* were not after Holmes, but
he (Holmes) interfered and told Kinney
to leave the house, drawing a shotgun on
hm. Kinney, notbeing properly armed,
started to leave, but turned back on
reaching the door, und was shot through
the stomach. Scarcely had the shooting
occurred before the whole town was in v
high state of excitement, and about 101)
turned men started on the
track. As soon as the negro fired tie
fatal shot, he aud the other man fled io
the mountains. A reward of two hun
dred dollars lias been offered by Major
Bisque for the muiderer’s arrest.
MIBBOURL
Col. John Knapp, for many years busi
ness manager and part owner of the
Missouri Republican, died at St. Ljuis
on Monday, aged 72 years.
LOUISIANA.
J. Leon Ponds, who was arrested by
Special Agent Baker, of the postsfficc
department at Covington, was arraigned
before Commissioner Wright and salt to
prison in default of bail. It is stuted
that when arrested, Ponds had thrie let
ters in bis pocket that had been itolen
from the mail pouch at the time of the
mail robbery on November 3d, on the
Northeastern road. Cora Ellis, pissing
as Mrs. Girard, formerly from Tyler,
Texas, came from Covington cn route
for Texas. She had been living with E J.
Bunch, (who committed the train robbery)
as his wife. When she reached New
Orleans she was taken in charge by de
tectives, accompanied by Superintendent
Walker and Special Agent Byrne.
Thirteen hundred dollars of tie stolen
money was found hid in her clothing.
She finally confessed that Buich gave
her the money. The detectivei believe
they will capture Bunch w.tfiix the next
forty-eight ftouis; $10,300 wa all the
cash secured by Bunch from the Express
Company.
GEORGIA.
Christopbiue, an Italian fruit render in
Atlanta, who was assaulted last Monday
night by three young men, died of his
injuries on Thursday.
Hon. James Hunt, a member of the
Georgia Legislature, was killed in ,1
lanta, Thursday night, by Sully Moore. "
mail agent on the Western &AAunt* unt ; 16
Railroad. The two men -'-' ru old
friends.
During a demonstration in
Atlanta on Mo- anda y bight, several ne
groes, under. ’ l6 influence of liquor, be-
J disorderly and attacked a
police. Officer Green had one
'V'.iis hands smashed by a bludgeon,
and will be unable to do duty for a
month.
A committee of the directors of the
Augusta Exposition, headed by Hon.
Patrick Walsh went to Indianapolis,
Ind., on Monday night, to invito Presi
dent-elect Harrison and his wife to visit
Augusta. As Gen. Harrison is anxious
to visit the South, no doubt the invita
tion will be accepted.
John Rutherford, a negro chain-gang
convict, who was undergoing a sentence
of 15 years at Atlanta, for burglary, es
caped. Sergeant White and Policeman
Wooten located him, and when they at
tempted to arrest the desperado, lie
opened fire on the officers with two pis
tols and wounded Wooten. He was
overpowered and chained.
On Monday night a crowd of colored
people gathered at Willow Tree church,
near Atlanta, to celebrate Harrison’s
election, and Henry Alexander was
ejected for being disorderly. Reaching
the street, Alexander pulled a pistol and
fired into the crowd but hitting no one.
Then someone downed Alexander with
a shot in the thigh While intoxicated,
Jim Henderson,"" a negro in Atlanta who
has been arrested many times, got into a
row and was shot Private Jesse Jones,
another Atlanta negro, a member of a
military company, paraded with his
musket and cartridge box to celebrate
Harrison’s success, and a white man of
fended him. Jones .attempted to run
the white man through and was arrested.
Gov. Gordon was formally installed
for a second term at the state capitol in
Atlanta on Tuesday. He delivered a very
impressive address, and at the conclusion
of his address, Gov. Gordon said: “I am
now ready to take the oatli of office. 1
will read the oath.” In a clear, firm
voice he read the oath, after which the
Hon. Nathan C. Barnett, Secretary of
State, placed the great seal of the state
in the hands of President Du Bignon.
He in turn delivered the great seal to
Governor Gordon, who handed it back
to Secretary Barnett. Governor Gordon
and his escort passed out of the hall,
and on motion of Senator Ballard the
joint session convened for the ceremony
adjourned.
VIRGINIA-
The bottom of the Roanoke city water
reservoir dropped out. It is believed the
damage cannot be repaired. A similar
accident occurred six months ago, soon
after the completion of the reservoir. A
large cavern directly underneath the
South supply basins and the weight of
water caused this to give way.
TENNESSEE.
Cnpt. William Stocked, veteran fire
chief, died at Nashville, after about ten
days’ affection with liver trouble. Capt.
Stock ell was born in England seventy
five years ago. He was chief of tin tire
department in Nashville from 1879 to
1883.
Over fifty well-known Republicans ap
peared before the city recorder at Knox
ville, to answer for violation of the fire
cracker ordinance. They were fined the
usual amount. The fines were then re
mitted and they were told not to do it
again.
ARKANSAS.
The long and tedious contention between
the Bell aud Pan Electric Telephone com
panies was brought to a close in Little
Rock, by the destruction of the Pan
Electric instruments by order of the Fed
eral courr. Twelve hundred and twenty
nine instruments were collected and con
vey! dto the suburbs of the city aud
burned. The bonfire consumed property
to the value of $15,000, for which the
investors got no returns whatever.
FLORIDA.
Dr. Neal Mitchell reports for Thursday
Hi new cases of yellow fever, 12 white*.
D nths 2, Alex Gilmon, colored, of South
Jacksonville, and Mamie Floyd, colored,ol
La Villa. Total eases to date 4,852; to
tal deaths 392.
(’apt, Fleming, the successful candi
date for governor, has retired to his
former home tit Hibernia, on Fleming’s
island, in St. John's liver, and will re
main until the authorities raise the cor
don and permit free entrance into Jack
sonville.
Owing to a suspicious death at Ells
ville, on the line of the Florida Railway
V 1 Navigation Company, Madison City
las quarantined against the former place
until such time as the friends and nttend
ing physicians of the deceased consent to
perform an autopsy on the body. There
is considerable excitement in conse
quence.
Whi’e there has been no yellow fevet
at DeLaud, still owing to its presence in
other parts of the state, the trustees of
the university have thought it wise to
postpone the opening of the college year.
The announcement is made that the uni
versity will open December 4th, and con
tinue for three full quarters of the school
year. It is lielieved that all p issibility
of risk from yellow fever in the state
will have disappeared before that day.
There has been no frost as anticipated
in Jacksonville. The weather is still cold,
’but fresh breezes precludes the proba
bility of frost. The Government me li
cal bureau was disbanded,only Dr. Porter
and a few nurses remaining. Dr. Sheft
all, of Savannah, Ga., a volunteer says
yellow fever will probably continue in
Florida all Winter. He stands alone in
this opinion. All the other experts agree
that a killing frost nud thorough disin
fection will result in the complete disap
pearance of the disease. There were
only 12 new cases on Sunday. There
were six new cases, four white, two col
ored. in Gainesville on Sunday.
NOItTII CAROLINA.
There was a business crash in Duruam
on T hursday hitherto unequalled in the
business history of North Carolina. Six
firms made assignments almost simul
taneously. The firms assigning are: YV.
T. Blackwell, president and owner of the
bank at Durham, $400,000; E. J. Parish,
$190,000; YV. F. Ell s, $23,000; Mu-c A
Shaw, $10,000; Bobbins & Stone, $8,000;
J. YV. B 1 ckwell. SIIO,OOO. The aggre
gate liabilities will approximate $1,000,-
000. Assets are not known yet.
KENTUCKY.
While laborers were prepays a hi* 46l
of dynamite in a rock qi>* rl 7 111 Lexing
ton, a premature ex? 1081011 killed the
owner of the o-arry, Mike Goimlcy,
mortally wo’' jd i D S John Hays and se
riously injuring a negro. A blast ol
,]y n pjit had been placed, with powder
,5 top; the powder failed to ignite, when
Gormley ordered its removal, to adjust it.
No one would undertake it and he did it
himself. The powder being removed, he
stuck a tamping rod down into the drill
hole, setting off the charge of dynamite.
MONKEY WORK.
Serious international trouble is on be
tween Peru and the Government of the
United States. The circumstances are
these: On the assumption that a house at
Melondo belonged to the Arequippa Rail
way, and was, therefore, the property ofi
the state, orders were given to occupy itl
by force, although the building was de
clared to belong to a citizen ot the Unit-i
ed States. It was accordingly seized by
a squad of soldieis. The United Staled
consulate was situated in the building
aud this was forcibly closed, and pad-|
locked; the coat of arms removed and,
the agent was prevented from entering
his office for nearly a week. The AmeriJ
can minister at Lima, protested
against the seizure of the house, and on
receipt of intelligence of this aggression,
cabled to his government, and was in
stantly instructed to demand an apology.
Unless Peru cun show some more plausi
ble reason than mistaken assumption for
violating consular privileges, and that
too, in the face of warning protest ffom
the minister, it is difficult to see how the
government can avoid a serious misunder
standing with the United States, aud
possibly war.
SUSPECTED.
John Van Ivorff, engineer at the Steam
Gauge and Lantern works, at Rochester,
N. Y r ., was arrested by Chief-Detective
Hannan and Assistants McCormick
and Naight on suspicion of setting lire
to the works Friday night, in which
thirty-seven persons lost their lives. Van
Korff is forty-five years old and has a
wife and six children. Some years ago
he was a brakt-man on the Buffalo, New
York & Philadelphia Railroad, and was
suspected of having set fire to loaded
freight cars. Later lie was engineer at a
building on B:ondway in that city.
Three times while he wr.s in charge the
building was on fire, and on the third
occasion it was burned down. Before
this Van Korff worked in Moore’s sash
and blind factory as engineer. This
place was burned twice while he was
employed in it. When Gould’s grocery
store at Trowbridge street anil West av
enue was burned, Van Korff was the first
to discover it.
SEVEN KILLED.
Limited express train No. 5, coming
west on the Baltimore & Ohio road,
rail into an open switcli at Valley Falls,
ninety-three miles east of Wheeling, W.
Va., and collided with the engine of an
east bound freight which lay on the sid
ing. Ed Dwyer, the engineer, and John
Sty, the fireman of the passenger train,
both residents of Wheeling, were in
stantly killed. Postal Clerk Hall, ol
Wocdsfield, Ohio; William Clinton, en
gineer of the freight train, and a bruke
man named Conley, were also killed.
Two unknown men, trumps, who were
stealing a ride on the freight train, were
found dead in the wreck. Clerk Scott,
of the postal car, escaped through a win
dow with no worse injuries than bad
cuts about the face and head.
DISCOURAGING.
In view of the great falling off in the
membership and the debt which is hang
ing over the Order, the delegates to the
Kuights of Labor Convention are now
feeling rather blue and wondering what
the outcome will be. At the end of June
1887, the order was $5,972 ahead. Of
its condition oue year later the balance
was $1 .64, with bills lo the amouut of
$9,227 due and unpaid; October2l, 1888,
there was a cash balance of sl6, with
$2,887 due and unpaid bills.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
WHAT THE UNITED STATES OF
FICIALS ARE DOING.
Secretary Fairchild lias decided to pay
$10,004 for Hugheimcr’s hit in Charles
ton to faeilitate tho construction of the
new postoflice.
The light house lioard in its annual re
port to the Secretary of the Treasury lias
recommended tho istsbHshment of sev
eral new light stations in Charleston har
bor and along the South Carolina coast.
Surgeon Martin, at Gainesville, Fla.,
telegraphs to Surgeon-General Hamilton
that there is one new ease (white) in that
city, aud suggests the withdrawal of
guards, as the fever has gained a foot
hold in all quarters of that city. He also
says that great destitution prevails.
gome crooked business has been dis
covered in connection with the transfer
of silver dollars from the mint at New
Orleans, La., to Washington, for stornge
in the new vault iu the court yard of the
treasury building, which Inis resulted iu
a loss of $1,500. From one box an en
tire sack of dollars had been abstracted
and sacks of Nos. 4 and 0 shot substi
tuted to give it weight. From another
box half of tho contents of one sack had
been taken and pieccsof lead substituted.
The broken seuls on the boxes were
patched up with impressions of a silver
quarter.
Dr. Porter, at Jacksonville, Fla., re
ports to the Marine Hospital service
that there were forty-seven new esses of
yellow fever and one deatli on Thursday,
Innking a total number of cases to date
4,355 and deaths 367. Dr. Porter sug
gests that arrangements be made for con
valescents and other persons who have
escaped the fever so far, and wishing to
go North without stoppage, to points
where frost has appeared this year, to do
so without quarantine detention at Camp
Perry, with the restriction of disinfec
tion "and fumigation of baggage and per
sonal wearing apparel.
Gov. Swineford, of Ala-ka, iu his an
nual report to the Secretary of the Interi
or, states that the white population has
greatly increased, and he estimates that
there are 25,000 natives. The total pop
ulation is 49,840, and of this number
there arc 6whites, 1,900 Creoles and
2 930 A ,<;Ut9 - He says that the climate
■ ls ’ faiorable and the soil rich. He sees
.o reason why Alaska may not ultimately
rival Montana and Wyoming as a cattle
country. Promising silver discoveries
have been made. The government thinks
that there is enough coni in the territory
to supply the whole of the United States
for centuries.
The Supreme Court of the United
States, through Chief Justice Fuller, has
rendered an opiuion of unusual interest
to holders of life insurance policies.
Thomas L. Hume, of the District of Col
umbia, died in 1881, totally insolvent, but
leaving $35,000 in life insurance policies.
The policies were by their terms payable
either to the widow or children of the
deceased. The administrators and cred
itors of Hume's estate sought to force the
application of the proceeds of the poli
cies to the payment of debts due credit
ors. The Supreme Court holds that the
beneficiaries are entitled to the proceeds
af all policies, and that where such poli
cies are effected in the name of benefi
ciaries, they are no part of estate of the
deceased.
The military court of inquiry into the
acqueduct tunnel scandal developed some
very interesting testimony. Frank
Thompson, a bricklayer on tho tunnel,
testified that incompetent men were em
ployed and they were hurried so by the
sub-contractors, that it was impossible
that the work could be good. The con
spiracy was thoroughly organized, and
its object was to deceive the government
inspectors. A great deal of bad work
was done at night, wdien nobody but the
sub-contractors was ever around. Civil
Engineer George 11. Coryell, who was at
one time employed on the work, testified
that the masonry lining was, in his opin
ion, too weak to withstand the pressure
that would be put upon it. He con
demned the whole scheme for the work,
ind declared that the tunnel was nothing
more that an expensive hole.
NEWSY GLEANINGS
Brooklyn's population is estimate! by the
health department to be 805,855.
The hide dealers of the Northwest are
agitating the formation of a trust.
The Catholics of Australia and India have
presented the l’ope wilh $1,000,000.
It turns out after all that Father Schteyer,
the inventor of Yolapuk, is not dead.
The corn crop at Campton, N. H , and
vicinity is the greatest failure since 1836.
The honey season has not been a success
ful one in either the United States or Canada.
It is said that the British Government may
give I.ord Sackville the m.ssion to St. Peters
burg.
The women of America expend $8,000,000
annually for paint und powder for their
faces.
This country purchased half of the china
matte in Limoges last year for 4,000,000
francs.
Indianapolis claims that hers was the
first Union i silrond depot. It was erected
in 1858.
A severe drought has nearly extermi
nated the rabbits in some partsof New (South
Wales.
The Spanish Government has been ere -t
ing fortifications along the line of tho
Pyrenees.
The Fontainebleau forest was fired by in
cendiaries at five different points and the
damage was $250,010.
Russia gets nearly 31)0,000,000 pounds of
cotton from foreign - ountries, especially the
United States and Egypt.
England is importing six times ns mu b
wheat from Russia and twice as much from
India as at this time last year.
The whole court at Berlin is now entirely
composed of new people. The friends of the
late Emperor have disappeared.
A RETIRED German officer, convictod as a
spy by the French authorities at Nice, is son
.enced to five years’ imprisonment.
In Washington, N. 11., apples tiro sold on
tho trees for twenty-five cents a barrel, and
cider apples for two cents a bushel.
Toronto medical students hooted and
threw stones at a proft s or, who pulled a
revolver anil shot one of them in the leg.
The suit brought by General b tdeau
against Mrs. Grant for work done on her
distinguished husband's memoirs his been
settled on the payment to the former of
$lll,OOO.
George C.IIARWOOD.nn incurable lunatic
in Longview Asylum, Cincinnati, has ju-t
been awarded a pt-nsi n ol S.B a mouth and
back pay amounting to SIB,OO I, He hat no
relatives.
THE body of John Groshart, a ranchman,
has been found in an isolated spot ill Carlton
County, Wy., with a bullet hole in h - lea I.
It is ttie fifth mysterious murder in that
county in as many months.
The Lulgct for the Dutch Fast Indio,
shows a deficit of $4,200,000. The F.nano •
Minister proposes to increasi by one Cori
the native license t-ix f r tho cultivat oij'ot
coffee and to appoint a royal commission to
inquire as to means for developing tho cof
tee industry.
BUDGET OF FUN.
HUMOROTTft SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
An Autumnal Idyl—Then You'll
Remember Me— A Precaution
ary Measure—A Creaturo
of Habit, Etc., Etc.
The roses from the wild ruse-trees
Upon the grass sre falling,
Ami geese in happy argosies
Fly southward, wildly calling.
Ursin the top rail of the fence
The squirrels madly chatter,
And ill the forest, deep and dense,
The chestnuts gaily patter;
And Mary .lane will soon commence
To make the buckwheat batter.
Then You’ll Remember Me.
Restaurant Waiter (to departing cus
tomer who has failed to give him the
sccuatonicd tip) “You’ll not forget me,
will yout”
Miserly Party —“No, indeed. I’ll
write you a letter when I get home.”—
Sitting*.
A Precautionary Mcasnre.
Enamored Youth—“Y our father treats
me with the most distinguished consid
eration. Tho other night he called to
me as 1 was leaving and reminded me I
was forgetting my umbrella.”
Hweet Girl—“ Yes, papa was afraid you
would be coming back after it the next
evening.”— Philadelphia Record.
A Creature of Habit.
“Are you going out riding?”
“Yes.”
“Why do yeu lake that bell along in
stead of a whip?”
“Because, you see, I bought this horse
from the street railroad company and he
won’t move unless I ring a "bell.”—
Fliegende Blatter.
Not. Due to Success.
First Poetical Aspirant (to second
ditto) —“So you soy you sent off more
than a hundred poems and never had one
returned?”
Second P. A. —“That’s what I said.”
First P. A.—“lt’s a phenomenal suc
cess! I wish I kucw the secret."
Second P. A.—“ Well, I’ve sometimes
thought it was because 1 never enclosed
postage stamps.”— Life.
He Liked fr> Be Accurate.
The farmer s wife ran out to the road
and looked up and down. A tramp was
shuffling along, when ahe hailed him. “I
say, did you see any cows in the corn in
that corner lot'"
“No, ma’am,” he replied as he lifted
his hat, “I didn’t see any cows in the
corn, hut I did see some of the corn go
ing into the cows at —”
But she was off. —Li e.
Didn't Recognize the Bivalves.
Mr. Byam Kegs (from Kalamazoo, with
intense disgust).—“Here, waiter, I
ordered raw oysters. What on airth
are these nasty black stones!
Waiter (petrified)—“Oystahs, sah—on
de haff-shetl, sah I”
Mr. Byam Keggs—“Haff-sliell, is it?
Oh, git out! I’ve eat a million canned
oysters out home, and never saw a shell
on ary one of them I”
Careful of His Mind.
Woman (to tramp) —“I s’pose you’ve
traveled a good deal in this country?”
Tramp- “I know every toot of it,
Ma’am, from 1 ortland, Maine, to the
Rio Grande.”
Woman—“ Don’t ye git tired o’travel
in’ sometimes?”
Tramp—“ Occasionally, Ma’am, lam
oppressed with more or less ennui: still,
there’s nothing like travel, you know,
to broaden one's mind.” —The Epoch.
Two Pictures.
In Courtship—“ What makes the stars
so dim to-night?” she asked.
“Your eyes are so bright they out
shine them,” he said, as he tenderly
pressed her hand.
After Marriage —“I wonder how many
telegraph poles it would take to reach
from here to the moon?” she said,
musingly.
“One, if it was long enough,” he
snapped; “why can’t you talk sense?”
—Boston Courier.
What Can He Tell Pa?
Clara (shyly)—“You will have to gain
papa's consent first, Mr. Bampson, ere I
give you my answer.”
Sir. Sampson (heart throbbing with
hope)—“Can I see him at once, dear
Clara? ’
“I think so, Mr. Sampson; and papa is
so absurdly practical, he may ask some
foolish questions.”
What will he ask?
He may want to know how much you
are worth, and oh, Mr. Sampson—George
(and the name dropped so sweetly from
her lips)—what will you tell him? — Sift
ings.
Leai'iiing to Shop.
Pretty Miss—“ Have you any plows?"
Jeweler—“flows?”
“Yes, or harrows I”
“Harrows?”
“Yes. or rakes, or hoes, or mowing
machines —”
“See here, my little miss, you seem to
be out of your head, and I don’t know
but may be I ought to call a doctor or
policeman or ”
“Oh, mercy me! Don’t do that! My
head is all right. You see, Iwantcdto
go shopning and as I had not any money
ma told me to be careful not to ask for
anything the store 1 went into was likely
to have in stock.” —Philadelphia Record.
Food tor a Lover.
He—“ Amanda, this is the neat little
restaurant where 1 have those delicious
lunches I have mentioned to you but
could not describe, and this is Tom, the
waiter who serves me my favorite dishes
so nicely.
She —“Ilowsweet, Adolphus.”
He—“ What will you order. Amanda?
They have birds, o, sters, aud all the
delicacies of the season."
She—“ Your favorite dish, Adolphus,
of course. Waiter, you may fetch Mr.
Wigwag’s favorite order, which ho says
you serve so nicely.”
Waiter —“Yes, lady” (giving order) —
“Draw one in de dark. Soused pigs’ feet
on de iron.” —New York Sun.
Vanquished.
“You malicious nuisance'." exclaimed
the angry business man, “you have been
here every day for the last six mouths.
How many more times do you need to
be told that I never buy anything of
peddlers?’’
“I am carrying out the wishes of my
late father, sir,” said the peddler. “He
railed on you 397 times without ever
making a sale and then turned the job
over to me. He died of a broken heart,
NUMBER 5.
sir, and I am fast breaking down, but I
have a son who ”
“I surrender,” said the business man,
brokenly. “I don't want the blood oi
three generations on my bead. I’ll taks
your entire stock if you quit and call ll
square.”— Chicago Tribune.
A Mean Trick.
Gus De Smith has been engaged to ■
number of young ladies, but thus far hs
lias never married any of them. Besidei
being a gay Lothario, Gus is alto a poot.
On meeting a friend recently Gut re
marked :
“Did you hear that I was engaged
again?”
"You don’t tell me so? When are you
going to get married?”
“I didn’t say that I was going to get
married. lam only engaged.”
“What is the young lady’s name?”
“Her name is Lucy. Two other young
ladies to whom I was engaged were
named Lucy. That's why i engaged
myself to this last girl. I can uso on
this present Lucy the sonnets and love
letters I used on the other two. See?"
— Siftinge.
A Pointed Reply.
After the downfall of Napoleon in
1815, the French Government became
liable for the amount of 750 million
francs, which was to be paid over to
Allies within threo years, to reimburse
them for the expense of the campaign.
The payments were to be made in 1816 in
gold, but as the French were unable to
raise the amount in gold, the Allies had
tobe satisfied with silver in payment of
the other installment.
The people of Paris were naturally
very much interested, and took no pains
to conceal their anguish at having to
part with their gold and silver coin.
The subject was under discussion on#
day in the salon of Madame de Stael.
A young German officer who was present
protested against the Allies being com
pelled to take the inferior metal in pay
ment.
“Y ou had better be satisfied," inter
rupted Madame de Stael; “we paid the
first installment in gold, the second in
silver, and, if pressed too closely, WS
might pay the third in iron.”
“Very well, Madame,” replied the
German officer, calmly; “you can pay
the third installment in iron, if you
choose, but if you try it we will give
you a receipt in full in lead ”
Penelope’s Words of Comfort.
“i’enelope, can’t you say something
to soften the blow?” implored the young
man.
“t)li, Philip, Philip! Whatcanlsay?
It is all over between us.”
“That doesn’t soften it any,” rejoined
Philip; “that’s what you said before.”
And the uuhappy youth looked mourn
fully at a ten dollar volume of poems he
had presented her a few months before,
and heaved a sigh so deep, so pro
found, that it made his shoes perceptibly
tighter.
“Penelope,” he continued, “when a
young man builds all his hopes on the
promise of a young woman and that
young woman deliberately goes back on
that promise, it knocks the props, as it
were, out from under his hopes, and
they come down, kerswash! You may
have a perception sometime, Penelope,”
he added with increasing gloom, “of
the feelings of a human being standing
by a wreck of this kind and looking at
the debris of his own happiness.”
“I couldn’t help it, Philip,” she re
plied. “I have become satisfied that we
were not made for each other. We
should not be happy together. We”
“Is it because I am a mugwump?” he
demanded.
“No, Philip, it is not that, I think,
with proper nursing, you would recover
from that in time. Neither have I any
objection to your personal appearance,
your position in society, your hab
its”—
“My habits 1” he ejaculated. “I hope
not. Penelope Witherspoon, I never in
my life took a drink of anything intox
icating, never chewed tobacco, never
smoked a cigar, never went to a circus,
and never was in a ballroom. I don’t
drink tea or coffee, eat peatnuts, chew
gum, read novels, swear, gamble, lie,
use snuff, play checkers, sit up late at
night, go to theatres, eat between meals,
nor read Amelie Rives. I never kissed
a young woman in my life”
“As far as my experience goes,” as
serted Penelope, retrospectively, “I can
certify that you have not. “Philip,” she
added, with a glow of tender womanly
sympathy on her face, “you asked me
to say something to soften the blow. I
think I t an foresee a great future for you.
Your habits have fitted you for a shin
ing career.”
“In what capacity, may I ask?”
“Asa $(500-a-week freak in a dime
museum. Chicago 'Tribune.
Vegetables of National Importance.
The importance of vegetables in the
United States, says a writer in the Inde
pendent., has been partially demonstrated
in late years by the regular establishment
by Congress of the "Section of Vegetable
Pathology,’’ since, while (his section at
tends to the diseases of vines and fruit
trees, it also investigates those of vege
tables. A small appropriation was
granted to the Department of Agricul
ture for the support of this section, and
those in charge of it have already gath
ered a good deal of information as to the
potato rot in the United States. The
Botanical Division has also published
15,000 copies of the “Circular No. 4,”
on “Treatment of the potato and tomato
for the blight and rot.”
W- How strange all such Government as
sistance would have seemed to the Eng
lish 300 years ago, when, as Smiles tells
us, gardening, "though long practiced
by the monks, had become almost a lost
art in England.”
In 151)5 we are told that a sum equal
to twenty shillings was paid at Hull for
six cabbages and a few carrots. And a
writer of 1650 tells of an old man who
remembered “the first gardener who
came into Surrey to plant,cabbages and
cauliflowers, and to sow turnips, carrots,
and parsnips and early peas ; all of
which at that time were great wonders,
we having few or none in England but
what came from Holland or Flandeers.”
America's First Plate Glass.
There i a window on Fearl street,
New Albany, Ind., in which is set the
first sheet of plate glass ever cast in
America. It was made in the town by
Captain .T. B. Ford, the pioneer manu
facturer this side of salt water. By the
way, how many New Yorkers who look
daily through the acres of translucence
lining our streets know that each of the
big sheets is catt while liquid upon a
stone or marble table, the excess swept
off by machinery, aud the future plate,
wh.le still hot enough to be almost
viscid, slid off and taken thioughnoend
of ovens and oil baths by way of an
sealing.