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The Georgia Enterprise. VOLUME XXIV. Enterprise. I'l’ WEEKLY AT Si; I ON GyoittHA. '.j V si IN CLUBH OF FIVE. I ;|| Ihr Covington Fostoffice Eond clittH matter. Terras, $1,25 r annum. In clubs of five or more ie Dollar. Six months 75cts. Four nntlu, 50 ets always in advance. >A T IIONIZE fie Old Enterprise. t “rides no fences.” fuinpsno nominations 1.25 in advance, n clubs of five sl. Advertising Rates. local Notices lOcts per line first inser on 20 cents per month. Business Ad visements #1 per inch first time—so ets ch subsequent insertion. CONTRACT ADVERTISING: pace 1 mo. | 3m. | 6 m Jl2 m. wTi c-J .10 I 5.00 I 8.00 12.00 400 I 8.00 1 12.00 18.00 6.00 112.00 118.00 27.00 tol’m 7.00 | 15.00 I 25.00 40.00 i 12.00 I 25.00 I 40.00 60.00 f is.oo I 40.00 I 60.00 100.00 When any issue of interest to the pople of this county arises it may be pended upon that The Enterprise rill be ready to discuss in a way and lanner which no sensible man can iseon-true or misunderstand. We land ever ready to labor ‘For the cause that lacks assistance, or the wrong that needs resistance ortho future in the distance, nd the good that we can do.” Georgia Methodist FEMALE COLLEGE F 13088-9. Fall Term begins August 29, and (loses December 14. Spring Term begins January 9, and (loses June 19. Board $lO to sls per month. — KATES OF TUITION Tuition and Incidental* Tall Term, 4 months, $9 to sl7. Full corps of te*'-' t,ers - A PP ! y for Catalogue. k J, m McLaughlin, A. M„ fungton, Ga.] President. 11, SIMMS &So Real Estate Agents, COVIXCTON GEORGIA. Be sure to give us the selling and renting of your property. Rates of commission low. finable property on hand for sale. Try us= Jitles traced and per fected. Ko Pay unless a sale [ s made or rents col lected. L. SIMMS & CO. franklin 6. Wright, -COVINGTON, GA.— teilht Physician & Surgeon, w ' ObtWric, Gynecology, Diseases C a ' ul Children, and all Chronic I have | a l ,r ‘ vate nature, a specialtyl enable nr?: " ilf my command, which wil roondinr ,0 a,,|,| >d the calls of the sur tiCp " e ountry, as well as my city prac- FRANKLIN B. WRIGHT, M. D f arm loans, By w. SCOTT, r • -wington, Georgia. T win v . ' 1 N ewt Loans on Farms in ° n Five V ~° n and Rockdale counties rpRYp ” w •*- y ( ,u i i " Tnng "'ith Cash, and see how Cru'i' ll ' Interest will cost vou less W. SCOTT. 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.