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The Georgia Enterprise.
VDLILMK XXIV.
BsOl 111 l l.'N ITEMS.
ftn/.s'OF I.\ TRUEST FROM 1.4
■uor.s/■/>■ y.v / v the south.
■L.btanci: IN the rrHEM> states.
■pv Union Point nml 'Vhito Plains
Hflroml will soon be in operation. 1 lie
tracts have been let and work will
r in at. once.
■ Tlic Inteiimtioniil Typographieal l nion
by a I urge majority, accepted the
Kvitation to hold its text annual meeting
■t Atlanta, G a., next Juue.
I The large lumber mill of J. 11. Clarke,
■t Doctortown, near .lesup, On., tvs to
■„!lv destroyed by tire on Wednesday,
■jo-s, $00,000; partially Insured.
| Wrsh y Clark and Harrison Blackburn,
H)oth colored, wcie hanged in Aberdeen,
■ti,*.. Tuesday, for the ir.urder of Maj.
Hamilton last December.
I A dispatch from Savannah, On., says:
to the Americus road
■unount now to nearly $30,000. There
obtaining $20,000 will be raised next
■week.
'|| Frank Smith, of Smith Station, Go.,
■was struck by lightning Tuesday while
in his store door and instantly
■killed. He leaves a wife and several
■ A middle age l negro entered Magis
■rate Russell's court, iu Savannah. Sit
■inlay, and insisted on surrendering him
into the custody of the law. lie
■aid he had been guilty of suicide.
■II Jicv. Itolili White, of Cliarlottesvill ■,
■V u , lias been caller! to the pa-torute of
church (Episcop 1) in Savannah,
■ev. Dr. Thomas Boone, tlie last rector
Christ church, goes to New York.
I Two boys, Jimmie Freeman, aged 11,
Louis Miller, 15 yenis, werediowued
■n Charleston, S. C., bar or onThuisday.
were -on the yacht White Wings
a party. The boys were knocked
by ti e main sail boom.
;■'l he various applicants fur the p >*.
Cif Nashville. Tenn., were
in!" exeitemt nt on Wednesday In
umioiii.f incut Hint Postmaster J. 11.
Huircy lul l sent in hi* resignation. Hr.
ivy's ti ini dots not expire for som
j^Houths.
James \V. Warren, aged nineteen, and
"ii tiisteamer K. I'. Holmes,
M< mele.l to step into a skiff from the
while tiie later was in motion >.t
Telia. The skiff careened nit'l
a fell into the river. living rumble
Hu aim he whs drowned.
l *.l The eontemplated Piedmont exp si
Hun, which was to have been h Id in
N. in the fall, has col-
H|soi Oil a -eoinit of some disngrer meat
the committee. If any exposi-
is In hi it x\ ill now require anew
It. V. Covington, a popular member
the Brunswick (tlu.j Horse Hoards,
drilling, made a si sh with
sabre and missed his aim—a post—
flew back, narrowly missing cutting
Hll the the top of bis bead, uud complete-
severing one of I.is ears from His face.
HA meeting of the Greenville, 8. C.,
Alliance was held there in the
on Saturday. About one
rcpiesentntives wcie present.
a 1 the sub-alliances in the state
represented. lb-solutions were
Hu--, and adopting cotton bagging to take
Hu- place of jute.
■ Professor Bil liard W. Cone, recently
in the Nannie How Waithen
at Wiightsville, Ga., has been
a lunatic, ami was taken to
Friday night. He is a
of the state university, and was
of unusual natural endowments.
B News reached Augusta, Ga., of the
of the barn and stables of Mr.
Lamar, at Hecch islands, S. C.
the building, eighteen mules,
oxen, several hogs, and three
bushels of oats were consumed,
was evidently the work of an iu
George Handley, a teamster, died at
Birmingham, Ala., charity hospital
Thursday of lockjaw, caused by the
Brick of a mule. Handley was trying to
harness on a young mule, when it
Bricked him in the face. His injury did
B>°t appear to be serious, but lockjaw set
and he died in a few hours.
1 Lieut. Carter, of the engineer corps in
Bhargc of the harbor improvement at 8a-
Banmth, Ga., lias submitted a report on
Bte charges brought against liim through
Be press of that city by a discharged
Bniploye, that lie has been having a eor-
Bupt understanding with liis contractor-',
Bn<l that he has wasted the public funds.
I John Lane, abrakeman on the Pratt
Bliues railroad, fell from a moving train
■n Birmingham, Ala., and was killed.
Blia fall was caused by tho efforts of the
Bngineer to stop the train in time to
to id running over a crowd of negro
ys who had congregated on the track,
and were slow in getting out of the way.
Lee, of Virginia, whose of
duties preclude his attendance, lias
B 'k'uated Hon. William Wirt Henry,
■ Richmond, to represent Virginia at
W c meo,l . n g of the governors of the thir
;sM>n original states to be held at [ndc
pendence hall, Philadelphia, July 4th
Mr. Henry is a grandson of Patrick
Henry.
The surveying corps of the Columbus
southern is within a few miles of Cutli
tiert, On. They are running a line from
Richland, a point on their main line in
Btewart county, to Cuthbert. With this
connection for the road, soon to be built
frojn Cuthbert to Bniubridge, Cuthbert
will have superior advantages in railroad
conucctions.
i A negro drum corps parading in Wil
mington,Del., on Thursday, was aunoved
bya party of small white lads,and onc’ced
Wat?" w • W [ th l' istols short range.
hiroml t V, i ,ght ’, aKt ' d 10 ’ ™
he T tem| u e and died withinafew
C ol J , oßl ' l,h Lawlo9( S aped 8, was
rionev 1 * Ug K ‘be shoulder. Tlios. Mai
pS.Wotd‘‘“ "”“*.r~ai"..
ThursdavTlri" 1 , 1 "' Colcock died 011
rears Cllarlt ' ston . S. C. For many
Sed Jit ° nU ,° f ,lle ,110 st <listir,
collector ( f'rl 113 tke Stntc - He was
and and ,ri a® P ° rt of Charleston before
seccs^"" 8 ‘ he " ar ; "as an advocate of
I r n Imm “ nremb<r of the conven
-1 n IWOO. i{ e was a fi nc go ' JO i ar and
possessed large wealth and great influ*
euee.
Ihe total passenger earnings of the
<u r °ads in South Carolina last month
as re | orted to the state railroad commis
lon, w’ere $186,089.72; showing a de
iease under toe earnings from the same
r.f tlle same period last yeat
£ #2, u 4 ill, Xhe_{reight.. earnings foi
the month were #327,455.42, showing an
increase over the earnings from the same
s< tirrc during the same period last year
of $•.2,3l .l. 111.
Del with midnight and day Sunday
morning the Central railroad put a force
of hands to work laying the Uh< k on its
Unused right of way, about a mile from
Columbus, (la , to pi event the Columbus
Southern ro a c ming in on it. An
effort was made to ktep the matter a
•ecret, but it leaked on , nud before the
Work was half finished the Chattahoo
chee Brick company tiled a Dili asking
for an injunction and Judge Smith
granted it. The work was stopped at
ante.
In the death, on Wednesday, of Dr.
Andrew Simondf, one of the most eon
spicuous figures in the history of Port
Bellevue, Sou h Carolina, has pan ed
iway. Dr. Situonds has been a confirmed
lyspeptie nearly all bis life. A few days
igo he was att.rked with iullammation of
l.he bowels, which rendered a surgical op
■ration necessary. This resulted in his
death. He was a native of Abbeville
county and a connection of John C. Cal
houn, of nullificdion fame, his mother
being Jane Hamilton Calhouu. Iu 1800
tie married a daughter of John A. Cal
houn. lie organized the First National
Bank, of Charleston, in 1805, was elected
president, and tilled the office till his
death.
A thunderstorm, resulting in consid
erable damage to property, occurred in
Newberry comity, S. C., on Wednesday.
On one farm a cow was instantly killed.
On another, the corn crib was set on lire,
but the flames were extinguished before
much damage was done. On Noah Wil
son’s place a colored boy leading a mule
to the stable was prostrated and stunned,
while the nin e was instantly killed by
the stroke. On John Wertz’s farm a team
of four mulct were struck, two being
killed and one crippled. The negro
driver was thrown from the mule he rode
and stunned, his hat being torn to shreds
and his clothing uiych injured. The
barn of George McWhorter, in Colum
bia, was struck and set on tire.
On Wednesday, at King's Crossing, a
few miles beyond Seville, Ga., two ne
groes boarded the train ami attempted tc
steal a ride on the top of the height ear.
When Conductor F. S. B. Whigham dis
covered them he climbed on top of the
ear. As he approached, is is supp >sed
the negroes slipped down on the side of
the car, and held on by the iron ladder,
in oriler to conceal themselves from him.
As lie passeti he looked over the side ol
the car, and one of them tired a shot
from a pistol and dropped from the train.
The bail entered the brain of Mr. Whig
ham, and lie fell to the ground. As soon
us possible the train was stopped, Mr.
Whigham was picked up and put on
board, and carried to Americus, where he
died. A negro has been arrested id
Sycamore, who has been identified as the
one who fired the fatal shot.
TENNESSEE S SENSATION.
A REVEREND GENTLEMAN SUES BEVERAI
NEWSPAPERS FOR $50,000 DAMAGES.
The great Howard damage suit is be
ginning to assume shape at Jackson,
Teun. The declaration was received.
It covers about sixty pages of legal cap,
and contains sixteen counts, and claim!
$50,000 damages. The charges, ns pub
lished in the Forked Veer Blade, and the
Baptist, and Baptist llcjlector, briefly are
That the plaintiff has borne the aliases
Frederick Howard, Hewlett, Howard;
that if he sailed on the ship Tigress in
1573, in search of the Polaris in the
Arctic regions, he bore the name of
Ilowlett; that in South Carolina he as
sociated with uegiocs; as trial just ce,
had committed malfeasance in office;
eloped from Bobbins, South Carolina,
with C. C. Brown's wife; that his life
is covered over with a mass of corrup
tion. The defendants plead the truth in
justification. The first evidence intro
duced by the plaintiff was to i rove the
publication in the papers, and it was
conspiracy also, to prove that the plain
tiff secured his title—doctor of divinity
—from the Agricultural aud Mechanic and
College at Auburn, Ala., in a regular
manner in 1883. The defendants opened
Thursday. They introduced depositions
of Commander Greer, of the Tigress, the
officers in the Bureau of Equipment in
the navy in Washington, and a journalist
named Commague, who Soiled in the Ti
gress on the polar expedition in search
of the Polaris in 1873; that nc
man named Howard was on the
vessel; that Frederick Ilowlett was on it
ns a seaman* deserted the ship in New
York harbor in November of the same
year. The connection of the case with a
historical event like the Arctic expedi
tion, is but one of the many interesting
points which are to come up during this
trial.
LATEBT ABOUT CRONIN.
A CLAN-NA- GAEL MAN SAYS THE DOCTOR
WAS MURDERED- —GOV. HILL’S ACTION.
Michael Boland, recorder of Kansas
City, Mo., whose name has been con
nected with that of Alexander Sullivan,
the Chicago lawyer, and other members
of the Clan-na-Gacl, in connection with
the Cronin murder mystery, expressed
the opinion he was murdered by members
of the Clan-na-Gael. He thought that
some of the more ignorant members,
sharing the general belief that Cronin
was a spy, killed him in mistake, think
ing they were benefitting the order. He
says Sullivan or any leaders Were not
even remotely connected with the con
spiracy .... A requisition was presented to
Governor Hilt of New k on Thursday
from Governor Fifer, of Illinois, for the
surrender of John J. Maroney and
Charles McDonald, charged With the
murder of Dr. Cronin. Tho governor
denied the application without prejudice
to the renewal of the same, simply on
the grounds: 1. That the application
was not accompanied by an indictment.
2. That no proof whatever was present
ed showing that the accused are guilty
of the crime charged nga nst them, re
quired by tho laws of N. Y.,and all other
states. The application was based solely
upon an afiidavit made upon “iuforma
tion and belief.”
PLUG TOBACCO TRUST.
A special dispatch from St. Louis,Mo.,
says: The latest report is trust a of $25,-
000,000, which takes in all the the plug
tobacco manufactories of the United
Stales. There schemo is said to be one
ot self protection. All manufacturers
will sell out to one company, and then
take stock to amount of valuation of their
plants. Leggett and Myers and Drum j
mond & Company, of 9t. Louis, ami
Pierre Lorillard, ot New York,are at th<
head of the affair.
“MY COUNTRY: MAY SHE EVER HE RIGHT; RIGHT OR WRONG, MY COUNTRYP’-Jtrrrtntus
FARMING HINTS,
GARNERED FROM SOUTHERN
ALLIANCE SOURCES.
The Alliances of Georgia are solid for
eotton hugging.
Many Allancea are having their lec
tures read at every meeting from the
Southern Cultivator , of Atlanta, Ga.
The Alliance men of DeKalb county,
Ga.,will have a grand fourth of July meet
ing at Wesley Chapel in that county.
The Screven county, Ga., Alliances
oppose the passage of a law prohibiting
hunting and fishing on unenclosed lands.
The agricultural headquarters of Geor
gia have been located in the Franklin
Publishing House, of Atlanta, Ga., iu
rooms tendered for the purpose.
The Dougherty county, Ga., Alliance
bought a lot and will commence the
erection of a warehouse at an early day.
The lot purchased has a front of 102 J
fict, running back 210.
In the last repo: tof the condition of
crops in South Carolina, it is estimated
that 4 per cent, less commercial fertiliz
ers has beeu used on cotton than last
year, and that 20 ptr cent, of the fertil
izer used this year was home-made. As
to corn, 55 per cent, of the crop has bean
fertilized, and over one-half of this
amount with homemade manures.
A large number of farmers came as del
egates to the meeting of the County Al
liance at Seneca, S. C. lie solutions con
demning the bagging trust and pledgiug
the members of the Alliance to use only
cotton cloth to bale cottoh, were adopted.
Though the Alliance declined as a body
to endorse the proposed cofTou seed oil
mill, msiiy of the members subscribed
largely, thus showing their sympathy
with tiud confidence iu the enterprise.
The 7,075,000 farmers and farm labor
ers of the United Static (4,000,000
farms) labor chiefly to feed 60,000.000 of
people and the domestic animals, and to
furnish wool, flax and other fibers as raw
materials for partly clothing our own
nation, and cotton to clothe more than
100,000,000 people besides our own; be
sides lurge quantities of sugar, molasses,
pjrk. beef, lard, tallow, hides and horns
which the factories work into forms and
shapes suited to the conveniences of
commerce and the wants of the people.
Albany, Ga., people spent many dol
lars in sending off and buyiug of an iten
erant florist the clematis, when the wild
clematis of that section is far more beau
tiful. A resident discoveied one of these
plants in one of his incursions into the
country, and that for delicate beauty, it
far surpasses the clematis that bloom in
the gardens. The flora of that section
embraces about 175 varieties, some of
which are as choice as ever were fash
ioned in Nature’s mould. Think to
what some of these flowers, so beautiful
n their wilds, could be brought through
cullivati&n.
A Georgia former gives his formula
for making a superior fertilizer. It is
about the same as the popular Furman
formula. He puts together, in layers,
thirty bushels each of stable manure and
cotton seed, sprinkling in 100 pounds
of acul phosphate and fifty pounds
of kainit. Iu this way he builds up the
heap to the height of four feet, lie al
lows it to stand say six weeks, then
spades over and applies from thirty to
sixty bushels to the area. He makes
another fertilizer, with cotton seed meal
and without the stable manure. Cue
hundred pounds cotton seed meal, fifty
pounds acid phosphate, fifty pounds
kaimt, mixed together, applying from
two hundred to three hundred pounds to
the acre.
The following experience of a French
agriculturist was translated from a Mex
ican journal: ‘-Two peach trees of my
orchard were covered with insects, just
as they were about to flower. Having
cut several tomato vines, the idea occur
red to me to place them around the
trunks and branches of the peach trees,
to shelter them from the rays of the sun.
What was my surprise, on the following
day, to notice that all the insects had
disappeared, except from the leaves be
yond "the influence of the tomato plant,
i carefully separated these leaves and ap
plied the tomato to them, when the in
sects disappeared as though by enchant
ment, and from that time the peach
trees began to grow luxuriantly. Wish
ing to carry the experiment further, 1
put some of the tomato leaves in water
and sprinkled other plants, such as th
rose bush, orange tree, apple tree, peat
treo, etc., with the infusion, which blso
had the same effect of completely freeing
them of insects within a few days.”
South Carolina papers mention a some
thing astonishing to the “oldest inhab
itant,” the finding of wild cane in seed:
“This rnrn avis in question is a growtli
resembling the red oak somewhat, and
grows on a common cane or reed, such at
is found on branch and creek bottoms.
The specimen stalks before us from
twelve to fifteen feet in heightl), thickly
filled from end to end, or from ground tc
tip end, with oat-like heads, containing
flat, plump grains. It seems that this
seed-bearing cane is of a very recent dis
covery, never having been observed, infact,
until within the past few days.” Boththt
large and small cane bear seed, though
not freely, ns is the case with most
p’ants, which increase freely by running
root-stocks. The latter fact, well known
to botanists, accounts for the almost in
variable sterility of that pcstiferoui
grass, the “maiden cane.” But J. H.
Simpson, of M mateo, discovered it in
seed last year, aud proved it to be a va
riety of a certain swamp grass, the pani
cum Curtisi. Dr. George Vasey, of the
Department of Agriculture, South Caro
lina, has recommended botanists to rcc
-ovni7.fi it as “variety Simnsoni.”
The Farmers’ Aliiance is becoming •
powerful and influential society in Mis
sissippi. It has able public speakers and
well-informed agents visiting all of the
counties of the state, organizing alliances
and instructing the farmers in regard to
their interests, their rights and their
wrongs. Their lecturers are itinerant
school-masters, teaching the farmers in
their lectures exactly what they all ought
to know. And the members of the or
der will pass it round to their neighbors
who do not belong to the order. They
are not only taught important practical
facts in agriculture, but facts relating to
commerce and trade, how they shoulil
sell their crops, how they arc affected by
“rings” and “corners” and “combines”
and “trusts,” and by paying dearly for
lire credit they get; and they are taught
important facts in political economy, in
relation to labor and nstional wealth,
where the money comes from, and where
it goes, and who gets it. And they arc
taught that they must have more farmers
in state legislatures, and in Congress, and
COVINGTON. GKORGIA. THURSDAY, JUNK \M). 18811.
hi huh government* to look after the
agric ultural Interests of the country, ami
that they must vote for tried friends of
the femu rs for all offices from the I’m u
dent of the United States down to tho
officer (list tests the honesty of weights
snd measures. Farmers have a deep in
terest iu weights and measures, as well as
in presidents and law-makers.
FIGHTING IN COURT.
vuk .irimk, coKsTAnt.it, ruisoNK.it and
SEVERAL SPECTATORS KII.I.Kl).
A bloody shooting affray occurred
eighteen miles south of Austin, Tex.,
Thursday evening, in which four white
men and five negroes were killed and
many others wounded. It appears that
in the neighborhood where the trouble
occurred, a colored justice of the peace,
Orange Wiekcs, and a colored constable,
Isaar Wilson, were recently elected. The
justice had issued a warrant for one U.
D. Littcn, and it was put into the hands
of Wilson. Soon alterwards, the lattei
met Litten, and informed him he had a
warrant for his arrest, and procec led to
read It. Little remarked that it was no
use to rend the warrant, for he would
not be urrested by ad nigger.
Quite a crowd had gathered and Wilson's
friends advised him that he place the
warrant in the hands of a white constable.
This lie <1 ill and Littcn was arrested, but
declared lie would not be tried before a
colored justice. Notwithstanding his
protest he was carried before Justice
Wickes, whose court was in session.
The room was crowded with blacks and
whites. In the courtroom Litten was
very abusive, and finally words led to
blows, then to the use of six-shooters and
Winchesters. Justice Wii ken and Litten
wire riddled with bullets and died im
mediately. The constable was also killed
as was a negro named Bell. A gpectatoi
was filled with lead and loon died.
Houston Moore, a colored boy, was also
killed by a stray bullet. Alexander
Notch and George Seiiochf, both white
men, were shot down und instantly
killed, as was another white man whose
name could not be learned. One hun
dred armed men gathered around rei.b v
to renew the fight, but all has been quiel
so far.
ROBBERS HUNG.
Oue of the most brutal tragedies ever
kuown in the history of crime in Ten
nessee was expiated Wednesday by the
murderous perpetrators, who were hanged
lo a tree by a mob on Wednesday.
Tuesday evening one week ago, E. it.
Reynolds, aged 45, and Thomas J.
Lloyd, aged" 21, went to the house ol
Rev. Jacob Harness, a Baptist minister,
in Scott county, believing him to have a
large amouut of money concealed in the
house. They reached the house about
midnight on Wednesday and demanded
admittance. ltcv. Mr. Harness wos
away from the house, aud his wife aud a
half-witted son, aged 16, wgre sleeping
in the same room. Mm. Harness, who
was about fifty years of age, went to the
door and told the men they must leave.
They broke down the door und rushed
in, shooting the old lady dead iu her
tracks the first thing. The boy, awak
ened by the noise, rushed out at auothei
door. They followed him out, and,
overtaking him, beat him to death with
a garden hoe. They carried him back
aud threw him in the doorway, his legs
protruding. They uext ransacked the
house, secured $74, anil then, to covei
up the terrible crime, applied the torch.
They were arrested aud jailed at Hunts
ville. Both the villains confessed their
crime before they were executed, aud
said tliev deserve! what they got.
VETERAN ORGANIZATION.
A NEW ORDER, KNOWN AS THE UNITE!
CONFEDERATE VF.IF.RANS.
Governor Gordon, of Georgia, has been
elected general of the United Confed
erate Veterans. This Grand Army ot
the South was organized in New Oileant
aud Governor Gordon received official
notice of his election as commanding
general, accompanied by a copy of tlu
constitution of the ordir. The objceti
are of a social, literary, historical and be
nevolent character. An effort will be
made to unite all associations ot Confed
erate veterans, soldiers and sailors, tc
gather authentic data for an impartial
history ol the war between the states; to
cherish the ties of friendship that should
exist among men who have shared com
mon dangers and common sufferings; to
care for the disabled; to help the needy;
to protect the widow and the orphan;
and make and preserve a record of the
services of every member, and :*s far as
possible those of the Confederate dead.
The officers will be a general, lieutenant
general, adjutant-general, quartermaster
general, conmii-sary-geuerai, judge ad-,
vocate-general, surgeon-general and
chaplain. General Gordon will appoint
a lieutenant-general and a number of
aides. The next meeting will be held on
July 4th, 1890, at Chattanooga, Teun.
MANY CHILDREN KILLED-
A train containing an excursion patty
from Armagh tb Dublin, Ireland, was
wrecked near the latter place. Twenty
pet sons were killed outright. The train
contained 1,200 people, composed of
Methodist Sunday-School scholars, their
teachers and relatives. They were going
on an excuision to Warren Point. Sev
enty bodies were afterwards takpn from
the' wreck. Warren Point, the place
where the party was bound, is a watering
place at the mouth of Newry River, in
the county Down. r l lie acoident oc
curred at a point where the trains hail tc
ascend u grade on u bank fifty feet high.
The first train ascended the grade with
out trouble. The second section at
tempted to ascend, but the weight of the
train proved too great for the engine.
Sever and ears were detached and allowed
to run back towards the level track, but
before they reached it, they came in col
lision with ail ordinary truin from Ar
magh, which was proceeding at a good
rate of speed.
CHARLESTON’S COURT.
Tho coining session of the criminal
court, which commences ou Monday
next, promises to be the most important
ever held in Charleston, S. C. The jury
is composed of fourteen mulattocs and
negroes and twenty-one whites—an uuu
sually large proportion of the colored
race. The docket has over 61 cases to
be tried—l3 for murder, 16 of assault
witli intent to kill, 6 burglary, 8 of va
grancy, 2 of carrying concealed weapons,
1 of rape. 3 of house breaking, 8 of lar
ceny, and the rest of minor offences. The
greatest interest attaches to the case of
McDow, charged with tho murder of
Captain F. W. Dawson, on the 12th o!
March last. It is probable, however
that this case will be postponed.
WASHINGTON, 1). 0.
MOVEMENTS OF THE PR ESI DENI
AND HIS AD VLEERS.
AI'IDINTSIFNTM, DECISIONS, AND OTHKn MASTERS
or INTEUEHT FROM THE NATIONAL I AFITAL.
The Frcsideut on Thursday appointed
L> be collectors of customs, T. Jefferson
Jurrett, for tho district of Petersburg,
Ya , und Robert Smalls for the district
of Beaufort, 8. C.
There is considerable talk of au extra
session of Congress. The northern men
are of the opinion that it will he held,
while the majority of southern men ex
press the opiuiou that the President will
uwait the October elections in the newly
admitted territories.
The examination! at the military acad
emy received on Thursday at the War
Department, shows that Cadet Young, ol
Ohio, the only colored cadet at West
Point, failed to para final examination.
On recommendation of academic board,
he will be given two months’ time to
make good his deficiency if he can.
The President on Saturday made the
following appointments to be consuls:
Gen. Joseph A. Leonurd, of Minnesota,
at Shanghai; Wakefield G. Frye, of
Maiue, at Halifax; Zachary T. Sweeney,
of Indiana, at Const intiuople; Oliver 11.
Dockery, of North Carolina, at Rio de
Janeiro; Oliver 11. Simona, of Colorado,
at St. Petersburg; George W. Roosevelt,
of Pennsylvania, cwnsal at Brussels;
Levi W. Brown, of Ohio, consul at Glas
gow.
Some excitement was manifested at the
State an.l Navy Departments Wednesday,
upon the receipt of a cablegram from
Commander Kellogg, at Ilayti. In obe
dience to orders from the Navy Depart
ment, which in turn were inspired by tho
Secretary of State, Commander Kellogg
recently steamed from St. Nicholas mole
(cable to Port au Ptiuee. He
reported to the Secretary of the Navy
the result of his observations and inqui
ries into the condition of affairs at the
Ilaytien capital. Secretary Trncy imme
diately communicated this information
to Secretary Blaine, who carried the news
to the President. Cnpt. O'Kane was or
dered to sail immediately for the seat of
trouble with the warship Bostou, which
has just been refitted at New York.
The June report of the Department ol
Agriculture at Washington, indicates a
slight reduction in the area of cotton on
the Atlantic coast, and au increase west
of the state of Alabama. Nearly four
fifths of the proposed breadth had been
planted bv the first of May, but germin
ation was slow on accuunt of col l and
generally dry weather. The replanting
of defective stands is general, and some
fields were plowed up and planted in
corn. The following averages are pre
liminary, subject to a revision from a
thorough, special investigation now in
progress: North Carolina 99, South
Carolina 99, Georgia 96, Florida 100,
Alabama 99, Mississippi 102, Louisiana
103, Texas 103, Arkansas 104, Tennessee
106; general average 101. The nights
have been too cold aud the seed bed too
dry for germination or vigorous growth.
Frosts are reported in May, some as late
us the 80th. Throughout the cotton
belt the condition is therefore relatively
l ow —the lowest in South Caroiua, the
highest iu Texas, averaging 86.4; the
state averages being: Virginia 85, North
Carolina 84, South Carolina 78, Georgia
80, Florida 88, Alabama 83, Mississippi
85, Louisiana 90, Texas 95, Arkansas
92, Tennessee 79. General average 80.4.
Replanting was scarcely completed at
the date of the report, and in dry land
the latest seeding had uot germinated.
Rains on the last days of May were ex
pected to improve the condition mate
rially. Iu some districts are reports of
the presence of lice and injuries by cut
worms.
PRINTERS' HOME.
COLORADO STRINGS CHOSEN AS TIIE LOCA
TION OF A HOME FOP. INVALID PRINTERS.
At the third day’s session of the Inter
national Typographical Convention, at
Denver, Col., on Thursday, the matter
relative to the sending of a delegate to
Paris during the international congress,
which convenes next month, was referred
to the committee of the whole. Consul-,
erablc discussion was caused by receiving
a petition to use plates in the govern
ment office nt Washington. Referred to
a committee consisting of Messrs. C'aise
ty, of New York, ltsichel, of Illinois,
Metcalf, of Minneapolis, and Richards,of
Waco, Texas. Several provis ous for the
establishment of a home for invalid
printers were then submitted to the
meeting. The committee to which they
were referred, reported unanimously in
favor of adopting the pjoposition sub
mittod by the citizens of Colorado
Springe, who offered eighty acres of
land near in as a free grant, on condition
that the home be started within two
years, and completed within three years.
By a rising report it was adopted. The
president ruled there were no vacancies,
aud consequently no election of officers
will be held until next year. An appeal
was taken aud the ruling of the chair
sustained.
DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE.
On Wednesday, the National Demo
cratic Committee met at the sth Avenue
hotel, iu New York, nearly the en
tire membership attending. Sec
retary Sherrin stated that the only busi
ness he knew of that was to come before
the committee was the election of a suc
cessor to the late Chairman W. H. Bar
num, and the admission of his successor,
Carlos French, ns a member of the com
mittee from Connecticut, and D. M.
Haskell, from South Carolina, as succes
sor to ttie late Capt. Dawson. The sec
retary of the committee made an address
on the death of Capt. Francis W. Daw
son, of South Carolina, in which lie paid
a high tribute to his worth and memory
and briefly reviewed his life. He also
presented resolutions testifying to the
regret at his death aud high esteem iu
which he was held by the committee ol
which he was a member. These were
also adopted unanimously, as well as
eulogistic resolutions on the death of W.
IT. Barnum. The nomination of Col.
Calvin S. Brice to bo chainnan of the
committee was then made by Judge
McHenry, of Kentucky, and was sec
onded by Senator Gorman. He was unan
imously elected.
THE GRAND PRIZE.
The race for the Prixde Paris, 100,000
francs, was won by Bay Colt Vasitas by
one lcDgth. The ChestDUt Colt Pour
tant, second, four lengths ahead of Bay
Colt, Aerolitlic, third. There were thir
teen starters.
GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE ACCIDENTS, SrRIKtS,
FIRES, AND HAPPENIN')* OF INTEREST.
The black vomit has made its appeur
auce at Vera Cruz, New Mexico.
Emperor William’s review of the Eng
?;lish fleet off Spithead, lias been fixed
or August 5.
The town of Zlairnz, iu Austrian Gali
cia, was almost entirely destroyed by
fire on Monday. Many lives ware lost.
The total amount of contributions re
ceived by Governor Beaver, of Harris
burg, for the flood sufferers to date it
about $700,090.
Three of Captain Wissman’s steamers
are reported to have been lust on the
Benadeir coast. German men-of-wai
have gone in search of the missing ves
sels.
A dispatch from the City of Mexico
says: The roof of the Merced market
fell in Friday, burying nearly forty per
sona. Four dead anil fourteen wounded
have already been taken out. Soldiers
are removing the rubbish and searching
for the bodies.
Lieut. Frank Reeves Heath, U. S. N.,
died at Mare island naval hospital, neat
San Francisco, Cal., on Thursday. He
was one of the survivors of the wrecked
man-of war Yundalia, at Samoa. He
has been suffering for weeks from dis
ease contracted at Apia, aud a week ago
was taken down with an attack of com
pound pneumonia.
CumiHo Bougutti, awaiting trial iu
New Yoik city for the murder of Fran
cisco Snnevito, whom he killed on tho
22d of May, committed suicide in the
Tombs ou Thursday by hanging. Wi ll
a piece of rojie taken from his bed-tick,
he made a noose, and attaching one end
to a sewer pijie running ucross the ceil
ing of his ceil be stood on his bed,
placed his head in the noose and swung
off.
A Chicago paper contains the follow
ing paragraph: “The survivors of ihc
Johnstown Hood are throwing away their
Bibles and openly disclaiming any be
lief in a divine providence. Men and
women, who saw their loved ones swept
away and drowned, have in their despe
ration turned their bucks on religion.
The great calamity has made more athe
ists than a century of lugersolism could
have done.
A dispatch from Tucson, Ariz., says:
The preliminary hearing of the parties
who robbed Paymaster Whann was com
menced Wednesday afternoon. Gilbert
aud Wilford Webb, M. E. Cunningham,
Natt Fol'et. Lyman Follet, Thomas
Lamb and David Rogers were held to
answer before the grand jury. Edward
F Jlet was discharged. All the parties
held were identified and a large amouut
of circumstantial evidence adduced
against them. Other parties will prola
blv be arrested soon.
USED DYNAMITE.
A REJECTED LOVER IN OHIO CAt'Glil WITH
EXPLOSIVES —HE SUICIDES.
Frank James was arrested at Bowling
Green, Ohio, on the charge of attempting
to blow up Mrs. Mertic Williamson’s
house with dynamite. He was put in
the town jail where he committed suicide
by hanging himself with a pair of sus
penders Mrs. Williamson is applying
for a divorce from her husband, aud
James has been trying to get her to
promise to marry him as soon ns she gets
the divorce. As she refused, James un
dertook to further his suit by threaten
ing to blow her up with dynamite.
Tuesday evening during Mrs. William
son's absence, James, who was about half
drunk, wns discovered in the cellar
asleep with a big dynamite cartridge at
tached to a fuse in his hand. The police
wctc notified and James was arrested af
ter a severe struggle, and was placed in
jail and suicided.
DRIVEN TO SUICIDE.
4 SON SHOOTS HIMSELF TO AVOID A FATH
ERLY THRASHING.
A voting man named Jarvis Odam
committed suicide iu Rutherford county,
N. C.. under peculiar circumstances. He
had whipped a smaller brother who had
reported the occurrence to his father.
The latter is very severe in correcting his
children and several times chastised his
oldest son very cruelly, tin this occa
siou he sent word to him that he would
give him a terrible thrashing for whip
ping his brother. The young man knew
what this meant and went up stairs cry
ing. In a few minutes the report of a
gun was heard, and when the young
man's room was entered, he was found
lying on the floor with a hole in his head.
He died in a few seconds.
GENERAL TAFT INSANE.
TOO MUCH RELIGION SEEMS TO HAVE lIEKN
TIIE CAUSE.
It is i uinored that General Taft, ex
postmaster and present candidate for the
postmastership of Charleston, S. C., has
again lost his mind, nnd been sent to the
state lunatic asylum. I aft lost his mind
shout two years ago, went crazy on the
subject of religion, and after remaining
in the asylum for some time, was takeu
north by his wife. Ho recovered and re
lumed here, apparently perfectly restored,
although his friends thought he was a
little off. He was a candidate for the
postmastership, and has been to Wash
ington recently looking after his interests
there, and it is thought that this might
have unsettled his mind.
UNITED labor.
\ meeting was held Wednesday to
take Steps to bring the organized work
ing classes of Chic .go into a Brother,
hood of United I.abor-Barry’ substitrte
for the Knights of Labor. Represents
tives of the following trades were pres
ent' Moulders, foundrymen, butchers,
coopers, waiters, gas and coke workers,
telegraph operators, painters, printer.,
carpenters and others, said to represent
in all about 10.000 wage workers.
NEWS FROM STANLEY.
I etters received at Zanzibar from Ujyi,
dated March 10, say that Stauley met
Tippoo Tib and sent a number of his
sick followers buck with him by way ol
the Congo Stanley intended coming to
lhe East coast with Emin Pasha. Tip
poo Tib would arrive at Zanzibar in
July.
BUDGET OF FUN.
HUMOIIOI'H SkKTI'HKS I'HOM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
From lltm'rent View Points—Hardly
Worth While—A (Juration ol
Authority Rnslnes*
I'haiißn., Kle.
‘‘lt I were in your plane,” the visitor saiil,
Ai he looked through the grated door.
“ I would turn my thoughts to a Irettai' life.
And endeavor to sin no more.”
“ If I were in your place, you bet your life,”
The prisoner remarked, from his cell,
“ 1 would skin up the street till I couldn’t rest,
In less time than it takes to tell ! ”
HARDLY WORTH WHILE.
New iiourder—“ Madam do you reully
propose to sav grace over this break
fast ? ”
Hoarding Mistress—“ Yes, sir, it is my
invariable custom.”
“ Y es, I know, but do you think it
worth w hile—nothing but thin coffee and
fried liver f ” — Tara* Sifting*.
A QUESTION OK AUTHORITY,
Neighbor—“ Roof leaking up there?’
Mr. Cassius—“ Nope. Sec that shot
gun sticking out of th’ scuttle ? ”
Neighbor—“ Yep.”
Mr. Cassius—“ My wife's behind it. I
ventured to remark this morning that I
was th’ head of th’ house, an’ she's kept
me up here ever since.”— Judye.
BUSINESS CHANGES.
“ A year ago,” he said, “ I sold out uiy
drug business and went to Wall street,
and iu less than a week's time I doubled
my capital. That's making money fast,
eh ? ”
“ Yes, iudeed. Y'uu must be very rich
now ? ”
“Well, no, not very. At the expira
tion of the second week I left Wall street,
aud am now clerking for the man I sold
out to.”— Life.
Ills KNOWLEDGE OK FRANCE WAS MEAGRE.
“My sou,” said the anxious parent,
“ I learn with some surprise that you are
marked ‘ deficient ’ in your French his
tory. I thought you told me that you
finished your paper iu ten minutes.”
“ So I did; but the question was, ‘Tell
all you know about the history of
France.’”
“ Ah, I see.”— Harper'* Maftuine.
WHERE THIS ATHLETE TRAINED.
“ You say you never had any gymnas
tic training and never took part in a con
test of this kind before I ”
“ Never,” modestly replied the man
who had just won the championship in a
high leaping match. “ But there’s no
secret about it. I live on a street where
the grocers keep most of their stock out
on the sidewalk in front.”— Chicago
Tribune.
THE JUDGE SIDED WITH THE JOKER.
Judge—“ You say the prisoner threw
you out of the door. Had you provoked
him?”
Plaintiff—“ Not at all. lie advertised
an unusually fine bargain sale of laces,
and I went in aud asked him for the low
est figure on a pair of shoe laces. ”
Judge—“ Prisoner is discharged. Mr.
Clerk, swear out a warrant against plain
tiff and have him arrested for criminal as
sault.”—Harper's Bazar.
AN OBJECT LESSON IN FUNNING.
A Moted Washington wag and beau of
thirty years signed his name “A. More.
Mrs. John Washington had invited him
to a formal dinner party at Mount Ver
non. The company all arrived except
Mr. More, but knowing liis queer ways
the hostess did not wait for him. After
she was seated some time a huge envelope
was handed her, in which she found an
enormous leuf of a sycamore tree. The
interpretation was: “Sick.—A. More.”
Chicago America.
nE couldn't miss that game.
De Courcy—“Angelina, dearest, have
you yet fixed upon the day that is to make
me the happiest of men ?”
Angelina—“ Yes, Reginald, the 15tli
of next month is my birthday, aud how
appropriate it would Ik- to luivc our wed
ding on the same date. Does that day
suit you?"
De C.—“ Well, no, not quite as well as
some other. You see there is to be a
League game played on that day, and I
wouldn’t like to miss it.” —Boston Budget.
thf. juiit was down on the slouch.
A man churged with stealing a calf
made the following statement: “I was
always teached to be honest, an’ most al
ways have been, but when I seed the calf
I caved. I never wanted a calf so badiu
all my life, an’ you know that when a
man wunts a calf he wants him.”
The jury returned the following ver
dict: “We, this jury, air satisfied that
Steve stold the calf, but as the feller that
owned the animal is considerable of a
slouch, we agree to clear Steve an’ make
the slouch pay the costs." —Atlanta Con
stitution.
A SUGGESTION.
It wus in the grocery store. “Give
me a pound of cheese,” said an elderly
man with blue spectacles on.
“Yes, sir,” said the grocer, and he
went to work with his knife.
Just then a horse hitched in front of
the store became uneasy.
“Whoa!" shouted the grocer.
“I beg your pardon,” said the man
with blue spectacles, who had been gaz
ing intently at the cheese. “Did yon re
mark whoa?”
“Yes, sir; to the horse outside.”
“Oh, to the horse. AVcll, hadn’t you
better say it again to the cheese?”—Mer
chant Traveler.
GETTING FULL ON WATER.
Miss Nevertraveled —“One sees such
ridiculous things in the paper, don t you
think, Mr. Justfromabroad?”
Mr. Justfromabroad —“Yes, rather.
It does seem that the editors tried to see
which could tell the biggest yarn."
Miss Nevertraveled —“Why, only this
morning, I read in the paper that it was a
possible thing to get intoxicated on
water.”
Mr. Justfromabrond —“Oh, that was
all right. Why, when I crossed, I was
dnin—er —hem—aw—this has been a
glorious day, hasn’t it, Miss Nevsr-
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traveled I” But (he reply that he longed
for never came.— Peeh't thin.
UK WAS HIS MISTER S KNIOHT MIRANT.
A young lady was much (Mined aua
shocked as she walked down the street to
see her young brother sitting astride the
prostrate body of another boy and rein
ing down blows upon his struggling vic
tim. “Johnny,” alie almost st reamed,
“what are you doing? Come here this
minute. Aren’t you ashamed of your
self, fighting this way in the street.”
The boy reluctantly arose from his van
quished antagonist and faced his indig
nant siater. Then he explained:
“Well, I don’t care. He said you wasn’t
good-looking. I don’t think you are
either, but it ain’t none o’ his funeral.
8o I licked him.”— Minneapoli* Tribune.
EMBARRASSED BY lIEB COMPLIMENT.
A young lady was ouce present at t
musical party where the lion of the even
ing was a celebrated flute player. Aftei
he had performed, this young lady wa>
presented to him, and there wasa general
silence in the room, which added to het
natural embarrassment. She felt thatsht
must suy something pleasant, so, withs
happy smile, she exclaimed:
“Oh, how delightfully you play! Dc
you ever accompany yourself on the
piano ?”
The artist looked at his flute, then at
his fingers, shrugged his shoulders.bowed
low aixl said : “Never.”
After a moment she saw why everybody
laughed.— lymdan Tit-Bit*.
EXPERIENCED.
The mystic moonbeams and the twinkli
of the stars made soundless harmonies or
that balmy night. They walked togethei
down the old road past the orchard anc
the ruined mill to the rustic bridge across
the little streamlet which prattled idly tc
the pebbles as it hurried along.
“Mable,” said he, “do you know what
love it?”
“I think so,” she replied simply.
“I mean were you ever the object of a
love that was as fierce a* the onslaught ot
a tiger and as unquenchable as the stars.
Were you ever truly loved?”
“Was I ever truly loved?" she repeated
thoughtfully. “George eome back to
the house and I will show you two dia
mond rings, six valentines, and a trunk
full of photographs.”
And George was silent.— Merchant
Trureter.
LOOKED AT HIS GLASS BYE.
The diner-out recently sat at the board
of a friend w T hose misfortune it is to wear
a glass eye- —a jolly fellow, fond of the
pleasure of the table, full of good humor,
quick to see a joke and a lover of a good
story. What I now relate is one he tells
of himself.
He is a railroad man, occupying a re
sponsible position on one of our great
lines. A few years ago there: was a great
crash on his road, and the train on which
he was riding was knocked into smither
eens. He was picked up as one dead,
and was stretched out iu some con
venient place to await the arrival of the
doctors to officially pronounce upon his
condition. By and by a physician
bustled up, looked at his prostrate,
motionless form aud pallid face and said:
“That poor fellow's a goner, I guess.”
Then he kneeled down, lifted up an
eyelid and saw a dull, expressionless orb.
“Yes, he’s dead fast enough—take
him away!” exclaimed the doctor.
The supposed corpse suddenly began
to move its lips. The startled surgeon
listened and this is what he heard:
“You old fool, that’s my glass eye.”—
I/ociston Journal.
DISCOUNT.
It used to be the custom, aud is now it
many localities, to “beat down” in all
trades with storekeepers and merchants.
An amusing example of this practice it
given below:
In the old haggling way of trade it was
customary to demand a great deal more
than the asker hoped to get. One time,
on the Texas frontier, a man came into a
camp riding on an old mule.
“How much for th* mule?” asked a
by-stander.
“Jist a hundred dollars,” answered the
rider.
“I'll give you five dollars,” said the
other.
The rider stopped short, as if in amaze
ment, anti then slowly dismounted*
“Stranger,” said he, “I ain't a-goin
to let a little matter of niucty-tive dollars
stand between me and a mule trade. The
mule's yourn.”
Another story, somewhat of the same
sort, is related of an old tenant fasauts
who, on paying his rent, told his land
lord that he wanted some timber to build
a house, and would be much obliged if
he would give him permission to cut down
what would answer for the purpose.
“No!" said the landlord, sharply.
“Well, then, sir," the farmer went on,
“will you give me enough to build a
barn?”’
“No!”
“To make a gate, then?”
“Yes.”
“That's all I wanted,” said the farmer,
“and more than 1 expected.”— Yanlce
Blade.
Farts About Lamps.
Oil has been burned in lamps for many
centuries, but no real improvement ia oil
lumps was made until about 100 years ago,
or about 1753, when M. Argand,a Swiss,
who lived in London, invented the
cylindrical wick and burner, which has
siuee borne his name. Soon after the
glass chimney was introduced and light
ing oil was fully revolutiouized.
These two improvements multiplied tht
light to lie obtained from a lamp, and by
producing a perfect combustion of the
oil obviated the smoke and bad odors
previously inseparable from the use of oil
lamps. Other improvements followed,
one of the most notable being the placing
of the reservoir of oil below- the burner
instead of above, making the lamp much
more convenient. This was a discovery
of Philip Girarde, a Frenchman, about
1807.
Another Frenchman, Carcel, con
trived a mechanism to regulate the supply
of oil, but his contrivance was super
seded by tile moderator lamp, introduced
about sixty years ago. Some further
modifications of lamps followed the dis
covery of i>etroleum, but these are the
principal features included in the lamps
of the present day. the Argand principle
being substantially unchanged. —Oveni
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