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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 NUMBER 47. 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. - -