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The Georgia Enterprise.
VOLUME XXIV.
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Hpai: ter which no sensible man can
HUbcoustruc or misunderstand. Wc
~Hpard ever ready to lalair
the cause that ho-ks a-si-tance,
Br the wrong that needs resistance
KPor the future in the distance,
BA ltd the good that we can do."
|Oeoigia Methodist
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MCOLLE6E N-
I 18888-9.,
£ Fall Term begins August 29, and
i closes December 14.
I Spring Term begius January 9, and
[ closes June 19.
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PSv. J. T. MoLaughiin. A, M„
Covington, Ga.j President.
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? selling and renting of
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Franklui B. Wright,
—COVJNGTON, GA.—
: Resident Physician & Surgeon,
|t EryObstetrirs, Gynecology, Diseases
* Wo men and Children, and all Chronic
Lenses of a private nature, a specialty!
I baya a berre at my command, which wih
enai'le me tp attend the calls of. the sur-
FA I* M LO i \ S,
BY W. SCOTT,
Covington, Georgia.
I WILL Negotiate Loans tn Farms in
Newton W.-.on and Rook .ale conn tie*
0 n Five Years'Time.
TgY I -i ■ -ith C9#h, tad see how
v . * .t Interest wil tost too less
tnanC-.-' r SCOTT.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
A CONDENSATION OF HAPPEN
IN OS STRUNG TOOETHER.
MOVE 'IEHTI or ALLIANCE MIX —IlAlt.-
IIOAD CABUAI.TIKS—TIIE COTTON CHOP
—1 I.OODS —ACCIDENTS —CHOP BBTUK.N'S.
ALABAMA.
The Republicans of Birmingham, have
foiwarded to Prcsilcnt-i lect Ilarri-ou,
nn urgent invitition to visit Jlirin ngham,
before tho date of his inauguration, add
tli y are kopctul that he will ae opt.
Thomas Robinson, mi cM and respected
c ti/.cn and merchant of Montgomery, was
shot und instantly killed by George
Holmes, a negro. Holmes had a dilli
cuitv with another negro. Robinson in
terfere i and tried to tjuell the disturb
arn-e. Holmes drew a pistol and shot
Robinson, lheh .ll penetrating his breast
and causing ini taut dentil.
MHITII r.UIOLtNA.
The committee of arrangement for the
state convention <d cx-Conf'tl - to pen
sioners nut at Raleigh on Thins t:*y :-ti■ 1
made arrangements to meet ia that eity
January 2Set. Speeches will Ire made by
the governor and by several prominent
ex-CotfedeiaU b. Tiro convention will
mentor alizc the legislature to increase
pensions to wounded soldiers so as to
give each a pension of SBO, or to pay
pensioners according to the character of
tlie injury eir disability.
VIRGINIA.
The Richmond Whig "ill discontinue
publication, the good-will and 6ubscrlp
tou li-t having bt-eu purchased by the
lUi iiy Timet.
The -Merchants nnel Manufacturers
ExclitiDgc, of Nor oik, las been metged
into the Chamber of Comnicr* e, and
gieat interest is being tuken in its ad
vancement.
On Thursday night, a house in the
t astern part of Rockingham county, in
which a number of colored people were
holding a party, was blown up by dyna
mite, aud several of the inmates were
fatally wouuded.
Robert Hull, fireman on the Norfolk &
Western Railroad, and brother of Alien
Hull, general pa-senger agent of the
same roid, committed suicide on Thins*
day night by taking laudanum at Nor
vill Arlington Hotel.
At Sou hhoaton, the large tobacco
factory of J. W. Easley was burned.
The factoiy was oecupie l by Norm m &
Evans, and contained a stock of old to
bacco valued at $35,000. It was feared
at one time that the whole town would
be destroyed, and Danville was asked
for assistance, but the flames were finally
extinguished.
MISSISSIPPI.
A telegram was received at Memphis,
saving there was a itegro notin progress
it Lamar, Misg., and asking thnt some
Winchester ri es be sent ou the first
train. Lamar is twelve miles south of
Grand Junction, Tenn., on the lino of
tlie Illinois Central Railroad. Two
whites and five negroes have been killed.
The latest advices from Wahalak, the
seene of tho lute race troubles, arc to the
effect that three negroes liavo been cap
tured, but their names arc withheld.
From the prisoners just taken, it is
learned that George Maury, Caslt Maury
aud George Coleman were wounded iu
the tight of Sunday night, December 10.
Walter Crook, the most intell gent of
the fugitives, is supposed to bo in hiding
at the residence of a white man, and a
search warrant has been secured to ran
sack the place.
TEXAS.
The woof growers eff Kimble, Menard,
Sutton and Schleicher counties, at a
meeting held on Thursday, adopted res-*
elutions urging Congress to so araeuil
tho present tariff as to prevent the im
portation of foreign wool under Ihc
names of ring waste, thrtnl waste, yam
waste, which aie now used to evade tar
iff duty, declaring that it is largely due
to these fraudulent, importations that
they suffer.
L. E. Rust, editor of the Rico News,
sliet and instantly killed Signor Olson.
Olson insulted Rust’s sister some time
ago, and Rust demanded that he ap ,to
giV.e. Olson’s reply was that he would
whip Rust on sight. The men met
in a saloon and Ois ra went behind the
bar, got two revolvers, laid them ou the
counter, and told Rust to take one of
them and go out with him and they
would settle the difficulty. A quarrel
ensued, and Olson finally jumped over
the counter, gun in hand. Rust was tod
quick for him, however, and drew his
own pistol and shot Olson twice, killing
him almost instantly.
KENTUCKY.
A cablegram from Pau, France, re
ceived in Louisville, states that Rev. Dr.
Boyce, chairman of the Southern Baptist
Theological Seminary, was dying at that
place "Ho went abroad for his health
several months ago.
Near llarrodsburg, Frank Green, who
killed three men in‘the courso of his life,
while escaping from officers by crossing
the Kentucky river in a skiff, capsized
hsbo it and drowned . Giecn was born
in Ohio, where he killed a man when a
youth; moved to Eastern Kentucky,
where he killed another; then into High
Biidge, where ho dangerously woundtd
tw . others. His list killing was two
months ago, when he beat a railroad
hand to death near Chattanooga, Dm.
MISSOURI.
General Manager S. 11. 11. Clark, of
the Missouri Pacific at St Louis, has de
cided that the secret s rvice of the sys
tem must go. Detective Thomas I 1 nr
long is at the head of ihe service, and he
has lifteen men under his charge. Ihe
cost of the service has been near.v* if 10,-
000 a yrar. and this, with the unsafe
fac tory work, has caused the abolishment
of the service.
LOUISIANA.
At a meeting of citizens held in New
Orleans, it was decided to add to the
a tractions of tho coming carnival, by
erecting in Lafayette square a mammoth
cotton palace, in which ihe products of
Louisiana and other states will be ex
hibited during carnival week.
TENNESSEE.
Fourteen prisoners escaped from the
Hamilton county jsil by cutting off six
iron rods an inch in diameter, and slid
im and 'Wn a rope made of blankets to tho
crr/iuaCL
SOITTH CAHOLINA.
Capt. Benjamin H. Massey, one of tho
most‘prominent men in York county,
died at his residence m Fort Mill from
„n affection of the hear.t.
J (Y COUNTRY: MAY SHK KVKR WC RIGHT; RIGHT OR WRONG, MY COUNTRY 1” Jefferson.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
WHAT THE UNITED STATES OF
FICIALS ARE DOING.
NDTKa.
The Comptroller of Currency has au
thorized tho First National hank of John
son City, Tenu., to begiu business with a
capital of SSU,tOO.
The Comptroller of Currency Ims de
clared a second dividend of 10 per cent,
in favor of tho creditors of tho State Na
tional Rank of Raleigh, N. C., making
in all 80 per cent, on claims proved.
Michael Keating, messenger of the War
Departure nt, fell over tho balusters ou
the fourth floor of that building on
Thursday, and was instantly killed. The
"all was about eighty feet. He was in
toxicated at the time.
The President has granted a pardon to
Bishop A. A. Kimball, of the Mormon
church, convicted at the September
ti rin of the first district court of Utah of
adultery, and sentenced to eight months
imprisonment. The Piesident's action is
because the prisoner is in an advanced
stage of consumption.
1 he rem lins of Gen. John Logan were
removed from the Hutchinson \ault, iu
Rock Creek Cemetery, where they were
placed two years, to the new Logan
Chapel in the National Soldiers’ Homo
Cenn-tery, aud the guard of seven artil
lerymen who have kept watch over the
body since it was deposited in the Hutch
iusou vault, was relieved.
Coi. James F. Casey, who married a
younger sister of Mrs. Gen. Grant, died
at his residence in Georgetown, lie hod
been ill only a week and died of pneu
monia. Col. Casey came from Kentucky
si ck. A brother of his was in Congress
f om that state during the War and the
family were once wealthy. He had been
a handsome man in his youth, but he
aged rapidly after his misfortunes be
gan, and his later appearance was tnatof
a bent and seedy old man, who moved
about without spirit and apiiarently iti
dilierent to all the world. His wife and
four children are left destitute.
The proposed plan for a Cbickamauga
Memorial Association, cop ed after t tie
organization for the preservation of the
field of Gettysburg, but composed of
the veterans of both armies, meets with
general favor among the cx-Conledcruto
officers in Washington, who fought at
Ctiickamauga A iarge number of promi
nent Union officers have signified their
approval of the plan for a joint memorial
a-sociation, and the whole subject for
preserving and marking that field, will
soon receive the formal consideration ol
the committee appointed by the Society
of the Army of the Cumberland to report
some plan for carrying the project into
effect.
The question of curtailing suffrage in
the Southern states by tlie requirement
of educational qualifications now being
discussed in the states of South Carolina,
Alabama, and elsewhere, has created
some talk among the Southern men in
Congress. Most of them are, however,
of the opinion that there is no necessity
of discussing this question at present,
and very few of them seem at all anxious
to be quoted on it. The large majority
of Southern men are, however, opposed
to changing the present suffrage laws uu
less some means can be devised by which
tlie negro can lie excluded from the bal
lot box wilhout limiting the representa
tion of the Southern states in Congress
aud in the electoral college.
Col. I. W. Avery, of Atlanla, Ga., whe
in connection with his duties as chief ol
one of the divisions of the Treasury De
partment, holds the position of private
secretary to Senator Brown, of Georgia,
came near being killed Wednesday night
while going through the st-.eets on an in
valid’s tricycle, w-hich lie has for the
eumst two or three‘weeks been compelled
Sto u-e, he having, not long since, had a
slight attack of paralysis. He was over
taken by a careless cab ti river, who
Claims not to have seen the colonel. The
cab was going with some degree of
vapidity wheit it struck tlie tricycle,
throwing tile occupant several feet into
the middle of the street with great force.
Chairman Button, of the Inaugural
Committee, says, thnt it lias been prac
tically determined to have no carriages
in the procession, except those for the
occupancy of the retiring aud incoming
presidents, the new vice president and
the joint congressional committee. Mr.
Button says that ou account of the great
length of the parade it will be imprac
ticable to allow- members of the com
mittee to ride in the procession, aud also
that no place In line < an be given to any
persons until about a week bcfuic
the 4th of March, when the marshal
will un-Ice an assignment of posi
tions to various organizations.
Colorado reports that one hundred cow
boys and a band will leave Denver to
take pait iu the parade. They will be
dressed in the characteristic style of tlie
plains aud will travel under t ie name of
“The If- rrison and Morton Club of
Marching Cowboys.” The sth Maryland
!,regiment has also signified its intention
!’to take part in the inaugural ceremonies.
BRITISH SLAVERY.
It, has been discovered that an agree
ment in rcltli'iu to slave dealing exists
between English East Africa and the
sultan of Zanzibar, and Arab slave ded
eri of Monbaza. By this agreement the
Arabs are authorized to carry on trade
in slaves and to flog or otherwise punish
them. A company upon hiring slaves
must make an nrpingement with their
owners. The wages of slaves must be
paid to owners. English mission sta
tions are obliged, undi r the agreement,
to return runaway n avi s to their owners.
After the agreement had been signed, the
I,.rents of the company, Mr. Mackenzie
anti Gen. Matthews, accompanied by
Monbaza Arab*, went to Rabat (hureb
mission station, and d< manded the sur
render of certain runaways, who had
taken reluge at tlic station. The British
missionaries refused to give them up.
The secreiary of the English E st Atria
Cos at London, England, denies 'he au
thenticity of the story from Zanzibar
about an agreement between the com
muv and the sultan and Arab slave
dealers He further says that the only
action of Agent Mackenzie in regard to
slaves has been to pay for the liberation
of 1.400 slaves. The newspapers gen
ejallv believe the first account to be true.
r PROTECTED.
The authorities of Batoum, Russia, re
fused to sanction tho Rothschilds,schema
to lay pipes through that town to enuvuy
petroleum from the wells directly tp tho
.'hip'- side. Their objection to the plftn
is that It would do injury to small
trader*.
COVINGTON. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 1889.
THE WORLD OVER.
INTERESTING! ITEMS BOILED
DOWN IN READABLE STYLE.
THE FIELD OP I.AUOH— SEETHING CAUL
DRON OF EUROPEAN INTHIGUE —FI MSS,
SUICIDES, ETC. —NOTED DEAD.
Owing to the'protest of the Brit’sh
representatives at Zanz b -r, tho Suliau
hits canceiled his order for the wholesale
execution of criminals.
Gov. Hill, of New York, lias ordered
un extraordinary ses-do-i of tlie court of
oyer and terminer fir the trial of the so
culled “boodle” aldciraen.
The Pope has sent to the Bishop of
Piace-,za $4,000 for a training college for
missionaries, to Ire sent to America to
cire for Italian cmigrati’s.
Tlie Catholics are organizing associa
tions throughout Italy which, conjointly
with similar associations all over tho
world, will raise a futtd for a vigorous
anti-slavery campaign.
By an explosion of naptha a fire wa
started in the house furnidiiug store of
1). B. 11. Povyeis in Marblehead, -Mass.,
aud before the tiro was controlled, prop
erty to the value if nearly a million of
dollars was destroyed.
The police and military are making
preparations for extensive evictions ou
the Olphort Landsmore estate nt Letter
kenuy, Ireland. The houses of tenants
have been strongly fortified and a despe
rate struggle is imminent.
Commander Consign}-, of the lowa
department of tlie Grand Army of the
Republic, has been looking up Union
veterans among the evicted settlers of
Des Moines river lands in order to aid
the needy. He finds there are few Union
6oldiers among them. There is a large
number of ex-Confederates however.
Ex-Judgo Robert Q. Johnsion shot
himself through the head Thursday
morning at hi' residence in Avondale,
near Cincinnati, Ohio. He was promi
nent and popular in law and politics, und
was in good circumstances. All rat two
months ago his wife died, and there is no
cause known for his suicide, except her
loss
Ex-Queen Natalie, of S -rvia, Ims been
received with roy and honors during her
tour. Upon her arrival at the Russi in
Iron'ier the imperial chamberlain- wel
com and her on behalf of the czar and
czarina. At the various towns at which
she stopped, the burgomasters presented
bread and salt, and ail expressed the hope
that she would reascend the throne.
The Denver (Colorado) Gas Cos., had
100 men employed on Thursday iu exca
vating a ditch alongside of and under
neath the track of the cable car line,
when suddenly the track for nn entire
block lell, crashing the life out of and
imprisoning the men underneath. Four
dead and two badly wounded were
found. Other men escaped with more or
less bruises.
Bcbastia#llobbs, a farm' r living three
miles south of Bird’s Eye, in Uubois
county, lnd., was calltd out nt his house
and two shots were fired at him.Oneshot
struck him in the abdomen, producing a
fatal wound. One Smith rras arrested
ou suspicion of having done the shoot
ing. Hobbs has made himself obnoxious
to the White Caps by procuring evi
dence against them and urging prosecu
tion.
Mrß. Lucy Parsons, the anarahist, at
tempted to "deliver an address in Chicago,
but Chief of Police Hubbard at once
squelched the affair. “Is this what you
call a ftee country?” cried out the an
archist’s widow, as she waved aloft a big
red handkerchief, which had been con
cealed ia her muff. "Why the y would
not think of trying to stop such a meet
ing ns this in London or in Scotland.
Anarchists march the streets of London
singing the Marseillaise nd are not in
terrupted, yet they call this country
free.”
A dispatch from Malta says that neither
the duke nor duchess of Edinburgh was
present at the theater there when tlie at
tempt was made to blow up the build
ing with n bomb. It was reported at the
time that the duchess was present,and that
she was the intended victim of a nihilist
conspiracy. The bomb was discovered
in the lobby in tlie rear of the stalls, by
an attcudant. Attached to it was a
burning fuse, which an attendant
promptly extinguished. It is supposed
that the perpetrator was actuated solely
by a spirit of waDtop mischief.
Three fatalities and a number of minor
casualties resulting from accidents at
Christmas festivities in the vicinity of
Chicago, IU., are reported. At Geneva,
IU., and Danville, 111., men personating
Santa Claus at Christmas church festi
vals, each of whom used cotton batting
for beards and wigs, caught fire fr< m
candles on the trees and were fatally
burned; and nt Milwaukee, \\is., a four
year-old boy waked early, and. slipping
out of .bed, undertook to light ti e
candles on the Christmas tree, ns he hud
seen it done the night before. He Set
his gown, the tree, and bodclotheg on
fire and was burned to death and his
friends had difficulty in reitcuing other
children and saving the house.
YELLOW FEVER GERMS.
Prof. H. J. Delmer. of the Ohio State
Uuivi rsity at Columbus, has concluded
the task of photographing llie germs
causing yellow fever, that had been seut
him b< lJr. Juines E. If eve a, of Ch tta
nooga, Tcnn. The professor says this is
the first t me yellow fever germs have
been found in the tissues, scientists
heretofore searching for them in vain.
They have been found in the zoogloea
masses in the capillary blood vessels,
which appear distended and ruptured,
and at these ruptures these zoogloea are
dense and large. The bacilli present
themselves in four forms: First, in a
plain dark round mass; second, an oval
tviih a dark point at each extremity;
third, an oblong disk with datk points
es in the second; and fourth, dark points
united by film and resembling
a dumb-bell. Being asked as to how
the discovery regarding the cause of yel
low fever came to be made, he suid:
“Dr. Sternberg, of Johns Hopkins’ Uni
versity, for a number of years has made
an exhaustive search for yellow fever
eerms, but without success in the tissues.
During the last epidemic he made seve
ral post mortem examinations at Decatur.
Ala., and the liver and kidney tissues of
two persons, st least, were sent by Mm
to Dr. Reeves for the purpose of mount
ing for microscopical purposes. I have
several negative-, each of which is good.
Some show the baettru singly, others in
masses wiih the capillianee distended
with them.”
LATEST BY TELEGRAPH.
Several shocks of i arthqinko was felt
on Thursday ia the eastern ands lulheru
parts of 8p liu,
Tho official French journal announces
an increase in tho army of 15,00 b foot
chasseurs by tno addition of two com
panies to each third battalion.
Breinigsville, Pa., is the couter of a
district where diptheria is raging with
feariul results, the teriibo disease is
spreading havoc in lhat locality, particu
larly among children.
At a meeting of tho National Republi
can Committee, held in Paris, France on
Thursday, it was unanimously resolved to
support Gen. Boulanger’s candidly for
a seat in the Chamber of Deputies for
tho Heine, made vacant by the death ol
51. Hude.
Tho postofflee at Sunbury, Pa., was
robbed on Thursday night. Tho rob
bers pried the do< rs open with a jimmy,
but they secured only 75 cents. The of
fice nt Northumberland, two miles from
there, was also entered, and all they se
cured at that place was 24 cents.
Governor Beaver issued a proclama
tion, declaring that the state debt of
Pennsylvania lias been reduced daring
the past year $1,118,550. One of the
governor's pet schemes is tho total ex
tinguishment of the state debt, and he
is bending every energy to accomplish
this before his teim expires.
A riot occurred near Tripp, Dakota,
between Russian Mennonites and Ameri
cans. A public sale was held at the
farm of a Russian named Sink, and an
American farmer named Merchant pur
chased a dozen chickens. . When ready
to start home, he found two of the
chickens mia-ing, aud complained to
Sink, who told him t > take something of
equal value. He caught a goose and
st irted home, but was overtaken by a
parly of eight Russians, who claimed the
goose as their property, and a tight en
sued, in which some twenty men were
engaged,with the Russians as aggressors,
when two brothers, named Johnson, who
were passing, joined in the melee with
'knives. A Russian named Mayer was
stabbed, and he in turn split Charles
Johnsou'shead with a neck yoke, inflict
ing a fatal injury. The same weapon
broke the arm of George Johnson, and
knives were used to slash up three othei
Russians badly, but not fatally.
BTEAMER DISASTERS.
The steamer Kate Adems, an elegant
passenger packet running semi-weekly
between Memphis and Arkansas City,
was burned sear Commerce, Miss., about
forty m les south of 51 mpiuson Sunday,
she was bound to Mimphis, and had
-bout two huudred people aboard, in
cluding her d-ck and cabin crew <f
igtity, wentv five cabin and sixty deck
;msengers, and twenty-five ciloied cibiu
' asseugem. About iwenty-fiie persons
p rished, mostly by drowning,* aad one,
of the clerks last his life tiyiag to save
the colored womeu who were on the
lower deck. Only three women were
saved. The boat wa3 built in 1882, and
cost $102,000. Sne was the fiue-t and
fuste-t steam rof her type, She was in
sured for $33,75) in St. Louis, Cincin
nati and other foreign offices. This
would have b-en the co npletion of her
oi)2d trip in tlie Memphis and Arkansas
ity trade The steamboat John H.
Hanna, from Ouachita river, with a laige
number of pa-sengers and a cargo of
2,500 bales of cotton on board, was
burned ou Monday near Plaquemme, La.
It is stated that of the one hundred per
sons ou board at the time of the di.-aster,
only fourteen are known to have been
saved. The John H. llanna was built
in Madison, lnd., in 1876, and hailed
from Louisville, Ky. She was of 877
tonnage, and wasowned by the Ouachira
river consolidated lines. Capt. J. W.
Blanks, president of the company, says
that the latest advices he has aic to the
i ffeet that the steamboat left Monroe,
La., Sunday morning at 6 o’clock with
1,100 bales of cutton. The captain
estimated that additional cotton
had been picked up on the way down to
make the total number of bales 2,500 ...
L ite dispatches conthm the report of the
loss of the steamer L< ifo Errickson off
Alkali point, live miles west of Seattle,
W. T. Five lives were lost. The
Errickson was a propeller and plied be
tween Seattle anil Sydney, Mason county,
und was m route to the latter point when
the accident occurred. Fire broke out
in the pilot-house, and it is believidto
have been caused by a lamp explosion.
There were thirty-six people aboard at
the time. The fire spread install 1 ly
ihroughout the interior cabin. The boat
was about two milts from shore when tho
fire broke out.
UNCLE SAM INSULTED.
Tho brigantine Joscfa, which arrived
at Philadelphia, Pa., from Moniengo
Bay, Jamaica, brings news of an outrage
suffered by that ve sei at the hands of
the Spani-h gov* rnment. While dis
charging her cargo on her return trip
from New York at Arroya, Spanish cus
tom officials di-coveied tint twenty
packages of corn-starch, which were
marked on the ves.-el’s manifest, were
missing. After a search the goods emild
not be found, und tho vessel was seized
by the authorities, who held her until a
fine of $4,030 was paid, although the
value of the goods iu question did not
exceed S2O. Tho master and crew wete
forced to suffer many indignities at the
hands of the governor of the island and
other official-. After the fine had been
paid it was ascertained that the missing
goods were dd-vered by mistake on board
the ship Joscptius, which lay next to
Josela, in New York, but wire pi iced on
the J-'sefa’s manifest. The owner of the
Jotefa has filed a complaint, against, the
Spanish government, and it is said th*t
tile war ships. Gal* na aud Yantic, will lie
ordered to continue their cruise to Porto
Rico and summarily secure redo si for
the imposition suffered by the Josefa.
RAILWAY PROGRESS.
Notwithstanding the widespread im
pression that additions to tho railway
systems of the United States during 1888
would be comparatively insignificant,
the railway mileage of the country "as
increased during the year by no 1 bs than
7,120 miles of main track. While this is
much less than a phenomenal incraa-e til
the years 1887, 1888, 1833 and XBBt.wi.en
the new mileage was re-pec iveiy 13,000.
0,000, 11,590 and 9 796 miles, the record
of the past year oxcoi-ds that of every
other year in history, with the excep
tions named, and of t>ra year 1871, when
7,379 miles were added. Kansas stiii
leads the list ia erteot of new mileage,
as she has done for several years. Ca i
forma comes next and the Sjulh follows
FOR FAIUIIiUS.
An epidemic is spreading among
fiorras. Tho disease Is a now on to
veicrinary surgeons, and they urc baffle 1
in its treatment. it upp.ireutly nlf ets
the glands of ihc tlnont, aud iu tho ma
jority of cises it causes swelling, which
extends fr**m the point of the _u v to tho
breast. This makes breathing ai f eat
ing very difficult ml, consequently, the
animal rapidly grows weak und loses
<Uh.
Hon. C. C. Moore, of Huey, 111., ar
rived in New Smyrna, Fla., to (.pend t e
Winter there, lie has vatu tb e properly
at Eldora, and also a line young gr -ve in
town, from which a l -x of oranges was
piik 'dthis year. While in the North
lost Summer, he 1 ad arranged with the
Loubviile & Nashville Rond for a series
of excursions from poiuts in th ■ North
direct to New Smyrna, but the yellow
fever scare played havoc with that,
though there is a prospect that later in
the season, when confidence Ims ln en re
established in the minds of tho North
erners as to Florida's aiv n es, that his
plans may yet be consummated.
The orange groves of Oviedo, Fla.,
h-ivo the reputa ion of being th * finest
in the state, and ihcgtowi r- have came I
the reputation of packing their fruit in
the neatest manner. As evidence of this
latter fact, William Cl* to er received a
letter from the well-known <otnim-sion
h'iuse of L. W. Sherutan it Cos , of Bos
ton, Mass., in acknowledgement of a
shipment of fruit a few days ago, in
wine i this sen cnca is found: “Hurrah
for NeFon! His packing is the best we
have seen this seusuu.” Tills is c rtaraly
high commendation, earning from such
reliable and experienced dealers in Flor
ida fruits. —JacktonviUe Times Union.
An event of more titan passing interest
and one of vast iinpoitaoce to the people
of Florida, is the forthc uniug met ting of
the Amur.can Bornological {society to be
held at Ocala on February 20, 21 and 22.
This is the fi'st time that tlie Society has
ever held a meeting in the South—that is,
in that part of the country comprising
the extreme southern belt of tlie semi
tropical stares. The society wisorg ra
ized in 1848, and has since then held bi
ennial sessions in var oils sections of the
Eastern, Western and Middle sta es,
with one session at Ba-timore, Md.. and
one at Richmond, Ya. The Inst mi e ing
was held iu Boston, Mass., and at that
time an invitation from iho F,or*da
Horticultural so i* ty to hold its next
session in ibis state was unanimouslv ac
cepted. Sraford was originally selecte I
a3 the place, and February 6 as the time
for holding this conventio i, but owing to
a lack of time for suitable p epar t ons it
was deemed expedient to make the
change as above noted.
The weaiher editor of the New York
Herald goes over the indications of our
Winter laboratory, the great Hudson’s
bay and Manitoba rections of Biitish
North America, and concludes that,
“this Winter’s gales ou tlie we-teru and
northern margins at the Gulf Si ream are
likely to be somewhat more violeut than
in an ordiiiury season, and precipitation
on the seaboard in excess, with more
rain than snow. The present outlook
does not indicate an excessively r gmous
winter in the Mississippi Valley and the
Northwest, but on the contrary a season
more favorable for crops than that of
1888. By March 1, however, it is likely
the prest-nt Canadian high pressure ft ill
have disappeared and a similar wave
have foimed in the Northwest, in wh ch
case the Winter, ending March 21, will
close with milder weather than usual in
the Atl uitic states and a late Spring in
the Northwest.” Which would naturally
give the lower Mississippi Valley and
the Southwest a late Spring also. These
are the tentative probabilities deduced
from scientific data and long experience,
and not the vaporing guesses of a Wig
gins or other “weather prophet.” The
Herald's weather bureau is in all res
peels superior to the one that is locateii
at Washington.
GEORGIA ITEMS.
John Peabo ly, of Columbus, com
mitted suicide by sir oting himself with
a revolver.
Thu f. ir in behalf of iho Confederate
Veterans, recently held in Atlanta, will
net nearly $4,U00.
TANARUS! o Atlanta Zouave squad won the
fir-t prize of SIOO at Selma, Ala., on
Thursday. This is their second victory.
Thev won first prize at Opelika last
August.
The letter of Col. George W. Adair,
addressed to Governor Gordon with nf
ironee to the establishment of a state ine
briate asylu n, has attracted considerable
attention. The subject is inn **f marked
importance, and is being widely dis
cussed.
Tlieie was n small war at Prior's. A
crowd of drunken negroes cnip’oycd
abo it, t e ini es become unruly, an*i a
Collision occurred between tam uni
some while men who attempte I io qui* t
th*m. One negro was shot iu the shoul
der and arm aud another w r ns shot in the
leg.
A man mimed Pr.tehett, living neat
Somerville, while workiug out iu the
field, hung Ins coat on tlie fence. l ira
coat couta ned ihree $2 l-grecab c;;s,
which dropped <n t* f the p ket, and a
hog t hewed tuem until they were r< duced
to a pulp. J. H. Reined ß * president of
th: lirt N tional bank in R* me sc t tlie
pulp 10 the Treasury Department in
Washington. Mr. Ret n fids says that it
was impossible for him to make anything
out of the pulp, and that it looked iike
so much dark colored paper. Mr.
Reynolds received a reply from AVasli
i. gtonto bis icier. On two il ps of
pnp'r were neatly pasted frigmeuis <t
two bills. It was ihc work of an expert
and showed his wonderful skill. lira
Treasury Departmint raid that they
could only make two bil.s out of tlie
pulp, and would pay that on an atli lavit
staling how the money was mut luted.
THE HAYTIEN INCIDENT.
Advices have been received from Ilayti
to (he eff it th t tho di-puto over ihu
feizurs of the American s:earner, II lytien
Republic, has bie.u settled. The steamer
has been delivered to the American men
, f-war, and the latter have honored tlie
Huy tie flag with a sulu eof tw* nty-one
guns, Among the people the action of
tlie United States government is con
sidered an abuse of power ugainat a help
less nation, and this opinion is said to be
shared by some of the ioreign diplomats
representatives Gen, Lcuitimo ms been
unanimously elected President of ths
Republic and is taking energetic stop* to
repress t*he rebellion.
BUDGET OF FUN. [
BUMOROtm BRKTOHRH FROM
VARIOUS SOUllUkt
Faro—The Very Thlnir—Criminal
Hiai Istics— Wlien the Gravestone
wr.a Finlahed Comment! -
nlile Caution, Kte., Etc.
No longer nt the earden gate
Fond lovers s * ltig
Novemlier breezes roni ate
That sort of thing.
Within the cosey parlor now,
Before tlie grate
They sit, an t never notice how
It's graving late.
The blaring coals illuminate
Wi h ruddy stow
The coaey room, end, though ’tia late,
He does not go.
Next day she has a sleepy air,
Her pasenraend;
But, after all, w hat does she caret
bbe is engaged.
— S/merville Journal.
The Very Thing.
“It looks as if the child was poisoned,”
remai ked the doctor, gravely. “Are you
pin lull theS was nothing dangerous
around the house that ho could buve got
h.a hands on !”
"Nothing,” replied the young hus
band, “unless It nn some ot the bread
my wife baked.” —Neio York Nun.
Criminal .statistics.
“Detectives are no good,” said
Tommy.
“Why not,” asked his father.
“it says here there are a numbe r of
Congrcs men at large. If tho dete tites
weic any good they would run ’em in.”
—, Tetat tii/unjs'. *
When the Gravestone was Finished.
Doctor passing a stonecutter's yard—
“ Good morning .Mr. Jones. Hard at
work, I see. I suppose you finish your
gravestone-* as far as ‘ln memory of.’ aud
then wa*t lor someone to and e, ehi"
“Why, yes. unless somebody's sick
ant cou’re doctoring’em; then 1 keep
tight on.— Cham;,era’s Jou, naU
Commendable Caution.
A cclebraled criminal lawyer, hxving
just defended a noted a-sasin so brill
iantly that the wretch was a* quitted in
the fa* e of o'erwhe mingevideuce, steps
up to the udge.
“A. word in your ear, your Honor."
Judge—“ Well, what is it.”
“1 would ok that the prisonor be de
tained in ail until to-morrow morning.
I have to cross a lonely field on my way
home, and the rascal happens to know
that 1 have money about me!”
Übligmg Judge—“Uh, certainly.”—
Cartoon.
On Tick.
“So you found the dock ticked so
loud that you couldn’t sleep?" said the
jeweler to customer who returned a
clock. “You ought not growl when ycu
have your folding-bed ticking under you
rail night.”
l'hc man took the clock home again.
N f an Exception to tho Rule
Foe al I hilosopher—"My gracious! I
wit-h I could ha e tlie honoi of an iniro
duct on to that lady. he’s the first
sen-ilile woman I’ve seen ou the street
to-day. rhs wears nc bustle ”
•Friend —“I know her. Wait. Good
morning, Mrs. Ie i ashion. I ermit me
to introduce my Irieud, Mr. liighmind. ’
“r orgt'e the intrusion. Mrs i e .ash
ion, but 1 not.ced that you had no bus
tle-”
Mrs. I'e Fashion—“ Horrors! 1 must
have dropped it.” (Faints). — Phiadcl
phm Record.
A Chen|> Collection.
“There are many little ways,” said
tho curio collector, “to gratify one’s
tastes in a 'erv inexpensive manner.
Now here is my collection. That piece of
brocade s'lk 1 cut from a chair in the
Tuiler C' wh le my guide was not look
ing; that gold enameled spoon I picked
up on the lable in the t zar’s apartment
in ihe palace of ht. Petersburg, and that
little liuliens over there 1 carr ed away
from a gallery in Florence beneath my
cloak. It nil depends upou how you go
at it wheiher collecting curios is expen
sive or not.” — liar, er'., Bazar.
An Evidence of Insanity.
“Mr. s'Oder, your daughter Irene has
given me her permission to ask of you
her hand in ma nage; but before I ask
for your formal consent you will pardon
me if I make ihe inquiry, as it is a mat
ter of lifelong consequence to me,
whether or not there have ever been nny
indications of insanity, so far as you
know, in your family."
“You say Irene has accepted you, Mr.
Hankinson I”
“J am happy to say she has."
“Then, sir,” said the old man. shak
ing h s head de.ectedly, “it is my duty,
as her father, to tell you that 1 think
Irene is showing decided indications of
insanity.” —Cm ago ’lr.lune.
Having a Swell Dinner.
A heavy drajo n and mighty swell
had invited a brother oilicer to dine with
him at his Piccadilly chib. They sat
down to a dinner of sisteen courses and
for Ihe first half hour neither spoke.
Then he host discovered a pietty little
actress tripping across the stieet under
the club window.
“liu," said he. “there goes Miss Jig
ger—what’s her doocid name?”
The other ponderqd deeply, and in the
course of the follow ng haif hour tho
dinner piogressed steadily. Then tho
guest, struggling under a boom of recoi
led ion. 'aid:
“Judkins."
An hour passed and not a word was
uttered, finally, after the coffee was
t nished, a light broke upon the face of
the host and he raid:
“By Jove, her doocid name was Jud
kins, after a 1.”
flair an hour later they shook hands
and parted without a word. —Loud n
tigaTJ.
A Smart CVerfc.
A Ft. I.ouis dry goods house adver
tised for a “(-mart boy," trad they got
him. They put h m behind the counter.
The follmv, ug conversation p ssed be
ta ee 1 him and h s first customer:
C isto ner pi king up a pair of gloves)
—“\\ hat are these?”
Smart Boy—“(.loves.”
Customer—“ Yes, yes; but what do
vou a-k for them ”
rirmrt l oy—“We don’t ask for them
at all; en.-tomers do that."
Customer—“ You don’t understand
me. How do they come.”
mart Bov—“Why, thoy come in
pairs, of course ”
Custoimr—“No, No! How high do
they come?"
NUMBER 11.
Smart Boy—“ Just above the wrist, I
beliS'e ”
Customer—“But what do you get for
them
Smart Boy—“Me? I don’t get noth
ing for thim. Boss pockets til the
money.’’
Customer (losing patience)—“What Is
the price of the e gloves per pair?"
Mnatt Boy— “Oh, that# your lay, i*
It? Why didn't you say so afore? Doe
dollar."- tit. Louts M"„atins.
Why Thonins Never Cnlla._
It was eleven o'clock. Thomas Single
man still lingeied in the tapestry-lined
parlor of the Hogamont man-ion. There
wise slight colic upstairs, when Clairl
belle nhi-pered
“<>h: Tom I think it is papa, and ho
so oli ects to you -ta* ing so laic.'
Before Mr. Mngleman could secure his
hat the door opened and lot. Hogamont
eutered.
“t laribelie Jane you may leave the
room for a moment. I wi-h to speak
privately with Mr. Singleman.”
With beating heart site sadly left, then
glued iter ear to the keyhole outs de.
“Mr. t-liigleman, 1 wa t and to ask a
favor. As Igo past the store 1 wish to
settle a bill of ten dollars, aud I forgot
t*i call at tho bank on* my way home.
Canyons are that much —ai w*uor
row evening?”
Mr. Sing eman was happy to perform
the favor.
“You need not be ic a hurry to leave,
Thomas; my daughter appreciat*a your
company, and 1 have no objection."
He left the room, aid Thomas and
Claribelle were radiant with happiness.
Next evening, about the same hour, tho
old gentleman entered and obtained a
simi arlonn. It occurred also the evening
following The next evening a slight noise
was heard upstairs, and Mr. t-ingleman
grasped his hat and left, saying: “G.ari
be le, dearest, if your papa should in
quire of my absence, tell him I took sud
denly sick. Good-1) e, sweet.” and be
toietheold gentleman was half down
the stairway Mr. j-inglemau was plow
ing his way home"a and through the
murky night. The old man smiled aud
returned to his slumber.
Thomas says that even prospective
marriage is a failure, and Claribelle-lane
spends tier evenings at home. Georgia
tracker.
The Forgetful Boy.
Mrs. Yerbosity wanted a package of
yeast powder tlie oth r day.
“eh, dear,” she sigh and, “I shall ba - e
to send Willie alter that yeast and he
has such a bud memory ! Ido declare, I
ne.er saw such a forgetful child in iny
life. He torments tlie soul out of me.
Every tone I send him to the -tore he
brings back something i didn’t send h.m
for.”
Then raising her voice, she called:
“Willie!”
“Y es, raa.”
“You come here this minute: I’m in a
great hurry. 1 want a yeast cake down
to the store, and I don't waut you to
forget what I send you for. 1 don’t
want baking powder, same as I had yes
terday, IrttL a \east cake, cne of them
tin 10. l cakes. YVillie.
“, es, ran”
“Did you hear what I aaidi”
“No, mi"
“Oh, you do try my patience to. Coma
here this minute.”
'I he boy appears.
“.vow, I want a yeast cake —how came
th it mud on vourcoa.f You're been
playing in the dirt again; I'll toil your
father when hege s home. It’s not bak
ing powder, I want. I urn your coat
col ur down. Now don’t you cme home
wuh nutmejs, like you did yesterday,
n .r with cinnamon, like you did the day
before, when you were told to get cino ?.
Your coat ia buttoued wrong. Dou’t
you forget row,”
The boy escaped to the st eet, when
the anxiom and painstaking matron
called out from the window:
“Now. don’t you stop to play with
those Mantrangialo boys, like you and and
last week, and keep out of h reneh's back
yard—do you hear,' It’s yeast you're
going lor, yea-t; not turnips, nor car
rots. nor any knd of vegetables—l got
them this morniDg, you kuow. Hernem
her, you’ve got a bad memory, and
don’t ’’ )
But the boy was out of hearing.
l o brought back a cau of preaerved
peaches.
He had a bad memory.— Pi'Uburg
Poat.
The Tell-Tale I’hanograpii.
The first attempt to i. port the pro
ceedings of a political meeting by means
of tbt phonograph was made ri neatly in
Orange, N. J.: and the degree of suc -
cess attained brings us to cons der the
possible change in reporting to be ef
fected by this ingenious machine.
It is relentlessly accurate. The crafty
politician who kept a complete file oi all
the cylinders recording the utterances of
public men during one campaign would
have an absolute record for use in tho
next. The “deadly paral el” column is
liable to the charge of being ba-ed on a
distorted report. The phonograph lias
no political beliefs of its own. i ach
telling inflection, the punctuation of ap
plau-e, the whole m inner of thespee h
would come rolling out from the relent
less car trumpet, aud woe to any man
who should try to change his ground.
The aspect of the phonograph as an cu
giue of matrimouial persuasion hasbeeu
often cons.dered. Even the parlor organ
—that ra narka le oxot c that flourishes
in certain rural communities —would lose
its terrors before the stealthy aud pitiless
recorder of the airy nothiugs of twilit
youth aud love.
It is stated that Mr. Edison is cudgel
ing his ingenious wit* to improve the
phonograph and increase its powers of
instantaneous perception and reporting.
The world always adjusts itsejf to altered
conditions and makes the best ue * f new
and strange inventions, but the possi
bility'of the phonograph are so great
that one may be content to await devel
opments without borrowing trouble by
indulging in vain and prophetic specula
tions.—Ncio York tin,.
A Man Wor.u s> 130,090,000.
The ordinary eye expands and the
average heart beats faster when the
thought occurs that the little man. with
1 ttle side whiskers and a little smile ra
his little eve, is worth, at a very mild
calculation, 1.10,000,00*1 of good, solid,
go and n dollars. There isn’t the fararast
su-picion of a mu-tacha over his not
partiru arly attra tive and, at timos,
ciuel looking mouth. His ha ris dark
aud curly; his bear ng that of a gentle
man. Conscious, as he must be, that
everybody in the house has eatd, “That's
Will e Vanderbilt;” couscious. as h#
must nece-sar y t e, that every one in the
house has looked at him and said some
thing about him, ho sits with his tremen
dous shirt bosom 'ery badly rumpled
and his iittlo white tie turned rather
nearer tho loft ear than is customarv, as
quiet, as decorous as any man of the
world I ever >aw —New York Better.