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The Georgia Enterprise.
volume XXIV.
(JKNKKAL news.
sensation of curious,
, v/ ; EXCITING EVENTS.
,v, K"V , I .UK ACWDENTS, STEIEES,
>INI “‘ ° y IN ' rt * laT ’
sho. k of. arth.iuubchas been foil on
• s , |~f \mm mid mainland of
11,, -Look was no seven) that
s'ucrc violmily shaken.
■ „ , and in the food of four
; a,.l.n,er, l, Vi
, ir stur Ciiv. Ark., Tueeday, and
;; , ti„ ,-rin.inal and motive are
[IIOWU.
lie stable and carriage storage place
V,,0 - \\. il. on K-iat Eleventh stie--t,
York City, burned Sunday morning
il, one hundred and twenty-five horses
I flgy carriages; loss 145,000.
A her application fo. the release of
l i ite'ois on bail was made Wedni s
v Chicago. Bepgs is in jail
1,,,,,,| with conspiracy to murder
, Cronin. Application was made to
ilge Ahgi hi, of the criminal court, and
Is refused.
The extensive car shops of the Eel
fer division of the Wabash road, l oated
But lor. Inti , w ere almost destroyed by
'• Thursday, throwing over one bun
;,,| men out of employment. Several
I ci li lies and much valu ible machinery
re burned. Loss nearly *IOO,OOO.
hnr day morning the bodies of Mrs.
in Mi llngor and two children wire
revered in ten inehes of water in a
,11 creek near Youngstown, Ohio,
e woman had first drowned her chil
li mid then herself. Her husband had
her ill destitute circumstances, and
was recently seen begging for food.
\V. Calico shot and instantly killed
on J. Charles and Frank Work at his
iug camp at Oro Fino, Arizona, Mon
evening. Witnesses state that the
■,1,1c a: list over a mining claim which
1, nha ! been working,and that Charles
Work ut ll mpted to drive him fiom
claim when he shot them.
, ili-putiii ;pun Minneapolis says:
unlay night a gang of strikers over
-I,.mi tin siieritl and police and forced
rge i!■ 11 :i 1r nf coal dock emp oyes to
jw up their jobs. Six of the mob
lets wire arrested. Major McHay
, ; r,.i n r Hi aid,asking that
ips be sent there.
. mnli. l a men, with black masks
r t'l iui faci *, attacked tlie house of
lev Vincent, a notoiious resort at
up 1 11 ■ r, I.,uiana, Thursday night.
• mail' inmate was whipped with
tehee. The Vincent woman was
glit and tarred, and the house and
iii' ii i demolished. The occupaut9
e fled.
'h (].:!■! i*.r .if Brazil attended a the
.! ]!■ i!' irmance in Rio .lanerio on
■ i.ight. As his majesty was
_ tii theater, at the conclusion of
i> it niii.nice, a Portuguese fired a
i!r a a revolver a him. The bullet,
o r. iiii-se 1 the emperor and he sns
idl in injury whatever. The would
assassin was taken into custody.
A dispatch from Spring Valley, 111.,
s: The Spring Valley Coal company
i fini'h and -ei vina evict ions on all miners
t ar< living in their houses. About
t bunions or do i pi iiple will be thrown
lof 1. u-i an i home ill a few days,
sy have no pliiM to go to. It is quite
■n that main of tile miners w ill resist
tr nidi’ will n- ult. The sheriff and
3sse will do the evicting,
in \\'i sti in lii' ii Telegraph com
,v. al .New Y.uk, on Wednesday,noti
tiie prod nee exchange that it stood
ly to furnisli tnut institution with
ml:'pi is -as regularly as before the
■' ‘ Ii tie y were suspended. There
'Hung si ii ll incut against receiving
< : n"' I ' res, yet there arc operators,
v 1 ‘T 1 ’ 1 tally in provi-ions, who would
i to have them.
iI; i~f spieie from tlie port of New
k last uiek, amounted to $11,033,003,
which if;:;.U7O was in gold and
nt silver. Of the total exports,
Kl.'.’-sd in gold, and $252,400 iu sil
"t i.t.to i-lu rope, $2,742,043 in gold
tg three; to Paris, and $505,585 in
1 and if,in silver sent to South
t i ;'a. Imports of specie for the
lk atiiounted to $156,595, of which
I'd was in gold and $40,400 in sil-
I reported that the Illinois Steel
tty, recently incorporated as a con
tion of the three great iron and
tompanies in Chicago, have dccid
gninto the business of builing steel
Tn- employment iu lake commerce.
Minnesota Iron company voted to
us $1,500,000 surplus in the hands
directors. The company is con
ey the Illinois Steel company,and
'ttng cf this surplus was to put it
t company’s disposal,
at 600 dock laborers and freight
ers for the various Chicago stcam
‘"npames went on a strike Wcd
y mgnt. ine nitair was tuaugtira
f the freight house men of the An
i:ne steamship company. The cause
Hike was due to the fact that the
enta ■ < L‘S Bed V* P a y tlle men twenty
now voo, h ° Ur 111 - I ' aoc tw ent.y cents
"r themV 0 ’ '"V* tbus mako Pssi
hourra to daT e,2aday - WOrki nß
tool j ‘ind other material Tim’ t
£to thfear 6 ' Wero
JOO to H25*000! mpany WlUbo from
b men''tlm, "t* 1 Seven other Becrct
it on tv, ,- UrS . d 7 morning made a
n o t s?y n ' ted hotel, near
■ ’ Officer n UrC n gans of c°untcr
in th ?°r ella was "'ounded
t '* c head - but not fatally. An
but the. s rfe i te i Was shot Hi the
Q ‘ Twn ent (° h ,‘ S in i uries ia
>l’ar bilU K Pet u aAs of counterfeit
“no be ™ found - a nd the
m,ot ended. The hotel belongs
rfeiter ” 8 ' Hn aged aud noted
vs:
■ssenger tram °'X ln * e u ne * north boun d
unoliti,,,, ‘ wn 1 w* th “boost complete
ar mel ip , mi es south of Mount
“gets were I 4 "® ? t0 fiftee “ P—
aUl ruuninrr ? y In j urel - Tha
miles an hour at ? ? P oßd ot thirty
freight car a ’i nd . Was composed of
“g e ear and tw ad . ed WUh fruit ’ 8 bag ‘
eight ear h,l ' coaches. The
w> remainder * 1 track and tllre w
and of the train into a uitcb
and down a ten-foot embankment. Mont
of the pasoengers were extricated only by
cutting iuto the coach, s with axes.
A still exploded in Dodge & Colcott’s
chemical works, at the corner of Morgan
and Washington streets, Jersey City, N.
J., Saturday afternoon. A three-story
brick building, 100 by 25 feet, with a
large stock of essential oils ami vnluablc
drugs, was destroyed. The building oc
cupied by Ames & Co.’s spike works,
across Washington street, was slightly
scorched. Dodge its Colcott are a well
known drug firm with offices on Wil
liam street, New York city. Their loss
is estimated ut *120,000 on building and
machinery and *200,000 on essential oils
and other stock.
A frightful explosion occurred
Wednesday on the Union Pacific Hail
way, three miles west of Topeka, Kan,
A switch engine placed in t ,e yard there
was hauling a train of cars to a point
where the track was being repaired.
Just us it was slowing up the boiler ol
the engine exploded with terrible force,
scattering it into fragments for the dis
tance of several hundred yards. Fire
man James Dutton was fatally injured,
and Engineer R. T. Seacord received
injuries which will probably prove fatal.
The truck was torn up for a distance ol
150 feet, and the cars were scattered
promiscuously around.
A general strike was inaugurated at
West Superior, Wis., on Saturday, among
the laborers, and over 600 are out. They
demand an increase from *1.50 per day
to *1.75. They visited the St. Paul and
Pacific coal docks, where fourteen men
were working at forty cents an hour rate
under police protection. They over
powered the police and routed the men.
The St. Paul and Pacitic and Northwest
ern Fuel company refuse to meet the
concessions by the Lehigh coal heavers of
tiity cents an hour. They claim they can
hire men at forty cents nud propose to do
so. One of the leaders has been ar
rested. A company of state militia baa
been ordered to the scene of trouble.
Hiram Hoadley, Jr., formerly a prom
inent county politician and a prosperous
citizen of Edgerton, Ohio, whose
wife was seeking a divorce, early Sunday
morning secreted himself near the farm
house of his father-iu-law, where his wife
was staying and killed her with a re
volver as she passed by fo milk the cows,
lie then shot and instantly k lied her
father, who was attracted by the pistol
shots. He pursued the mother and a
sister of his wife also, but they escaping
be returned to where his wife’s body was
and killed himself.
A MAGISTRATE JAILED.
OFFICERS CLAIM THAT HE CURSED TnEM
AND RESISTED ARREST.
Considerable excitement was caused al
Charlotte, N. C., Wednesday, by the ar
rest of John P. Hunter, justice of the
peace, on Independent square. Hunter
lives four miles in the country, and had
driven in town, and was sitting in his
buggy talking to a friend on the public
equare, when a policeman commanded
him to move on, which he refused to do
and he cursed the policeman. The po
liceman reported the affair to Sergeant
Boyle, who arrested Hunter for insulting
his officer. The two policemen started
with the justice of the peace to the guard
house, but Hunter asked to be allowed to
give bond, and seeing a ftiend across the
street, he called to him, when, according
to his statement, he was knocked down
with a billy. The officers claim that
Hunter resisted, but he denies it. The
lick struck made a fearful wound on the
magistrate’s head. The affair caused a
decided sensation, as Hunter is a man of
quiet disposition, and has a record of a
law-abiding citizen. He is a well-to-do
farmer.
CHICAGO’S FLOOD.
HEAVIEST BAIN FOlt YEARS —STREETS
TURNED INTO RIVERS.
About 10 o’clock Friday night one oi
the heaviest thunder storms of recent
years visited Chicago, On Thursday
morning, the thermometer registered 86
degrees. The weather did not grow any
cooler during the night, and all day
yesterday the heat was frightful. Last
night the ruiu poured dowu, tho streets
were flooded aud gutters were running
over. The electrical display that accompa
nied the rain was remarkable. A num
ber of buildings and residences were
struck by lightning, but the damage in
all cases was slight. The rains flooded
the cellars in the south-western portion of
the city, and many basements of tho
down town business houses, do
ing great damage. Many cheap base
ment lodging houses were flooded and
lodgers driven out on the streets. The
rapidity of the rainfall was unprecedent
ed in that locality. In a period of twenty
minutes it aggregate! one inch, and
altogether reached 1.04 inches.
A SALT COMBINE.
A COMPANY ORGANIZED TO CONTROL TIIE
BALT INTERESTS OF THE COUNTRY.
The North American Salt Company,
the incorporation of which has been made
public in Albany, New York,has a capi
tal stock of eleven million dollars and
proposes to issue four million dollars
worth of bonds. The advertisement
states that the object of the company is
to unify and systematize the salt interest
of the country. The prospectus states
that arrangements have been made for
the purchase or control of nearly all ex
isting salt producing properties op the
North American continent and that these
number 150 different works ami compan
ies It is also stated that a “liberal div
idend” can bo declared. In its prospec
tus the company insists that it is not a
trust and as proof of this states that any
body may buy stock who will pay for it.
SUFFOCATED BY GAS.
FOUR MEN KILLED IN ATTEMPTING T O RE
COVER A WATCH.
Wednesday afternoon four men lost
their lives in Lincoln, Neb., under pe
culiar circumstances. A watch was
dropped in a cess pool and the men were
endeavoring to recover it. They dug a
hole at the side of the pool. This hole
was filled with water by rain. One man
stood on a ladder above the water anti
made an opening into the cesspool; foul
air and gas rushed out and overcame
him and he fell into the water. A friend
went to give aid and was likewise ovei
come. Others came to help, and one by
one seven men fell into the water, which,
by (his time, was full of muck and slime
from the vault. Three were rescued,
some by men who afterwards perished in
attempting to save others. The dead
are: James Crawford, Albert Kunklcr,
John Cleary and Frank Maloney.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA
RIOUS POINTS IN THE SOUTH.
k CONDENSED ACCOUNT Of WHAT IS OOINO OX or
IMI’OIITANCE IN THE BOITTHKBN STATES.
At the Pratt Minos, near Birmingham,
Ala., Thursday night, burglars entered
the residence of R. W. Baker, and se
cured * 180 in money, anil *I,BOO iu notes
and checks.
On Saturday Professor R. N. Pool, of
Staunton, Va., sold the Speculator iron
ore property at Waynesboro junctiou,
containing 3,000 acres, to a company of
which General W. 8. Rosccrans is presi
dent.
A negro professing to have supernatu
ral powers and attempting to imperso
nate Christ, is attracting considerable
excitement in and around Canton, Un.,
and has succeeded in enlisting a number
of followers among the more ignoruut
negroes.
The steamer St. Nichols, with 500 col
ored excursionists on board, ran into the
closed drawbrhige over St. Augustine
creek, four miles south of Savannah, Ga.,
at 9 o’clock Saturday night, demolishing
the forward part of the steamer, killing
two women, injuring twenty-eight men
and women, some of whom will die.
Friday evening a slight -hock of tnrth
quake was felt iu Memphis, Tcnn.
Crockery and glass were rattled and in
some instances were thrown from shelves
hut no other evidence givcu besides a
rockiug motion. Two severe shocks
were felt ut Covington, Tenn.. thirty
five miles of Memphis, each shock lasting
several seconds.
Dr. D. T. Lupton,state chemist of Ala
bama, has just completed the analysis of
the stomach of Mrs. Henry Duncan, who
was supposed to have been poisoned n
few days ago, by her husband,a free wil
Baptist preacher, not far from Ozark, in
Dale county, Ala. The analysis shows
the stomach contained morphine. Pub
lic sentiincut is very strong against Mr.
Duncan.
Thursday the body of Mrs. Fulmer,thi
wife of Eugineer Fulmer, of the Duck
town branch of the Western North Caro
lina railroad, was found iu a pond iu the
suburbs of Asheville, N. 0., and near the
Fulmer residence. The deceased, o
young wife, conceiving the idea that her
husband did not show the attention t<
her that he formerly did, threw herself
into the pond.
A wan, named Gaston, committed sui
cide at Brewton, Ala., Wednesday, by
throwing himself upon a circular saw
in a saw mill. He was killed in
stantly. From papers found on hi'
pei son, it was learned that his home was
iu lowa. It is thought that the cause
was disappointment iu love, as he had a
letter indicating that an engagement be
tween him and a Miss Smith, of Des
Moines, la., had been broken.
The board of directors of the Insane
asylum, at Raleigh, N. C., after a con
tinuous investigation for three weeks of
charges against Dr. Eugene Grissom, su
perintendent, charged with immorality
with female attendants, cruelty to pa
tient9 and tbe misuse of public property,
ou Saturday, rendered a decision of not
guilty on all of the charges. The vote
stood’ two for conviction and six for not
guilty.
A rather novel suit was entered in the
erimiual court at Durham, N. C , on Sat
urday. About a month ago a young
man by the name of Joe Fraley married
Miss Bettie Hall, near Durham, or at
least Farley made Miss Halt believe she
was his legal wife. They lived together
until Friday, when the fact baoame
known that the marriage was bogus. Miss
Hall has instituted legal proceedings
against Fraley, and if caught he will be
prosecuted.
A forty-horse power boiler exploded at
Mr. J. C. Wiaenbaker's mill, about one
mile from Valdosta, Ga , Saturday morn
ing. The wreck was terrible aud com
plete. Tho night watchman, an old ne
gro named Cason, was instantly killed.
He was thrown about thirty feet by th
explosion, and nearly every bone in his
body was broken. The engine hou t
Was a total wreck, and the mill carriage
badly damaged. The debris was scat
tered in all directions.
Several weeks ago,agents of the Amer
ican Building ami Loan association, of
Minneapolis, Minn., appeared at Cutli
bert, Ga., and succeeded in interesting
quite a number of the citizens in this
project. A branch was organized lien
and several hundred dollars carried off
by them. Recently, the members have
received their certificates of membership,
which are so widely at variance iu the
contracts and the statements of the
agents, that those who took stock
unhesitatingly pronounce the whole
scheme a fraud.
At Elizabethtown, Ky., Friday, Edi
tors Stovall and Duncan, of the Hardin
countv Independent, aud Editor Givans,
of Welcome Tiding* were tried for pub
lishing a letter signed Judge Lynch,
threatening punishment to a young man,
who, it is alleged, had killed his wife,
but bad been whitewashed by the coro
ner’s jury. Stovall and Duncan were
convicted by Justice Omenra and sent to
jail. Givans swore Omeara off the bench
and was tried by Magistrate Terry, who
dismissed the prisoner, though the of
fense and evidence were the same in both
cases.
DISASTROUS FLOODS.
A special from the flood district,
near Parkersburg, W, Va., Sunday night,
give the following list of drowned. It
is thought that the death list will be
much larger when the districts now cut
iff from the outside world are heard
from : Robert Black, Mrs. Black, Mrs.
Thomas Hughes and four children;
Edward Bose, Mrs. Isaac Roberts,
Mrs Orville West and two ch>l
dren; J. Bailey, R. Kegier and wile;
Mrs. Lasa Tucker, and a man whose
name cannot be ascertained. Ihe dam
age to property and crops cannot be es
timated at present. Hundred of people
lost all they possessed and many families
are homeh ss. A later dispatch says the
village of Morristown, W. V., was swept
entirely away. Great suffering exists
The commissioners of Wood county will
issue an appeal for aid.
fatal shark bite.
Ed Roe, a young Englishman, while
swimming in Cumberland sound with
fifteen otner boys from Fernandma, Fla.,
was struck by a shark, which bit off the
calt of one leg. Roe was taken into a
beat at once, but bled to death before
medical assistance could be obtameu.
This is the first instance known of a
shark atlacking a man in those waters.
"Jir COUNT JIT: MAT SIIE EVER HE RIGHT; RIGHT OH WRONG, M 7 COUNTRY I”—JmitHtos
COVINGTON. GEORGIA. THURSDAY, JULY 25. 188!).
THE CROPS.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN OK TIIK CONDITION Of
TIIB WKATIIK.II AND OHOWIXU CUOPH.
The weather crop bulletin of the sig
nal office at Washington, J). C., says that
the week ending July 20th has been
i-lightly warmer than usual in states west
of the Mississippi River and in Missis
sippi, Maryland, Delaware and portions
of Pennsylvania, Virginia and Alabama.
About normal temperature prevailed in
the South Atlantic States, Ohio and the
upper Mississippi valleys, while the daily
temperature in New England and the
upper lake region, including northern
portions of Indiana, Illinois and
Ohio, has averaged about three de
grees below the mean for the week,
l'hero has been more than tho average
amount of rainfall during the week gen
erally throughout the Northern states.
The rainfall has been in excess in Geor
gia and some portions of Alabama, South
Carolina and Texas. Over the remaining
portions of the Southern States generous
rains occurred. Soasonablo rains from
January 1 to July 20 continue in excess
from New York southward to Florida,
and from Texas northward fo tho Mis
souri Valley, also in Northern Illinois and
Eastern Wisconsin. Over the greater
part of the cotton region and the princi
pal corn-produciug states, the
rainfall for the season generally
exceeds 80 per cent of the normal.
Throughout the principal corn produc
ing states from Ohio west to Nebraska,
the weather was generally favorable to
the crop, which is reported in excellent
condition, but excessive rains cause dam
age to wheat and oats and interrupt har
vesting in some localities. In the south
west, including Texas, Louisiana aud
Arkansas, the excess of sunshine and
light showers proved very favorable to
all growing crops, and cotton is report
ed as much improved. Kentucky reports
the tobacco crop improving under the
favorable weather of the week; that the
harvesting of a good crop of oats is in
progress, and that corn was never in bet
ter condition. In Tennessee, Mississippi
and Alabama excessive rains have caused
some damage to cotton, which is greatly
in need of culture. In middle Tennessee
wheat was damaged, and tobacco is
growing well. The weather was unfa
vorable for farm work. In the south
Atlantic states and Virginia the weather
was especially favorable for all growing
crops, and the prospects are excellent.
Respecting the Louisiana rice crop, it is
reported that heavy rains and high wa
ter in the Mississippi river are doing
wonders, especially for late plantings.
It is conceded the outcome is likely to
be six or seven hundred thousand sacks,
If the present weather continues, the
crop is likely to be the largest ever pro
duced in that state.
ELECTRICITY’S WORK.
SEVERAL PEOPLE KILLED AND MUCH
DAMAGE DONE BY LIGHTSING.
During a terrific thunderstorm Satur
day, which prevailed throughout the
central and western portion of Massa
chusetts, James H. Kierner, provision
dealer at East Brookfield, was struck by
an electric bolt and instantly killed.
Louis Harper, who kept a restaurant, was
also struck and knocked across the room,
his ear being nearly severed. James
Corcoran, baggagemaster at the Boston
aud Albany rai road station, was also
prostrated by the shock. The lightning
badly damaged the switch boards of the
telephone exchange, besides buining out
nearly all the local lines of the New
England Telephone and Telegraph Ex
change Company A Pioneer Prest
special from Sturgis, Dakota, says
Lightning struck the residence of Sam
uel Layster, in Whitewood9, seven miles
west of St. Paul, Min., Saturday night,
during a heavy storm. A son of Lays
ter, aged twenty-two years, was instantly
killed. The house caught fire and was
totally consumed. A young child also
in the house at the time wa9 severely
shocked. In St. Paul the residence ol
P. A. Brigham was struck and badly
damaged. A bolt descended at Fort
Meade, one-half mile east of the city,
and struck a school-house occupied by
tho government. The building was
badly wrecked. The loss will reach into
the thousands.
DRIVEN TO THE WALL.
ASSIGNMENT OF AN IRON KING, WITH LIA
BILITIES NEARLY A MILLION.
A special ftom Elkhart, Wis., an
nounces that Jolm E. Burton, known as
the Gogebic iron king,during the mining
craze two years ago, has made an assign
ment to Gage E. Tarbell, of Milwaukee.
The liabilities of Burton are stated to be
about $825,000. Secured claims against
Burton amounts to about $600,000, and
there is no prospect that there will be
anything to pay the unsecured claims,
the assets being stated to be $701,000,
including SOOO,OOO in real estate and
SIOO,OOO in personal property. The real
estate consists of property in Lake Gene
va valued at $300,000, a business block
in Chicago valued at $200,000, aud prop
erty in Hurley and other places valued at
$1(10,000. Besides this, there is stated
to be SIOO,OOO personal propotty, con
sisting of mortgages, notes, slocks, etc.
Burton says that he has been so harrassed
by creditors that he was forced to assign.
He said Wednesday night: “Nearly one
hundred suits have been brought against
me in eighteen mouths, and my credit
ruined, and my property depreciated and
slaughtered from $2,200,000 to less than
$1,000,000, and in nearly all eases it was
wholly unnecessary.”
WILL BE TESTED.
At the request of Govenor Merriam, ol
Minnesota, Attorney General Clapp ren
dered an opinion upon the John Day
Smith law to regulate executions, and
pronounces it constitutional. The law
becomes of interest, as it will be tested
Friday, when Albert Bulow will be
hanged at Little Falls. The law pro
vides that no newspaper shall be repre
sented at executions, and no paper shall
print any facts about them except the
hour of occurrence. The newspapers
have arranged to print extended reports.
FORCED TO MURDER.
The authorities at Warsaw, Ind.,
Thursday, took into custody Mrs. Martha
Danks, charged with muruer, and her
husband, Daniel, as accessory. Danks
recently became a crank on the subject of
religion, and it is said compelled his wife
to strangle their thirteen-months-old
child as a sacrifice, claiming that the
Almighty has promised to resurrect the
child on the third day. When Danks
was arrested he had been carrying tho
dead infant in his arms two days.
WASHINGTON, D. C.
MOVEMENTS OF TIIE PRESIDENT
AND HIS AI) VISE US.
APPOINTMENTS, DECISIONS, ANI> OTHEE MATTERS
or INTEREST rROM HIE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
The state department lias been informed
that yellow fever has mude its appear
nce at Colon, Aspinwall.
It is repotted that ex-Representative
Nichols, of North Carolina, will be ap
pointed chief of the mail division of tho
treasury department vice Major Kretze,
resigned.
Sir Julian Pauncefote, British minin
istcr to the United States, visited the
state department Thursday, and bade
adieu to the officials for a season. He
sails from New York for England, aud
will return to Washington in October.
In his annual report to the chief of en
gineers upon river aud harbor improve
ments at and near Norfolk, Va., Lieuten
ant Febiger asks for the following appro
priations for continuing the works next
year: Norfolk harbor, *IOO,OOO (ap
proaches to the harbor and United
States navy yard ate recommended for
re-survey before the work is begun);
Nansemond River, Va., 120,000; Ap
pommatt' x River, Va., *3d,080; Curri
tuck sound, Coanjok Bay and North
River bar, N. C., *20,000.
The president appointed the following
eollectors of customs: William Gas
ton Henderson, of Mississippi, for
the district of Pearl river,
Mississippi; N. Wright Cuney, of
Texas, for the district of Galveston,
Texas; Henry Deß. Clay, of Virginia,
for the district of Newport News, Va.
Collectors of luternal revenue—James D.
Brady, of Virginia, for the second dis
trict of Virginia: P. H. McCaull, of
Virginia, for the sixth district of Viigin
ia; Joseph W. Burke, of Texas, for the
third district of Texas. M. M. Hurley,
of Indiana, to be the third auditor of the
treasury; J. 11. Franklin, of Kansas, to
be deputy second auditor of the treasury;
James J. Dikerson, of Texas, to be mar
shal of the United States for the eastern
district of Texas, Milton C. Elstner, of
Louisiana, to be attorney of the United
States for the western district of Louisi
ana. To be consuls: Evaus Blake, of
Illinois, at Croliold; Henry C. Fisk, of
Vermont, at St. Johns, Quebec; Jasper
P. Bradley, of West Virginia, at South
ampton; Eugepe O. Fechet, of Michi
gan, at Piedras Negras; Archibald J.
Simpson, of Colorado, at Paso del Norte;
Horace E. Pugh, of Indiana, at Newcas
tle, England.
In their reports to the chief of engin
eers of operations under the river and
harbor bill, the various officers in charge
make the following recommendations of
appropriations for continuing the work
next year: By Captain William M.
Black, St. Johns River, Florida, *370,-
500; Volusia bar, *500; northwest en
trance Key We9t harbor, *300,000; Ca
loosahntchie River, *3,000; Pease River,
*10,000; Manatee River, *10,000; Tnin
pa Bay, *25,000; Withiacoochec River,
*5,400; Cedar Keys hat bor, *5,000; Se
wunee River, *5,000. By General W. T.
Smith—lnland Water Bay from Chinco
teague Bay, Virginia, to Delaware Bay,
at Lewes, *IOO,OOO. By Captain William
11. Hixby—Roanoke River, Va., *00,000;
Pamlico and Tar Rivers. N. C., *15,000;
Contentuia Creek *30,000; Trent River,
*8,500; Neuse River, *60,000; Inland
waterway from Beaufort to New River,
*35,000; Beaufort harbor, *38,000; New
River, *17,000; Black River, *20,000;
Cape Fear River, $420,000; Yadkin
River, *10,000; harbor at Georgetown,
S. C., *20,000; Winyard Bay, *300,000.
By Captain Frederick V. Abbott —Lum-
ber River, N. C., *30,000; Mingo Creek,
S. C., *12,000; Clear Creek, *3,000;
Edisto River, *l2 385; Salkiehaichie
River, *5,000; Litrie Pee Dee River,
$50*000; Wateree River, *12,500; Con
garee River, *39,500; Wappoo cut con
necting Stone and Ashley Rivers, *55,-
000; Waccamma River, *73,000.
A COSTLY FIRE.
A disastrous fire occurred at Columbus,
lowa, Thursday. Half of a four-story
business block on North High street,
owned by the heirs of the Breyfogel es
tate, was completely gutted by the
flames. The German Furniture Com
pany occupied the first and second floors,
and'their slock, valued at about $40,-
000, was totally destroyed. The upper
floors were occupied by J. A. McAuley’s
awning and tent factory. His loss was
about $6,000. Loss on the building was
about $20,000. The roof on the King
building, a handsome, six-story brown
stone, supposed to be fire proof, was
burned. The loss was about $1,500.
The total loss is estimated at about
$75,000 or 880,000. Three firemen were
injured, but not dangerously.
FIGHTING ROBBERS.
A SHERIFF AND HIS POSSE HAVE A LIVELY
TIME WITH THIEVES.
Two horse and cattle thieves, and tho
dead body of the leader of the gang
passed through Socorro, N. M., Thurs
day night. They had stolen several
horses from Dedrick’s ranche and four
from a ranche near Albuquerque. They
were desperate, and defied arrest. Dep
uty Sheriff Lawson, of Apache county,
organized a posse and soon came upon
the thieves. A general battle took place,
and the leader of the gang, a Mexican,
wt.s shot dead. The deputy sheriff also
received a serious wound. The other
two surrendered.
RAILROAD ACCIDENT.
TWO MEN DEAD AND ONE DYING—A TER
RIBLE W BECK.
Sunday morning, about twelve o’clock,
a terrible accident occurred on the East
Tennessee Road, about four miles from
llrunswick, Ga., by which two men were
kilied, three badly injured—one fatally—
and a passenger engine and four freight
cars were completely demolished. The
killed are: Hostler George Douglass,
Fireman Joseph Ames. The injured are:
Yardmaster Robinctt, who is Baid to be
dying, and Car Cleaners A. J. Anderson
and Dan Scott, the two latter colored.
A PREACHER TO HANG,
Henry Duncan, the Free Will Baptist
preacher, who recently murdered his wife
in Dale county, Ala., and eloped with a
young lady in the neighborhood, was
captured and tried in the circuit court of
Dale county, and convicted and sentenced
to death by hanging.
Brazil boasts of receiving 131,000 ia
migrants last year.
beyond the mystic river.
Beyond the mystic river
Are paths that lead to peace.
To the mansions of the ransom’d
Where strife and turmoil ceasa
Beyond the murky waters
Of Charon’s trallen stream
I catch the sheen of jasper
Through a star-illunmu-O dream
Beyond the mystic river
Are paths that lead to joy;
Where the tree of life is bloomin|
No worldly griefs annoy.
Beyond the etorms and shadows
That gloom our life below
There is a land all radiant
Where living waters flow.
Beyond the mystic river
Are paths that lead to light,
Where the glowing sea of crystal
Breaks on the ravished sight.
No sunlight gilds the city.
Nor argent moonbeams play;
God's presence is the glory
That pales the orb of day.
Beyond the mystic river
Are paths that lead to lova
Where streets of golden splendor
Illume the world above.
There sits enthroned the Father,
Amid the seraph throng,
That cast their crowns before Him,
And glorify with song.
Beyond the mystic river
I hear the harps afar
And through the orimson sunset
See pearly gates ajar.
Beyond the vale of shadows
A star beams on the way;
The star that led the magi
Leads on to endless day.
—4T. A. Foster, in Atlanta Constitution.
SAND COTTAGE.
No,” said the old fisherman, looking up
from his task of net mending with bleared
eyes, and long gray beard blowing in the
salt wind, “there ain’t no houses herea
bouts to let. Most every one lives in his
own house.”
Mrs. Cheverel and Kate eyed each other
with disappointed glances.
“Strangers mostly boards at the tah
vern,” added the old man, stitching dili
gently away.
“But we can’t afford that,” said Kate.
“We are obliged to economize,” added
Mrs. Cheverel.
Old Nathan Plowden nodded.
1 ‘The tax is pretty steep at the tahvem,' ’
said he, reflectively.
“Mv daughter paints,” said Mrs. Chev
erel, with modest pride, “and we thought
this neighborhood would afford her unu
sual facilities for—”
Nathan stared.
“Women has took to that business,
hey?” said he. “Wal, there's no tellin’
what they’ll do next. But there’s two
house painters at Rocky Signal a'ready,
and one as docs signs and inside ceil
ings.”
Kate Cheverel laughed.
“I do not think they will interfere
with me,” said she.
“If only we could find a house!” said
Mrs. Cheverel. “I wouldn’t mind how
small it was.”
All of a sudden Nathan Plowden’s
wooden visage brightened up.
“If ye was willin’ to take a boarder,”
said he, “there’s Old Man Simpson as
goes with Sand Cottage. There’s six
rooms in the cottage, and he don't need
but one. He's a poor, paralyzed creetur.
But he don’t make no more trouble than
he can help, and he ain't noways pa’tik
lar about his vittlcs. Guess likely you’ve
seen the place —a little one-storied house
jest this side of the light-house, with a red
brick chimbly?”
“Oh, mother, that house!” cried Kate,
ecstatically clasping her hands. “With
the ‘Traveler’s Joy’ vine climbing all over
the front of it, and the little porch with
ragged cedar posts, and the row of red
hollyhocks along the garden wall. The
very nook of all others that I would have
chosen I”
“But —a boarder!” hesitated Mrs. Che
verel.
“He’s a dreadful quiet old creetur,”
said Plowden. “Wouldn't be much
trouble; and his folks they give the rent
of the place to any one as 11 take good
care of him. Widow Moseman, she’s
done for him all these years; but her
son, out in Colorado, has wrote for her
to oome and keep house for him.
“Mother, let us go and look at the
place,” coaxed Kate. “Such studies of
sea and sky as I could make there.
And Kate prevailed in the end.
The sun was shining on Sand Cottage,
ns the two women stood in the porch un
der the swinging festoons of ‘Traveler s
Joy ” Old Man Simpson sat smiling in
his wheeled chair, like a silver-haired
child, with last week's newspaper upstde
down in his lap.
“He can't read a word since that last
paralytic stroke,” said Mrs. Moseman.
“But he thinks he can, and the paper’s a
dreadful comfort to him. lies as peace
ful as a baby, so long as he has plenty of
weak coffee to drink, and a chance to sit
in the sun. On cloudy days he wants a big
fire o’ logs in the chimbly; but there’s
plenty o’ drift-wood washed up, arter
every high tide. Wood don’t cost noth
ing here.”
“Has he no relatives of his own!
asked Kate, looking with compassionate
eyes on the smiling, expressionless face,
fringed around with silver hair, and the
folded, useless hands.
“Only a fur-away cousin, as pays his
board and sends him clothes, and comes
to see him once in awhile,” said Mrs.
Moseman. “His own folks is all dead
and gone, long ago.'
“It will he a great responsibility,” said
Mrs. Cheverel.
“But I think we could take good care
of him, mother,'’ whispered sympathetic
Kate.
“And it would be a dreadful accom
modation to me,” said Mrs. Moseman,
who talked through her nose, and heaved
a Borean sigh at the end of every sentence
that she spoke.
“Perhaps,” hesitated Mrs. Cheverel,
“wc ought to write to this distant rela
tive about the business
“Oh ’tain’t necessary!” said Mrs.
Moseman. “It can all be arranged with
me.’’
So Mrs Cheverel and Kate settled
down on the edge of the sea, in the
picturesque one-stoned cottage, with
“Old Man Simpson” in Ins wheeled chair
as a part of their household.
Mrs Cheverel kept house, tidied up
the rooms, and P r Pared daint y uttle
diahrs; while Kate sketched fine marine
effects, and tried to copy the flaming
reds and dreamy purples of the sunsets,
that trailed their splendors along the
deep night after night.
“She is getting quite contented again,”
said Mrs. Oheverel. “It’s a very sad
story, Mr. Simpson.” (For she often
talked to tills smiling, senile old man,
very much os she would have talked to
herself, for lack of any other auditor, and
i he would nod and rub his white, wrinkled
i old hands, and evince a feeble sort of sat
isfaction in the sound of her voice.) “I’m
quite sure that they loved each other; and
then that lieauty, Althea Desmond cam*
along and made him believe that Kata
w as only playing with him—that she was
a heartless coquette, a mere fortuna
hunting butterfly 1 And of course Kate
couldn’t endure that imputation. So after
wo lost all those investments in the
Arkansas bond, we just packed up our
few things and left New York, and if
Kate can only sell her pictures, I’m sure
there's noting else left to wish for.”
Old Man Simpson nodded his head and
smiled very hard, to signify his deep in
terest, as she paused, and immediately fell
iuto a complacent doze in the sunshine.
And Kate, working at a study of an old
wreck, a little way down the beach,
thought of Allan Sanderson, and saw her
colors through a blur of tears.
So much occupied was she that she
scarcely heard the sound of footsteps on
tho beach behind her until they were
close at her side.
Newcomers 1 A tall, swart-complex
ioned young man, with a young lady
hanging on his arm, whose flouting Gains*
borough plumes were damp with sea air,
and whose Algerian wrap was folded
gracefully around her slender figure.
“Of all people—Kate Cheverel!” cried
Miss Desmond. “Allen, do look herel
Who would have thought it? I hope
you are well, dear! Such a charming
surprise!”
Miss Cheverel rose and bowed with
chilly politeness; her eyes drooped befora
the questioning look of Allan Sander
son's.
“I’ve come down here witli him to see
that darling old distant cousin of his,
whom he supports so generously,” rattled
on Althea Desmond. “Mamma is at tha
hotel. And we are so charmed to sea
you, dear Kate! It was so cruel of you
never to leave us any address when you
went away. And we really thought ”
“I beg you pardon,” said Kate, still
more freezingly, “but the sun is down.
I will detain you no longer.”
Miss Desmond bit her lip, and left off
talking; but Mr. Sanderson still lingered.
“Are you staying here, Miss Cheverel?”
said he.
“Yes.”
“Where, if I may venture to ask?”
“At Sand Cottage.”
“Sand Cottage!” struck in Miss Des
mond’s shrill, high soprano. “Why,isn’t
that funny? The very place we’re going
to call at!”
“Are you Mr. Simpson’s unknown rela
tive?” said Kate, looking full into Allan’s
eyes at last. “It is strange, but we never
have heard his name yet.”
“I am Mr. Simpson’s relative,certainly,
but he was left in charge of one Mrs.
Moseman, who ”
“She has gone away,” explained Kate.
“We are taking her place. The cottage
suited us, and she was anxious to go out
West. I hope the arrangement does not
displease you. Mr. Simpson seems quite
happy aud contented under mamma's
charge, and ”
“It is very kind of you ” mechani
cally begun Mr. Sanderson.
But Kate quickly interrupted him.
“Not at all kind,” said she. “It is
merely a matter of business. Perhaps wc
had better go to the house at once.”
“Oh, do let us!” fluttered Althea Des
mond. “Such a darling, picturesque
little spot! One could really fancy one
self in Arcadia. Won’t you show us
your sketches, Kate? Oh, do, please!”
“Pray excuse me,” said Kate, straight
ening up her slender neck like a young
Diana, and buckling the strap of her
portfolio tighter than ever.
Of all things, Miss Desmond’s patron
age was the hardest to endure.
Mrs. Cheverel’s amazement at the sight
of Mr. Sanderson and his fair, enchant
ress can easily be imagined.
Old Man Simpson smiled and nodded
when Allan shook hands with him and
presented Miss Desmond; but this he
always did when the baker or the butcher
called, or even the little errand lad who
brought the mails from the village post
office, so that it was, perhaps, no sign
of special favor.
But as he reached out for his unvarying
friend, the newspaper, his feeble arm up
set the candle which had just been
lighted and set on the pine stand be
side him, and in a second, newspaper,
curtains aud till were in a bright blaze.
“Althea, hold the door open-quick!
—until I get the wheeled chair out!’’
cried Sanderson, in a voice of stern com
mand.
But Miss Desmond, terrified out of all
common sense or reason, fled shrieking
from the house, leaving the rest to their
fate.
Not so Kate Cheverel. She rushed into
the very fiery heart of the flames and
helped Allan Sanderson to extricate the
poor old paralytic from his mortal dan
ger, heedless of the risk she herself ran.
And not until his chair was safe on the
beach, where the purple twilight was just
beginning to fall, did she realize the
peril through which she had passed.
She grew deadly pale in the fierce re
flection of the flames, which were now
lioking poor little Sand Cottage out of
existence, and gasped for breath.
“Kate—Kate! Oh, she is dying!”
cried Mrs. Cheverel.
And then she remembered no more.
Old Man Simpson had forgotten all
about it the next day, and sat peacefully
in his wheeled chair on the hotel porch
with yesterday’s newspaper in his lap and
the sunshine playing around his useless
feet.
Miss Desmond was having hysterics in
her toom upstairs, under the charge of
her toother, a hook-nosed old lady with a
O', deal of wiggy false hair, and Allan
ertou was walking up and down the
beach, when Kate Cheverel, leaning on
her mother’s arm, came out.
“You are better!” he cried.
“I am quite well,” said Kate. “Noth
ing ailed me but a momentary panic.”
“Dear Kate," said Sanderson, “you
saved his life; and mine too—for I could
not havs got him out alone, and I would
never have left him to perish in the flames.
You are a heroine, dear Kate!”
NUMBER 40.
She motioned him away with an akt
tempt at a smite.
“On and talk to Miss Desmond, Allan,*,
said she, “The days of ‘dear Kate' ar
over between you and met”
“On the contrary,” he cried, “they are
only just beginning! Miss
indeed I Did she not make good her own
escape and leave us to our fate? Do you
aupjiose I can ever respect her after this!”
“But you are iter engaged lover?”
“I am not engaged to her; I nevei
was. And I never shall tie now. She
and her mother have followed me up
as the hounds hunt a deer, hut the
•pell is broken at last. Dear Kate
sweet Kate 1 I never really cared for
any woman but you. Tell me that ]
may hope!”
And when Miss Desmond came down
stairs, very much dressed up, and a little
pale in spite of the rouge which she had
liberally applied, Allan did not rise front
his scat beside Miss Cheverel on the
piazza.
“I’m sorry that I cannot accompany
you and your mother back to New York,
Althea,’’said he. “I shall remain here
to look after my aged cousin, and afiei
thia young lady who has just promised tc
be my wife.
All the rouge in the store where Al
thea bought her cosmetics could not have
concealed the deadly pallor on her cheekl
at that moment.
“Ah, indeed!” simpered she. “I’nc
sure I congratulate you both! But really
this is quite unexpected 1”
Sand Cottage has been rebuilt into a
lovely seaside lodge, where Mr. and Mrs.
Sanderson spend their summers.
Mrs. Cheverel lives there all the yeat
round, and Old Mttn Simpson still sits it
the yellow sunshine, smiling and con
tented.
“Everything has happened for th
best,” says the old lady.
And Old Man Simpson nods cheerfully
at her in reply, although he does not un
derstand a word she says.— Saturday
Night.
An Experiment in Fish-Culture.
Last spring about half a million younjt
shad were placed soon after hatching in a
large pond in Washington, and were care
fully tended and fed and protected from
enemies during the whole of the period
which the young shad spends iu fresh
water. The young fishes prospered and
grew rapidly, and nearly all of them were
still alive when the time for migrating to
the ocean came in the fall. The gates of
the pond were then opened one morning,
and all day long the silver stream of
young shad poured out through them and
started on the long journey down to the
sea. All naturalists will look forward
with the greatest interest to the time
when these fishes return, bringing back
with them to the fishermen of the Poto
mac the wealth of food which they have
gathered in the ocean. In the mean time
we may indulge the hope that the strong
constitutions which they have acquired
during their carefully nurtured youth will
enable them to excel their less favored
brothei s, and that when they reach our
market they will have some of the ex
cellence of our improved garden pro
ducts.
But this is not all. These shad were
reared from selected eggs. The adults
which entered our waters first in the
spring are most valuable to the fishermen,
since they are put upon the market at a
time when fresh fish are scarce and high
priced. Our experience with garden
Vegetables justifies the expectation that
the eggs of early shad shall themselveß
give birth to early shad. Now, all the
young fishes which were put into the Fish
Commission pond were hatched from eggs
taken from the earliest shad of the season,
and, if this process of selection be pur-,
sued for a few years, we may feel confi
dent that the Potomac River will soon
abound in shad of extra quality at the
time when fine shad are hardest to get.
aud most valuable.— Popular Science
Monthly.
About Mustaches.
One afternoon a barber startled me by
saying that he knew a thing that would
agitate society in general from basis to
battlements if it were known, write*
Hepburn Jones in the Pittsburg Dispatch.
Naturally it took some persuading to ex
tract this charge of moral dynamite from
fts cartridge, as it were. But it was out
at last.
Said the barber; “If you will observe
the mustaches of the meu you know, you
will discover nine cases out of ten that
one side of the mustache always flourishes
better than the other. Most men are
aware to some extent of this peculiai
phenomenon, but I do not believe that
any one who is the victim of it can explain
it to you off hand. Yet the reason for
this difference iu the opposite section ol
the mustache is simple enough. This is
the secret: The side the man sleeps on
most often will always be found to cor
respond with the side of the mustache
which does not grow properly, is strag
gling and very often bleached. Naturally,
you see, the pressure of the face on the
pillow brings about the falling out of the
hair, and the tendency of the saliva to
flow from the lower corner of the mouth
during a man’s sleep doubtless assists in
the process of disintegration.
“I have noticed some singular phe
nomena in this field of inquiry, aud I re
member that when I was in the Palmer
House barber shop in Chicago I dis
covered that the right side of Mr. Fuller’s
(now Chief Justice Fuller) mustache was
not so heavy and glossy as the left.”
A Big Stone Building to be Removed,
A big contract has just been under
taken by a firm in this city, says a Chicago
letter to* Sanitary Netcs. To build the via
duct over the railroad tracks at Twelfth
street, it became necessary to widen th
street, beginning at State street. At the
southeast corner of State and Twelfth
streets stands a four-story stone store
building with a frontage of 115 feet on
State. This building will be moved fifty
feet south of its present location, and a
three-story building, 58x59 feet, on
Twelfth street, will be moved seventy
eight feet west and seventy-four feet
south. A barn, two stories high, 63x113
feet, also facing on Twelfth street, will
be moved 250 feet south of its present
location. It is seldom that such a large
building as the first is moved, but the
contractors have no fears that it will not
bo satisfactorily accomplished. The
property is owned by the Atchison, To.
peka and Santa Fc Railway. The con
tract for the moving has been let at
about $13,000.