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The Georgia Enterprise.
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"COVINGTON, GA.—
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SOUTHERN NEWS.
A CONDENSATION OF HAPPEN
INGS STRUNG TOGETHER.
MOVEMENTS OB ALLIANCE MEN—RAIL
ROAD CASUALTIES—TUK COTTON CROP
—FLOODS—ACCIDENTS—CROP RETURNS.
ALABAMA.
In a joint caucus of Democratic Sena
tors and Representatives of the Alabama
Legislature, United States Senator John
T. Morgan was nominated by acclama
tion to be his own successor from the
4th of March next. This is his third
nomination.
J. B. Thompson, foreman of the brick
work on the new court-house atßirming
j ham, fell from the tower to the ground,
j a distance of fifty feet, on Thursday.
Ilia spinal column was broken in two
places, and his left leg was shattered.
He died two hours later.
A site has been selected and the
ground will bo broken at once for the
erection of a mammoth car springs works
at Anniston, they will manufacture
springs for all the works of the United
Bintes Bolling Stock Cos., in dilfereut
parts of the country. It will add about
four hundred hands to the working pop
ulation of this city, principally skilled
mechanics.
Fl. Oil IDA.
The p st-oflice at Porter, Washington
county, will be discontinued becauso no
one wants to be postmaster,
For the fiistdny in feme time, Sur
geon Martin has uo new cases of yellow
Fever to report from O iaesville, Fla.
The weather cool, but no frost.
Vegetables arc growing finely around
Plant City. Cucumbers and egg plants
are sent North daily. The crop of cab
bages, beets, etc., will be large and
ready for the market early in the Spring.
The rej ort of the Board of Tlealth at
Jacksonville, Flu., for the first time in 12
days shows a clean bill. There were no
new cases and no deaths for twenty-four
hours. There are uo more than twenty
cases at present inside the city limits,
and these are nearly all convalescent and
a 1 past the danger point.
New cases in Jacksonville on Thanks
giving Day were seven, of which five
were white and two black. There were
no deaths. Total cises to date, 4,087;
total deaths, 408. BuTgeon Martin, at
Glnincsville, reports no new cases on
Thanksgiving Day, and no deaths for
the past twenty-four hours.
sen tic t ai:oi.l.NA.
A strange accident occurred in Charles
ton. Two ciloied draymen, while at
empting to load a carboy of vitriol on a
Irav, smashed the carboy. The acid set
lire to their clothing and also to the dray
ind mule's tail. The two men and the
mule were badly injured, perhaps fatally.
NORTH CAROLINA.
The sash and bliud factory of W. C.
Pctiy & Cos., of Archdale, N. C., was
destroyed by fire on Sunday. The loss is
$10,000; partially insured.
A son of Capt. J. J. Thomas, a promi
nent citizen of Raleigh, walked into a
hardware store, bought a pistol, had il
loaded, and before he could be mevented
raised it to his head and tired, killing
limsclf instantly.
The Farmers’ Alliance lias taken an im
portant and bold step to udvance the in
terest of its members, who are encaged in
growing tobacco. It has been decided lo
call a convention at Durham, N. C., to
take into consideration the tobacco in
terests as it relates to the farmers of the
tobacco sections of Virginia nnd North
Carolina, and to ask each subordinate al
liance in the tobacco section to send del
egates. The object of the meetings are
to discuss aud formulate some plan lor
the relief of the tobacco farmers, to con
fer on the advisability of establishing
warehouses for the sale of leaf tobacco,
to formulato a plan to lessen the cost
5f handling and selling farmers’ tobacco;
to discuss the advisability of estab
lishing places for the manufacture of
tobacco in all its branches, nnd such
stber matters in connection with the
tobacco interest as may como before the
meeting.
Rev. W. L. Garrison, member of the
North Carolina Conference, M. E.
church, has charge of a circuit in
Cabarus county, aud about two months
ago Garrison was tried by his church foi
conduct unbecoming a minuter in refer
ence to a young lady and was acquitted
as innocent. It appears that the matter
was still discussed among certain parties,
who determined that Garrison should
have a flogging for his misconduct, nod
accordingly, when he had preached his
farewell sermon to his congregation at
I Center Grove church, expectiug to leave
for conference Monday, ho was told that
parties on the outside wi-hed to see him.
Ho walked out, meeting a very large
man just outside of the door, who intro
duced himself as Doan Krimmmgor, and
at once dealt the preacher a blow with
his fist, which knockod him to the
ground almost senseless. Krimmingei
than jumped upon Garrison, knocking
him tliiok and fast, until the congrega
tion rushed out and pulled him off. The
preacher was badly injured.
niiHSorui.
A special from St. Louis, Mo., says
the jute bagging trust is reported tube
going to pieces. The sabs of l agging
by the combination have been far below
the usual Fall average. In addition to
shrinkage in sales, another obstacle now
confronts the bagging trust, which
cattses uo small uneasiness in its ranks.
There arc in all twenty-four bagging
factories in the United States, and of
these sixteen are shut down, having been
leased by the “combine” and closed.
The first day of January these leases ex- ■
pire aud the sixteen factories are ready ,
to start up again unless once more leased |
by the trust and allowed to remain idle. ;
So far, there has been no arrangement j
made toward leasing the bagging “com- ,
bine” and it is probable that several fae- j
tories will start up after the opening of |
the new year, which is calculated to in
terfere considerably with the plans of the
“combine” and naturally cause a serious J
decline in the price of bagging.
MIItTUND.
Governor Jackson, of Maryland, said
that the situation in the oyster re be ho c
which confronts the State authorities is ;
this' There are eight hundred oystei
vessels, whose crews, aggregating about
five thousand armed men, are banded to
gether to dredge on certain grounds, and
to drive off any State force seat against
them. To opp >se them, the State ha.
fourteen vessels, mo-t of them .mall
sloops, manned by about a hm.dtc-l mem
F,ve six or eieht-pound cannons will be
placed on the State steamers and at spots
on the shore, to be selected. j
TKNNESfIRR.
Rishop McTyelre, of the Methodist
church, South, is still critically ill at his
homo at Vanderbilt University, Tennes
see. ne now has typhoid fever.
Rev. J. Henry Smith#, D.D. LL.D.,
of Philadelphia, Pa., has given SIO,OOO
to Grant Memorial University of Athens,
t<> aid in educating ten young men foi
the Southern ministry.
Col. William Rule, now the sole owtiei
of the Knoxville Journal, is being urged
by liis friends to mako the race for post
master general. He was secretary of the
Republican convention which nominated
Gen. Harrison.
A severe fire took place in Chattanoogu
on Thursday which broke out in the
harness storo of W. H. Ford. Ford’!
store, Frye’s livery stable and Reed’s
transfer were burned. The roof of the
Kennedy House was burnt off.
J. L. Onley, of Friendship, Crockett
county, Tenn., last week wrote the fol
lowing message to Rev. W. 11. Bruton,
editor of the State Wheel, of Jackson:
“I thought you were editing a wheel pa
per. 1 find nothing in it but rotten De
mocracy, and you cun take your Democ
racy and paper and go to . I am a
wheeler and a Republican.” Bruton
show ed tlio card to tho Federal authori
ties and a depiuty marshal was sent to
nrrest Onley. He was taken to Jackson
on Saturday and tried before a United
States commissioner and held over under
a bond of SSOO. The lowest penalty for
such an offense is SIOO fine and thirty
days’ imprisonment.
KENTUCKY.
George Manning, of Bellevue, while
out hunting near Amelia, Clermont
county, gave his loaded shotgun to
Aaron Cleveland Turner, a half-witted
negro to hold. Turner pointed the gun
at liis sister, Belle Turner, who was only
two feet away, and it went oil and killed
her.
TEXAS.
For several days past, the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers in Houston,
Texas, have been in session. The en
gineers of the.Sdttthern Pacific Railroad
Cos. have a grievance against J. J, Ryan,
master mechanic of lue road, and pur
pose to make a firm stand against him.
The shopmen working under Ryan are
with him, it is said and will stand by
him. The Brot heiliood appointed a
committee who left for New Orleans to
consult and arbitrate with the manage
ment of the road in reference to the
matter.
MISSISSIPPI.
On Wednesday the last spike was
driven in the Georgia Pacific railroad at
West Point, Miss., connecting New Or
leans with Atlanta and Birmingham.
GEORGIA ITEMS.
Hon. William Markham, a well-known
old gentleman of Atlanta, announces
himself as an independent candidate foi
mayor.
An eclipse of the sun is booked for the
Ist of January next, but it will only be
partial in t -is longitude, commencing
about 1 o’clock p. m. It will be total iu
Ca Kornia.
Fire was discovered in the after-hold
)f the Biitish steamsh p Glenoehil, load
ing at Savannah with cotton for Bremen.
It was soon extiugui-hed and about thirty
balis were found to be scorched.
By a destructive fire Saturday night at
Buchanan, Ga , four business houses aud
the Methodist church were destroyed.
The I<sc-rs were Thomas Philpot, W. A.
McCalmon, Thomason <fc On., G. M. Rob
erts. There was no insurance on the
church.
Ed. Thompson, the mail rider between
Gumming end Gainesville, now lan
gui.-hes in Fulton county jail. He is
t-haig and with robbing the post-office at
Cum : ing of about 8100. All of the
111 >ney except thirty-five cents, which he
had spent, was recovered by the officers.
Liberty county, Ga., will have its first
hanging since the War on January 17.
Widinm Macon was convicted for the
i murder of John Spain at Joslyn, thirty
five miles south of Savannah, about two
mouths ago, and was sentenced to be
hanged. The murder resulted from a
quarrel over a game of cards.
D. J. Cronin, a city p liceman, Patiick
MeMurray, an Ocean Steamship Company
poiic man, John Crimmc ', a laborer
irom New York, and a negro, all lying
at the p i tof death, and Mike Tilgli
man, (tend, are the victims of a riot
evl ich started in Yamacraw at Savannah
mi Thanksgiving, Day. It nil grew out
of P.itroimah McMurray’s arrest of a
drunken negio near Orange and St. Gaul
Streets. The negro resisted arrest, and
swo re that lie would not go. As the day
was a lml,day and a few negroes were at
work, the streets were full of them.
'Many of (Re men and women had been
drinking during the m r..iug, and were
ripe for trouble, and In the attack on the
policemen, several negroes were shot
who were taken away and concealed by
their fiiends.
More than 50,000 people attended the
Augusta Exp- sition on Thanksgiving
Day, and reports from different railroads
declare that thousands more would have
j come if the railioads could have brought
| them to hear Henry W. Grady orate.
; The legislatures of South Carolina and
Georgia wore present, and Governor
Richardson, ex Governor Hngood, Com
! oiissioner of Agriculture A. P. Butler,
and other leading men of Carolina, Sen
ator Brown and 8 liator Colquitt, Con
gressman Barnes anel the state house of
ficers of Georgia occupied seats on the
stage. Many ladies thronged the ball,
ami a speaker never faced a more inspir
-1 ing audience. Mr. Grady’s figures were
graceful and artistically worked out, his
: L-loepu-nco was winning, and h:s magnetic -
influence ove-r hts audience never greater.
! Ho was fervid and impassionate and car- j
ried the audience by storm.
YELLOW FEVER.
Another case of yellow fever was re- j
ported in the person of Raphael DeLano, j
of 70 Mulberry street, New York city. I
De Lano arrived from Jacksonville, Fla., |
with hi- wife and two chileireo, nnd was
taken sick soon alter his arrival. Shortly
afterwards black vomit began, and the .
doctor not lied the police and board ol
health, who at once had him removed to
the reception hospital. De Lano told the
doctor that he had been in Jacksonville '
during the epidemic, and had nursed J
several patients, but had never caught it
himself.
STEEL PLATE WORKS.
Ground was broken on Tuesday in
Joliet, 111., for the erection of immense
steel plate works near the Joliet Steel
Co.’s. When in operation, the works
will give employment to 1,000 men.
“MY COUNTRY: MAY SHE EVER HE RIQTTT; RIGHT OR WRONG, MY COUNTRY!” — Jefferson.
COVINGTON. GEORGIA. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6. 1888.
THE WORLD OVER.
INTERESTING ITEMS BOILED
DOWN IN READABLE STYLE.
THE FIELD OF LAUOR —SF.F.THINO CAUL
DRON OF EUROPEAN INTHIOUE —FIUHS,
SUICIDES, ETC.—NOTED DEAD.
The Duchess of Sutherland is dead.
Hertcmtein, the President of Switzer
land, who underwent the amputation of
bis lighting recently because of disease
of the arteries, died Tuesday.
John Blight, of England, is quite ill.
His lungs nr -Ina bn i condition. The
bfueen has sent telegrams inquiring about
bis condition.
It was re]irteU on the board of trade
Chicago, I 1., on Monday that .lav Gould
bad bought the Atkinson, Topeka &
Santo Fe tell graph system for $-’05,1100.
yueen Victoria has confirmed the ap
pointment of Col. Monro, assistant police
commUsioner, to succeed Sir Charles
Warren as chief of the .Metropolitan po
lice in London. , ,
Ti e latest sensation in Paris, France,
is the determination of Gen. Boulanger’s
wife to obtain a divorce. One of the
richest widows in Fiance is willing to
marry the general.
A collision that will cost the Chicago,
Rock Island & Pacific Railroad company
from SBO,OOO to SIOO,OOO, recurred thirty
miles east of Davenport, lowa. Only a
tramp was killed.
The trouble between the switchmen of
the New York Central and their employ
ers was settled at a conference by a com
promise. The men secure increased pay
and oilier concessions.
Motes Smith, a hardworking miner of
Brazil, Ind., has just been apprised of
the death of a relative in Wales, whereby
lie inherits a fortune aggregating SIOO,-
000. He is sixty years old and without
a family.
Careful investigation has convinced the
autboiities that the Mo ly Maguire or
ganization is now an active concern in
Western Pennsylvania mining regions,
and that much is to be feared from them
in the near future.
At Vian, Cherokee Nation, a drunken
row resulted in the killing of five men
and the wounding of another. The
men killed were Isaac Gcrty, Jesse Lan
don, George Hensan and G Landrum.
Joe Starr was wounded.
Surgeon Simon, of the United States
steamer Boston, in quarantine at New
Yoik. died on Tuesday. The other two
patients nre steadily improving, and
the the rest of the ship’s company are in
good health.
The Pope lias instructed Cardinal
Gibbons to congratulate Mr. Harrison on
his election to the presidency. The
Pope has sent a letter thanking Cardinal
Manning and the English Catholics for
their support of him in the pending law
question.
Lieut. W'issmann will wait on Emperor
William to resign his commission in the
army, and to state his plans for the Emin
relief expedition. He will leave Berlin
in three weeks to lead the first column.
Dr. Peters will have command of the
supporting column.
Policeman Albert W. Thayer, of De
troit, Mieh., was shot and instantly killed
sn Tuesday night near the corner of Fort
and Laffcrty streets. The only clew to
the murderer is a satchel found near the
scene of the tragedy, containing a com
plete set of burglar’s tools.
Gen. John M. Palmer, of Illinois, who
made an unsuccessful race for governor,
assisted by his adjutant general, M.
Kountz, (at one time Coifftnander-in-
Chief of the G. A. R.,) has commenced
the organization of a “Democratic”
Grand Army of the Republic.
The question regarding tffo fugitive
slaves harbored by the mission station at
Mombasa has been settled by Messrs.
Mackenzie and Mathews, the British
commissioners, to the satisfaction of the
native s who have invited Mr. Mackenzie
to a public feast. The arrangement se
cures the freedom of 1,500.
For the purpose of discouraging the
importation cf contract labor, the Coun
cil of Reading, Pa., passed an ordinance
making it unlawful and punishable with
heavy line, for any contractor to employ
any but citizens of the United States on
any city work. The ordinance emanates
from Reading’s labor organizations.
Jay Eye See, the famous pacer, is in a
dying condition at Racine, Wis.
The great pacer was discovered
in the ja-ture almost lifeless
from loss on blood on Tuesday. He had
stepped on a piece of glass during tho
night and cut the main artery of the
right front foot. lie is worth $50,000.
G. W. Wahl rot, banker of Hillsdale,
Mich., who fled to Europe a few weeks
ago, landed at New York and at once
notified his principal creditors of his in
tention to settle his financial affairs dol
lar for dollar. Waldron gives as his
reason for ms flight to Europe a desire
to “get even with Good,” his partner, for
interfering in his divorce proceedings.
Tho Chinese lepers in British Columbia
have communicated their terrible malady
to the Indians, who, in that province,
number 50,000. Senator Mclnnis, mem
ber of Parliament from British Colum
bia, states that out of the total Indian
population of the province, which ho
placed at 40.000, lie believes there will
not be 5,000 living iu a quarter of a
century, as the result of the leprosy.
“Dock” Haggerty was unloading gly
cerine at Pleasantviile, Pa., on Monday.
He had 1,000 pounds of it in a wagon.
It exploded aud Haggerty was literally
annihilated. Parts of his two horses
were found in the neighboring trees.
Pieces of the wagon were found Half a
mile away. Mrs. Cutashaw, in a house
in the vicinity, was seriously injured by
side of the house being blown in and
the explosion was heard at Oil City,
twelve miles distant.
Wilson, the son-in-law of President
Grevy, appeared ou Tuesday in the
Chamber of Deputies at Paris, 1 ranee,
for the first time s nee his trial. After a
transaction of some formal business, En-
Bereur, alluding to ihe abs nee of Wilson,
proposed to suspend the sitting for one
hour, stating that the Chamber of Dep
uties would understand tho reason.
Dnrnne, Bonapartist, thought the Cham
per ougnt to adjourn altogetnor. E-n
--sereur’s motion was approved. On re
suming its sitting, Millerand moved that
the chamber, having give sufficient melt
cation of its sentiments, return to the
order of tho day. The motion was passed.
Wilson thereupon left the chamber, ac
companied by Andrieux.
At a meeting of the Central Labor
Union held in New York City op Sunday,
the Freeman’s Labor Club and Waiters’
Union composed cutiiely of ne
groes, asked admission to tho cen
tral body, but were refused. It
wns argued that colored men
should not form separate unions, but
should be members or me unions with
their white fellow workmen, but the r
admission in these casus were denial on
other grounds. A breeze was started
by a motion to petition the
Legislature to make eight hours a
day’s work, beginning Juno 1,
181)0. It was referred to the building .
trade s, but in the discus-ion of the cause
of their same movement in 1880, T. V.
Fowderly was rated severely for working
against them as was alleged. It was
-ieei led to rcucw the boycott against
pool beer.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
WHAT THE UNITED STATES OF
FICIALS ARE DOING.
Surgeon Maitin, nt Gainesville, Fla.,
telegraphed that refugees are returning
to that city against hn positive orders,
and that the city authoiities seem pow
erless to prevent them.
Miss Belle Wilson and lion. Jlicha'l
Henry Herbert, who is at prtseut Lord
SackviUe-West’s temporary sureroor in
charge of IHe British legation at Wash
ington, D. C., were married ou Tuesday.
The statement just issued from the
bureau of statistics, Treasury Depart
ment, shows that during the month oi
October tie value of merchandise iin
potted at Florida ports was $111,414
and tho value of exports sl4t,i)lli.
Surgeon Hutton, at Camp Perry, Fla.,
telegraphed on Monday to the Marine
Hospital Bureau that there was a heavy
fresi at the camp, in view of which Sur
geon-General Hamilton lias directed that
the camp be closed, so far us receiving
refugees is concerned.
Surgeon-General Hamilton has received
a telegram fiom Dr. Smith, president ol
the New York Board of Health, con
firming reports in regard to the existence
of yellow fever on tfie United States
steamship Boston, Dow at New York.
There were four deaths on the pas
sage from Port-au-Prince and three eick
on arrival, including Surgeon Simon.
Chairman Britton, of the inaugural
committee, has received a lcitor front
Denver, Colorado, asking that five hun
dred ladies from that city be allowed to
march in the parade on the 4th of March.
This would be a decided innovation, but
several members of the executive com
mittee favor granting of the request,
on the ground that the women had a
considerable part in political demonstra
tions during the campaign in Indiana
and elsewhere.
Judge Merrick, in court in the genera)
term of the District of Columbia, or
Monday delivered an opinion in favor ol
Milly Thomas et al., in their suit against
William F. Holtzman. The case in
volved the constitutionality ot the law
declaring legitimate children born ol
slave parents living togetner as husband
and wife, though not wedded according
to existing forms of marriage. The court
bolds that the legislation was wise, pro
per, humane and just.
WELCOME! JACK FROST.
There was a heavy white frost in
Jacksonville, Fin., on Monday night,
completely covering roofs, lawns and
pavements. There is great rejoicing
thereat, and people talk of nothing else.
Business has revived perceptibly. Ice
formeei iu at least a dozeu places about
the city. The Board of Health, com
mittee of the auxiliary association aud
Dr. Peters will hold conferences at once
relative to giving immediate attention to
such prelimiuury work aud necessary
precautions as shall open to us all chan
nels of business throughout the state at
the earliest moment the board of health
may deem prudent. All embargo on the
travel will doubtless be taken olf by Sat
urday. Reports from the interior cities
are as follows: Lake City—“ Plenty of
frost; no ice here.” Live Oak —“Heavy
frost and ice here. Good-sized pond
near the depot hud one-eighth inch all
over.” Tallahassee—“ Heavy frost
here.” Gainesville—“lbid a good frost
here, and ice formed arouud water
tanks.” Ocala —“Mercury fell to 32last
night, llad very heavy frost and some
ico." Pnlatka—“We had a very heavy
frost here this morning. Thermometer
42 degrees. Congatulate you.” En
terprise— “No uew cases, no deaths.
Heavy frost and one-fourth inch ice in
exposed places last night. All sick
much better.” Titusville—“Slightfrost
here this morning. Mercury down to 42
degre es.” It is perfectly sale for people
to - travel in any portion of Florida.
Railroad trains will resume their cus
tomary Winter schedule iu a very few
days. Disinfection begins next Monday.
It will take at least twenty days.
Hunter’s immense mill furnaco will bo
used for burning infected bedding, ami
Smith’s laundry for disinfection of
clothes, etc.
THE AFRICAN BLOCKADE,
The English and German administra
tion in the sultan’* name have published
a proclamation to tho effect that the
blockade will commence at once, anel
that fleets are to take their position.
The Germau vessels on the south from
Wanga and Linda, and the English ves
sels on the north from Wanga to I.amei
Island. It is reported that a quantity
of arms and munitions is being landed
on the Portugese coast. Three guns,
which are being transported to Lake
Nyassa, have passed through Qitillimnne.
The war vessels Sophia and Carola, were
fired at from the shore, and thereupon
bombareled the coast not far from Zanzi
bar. T hey also lamleel an armed party
who found two dead Arabs. One German
was wounded.
WARM WAVE
The weather is remarkably mild and
warm at Grand Forks, D.dc. About a
dozen citizens appe-ared ou the streets on
Tuesday with straw hat.s and linen
elothes.
NEW INDUSTRY.
The" first yard of cotton cloth ever
manufactured in lowa was woven at the
Des Moines cotton mill, in the presence
of hundreds of eitizens, ou Tuesday.
GENEROUS.
T. V. Williamson, a Philadelphia mil
lionaire, has donated 85,000,000 for the
founding of a mechanical school for
white boys.
LATEST BYJELEGRAPH.
The Philadelphia and Reading Cnnl
and Iron Cos. will shut down clghto n
collieries and run about thirty seten on
three-quarters time.
Tlie election in ilolborn dislric ot
London, Euglan 1 on Thursday, r- suited
in the choice of Bruce, conservative, by
u vote of 4,308 against 3,483 for Laid
Compton, Gladstouian. in the election
two years ago, Col. Duncan, conserva
tive, who-e death left the seat in Parlia
ment vacant, had a majority of 1,700 out
a total voto of S, *SOO.
There is little doubt that the steamer
“Allentown,” belonging to the Philadel
phia and Reading Railroad Company,
foundered off Cohasset, Mass. She wis iu
a recent gale and all on board perisln and.
She was an iron boat of 1,050 tons end
had a cargo of coal for Salem, M i-sa
chusetts. Sho cleared from Philadel
phia.
President and Mrs. Cleveland attended
the Assembly Chureli, iu Washington,
I). C., where several of the Pre-byteriaa
churches held union services. The
Thanksgiving sermon was preached by
Rev. Dr. P.tzer. After the services the
President reviewed the district uat oual
guard from a stand in front of the White
House, and then went to Oakview.
The socialist members of the Gcimau
Reichstag published an appe il to thier
supporteis to continue their agitation,
and to collect funds for defraying tho
expenses of the next election, which is
expected to take place in the Autumn of
1881). The appeal concludes as foliows:
“The times are now favorable to us as
never before. Radical social reform is
necessary, for the peasant citizen suffers
equally w ith the workingmen.”
It is expected that 300,000 persons
will take part in the demonstration on
the grave of Baudin, in Paris, France.
Dr. Baudin, a cousin of the revolutionist,
refuses to participate. A grand nepew
has been found who will act as chief
mourner, and other relatives tro likely
to attend. Boulanger inteuds to hang
i wreath on Baudiu’s tomb, hut he will
go as an individual deputy with a few
Iriends. The Boulangist commission
have decided to send wreaths, but with
out courting attention, in order to avoid
i riot. The communists will be out in
force.
A FLORIDA CRIME.
Interest in a horriblo murder that oc
curred near Monticello, Fla., has fceea
intensified by the discovery that one ol
the men implicated is a son of Mary E.
Bryan, the well-known w riter of New
York. Mrs. Bryan was in Savannah,
Ga., to look after her son’s interests, and
left a few days ago for Thoinssville, Qa.,
where it is supposed she is s:ill stopping.
The story she told is a pathetic one.
Just before the election she received a
letter urging her to come to Florida, as
her bou was taking a very active part in
politics, and that it was feared that he
would get into troub’o wit i tho negroes
at the poils at Lloyd’s, Jefferson county,
where he voted. Her next summons was
a dispatch which read: “Come at onco.”
When sho arrived, she learned that her
son was a fugitive, with a suspicion of
murder hanging over him. The story of
his crime is trog cin the extreme. In a
fracas in a mill at Lloyd’s station a month
ago ho was stabbed, and at one time his
life wa3 despaired of. Who cut him was
uncertain, but a negro named Judson
Cason was suspected. On election day
Leo Houston, John S. Bryan, sou of the
authoress, and Arthur Duncau arrested
Judsou. That night he was taken from
a room in wlvch he was confined nt
Lloyds, bound hand and foot, placed in
a wagon and carried two miles to the
Micoosukie sinks. There he was stab
bed to death, at least a dozen ghastly
wounds being indicted. Five or six
heavy stones were then tied to the body,
and it was thrown into the yawning
abyss forming the mouth of tho sinks.
Had it not struck ail obstruction it
would have disappeared in tho fathomless
opening and never been found. It struck
oil a ledge, however, was discovered
next morning, and thus brought out the
story of the crime.
BOULANGER 8 PLATFORM
M. Deroulede made a speech at i
meeting of the Patriotic League in Paris,
France, on Sunday. He spoke in termi
of warm praise of Gen. Boulanger. Re
ferring to the accident to the Russian
imperial tinin, he expressed sympalhy
with the Czar and rejoiced over his es
cape from harm. The speech was greatly
applauded, especially the reference to
Gen. Boulanger. The Qauloia says that
the government intends to dissolve tha
Patriotic League. Access to the ban
quetting hall to out-iders was barred by
the polico, who prevented tho proposed
public reception. The guests, on arriv
ing,, were merely greeted with shouts of
“Viva Boulanger” and “a b.cs Floquct.”
A few arrests were made, but the pro
ceedings were, in the mnin, orderly. At
the conclusion of tho banquet, which
followed the meeting, Gen. Boulanger
made a speech in which he said : “1 am
moroa patriot than a soldier. I ardently
desire pea e, not the pence which is de
manded, but a peace imposed by a Grin
nnd dignified attitude, 'lhat is the only
peace acceplnble to French hearts.”
DEAD.
Mis. Ellen Ewing Sherman, wile of
Gen. W. T. Sherman, died in Now York
City. Mrs. Sherman had been suffering
from heart troubles for a number of
jears nnd about three weeks ago she w as
taken seriously ill. The sad news was
lent to Rev. Thomas F. Sheiman, tho
dead woman’s sou, who is a Jesuit priest
at Woodstock, lud., and her daughters,
Mrs. Ella M. Thackcra, of Rosewood,
Pa., Mrs. Minnie 8. Fitch, at Rosewood,
[’a., anel her brothers, P. B. Ewing, of
Lancaster, Ohio, and General Hugh
Ewing. Mrs. Shertnan was sixty-four
years of age, and was born at Lancaster,
Ohio. She was married to General
Sherman thirty-eight years ago, and they
weie acquainted from the time that they
were children. Mrs. Sherman’s father
was Senator Thomai Ewiug, who repre
sented his state in the Senate for a num
ber of years, nnd was also a cabinet
officer. Mrs. Sherman’s remains will be
taken to St, Louis, Mo., for interment
WENT DOWN.
The large fishing schooner, Edward
Norton, of, and from Boston, Mass.,
went nshoie off First Cliff Point, on
Monday night, and immediately went to
pieces. Her crew consisted of sixteen
men and fifteen of them have perished.
The vessel was discovered by the mid
night patrol of the life-saving station,
but too late to render assistance. She
lies bottom up, and is a complete wreck.
[ BUDGET OF FUN.
HUMOROUS HKF.TCHF* FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
Sho Never Dreamt—A Radio of
Long Ago —Wise In Ills Gen
eral lon Hard Iy Peni
tent—Kcc., Etc.
When music, heavenly maid, was young,
And played upon the lyre
While yet in early Gi-mi-eshe sung
With soul und lip* afire.
Did e’er she dream a girl would play
Upon mi upright grand.
Or thattbere’d be some future day
An amateur brass band I
lloton Courier.
A Rattle of Long Ago.
Elderly Heiress (sadly)—“No, Mr.
Jun.-en, iny heart is dead to the tender
pass on. The only man I ever loved,
or could ever love, was killed at the
i battle of—of—”
Mr. .limsen i disappointed and reaching
for his hut) —“Lundy’s Lane?"— Sifting*.
Wise In llis Generation.
“I say, Brown, you know Shorty pretty
well, don’t you!"
“Oh, yes.”
“What kind of a fellow is he?”
“Well hhorty is a man who generally
carries his money in his inside pocket.”
| —Epoch,
Hardly Penitent.
“Oh, ma,” cried little Lii, bursting
into tears; “Johnnie took five cents out
of my bank.”
“What made you take your sister's five
cents, you naughty boy?” said Mrs.
Brown to her young hopeful.
“Because.” replied little Johnnie, “I
couldn’t get the quarter out.” —Noe York
Sun.
Just as Good as Thomson’s.
Poetic Young Lady fin general country
store)—“Have you ‘Thomson’s Seasons’
in book form?”
New Clerk —“No, ma’am! but we’ve
got some in pound packages that we put
up ourselves, just as good. Do you
want them ground or whole?” —Detroit
Free Press.
Not Wanted.
A beggar was pursuing his calling in
the street.
"Are you not ashamed,” asked a passer
by, “to follow a trade like that when
you are able to work?”
“Sir,” replied the barefooted one with
Castilian pride, it was money, not advice,
that I asked you for I”— Judge.
Sorry He Found It.
Office Boy—“ Here is a pocketbook,
sir, which you dropped.”
Muscular Merchant (grasping hoy’s
hand and wringing it vigorously)—
“Honest lad! \\ hat shall Ido to show
my gratitude?”
Boy (wincing under his torture,gasps)
—“Let go of my hand, sir, and we’ll
call it square.”
The Fault of the Fashion.
“Jennie, don’t you know that it is
not good form to open your mouth so
wide and make so much noise when you
laugh ?”
“Well, I know, mammi, but ns long
ns you have my dress sleeves made so
tight, I cau't laugh in iny sleeye, and
there’s no use trying, nnd you know I
should die if I could't somehow.”
—Danville Breeze.
A Special Indncenient.
Agent—“l’d like to insure your life.”
Respectable Old Party—“l don’t want
my life insured.”
“But we offer special inducements.
Every policy paid ou death ”
“Well, all the companies do that.”
“Yes, but we pay up even if you are
hanged. How’s that for a special induce
ment ?" Texas Siftings.
lie Ttecmne Reconciled, Too.
Tenderfoot (to Dakota hotel pro
prietor)—“You say your charges are f3
per day without, or $1 per day with po
tatoes. I think those rates arc ridicu
lous and exorbitant.
Proprietor (with one hand on a gun.
and pointing out of window to private
cemetery with tho other) —“There are a
number of gentlemen out there as held
the same views at first, but they became
reconciled 1” — Terns Siftings.
Mutual Secrecy.
Promptness at repartee is capitally il
lustrated by the following incident:
A singer in a suburban theatre began
to sing the song, “For Goodness Sake,
Don’t Say I Told You,” a few nights
ago, and was promptly hit with a rotten
egg bv one of the audience.
“Who threw that?” he howled.
“It was me,” ciied a voice in the gal
lery, “but for goodness sake, don't say I
told you.”
This brought down the house, and the
singer retired.
The Reason.
Billy Bliven is very generally and gen
erously indebted.
“By the way, Brown,” said he to a
friend the other elay, “can you tell me
how much I owe you?”
“Certainly,” replied his friend with
expectant anxiety, “just seventeen dol
lars and a half.”
A pause followed, which was broken
by the remark: “I thought perhaps you
might have some reason for asking. '
“I had.” replied Billy, "i was in
hopes you had forgotten it."— Merchant-
Traveler.
A Hi -th Compliment.
An Andover professor one day stopped
to look into the window of the Old
Corner bookstore, and among other
things upon which his eyes fell was a
large photograph of the men engaged in
the famous “Andover controversy,” his
own figure being prominent in the group.
A pair of small urchins were looking at
the picture, and just as he stopped, the
gentleman heard one of them say to the
other:
“Hey, Tommy, will yer look at them
fellers?”
Tommy gazed accordingly, and asked,
in a tone of interest:
“What nine is that?”
“Oh, I don't know,” tho first speaker
responded ; but tliey’s just sluggers, now,
ain t they?”
“You bet,” was the admiring reply.
And the professor passed on, with
fresh hope for the ultimate success of the
theological faction to which he belonged.
Boston C. urier.
The Paradox Collector.
This person exists.
A reporter of the New York Sun has
met him in the flesh, has shaken hands
with him, eaten with him, drunk with
him, aud been merry with him.
NUMBER T.
Barring his fad, he Is a very decent
■ort of fellow, hut to b# continually
asked such questions as:
“Did you ever notice that your mother
, in-law, in law is not your mother?”
"Has it ever occurred to you that
althougn the good die young, there are
precious few bishops under sixty 1”
“Have’you observed that while honesty
is tho best policy, It is about the only
kind you cannot get in the policy nhopf?’’
“Do you notice that the lower you live
in a fat the higher your rent?”
“fan't it curious that the more shopping
there is done in the stores the less stor
ing there is in the shops?”
And soon, forever, world without end,
is distinctly tiresome, and for this reason
the collector of paradoxes should b
avoided.
A Dude's Idea of Rad Form.
Freddy—“l say, old boy. they tell me
▼ou’ie broke with Miss Tiddiwink. How
the deuce did it come about)”
Harry—“l found her out, old chappie
She wasn’t a bit nice, don’t you know. I
caught tier flirting with a fellah, you
know. I wns real mad. quite desperate,
yon know, and I was going to slap him,
you know, and what do you think ht
did?”
Freddy—" Couldn't imagine, ’pou
honor.”
Harry —“Oh, he was awfully rude,
don't you know; ho actually doubled up
his fist at me!”
Freddy—“ You don’t mean itl It
makes me feel faint to think of such fe
rocity.”
Harry—“ Really, I think I should have
swooned myself, but Miss Tiddiwink
actually laughed. It saved me from
fainting, but I was so annoyed, don’t
you know, that I gave her one of my
terrible glances. She understood it was
all over between us. A fellah has to be
firm, don’t you know, or the girls would
never respect him. —Boston Tran cript.
So Graceful.
A young fellow who felt much pride
in the gracefulness of his handwriting,
secured a position as reporter on a daily
paper. One night, having just completed
an article entitled, “Aristotle and His
Philosophy,” he approached the city
editor, and said:
“Here is a beautiful piece of writing."
The city editor took the article,
glanced over it, and then replied:
“Yes, it is very pretty.”
“So smooth, so rounded out with
graceful curves,” said the youth, “that
it seems a pity to transfer the article to
the cod and mechanical embraces of
commonplatc type.”
“So it does,” thecity editor exclaimed
with enthusiasm, “so it does, and in
order that it may not be vulgarized,'
we’ll put it down in this clean and ro
mantic basket.”
“What, arn’t you going to use it!”
“Oh, no; it would be a shame to
allow the smutty-fingered printers to
thumb such beautiful writing.”
“I can copy them in a rougher hand.”
“Oh, no. I could not think of putting
you to such trouble. Run along, now.
Good bye."- Arkansaic Traveler.
Saw the Connection.
“Is that check good for anything?”
asked a passenger on the Lake Shore
Road of the policeman at the Detroit &
Milwaukee depot yesterday.
“No, sir,” replied the officer, after an
inspection. “That’s a confidence man’s
Check. How much did you let him
have?”
“Thirty dollars.”
“Well, you have been swindled.
Didn’t you ever read of their games?"
“Lots of times.”
“And yet you were roped in?"
“Yes.”
“I can t help you any.”
“I don’t waut you to. I want you to
look at this.”
He handed the officer a parcel which,
upon being opened, was found to con
tain a largo bunch of human hair which
had been pulled out by the roots, and I
piece of a man’s ear.
“And count this,” added the man, as
he held out a roll of money.
■‘Here are 870, and what doea it all
mean?” asked the officer.
“I’m the man that was swindled.
This truck belonged to the chap who
thought he had caught a sucker. See
the connection? Closely observe my
left eye. See any squash in there? Feel
of my head. Any soft spots anywhere
around? Tra la, old boy, and tell ’em
not to weep for yours truly!”— Detroit
Free Pi ess.
A Code of Barber’s Ethics.
One of the most interesting things
which the German papers have been writ
ing about lately is the establishment ot
a code of barbers' ethics. It appears
that some time ago a call was issued for
a Congress of Barbers to assemble at
Berlin. Four hundred of them responded
and there was an interesting meeting
which lasted three days. When they
ad ourned they had formulated a code of
trade ethics, which is well worth the
attention of their American brethren.
Here are some of the new regulations:
In future the operation of shaving must
invariably be beguu on the left eheek,
and the old style over there of applying
the lather to the face with the hand
must be sto: ped aud brushes used for
that purpose. No barber will be per
mitted to remain a member of the asso
ciation who persists in holdings customei
by the nose while shaving him. To
their evorlasting credit be it recorded
that a majority of the Congress decided
that in so far as talking to customerj
was concerned a great reform was neces
rary, therefore they decreed that the
barbers should confine themselves to the
careful shaving or hair cutting of theft
patrons aud not allow their tongues to
ramble during the operation over the
domain of politics, commerce nnd
philosophy, literature and the arts. Still
the Congress has left a loophole for es
cape, since on motion of a Hamburg
barber it was resoleed that an observa
tion on the weather by way of greeting
or farewell would not imperil an artist’s
standing in the association.— Few York
Graphic.
A Crctliilons Farmer.
A queer case of credulity has come to
light in Carlisle. For three weeks a
band of gypsies were encamped neai
Littlestown, a village just across th(
Cumberland line, in Adams County, and
on Wednesday Jacob Felker, an old
farmer, conferred with them and was
told that any money he might hide on a
certain spot ou his farm would double it
self in a night. To ted the matter he
placed $lO in deposit and the next morn
ing found $2 '. this so elated him that
he went to the Littlestown Bank, drew
out S2OO, and deposited it, but next
morning, to his dismay, the $OO was
gone, nnd so were the pypsiqp. The
gypsies were eaptureel and four of their
number lodged in jail iu Adams County.
Philadelphia Times.