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The Georgia Enterprise.
VOLUME XXIV.
fifty million* more are added to New
, k o ity’* taxable property this year.
t u proposed now in Franco to sub
.le (l ath by electricity for theguillo-
L e i s t*it *yndicate is one organized
|„, lude all the glass works in the
rv _ -
nmula will soon have an independent
mtic cable to England,the #8,000,000
lircd having being nearly all sub
(bed. wmmmmmm
Oklahoma was an unsettled wilderness
i a few weeks ago, yet it managed to
e the biggest Fourth of July accident
ihe year.
Her 20,000 French people have bees
ueed to emigrate to the Argentine
diblic, and nbout the same nurabee
lid be awfully glad to get hack tfl
nee again.
‘he daily consumption of crude and
ihed iron, of cheap dry goods and of
p and mill products generally, i*
wing with amazing rapidity in all the
Stern and Southern States.
Ir. Felix L. Oswald predicts in the
th American Review that the progress
Drest destruction will before long re
t a large area of our farm lands to
necessity of artificial irrigation.
It present the exports of the United
1$ to Chili are not far from $3,000,-
Iper year, and our imports from that
Xst and most thriving of South Ameri-
Brepublics arc a little less tlm thi*
Bndim Justice says that all the people
■living in the world, or about 1.400,-
■Mii.mhiM find standing room within
■licit- of a field ten miles square,and,
■• : ati It-] ,h. mo, could be addressed
speaker.
■git-ii iiiv,-tments in Mexico seem to
■icreasing with the regularity of
■letical progression. In 1886 they
■eo two and a half million sterling;
■>S~, live millions, and last year
■ eleven millions.
■ the battle of Gettysburg the First
■of the Union Army had 9SO,’ men
Bed and lost 6024. Of the 6692
■rymen engaged in that battle the
■ were only 242. Remember this in
■xt war, uddsthc Detroit Free Pros,
Hoi't be afraid of cannon.
l‘in;a i. ip'nia 1 in-til declares that
the -mill.over and the lily have
M enthusiastic admirers and advo-
buna |is gniniug ground as the
|B api’eopriate American national
'hat tiie laurel would have a mn-
all floral competitors.”
Ite of anarchy in Ilayti is pro
s natural results. Trade is
and tiie lack of all security for
s forcing all foreign merchants
country. Provisions are as deal
ere in tiie early mining days in
and the people are in a bad
ley are without food or money.
jf tiie Maiue peddler is not now
sit has been. A law has gone
- which makes it incumbent
>ns pursuing that avocation iu
'ree State to provide themselves
per certifying to their good
acter and to the fact that they
ran citizens. The peddler who
1 11 passport is to be prohibited
i is one of the few States in the
ieh continues to pay bounties on
s - A St. Louis paper explains
g the war men were so busy
len that they paid no attention
w-hich increased so rapidly as
sheep-raising impracticable in
le so "thern counties. In five
“ 1870 t 0 1876, the State paid
0.000 for wolf scalps at #3 per
. 81- Louis editor says it will
her million and a half to exter
'e wolves of Missouri
Diamond, lately
olony South Africa, and now
•ms Exposition, weighs 180
“ 18 Vft hied at $3,000,000 It
glass case by itself and guar
d around it all day. At night
dm a big safe, which is sirai-
J 6d 1111 night. It is said t 0 be
water, and as pure ns the fa
ent in the French Crown din
ts for sale, and it is confident
ial some American in home
*! “ and 11 hat will come
those days and buy it as a
tific !ulthorU y has figured out
“wage time run by trains in
” g ,md an<l America, and shows
> r '’Pe the best average has been
>y one of the French railroads,
, a “ " Verage of fift y-9i and a
f?' , are four road,
>n the United States, and
- ow 5 ork Central does not
fastest average speed for any
tl (Tin the , VK " withan avera S e
, . miles P er hour for 439
lctl >9 about the distance be
* Wk ana Buffalo, and the
s t&nce represented.
GENERAL NEWS.
VONDENSA TION OF CURIOUS ,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
r.WH FROM RVEnTWMKRR—iCCIIICIITS, HTRtKU,
FIRES, AMD MAFFKKIKOS OF INTEREST.
The Connelltville, Pa., coke strike is
spreading, and the strike will he general
in a few duys.
A shock of earthquake was felt in the
Aditondueks, iu New York state, Satur
day morning.
The Ccntralia Cotton mill, at Provi
denco, K. 1., whs gutted by fire W eduis
day. Damage #35,000.
On Tuesday, Alfred Tennyson, Eng
land's mightiest master of metrical form,
will ho eighty years old.
The strike in the Conncllsvillc, Pa.,
coke region was made geueral on
Wednesday, and 1,400 ovens are idle.
Frank Collom, the Minneapolis forger,
was refused bail Thursday. He had re
cently bought #IOO,OOO lift insurance.
Mrs President flat risen was summoned
on Wednesday to the bedside of her i
ter, Mrs. Scott Lord, who is very ill at
Nantucket.
Ihe constitutional convention of Da
kota fixed tiie capital at Bismarck, and
distributed the public institutions among
the principal towns in the new state.
Sheriff E. C. Swain, of Paulding
county, 0., has been louud to he short iu
his accounts to the amount of something
ever #2,000, and his bondsmen asked to
he released.
According to the latest statistics care
fully compiled by the hoard of injury, at
Johnstown, Pa., Wednesday, the num
ber of lives lust in the devastated district
was about six thousand.
The high court of the order of Forest
ers, assembled at Bornemouth, England,
has granted the demand of the loyal
courts of America to establish a sub
sidiary high court in that country.
A collision occurred on the Richmond
& Alleghany railroad, betwien Nichols
aud Scottsville, Virginia, resulting in the
wrecking of two engines, and the killing
of Conductor Jtmics Duval.
There was a terrific explosion of a
natural gas main in Pittsbuig.Pn., ■Satur
day evening, which resulted iu the killing
of two men instantly, fatally injuring two
more, and seriously injuring some fifteen
others.
It is reported that prisoners confined
in Fort San Juan de Alloa, at Vera
Cruz, N. M., revolted against the offi
cials. Troops on duty at the fort shot
twenty of the prisoners and quelled the
uprising.
The Dublin court has refused the ap
plication of a writ of habeas corpus iu
the case of Charles Conyheare, member
of parliament, who was sentenced to three
months imprisonment for conspiring to
oppose the law.
It is reported that the wool firm of
Brown, Stees & Clark, of Boston, Mass ~
is financially embarrassed. The firm is
composed of Gideon P. BroJin, who is
treasurer of the Riverside and Oswego
Mill company, Edward Stees and Amaza
Clark.
W. H. Taltnan, a deputy clerk in the
chancery court, Richmond, Va., who
shot himself Monday, died from the ef
fects of his wound Friday. Soon alter
the shooting, Talman explained to his
family that it was accidental.
An investigation of the accounts of W.
E. Denny, assistant postmaster at Boone
vile, lud., who is charged with embez
zlement in his office, shows that the
shortage amounts to #6,000, and may
reach more. Denny has not yet been ap
prehended.
The Chicago Evening Journal reports
an estimateof 150 to 175 casus of typhoid
fever on Cottage Grove avenue between
Thirty-fifth and Forty sixth strecls. The
epidemic is attributed to the pollution
ol city water caused by the recent heavy
rains carrying sewerage out to the source
of supply in the lake.
Fire broke out in the hi ok store of
Benrcr, Batsiey & Cos., in the Trentman
block at Fort Wayne, Ind., Thursday
evening. The stock was an entire loss,
reaching #40,000. Stern, Mautner &
Fred lick, clothing, on stock, #15,000;
Louis Wolfe & Cos., druugists, damage
to stock by water, #20,000. All losses
fully covered by insurance.
Cardinal Gibbons, who returned from
Deerpark, Me., Saturday, will he kept
busy several weeks advising with the
committees and formulating pluns for
tbs great Catholic hierarchald centennial
celebration in Baltimore next November,
and other events in connection with it.
There will be i re-arrangement of the
cathedral to fit it for the large number
of prelates, who will take part in the
eelebratiou.
A mob of strikers assaulted a number
of Hungarians who returned to work at
the Carrie Blast furnace, near Pittsburg,
Pa., Wednesday morning and drove
them away. One of the Hungarians was
beaten so badly that lie will probably
die. A sheriff's posse then interfered
and in a free fight that followed, Deputy
Sheriff Sweeny was probably fatally
shot. The strikers were finally driven
off.
A cable from London, England, says:
The memorial to the Government, asking
that Mrs. Maybrick be reprieved on tin
grounds of the conflicting nuturc of the
medical evidenco given at her .trial, lias
been signed by eight hundred brokcis
and merchants of Liverpool. Judge
Stephens,on Saturday, protested in court
against abusive letters addressed to the
jury in the Maybrick case. He said lie
thought they had conscientiously done
their duty.
The finding of the dead bodies of Ollie
Jones, his wife and two other persons,
was reported Thursday from Corvallis, a
small town iu Bitter Root Valley, iu
western Montana. A young girl who had
been shot in the hip was also found on
Big Golc mountain. All of the dead had
been shot in the hack. No further de
tails could be obtained as Corvallis is
without telegraphic facilities. Jones
v ns married threo weeks ago and was on
the road to his ranchc.
Notwithstanding that favorable re
ports are still sent out from the board of
health at Johnstown, I’a., there is a
great deal of sickness there. Tho doc
tors are so busy that they cannot attend
to calls upon them. Typhoid fever,
malarial fever, dysentery aud a genuiue
onse of scurvey were reported to the
Red Cross hospital during tho past two
weeks. The case of scurvy was caused
by salt pork diet which the contractors’
men has to subsist on.
The new iron steamship “Katnas City,”
built at Roach’s yard for the New Eng
land and Savannah Steamship Company,
was successfully launched ftt Chester,
Pa., on Saturday. The vessel is 850 feet
over all, 45 feet beam and 27 feet depth
of hold, tier engines are of tho tripplo
expansion, surface condensing type, pith
88-inch and 54 Inch diameter, and 54-
inch stroke, supplied with sle*'# by
eight steel hollers. She has been con
structed to move 10} km-ts per hour.
Her passenger accommodatio's sre 11(1
first class and 120 n cuwl o im. When
finished she will ply between New York
aud Savannah, Ga.
The jury iu the case of Mrs. Maybrick,
who has been on trial at Liverpool, Eng
land, for the murder of her husband,
brought in a verdict of guilty on Wednes
day. Mrs. Maybrick was thereupon sen
tenced to death. The trial elicited great
attention both in this country and Eng
land. Foelii g over the result of the trial
is intense, and thousands waited the
judge's departure fioui court, and howled
with rage when he appeared. Hooting
was incessant, and there were frequent
cries of “Shame 1” The crowd threat
ened to attack tho judge’s carriage, hut
the police interfered. Steps are being
taken to stay the execution, further med
ical evidence having been secured.
THE BUSINESS OUTLOOK.
ENCOURAGING REPORTS PROM R. G. PUN
* CO. FOR THE PAST WEEK.
R. O. Dun & Co.’s review of trade foi
the week says: Changes in the business
world during the week, though hut
slight, have all been in tho right direc
tion. There is a little better movement
of products, some improvement in crop
prospects, particularly in cotton, and
with more confidence and s'rength in the
stock market, and less chance of a dis
turbing withdrawal of specie for Europe,
iu manufactures, all changes are in the
direction of improvement, and reports
from the interior indicate a volume oi
trade exceeding last year’s, and, on the
whole, steadily increasing. Of all cities
reporting this week, scarcely one notes
dullness iu trade. The glad news that
the coke strike has ended, removes the
apprehension of closing many iron works
in the Pittsburg district. Prices of iron
and manufactured iron and steel had been
advancing. With steady improvement in
the reports of food products from the
Northwest, wheat has declined about
l on sales of only 8,000,000 bushels at
New York, and corn }c. on sales of
5,000,000 bushels. Oats are nearly one
cent lower and hogs 10c. per 100 pounds.
In oil there is an advance of }c., and in
c iffee prices have been lifted J of a cent.
Sugar is nominal, with 6} cents, quoted
as above any bid at present attainable.
The stock market has been Btrong and
advancing, and money in ample supply
for commercial use is quoted at about tho
usual rates all over the country. During
the week the treasury took iu one million
dollars more than it paid out, but mer
chandise exports from New York for the
week were nearly 30 per cent, above last
year, with an increase of about 20 per
cent, iu imports. The average prices of
commodities have slightly advanced.
Business failures throughout the country
during the week numhifr. for tho United
States, 164; Canada, 85; total 201,
against 210 last week.
A HEAVY FORGERY.
A MINNEAPOLIS LAWYER USES n IS CLIEIfT’B
NAME TO TIIE TUNE OF #237,000.
John S. Blnisdell, one of ths oldest
nnd wealthiest citizens of Minneapolis,
Minn., Tuesday,discovered that forgeries
to the amount of #227,000 had been
committed in his name. Tiie forger is
a young lawyer of that city whose father
is also wealthy nnd prominent. Blais
dell had befriended the young man iu
busiuess transactions, going so far as to
indorse his note for #15,u00. The young
man made the indorsement the basis for
a systematic scries of forgeries, reaching
the sum above mentioned. Mr. JJiaigdell
discovered the forgeries merely by acci
dent. He at once charged the young
lawer with the crime, the latter con
fessing in the presence of seveial wit
nesses. The forger’s friends at once
took steps to hush the matter up and an
arrangement was made whereby the en
tire amount of the forgeries was to he
paid over to Mr. Blnisdell in considera
tion of his not prosecuting tiie young
criminal. But on Wednesday, however,
matters assumed a different phase. The
newspapers gave the ease publicity. The
forger’s name is J. Frank Collum, of
Rockwood & Collum, attorneys at 220
Temple court. The forger has been Mr.
Blaisdell’s attorney and was thus enabled
to have access to his papers—an oppor
tunity which he used for the furtherance
of his schemes. Coliuin is a man of
about thirty-live years of age.
ON THE WAR PATH.
TWO FAMILIES IN SOUTn CAROLINA PRE
FAKING TO EXTERMINATE EACH OTHER.
The McDow verdict, at Charleston, 8.
C., seems to bo hearing its legitimate
fruits, and the nimble pistol is once more
at work in the Palmetto state. There
has been a dozen or more shooting and
cutting scrapes in the state within the
past week. The Inst occurred in Laurens
county Friday, when B. W. Langford, a
prominent citizen, shot and killed Ben
nett Langston, both white. A vendetta
between the Langfords and Langstons,
has been declared, and both families are
uow on the war path. Iu Bamberg there
is also a vendetta on between the Prices
and Stewarts, growing out of a caning
ands ooting scrape that occurred sev
eral days ago in Charleston. The col
ored man and brother is following closely
in the footsteps of his white brother, nnd
is using both the shotgun, pistol and ra
zor with lively effect. There have been
no less than five or six shooting and cut
ting scrapes in the vicinity of Charles
ton within the past three days.
rich land companies.
THE STOCKHOLDERS OK THE IZ.YTON LAND
COMPANY REFUSE TO SELL OUT.
The stockholders of the Elyton Land
Company met in Birmingham, Ala on
Tuesday, and refused to ratify the sale ol
the company’s property to the Birming
ham Land company for #3,500,000. July
13 the directors of the Elyton Land
company gave the men who were ar
ranging the consolidation of all the land
comnanies in the city an option on tlio
company’s property for $3 500,000, the
option subject to the action of the
stockholders. The stockholders deeded
the price was too low, and refused to ac
cept it. This action will cause a reor
ganization of the Birmingham Land
company, hut the consolidation will go
through, all the companies in the city
except the Elylon being absorbed.
This will give the city the two richest
land companies in the United States.
•MT COUNTRY: MAY SUP. KVKR HE RIGHT; RIGHT O/l WRONG, MY COUNTRY f—JurrKnens
COVINGTON. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 13. ISM.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA
RIOUS POINTS IN THE SOU TH.
A CONDENSED XOCOCNT OF WHAT IS OOLNO ON OF
IMPORTANCE IN TIIE SOOTUKItN STATES.
Reports from the Virginia tobacco crop
aro encouraging.
At a meeting of capitalists in Charlotte,
N. C’., Thursday night, it was decided to
build a cotton oi! refinery at once. It
wiil lie located cither in Charleston or
Columbia, 8. C.
A bout eighty gentlemen of Boston,
Mai-g., left that city Saturday for Shef
field, Ala., liy special traiu. It is stated
that the party iutend to invest heavily in
local enterprises at Sheffield.
The heading of the great tunnel at
Cumberland Gup, which unites the states
of Kentucky and Tennessee with Vir
ginia, was knocked iu at 6 o'clock
Thursday afternoon, with appropriate
ceremonies.
The Chicago delegation which lately
visited Tainpa, Fla., returned home and
reported Tampa harbor as possessing su
perior facilities for making it a termii al
point for South and Central America and
West India vessels.
Sunday morning in a gambling den in
Macon, Ga., Herman Bohneft id and Levy
Lowenthal quarreled ovir a game of cards.
A bloody fight ensued, in which Bohne
feld was stabbed to death by Lowenthal.
Charles Camden, of Lexington, \'a.,
died Saturday night of a cancer, which,
in one year, literally eat away thp lower
portion of his body, starting in the legs.
The case resisted the treatment of the
most eminent surgeons,
J. F. Shillis, who opened a music
store in Birmingham, Ala., a few weeks
ago, went in debt ns deep as he could
aud skipped. His shop is in the hands
of the sheriff under attachments sworn
out by numerous creditors.
The Tradesman, at Chattanooga,
Teun., has received authentic informa
tion that the coat miners of Alabama nre
organizing to fight the convict labor
system and company stores, and demand
better mining laws. A convention will
be held in September and the struggle
w ill be inaugurated.
At Charlotte, N, C., the jury in tiie
case of state against Police Sergeant
Boyle and Policeman G. J. Morris, for
clubbing Justice Hunter, could not agree,
and the judge ordered their discharge
Sunday, entering a mistrial for Boyle.
Morris ws3 acquitted. The jury stood
five for conviction and seven for acquit
tal.
A commission was issued from the Sec
retary of State’s office, at Anderson, 8.
C., on Wednesday, for the Anderson
Warehouse Manufacturing Company.
The capital of the company is to be
#2 ,000, with the right of increase to
SIOO,OOO. Its purposes are the erection
nnd maintenance of warehouses, the man
ufacture and compressing of cotton, and
the sawing of lumber.
The Dispatch newspaper of Montgom
ery, Ala., was, on Saturday night, sold by
its president, Colonel D. 6. Troy, to the
Advertiser. There will be no hyphen
ated name, nnd the editorial and office
force of the Advertiser remains un
changed. The Dispatch is understood to
have lost over $50,U00. The Advertiser
has been iD existence since 1828, and ha3
absorbed over a dozen papers.
Gen. J. R. Lewis, the newly appointed
post-master aud Col. A. E. Buck, a
prominent republican leader, were burn
ed in effigy at Atlanta, Ga., Wednesday
night. The burning was the result of
the appoiutment, by Postmaster Lewis,
of a colored man to a position in the
registry department of the Atlanta post
office fo work in ihe same room with a
young lady, daughter of the super
intendent.
A horrible butchery is reported from
McDowell county, W. Va. Tiie partic
ulars are meagre. It appears that a
wiiiow, named Gillis, lived in a remote
district of the county with two daugh
ters about grown. They were poor, but
respectable people. Friday tiie neigh
bors found all three dead. They had
evidently been criminally assaulted aud
murdered. There is absolutely no clue
to the perpetrators of the deed.
A dispatch from Columbia, S. C.,savs:
Tho Secretary of the State is kept busy
issuing charters and comm ssions to the
numerous industries which are being or
ganized throughout the state. Three
charters of commissions were taken out
Saturday. One for the Dekalb Cotton
Factory, at Camden, S. C , oue for the
Piedment Folding Grate Cos., at Green
ville, and another for an Alliance
warehouse, to tic located at Columbia.
Information was received Sunday from
the sheriff of Bolivar county, Miss., that
Wcissinger who killed the editor at
Rosedale, and who had escaped, took
refuge at Concordia, where, surrounded
by friends,he defied arrest. The sheriff
was powerless ana suia that, an effort to
arrest the fugitive would most probably
result in bloodshed. Governor Lowery
replied that the sheriff should make the
effort to capture Weissioger and if una
ble to do this, to call for troops.
A party of representative Georgia
farmirs, under charge of Major Gless
ner, commissioner of immigration, will
leave Atlanta, Ga., on August 31st, and
will spend two weeks in visiting state
and district fairs, experimental farms,
agricultural colleges, stock, and iry and
fruit farms of the northwest. They will
also investigate the products, methods
aud machinery of that section, that they
may compare them with theirs and adopt
such of them as are adapted to the
Southern States.
A dispatch from Tuscaloosa, 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 prominent hanker. He was
seen last walking back and forth on the
grounds of the mills, and finally disap
peared under an old building. A pistol
shot was heard, and an employe iound
Fitts lying on the ground witli an ugly
wound behind his right car, and the pis
tol with one chamber empty at his feet.
There is nothing to determine whether it
is a case of suicide or murder.
FATAL COLLISION.
Wednesday morning, at Norfolk, Va ,
while the Old Dominion line steamer
“Old Dominion” was coming up the
river, she rollidcd with the sloop
Ella May, of Warwick county. Janie!
Henry Coombs, captain, and two of the
crew, colored men, wero drowned.
The regular army of Great Britain now
numbers about 210,000.
THEY WANT ALL OF THEM.
’.NGLltlt CAPITALISTS SEEKING TO 111 T
OUT AMERICAN COTTON INDUSTRIES.
A letter, mailed in New York Satur
day, addressed to the president and hoard
of directors of every cotton mill in Fall
River, Muss., says: “Gentlemen: It is
our desiro to secure control of the entire
ootton manufacturing property in Fall
River aud elsewhere, at.d we address yoa
for the purpose of obtaining vour views
as to the probability of your share
holders, or a majority, being willing to
sell or poll their stock on aha-ls of mu
tual advantage. We aro pleased to in
form you that the Central Trust Com
jany of New York, has consented to act
s trustee in behalf of both pirties,
hould tho matter meet with your favor
ble consideration, we will confer with
ou personally in regard to details. Very
espectfully, Goorec F. Mellen, Emerson
0. McMillan, H. H. Wilson, Committee.”
The syndicate, which has been formed,
represents principally foreign capital,
and that already the am tint subscribed
is more than sufficient to hoy the cotton
industry of America. This is really
what is aimed at. and tho operations will
not lie confined to Fail River, hut extend
to Lowell, Lawrence, New Bedford, aud
ths best mills in the country. Thu Fall
River mills have a capital exceeding
♦. 000,000, and an investment probably
of #80,000,000 or more. Just how the
negotiations will he instituted will in
terest outsiders, as these mills arc owued
by thousands vt stockholders. Tiie di
rectors have p iwer to sell the mills, and,
beyond a few hundred shares probably,
little stock could lie bought at anything
like the prevailing prices.
HE RAISED THE MONEY
BUT WAS FINALLY DROUGHT TO GRIEF
UNEXPECTEDLY.
President Eben S. Allen, of theFoity
-econu Stiect and Grand Street Ferry
Railroad Company, of New York, was
arrested Wednesday alteinoou on a
charge of detraudiug the company.
George W r . Prentice, a broker, had re
ceived 400 shins of Ihe company’s st- ck
to sell ftr a customer, and had made the
sale. The buyer, before paying, wished
the stock put in his own name, aud
Prentice went to the office to have the
transfer made. The pr< sident was out,
and the treasurer acting for him, made
the discovery thnt the numbers ou the
stock were duplicate's of stock credited
ou the book to other persons. Fraud
was apparent, aud treasurer com
municated at once with the directors.
Alien confetsed his guilt without much
ur gtug. 11e- was engaged in the iron
business outside of his connection with
the company, he said, and became inter
ested in some inventions, one of a patent
tire escape, the other of a clothes post
system for use on the roofs of houses.
Both promised well, hut the officials of
the bureau of buildings refused to allow
their use, and the scheme fell flat. Allen
became embarrassed, and, to relieve
himself, took blank certificates of rail
road stock, filled them out with his own
name, or that of some other person, and
hypothecated the hocus shares in various
banks. He thinks that he has
scattered seven hundred shares or
so about in that way, and bor
rowed about $125,000 or $130,000.
A TRAIN HELD UP
WHILE ROBBERS COLLECT EXORBITANT
FARE AT THE MUZZLE OF REVOLVERS.
The Rio Grande western train No. 8,
known as Modere, was held up near Cre
vasse, Col., Tuesday night, by train
robbers. Two of them boarded the bag
gage car at Thompson Springs. They
climbed over the engine, pointed revol
vers at the heads of the engineer and
fireman, nnd compelled them to stop the
train. They forced the firemun to at
tempt to chop through the door of the
express car, and made the engineer bring
a hag to hold tiie plunder. Messenger
Willis was ready with a magazine shot
gun and two self-cocking revolvers. Tiie
fireman was unable to chop through the
boiler-iron -door, so the robbers fired a
dozen shots through the car. Messenger
Willis lay on the floor and was not hurt.
They gave this up aud joined two other
robbers I aok iu the other car. Four
went through the train with their revol
vers drawn, and gathered nine hundred
dollars and twenty watches. A posse
and two deputy United States maishids
went out Wednesday morning from Salt
Lake w ith blood hounds in pursuit of the
robbers.
A CHILD’S BONES
FOUND UNDER TIIE HEARTH OF A MAN’S
HOUSE AFTER EIGHT YEARS’ SEARCH.
Dave Bcllew and wife were arn sted
Wednesday, in a secluded part of Wal
den’s Ridge, about twenty-five miles from
Chattanooga, Tenn., by Detective W.
If. Denver, of Asheville, N. C., and
Officer T. J. Howard, on a charge of
having murdered their five-yenr-oid
chilli near Asheville, eight years ago.
In September, 1881, Bedew and his wife
lived near Asheville, N. C., and they
announced that their five-year-old chiid
had mysteriously disappeared. Armed
men searched the country round about
for months with no success. In the
spring following Bellow left and went to
Texas. Bcllew had built and owned the
house in which lie lived at Asheville,
and sold his place on leaving. A shot t
time ago, having to make some improve
ments, the hearth in the sitting room of
the cottage was torn up, and tho bones,
together with clothing enough to ident
ify tiie body of the lost child, were dis
covered.
TRAINS COLLIDE.
THUEE PEOPLE KILLED AND MANY OTHERS
WOUNDED.
A collision occurred near Forest Lawn,
N. J., on tho Rome, Watertown & Og
densourg Railroad ou Saturday morning.
The nignt express, bound west for Niag
ara Falls, ran into a Rochester train,
which was backing down, telescoping
four cars of the train, killing three per
sons and injuring many others. The list
of dead nre as follows; John Day, en
gineer of the steamer Hazelton, Oswego,
N. Y.; Miss Ella Perrin, of St. Johns,
Mich.; Lowell C. Brown, Sherman, N.
Y. Tho list of injured arc: Andrew
Tiffany, Oswego, engineer of the express;
Mrs. Lewis Moore, of Gratwick, N. Y.;
Miss Sarah M. Sweet, of Walcott, N. Y. ;
Frank Bell, of Sheboygan, Mich.; Mr.
and Mrs. 11. M. Perrin, of St. John,
Mich.
WASHINGTON, I). 0.
MO VE VKNTS OF THE PRESIDENT
AND HIS ADVISERS.
APPOINTMENTS, DECISIONS, AND OTEES MA ITESN
OF INTEREST FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Secretary Noble received s telegram
on Wednesday, from Charles Foster,
l hairiuan, dated Fort Gates, announcing
the successful completion of the Sioux
commission.
The treasurer of the United States has
issued instructions, subject to tiie con
venience of the. treasury, to the assistant
treasurer of the United States at New
5 ork, to supply notes and silver certifi
cates of small denominations to hanks
ordering them in sums not less tnau
SI,OOO.
President Harrison, on Saturday, made
the following appointments; Samuel J.
Phillips, of North Carolina, commit
siouer on the part of the United States
under the Venezuela and United Slates
treaty concerning the adjustment of
claims; Charles G. Pope, of Missouri,
consul to Toronto; Richard G. Lay, of
the District of Columbia, consul-geaeral
a: Ottawa.
Lieut. John C. Irvine, member of the
class under instruction at the torpedo
station, Newport, ha 9 been charged with
scandalous conduct, drunkeness on duty,
neglect of duty, and absenting himself
from his post without leave. A court,
martial has been derailed to try Lieut.
Irviue on these charges, and it will con
vene at Newport on Wednesday. Capri
Thomas O. 8 Bridge is president, and
Lieut. J. V. B. li.ecker judge advocate.
The report of Captain Shepard, com
manding tho revenue steamer Rush, in
regard to the seizure of the British
staler, Black Diamond, which was mailed
at Sau Francisco, iu July, has just beeu
received at the Treasury Department.
Acting Secretary Batcheilor refuses pos
itively to give it to the press, but admits
that it confirms substantially the news
paper reports concerning the seizure, lie
says further, that as the question seems tc
have assumed political importance, he
preferred to do nothing whatever in the
matter without Consultation with Secre
tary Windom.
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany claims that it has the better end of
the present controversy with the govern
ment. Tho telegraph officials say that
under the terms of the agreement be
tween them, certain rates have to bj
fixed annually, subject to acceptance of
all the companies interested, and that
agreement expired on the 80th of lust
June, und that no contract between the
government and the companies is now in
existence. They are, therefore, in no
hurry to bring about a settlement of the
pending controversy, for they propose to
charge the government full commercial
rates for all telegraphic business
transacted by them since the first of
July. During the absence of the Presi
dent and the members of his official
family from Washington, the telegraph
business of the Government is larger
than at any other time, and under the
circumstances the telegraph company
professes to be willing to prolong the
controversy with the postmaster-general.
AN ANGRY MOB.
FIVE HUNDRED HUNGARIANS ATTACK IN
NOCENT WORKMEN.
Hungarians at Morewood, Pa., where
the miners were on a strike, and which
was satisfactorily settled, refus rl to go
towork Friday morning,because they did
not understand that the strike was set
tled. Hearing that the Alice and Besse
mer works were running, they formed a
howling mob of about live hundred aud
started for those plants. Tho men at
the Alice mines wore warned in time,und
tied. Upon reaching Tipple, the mob
tore the boards off and started the coal
wagons down tiie slope, to wreck them
and block the entrance so that
no coal could he hoisted.
They next made a descent upon the
store at Bessemer, and after breaking th©
windows and doors open, carried off all
the bread and bologna sausage they could
find on the premises. By this time Sec
retary Thorn arrived, iu company with
another of the leaders. They addressed
them, and finally succeeded in making
them understand that ths strike was
over in their favor.
USED NAPTHA FOR FUEL.
A. PLEASURE BOAT BLOWS UP, KILLING
FOUR PEOPLE ANI) INJURING OTHERS.
On Wednesday afternoon, bystanders
near the boat-houses at the foot of fccrrj
street, Buffalo, N. Y., heard two explo
sions in quick succession from the boat
house just being built by L. Crocker,
in which the plcasuie yacht, the C’edai
liidge was stored. Immediately follow
ing cue explosions ihe boat burst intc
flames. Three of Crocker’s children, l
daughter and two sons, were burned tc
death iu the boat, nnd also a carpenter,
who wr.s at work upon it. Auothei
daughter and a lady friend, named Me
Lean, were badly* burned, but were
b own into the water,which extinguished
the flamc9 in their clothing. The boai
used naptha for fuel. It is supposed
that the accident was caused w hen the
engineer lit a match for the ignition ol
the fuel, by the explosion of some gas,
which had leaked out. The party were
just stalling ou a pleasure tiip.
A DUEL FOUGHT
BY PROMINENT RAILROAD MEN, BUT NO
BLOOD WAS SPILLED.
Mr. Pat Calhoun, of Atlanta, Ga., and
Mr. T. D. Williamson, of the Chatta
nooga, Home aud Columbus railroad,
fought a duel Saturday evening, just
two hundred yards oil the Georgia line,
in Alabama, on the Home aud Decatur
railroad. Mr. Williamson fired five
shots; Mr. Calhoun one. Neither of the
men received a semteb. At this point
the controversy was satisfactorily adjust
ed. The cause of the meeting was that
Mr. Williamson had denounced certain
statements made by Mr. Calhoun before
a meeting of the railroad committee as
unqualifiedly false. Owing to the prom
inence of the principals, the affair has
attracted much comment and wide-spread
attention.
FRESENOE OF MIND.
Penelope Peaehblow It is evident
that woman over there paints.
Bishop Gullem —She is my sister.
Penelope Peae'hblow-I was going to
sav it is evident she paints from tiie in
terest she takes in that young artist.
—[Life.
AN EXCITING SCENE-
A BALLOON HURSTS IN MID-Altt AND
CRASHES TO THE EARTH.
At Mount Holly, N. G\, fair ground,
Friday afternoon, Professor W. K. Pony,
the celebrated aeronaut of the Amsrlcan
Balloon company was to hare mads his
marvelous leap to tho earth after asoend
>ug to a height of thice-qtiarters of a
mile, deceuding by uid of a paraehut*.
When (he balloou h id traveled upwards
about seven hundred feet the crowd dis
covered that it was bursting, gas could
Ire seen shooting out, aud s um the can
vas cloth beg in to drop. As Professor
Perry was holding on under the par.-
chute, he was not aware of his terrible
situation. The crowd became frantic
with excitement. Yells went up and
pistols were fired to attract the man’s
attention, but all of no avail.
Soon, however, all the gas and air in the
balloon was exhausted, and it began to
fall downward. It was too late to
loosen the parachute from the wrecked
balloon, but for some di-dance it was
successfully engineered. The balloon
causing the parachute to cap-use, all
came down wilh a terrible crush to ths
earth. The unfortunate man was taken
from the wreck in an insensible condi
tion. Many of his bones were broken,
aud his recovery is very doubtful.
A BOLD ROBBER.
A MAN, SINGLE HANDED, ROBS A WISCON
SIN CENTRAL TRAIN.
The Wisconsin Centra! passenger train
from Chicago, was held up und robbed
by a single man between Chippewa Falls
and Abbottsfoid, at 3:30 o’clock Thurs
day morning. At the hour named, a man
entered one of the sleeping cars, com
manded the conductor nnd porter to
throw up their hands, aud proceeded to
go through them. He took from the
conductor SBO and a silver watch and
from the potter u gold watch and a small
amount of money, und from a passenger
some money aud a watch. He tackled
another passenger, but the latter toll
him the conductor had nil his money.
Asa matter of fact, however, the man
had SSOO on his person. The robber
pulled the hell rope as soon as lie had
completed the robbery, aud when the
traiu came to a atop he jumped off and
escaped.
THE ELIXIR OF LIFE
A NEW IIEMEDV WniCH IS COMMANDING
GREAT ATTENTION AMONG DOCTORS.
Drs. Wilson Yoe and Dungan, of the
Hospital College of Medicine, at. Louis
ville, Ky., have beeu experimenting
w ith the elixir prepared according to
the Brown-Sequ-ird formula, as giveu by
The. Lancet. With a rheumatic patieut
seventy yours old they have obtained
almost complete relief. He feels young
aud re-invigorated. Dr. Hubert Porter
has tried the elixir in case of an asth
matic paralytic, who was not informed of
the nature of the treatment. The pa
t ent has partially recovered from paraly
ris, and has new energy aud strength.
The experiments arc being continued.
PRISONERS ESCAPE
AFTER KNOCKING THE JAILER AND HIS
ASSISTANT SENSELESS.
Friday Right, at Lumlierton, N. C’.,
Jailer Bennett, with his assistant, went
into the jail to serve the prisoners with
supper. When they were in the hall
way of the jail, three outlaw prisoners
assaulted them, knocking both senseless
to the floor with a piece of prank. They
then took the keys from their pockets
and opening the doors made good their
escape, and have not sine* been captured.
The escaped prisoners are Steve Jacobs,
Bob Jones, aud Tom Bird. The skull
of Bennett and his assistant were both
crushed. Neither of them, it is thought,
can recover.
CAN GO TO CHICAGO.
HYDROPHOBIA UNFORTUNATES WILL NOT
HAVE TO LEAVE THE COUNTRT.
Residents of Chicago, or elsewhere,
who may be unfortunate enough to be
bitteu by mid dogs, will not hereaftor
have to go to Pari* to he treated by Pas
teur. The county’s public service com
mittee Wednesday, on the recommends
tioiTof tiie hospital •ominittee, set apart
two unused rooms in ward thirteen to be
used by Dr. Antonis Lagoroe, for the
treatment of hydrophobia according to
Pasteur's rnothod. Dr. Lagorce spent
five years as a student with Pasteur. The
hospital medical staff reoomimmded th
utility of bacteriological wortc and pre
ventive iuooulation for raises at the hos
pital, and Dr. Lagoroe will ad*take it.
A NEW PROCESS
HT wnicn TOHACCO CAN BE CURED—SIX
WEEKS EARLIER THAN USUAL.
The first installment of tobacco of the
crop of 1889 was marketed at Asheville,
N. C.. Saturday. This is remarkable,
since heretofore about the 25th of Sep
tember has been the date of the first
sales. Tins difference is due to the in
troduction of anew process of curing the
weed. Only primings, as yet, have been
cured. The uuder leaves have, in that
section,heretofore been cast aside as use
less. This first lot sold at $32 per hun
dred for bright wrappers.
PINE STRAW BAGGING.
Capitalists arc at Wilmington, N. C.,
for the purpose of incorporating the
American Pine Fibre company, with
ample capital to produce pine fibre bsg
gjpg for covering cotton bales on a very
large scale. Great improvements have
been uiade of late in this new industry,
and the promoters are now shipping pine
bagging daily into variotis sections of the
Cotton belt for the purpose of introduc
ing the new product, which, it is
claimed, will solve the bagging question
for the cotton planters of the Sonth, and
relieve them of the exactions of the jute
combination.
WANT UNIFORM RATEB.
A meeting of reprefeutatives of ths
leading railroad lines was held in the
office of the Trunk Line Association in
New York, Weduesday. After a long
and earnest deliberation the following
lines agreed to make a uniform rate on
their various trunk lines to Southern
points: New England Trunk Line Asso
ciation, Trunk Lines’ Passengers Asso
ciation, and the Southern Association.
The meeting was called on the requisi
tion of Southern agents who had coosid
ered themselves discriminated against in
rates. The arrangement gave universal
ibtisfaction.
NUMBER 48.
DERELICT.
Bh* wanders op and down Ihessaia
Without a master, nowhere hound;
The currents turn her round and round,
Her track ia like e tangled skein.
And never helmsman by his chart
Bo strange a wmy ashen may steer
To enter port or to depart
For any harbor, far or near.
The waters clamor at her sidee,
The winds cry through her cordage tom,
The last sail hangs, to tatters worn;
Upon the wavmthe vessel rides
This way or that, as winds may shift,
In ghastly dance, when aim blow balm,
Or held in deep lethargic calm,
Or fury hunted, wild, adrift.
When south winds blow, does she recall
Bpices 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 voyage* ail 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 coining up the bey;
No trumpet speaks her, hearty, hoaree;
Or if a Captain hail at first,
He sees her for a thing accurst,
And turns his owu ship from her course.
Alone in desperate liberty
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 documents
“briefs.”
Has an attachment for his victim—
Tire constable.
Game law—The unwritten law that
governs a game.
Many fine dinners are served in s 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. —New York Newt.
The wife who can retain a sure hold
upon her husband’s heart will never have
occasion to take a grip on his hair
Omaha Bee.
“Miss Flyte, do you think Miss Giggle
is laughing at met” “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—“HeUo, Tagg. What’s that
sijjn 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. H
tiled 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. The
veins stood out ail 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.— New York
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. Bernhardt 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 was
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's
nose.— Ogden (Cal.) Commercial.
How the Pails Exhibition Closes.
The exhibition closes at night in the
following manner: The gates are all
shut at 10:30 o’clock p. 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 all 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.