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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.