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The Georgia Enterprise.
jQI.I'MIi XXIV.
\l. NEWS.
~ y S ' | fjoy OF CURTO USj
whom so EVENTS.
„ ,>:.. A,. 11.1 SIN, Hlttllilil,
Ml U prevail at Tctoo*li i‘cx-
Jviml liven have been lest.
„ l ln...lmnstcrs of Odessa,
Vo. 1., eii forbidden to teueb.
(S of carlhi|Uako were felt
' ;,t . sit rn France on Tlturs
lackl'urn, Lnglund, 11,000 looms
Hopped, owing to tbs depres
trade.
Il.jnl bridge serosa the Ohio ltlver
r from Cincinnati into Kentucky,
lad Monday for public travel,
furnace of Peacock Jc Thomas nt
t, r I’a., started up Wednesday
), r ilnee months’ suspension.
L Brooks’ Imnk at Lennox, lowa,
ised its doors. No one knows
t,f the altairs of the institution
Protestant Alliance has resolved
tmsly to oppose the government’s
ul to establish a Catholic Univer-
Ireland.
thermometer registered forty-two
fc at St. Paul, Minn., Thursday
ig. A severe frost is reported at
me, Wyoming.
stown, Pa., iron company, at
)\vn, Pa., on Wednesday, an
al all increase in tile wages of pud
imn 811.25 to 85.50 per tou.
1 Scotland will be sworn in as
utenant of Ireland on October
|e will make his stato entry into
by December 3rd.
us floods prevail in the district
ding Tampico, Mexico, Many
t have taken refuge on the high
, their houses being flooded,
[teorge t'nons.of I.ittle Sandusky,
lied on Wednesday of what the
pnm.■but Asiatic cholera. The
them are greatly excited, and
re leaving the village.
Catholic cathedral at Ilurbor
X F . was discovered to be on
jiiav in niing, and was burned to
mill. Tin loss is placed atslso,-
whicli there is no insurance,
ihililivn of Mrs. Maybrick have
optid !'\ a lady and gentleman of
, with the approval of the rela
i both sides of the family. The
i will assume the name of their
arents.
plosion neeurred Thursday in the
in ], it of Maurice Wood Colliery,
Ran, (lermauy, which threatens
us consequences. Two dead
have already been recovered,
vo miners arc entombed,
invention for the improvement
L-rn waterways began its eighth
;at Cincinnati, on Wednesday,
as a very large attendance from
lints Irom New Orleans to Pitts
d Cairo to Davenport. It was
id that fully 150 delegates were
liorth German Gazette maintains
! London strike is closely con
i' iih the Socialist movement, ami
that tlie manifesto calling for a
strike in Loudon was telegraphed
Socialist paper, 1 'all* Tril/une,tviO
fore it was issued in London,
conference of window glass man
tra nnd representatives ot the
■s'Association, at Pittsburg, Pa.,
uesday, the manufacturers offered
iromise hy paying last year’s wa
ns was rejected, and negotiations
r off, and a long nnd determined
s is anticipated.
Anti-Alcohol Congress held at
trance, passed a resolution to the
hat the Governments of the world
ohe asked to pluce prohibition
>n alcohol, and to exempt ten,
etc., from customs dues. Btatis
w 'hat the cousumption of nlco
bled in Franco between 1875 and
in Laird, Norton & Co.’s lumber
t Winona, Minn., on Thursday,
ed 22,000,000 feet of lumber,
00 shingles, a threc-story brick
cse ami contents, consisting of
sash glass, etc., togethor with
tramways nud other property,
“tetal loss of $014,000; iusu
-175.000.
ceting of importers of Flsrida
s was held at New York on Tucs
-Ihe object of the meeting was to
association to unite with the
9 and stop the consignment of
1 mangos to irresponsible parties
merscll legitimate dealers, Rep
tivis were present from Philadel-
Uucillnut h Boston and
“'’Hie, Fla.
Ihst of the bear failures, which
" ex l| ec ted on Wall street, New
o low the recent advance in
"'"lv i, was announced Tues
-1 u*T to n , ho " HS forcvd to
, 18 r. 1!. Musgr&ve, of Mus
' ■ Me was one of the most
•L!:r’r " i ih " •>*<* ex-
Hj s ihi.m,™ n member since
0 ll “ 1,llltu ‘ u re* estimated at
cr stecl"^^ 8 °* the Allegheny
ok to ,u rk, ’ nt I’ittsburg, Pa.,
Btruck strikers last
resents.,] ? lon< | a y against the new
■ linn ntr y 110 firm - 0“ Batur
hv tha 11 SC ' lle to llle em ’
timed L ' < * planco of "hidr the
workers T , rao,U; s’ could be made
:n but tim r lO B r ftle " ns P reß ented
ruck \ i y , J°^ to accept it
• About five hundred men are
I Ark 1 L? bcr ““P™!’ at Little
|iv er 8 l lasscfl ‘“to the hands of
vo nul r K hC^°i n ? l>a "7 own and op
tsl' thouah i' h '' Bdonean immense
V4'SSwi.’S3t
L.I;VS Sm 7 111 “
1 ‘wl! SiiiJ'S"’,
of timber. mUI<!S ttn(l P robabl y 5,000
GAINST THE LABEL.
T ” E
court at
render d’ T- Mond “y' Judge
the como r • declslon to the effect
o“ and,; Cr !r? 'i f the union blbcl
ihed °ThiS I°* be P reven ted or
taskers’ orl V n uffect ‘he
!s and CamTd ULZlitl< ? n ln th e United
usly as n t ? c,aimed - very
'‘abil Uof n ? ally <Stcido3 that
*“* oi to value whatever.
A GOOD REPORT
rttoM n. a. don a co., roavctiisnixa
aouust 81.
Following is a condensation of K. O.
Dun & Company's review of trade forth*
Week ending Saturday, Auguat 31:
’'business in all purts of the country
continue* to improvo with tho atlrn
ulus of largo crop*. Chicago reports an
immense increase in tsio receipts of gruin
aud provisions, with a considerable gain
in the tales of dry goods and clothing.
Milwaukee tiuds trade improving; ut
Dctioit and St. Paul tho previous im
provement is maintained; at Omuiui
business is very good. The iron busines*
is expanding, and at Philadelphia an
improvement is noted in wool, groceries,
irou and steel, and their products, and iu
coal, with a good trade in drugs and
chemicals and tobacco. At boston the
sales of wool uro larger, reuching 8,100,-
000 pounds for the week, and the dry
goods trade is large, with prices well
maintained. A heavy demand for export
is observed in leather, both sole aud
splits, and n good iiymo demand, while
boot and aliou factories arc well employed
at last year's prices, and lurge building
operations make the lumber trade more
nctive. The Tennessee Coal and Iron
company gives notice of an advance of
tweuty-flve cents in its prices for pig
iron, and tho rise in the price of coke at
Pittsburg insures some advance iu pig
iron there, while bar, plate and structu
ral iron are in itrong demand, and tho
worka better employed than they have
been before for several years. An in
crease of wage* is reported at several es
tablishments, and the building of seve
ral more furnaces. Expoits from New
York for four Weeks exceed last year’s
by nearly twenty-two per cent. Stocks
have advanced just $2.50 per share in the
week, and 1,200,000 shares have been
sold already at rising prices. It is an
encouraging fact that the important
failures of recent wee#s have not pro
duced a large crop of minor disasters, by
many apprehended. The voltype of
trade is still much above that of last
year, aud clearings show a gain of 8J
per cent, outside of New York. In the
speculative markets the general tendency
has been toward lower prices, though
wheat advanced on extravagant report*
of shortness in European crops. but
the average of prices for all commodities
is about one per cent, lower than a week
ago, and even in w*heat, later sales indi
cate a declining tendency as in other
grain and provisions, business failures,
occurring throughout the country dicing
the past seven days, ns reported to 11. G.
Dun & Cos., mercantile agency, by tele
graph, number for the United States 180
aud for Canada 22, or a total of 211, as
compared with a total of 200 last week,
and 211 the week previous. For the
corresponding week of last year the fig
ures were 220, made up of 202 failures in
the United States and 24 in the dominion
of Canady
A GREAT STRIKE.
A MONSTER MASS MEETING HELD BT
STRIKERS IS LONDON, ENGLAND.
Two thousand coal heavers and barge
men have joiued the already tremendous
ranks of the strikers at London. Ihe
council of the strikers held a meeting
Saturday evening, and after a long dis
cussion decided to continue the strike.
A monster meeting of strikers was held
In lfyde Park Sunday afternoon. Burns,
the socialist agitator, and other labor
leaders, made speeches. Resolutions
decluripg that the men would continue
the strike until their demands were fully
conceded, were unanimously adopted.
It is estimated that 150,000 persons took
■part in the demonstration. During the
progress of the meeting a collection was
taken up for the benefit of the strikers.
Money wus received in hats and open
parasols, nnd a large sum was obtained.
Five thousand railway men held a meet
ing at Darlington ana decided to strike
unless shorter hours of labor were
granted. Mass fceetings of dock
men and others were held also at South
wark, at which the strikers
voted to firm a separate committee for
south London In order to have a better
voice in the conduct of the strike. In a
icrmon at York, on Sunday,Canon Flem
ing expressed sympathy with tho strik
ers. Meetings of sjmpnthy are being
held throughout the country.
There wus a slight break in the ranks
of tbo employers, at London, Thursday
morning, who arc trying to hold their
own against the strikers. Five wharf
ingers agreed to the men's terms, and
upon their wharves work is now going on
to the full capacity. At the other
wharves the men have congregated in
urge numbers, riady to go to work at a
moment’s uotiee, the wharfingers being,
so it is reported, ready to make terms
with the sirikers. John Burns declares
:h\t tho dockmen have given the dock
companies a crushing blow “between
wind and water." Australia has sent
£4,000 to aid the strikers.
A WILL.
TUBUO AND priVjWb requests by win-
LIAM TnAW, 'iTHfc ifitAD. B'AILROAD KINO.
The will of William Thaw, the dead
millionaire railroaj} king, was probated
at Fittuliurg, P., on Monday. It occu
pies thirty-six pages of foolscap, type
written and was mitdo July 6th of the
present year. His e}ate, except his
coal lands, is divided into sixteen equal
parts. The coal lands are to be held
until all ol his minor children become
of age, when they tiro expected to be
worth $18,000,000. His wife gets three
sixteenths of the estate, his ten children
onc-sixfeeuth each and from the remain
iiig three-sixtecntlis aro to be paid a
large number of public and private be
quests. Among the larger public lega
cies aro as follows: Western University
of Pennsylvania, $100,000; Presbyterian
Board of Homo Missions, $20,000) for
eign $20,000; college board, $->O,WU;
other Presbyterian boards, SBO, UW,
American board, $3,000. The Pittsbnrg
hospitals gets an aggregate of s!oo,uuo,
both Protestant and Catholic instutions
being remembered. All debts of de
pendent friends are cancelled.
OVERCOME BY GAS.
FATAL RESULT OF AN ATTEMPT TO CLEAN
OUT A WELL.
At St. Helena, Cal., on Tuesday, Will
McPike went down into a well to see
about making sorno repairs. He was
overcome by poisonous gas and fell into
the water. Maftm Hickey, a workman,
went to his nsistance, and was also over
come. A third workman, William Da
vis, was lowered into the well, and suc
ceeded in getting a rope around Hickey’s
body, narrowly escaping from being
overcome himself. Hickey and McPike
are dead.
"MY COUNTRY: MAY SUE EVER ME RIGHT; RIGHT OR WRONG, MY COUNTRY F—JurrmiaoH.
COVINGTON. GEORGIA. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18. 188'.).
SOUTHERN NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA
RIOUS POINTS IN TIIU SOUTH.
A (KIN Of NHKD ACCOUNT OF WHAT IS OOIXO ON OF
IHFUBTANCK IN TUB SOUTUKUX STATIIH.
In the criminal court of Birmingham,
Ala., Monday, the cases against John nod
Jule Wyly, charged with complicity in
the llawes murder*, were nol pro.-aed.
There wa* no evidence agamit them.
Cuterpillurs have appeared near Pen
dleton, Audeison county, S. C. A* the
planters of that section have had no pre
vious acquaintance with the pests and
I’uris green, they are very much alarmed.
Dan Lnmnnt, Cleveland’s private sec
retary, lias consented to accept the presi
dency of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and
Hailway company, tlio largest in the
south, ut a salary of ten thousand dollars
a year.
A special from Fort Worth, Texas,
says that the ro-unlon of ex-confedera'c
and federal soldiers begun Thursday.
Thousands of people were present. Theie
was a big barbecue, speech-making, und
remarkable good fooling nil around.
The Ctntrul Kailroud of Georgia and
tho Savannah fast freight line announce
that freight wilt now be carried from
Boston, New York and Philadelphia to
Atlanta, Gn., for 1.08; 80; 80; 00; 55;
40. All these rates include mariuc in
surance.
An incendiary fire was started in the
Palace hotel, at Tokiali, Cal., on Tues
day, destroying it, together with Wells,
Fargo & Co.'s express ofliee, the Western
Union telegraph ofliee, Heed’s theatre
and Odd Fellows hull. The loss will be
very heavy.
At Jacksonville, Ala., there was a un
ique reunion on Saturday last. Colored
men who served in the Confederate army
in various capacities as teamsters,servanis,
cßoks, etc., hud a confederate reunion.
The day was celebrated with a barbecue,
speeches and baseball.
A charter was issued Tuesday to the
Lancaster Manufacturing Company of
Lancaster, S. C. Of the stock, more
than 50 per cent, has been subscribed and
25 per cent, paid in. The company will
manufacture spokes, handles, doors,
sashes, etc., and repair machinery.
The courthouse of Moore county, N.
C., at Carthage, together with all the
couuly records, wus completely destroyed
by tire Thursday. There is a general
belief that tile fire was of incendiary
origin. The loss falls heavily upon the
county, and will, of course, cause litiga
tion.
The damaged leaves of the iron Pal
metto tree, formr g the Mexican monu
ment in the State House yard, at Colurn
bin, S. C., are being taken down, for
shipment to Charleston, where repairs
will be made. The leaves were injured
by the tornado and storms several years
yc ars ago.
Leaf tobacco sales in the Danville,
Va., market, for August, were 2,817,000
pounds. Sales for the first eleven months
of the tobacco year were 27,172,000
pounds. This is a decrease of 2,000,000
pounds as compared with the same pe
riod lust year.
The upper reservoir of the water works
company at Charleston, S. C., gave way
Tuesday, and precipitated about seven
millions gallons of water on tire sur
rounding land. Fortunately tiic east
embankment, which gave way, fronts the
marsh, and hence there was no serious
destruetiou of property or loss of life.
Mrs. Polk, the venerable widow of
President James Iv. Polk, celebrated ber
eighty-sixth birthday on Wednesday, at
Nashville, Term. A number of friends
called upon her 1o renew the assurance
of esteem apd remembrance, nnd greet
one whose existence is a link between a
historic past nnd a stirring present.
One of the largest charters ever grnnled
to auy corporation in the south, was
granted by the superior court of Georgia,
by which the Southern Home Building
and Loan association, of Atlanta, Ga.,
was incorporated, with authority to do
bmiucss in Georgia or any other state.
The authorized capital stock is $20,000,-
000.
On Tuesday the caboose of a freight
train which left Accotink, Va., eighteen
miles from Washington, on the Virginia
railroad, left the track and rolled down
an embankment, instantly killing T. A.
Rainey and Ashton Rainey, brothers, and
well-known cattle raisers of Wnrrenton,
Va. Conductor Faulkner, of Alexan
dria, Va., was seiiously hurt.
The compilation of volumes of war
records, comprising operations about
Cliattunooga and Knoxville, Term., in
cluding the battle of Missionary Ridge,
is progressing rapidly. Two volumes of
tlie Chtckamnueu battle linve bren com
pleted, containing both union and con
federate re | sir Is, and some advance cop
ies will be printed for use at the ap
proaching reun'on of the loclety of army
..f the Cumberland at Chattanooga.
The aelebrated Hickory Level planta
tion, near Albany. On., wus sold Tue -
day at public sale. It was one of the
finest farms of the cotton belt of the
-outh, and has been considered one of
lire best properties in Dougherty county.
Twenty year-* ft/o the property would
have sold for SIOO,OOO easily. The sale
being a forced one, rhe 400 acres brought
only $14,000, and was bought by Mrs.
Joseph Beall, of New York.
KILLED BY THE ELIXIR.
At. OHIO MAN SUBMITS TO AN INJECTION
OF TIIE FLUID AND DIES.
At Dayton, Ohio, Samuel C. Sho
walter, aged sixty-nine, voluntarily
submitted to an injectisn of the
elixir of life three weeks ago, boiling
for relief from rheumatism, and died on
Monday from the effects of the treat
ment. Immediately after the injection
was made, his limbs began to swell an
his whole system was permeated with
blood poison. Gangrene set in in his
body, it being putrid flesh chipped off in
flakes as large as a man’s hand, and he
became a liorriblo object before death
relieved him of his sufferings.
A TOWN DESTROYED.
A (tneeial from Great Falls, Mont.,
B ays: News has just been received that
Barker was almost totally destroyed by
liuraer g re Bttt rted in tha
r<! an? camp three doors below Zeiglcr’s
miners I , there up tlio valley
< ,k i
burning ose d that a man named
ffi’his *ifa and four children lost
their' lives. There are
missing. jj trict tt nd Is about
of Great Palis.
THE CATERPILLAR.
REPORTS OK AGRICULTURAL BUIIEAUI
FROM DIFFERENT STATES. O.
The dreaded catarpillur or boll worm
seems to bo getting iu his work.
A dozen or more counties in Georgia
report the presence of the worm, and in
some the damage lias been great whilo
in others tho crop has been but slightly
injured. In Louisiana complaints of cotton
worms have been general. No damngo
is reported. It is ulmost too late. The
cotton crop is reported extra good. In
Texas caterpillars have appeared in a few
localities, but the crop is generally too
far udvauced to be materially damaged
by them. In a number of counties in
north Texas, however, the boll worm
lias been very destructive, and the yield
cut short. Worms have appeared gen
erally throughout Mississippi. Iu the
northeastern or prairie section great
damage is reported. In the extreme
northern aud si jithern portions they
have appeared only in spot*. There is
yet time for great damage
where poison is not used.
In Alabama the caterpillars are numer
ous all over the state. In the middle
and western part of the state the farmers
are using poison ireely. In north Ala
bama the crop is young, and is being
seriously injured. Not more than
half a crop can be made.
Reports from South Carolina say: Cot
ton caterpillars have appeared in many
portions of the state. Tho injuries aie
not yet very serious, but fears are enter
tained that the loss on the late cotton
crop will be one-half.
A COMPANY. ORGANIZED
TO MANUFACTURE TINE STRAW BAGGING
IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
It was announced in Charleston, §. C.,
on Saturday that a company had been
organized and will at once enter upon the
manufacture of cotton bagging from the
fibre of the pine straw. Tbe factory will
be ouilt at Summerville, twenty-two
miles from thut place. The site is in the
thickest part of the pine forest in the
state. The company have also been of
fered the privilege of gathering pine
straw from a tract of territory covering
thousands of acres, so that the material
for the manufacture of bagging will cost
nothing but the price of collecting and
hauling it. Several bales of cotton cov
ered with pine stiaw bagging were re
ceived at Charleston last year aud sub
jected to the severest test of screw,
hook, fire and water, and stood it even
better than common jute bagging. The
new factory is expected to commence
work 09 soon as the building and ma
chinery are erected.
BLOWN TO ATOMS.
A FATAL ACCIDENT TO A DREDGING CREW
IN THE ST. JOHNS RIVER.
A terrible c xplr sion occurred at the
mouth of the St. Johns river, near Jack
sonville, Fla., on Thursday, by which
two men were killed, and several more
injured. Captain R. G. Ross, in charge
of the government jetty work at St.
Johns bar, has been engaged for several
days, with a crew of twelve men, in
blowing up tlie submerged wreck of the
old Dutch brig Neva, which has for years
obstructed the channel oil Maypott. It
seems that two of the men were solder
ing a twenty-five pound can of dynamite,
when it exploded with a terrific report
and blew botlr men to atoms and terribly
wouuded others. Tho explosion was
heard for miles around, and caused an
upheaval of water and tremor of the
earth.
STATING THEIR WANTS,
THE LEGISLATIVE COMM Ti'Eß’S REPORT
TO TIIE MISSISSIPPI ALLIANCE.
At Jackson, Miss., the committee on
memorials and legislation made llreir re
port to the state alliance Saturday, and
it was adopted. It contains the follow
ing recommendations to the legislature:
That money be appropriated by the state
to encourage foreign immigration; that
so much of convict labor as is necessary
be employed in running a bagging fac
tory as a state enterprise; that railroads,
banks, etc., bo required to pay ad valo
rem instead of a privilege tux; urging &
law establishing a state agricultural bu
reau and providing for the teaching of
agriculture in the public schools; that
the next legislature call a constitutional
conventio" ■ jj ne „f march
cat court house to the Academy
ss without accident,
tent vetraus occupied seats
a F tnd, while the audience was
TA of Georgia’s fairest daugh-
Aiost patriotic sons. Every-
Wd'ui good humor. After music
su'ii. Grier, the soldier preach
his work ol self-destruction by slasmbff
bis forearm with a sharp razor, and then
took a large dose of morphine, and ended
by discharging a revolver into his bruin.
He died almost instantly He was a man
of considerable means, and was largely
interested in the town of Seville, being
heavily invested in her lands, railroads,
water-works, lumber mills and other en
terprises. It is paid that nearly all of his
inheritance has been either lost or tied
up in such a manner that it is unremu
nerative to him, nnd fear that he had in
volved others in his reverses, drove him
to desuerution and suicide.
A COLLISION,
IN Widen SEVEUAL PEOPLE ABE KILLED,
AND OTIIEUS DANGEROUBLT UUnT.
An excursion train to Burlington, lowa,
from the Horse Breeder’s meeting at Rut
land, Vt.,and a stock train bound south,
collided Saturday night four miles north
of Middlcburg. Both engines, one car
and a part of another car of the excur
eion train aud ten or twelve stock cars,
loaded with hogs, were wrecked and
piled in a heap. The dead are: Conduc
tor Hiram Blodgett, of the excursion
train, and one passenger, whoso body is
under the truin, aud cannot lie identified.
The engineers nf both trains were dan
gerously hurt, uu.-l several of the passen
gers on the stock train were seriously in
jured.
William Murtrio Speer, secretary of
the World’s Fair committee at New
York, on Thursday received the follow
ing letter from ex-President Cleveland,
dated at Saranac Inn: “I acknowl
edge the receipt of notice of my ap
pointmint as a member of the com
mittee on permanent organization for the
iatei national exposition of 1882. 1 shall
WASHINGTON, D. 0.
MOVEMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT
AND HIS ADVISERS.
AfTOINTMKNTS, DECISIONS, AND OTIIUII JIA ITIUIS
or I>Ti.iu.si F&oaa TIIE national, catital.
Louis Jnoobs has been appointed dep
uty internal revenue collector at
Charleston, S. C.
bond offerings Tuesday aggregated
$854,100, at 105ij for four aud-a-half per
cent* and 128 for fours; all accepted.
A. P. West was on Tuesday appoioto and
postuias’er of Leesville, Lexington
county, S. C., vice J. P, Ilrodie re
moved.
The official trial trip of the cruiser
Baltimore, built by the Cramps, of Phil
adelphia, lor the goverment, will take
place Tuesday.
The postofliee department is informed
that both the east And \v( at b mnd mail
stages were held up and robbed of All
registered mail matter ntar Atger, Cal ,
on Tuesday night. Inspector Zeboldt
has been authorized to offer a reward' of
$1 ,000 for the apprehension of the
thieves.
President Harriton made but two ap
pointments Monday: George (). Kitten,
of Montana, survcyer-goneral of Mon
tana, and John Little, of Ohio, comuiis
sioier on behalf of the United States in
the Venezuelan claims commission. He
has accepted, and will be in Washington
at a meeting Tmsdny.
The debt statement, issued Monday,
shows the increase of the debt duiiug
August to be $0,076,692 22; increase
since June 31, 1888, $7,084,003.76; t tul
interest bearing debt, $881,600,058.19;
total debt of all kinds $1,645,826,162 80;
total debt less available credits $1,083,-
740,625.24; totul cash in the treasuiy
$633,275,215.83; legal tender notes out
standing $346,681,016; certificates of
deposit outstanding $16,545,000; gold
certificates outstanding $123,393,618;
silver oer lit! in tea $208,580,626: frac
tional currency outstanding $6,915,600,-
146.
A report received on Wednesday at the
bonrd of steam engineering, navy de
partment, from one of the inspectors on
the new cruiser, Charleston, huilt for
the government, states that the horse
power developed by the ship in her re
cent official run will probably not Ire
reported übovc 8,700 by the trial board.
If this be conliimed by the board's official
report the ship will hnve failed to make
the contract requirement of 7,000 horse
power by 300, which will subject her
builders to a penalty of $30,000. The
vessel was built on the plans of the Nan-
Iwskan, English designed, which Lad
about twenty-four trials before she was
accepted.
It is not probable that the war de
partment will take any steps in the mat
ter Ol removing the baud of Apnchco
from Mount Vernon barracks, Alabama.
Secretary Proctor
“There is a mandatory statue providing
for the coLfinmcutyif the Indians at some
government barracks, and there is no
better place than where they ntfw are.”
The Indian Rights association lias made
b propostiou to purchase a largo tract of
land in North Carolina, to which the
Indians could be removed and where they
could live in partial freedom, headed by
that old wornor Geronimo; but the sec
retary is not disposed ro act until he
secs the purchase commented.
FIRST AND LAST.
AN OLD MAN TAKES IIIS FIRST RIDE CN >
RAILROAD AND DlfeS ON BOARD.
Campbell A. Walton rode to his death
on Wednesday, lie was an old man ol
over eighty years, who lived with his
wife near Cattle-ton Springs, in Sumner
county, Tenn., and neither of them had
ever been on a railroad train before.
Wednesday morning they rode ove-r to
Gallatin and got on the train bouud for
Nashville. He was apparently much
excited over his novel journey,
and in half and hour from the
time he started, he suddenly fell dead in
his seat. His death was caused from
heart disease, and primarily by the ex
citement, it is supposed, of his strange
journey.
What a “ Hoodoo ” Is.
A Chicago lawyer lias explained to a
Chicago court that a hoodoo is some-
jg which pursues a man with mis
:uue, much in tbo manner that a
i eelbarrow makes its haunting pres
;e known for a weary while to tho uu
'innate person who lias stumbled over
Dr. C.
who litis
years say:
prescribe*! tho dark. This is not a happy il-
Papillioitnition.
1 lo stumble over a wheelbarrow is
-uses, Kl'hbtiess perplexing, painful, maddon
iuleil toj. But there is nothing weird, un
. any or baleful about such an oxpeii
-1 can ' oe j t j„ B i nl ply a pio oof plain, un
•urc for mislied misfortune which can I e ex-
puiined by the laws of gravity. On tlio
other hand, a hoodoo is something
which shatters natural laws in order to
work harm. A man who has been hoo
dooed finds that all the forces of nature
are in active conspiracy against him. If
lie goes out to bonow money his pocket
w ill be picked and none of his friends
will lend him a cent. If lie goes on a
journey the railroad train will run off
the track. If ho rides on a cable ear lie
will get stuck in the tunnel, ln awt rd,
lie is hoodooed.
Some poople would call the outward
manifestation of a hoodoo more lad
luck. But the adept in hoodoos can
observe an important distinction be
tween tlio two. Tlio spell of the hoodoo
must be broken by an incantation while
had luck will simply wear itse f out.
There are two excellent preventives
for hoodoos. Ouo is to got a mascot
and the other is to decline to be hoo
dooed.—[Chicago News.
Natural gas has lieon discovered in
Rononra County, Cal., and in view ol
this cheap fuel the people of San Fran
cisco see “in their mind’s eye” that
city developing into a great manufactur
ing centre. The San Francisco Chron
icle says that if there is abundance of
the gas the fact "means moro to San
Francisco than half a dozen new trans
continental railroads.”
The Sunday closing movement is
spreading from trade to trade in Phila
delphia. From the barbers and the
laundrymen it lias now extended to the
bakers, most of whom now do consider
able work upon Sunday. The bakerj
have determined to appeal to the Legis
lature of Pennsylvania to pass a law
prohibiting the opening of bakeries on
Sunday,
THE VOYAOE TO Li MliElll.AND.
She sails away on the sen of dream*,
This little skip|H-r with eyes of Brown.
As the firefly's torch in the twilight gleams,
And the garnish sun goc-s down;
Her bark flout* over tile grimy town
To Hlumborland anil its silver sen;
The spotless folds of her shimiier gown
Are no whit fairer than she.
There are angel birds In the warm, still air,
And the skipper laughs with her eyes of
browu,
As they sing to her old songs, sweet end rare,
Whilo her bark billows up and down.
They sing of a prince of high renown,
And a princess ever so young and fair;
But where is the princess had over a crown
Like the crown of her soft brown hair?
Cometh a storm over the silvery sea,
That ebbs on therflreamer's land,
And the angel birds fade out to the lee
Of this singular slumber strand;
Is there a harbor by angels planned,
From all storms, whatever they be,
From the wicked furies of Slumberland
And the waves iu its silvery sea?
Up, like a flash, comes the little brown head,
And the brown eyes only see
A billowy blanket of silk outspread
On an ocean of dimity;
But it’s fearlessly the skipper will flee,
With a soft little barefoot tread,
By tiie chart she learned on her bended knee,
To the haven of mother's bed.
— J. P. Bocock.in Boston Globe.
MRS. GREY’S METHODS.
BY MBS. M. A. DENNISON.
You don’t believe Mrs Grey is a Chris
tian. lam sorry to hear yon speak in
that manner of so estimable a woman.”
“Perhaps I should net have spoken so
decidedly, but I think I have good
reasons for what I said.”
“but you certainly overlook the fact
of her usefulness iu the church. Nobody
gives more liberally than she does. Only
last Sabbath, remember, she subscribed
fifty dollars toward our minister's salary
—and in times of conference nobody en
tertains more liberally than she. I think
she's a perfect prodigy of benevolence.”
“I dare say in such matters her lib
erality is unstinted; but I was not think
ing of that. She is rich, I suppose—l
know she has kept that large store on
Marshall street for a great many years.
Suppose we call there—it is on our way.”
The two friends, a Mrs. Abdy and Mrs.
Browu, walked on together until they
came to an imposing store, where on one
sidn every conceivable kind of fancy
work was for sale, and on the other chil
dren’s garments, chiefly for boys—coats,
pants and caps—a large and costly va
riety. Mrs. Abdy aud Mrs. Brown qui
etly stood on one side, for there were
several women at the latter counter—not
customers, it was evident, tor they were
pale faced and shabbily dressed. A
showy looking girl with red ribbons in
her hair stood behind the counter, pick
ing out sorted bundles and passing them
over to these women.
“Mrs. Grey says yon must take the
last batch home and make the button
holes over—she won't have such work,”
said the girl approaching a tidy-looking
woman who turned a shade pale at (he
asperity and supercilious manner of the
girl.
“I thought they were done as good as
usual,” said the woman with a tremulous
lip, “but perhaps not. Mary was very
sick, you see, and she always makes the
button-holes—she’s sick now. Wouldn’t
they possibly do?”
Mrs. Brown stepped forward and
caught a sight of the button-holes. They
were good, as neatly made as she would
have wished, were the suit made for her
boy.
“No, they won’t do,” said the girl
sharply, pushiug the articles toward her.
“You can leave them—but you know
Mrs. Grey’s rule—not one cent unless the
whole is done to suit her.”
“And I only get fifteen cents for the
whole,” murmured the woman with a
despairing look.”
“I’m sure the button-holes are very
neatly done,” said Mrs. Brown, hoping
that a word from her would have the
desired effect, “they would suit me, and
I am quite particular.”
“They wouldn’t suit a majority of Mrs.
Grey.'s customers,” said the girl with an
insolent side look at the impertinent
stranger as she considered her, “and this
woman is none too particular at any time.
She often has to carry her work back,
and I'd advise her to get anew pair of
spectacles if she can't see better."
“Dear Lord!” groaned the woman,
turning away, a heart-broken expression
darkening her pale, pinched features—
shrinking almost from sight in her morti
fication and despair; she who had silver
threads shining amidst the daik gleam of
her locks—she with all the rich exper-
ience of maternity—with all the heavy
care of the world’s neglect wid poverty
with all the scars of a hard, long fight
with temptation, privation, disease and
sorrow upon her, flippantly shamed by n
pert, mindless, brazen girl of seventeen.
Mrs. Brown’s cheek was scarlet —but the
poor woman had crow ded out and others
had crowded in.
A good-looking, coarse woman threw
down a bundle; it was examined nnd
passed. The girl took from a small box
one piece of money and handed it to her.
The woman stared at it, rubbed her eyes
—looked with a puzzled face at the girl,
aud then exclaimed:
“Why don’t you give me the rest of
the money?”
“That’s all that's due," said the girl,
“make room.”
“But I tell you there were five shirts
at twenty-five cents apiece.”
“And I tell you tboy were only five
cents apiece,” was the frowning reply,
“pretty profit we should make to give
twenty-five cents for those little things.”
“You deceived me, then," cried the
woman, her anger rising, “for I distinctly
asked you if they were twenty-five cents
apiece, and you said yes. Why there are
four rows of stitching in the bosom.”
“Won’t you please to make room?”
asked the girl, impatiently.
“Not till I tell you what I think of
you,” cried the woman, “for you are a liar
and a cheat. Thank God, I’m not de
pendent upon your work for my living,
and I pity them that are, that’s all. You
may cheat the poor widow and the
orphan, but you won’t cheat me again.
The girl only curled her lips, for u
pale, pinched woman who had been
waiting some time now eagerly crowded
up to the counter,
“Oh, please put mo In her place, I’ll
bo glad to work for anything if only I
can get it todo.” She choked down the
tears and absolutely trembled in her
eagerness (and her hunger I have no
doubt) from head to foot.
“Oh yes, you chii have it—wo can get
plenty to take them at thut price and
thunk us iu tho bargain,” said the girl,
heartlessly, pulling down another bundle.
Mrs. Abdy now inquired for Mrs. Grey,
and was ushered into the show-room,
where u portly woman stepped forward
much surprised and pleased—and learn
ing that they had romc for a cull she im
mediately ushered them by means of a
stairway into her private parlor, a splendid
room furnished with every luxury tho
heart could desire.
“And how are you, Mrs. Abdy—and
you Mrs. Brown? It’s a great while since
I have seen you in n church, isn’t it?”
“My children lmvc all been ill,” re
plied Mrs. brown, quietly.
“Oh! I thought something must be the
matter. If you are anything like me—l
never let trifles interfere with my church
duties. I believe I have been when oth
ers would have wrapped themselves iu
flannels aud gone to lied—l have that
much affection for the courts of the
Lord’s house. And what a heavenly ser
mon wo had lost Sabbath, Mrs. Abdy.
1 have thought of it all the week. Ido
think wo ought to be thankful to the
Lord for sendiug us Brother Drewson.
His words arc indeed sharp as a two
edged sword.”
During a confidential tete-a-tete, Mrs.
brown managed to give a hint at wlmt
she thought the wholesale im|>ertinenec
of the girl in the shop toward the work
people.
“Oh, Delia’s sharp,” said Mrs. Grey,
with a gratified little laugh, “that's why
I keep her. Do you know I pay her ex
tra for thut very quality? I assure you
it’s the most terrible thing to deal with
these shop women. They shirk and sham,
and tell all manner of lies to get excused,
and do their work abominably at the best.
You’ve no idea what it trying business it
is on that account. If it didn’t pay me
pretty well,” she added, complacently,
“I’d give it up to-morrow, but Delia,
dear me, she’s a perfect treasure—knows
just how to deal with that sort of people.
You see there's no getting along with
them I assure you, unless you’re right up
aud down with them.”
Sirs, brown's heart ached as .she
thought of the neat,gravc-iooking woman
with her quivering lip and silvery hair,
stabbed to the very quick by that coarse,
unfeeling creature behind the counter.
“Is this girl—a—professor of religion ?”
asked Sirs. Brown, with some hesitation.
“Why, no,” replied Mrs. Grey, turn
ing red; that’s all I have to try me. Delia
is honest and all that, but I don’t think
she has found a hope. She is with me
now, however, altogether, and I trust
thut I may lie the means of her salvation.
Do ytMa lMxiiuro lirothpr will get
well?” she queried, shrewdly changing
the subject.
“Now what do you think of Mrs.
Grey?” asked Mrs. Brown, as the two
friends gained the street.
“I’m afraid she is sacrificing he rrcligion
on the shrine of Mammon,” was the re
ply. “I have always thought so very
highly of her, I can’t bear to change my
opinion. Still I have seen with my own
eyes and heard with my ears what I would
not have believed as hearsay.”
“One of our church poor lives here,”
said Mrs. Brown, as they turned into a
lonesome street lined with poor houses
that were filled with poor tenants—“shall
we call upon her?” Mrs. Abdy signified
that it would be pleasing to her, and they
entered the creaking door of one of the
tallest houses, where, after toiling up
three pair of wretched stair: they came
to a room in which a thin, pallid woman
sat, making caps at the rate of sixpence.
She arose with a smile, extended her
thin hand, chocked down a hard, dry
cough as she asked them to be seated,
and to excuse her as she must go on with
her work, “for you see, I promised them
at five this afternoon, and I work for
Mrs. Grey, of our church. She’s a good
woman, I’ve no doubt —-only she don’t
know by experience what the poor have
to suffer, and that, perhaps, makes her
hard on us. But she pays mo a little
more than she does the others.”
“That’s a sad ease in the other room,”
she went on,“a dreadful sad case. It’s a
Mrs. Acton, a widow woman, as good a
soul as ever I knew, and she’s a poor
consumptive girl to support. Maria
works in spite of her weakness all she
can; but this week she couldn’t seem to
get up strength. So Mrs. Aetou sue had
some nice work and had to make the
button-holes herself. She’s been longer
than usual about it too, and I daresay ac
tually wants the money to buy bread. I
went in to stay with Maria while she was
gone and the poor soul came back com
pletely crushed. She threw the work
down aud burst into tears. Maria was
frightened, and when her mother told
her that the button holes would all have
to be picked out, it threw her into such
a fit of trembling and coughing that she
burst a blood vessel and now I suppose
the poor thing is barely alive. Mrs.
Grey’s a very hard woman sometimes, but
I don’t know as she would be if she knew
the circumstances —I hope not.”
Mrs. Abdy and Mrs. Brown exchanged
glances.
“If I was only able to do them button
holes,” said the poor spinster, hurrying
her own work, “but by the time I’ve
done with these, my eyes’ll just be good
for nothing.”
“Suppose we call upon this poor wid
ow,” said Mrs. Brown, wiping the tears
from her eyes.
“She’d take it kindly, I’m sure, re
plied the poor sister, into whose hand
I Mrs. Abdy slipped something as they
parted,-well rewarded by the quick look
of gratitude that flushed the woman s
attenuated features.
Knocking at a crazy door, the two
were admitted into a darkened room,
destitute of carpet, almost of any kind of
furniture save a large bedstead, on whose
tliiu mattress laid a form that seemed al
ready prepared for the grave.
“My poor child,” whispered the
erieved mother, as they went forward to
look at the sleeping girl, “the doctor
says she can’t hist long. ~
“I saw you in Mrs. Grey s shop, whis
pered Mrs. Brown. The woman started
a rc d shame painted her cheeks for a
moment. , „„ , . . ...
“O! did you, maarn?” she cried, bit
incr her lips'; “did i’ oa bear how * hat
o-irl spoke to me? and I have been m bet
ter circumstances. While my husband
lived I had plenty— while my parents
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lived I had everything. O! it is bitter!"
she struggled against the tears, but the]
would come; she hid her face in hei
hands.
“Givo me your work,” said Mrs.
Brown gently, os soon us she could speak.
“I will pay you now—take it home and
make the button-holes myself, anil then
see Mrs. Grey about it. lam well
acquainted with her,aud when she under
stands the ease I think it will be less
hard for you. Here is my card—send
somebody to my house to-night—l lmvo
some little delicacies which I keep fortha
sick.”
“God bless you, madam—God bless—
you—and I know He will,” cried the
grateful woman. “I said a dreadful
thiug in my heart when I left Mrs.
Grey's, but indeed I don't want to feel se
even toward my oppressors. I trust Ha
will forgive me and o(en her eyes and
touch her worldly heart.”
Mrs. brown called upon Mrs. Grey
according to promise. She listened
coldly, and promised coldly to do what
she could—but oh! ils the poor widow
had said—in spite of her profession —hei
charities—her gifts to those who needed
not—oh! that worldly heart! how it stood
in the way of many a peer soul’s wel
fare!
Strangely indeed upon the ears of such
must fall the words of our Lord: “Pure
religion aud undefiled before God and
the Father, is to visit the orphan and th
widow in their affliction and to keep him
self unspotted from the world.”— Yanka
Blade.
A Monarch of the Air.
Tire king bird is a monarch of the air
Small of form and swift of flight, he
ruffles up his feathers and attacks the
mighty hawk with as little fear as he
would a harmless robiu. He sounds his
warning rattle its he swoops toward some
feathered rival, and twists and turns,
driving his strong bill into some vulnera
ble part, and keeping up the warfare
until he tires of it. Near Spruce cabin
a big speckled hen is busy with a chirp
ing brood of little chickens. The mother
has a vagrant spirit, and persists in roam-.
iug out of the barnyard and wandering
in the outlaying fields with her fluttering
family. A few days ago a hawk came
down from the peak of Goose Fond Moun
tain, and swooping upon one of the little
chicks rose into the air with it, leaving
the old hen iu n state of squawking ter
ror. The hawk, to show its fearlessness,
flew with great deliberation toward a big
oak, with the evident intention of de
vouring its prey upon the stalwart
branches. A dark sjreck came out of the
tree, and with many a dart and curve
rose high in the air.
The hawk recognized it as the king
bird, about the only bird that is capable
of filling him with fear, and making him
swerve from his course and halt in his
masterful flight. He showed his fear by
increasing his speed and turning about
as tnougn ro retreat, mo i-—i..~i
pursued iris upward flight until he could
look down upon the broad back of the
hawk, and then, like un arrow from its
bow, he shot down and lit upon it—a
fluttering bit of concentrated rage. The
hawk darted, poised and swooped, but
that mite upon him clung, jabbing its
bill again and again into the tender flesh
near its wings. The pain was too great
to bear, and so he folded his powerful
wings and dropped like a shot toward the
earth. But tlie king bird was not yet
weary, and he swiftly followed, fighting
all the time like a demon. The old hen
had been an interested spectator of the
fight, and when she saw the hawk de
scend she spread out her wings and flew
heavily toward him to fight him away
from her young. But the hawk was too
wary to permit her to reach him, and be
fore he had dropped within the range of
her power of flight he spread out his
wings again and shot upward.
The chicken which he still held in his
claws, small as it was, hampered him a
trifle, and he dropped it when near the
earth and devoted all his attention to
ridding himself of the little tormentor
that was still fighting him with claws
and beak. He sped away to his moun
tain home, and was nearly there before
the king bird ceased his attack. The old
lien ran with many an encouraging cackle
to its injured little one that was lying, a
downy ball, upon the spot where the
hawk had dropped it. It was still alive,
but it died the next day from the wounds
iu its back made by the hawk s claws. ■
New Tork Sun.
Tricks of Lightning Sketch Artists
In the illustration of his lectures bj
the drawing of rapid caricatures on the
stage, Thomas Nast, the cartoonist, is
suiu to resort to one of those helpful
tricks which every artist who attempts
this sort of “lightning” sketch business
before audiences finds it nefiessary to
make use of. No man, however practi
cal and expert, can be sufficiently sure of
his nerve and skill under such circum
stances to rely wholly upon them,
and thus he is compelled to resort to
some little harmless deception. The im
portant lines in cartoons so executed Mr.
Nust has pricked out beforehand with
pin holes invisible to the spectators, and
by these his chalk is guided. Others
lightly sketch their outlines with a solu
tion of gum-ar ibic, which is made visi
ble to the artist by the reflection of th
glare of the footlights. The most com
mon way, however, is to do the
tracing with a mixture of soapsuds
and Canada balsam, with a drop
or two of some fixed oil. This
leaves an invisible but sticky line. When
the artist goes to work before the audi
ence he holds in his hand a rag on which
crayon-dust has been rubbed. This dusl
catches on the outline, and really make!
the mark that is apparently produced by
the stick of crayon held in the fingers.—
Picayune.
A Ground-Hog Boy.
Dekalb County, Ala., has a genuine
curiosity in the person of a ground-hog
boy. He is fourteen years old, and lives
near Fort Payne. He has a head, hands
and feet similar to a ground-hog, and can
not talk, but grunts instead. The boy’s
nature is lazy, and his parents are very
poor but refuse to allow him to be pul
on the road as a curiosity. Handsome
offers have been made his parents for n
contract to take him on the road, and
they may agree to the considerations.-
Courier-Journal.
One of the principal operations dur
ing the British naval maneuvers is to b
&n attempted forcing of the Straits ol
Gibraltar. - -