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The Georgia liNTERPRisE.
VOLUME XXIV.
millions more are milled to New
K k Vity's tuxublo property this year.
H, i, proposed now in France to sub
m by , loot, i, ill for the K uillo
M,,, |,|, - ndieate is one organized
JV „j, all the glass work* iu the
■ fr \. -
• 1,. will Imve an independent
I, , ,i,l, to Kurland,the $2,000,000
Hair,,! htiviiiir being nearly all sub-
Kind.
li ,111.1 w,-an an ellleii wilderness
■ a few weeks ago, yet it managed to
K, iSir biggest fourth of July accident
fltl.r year.
Hr,,,, 211,0(10 French people have been
HueeJ tn emigrate to the Argentine
Himlilir. and about the same number
H 1 he awfully glad to get back to
again.
Bl'he daily < msumption of crude and
■haul iron, of cheap dry goods and of
Hp uml ttiill products generally, is
Bin;:,,’ with amazing rapidity in all the
and Southern States.
Hi r. Felix L. Oswald predicts iu the
.1 „rr", Review that the progress
m,:, tion will before long re-
a large urea of our farm lands to
■ necessity of artificial irrigation.
Bt present the exports of the I'nited
8.. : < hiii are not far from $3,000,-
per u ir. ami ~ur imports from that
.■ . iuLT "f Sinilh Aim
I'l puiiiii’s are a little less than this
- all the pit
li\ iim in :la world, or aiiout 1,1110.-
' i „ ,ni w it hill
l|H •• tell miles square.ami,
S' ; ioit<l be ndilri
m single speaker.
in Mexico m eiu I
with tm regularity ot
Snmiii I [ir, ressimi. iu IKV> they
‘IB 1 " 1 and half million sterling;
live millions, and last year
eleven millions.
■B ' 'at Ile "f Gettysburg tile First
“t t a* l nil'll Army had i(Silit men
and lost (1024. Of the 6692
were only 242. K. member this in
" :ir - add-la 11, fruit Free Pr-> .
t be afraid of cannon.
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• th, ■ a, r and the lily have
i' ll ll ni;i .dminrs and advo-
hi" In ii:iiHi,- ground is the
appiopriate A m ri. au nal
a I' a 'oin siinuM betaken it is
9'■ iia laurel wmild have tin
i’lH nvi r :| h iloral emu;iet iturs.
W ati.irehy in Ilayti is pro
its uniiir.il results. Trade is
tJB' ' ' h |r k uf all so; unit\ ini
mm r ' I mi Ulm all fulvigii nil l, !: ■n I
- 'hi unify. Prio isjons ari'as deal
in the earl;, mining dam in
and the people are in a bad
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IgHl'l'.' :i ' h Inis been. A law has gone
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in Hu.
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J Sl ' ’’'"lis editor says it will
"' r ,i ' ilr “ ,n '><l a half to exter
•“B " f "th Missouri.
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SB at $3.0111.11111, „
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IB li, v‘" 1 n ' t '' ll States, and
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GENERAL NEWS.
V ONDII ItBA TION OF CURIOUS,
AND KXCITINO EVENTS.
Mtws KBoxi ivurwiiKß—iccmrsTi, stkixu,
nilUi, AND UAIWIMNUS OF INTtCBEST.
Snow storms nnd rains prevail through
out Switzerland. Mountain passes are
partly blocked.
Abraham Finkbone, a prisoner iu Uetd
ing, Pa., jail, committed suicido Thurs
day by hanging liiniself in his cell.
Bethlehem, Pa., iton compuny Thurs
day issued u notice of an increase in
wages of puddlers from $3.25 to $3.80
per duy.
Twenty-seven storekeepers and gaugers
■were appointed Wednesday to take the
places of democrats in California and
Kentucky.
A machine gun exploded on board the
training frigate Courcns, at Ifyeres,
Fi a nee, Wednesday. Eight person!
were killed and seventeen injured.
Andrew C. Drumm, who has full charge
of the cattle commission business of A.
A. Drumm it (Jo., of Kansas City, has
! disappeared and $1,1,000 with him.
( The Peter Sehocnhafeu Brewing com
[ panv, of Chicago, has been incorporated
! with a capital of s3,ooo,ooo— one-half
I taken in Chicago; the other half iu Lon
don.
Eight thousand hunches of overripe
bananas were seized by the New York
board of health Thursday. Toe fruit
was on the steamer Alps, of the Italy
line.
Eleven houses were burned at Fenn
ville, Mich.. Wednesday night, involving
a loss of $35,000. A tramp caused the
contiagratiou, and he was arrested aud
I jailed
According to the latest statistics care
fully compiled by the board of injury, at
Johnstown, Pa , Wednesday, the mini
tier of lives lost in the devastated district
w as about six thousand.
The postoflice department has received
the restgi ation of Postmaster Paul, of
Milwaukee, whose administration of of
fice as recently severely criticised by
the civil service commission.
Three young ladies—Misses Flanagan,
McCabe anil Farrell, were drowned Tues
day night while tiying to cross Meuomi
i nee l iver at Ishpening, Michigan. Their
bodies have not been recovered.
Fix-Treasurer Ilenrv F. Boyce, late ol
the Willinmntic Savings institute, wnf
arrested Thursday in Willimantic, Conn.,
on anew charge of embezzlement ol
$15,000 from the institute and making
false entries.
NY. F. Johnson & Cos., leather dealers,
doing business at 244 Purchase street.
Boston,have failed. Liabilities $225,000.
The cause of the failure is the general
condition of the leather business for the
past thi ee years.
John Hronek, one of the Chicago an
archists confined at the prison, made a
desperate attempt to commit suicide
Wednesday. During working hours he
severed the arteries in his arm with a
saddle knife.
Twenty thousand dollars was paid out
by Treasurer Thompson, at Johnstown,
Pa., from 12 o’clock till 4 on Friday.
Work is in shape to be pushed right along
now-, and the money will soon be in the
i hands of the people.
Acting Secretary Batchelor has issued
an order suspending payment on all bills
against the Treasury Department for tel
egraphing during the current fiscal year
on account of the question of fixing
rates not being setlled.
The New York Herald says the cotton
crop of Texas is w-orth $84,000,000, and
that reports of the corn, cotton aud wheat
crops have been underestimated. Such
cotton was never seen, and wheat and
oats are up to the average.
Twin children,belonging to the wifeoi
one of thelockedout mim r ,died at Spring
Valley, 111., Tuesday moruing.and physi
cians who attended them, pronouuced it
a clear case of starvation. Uhe mother
haJ but little food in the house, and was
unable to provide sufficient ‘nourishment
for them.
Beginning August sth, and lasting to
August 12th, a great encampment of
Knights of Pythias will be held at Spring
Fountain Park, Ind. It will be com
posed of the entire Indiana brigade of
uniform rank, including sixty divisions,
and many from Ohio, Michigan, Illinois,
Kentucky and Missouri.
Exports of specie from the port of New
York last week amounted to $089,437, oi
which $103,580 was in gold consigned to
South America, and $525,851 silver con
signed to Europe. Imports of specie for
the week amounted to $25,218, of which
$11,588 was in gold and $13,710 in sil
ver.
The assessors appointed by Governor
Gordon, of Georgia, to estimate the
value of the Atlanta & Charlotte Air-
Bine Ilailroad, made their report Friday.
The road valued their property at
$1 U2f) 9U3. l lie assessors, however, And
it to be worth $1,809,997, a difference of
$184,094 in favor of the state.
The grand national monument, in
honor of the pilgrim", was dedicated at
Plymouth, Mass., on Thursday. The
Sons and Daughters of Plymouth were
there in great numbers, al>o visitors from
far and near. The dedicatory exercises
were carried out by the Masonic grand
lodge, according to the ritual of their
order, and were very interesting.
A committee, consisting of William
Onalinn, of Chicago, chairman, and
Jlenry J. Spaanhol-t, of St. Louis, and
Daniel 11. Kudd, of Cincinnati, Wednes
day issued a call for a general congress
of the Catholic laity of the United States
to be held in the city of Baltimore No
vember ilth and mu, 1889, to celebrate
the centennial anniversary of the estab
lishment of the Culholie hierarchy of the
United States.
The debt statement issued at Wash
ington, D. C., Thursday, shows an in
crease of debt during the month of July
to be $1,017,311.51; total interest bear
ing debt $895,301,886 96; total debt of
all kinds $1,046,777,309.91; total debt,
less available credit, $1,077,605,932 96;
legal tender notes outstanding $346,-
681,010; certificates of deposit outstand
ing $17,575,000; gold certificates out
standing $118,541,409; silver certificates
$29,557,125; fractional currency $0,916,-
090.47; total cash in treasury $034,723,-
023.44.
The ice trust, at Indianapolis, Ind.,
which, since the beginning of the sea
son, has kept prices up to 140 per cent,
more than was charged last year, has
collapsed. The break resulted from an
attempt by the trust to force prices still
higher. One of the dealers refused to
agree to the proposition and withdrew
..j (r COUNTRY: MAY SUB KVKR MB RIGHT; RIGHT Olt WRONG, MY COUNTRY /"—Jbpvkhson.
from the compact. He had previoualy
purchased a large supply of lake ico,
aufficient for the whole city, he atates,
and he haa reduced prices nearly 60 per
cent., so that the public will now get the
benefit of acme de-qierate rate cutting.
A dis| ntcb from Kansas City, Mo.,
says; On 3iturday night, ss the Wabash
expreai pulled out of Harlem, it wus
boirded by two road agents, who com
manded the pu-sengers, at the muzzle ol
two revolvers, to “hold up their hands.”
One of the men “went through" the pas
setigers, one by one, while the other,with
liis revolver in his extended arm, kept a
watchful lookout for signs of opposition.
In this way, the plunderer secured all
the booty he could in his haste, and tin
robbers had escaped. The passetigeis
found they had been relieved of $175 in
cash and two gold watches.
A Chicago dispatch says: A terrible
epidemic of bloody flux has appeared at
Warsaw. It came on last Monday in a
light form and resembled dysentery, but
on Wednesday it assumed a more serious
phase, and now fifteen people have died.
Four deaths occurred Thursday and four
F’liday, the victims being mostly chil
dren. One hundred anil eighty cases
arc now repoited. The people are ter
ror-stricken and do not know what to
make of the scourge. The disease hi a
also appeared at Hamilton, and it is said
to exist in epidemic form at Canton and
Kahoka, Mo.
TRADE PROSPECTS.
oNCOCRAOINU IMCFORTB OK GOOD CHOPS
THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY.
it. G. Dun & Co.’s review- of trade for
ihe week ending August 3d, says; “1 he
country begini to feel the stimulus ol
.ood crops. New Spring wheat began
to arrive at Chicago on the first, ten uays
earlier than last year. The St. Louis
corn coruer has no effect, aud au abund
ant yield is expected and business in all
departments is gaining. The North
western Miller estimates the wheat yield
at 500,000,000 bushels of excellent qual
ity, and the mills at Minneapolis are ac
tve with water plenty. St. Paul natu
rally reports au improvement in trade,
and Milwaukee also iu all branches. At
Omaha the assurance of crops above the
average makes business excellent. In
the iron regions a distinct increase in
demand is felt, and orders for one hun
dred new locomotives were placed dur
ing the week. The certainty of large
traffic also has its effect upon railroad
negotiations, which have made progress
toward peace. The volume of trade
continues to exceed last year's, at New
York, 12 per cent, and outside 124 per
cent., according to clearings through
banks. Exports for July, from New Y’ork,
appear 14$ per cent, larger than last
year, with imports 5$ per cent, larger,
and these figures would poiut to au ex
?osß of about 11,000,060 imports over
exports, and yet large offerings of bills
against products to be moved hereafter
prevents apprehension, The prospect is
better for a decline of 2$ cents in wheat
during the week, though com, oats and
cotton for immediate delivery are fiac
l tonally higher. Pork products have
all declined a little, and hogs 20 cents
per 100 pounds. The speculative move
ment in these products has not beeu
large, the sales of wheat retching 18,-
000,000 bushels for the week, of corn
7,000,000 and of cotton 191,000 bales.
But coffee Is three-quartets stronger,
with sales of 326,000 bags. Iu oil only
3,7U0,000 barrels have beeu sold, and the
nrice is about one cent lower.”
FREEMASONS GO TO L, N.
IOWA MASONS ASK FOB AN INJUNCTION
AGAINST TIIE GRAND LODGE.
A special from Ctdar Rapids, la., says:
Action was begun Monday in the district
court at Msriou that will startle Masonic
circles more than anything else, perhaps,
of late years. Judge Preston, of the
eighteenth judicial distret, on tho peti
tion of C. 13. Barnes, af Burlington, J. G.
Graves and Henry Bennett, plaintiffs and
grand officers of the lowa consistory of
that branch of the Scottish rite of Ma
sonry, commonly known as the Cereneau,
ordered a temporary injunction against
the grand lodge of lowa Ancient Free
and Accepted Masons, restraining them
from putting into effect the legislation of
the last session of the Grand lodge refer
ring to Cereneau bodies and which com
manded Master Masons to leave the con
sistory of lowa of that rite under punish
ment of expulsion. The petition states
that ns the body represented by the plain
tiffs does not confer a blue lodge degree
and the grand lodge or its subordinate
lodges do not confer the twenty-nine
higher degrees, the grand lodge has no
jurisdiction whatever and its action Is
illegal, arbitrary, oppressive, prescrip
tive of their individual consistories and
Masonic relations and hurtful of their
standing as good and reputable citizens.
This is the first time a Masonic body has
appealed to the state courts and the ac
tion of the supreme court to which it will
finally go, will be a precedent for other
atates. The time for hearing arguments
for a perpetual injunction will be during
the October term of court at Marion.
A BIG GRAB.
THE IOOK-KEEFER OF A BANK GETS BICII
VERT SUDDENLY.
There was a big sensation in Wheeling,
W. Va., Friday morning,when it became
known that Harry Seybold, a very popu
lar young man, individual book-keeper
of the b ank of Wheeling, had been ar
rested for embezzling $27,000 from the
bank. On the 10th of April, a package
containing $27,000 was deposited in the
hank by a prominent business man,
and was placed in the va lit
to be counted after business hours.
After the bank had closed, the man
wh . had depos ted the package went to
get it and found it missing. Ihe ab
sence of the package was kept quiet for
a lime, being as it appeared evidenttkat
some employe had taken it. Hariy bey
bold was found to be spending money
very freely Suspicion at once rested on
him and he was arrested He was taken
before Justice Arkle and charged with
tho theft. At first Scybold denied the
charge, but after close examination by
an officer ho finally confe-sed to have
taken the money, foeybold has been in
tho employ of the bank for the past
-even years, and IBs books have always
been found correct at each examination,
lie gave as a reason for taking the pack
age that the temptation was too strong.
Great alarmTs caused in the City ol
Mexico by the terrible ravages being mad
toougholit the eountry in th,
low-1 ring districts, by the yellow fever. J,ne
mortality increases in number every day.
COVINGTON. GEORGIA. THURSDAY, AUGUST 8. 188!>.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
ITEMS OF IN THRUST FROM VA
RIOUS POINTS IN THE SO UTU.
A COKDXNSXII ACCOUNT OF WHAT IS OOIXO ON OF
HiroUTANCI IN 1 UR SOUTUSBN STATES.
The fire in Pratt mines, Ala., which
had been burning six days, was extin
guished Saturday.
Gen. J. R. Lewis, the newly appointed
postmaster at Atlanta, Ga., took charge
of the office Thursday.
NV. 11. Heyward, one of the richest and
most prominent rice plautersof the olden
times, died at Charleston, 8. C., Tues
day, aged seventy-two years.
The first lot of "anti-trust” cotton
bagging for the season was received
in Voldosta, Ga., Saturday. It attracted
quite a crowd to inspect this new cover
ing which the Frmers’ Alliance has re
solved to use.
The largest gathering of farmers seen
in Charlotte, N. C., in many years,
greeted Harry Tracy, the alliance lectur
er Wednesday. Mr. Tracy spoke at the
fair grounds, and it is estimated thut at
least 2,500 farmers heard him. Much
enthusiasm was manifested.
Saturday night, at Baleigh, N. C.,
Theodote Couusii, a young man whi
poisoned his wife with “rough on rats,’
was captured in the woods near NV'il
liumstown, Martin county. A large
numbw of men had pursued him cvei
since the verdict of the coroner’s jury
had fixed the murder upon him. He is
in jail nnd is endeavoring to appear in
sane. His friends claim that he is crazy.
A storm broke over Richmond, Va., on
Thursday night, duiiDg which the city
railway stables, located just without the
ciiy limits in West End, were struck ly
lightning. The building took fire, the
flames spread rapidly, and before aid ar
rived the entire structure was consumeu
and sixty mules and horses w-ere burned
up. Seven stieet cars were also de
stroyed. Tho loss is estimated at $24,-
000; insurance $40,500, all in foreign
companies.
A fierce quarrel broke out between
the Smiths and Slushers, near Pineville,
Ky., over a hog worth $2. Smith’s
home was attacked Saturday last by the
Slushers and a volley poured into the
house which put holes through the dcot
and broke several windows. Smith re
taliated by putting a guard, armed with
NVincherters, on the Slushers’ road to
Flat Lick, the nearest village. Both
sides are now well armed and are watch
ing for each other.
At a house on East Lanvalc street,
Baltimore, Md., a few sharp words and a
hasty u-c of a revolver aud an appa
rently happy young couple, husband and
wife, were lying dead, each shot directly
through the heart. The house was
broken in and there stretched upon the
floor were the bodies of Mr. aud Mrs.
Dolan. As there were powder marks on
the man’s shirt aud as the pistol was near
his body, he is supposed to have done
the shooting.
The belief is becoming very general
throughout North Carolina that Gover
nor Fowle will nquest Dr. Grissom to
resign the superinlendcncy of the asylum
at Raleigh. The governor has do power
to act officially in the matter, but it is
plain that the asylum’s usefulness is at
an end if Grissom does not resign, and
the people expect the governor to mako
the request iu the name of the people of
the state, and for the good of the insti
tution.
Martha York, an old woman, was on
Tuesday placed in jail in Randolph
county, N. C., charged with murdering
her grandchild, a boy eleven years old.
AYhile delirious the child said repeatedly
that his grandma had beaten him to death.
The child’* mother testified that its grand
ma was the murderer. There had been
a quarrel in the family, and it is said the
old woman whipped the boy with hick
ory switches until she fainted from ex
haustion. The affair is creating excite
ment among the citizens.
A dispatch from Tmcaloosa, Ala., re
ports the mysterious death at noon Mon
day of Arthur Fitts, superintendent of
the Tuscaloosa cotton mills, and son of
J. Fitts, a pronuoent banker. He was
seen last walking back and forth on the
grounds of the mill*, and finally disap
peared under an old building. A pistol
shot was heard, and an employe tound
Fitts lying on the ground with an ugly
wound behind his right ear, and tlie pis
tol with one chamber empty at liis feet.
There is nothing to determine whether it
is a case of suicide or murder.
A collision occurred on the Virginia
Midland Railroad Sunday morning at
Burley’s, Va., fourteen miles north of
Charlottesville, between two freight
trains. Fireman Ford A. Fox, of the
southbound train, was killed instantly,
and Engineer Charles Davis, of the
northbound freight, seriously injured.
Engineer Ernest Hayes, of the south
bound freight, and Brakeinan M. A. Mc-
Donald, are missing, and are supposed to
be under the wreck. Fireman Kelly and
Brakeman McClain, both of Alexandria,
also badly injured.
SOUTH CAROLINA FRUITS.
A WONDERFUL PLENTY- TEACHES FIF
TEEN CENTS A CRATE, ETC.
The abundance of fruit this year seems
to be general throughout the whole state
of South Carolina. In Columbia fruit
is actually a “glut” on tho market.
Farmers briDg into that city wagon
loads of melons for which they are un
able to find a market at any price. Can
taloupes of the finest quality sell for a
song; the nutmeg variety is sold at fif
teen or twenty cents a dozon. One of
the fruit commission merchants had a
a number of crates of peachis in fiont of
his store marked “fifteen cents a crate;”
they were fresh and of good quality.
Country watermelons sell for five or ten
cents. In fact there is a superabundant*
of all kinds of fruits.
DISASTER IN OHIO.
AT LEAST A DOZEN KILLED BY A RAILROAD
ACCIDENT.
A pnsher,running wild,returning from
Connersviile, Ohio, to Hamilton, collided
w'itli a passenger train. The latter was
running at a very high speed. The
place is remote from telegraph stations,
and definite news is hard to obtain. It
is known, however, that it was a bad
smash-up. Fireman Lee and Baggage
master Shields were killed outright.
Engineer Dougherty was badly hurt, and
a Mr. Brannan, fireman, was severely
hurt. It is believed that the number of
killed aqd wounded will not be greater
than twelve ptfourteen.
RUSHING WATERB.
WtUtAT KlllS-lIBT IN VIRGINIA HOUSER ANI
STREETS FLOODED —UNTOLD DAM AO K.
Reports from Richmond, Va., say that
the James river is seventeen feet above
the ordinary low water mark, anil rising
four inches per hour. Tho wharves at
Rocketts arc all under water and adja
cent streets, houses and cellars and the
gas works are inundated. A number ol
business bouses bad to suspend trade and
move tlicir effects in consequence ol
Scbockou creek backing up water from
the river and overflowing their premises.
Indications point to a freshet equal to
the greatest for years. Reports thiough
t ut the state, though meagre, lead to the
belief that ail the streams arc swollen.
At Fredericksburg the lower portion of
the city is submerged from high water
in the Rappaha'nock, nnd merchants
nd citizens arc moving their
effects to places of safety.
At Danville, Thuisday morning, there
was more water in Dan river than was
ever known before. Factories and small
dwellings on the river bunks were flood
ed, and the loss will be about $15,000,
exclusive of iho damage to the railroads.
Travel on the Danville and New liiver
road is suspended. Two bridges and
one long trestle have been carried away,
and the wires are ail down. Carson the
Atlantic and Danville track are complete
ly submerged and hidden from view-.
Harrisonburg, Va., the rains have been
continuous for days, and all the streams
are out of their banks. Much damage
has been done. Tho rainy spell which
has I ccn almost continuous iu that local
ity for over two months, has destroyed
much of the hay crop, and wheat is now
sprouting in the shocks. The outlook is
gloomy fur farmers. Reports from Phil
adelphia say: Waters in the Schuylkill
river Thursday attained the highest point
reached in this city fi r twenty years, in
volving destruction to property estimated
at fiom SIO,OOO to $20,000. Park drives
were submerged, boathouses flooded, nnd
some of the streets near the river bunks
were under water to the depth of be
tween four and five feet, doing consid
erable damage.
THEY WANT ALL OF THEM.
ENGLISH CAPITALISTS SEEKING TO BUY
OUT AMERICAN COTTON INDUSTRIES.
A letter, mailed in New York Satur
day, addressed to the president and board
of directors of every cotton mill in F'all
River, Mass, says: “Gentlemen: It is
our desire to secure control of the entire
cotton manufacturing property in Fall
River and elsewhere, and we address you
fer the purpose of Detaining vour views
as to the probability of your share
holders, or a majority, being willing to
g.*U or poll their stock on a basis of mu
tual advuutage. We are ploased to in
form you that the Central Trust Com
pany of New York, has consented to act
as trustee in behalf of both parties.
Should the matter meet with your favor
able consideration, wo will confer w ith
you personally in regard to details. Very
respectfully, George F\ Mellen, Emerson
C. McMillan, 11. B. Wilson, Committee.”
The syndicate, which has been formed,
represents principally foreign capital,
and that already the amount subscribed
is more than sufficient to buy the cotton
industry of America. ibis is really
what is aimed at, and the operations will
not be confined to F’all River, but extend
to Lowell, Lawrence, New Bedford, aud
the best mills in the country. The Fall
River mills have a capital exceeding
$20,000,000, and an investment probably
of $30,000,000 or more. Just how the
negotiations will be instituted w-ill in
terest outsiders, as these mills are owned
by thousands of stockholders. The di
rectors have power to sell the mills, and,
beyond a few- hundred shares probably,
little stock could be bought at anything
like the prevailing prices.
THE CITIZENS ARE MAD.
BRUNSWICK INDIGNANT OVER TIIE FAI.SB
REPORT OF A YELLOW FEVER CASE.
The Atherliser and limes ol
Brunswick, Ou., both appeared
Thursday containing strongly worded
editorials condemning Savannah's
action in regard to quarantine
ing Brunswick on account of the fever
rumors. Fuitlier investigation proved
that false rumors were btarted by a w ild
drummer who left here some days ago,
and without any regard to tiuth circula
ted the report that a man named Night
ingale had died of yellow fever.
A dispatch from Washington states
that owing to the prevalence of rumors
if suspicious cases of fever at Biunswick,
Ga., the marine hospital bureau ordered
Si nitary Inspector Posey to proceed to
that place and make an investigation.
I he loilowing telegram from Dr. Posey,
dated at Brunswick, Ga., was received
at the marine ho-pital bureau Thursday:
Theenusc of the death of B. Nightingale,
which occurred July 24tb, was hemor
rhagic malarial fever, confirmed by an
autopsy held by Drs. Dunwoody, Bu l -
ford and Unzlehurst. No cases of fever
here of a suspicious character.
SEALING SCHOONER SEIZED.
A BRITISH SEALING SCHOONER CAPTURED
liY AMERICANS.
A dispatch from San Francisco says:
The steamer Dora arrived from Behring
sea Monday night and brought the first
detailed news of the capture of t lie
British Scaler, Black Diamond, by the
United States revenue cutter, Richard
Rush, on July 11th. The Rush over
took the Black Diamond and ordered
her to heave to. The captain of Black
Diamond refused to do this. Thereupon
the commander of the Bush ordered the
lowering of the ports and the running
out of guns, which caused the schooner
lo heave to. Captain Shepard and
Lieutenant Tuttle boarded the English
i raft and asked forher poj era. The offi
cers of the Black Diamond offered no
armed resistance, but refused to deliver
the ship's pipers. Captain bh<pard at
once broke open the cabin and forced
the hinges of the strong box and the
captain’s chest, thereby securing the pa
pers. A search of the vessel di-closed
103 seal skins which had bedn taken in
Behring sea. Captain Shepard placed
non-Commissioned officer Rush in cliurge
of the Black Diamond and ordered the
vessel to bo taken to Sitka to await
further instructions.
IMMEDIATE DELIVERY.
Customer (to grooer)—l want to get a
pound of old cheese.
Grooer—All right, sir. I’ll send it
around in five minutes.
Customer—All right, and let it briug
a couple of crackers with it.
BUDGET OF FUN.
HVMOROrS BKKTCHKB FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
Rut a Moment—Knew What He Want
ed—Fully Answered—A Thought
ful Agent—True (Jeneroatty—
Taken at Her Word,Etc.
I saw her but a moment
beneath the apple tree,
There was no one to listen
No eyes were there to see.
I heard her soft voice singing
Her song waa one of love:
Her bright eyes seemed to borrow
Light from the stars above.
I saw her but a moment,
As ’neath the tree she sat;
I threw a poker at her—
(She was my neighbor's eat).
Pick-Met^.
KNEW WHAT HE WANTED.
“Is there anything I can do for you?”
asked Mrs, Cumso tenderly, when her
husband was suffering from seasickness.
“What do you want?”
“I want the earth,''gasped Cumso, as
he again leaned over the rail. —New York
Sun.
FULLY ANSWERED.
Teacher—“ Who can give me the names
of three animals that live in Africa?”
Little Harry—“l can, sir.”
Teacher—“Very well, do so.”
Little Harry—" Two monkeys and ■
parrot,”
A THOUGHTFUL AGENT.
Mrs. Younghusband—“This girl is too
young for a nurse. She is hardly taller
than the baby itself.”
Madame O'Rourke (of the Continental
Employment Agency)—“Sure then, mad
am, if she drops the baby it won’t have
so far to fall." —Flieyende Blaetter,
TRUE GENEROSITY.
Mrs. Blinkers—“ Well, did you go to
the doctor to see about that bee sting on
little Johnny?”
Mr. Blinkers—" Yes, he said we should
put mud on it. He charged me two dol
lars for the prescription, but he gave me
the mud for nothing.” New York
Weekly.
TAKEN AT HE R WORD.
“And Oh, Uncle Silas, I had such a
lovely time last summer. Four other
Vassar girls and myself took a trnmp
through the Catskills.”
“Um-m-m I But do you believe, Eliza
beth, that the tramp enjoyed it?”— Time.
AFTER THE QUARREL.
Mother— “Now.girls,as you've finished
your daily quarrel, suppose you go and
eat some dinner.”
Arabella (sarcastically)—“Oh, I sup
pose you want us to swallow our feud.”
—Life.
NEGLECTING HIS DUTY.
“I think the man in the moon must he
sick or lazy,” said Johnny Traddles one
dark moonless night.”
“Why, my boy?” asked his mother.
“Because he hasn’t lit her up to-night.”
—Bazar.
DECIDEDLY REALISTIC.
Mrs. FTippermore (to watchmaker who
knows but little about gems)—“Mr.
Fixom, I have a very fine catseye. How
would you advise me to have it set?”
Mr. Fixom—“l would fix it on a little
mouse.”— Jewelers' Weekly.
SIMPLE ARITHMETIC.
“What is the difference between these
ten-cent cigars and this twenty-five cent
brand?” asked an innocent customer of
the honest dealer.
“Fifteen cents, sir,” said the honest
dealer, with a sigh.— Somerville Journal.
CIRCUMSTANCES ALTER C.ASES.
Prudish and Homely Sister—“ You
ought not look iu the mirror so much. It
gives one the idea that you are vain. I
never do it as much as you.”
Pretty Sister—“l wouldn’t either, if I
were in your place. I don't like to
mortify myself.”— Yankee Blade.
A PAYING JOB.
“Who is that fellow I saw you speaking
with?”
“Oh, that is Brown; splendid work
man; commands a big salary.”
“Wliat’s his business?”
“He is head cutter in Snipper's misfit
tailoring establishment,"— Boston Tran
script.
HOW HE WAS CAUGHT.
Outcast—“ Please, mum, could you
help an unfortunate man who was caught
in au elevator and laid up for six months?"
Old Lady—“ Poor man; here’s a dollar
for you. ITow did you happen to get
caught?”
Pocketing the dollar —“The police
wuz too quick for me, mum.” — Time.
NO HERO.
’ “Grandpa,” asked Georgie, who fond
ly believed his aged grandparent was a
Revolutionary hero, “how many British
ers did you kill?”
“Oh, about seventy-five,” replied the
old man, desiring to humor the boy.
“Poh! what was the matter with you?
were you too tired to fight?”— Bazar.
en famille.
Visitor—“Oh, Miss Smith, what can
be the matter? Hear those fiendish yells
of laughter in the next room.
Miss S.—“ That's my brother; he’s a
poet; he is reading his tragic verse.”
Visitor—“But the laughter?”
Miss S.—“ That’s my younger brother,
listening to it.”— Epoch.
WHAT THEY WERE DOING.
First Barnstormer —“Don t them jays
never get enough of a good thiug? I’d
think that after the curtain had been
down ten minutes they would know
enough to let up on their applause.
Second Barnstormer (who had been
there before)— “You sucker, they ain’t
applauding, they're killing mosquitoes.
BEGINNING OF TIIE TROUBLE.
Police Judge—" Did you sec the be
ginning of this trouble? ’
Witness—“ Yes, sir; I saw the very
commencement. It was about two year*
ago."
Police Judge—“ Two years ago?"
Witness—“ Yes, air. The minister
said, ‘Will you take this man to he your
lawful husband?' and she said, *1 will.’ "
—Nebraska State Journal.
VERY NICK.
Visitor—“ How are the young couple
coming on?”
Mother-in-law “Splendidly. Just
think of it. My son-in-law has got a
position in a dynamite factory with a
salary of $75 a week, and if he gets blown
up my daughter Laura gets S6OOO dam
ages. Can you imagine anything nicer?”
— Siftings.
WOULD BE BOLDER NEXT TIME.
Bloodgood—“I understand that Brown
was married yesterday.”
Poseyboy—“Yes; I was there.”
Bloodgood—“Rather of a quiet wed
ding, wasn't it?"
Poseyboy—“Decidedly! Both tho
bride aud groom were so scared that they
could hardly si>eak above a whisjier."—
Burlington Free Press.
A SAD ALTERNATIVE.
Daughter (her father a dentist) —“For
heavr.n's sake, Charlie, here comes my
father! If he finds us together we aro
lost.”
Charlie—“ What shall Ido?”
“Either ask for my hand in marriage,
or else sit down in this chair and let him
pull a couple of teeth to disarm suspicion."
— Siftings.
WITHOUT CHANGE.
Tramp—“ Gimme cr ticket fl-r St.
Louis.”
Ticket Agent— 1 ‘ Where's your money ?"
Tramp—“l ain’t seed cr cent fer er
munth.”
Ticket Agent—“ Pass on then; don’t
keep people waiting. I don’t give out
tickets unless they arc paid for.”
Tramp—“Then whudder yer keep that
sign up fur, ‘Terall P'ints West an’ Sout’
Widout Change?’” —Town Topics.
BLIGHTED LOVE.
Miss Ethel Simper—“Ah, Mr. Tallow,
I can well believe that blighted love
must to a passionate and finely strung
nature be a fearful and maddening ex
perience. ”
Cholly Callow—“I—w—think, Miss
Ethel, that a—aw —feller ought to get
fat on it, doncher know.”
“Fat? How ridiculous! Why?”
“Because, he—aw—increases in sighs,
doncher know.” She never spoke after
that.— Time.
A LITTLE WIND.
Visitor—“ Been having a storm here?”
Kansan—“No, sir, we have not had a
storm here for over a year.”
“Why, how does it come that all those
brick buildings are unroofed, that
church blown over, the school-house
turned out in the street, and the dwel
ling houses torn up and scattered about?”
“Oh, there was a little wind here yes
terday that shook things up some, but it
didn’t amount to anythiug. Just a good
strong breeze.”— Drake's Magazine.
A GOOD KICKER.
Well, sir,” said the old gentleman, in
dignantly, “what are you doing arounu
here again ? I thought the delicate hint i
gave you just as you left the front door
last night would give you to understand
that I don’t like you very well.” And the
speaker looked at his boot in a remin
iscent way.
“It did,” said the youngman,as a look
of mingled pain and admiration came ovei
his face. “But I thought I would come
and ask you
“Ask me what?”
“If you wouldn’t like to join our foot
ball association?”— Boston Beacon.
AN UNUSUAL EXPEDIENT.
Dashley—“Queer tilings people dis
cover when they are living at boarding
houses. At dinner at my boarding
house, yesterday, I stuck my fork into a
piece of pie and brought up a collar but
ton that I lost a week ago.”
Snaggs—“That’s nothing. I lifted ofl
the top of my peach pie at my board
ing house, yesterday, and what do yon
suppose there was in it?”
Dashley—“l give it up. A silk um
brella, perhaps.”
Snaggs—“No, sir; peaches.”
Dashley (incredulously)—“Aw, what
arc you giving me?”— Boston Beacon.
THOUGHT THE PIANIST WAS EXECUTED.
“Well,” said Uncle Hiram, who used
to belong to a singing club in his early
days, “I never heard a woman play like
that woman we heard in Boston that
night. It was just awful. My cars ache
even now."
“Yes,” replied his nephew; “she was
rather loud, that’s a fact. But then her
execution ”
“George!” exclaimed the old gentle
man, as he seized his nephew by the arm,
“you don't mean to say that they went so
far as that? Well, ’tisn’t for me to judge
them. I only heard her once. It seems
terrible—a woman, too; but then they
had to listen to her every night. And
they won’t have to hear her again. Per
haps it is all for the best, George."—
Boston Transcript.
NO CLOTHES NOR COLD VICTUALS.
An old farmer near Castile not only
keeps five or six dogs as a protection
against tramps but he owns a bull which
likes no better fun than to give a
stranger a lift skyward. One day last
spring a tramp who was making a short
cutacrossa field to reach the house, found
the bull rushing for him like a wild lo
comotive. He had about fifteen rods to
go to reach au apple tree, while the bull
had thirtv, and the tramp got there first.
It was lucky he did, for the whole pack
of dogs made a spring for his heels as
thev were drawn up off the grass. He
1 sat 'there on a limb, the bull pawing and
roaring and the dogs barking and growl
ing, and presently the farmer came down
alongside the fence and called out:
“Sav, you!”
“Yes.”
“Want any old clothes or cold vict
uals?”
“No, I don’t want but one thing on
this earth,” replied the tramp.
“What’s that?”
“Lend me yer balloon aud ticket me
for Pennsylvania.” —New York Sun.
The newest engagement ring is of
twisted gold without a stone.
NUMBER 42.
DERELICT.
She wanders up and down the main
Without a master, nowhere bound;
The currents turn her round and round,
Her track is like a tangled skein;
And uever helmsman by his chart
Ho strange a way as hers may steer
To enter port or to depart
For any harbor, far or uear.
The waters clamor at her sides.
The winds cry through her cordage torn.
The last sail hangs, to tatters worn;
Upon the waves the vessel rides
This wsy or that, as winds may shift,
In ghsstly dance, when airs blow balm.
Or held In deep lethargic calm.
Or fury hunted, wild, adrift.
When south winds blow, does she recall
Spaces and golden fruit in store?
Or north winds met off Labrador,
The iceberg's iridescent wall?
Or east, the isles of Indian seas?
Or west, new ports and sails unfurled?
Her voyages all around the world
To mock her with old memories?
For her no lighthouse sheds a ray
Of crimson warning from its tower;
No watchers wait in hope the hour
To greet her coming up the bay;
No trumpet speaks her, hearty, hoarse;
Or if a Captain hail at first,
He sees her for a thing accurst,
And turns his own ship from her course.
Alone iu desperate lioerty
She forges on; and how she fares
No man alive inquires or cares
Though she were sunk beneath the sea.
Her helm obeys no firm control,
She drifts, a prey for storms to take.
For sands to clutch, for rocks to break,
A ship condemned, like a lost soul.
—Portland Transcript.
PITH POINT.
Paradoxical —Calling legal document*
“briefs.”
lias an attachment for his victim—
The constable.
Game law—The unwritten law that
governs a game.
Many fine dinners are served in a course
way.— Picayune.
A business that has its ups and
downs—The drivers.
Some of the upper crust looks soft
enough to be dough.
It is wonderful how polite men are
in the summer. They even lift their
hats to the breeze.—JVr York News.
The wife who can retain a sure hold
upon her husband's heart will uever have
occasion to take u grip on his hair
Omaha Bee.
“Miss Flyte, do you think Miss Giggle
is laughing at me?” “I can’t say, Mr.
Softleigh. She often laughs at almost
nothing.” —The Epoch.
He lifts his soul in grateful praise
Because there is no ice,
But later in the season he
Will also lift the price.
—Boston Courier.
The following advertisement recently
appeared in a Western paper: “A middle
aged woman, who is capable, honest and
industrious, but as homely as a stone
fence, wants work.”
Tom—“ Hello, Tagg. What’s that
sign on your front door for: ‘No Ad
mittance Except on Business?’ ” Tagg—
“There have been so many young men
calling on my daughters, and their visits
have been so fruitless that I have adopted
this means to reduce the surplus.”—
Yankee Blade.
A Skinless Boy.
William Crawford, the son of the well
known tug captain of that name, died
the other afternoon in Chicago. He
bled to death at the nose, but had lost
so much blood previously that the hem
orrhage from the nose was not great.
Young Crawford, who was but twenty
two years of age, was peculiarly afflicted.
He had but one skin. Which is to say
that he had no outer skin at all. Tho
veins stood out all over his body in the
plainest manner possible. From the time
he was six years of age young Crawford
had been subject to bleeding spells,
which were Liable to break out at any
time and in any part of his body. He
lost vast quantities of blood in this way,
and was afraid to take any sort of exer
cise at all, for fear of starting the bleed
ing afresh. For the past two weeks the
young man had been confined to his bed,
being too weak to sit up, even, and
bleeding at the nose having set in he
soon passed away. Physicians were sent
for from various cities in the East, but
they could do nothing for him. Anew
skin could not be grafted on, and it was
but a question of a short time until the
patient would bleed to death. —Nets Tori
Journal.
A Tooth From a Man’s Nose.
A peculiar piece of dentistry was per
formed yesterday, by which a tooth
was extracted from William Barnhardt’s
nose. Mr. Barnliardt was kicked by a
horse sixteen years ago and some of his
teeth were knocked out of place. When
he had recovered from the injuries result
ing from the kick he was troubled with
a dull headache, which has scarcely
ceased a day since that time. He also
had a distressed feeling in the upper
portion of the nose and supposed that he
was suffering from catarrh. In course of
time he discovered what he thought wan
sn extra piece of bone and a doctor dug
out one of the teeth. Since that time
he had been troubled still more. There
was still another tooth that had grown
lonesome and longed to get out. Drs.
Condon and Cook yesterday undertook
the job of arresting the roving tooth,
which had gathered little moss, and cap
tured it. This is probably the first record
of a tooth being extracted from a person’*
nose.— Ogden (Cal.) Commercial.
How the Paris Exhibition Closes.
The exhibition closes at night in the
following manner: The gates are all
shut at 10:30 o’clock r. M., when the
cannon on the Eiffel tower is fired at
that hour to announce the fact. At 11:15
o’clock two drummers beat the tatoo in
the gardens, while 200 policemen and
fifty municipal guards, carrying lanterns,
gradually clear the crowd off the grounds
toward the Jean bridge, where the only
exit is found. By 11:30 o’clock the ex
hibition is empty, and ail trespassers
found inside after that hour are arrested.
Policemen patrol the place all night, and
firemen hold themselves in readiness to
start at any moment should an alarm b
given.