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The Georgia Enterprise.
rOLDMK XXIV.
OF THE CONEMAIjGH.
the valley of the Coinmiaugh
Inulinjr rlmids frowned down;
of the tempeat ihrioked
a fated town,
for your lives!” it cried;
the of the rel-ntless title!”
SH&iDue heeded one undtrKtood;
, 1|.,l t!. "It warn.'d -ars.
bl it laughed and mot hem fond
I and 'He'd tle ir children's
MM'
In,- tempest s'hled and cried:
for your lives' Hide! ride!”
valley one man understood;
hero heard the awful cry,
whirlwind rode ho down
them of death's horror nigh.
Ml flee for your lives T’ he criod;
the surgeof the relentless tide.”
they thought. Few heeded what
said;
laughed and scoffed, a handful Ihsi,
y all remained behind
that Valley of the Dead.
|K)ii he rode and madly cried:
t lee for your lives! Ride! Ride!”
he rode und raced with death,
beaten in that unequal striie,
caught him, and his corps-3
on with those of men for w hom ha
gave his life;
all the tempest vainly sighed,
tlee for your lives! Ride! Ride!”
s . —New York Press.
■JUST RETRIBUTION.
*si Bv WILLIAM M. ORAVDOX.
busy among in.' mii|)s and charts
cabin table when n dull, heavy
twice repeated, came through the
>pHv indows. Dropping everything I
up on deck.
maria, ' wur gathered along the
ot! to the right hank of the
that tiring 1 heard?" I imputed,
it was the report of a gun,
said Lieutenant Osborne. “It
the shore, at a distance of
half a mile.”
JpKli'H'iird intent i \ fora moment, and
a repetition of the sound, and
with it we seemed to hear a cry.
ought to be made; and vet
to olf into the forest with a
' f men seemed a very risky pro-
for these Arab slave dealers are
lighters, and this tiring evident
ly portend nothing else than that
in command of a gunboat at
to the man-of-war Racer, which
!' end on the East African coast,
north of Zanzibar, and which
in the slave blockade. I
dispatched some fifty miles up
<'leek to investigate a rumor that
' lat l a slave station near the
Irs somewhere.
ais time I had met with* no suc
e country seemed to be de
)f course we could not recon
rom the banks, for our force
, and a sufficient guard must
left in charge of the gunboat,
sc reasons I hesitated to advance
ungle; but two more shots in
■ession removed all doubts, and
a boat to be lowered instantly.
Imy little force—a dozen trusty
in a small cove, and we plunged
to the forest,
red with great caution, and soon
1 rude patii that bore traces of
We continued along this in a
direction, and had marched
tile when the two men whom I
forward as an advance guard
ack at full speed and reported
über of natives and two white
i only a few rods distant and
considerable disturbance,
urmation staggered me. What
: - r!, uld be doing here was more
mid understand. We advanced
with rifles in readiness. Before
break ia the forest, and without
we gained the edge of the
obtained a clear view of the
fitly „ r sixty stalwart negroes
about and making strange
while a few yards away, at the
Ismail hillock,stood two swarthy
hey were on the defensive, ffvi
ar they held rifles in their hands,
' dead negroes lay prostrate on
id in front of them.
I saw something else, for in the
the open lay one great mass of
! white ivory, tossed carelessly
It was an ivory caravan from
ior; for these negroes belonged
ist tribes.
the dispute was about I could not
ss, nor did I have time to do so,
sudden the negroes dashed for
•h a tierce shout. The men must
ut [ge- ii overpowered in spite of their
. :lail deadly lire; hut just at the
"T nt i S "'T’ <mt from the
nf,groe9 fell hack in
T] m * n camp forward with
vWtWrt h:URS ’ and 1 *** *n closer
|' r > you have saved our lives ”
i leader, in tolerably good Eng
e was an intelligent looking man
ty or thirty-five. “These
ils were determined to kill us.
i is Torres,'’ he continued, “and
tinting to his companion, “is my
astello. We are ivory traders,
e brought these natives from the
at great cost. We pledged our
send them home in safety, but
s suddenly made up their minds
proposed selling them to the
and, mad with rage, they made
den attack on us.”
thnnot P\ ltmuch faith inPortu
an°rnoT U ” S , n ' an was of a hotter
an many I had met. Still he
e speaking the truth.
if^The 1 kn ° Wing wha ‘ course
■ Th i . negroes were grouped
at a little distance, iuUenl,
? our movements, but making no
emonstrations. b
nly one of them came forward a
wart fellow, with a leoparTl skin
waist, and stopped in front of
disV° j u bber ° ut a mixture °f
;' h .?° and natlvc Afr >can, and,
m hls gestures than from his
I comprehended what he said.
. ®A that } hc Portuguese intended
iem into slavery, and affirmed that
een Torres lurking behind on the
previous day to talk to an Arab that had
come out of the forest.
He told me his name was Zuba, that he
was a head man in his tribe, and that lie
lmd picked up his Knglish at Zanzibar,
where he hail been on several occasions.
He kuew that I was Knglish, and that the
Knglish hated the Arabs, so he hoped
that I would protect his friends from the
Portuguese und the slave hunters.
Torres's swarthy face flushed darker as
Zuba poured out liis appeal.
“The hound lies," he exclaimed,
; angrily. “When they take the ivory to
I the coast they will be paid and sent hack
home.”
“But sec here, Torres," I interrupted,
for 1 was beginning to get an inkling of
the state of the case. “You know well
that these natives are not safe within a
hundred miles of the coast. It looks to
me as though you had deceived them,
whether you intended to sell them to the
Arabs or not. They are certainly igno
rant of their real peril.”
The Portuguese grew confused, and
tried to stammer out some explanation,
but I made up my mind at once that it
was a clear case of treachery.
It Was an extremely perilous situation
all round, and one that called for prompt
action. I at once ordered the arrest of the
two Portuguese, and before they could
think of resistance, my marines had dis
armed them and pinioned their limbs.
The delighted negroes crowded round
us with cries of gratitude, but I soon con
vinced them that their danger was by no
means over. I could not liberate and let
them go, for the hands of slave hunters
that roamed the country would soon have
seized them, so my only course was to
take them on board the gunboat and let
the authorities of the Racer decide their
fate. I now had no doubt at all that
Torres and Gastello had intended to sell
them into slavery,and I felt highly elated
at my capture of these Portuguese slave
hunters.
At my command Zuba and his dusky
friends took up their burdens of ivory,
and we started back along the rough
trail, Torres and Gastello marching rul
lenly between two marines.
I noticed that they turned their heads
aside from time to time in a strange man
ner, and my suspicions were aroused.
Zuba was watchful and uneasy, and crept
along some distance ahead of the column
closely inspecting the jungle on all sides.
We had retraced half the distance back
when he hurried toward us, waving his
arm frantically, while the leopard skin
flapped about his loins.
“Arabs, heap Arabs!” he gasped, and
his face showed the deadly terror he
felt.
lie tried to talk, but could only utter
inarticulate sounds and point with his
trembling hands.
The negroes, with a wail of terror,
dashed down their ivory and prepared to
flee.
“Shoot the first man that runs,” I cried.
“Now into the bushes, quick, all of
you!”
The jungle was heavy at this point and
in a moment our party was hidden be
neath its cover, and none too soon, for
we could already hear voices in front.
My force was small, as I have said, and
I preferred, if possible, to escape a con
flict with the Arabs, whose number was
uncertain, and gain the gunboat with my
prisoners. The negroes were unarmed,
with the exception of Zuba, who carried
a great knife, so I put them in the rear
of the marines and left the Portuguese in
Zuba’s care.
We scarcely ventured to breathe, but
crouched down to the ground holding
our arms in readiness for an attack. The
dreaded sounds came nearer, and soon,
peering out through the bushes, we saw a
formidable body of Arabs passing along
the path. Their leader was a powerful
fellow with a huge scar across his face,
and all of them bore guns, and had pis
tols stuck in their belts, while every man
carried a bunch of chains that clanked
harshly as they hurried past.
The party was a large one, comprising
forty or fifty men, and their presence here
made the guilt of the Portuguese plain as
day. They were hastening to an appointed
rendezvous.
All would probably have gone well, and
the negroes would have reached the gun
boat in safety, but as the rear guard of the
Arabs filed past, suddenly Torres gave a
loud shout. Before he could repeat it
Zuba felled him to the ground, hut it was
too lnte; the mischief was already done.
The Arabs grouped together a moment
in consternation, and as they hesitated,
one of my men, in his excitment, exposed
his body. His uniform betrayed our
character, and the Arabs, spurred on .by
their fierce hatred of the English, poured
a random fire into the jungle.
One of the marines fell, and terrible
cries of agony rose from the poor blacks.
Then wc gave them an answering volley,
and with deadly effect. But reckless of
danger, they closed up and swept down
upon us in a dense mass.
Our fire raked down the foremost row,
but their onslaught was so fierce that we
fell back toward the river and gained the
shelter of heavy timber, where, from be
hind trees, wc picked off the reckless
Arabs that exposed themselves to our fire.
Encumbered with helpless negroes, our
situation was desperate.
I concluded to retreat still nearer the
creek, for the firing must shortly bring as
sistance from the gunboat. The Portu
guese were dragged resistingly along, and
soon we reached a comparatively open
; space where already the forest began to
slope toward the water.
But the crafty Arabs had stolen a
march on us,for as we started to cross the
open, a straggling fire was poured in on
us from all sides, and the poor negroes
began to fall thickly. It was more than
they could stand, and in frantic terror
they scattered and fled directly into the
midst of their foes. They were lost, I
saw at a glance.
Every second was precious, and we
were about to make a dash for the creek
when a hearty cheer rose above the din,
.and up the slope came a file of marines,
led by lieutenant Osborne, and driving
the Arabs to right and left. Wo joined
forces and charged the enemy, who fied in
| confusion, but sad to say bore off with
them half of the negroes.
Wc found Caatello lying dead with a
bullet through his head fired by his own
friends, but Torres and Zuba were both
missing. The Arabs still greatly out
numbered us, and their knowledge of the
ground gave them a decided advantage.
We started to march toward the creek,
abandoning the ivory, of course, but tak
ing along the bodies of five of our men,
and picking up on the way half a down (
“M 7 COUNTRY: MAY SHE KVKR UK RIQIIT; RIGHT OR WRONG, MY COUNTRY /"—jEmcMon.
of the territied natives who had been in
hiding.
A few straggling shots were fired at us,
hut we pressed on unheeding.
Osborne and 1 were in advance when
suddenly he lifted his hand.
.“Listen,” he said. “What is that?”
Off to our right hushes were crackling,
and we could hear voices raised in anger.
I was sure I recognized the sound of Tor
res's voice. We broke through the jungle
into an open glade, and found Zuba and
Torres struggling in deadly combat. Bo
fore we could reach the spot the enraged
negro wrested himself from the grasp ot
the Portuguese, und drawing liis knife,
buried it in the unhappy wretch's breast.
“Bee,” he cried, springing to his feet.
“It is right he die,when nil my people hi
betray!”
We tried to seize him, hut with a cry
he sprang into the forest and disappeared.
Torres was stone dead; and leaving
him where he lay at the foot of n tree,
we hurried on to the creek and reached
the boats in safety.
The Arabs must have been in close
pursuit, for a heavy fire greeted us from
shore as we rowed out to the gunboats.
A few rounds from a small cannon, how
ever, soon drove the enemy hack.
Before night we were gliding undei
full steam down the creek, for my orders
were imperative and admitted of no delay,
much as 1 would have liked to punish the
Arabs.
The Racer at once organized an expe
dition to start inland from the coast, foi
I was satisfied that a slave station existed
in the vicinity. While the preparations
for this was going on, an Arab dhow was
captured at the very mouth of Vannus
Creek, which, to my surprise, proved to
have on board the remnant of Zuba’s
friends. More than half had either per
ished in the fight or still remained in the
hands of the Arabs.
Of Zuba I never heard more; but I al
ways regarded the death of Torres and ot
Gastello, who had caused all these mis
fortunes by their dastardly treachery, as a
just retribution for their crimes. —Thi
Argosy.
The Conversation of Deaf Mutes.
There were two of them togethe
when I saw them on Broadway the othei
day—a young man and woman—writes i
New York correspondent to the Albany
Argue. There was nothing in their ap
pearance to attract special notice as they
stood together looking into one of the
store windows. What drew my atten
tion to them was the approach of an
other young man, who politely raised his
hat to the young lady and shook hands
with her companion. I was quite near
them at the time, but heard no words of
salutation exchanged. I saw, instead,
much rapid gesticulation of hands and
twirling of fingers and grimaces of the
countenances that were as quick as they
were varied. The three stood together
for a moment, and then started up Broad
way with the young woman in the cen
tre, and as they walked along she was
kept busy turning her face, now to one
of her companions and then to the other,
and such smiling, grimacing and rapid
passing of the bauds and twirling of fin
gers! I also noticed that the young
lady wore black kid gloves. Passers by
looked at the party curiously, but they
gave them no heed. They crossed
Broadway at Maiden lane, where they
stopped for an instant, and there, after
more hand shaking and silent but ex
pressive adieus, one of the young men
raised his hat, bowed and proceeded up
the street, and the others in the direction
of the depot,
These people were deaf mutes. Theii
ears were sealed, and their tongues tied.
Melodious sound and discordant clamor
were alike to them—nothing, for they
could hear neither. The silver thread ol
speech was, to them, a mysterious, un
breakable knot that would never unite,
but hands and eyes had they, and what
service they did perform! There was no
hesitancy, no confusion, and it seemed ns
though one’s motion could be more elo
quent than the others, for there was a
warm glow on the cheek of the young
woman—l saw that—and had I been dis
posed to be rude I might also have seen
a warmer look in her dark eyes too, as
the young man bade her adieu at the cor
ner, and he didn't make many motions
cither.
Making a Modern Baseball.
The baseball of to-day, as produced ai
Natick, Mass., is made by hand. Th<
laborers employed in the work are nearly
all girls. The spherical core, of very
best rubber, is first carefully wrapped
with a given amount of the most costly
yarn. When the ball has thus grown to
about two-thirds of the size it is to be, a
leather cover is stitched on with a needle
and waxed thread. This cover has the
effect of keeping the ball compact and in
shape, and of regulating its elasticity.
Then more yarn is wound upon it until
it is found to turn the scales at precisely
the right point. Finally the outer covei
of borsehidc is sewn on and the ball, af
ter being stamped and again weighed, tc
make sure that it is just five ounces, is
wrapped in tinfoil, put into a box with
five more like it, and declared ready foi
sale. The cover, as an examination of a
baseball will show you, is stamped out
of the leather in but two curiously
shaped pieces, which, sewn on the ball,
together exactly cover it. This device
was not invented until 1865.
The cheaper grades of baseballs are
made of poorer yarn and rubber scraps,
the latter pressed into a pulp by power
ful machinery. The less expensive the
ball, the less yarn and more scraps will be
used in its manufacture until, when you
get to the “Small Boy's Own,” price five
cents, there is nothing to be found inside
the flimsy cover but melted remnants of
rubber shoes.— Picayune,
Introduction of Paper Hangings.
The use of paper hangings—those ele
gant and inexpensive substitutes for the
costly arras and tapestries of formei
times —was introduced into France and
England early in the seventeenth century,
about the same time with leather hang
ings, which they soon entirely displaced.
The manufacture was canned on in Eng
land in 1748, and the first advertisement
of paper hangings for sale in this country
appeared about 1737. Paper hangings oi
domestic manufacture are said to have
been presented in 1763 to the Society oi
Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, insti
tuted in New York.
J. A. Schuyler, of Pottstown, Penn.,
has a piece of amber from the Baltic Sea
inolosing a petrified beetle.
COVINGTON. GEORGIA. THURSDAY. JULY 11. 18811.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA
RIOUS POINTS IN TIIE SOUTH.
A CONDENSED account or WHAT is iioino os or
IMFORT ANCE IS THE SOOTH KAN STATUS.
Anew poglofiice has been established
at South Atlanta, Fulton county, Ua.,
with Luther 8. Price as postmaster.
The third annual convention of the
Georgia Weekly Press association began
its session at Cartersville, Ua., on
WedndsJay. There was a large atten
dance.
Frank Smith, of Smith Station, Gn.,
was struck by lightning Tuesday while
standing in his store door anil instantly
killed. He leaves a wife and several
children.
Frank Webb, while intoxicated,
rushed into a crowd at Hush Run, Fay
ette county. W. Va., und began shooting
right and left. Charles Weller was shot
dead, aud his brother seriously wounded
before the maniac was captured.
At a fourth of July picnic at Horse
Neck, W.Va.,two wealthy farmers,Frank
Millan and Sam Cronin, quarrelled over
Millan’s attention to Cronin's wile.
Millan assaulted Cronin and the latter
drew a revolver and shot him dead.
A dismteh from Wilmington, N. C.,
says: William Oaroon and Captain W.
H. Lloyd, while fishiDg off Wrigbtsville
inlet, Saturday, were drowned by their
boat capsizing. Captain Lloyd was
formerly of Boston, where his wife now
■ esides.
On Wednesday morning a serjous ac
cident happened three miles west of Ge
neva, Ga. The Central | assenger train,
due at Macon c.t 7:30, jumped the track
while rounding a curve, turning the
coaches over andpninfully hut not fatally
injuring several persons.
Reports from Charlotte, N. C., say that
the recent heavy ruins has done no small
damage. Bridges over creeks and rivers
are gone and low lands crops arc greatly
damaged. The rain is said to have been
the heaviest known in western North
Carolina fn some years.
Ralph Graves, professor of mathemat
ics at the state university, attempted to
commit ruicide at Raleigh, N. C.,
on Sunday, by cutting his throat
wth a pen-knife. He had been in had
health lor months, and at times showed
symptoms of derangement, lie resigned
bis work at the university last February.
Paison Duncan, residing near Newton,
Ala., eloped Saturday with a daughter
of his neighbor, a Miss Baldree. Dun
can’s wife was buried Thursday, and he
is known to have bought both strychnine
and morphii e. The eloping couple de
parted on foot towards Florida, and offi
cers are in pursuit. Mrs. Duncan’s body
will be exhumed and an examination
made.
The first hale of new cotton was re
ceived at Augusta, Ga., on Wednesday,
from Primus Jones, being two days earlier
than the first hale laßt year. It was car
ried to the warehouse of S. R. Wistou
& Son. It classed middling, weighed
890 pounds, and was auctioned off und
bought by George W.Swindell for 12 1-2
cents. It will be expressed to New
York.
The vestibule train, eastbound, on the
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, was
wrecked by a slide in the chute near
Ona, W. Va., Thursday morning. There
had been a very severe rain, which caused
the slide. George W. Walsh, the oldest
engineer on the road, and his fireman,
whose name cannot be learned, were
killed. It was an unavoidable accident.
No passengers were injured.
A disastrous fire occurred at Savannah,
Ga., Monday uight, involving a loss of
over SIOO,OOO. When the fire was rag
ing firemen had ascended on ladders,
when a wall of a building fell suddenly,
killing John Weir outright and injuring
11. P. Goodson seriously and Richard
Hart perhaps fatally. Ed Facetti, Messrs.
Lipinski, Davis, MeEvoy and Strobhar
and Maurice Butler, were badly wounded.
Natural gas was struck Monday near
Cordova, Walker county, about thirty
miles west of Birmingham, Ala. It has
a pressure of sixty-five pounds to the
square inch, and was struck at a depth
of 700 feet. It was discovered on the
property of the Cordova Coal and Coke
Company, and the experts in charge of
the work say thefle is no doubt of the
gas existing in paying qualities.
The freight and accomodation train
which left Charlotte, N. C., Thursday
night for Wilmington, met with a bad
wreck near Wadesboro. When approach
ing Pinchant culvert the engineer dis
covered that the heavy rains had com
pletely overflooded it. It was too late to
stop, and consequently the wreck could
not bo avoided. The engine passed over
safely, but the cab with five cars went
down and are a complete wreck.
On last Tuesday, anew born colored
infant was found abandoned in James
City, a suburb of Newbernc, N. C.
When found, it had only some strips of
clothes wrapped around it. In the bas
ket with it was $l5O, and a can of con
densed milk. Investigation led to the
arrest of Rev. C. 11. Smith, colored,
pastor of St. Peter’s A. M. E. Zion
Church, on the charge of abandonment.
He was judged guilty, uud liued SSO und
costs.
J. B. Dickens, formerly a prominent
lawyer and politician at Manning, S. C.,
charged with forgery and burglary, was
arrested a few days ago at Fort Worth,
Tex., and brought back for trial. Dick
ens stood high in his profession in South
Carolina, and, several months ago, when
warrants charging him with forgery and
house breaking were sworn, his friends
at first refused to believe the charges,
but Dickens fled before he could be ar
rested. A big reward was offered for his
capture, and he was finally located and
w rested at Fort Worth, Texas.
A MADMAN’S FREAK,
Persone passing along State street, in
front of the Palmer house, Chicago, 111.,
Tuesday afternoon, were horrified at see
ing a man, clad only in a sheet, climb
out of a window and deliberately walk
along a projecting cornice. Suddenly,
with a shriek, ho fell to a projection be
low. A ladder was procured and an at
tempt was made to rescuo him, when,
with a scream, he threw himself to the
pavement below, fracturing his skull and
receiving other injuries, which will prob
ably cause his death. lie was evidently
insane, and proved to bo George W,
Howe, a prominent young civil engineer,
of Leadville. He was on his way home
from Washington, where he had been in
attendance os a delegate to the conven
tion of Patriotic Sona oi America.
A FRIGHTFUL PLUNGE.
Alt RSTIKK TRAIN DITCHED, CACSINO A
TKRHIUI.K I.OSS or LIFE.
A fearful accident, by which a large
number of lives were lost, and a large
number of people injured, occurred on
tlm Norfolk nud Western railroad at
8:80 o’clock Tuesday morning, thirty
one miles above Lynchburg, Va. The
rain has been fulling almost continuous
ly, and at times very heavily, for about
twenty-four hours. Several trains had
passed over the road during the night,
and it was thought that the line was safe
for traffic, notwithstanding the rains,and
that no danger neuil ho apprehended.
At the place of the accident, however,
the water had undermined the road-bed,
and caused a washout about eighty feet
long and fifty feet wide. The water at
that point was eight to ten feet deep.
Inti;..** ‘ ■ A* -iv gulch the engiuo made
ai. .4Fu' . p, currying with it the ten
der aud eight eats. As the engine struck
the bottom the boiler cxplod and. This
fact groitly augmented the catastrophe.
Debris was thrown in every direction by
the force of the explosion, iujuriug some
of those on the tram by flying fragments
aud scattering fire-brands, which ignited
the w'ood work of the coaches. The
flames spread aud destroyed a large
amount of mail aud express matter,
besides causing a panic among the
already terror-stricken passengers.
The most reliable estimate places the
number of persons killed between twen
ty-five and thirty. The number of
wounded will he far in excess of the
number killed. Thirty of tho wounded
have been laken to Itonnoke, thirteen to
Bufordsville, and fifty to Liberty. Major
J. C. Cassell, superintendent of the
Lynchburg division of Norfolk and
Western, was on the train and wag se
riously injured, as were also Baggage
master Ford and Captain Rowland
Johufton, who was in charge of the train.
A relief train was made up at Lynchburg
late in the afternoon to go to the scene
of the wreck, and a number of physicians
went down on it to do what they could
to aid the wounded. The Norfolk and
Western people absolutely relused to al
low any newspaper men aboard the train,
and several who got on,despite of orders
to the contrary, were put off. The rail
road men also refused to give out any in
formation in reaard to the wreck
The following are known to bekjlied:
Pat Donovan, engineer; U. E. Bruce, fire
man, A. M. James, road foreman of
engines; M. S. Bruce, mail agent; S. W.
Lipsey, train dispatcher, Roanoke; Will
llopkiDS, express messenger. Passengers:
Dennis Mellon, of Roanoke; Wm. A.
Stevenson, of Cleveland, Tenn ; C. W.
Steed, Cleveland, Tenn.; Will F. Mar
shall. of Cleveland, Tenn.; John M.
Hardwick, of Cleveland, Tenn. The
last named three were bound for the
Paris exposition. Nathan Cohen, of
Roanoke, bound for Germany; James F.
Rose, of Abingdon, Ya.: Pattie Carring
ton of Texas, aged nine years; John
Kirkpatrick, of Lynchburg, Va. There
were about thirty people who es
caped with only slight injuries,
and ten who are seriously injured.
The list of the dead will be increased as
the friends of mi-sing people come for
ward in search of them. There is do
way at present to ascerta u the exact
number of the dead owing to the fact
that the entire train was destroyed by
fire. The superintendent of the railway
mail service received information from
Postal Clerk Summers that the postal
car was burned and all mail matter, in
eluding three registered pouches, was
destroyed.
A SHOOTING AFFRAY.
A LOT OF COLORED PEOPLE GET INTO
TROUBLE NEAR BIRMINGHAM, ALA.
A bloody affray among negro gamblers
occurred at Gate City, six miles from
Birmingham. Ala., Sunday morning.
Henry Nicholls, Jack Saunders and B ffi
Dickson were killed and three other par
ties wounded, two of them seriously. A
crowd of negro gamblers were shooting
“craps” in the woods, Henry Nicho ls
and Johnson White quarrelled over the
game nnd Nicholls shot White through
the leg, infl'cting a dangerous wound.
Nicholls fled and the other gamblers or
ganized a pursuing party to capture him.
The party boarded a train for Birming
ham, all of them well nrmed. At the
next station Nicholls got aboard the train
and as he entered the doqr he caught
sight of his black pursuers. His pistol
. was in bis hand and he opened fire at
once, creating a panicon the train. Nich
olls fliot Jack Sannders through the
head and Bob Dickson through the lungs,
killing them before they could rise from
their scats. Will Smith, of the pursuing
party, had a finger shot off and Jack
Chaney, a white brakematj on the tram,
was shot in the body and dangerously
wounded. His pistol was emptied by
this time and Nicholls leaped from the
moving train. At this, the other negroes
seemed to regain their rnrvc and opening
fire they riddled Nicholls with balls and
buckshot. He fell dead In his tracks,
one side of liis head being torn off by a
heavy charge of buck-shot. All the ne
groes who had been engiged in the shoot
ing und were not killed or wounded
leaped from the train and ercaped.
BOTH KILLED.
A SHERIFF AND 1118 DEPUTY ARE KILLED
IN ATTEMPTING TO ARREST OUTLAWS.
A dispatch from Chadwick, Mo., re
ports a double mmder at Kerberville,
Mo., on the 4th irst. Sheriff G. E.
Branson and his deputy were both shot
down and instantly killed by the two
noted Miles brothers —Bill and Jim. It
appears that the sheriff and his deputy
sought to arrest the Miles brothers ou a
charge of carrying concealed weapons.
The deputy made the first demand for
the surrender of the outlaws, and not
knowing their dangerous character, ac
companied the command with an attempt
to draw his pistol. Jim Miles, the
younger of the two brothers, anticipated
the officer's movement, and had his
pistol out in an instant firing one *hot
before the deputy could aim his pistol.
Young Miles dropped the officer dead.
Seeing the danger of the deputy’s situa
tion, Sheriff Branson drew his pistol and
leveled on Jim Miles, but not in time to
render the doomed man any assistance.
Before the sheriff could shoot. Bill Miles
had covered Branson with his pistol and
fired. Branson was killed by Bill Miles’
first shot, but fired three times at Jim
Miles before falling. A large company
of men took the trail of the fugitives and
gave them a hot chase, and on Sunday,
Jim Miles was captured near Forsyth,
Mo., unable to flee further on account of
his wounds, which uto thought to be
fatal. Bill Miles, the oTder brother, and
the slayer of Captain Kinney, escaped.
GENERAL NEWS.
IVNDENSATION OF URIOUS,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
*ewh raoii etertwhkre—accident*, striees,
hhs.h, asi> HArrsNiso* or istebest.
General Boulanger attended a garden
party given by the Prince of Wales at
Manbormigh house Thursday, at which
Queen Victoria aud the shah were pres
ent.
Isaac Valentine, importer of diamonds
at 83 Nassau street, New York, made a
general assignment Saturday to Adolph
H. Meyer, preferring Philip Valentine
for an amount not stated,
At Philadelphia, Thursday, Dennis
Donovan, twenty-fire years old, acci
dentally shot his brother, Thomas, four
years younger. Dennis was so overcome
with remorse that he fled from the room
and cut his tiiro.it with a razor.
A special from Guthrie, Oklahoma,
says the grand stand from which 1,000
people were witucs-ing nn exhibition of
tirewoiks at Oklahoma City, Thursday
eveuing, collapsed, aud several persons
were killed and seventy-live seriously
injured.
H. L. Muller was found dead in his
bed Friday eveuing at 5 o'clock, at Jack
son, Miss. A coioner's jury was sum
moned, and returned a verdict that de
ceased came to liis death by an over-dose
of morphine, administered by his own
hand.
Exports of specie from the port of
New York during the week ending July
6th, amounted to $97,000, of which SO,-
000 was in gold and 891,000 in silver.
All the gold went to Si uth America and
all the silver to Europe. Imports of
specie for the week amounted to 88,575,
of which $7,230 was in gold and $1,345
in silver.
The official vote of the recent election
in Harrisburg, Pa., as received aud com
puted at the state department is as fol
lows: For the prohibition amendment,
286,617; against, 4x4,64-1; majority
against, 188,027. For the suffrage amend
ment abolishing poll tax qualification,
183,371; against, 420,324; majority
against, 236,952.
The celebration at Adair, la., on the
fourth, had a serious termination, nearly
a hundred people having been poisoned
by eating ice cream. They were at n gen
eral picnic, and after dinner the people
by scores were taken with terrible pains.
It was fouqd that the ice cream was made
in some new cans, and it is thought that
sulphate of zinc from the cans entered
the ice cream.
The big brewery ol Fdk, Jung& Bar
chert, in Wauwatesa. just beyond the
city limits of Milwaukee, Wis., was to
tally destroyed by fire Thursday after
noon. The loss is $1,000,000, and there
is an insurance of but $300,000. Two
hundred men were thrown out of em
ployment until the firm can rebuild.
The firm had just completed a SIOO,OOO
addition, and put on a $50,000 ice ma
chine.
President Austin Corbin, of the Read
ing Railroad company, gave notice Sat
urday afternoon that 2,800 employes of
the Reading iron works, which was re
eentlv purchased by tho railroad,
can expect resumption at an early day.
He warns them that none will be em
ployed who belong to labor organizations
or who indulge in strong drink. They
must renounce both and sign a paper to
that effect.
The new petroleum exchange confer
ence rules in regard to dealing in futures
have completely upset the trade in Pitts
burg, Pa. Business has been almost at
a standstill since the rules went into ef
fect. Formerly daily clearings averaged
1,500,000 barrels, but now they are
down to an average of 50,000 barrels.
Fluctuations have been confined to a
range of about one-half cent, aud no dis
position to do business is manifested.
A large cave near Hermosa mining
camp, sixty miles from Las Cruces, N. M.,
has been opened up, and its interior is
lined with veins of almost pure silver.
It had for years escaped the eyes of old
prospectors because there was nothing
about the cave to indicate mineral. It is
now thought the cave will exceed in rich
ness the famous Bridal Chamber cave at
Snake Valley, N. M., from which over
$500,000 in silver was taken.
“Red Nosed Mike,” who murdered pay
master McCluie and the stable boss,
Hugh Flannagan, in October lust, was
hanged Tuesday morning at Wilkesboro,
Pa. lie gave to one of the clergymen
who attended him a confession of his
crime, covering fifty-two pages Italian
manuscript. The confession has not yet
been fully translated, but he admits hav
ing killed both McClure and Flannagan,
though he asserts that he acted under
compulsion.
It was reported to the police at Mil
wnukee, Wis., on Friday evening that
Louis Cherier, cashier of the bank at
Houghton, has disappeared with n la>ge
amount in his possession. It is not
known definitely, but it is surmised that
Cherier has in his possession money
which was to be used in the paying off
of the employes of the Hectu and other
great mines. If that is correct, he has
with him something over $50,000 in
money.
The jury in the Mungcnmaicr murder
case, at Charleston, S. C.,on Wednesday,
returned a verdict of “nut guilty.’ Ihe
case excited a good deal of interest at the
time of the tragedy (March 9th), but was
entirely swallowed tip by the McDow
irial, which preceded it. S.x of the
McDow jurymen were on the jury.
Public opinion whs directed to those men
who had acquitted a confessed murderer,
and were to sit in judgment on a man
who at least had a good pica of self de
fense. The jury was out about two hours
and then returned a verdict of acquittal.
The grain firm of L. F. Webb & Cos.
of Dalton City, HI., hvc brought suit
for damages in the United States district
court at Springfield, against the I rorta,
Decatur and Evansville railroad compa
ny for SIO,OOO, for alleged discrimination
in freight rates. The plaintiffs allege
that E. P. Heilman, vice-president of the
company, is interested in the nulling bus
iness, and that the firm gets a rate of six
cents while Webb A Cos have to pay
eight cents. It is the first case brought
in court under the inter-state commerce
hill and will doubtless be taken to the
United States supreme court. It is to be
a test case.
Thf. Yeung Men’s C hristian Assocla
ffion lias grown to .vast proportions.
There are 1,248 associations in America,
1 392 in Germany, and even in Japan
there are 200. It is an interesting fact
that there is an organization in Naza
reth, where Christ lived, and at Jeiusa
lem, where He was crucified.
A DABTARDLY DEED.
A TRAIN THROWN Fitim TIIR TRAC*—TtIB
WORK OF A TRAIN WRECKER.
The East Tennessee, Vir; ini t and
Georgia passenger train, whiih lo t Ma
con, Ga., Sunduy afternoon nt 4: ill for
Atlanta met with accident a jmle and
half above Holton und eight miles from
Macon, on a curve and on u small em
bankment one hundred yards from the
Ocnrulgee river. Some wrecker placed a
piece of iron inside and against the track
just at the curve, and the flange of the
engine wheel struck this piece of iron.
The engine was hurled off the track,
turned over and completely reversed, tho
head being turned toward Macon. The
engine was badly wrecked. The entire
train, consisting of the tender, two bag
gage cars, second and Hrst-class passen
ger coaches and empty riee|>er, were
jerked off the track into a careening po
sition. When the engine left the track,
Engineer Weakly, of Atlanta, and Fire
man Charles Perkins, of Atlanta, were
hurled from the engine far out into the
bushes. Weakly had his left anklo frac
tured, his knee hurt, nn 1 several sev re
bruises. Perkins' loft hip is fractured and
his leg otherwise hurt. There were not
many passengers aboard. Several re
ceived slight brui'cs, but nonu were se
riously injured.
DAMAGING STORM.
FITS FEET OF WATER IN THE STREETS OF
A PENNSYLVANIA TOWN.
A heavy ruin-a'orm parsed over Ilolli
daysbu.-g, Pa., Wednesday night,causing a
great flood. The Juniata river rose rap
idly, and by midnight the water stood
fifteen feet above low water mark, aud
only two feet lower than the flood of
May 31st. The lower streets of the town
were covered with from three to five feet
of water, and many people had to leave
their houses. Stores, iron mill and
houses on the river bank were all flooded,
anil truck gardens and farms in the sur
rounding country badly damaged. Sev
eral new country bridges and much fenc
ing were carried away. The temporary
bridge over the Juniata,at Williamsburg,
was destroyed. The mills of the Portage
iron works, at Duneauville, wete flooded
and the tires put out. The water was
higher at Duncanville than in the flood
of May 31st last, and a liver five feet
deep rushed through and destroyed the
main street of the town.
NUMEROUB HUSBANDS.
A NORTH CAROLINA WOMAN HAS FIVE LIV
ING HUSBANDS.
On Wednesday, Samuel Niekson ap
peared before Register Cobb, at Charlotte,
N. C., and requested a marriage license
for himself to Isabella Davis. The li
cense was promptly issued, but before
it had been used it whs discovered that
the woman was already married, and her
husband was yet living. Further inves
tigation reve lled the fact that she was a
bigamist, and consequently a warrant for
her arrest was put in the hands of an
officer. She was arraigned before a jus
tice of the peace. The evidence accumu
lated against her, and it soon wus proven
that she has now living five husbands.
The woman is only about thirty-two
years old. Her son, a lad about sixteen
years old, testified against her in court.
She married tuc first time at fifteen, and
has lived with no one husband more than
eighteen months. She married first in
1872 to Amos Johnson, and separated tbe
following year. In 1875 she married A.
B. McCowe, and lived with him till
Chrislm-is of 1870. Again, in 1878,she
married Red Abram McElmore, and left
bint in 1879. In 1885 she married Paul
R. Holton, aud left him the same year.
She married William H. B'crguson last
year, but only lived with him a few
weeks. All are now living. All parties
have been bound over to the criminal
court.
WANTED A SHAVE.
A MAN IS ROBBS!) OF TWKNTT THOUSAND
DOLLARS BV A SUPPOSED BARBER.
Several days ago a man named Henry
Hage.went to Minneapolis,to be married.
Tuesday morning last he left the house
to get shaved. He found no one at the
shop, and while on the way back was
accosted by a stranger, who told him ho
was a barber and would take him to his
house and would shave him. Hage ac
companied him and they had proceeded
but a short distance when the newly
made acquaintance dashed a quantity of
vitriol into Hage’s face. Ilage was then
taken out in the woods and robbed by
the stranger and his accomplices. After
robbing him of about $20,000 in the form
of two negotiable drafts, the brutes tlu n
bound him hand and foot and tied him
to a tree. Hage remained in the woods
unconscious, bound and Ijolplcss, for
three days. Friday he succeeded in free
ing himself and wandered home. He
has not yet regained consciousness and
may become permanently deranged.
There is no clue to tho thieves.
TERRIBLE FIRE.
A CALIFORNIA TOWN VISITED BX A OREAT
CONFLAGRATION.
Sunday afternoon fire broke out in the
kitchen of N. E. Kelsey's bouse, in the
same block as the Southern hotel, in Ba
kersfield, Cal. In spite of *ll efforts it
spread to an adjoining building, also of
wood, and then to the Southern hotel.
From there it spread rapidly, with the
result that every business house in town
is burned, besides about forty dwelling
bouses, involving a loss of perhaps one
million and a quarter dollars. The in
surance is $300,000. The fire department
could not begin to copo with the fire.
Thirteen blocks were wiped out. No
hotel, restaurant or business block is left.
As soon as the fire subsided measures
were taken to feed the homeless. The
fire came on so suddenly that there was
no time to save stocks or merchandise.
Bakersfield is in the northern part of
what is locally termed southern Califor
nia, and has a population of 5,000.
FIRING ON THE STRIKERS.
DULUTn POLICE CALI.ED OUT TO SUP
PRESS A BIOT.
At Duluth, Minn., the fifteen hundred
street employes who went on strike a
few days ago, became unruly Saturday
afternoon and attacked the police with
stonea and cluba, compelling them to
fire. It is difficult to ascertain the num
ber of casualties among the strikers, but
a fair estimate would be twenty-five
wounded. Only one of them—Ed.
Johnson —is known to havo been killed.
NUMBER 38.
WASHINGTON, D. C.
MOVEMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT
AND HIS ADVISERS.
AFFOINTMENTII, DECISIONS, AND OTHER MATTERS
Or INTEREST FROM THE NATIONAL CAHTAL.
C. A. Hermans, recently appointed as
sistant district attorney, for the northern
district of Virginia, has written to tho
attorney-general declining the appoint
ment. He says in his letter that he
thinks he was entitled to the district at
torneyship.
Corporal Tanner presented a demand
to the treasury department Wednesday
for $18,500,000, out of the amount ap
propriated for pensions for the fiscal year
1800. It is understood that most of this
money will go to the ]>ayment of pen
sions due in June, but for whioh there
was no money available.
The Secretary of the Interior on Satur
day accepted the resignation of Joseph
E. Johnston, commissioner of railroads,
and he has been granted a ten days’
leave of absence. Commissioner Johu
ston tendered his resignation early in
March, but action upon it has been de
ferred up to tbe present time.
On Monday, First Assistant Secretary
Chandler, in the content for the posses
sion of a tract ot land in the Gainesville,
F'a., land district, between Senatoi
Wilkinson Call, and a colored man
named Robert Swain, decided adversely
to Senator Call. The case has been
pending in. one form or another for many
years, and there have been several de
cisions in it—one by tecretary Teller,
in favor of Swain, and a subsequent one
in favor of Senator Call.
At Washington. D. C., about three
o'clock Sunday morning, Artie Shirley,
a young man formerly of Richmond, Va.,
threw himself in front of a south bound
fast freight and, whs crushed to death.
Shirley was about twenty-four years ol
age, and was employed in Richmond.
He was engaged to be married to a young
lady of that city. She died a month
ago after a sudden illness, and Shirley
gave up hit employment nnd went to
Washington.
Hadje Haasein Ghooly Kahn, Persian
minister to the United States, will shortly
leave this country for Europe. In an in
terview he states that he would not come
back, and that he had been driven outof
the country by unkind and ungenerous
things which have been written about
him and his sovereign in American news
papers. lie has a large volume of news
paper clippings which have offended him.
He has resigned his official position, and
now speaks his mind as a private citizen,
which he could not do as long as he was
minister. He says his action is an ex
pression of personal feelings.
The President made the following ap
pointments Monday: A. Lowden Snow
den, of Pennsylvania, to be minister res
ident and consul general of the United
States to Ilouuiunia, Scrvia and Greace;
William Hayden Edwards, of Ohio, to
be consul general of the United States at
Berlin; Augustus O. BrowD, of Rhode
Island, to be consul general of the United
States at Rome; Eugene Schuyler, ol
New York, to be agent and consul gen
eral of the United States at Cairo. To
be consuls of the United States —Wallace
Bruce, of New York, at Leith; William
llarrisoo Bradley, of Illinois, at Nice;
Edmund 11. Fairfield, of Michigan, at
Lyons; Irving J. Manatt, of Nebraska,
at Athens; William Bowen,of Kentucky,
at Tien Tsin ; Adolph G. Studer, of lowa,
at Barmen ; Enoch J. Smithcrs, of Dela
ware, Osaka and Ilioga; Alexander C.
Moore, of West Virginia, at St. Thomas;
Charles F. Johnson, of Ohio, at Ham
burg; Silas C. Halsey, of New Jersey, at
ARRESTED IN CHURCH.
Sunday evening, near Rutledge, Ga.,
a man by the name of Walton was ar
rested while at church. He is charged
with the shooting of Mr. S. R. Horton
Saturday. He claims that he is inno
cent, but was seen with a gun euly Sat
urday morning near where Mr. Horton
w as shot and evidence points very strong
towards him. He denies doing the
shooting and says that he can prove that
he is innocent. It is thought that Wal
ton was hired to do the shooting, and
more than one will be implicated in the
matter.
AN EMBEZZLER.
Frank Hoyt, paying teller of the First
National bank of Hoboken, N. J., was
arrested and locke t up Friday morning,
upon complaint of President S. R. Syms,
upon the charge of embezzlement. The
bank officers suspected Hoyt of wrong
doing and examined Iris accounts. A
shortage of at least $15,000 was found.
Hoyt has been connected with the bank
fifteen years-, and bore an unblemished
character.
Three Brave Women.
A White Mountain letter to the Boston
Ilerald says;—There were eight persons
in the mountain wagon. They were at
the steepest pitch in the descent from
Mt. Washington, and both springs had
already been broken on the trip and
were bandaged with wooden splints
when the horses tumbled. The woman
on the seat with the driver turned an eye
of terror to thoso behind her. In a mo
ment one of the two men in the party
had jumped from the wagon and ordered
the ladies to dismount as quietly as pos
sible. The other man of the party,
Rtrieken with terror, ran into the woods.
The driver sat speechless, holding Iris
reins in hand. One woman hastened to
block the wheels with a stone. The wo
man on the front seat unhitched the two
span of leaders from their fallen com
panions and led them to a position out
of danger and petted them till they were
quiet. Another woman, and a Boston
lady who is well known, stepped up to
the kicking and groaning horses and
disengaged the traces, at the same time
dodging the heels of the disabled aui
mals, and then the driver, who had held
the fort till his assistants had made tho
lifting of the team from the pressure on
the disabled horses possible, dismounted
and speedily put his team in order
again.
Chinese the Greatest Egg-Eaters.
Chinese are the greatest egg-eaters is
the world. They" raise more poultry
than all the other nations of the earth
taken together, and have a way of keep
ing eggs for forty years or more in <
sound condition. The older the eggt
the more valuable they are, and it is
trick of the Chinese grocer to ring is
fresh eggs on his customers whenever hr
can get a chance to cheat them in that
way .—Farm, Field and Steelman.