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The Georgia Enterprise.
VOLUME xxv.
There are altogether about 17,000
Arabs in this country, and not ten per
tent. of them have a settled home or any
1 —
ut ber means of sup[H.rt than peddling.
It is said that the British Government
lias re fused to allow the Pacific squadron
to interfere in the Behring Sea difficulty.
Canada, it says, must settle the difficulty
herself. The evident intention of the
home Government is to throw the colony
on its own resources.
The announcement that . iV the „ tinned .. ,
Stati contains more crematories than *1
the rest of the world does not mean that
cren ati0 ' „ in this country * is superseding 1
burial 1 , cere are only about fifty ere
matories extant, all told, of which the
l nited States is said to have over thirty,
so that many years ; are likely to elapse . _
before the gravedigger loses his occtipa
bon.
Canon Farrar’s visit to this country a
fe,v years ago apparently impressed him
pleasantly, since he has sent his son here
to coin plete his education. The young
man. who is said not to resemble the
typical Englishman in appearance, will
take a scientific course at Lehigh Univer
sity. ami will afterward take his degree
of civil engineer at the Rensselaer Poly¬
technic Institute of Troy, New York.
Four Mandara natives are about to ap
pear at the German Court tvs Ambassadors
from their African Sultan, who are said
to he marvels of intelligence, and with
a moral standard extraordinarily high.
Though they will dress ill their own cos¬
tume, the etiquette of the German court
cannot he foregone, and so the regular
dress coat will be worn over the African
costume.
The people of the United States lose
millions of dollars yearly by the destruc¬
tion by fire of flinisily constructed build
ings. Moreover they pay out hundreds
of thousands of dollars in the support of
fire departments. Fire and Water states
also that the value of the fire apparatus
and the building devoted exclusively to
purposes of fire protection amounts to
the large sum of $38,644,755.
The editor of the Popular Science
Monthly, in considering the idea of CO'
operative management of all industries,
remarks: “Society is becoming every
day more closely knit in the bonds of a
common sympathy; the self-respect of the
average man is daily increasing and pub¬
lic opinion is becoming at once more
national and more humane. What nvc
Biave chiefly to contend with to-dav is
fcot the idleness or extravagance of a
Iftnv. hut a general lack of knowledge
F° the best methods of social co-opera
[tion.”
| Edmund Yates writes to the New
r ork Tribune that French sentiment is
HOW nearly extinct in Alsace, But in
ffiorraine everything is different; the
hauple still detest the Germans in their
peart and do everything in their power
t« disconcert them. “Metz is as French
p city as Orleans or Rouen, in spite of
[the desperate efforts of the German
authorities t0 convert its inhabitants.
,
. er .'thing is stagnant there, and there
Fe whole streets of empty houses, for all
Re French who were able to leave have
| Qe ‘ an< ^ ^ ,e on ly Germans who settle
[wiere are officials. The officers of the
ar,J1 cann ot help themselves.
*
At a dinner not long ago, Wilki%Col
litis related i instances proving how irn
possible it "'as to introduce into novel
a
descriptions of places and things wholly
imaginary. i n one of his works he de
scribed a hou which he had
and which never seen
d was entirely the offspring of
bis imagination, A few
publication days after the
[protest 11 In aii called upon him to
upon the introduction of his house
mto m novel, Strange
pf the to say the pages
novel contained a perfect descrip
Wn ihe man’s
uae be property. At another
u se( j a - one of his characters a
w who "a- so exact about his
tit he cat III
’ weighed every morsel that en
hj s stomach, Mr. Collins had iu
fytever heard of such a man. lie
fc'as rte at | ysuprised
f/’Pearance one week after the
of his book bv the visit of
SifiiQo-^ au
r h j- who wished to know
at right M * by
r , nllins made him ridicu
s ln print by
Hilarities. v mentioning one of his pe
! Professor v « ov -baler, , of Harvard,
P* iteglecte-j a caret i C ° Mlderat,on
of the much
:r , i,10a
in this ° f the common toads
^ti„nT co n T y "har ; makes \ the f o«owi ing sug
P** suggest W0Ulfl ‘ n the first
Nntof ‘ ln 'be Federal Depart
w , I’r
-.
Nttmand ds > having at his
.
pri4ta «publicToc^ accounts t0prepareand of the
Ke«r ,r< ” d ’” Sa in ,h >- country,
of then con
j nave should likewise
a iommi ss io
£ ^'v ner °f public
should be to advance ways,
t class of questions i iu educa- every
manner, ■ *° the
taaatv road . town and
tamissioners .
3eired to report, should be re
instructed He should cause to be
a “»P showing the
condition of 311 location
«te. These tne roadways in the
he * their Waysbe sbou ld classify
as
" K Wa 'low- ltl0n ' ° ur country
pay in J* f
7 exee«,i ve t0 ° th "r ways,
Without ’ S nerauon after ;
lea J appreciating geu
which res Msta upon them." the bur-
THE GOOD OLD TIMES. !
In the good old tunes, through the dewy vale
Themilk-maid came tripping home,
With a merry song and a bright tin pail
All dripping with snowy foam.
But the slow boy now, with sleepy eye
Goes late in the shade of the trees,
And leans his head on the old row’s thigh,
With the buckets between his knees.
Oh, the good old times of the early birds,
The plashing churn, and the squeaking curds!
. In the good oU
tunes, rosy Ruth in the field
Drank butter-milk out of a jug;
But now If 1 * PauHn0 - in *h® parlor con-1
cealed, .
Kunk <i "”P >n a chair all cushioned and
wheeled,
W,th berin ^’ aDd her j
cochmealed
Is making darned dogs on a rug.
Oh, the good old times of the scythe’s keen
>iug,
And the ing; purple flash of the barn-swallows |
"
j i. n the .. g0 ' Kl , old ,,, tunes hy the wide Chimney
;
l,ack , ’
All the children w ith the faces aglow,
_.. Their nutaand , their . jokes , delighted
to crack,
Aud their lips over yards of candy to smack.
. While they laughed at the wind and the
| snow. |
But now they, alas, can chatter and play
1 T In bright . semi-circles . no
more;
u leezing and thawing by night and by |
‘ky- I
And shoving and crowding each other away, I
Huddled round a warm hole in the floor.
Oh, the good old times of simple contents,
Of the back-log fires, and the common sense!
In the good old times ere the (lav begun.
The mother was up with the bird;
And all day long, till the set of sun,
She wove at the loom oa the soft yarn spun,
And of all her cares left nothing undone,
And never a murmuring word.
Oh, the good old times of the home-made
wares,
Of the pewter plates and the straight-back
chairs.
la the good old times the father prayed
For grace at his daily board:
Although by his plow, and his hoe, and his
spade,
It seemed that himself by his own labor
made
The ripe corn grow from the tender blade.
And his barn with abundance stored.
But now, who doth care grateful hands to
upraise
R bile he thinks he is blessing himself ? |
As graceless he feels on the bounties of giace
And breathes not a thank noi a w ispei o
praise.
Believing no ways are above his ways,
Ami heaven on the pantry shelf.
nh UU, Ah* the good old a times, and _ « xv the thanks ^ that . I
were said
For the honest flutter, and the warm brown
bread!
— Rev, John B. L. Soull.
THE OLD STOVE.
“Nancy 1” said Mr. Moppet.
“Sir?” responded Nancy.
Mr. Moppet was corniug in from the
garden path. Nancy, with plump white
arms bared to the elbow, was washing the
breakfast dishes in a deep pan of hot
soapsuds.
Mr. Moppet was a hard featured elder
ly man, with whitish blue eyes, a strag
gly fringe of white beard beneath his
square cliin, and a bald cranium. Nancy
was fresh colored and bright eyed, with
silky tendrils of auburn hair drooping
over her freckled forehead, and a certain
dimple perpetually playing ‘ at hide-and
seek on her left cheek. The two com
“Crabbed Age and Youth.”
“Ima-gom to town,- said Mr. Mop
pet. “You won’t need to bile no pot
victuals for dinner. Waste makes want,
A cup o’tea and a biled egg and what’s
left o’ yesterday’s pork and greens—
tbat’ll be all you need.”
“Yes, father, acquieseed Nancy.
She was thinkingof something else all
the while.
“And, talkin’ ’bout eggs,” added Mr.
Moppet, “you may take four dozen up to
Peach Farm. Mrs. Wixon wants plenty
on ’em to make cake for her niece's party.
Better go early this morning’.”
Nancy colored scarlet under the auburn
rings of hair.
“Can’t I send ’em up by little Bill
Becker, father?” said she. “Webster
Wixon will be there, and-and 1 don’t
'' eb3terWlxc [ n ’,^ rlth hl3 red nose
and iml his compliments.
Mr. Moppet frowned.
“Nancy,” said he. “don’t be a fool. I
can see through ye, like ye was a pane o’
glass. Webster Wixon s a well-to-do
man, with money out at interest, and
you’d oughter ® be tickled to death that
he’s took a notion to you.”
“But, father—”
“Not another word,” grumbled Mr.
Moppet. “I know jest exactly what’s
cornin’. It’s that foolish nonsense about
Absalom Parker, that I hoped you’d got,
over long ago. Absalom hain’t no prop
erty, and ain’t like to have none, and no
daughter o’ mine ain’t goin’ to marry
your Grandfather Atkins's hired man,not
if I know it.”
He paused, with this multiplicity of
double negatives. Nancy set her small,
pearl-white teeth together ; her eyes
flashed with hazel fire. It was a clear
case of true love versus money.
it Take them eggs straight up to Peach
Farm, ” reiterated Mr. Moppet, shaking
bis forefinger at Nancy, “an’ don’t ar¬
gufy the p’nt no further, I’m your
father, and I know what's best for you!”
it But your going right past the Wix
ons’ door. n
H No, I ain't, neither. I’m goin’the
Horn Hill Road. I've been app’inted
bv the Supply Committee to buy an air
tight wood stove for the church,” he
a/filed with some complacency. “ The
*1.1 one’s rusted clear out, so there's
danger o’ fire every time its used, and
the brethren have subscribed twenty
dollars for a new one-leastways, a
second-hand one, if its jest as good. ”
’ J
Webster Wixon fat, m.adlraag 1
a „
bachelor, was out helping to gather he
October apples on the north side of the
hartT uasie to to welcome welcome C Ver' hei. UC '
“Good mornin , Miss Ixancy, .
. . As bloomin’ as ever, I see.
“Here’s your eggs, »» spoke Nancy,
curtly.
“Set down a spell, won’t ye?” sim
ered Mr. Wixon.
“I’m in a hurry,” said Nancy.
“But, N»ncy——”
“MT COUNTRY : MAY SHE EVER RE RIG ST; SIGHT OR WRONG, MY COUNTRY /"-Jefferson.
‘
j^y 1 Te name £ ot something s Miss Moppet, very particular sir?” to
to you, Nancy,” urged the
“It li have to keep,” said Nancy. “I’ve
ot g* 1 right home. ”
'Can t I walk with you a piece?”
‘Id rather go alone,” she persisted.
“Nancy — Miss Moppet — I must
buirted out the old bachelor,
^ lote you bettern all the world! I
to make you Mrs. Webster Wixon'
that’s what l had on my mind!
your good father, he says it woiAd
him exactly, and-”
Nancy wheeled around and faced her
swain.
“Isit me, orfathcr,you rea-eourting?”
* be '
“Why you, of # course!”
“Then take my answer—No!”
And without waiting for the return of
basket, she hurried away, her cheeks
iter breath coming quick and
“Father’ll be awful mad,’’she thought,
I’d sooner die than marry that
Webster Wixon stood a minute gazing
her in crestfallen silence; then he
back to apple harvesting with ail
compression of his lips.
“The madder she gets the prettier she
thought he. “Well, well, time
show. Brother Moppet says she
be my wife, and that ought to count
consid’able.”
Mr. Moppet drove leisurely ou to Horn
drove an excellent bargain for a
ornamental wood-stove, after hav¬
successively interviewed every hard¬
dealer in town, and set forth to re¬
with it in liif wagon just at dusk.
“It’s a warm day for the time o’ year,”
he, “and it’s easier traveling for the
arter dark. It ain’t a bad day’s
come to think on’t. I beat Brother
down pretty well on the price, ana
worth a dollar’n half to cart the
home over these bumpy roads.
twentv dollars for it, and I
'
it for fifteen. Takin’ my time and
wear and horseflesh into considers
I guess I won’t sav nothin’
odd five dollars. Business is busi
It’s a proper ' pretty pattern, 1 too
leaves and acorns, .n
same fashion in my best room, and”
a long whistle—“why shouldn’t I
it? There’s that second handed
Gran’ther Atkins took for a debt
Solon Grubb. It’s jest standin’
y n ’ awa y j rl fils back wood shed. I’ll
jt home to-moi row and black it up,
let E lder Mea f a “ su PP ose ,Ig ot a
from f somebody; and T 111 have
nice new stove for mvsejf, aud
. 11 be the now that , .
none wiser,
Atkins is confined to his bed
creepin’ paralysis and Absalom
up in the wood lots, choppin’
trees for winter firewood, It’s a
idee. I’m glad I happened to think
it 1 ' ”
1T He drew , opposite .. the ., Atkins .
rein
All , „ dark , , and , quiet ■ , there ,,
was
.. red , light that burned ■ old ,,
tne one in
Atkins s bed-room.
At ., that ,, identical moment, , , had , , he , but ,
it, Absalom Parker—the old man’s
factotum—was hanging over the
gate of his own place, talking to
Nancy among the purple dahlias
quilled asters.
And it was no difficult task for a man
John Moppet’s physical strength skill
to lift the old stove out of its place
the outer shed into his wagon.
“Git un Priuce,” he muttered to his
shaking the reins, and awav thev
' '
Elder Meachan was not quite satisfied
would have preferred a had new a *»ve,
the money they spent;
Brother Moppet was a man in author
and they were compelled to acquiesce
his choice.
Nancy was delighted with the new
for the best room.
“Oil, isn’t it pretty?” said she.
“Yes,” nodded Mr. Moppet, rubbing
hands, “it’ll sort o’ dress up the
for your weddin’.”
“My wedding?”
“Jest so. I’ve arranged matters with
Wixon, and-”
Nancy burst into tears, and ran out of
room,
3Ir. Moppet glared balefully after her.
“She shall marry him,” muttered he,
she shall be no darter o’ mine! I
be set at defiance by— Why,
Absalom Parker, what brings you
“Mr, Atkins . took this after
is wus
said Absalom, standing at the
like a rustic Apollo.
see ye—right off! As Mr.
It was a Saturday afternoon.
drove by the church door, be
the i load x of c wood being delivered frxv for
first fire of the season
•Jest in time, said he to hrniseif.
a frosty feel in the air.
Grandfather Atkins lay among his pil
like a wrinkled ghost,
“John,” said he, “all I’ve got in the
is yours; but I think I’d ought to
you where I’ve hid it, sence the bank
give me such a scare.
“Certainly, certainly 1" said his son-in
law, with eager eyes, like those of a bird
of prey.
hid it ,
“I’ve away r
John Moppet placed his ear close to
the pallid five-hundred-dollar lips. bills-’
“Six
“Yes, ves—go on!”
“Folded up in an old number of the
Horn Hill Gazette -”
“An old number of the Horn Hill
Gazette _I understand!” repeated Mop
pet. the old stove out in the shed
“In
gasped the old man. I kn0 '' ea
body wouldn’t be likely to look there
It’s yours, John Moppet-every cent of _
it. And mind you, don’t spend it in no
extravagance!” the oid , ciosed t s
So speaking, and went where miser there is neither
dim eyes
money nor counting of money.
John Moppet uttered an exceedtng t
( Cr cry as be remembered the lighted
,„ateh‘he had put to the crumpled draught papers
make sure of a
“ pin the northwest cor
^ be °“Cch-the „ roar of the blaze In
through the lengths of Russian pipe.
lVta excellent management he had con
to overre aeh himself.
He went home and sat all the evening
sort of stupor, with his head in his
in a
, \'a"ncv ndc about her household
■' busied hazel
“ watched him with eyes
surprise.
"I didn’t know he thought so much of
Gran’ther Atkins,” pondered she.
“Six times five is thirty—six times five
is thirty,” mused Mr. Moppet, rocking
to and fro. “Six five-hundred-dollar
j bills! Three—thousand—dollars—and
gone up chimblv in one breath o’
wind, and me as done it! I shall go
crazy. I shall lose my mind. Three_
thou—sand—dollars! It’s a udgment
, on me. I’ve been a mis’able sinner, and
j cheated the church. I’ve tampered with
my own conscience. Six times five is
thirty! Six live-hundred-dollar bills'
; Ob, Lord, there ain't no calculatin' what
; a mis'able sinner I’ve been!”
As the old kitchen clock struck nine,
Absalom Parker came in, bringin«- with
him a gust of fresh, frosty air.
“Evenin’, Squire” said he. “I’m
| sort o’looking up the watchers. ’Spose
1 you'd like tu be one of ’em? But I’d
like to speak a word to you first.”
“If It’s about Nancy, it ain’t no use,”
I said Mr. Moppert, rousing himself to the
affairs ot the world with some petulance.
“It ain’t about Nancy,” Absalom an¬
swered, with a smile. “It’s about Mr.
Atkins’s money.”
Mr. Moppert gave a start.
“Oh, you needn’t jump so,” reassured
Absalom. “It’s all safe.”
He took a fiat parcel out of bis pocket.
“Count ’em,” said he. “Six, ain’t
there?”
: -Mr. Aladdin Moppert stared at Absalom Parker
! as might have started at the
Genii.
“How—where—” he stammered.
Absalom gave a low chuckle.
“Hush!” said he. It Don’t speak loud.
| I seen the old man hide ’em there, like a
human magpie as he was. I knowed it
wasn’t safe, so I quietly took ’em out,
arter he’d had that last stroke,and locked
’em in his black leather trunk up in the
garret. And you may thank me that
they wasn’t all burned up in the first fire
you lighted in that identical stove!”
Mr. Moppert turned a purplish red.
“ Y .°" know about that Rtove? ” said
, e
’ * 1 a
could 8°°“ ™ S “ V abl ? u *, , i, Mr “? A tk , SUth ' ns , f P'aee C ? DJUrm . an.l . ?
'
not know lt ’ ’ “ ,d , Parker > drll y
Th<i st « ve w “ n 1 of gff*. conse ;
‘l" 61 "*’ th ™* h ; e /“P t 2 or ¥°*- 1
guess the church folks ’ll gel sick , of it
before a great while.
Mr. Moppet drew a long breath.
11 When they do,’’said he, “I’ll make
’em a present of a brand-new one. And,
Absalom—”
“Yes, Mr. Moppet?”
“You won’t say nothin’ to nobody?”
“No,” said Absalom, “I ain't one o’
the talkin’ sort.”
“And, Absalom—”
“Yes, Mr. Moppet?”
“Since you and Nancy really are at¬
tached to each other—”
“We’re just that, Mr. Moppet.”
“I don’t see no objection to your get
i tin’ married this fall,” said Moppet, with
an effort. “You may tell Nancy that
she has my consent! l»
-
-Nancy .. cried . , shower , of , , happy
.; a 1 tears
when , Absalom . told ,, , her the good ,
, news,
But , , he never imparted . . , to . her the .. story .
of , the stove. . As , *, he , himself . ., , had , re- J
I marked, “he was not one of the talkin’
sort. ”—Saturday Night.
i ' (j en j ns
! I Professor I. I. „ Hajueu tin
was
Giumler of the system which developed
into the geological survey of the United
States. He was a man great of gemus and
a renowned scholar, hut, according tc
the Pittsburg Diqmtch, erratic and pecu
liar - It was not uncommon for strangers
t0 follow hlm for 6everal blocks ’ theu
attention arrested by his bowed figure as
, s ‘°PR e d
nxea on ine pavemenr rnen ran a Q ain af
tl a sudden thought had struck him;
then they would inquire, “Who can that
poor insane man be!
" ll e * rofessor Hayden was explor
ing the land of the Sioux Indians some
years ago, he onee, in his enthusiastic
passion for geological research, wandered
away from his party; he had loaded him¬
self down with large specimens of miner¬
al, and w r as tramping slowly along in his
absent-minded way the Indians captured
him. They whooped and veiled at then
‘
prize at first, but upon seeing all the
“rocks and w orthless stones which the
poor man waf staggering under, and his
composed, abstracted m inner, they de¬
cided that he was “afflicted with a fool
. , „ pS^tffih^ircSm'S _. ... . ,
fears . » nd * fter a few hours* captiv
: itv the old scientist with “his rocks’’was
^ to( , nearest e”\est noint of civilization
1 » turned J l OOS ‘ the Great ‘ Sniril j
J. f()r „ m
, . ® , 00 1S , or. 1 . up ip. m : npd . »
; eai c^s .irn rcc ’ ess i»
e was armg,
• danger; - a most distinguished scientific
^ be , ovod |)y the ng
men of his survey. His death during
the year wa3 great i y mourned.
j The Routine of Military Life.
The United States soldier’s first dut'
| begins at 5 :30 in the morning, at wliicl
1 hour reville is sounded by the burglars
of all the batteries. At this signal th<
men all leave tlieir quarters and form ir
single file on the parade ground. Tht
roll is then called by the Sergeant, whe
also presents his morning report to the
Captain. This report shows the number
of men on duty, the sick and absent.
Applications for leaves of absence are
handed in with the report, and after the
commander's approval the men are al
dismissed, except those who are to d<:
guard duty. The guard detail is made
out the evening before it is read out, and
the men who are appointed serve foi
twenty-four hours, with a relief ever twe
hours.
Tattoo is sounded at 9 o clock, which
aslgnai f or the mentoturn mandat
9:15 taps sound, at which time all lights
must be extinguished unless a specs
d has been lssued by the officer 0 ,
th e day
Besides military duty the soldier is sub
, ect to extra service. In connection with
the barracks tnere is a good-sized required farm.
and the soldiers are frequently
, 0 throw aside their guns for hoes aud
other agricultural implements. They
Luently also do all sorts of outdoor work, fre
imposed as a punishment for some
offense.
A soldier's wardrobe consists of two
suits of undress clothing, one dress uni¬
form and helmet, collars and cuffs, shoes,
stockings, underwear and all other nec
essa ry articles of apparel, furnished by
1 the Government, to the amount of $220
or fire years
GO Eli A 1 , M.WS.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
The Isthmus of Panama is marked by
dullness and distress.
A violent gale prevailed on the Massa
chusetts coast Monday.
Clark & Keen, manufacturers ol
worsteds, Philadelphia, made an assign¬
ment Monday.
Rev. Dr. Talmages Tabernacle at
Sunday Brooklyn, N. Y., was destroyed by tire
morning.
A council of war was held in Paris on
Monday. It was decided to strengthen
the army on ihe German frontier.
The Italian government has refused
to receive Ma-hun Effeudi, whom the
porte wishes to appoint as Turkish am¬
bassador to Italy.
A movemeflt to combine all the cracker
and cake oakers of the 'northern cities,
into a kind of tiust to regulate prices, is
said to be progressing.
The bodies of thiity-sev n of the men
killed in the explosion in Bcntelee col¬
day, liery, at Longton, Englan 1, on Wednes¬
have been recovered.
Up to the tccess Tuesday night 627
jurors had been excused in the Croniu
case at Chicago, four accepted aud sworn
in and four temporarily passed.
The trial of Father McFadden, charged
with having participated in the murder
of Inspector Martin at Gwedore, iu Feb¬
ruary last, began Thursday.
Judge Chicago, Jameson, in the superior court
at on Monday, granted a bill to
close up the affairs of the Treacy Carbon
Lamp company. The company is said to
be a tremendous swindle.
By tho capsizing of the schooner
Laura in East River, New Turk, on
Tuesday, William James Hughes and
Alexander Christie were drowned, and
Captain Eugene McLean and James Law¬
ler severely injured.
Since the first of September there have
been five deaths from alternating electric
currents in New York City alone, and
fifteen accidental deaths from contact
with electric wires outside of that city,
Bine of which were caused by alternating
electric currents.
A dispath from Sofia to the Cologne
Gazette, says that the Austrian Lauder
Bank, jointly, with the German banks,
has loaned the Bulgarian government
25,000,000 franc-, ot which 10,000,000 is
to be paid immediately and the remain¬
der in two installments.
There is a great rush of speculators
and boomers to Pierre, the new capital
of South Dakota. On Friday a large
number of spe ulators from Kansas City.
Omaha, Denver, and as far west as the
t uahe coast reached the embryo city to
invest and to help make things hum.
The finance committee of the World’s
Fair, at New York, on Thursday re¬
solved to take, without further delay,
the necessary steps to obtain subscrip¬
tions to guarantee $5,000,000, and a sub¬
committee was appointed to prapare the
necessary subscription books for that
purpose.
The threatened strike of the bakers be
came general at Newark, N. J., on
Wednesday. Five hundred men are now
out on strike, and a boycott has been or¬
dered against the boss bakers. Pickets
j are to keeping work . and New persuading Ao.k men them from going to
, go
i 10 “e.
I The announcement that the sterjners
; bad advanced the.r freight rates caused
considerable stir on the floor of the pro¬
duce exchange, at New York, on
the highest ® figure reached for this sea
,
United States government officers have
seized the distillery of Freiburg & V/ork
tim, of Lynchburg, Ohio, upon the
charge of defrauding the Uuited States
[’7 equalizing shortages from shrinkage
>x } packages betore the ganger measures
the contents. The whisky seized amounts
to more than a million gallons.
A dispatch from Kansas City, says:
Cregg, for many years private
secretary ot General Sheridan when the
general had his headquarters in Chicago,
111., and lor some time department clerk
at Washington, aud later a liewspapei
man at Omaha, Neb., was sentenced to
the penitentiary Tuesday for horse steal¬
ing.
The firm of Lissbergcr, Solomon &
Brown, wholesale dry goodtt and cottov
factors, of Waco, Texas, state that they
are temporarily embarrassed, and oa
Tuesday made a sale of their stocks of
goods and store to H B. Claflm & Co.,
of New Fork, their principal creditors,
Liabilities are placed at about $b/50,0C l 0,
w jth assets estimated at $1,200,000. ’ ’
The coffin .ontaioing the remains oj
^ph Waldo Emerson,at Concord,Mr,.:*.,
whose grave was disturbed last weekend
whose skull was erroneously reported to
have been carried away, has been placed
in a securely bound box, which has in
of tarTi blocks been deposited in a grave composed
of granite cemented together
and securely fastened with a granite cov¬
ering. that The vandalism generally accepted theory is
the was committed to
create a sensation.
Great di-satisfaction is reported in the
Conemaugh valley, over the failure to
distribute fully half the relief fund of
$3,000,000, intended for the flood suffer¬
ers. There are many cases of great des¬
titution, and some very pitiful instances'
are detailed. Gross mismanagement of
the funds is charged. It is reported
that clerks and expert accountants are
drawing fund. extravagant salaries from the
About three weeks ago Dr. E. T.
Schneider, with of Pelee Island, was taken ill
a disease which proved to be small
pox. that Wednesday woid came from Pelee
there were nearly one hundred ca-es
of the disease on the island. The Can¬
adian government lias established a
quarantine against the island The
state board of health at Columbus, Ohio,
has issued an order closing all porte
along the shores of Lake Erie against
Pelee Island.
At one o’clock Thursday, the grand
jury of Chicago came into court and
handed up twelve indictments, eleven of
wh o'u were for every day crimes. The
twelfth was a joint billagaiust Mark Sal
omen,John Graham,Thomas Kavanaugh,
Fred Smith, Jeremiah O’Donnell, Alex¬
ander L. Hanks and Joseph Keen. AU
of these men were already under indict¬
ment for conspiracy to bride the jurymer:
iu the Cronin case.
A terrible wreck occurred on the Bur
Iin?t<® pad Missouri road,at Gibson,* few
miles from Omaha, Nebraska, Wednes
Hay. About fifty passengers were in
jured. Two engines were completely
at“n cl h e nd th,fw i \"" ,n i C ' mbi r
and a reduced N r were i to atoms. tn'o*u The from combination the tracks
coach and chair car wire both crowded
with passengers, a!! of whom were more
or less injured. Many of the passengers
were badly burned in addition to their
other injuries.
WASlil.lGIO-N, D. C
MOVEMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT
AND His ADVISERS.
seroiMM NTS, DECISIONS, AXUoTtSB MATTEES
Of lNiri.Ul-r EBoil THE NA 10 .ML OAVITAL.
Francis Fava, son of the present Ital¬
ian minister to this country, qualified
as a citizen of the United States at the
state department, Monday.
1 he President on Thursday appointed
Oliver C. Bosbysheli, ol Pennsy.vania, to
lie superintendent of the mint of the
United States, vice-Daniel Fox, resigned.
A statement prepared at the post-office
department shows the gross receipts nt
thirty of the larger post-offices during
the quarter ending September 30, 1889.
to be 9.6 per cent, greater than for the
corresponding period last year.
The district commissioners on Thurs¬
day nppointe 1 Gtorge Hazleton, former¬
ly Republican number to Congress from
Wisconsin, trict to be attorney for the Dis¬
of Columbia, to succeed A. G.
Riddle, who recently resigned, to take
effect the first of Din-ember next,
day, Acting Secretary Bitchellor, on Fri¬
directed a suspension of the work
of const!tiding the court house aud
nostoffice at Savannah, O t., until it can
be ascertained whether congress will au¬
thorize the selection of another site and
increase limit of cost' of both site and
building. The present site was selected
in January, 1888, but is unsuitable fot
tho purpose. The limit of cust is $200,
000, aud is not considered sufficient.
the The department’s action is based upon
petition signed by the governor of
the state, members of the legislature,
state ttnd city officials, aud a large num¬
ber of citizens. The acting secretary
also took simiiar action in regard to the
proposed N, public building at Statesville,
C., because.of a representation by
the mayor, aldermen and merchants ol
that city that the site selected by the last
administration is unsatisfactory to the
business community.
The annual report for the fiscal year
1888-89 of the commissioner of pensions,
has been submitted to the secretary of
the interior, and is now in the hands of
the public printer. There were at the
close of the year 487,925 pensioners.
There were added to ;he rolls during the
year the names of 51,921 new pensioners
aud the names of 1.754 whose pensions
have stored been to the previously tolls, making dropped, aggregate were re- |
an
of 53,675 pensioners added during the
year. 16,007 pensioners were dropped !
from the rolls for various causes, leaving |
a net increase to the rolls of 37.168
names. during The amou it paid for pensions
the yearwas $88,375,113.28. The
total amount disbursed by agents for all
purposes was $81,131,908.44. The
amount paid as fees to attorneys $1,363,-
583.47. In the aggregate, 1,348,164
pension claims have been filed since 1861
and in the same period 789,121 dirburaed have
been allofftd. The amount on
account of pensions he since 1861 lias been
$1,052,218,413. i issue of certificates |
during the year shows a grand total of
145,258. Of this number 51,921 were
original certificates. The report shows
that at the close of the year there were
pending and unallowed 479,000 claims
of all classes.
HURLED TO DEATH.
A TKHRIBI.E AND FATAL ACCIDENT ON AJ
INCLINE CABLE KOAD.
A frightful catastrophe occurred at
Cincinnati Tuesday ou one of Mount
Auburn inclined planes which lies at the
head of Main street and reaches to the
height of between 250 and 350 lect in a
space of perhaps 2,000 feet or less. Two
cars are employed, one steel on eacn wire cables traca
They are drawn by two
that are wound up on a arum nt tne i ip
of tho hill by an en K in ® oca C( 1 ’
and nine passengers had entered a ear
ut the foot of the plane, and a nuut e
car°was ^
passage passage of* 01 the^oscending lue o h all
Yj^ , n
machinerv cou& refu-ed t ' work and the
engineer not stop W car was
drawn against the Lu nper the cables
snapped in two and the car ran dock
wards down the incline at lightning
speed. The crash nt the foot of I
- the
frightful . extreme.
the plane was in
The iron gate that formed the lower end
of the truck on which the car rested,
was thrown tix'y feet do.in thc street.
The toil of the car was lying almost and as
far in the gutter. Ihe truck itself,
flocr and seats of the car formed a shape
less wreck, mingled with the bleeding
and mangled bodies of nine passengers,
The list of dead, so far as known, is as
follows: Judge W. M. Dickson, Mrs.
Caleb Ives Miss Lillian Oscamp, Michael
Kneiss, Joseph Hocbstettcr. The
wounded arc: Charles McFadden, both
legs broken; Joseph McFadden, Mrs.
Hochstetter, and Mrs. Joseph McFadden,
cuts and internal injuries.
FARMERS IN DISTRESS.
a threatened famine in north dako
TA—ArrEALS FOR aid.
A special dispatch from Sioux Falls,
South Dakota, says: There is great dan
ger that the famine among the farmers
of North Dakota last year will repeat it¬
self this year. Intelligence just received
from Minor county discloses the fact that
a laroe number of farmers in that section
are in destitute circumstances. Owing
to the (lrougth their crops were a total
failure this season. A relief committee
has been appointed to solicit aid and many
towns throughout the state are respond¬
ing liberally to the call for assistance.
TOC PUBLIC-SPIRITED.
Emmet V. Rhoades, cashier of the
First National hank of St. Paris, Ohio,
pleaded guilty i“ >'io United States
court to misappropriation of the hank's
fuuds* on Thursday. It wi ‘ 3 shown that
there'was no ultimate intention of (le
frauding the bank, and the money was
used in a public-spirited effort to advance
the interests of his community. i ie
minimum sentence, five years in the pen
itentiart? vies made.
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RIO ///ors’ OS POINTS PnntTV IN rv THE rrrr- SOLIIJ. vm-tu
A CONDENSED ACCOUNT OF W3AT IS 000(0 OX OF
IMPORTANCE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES.
Florida has received twenty awards
at-d four gold medals on its exhibit at
the Paris exposition.
Edward A. Perry,ex-governoy of F.or
died at Kcrrvillc, Texas, on Tues
day, from paralysis, after an illness of
about a week.
Montgomery, Ala., last week, beat any
past record, reaching the unprecedented
figure of 11,447 bales, against 9,157 for
the same week last year.
A fire in the Montgomery, Ala., ware¬
house, Marks & Gayle, proprietors, Mon¬
day thousand morning, dumaged about one
bales of cotton. Insurance
insurance. $64,500; loss about forty per cent, of the
At a special meeting of the board of
directors of the Now Orleans hoard of
trade, limited, held on Friday, the fol¬
lowing was unanimously adopted:
city “Resolved, That this board favors the
fair of of.Chicago as the she for the World's
1892.”
Governor Seay of Ah,bama, while in
New York on Tuesday, placed through
Uhlfelder Bros., of Montgomery, the
new issue of $954,000 state bonds, bear¬
ing 4 per cent., at one and one-tenth
premium. The bonds were taken by the
New York Security, and Trust compuny,
of which the late secretary of the treas¬
ury, Fairchild, is president. The bonds
run thirty years.
The Birmingham Age-Herald states that,
agents of the orona coal mines anil the
Virginia and Alabama mines at Patton
have just closed a contract with an ex¬
port agent for 60,000 tons of coal, which
is to be shipped to Cuba. The coal will
be shipped by rail to Mobile, and thence
it will be sent in tugs uml barges to
Cuba.
A fatal aud disastrous fire occurred at
Dawson, Oa., on Friday, j' in which two
young sons of Judge II. Guerry, and
a colored boy were killed by falling walls.
A warehouse containing 175 bales of cot¬
ton and a whole block of business houses
with their contents weie wholly de¬
stroyed. The estimated total loss is
about $40,000. The fire is believed to be
the work of an incendiary.
Mednfcsday A dispatch from Birmingham on
says: The Richmond Ter¬
minal, Georgia Central, Eust Teunessee,
Louisville aud Nashville, Southern Pa¬
cific and other south and southwestern
railroads, and the Plant system of rail
roads and steamships, have united in a
movement to make Tampa, Fla., the
shipping point for all freight handled
on these lines.
The office of the Southern Express
about company, at Millsport, Ala., a small town
ninety miles west of Birmingham,
on the Georgia Pacific railroad, was
robbed Monday. The lobbery wus kept
secret by the officials of the company
Abercrombie until Thursday, when a man named
was arrested in Lamar
county, charged with the robbery. T he
prisoner is believed to be n member of
the Rube Burrows band of outlaws and
train robbers.
, Nine negro men and three negro wom¬
en were arrested at Charlotte, N. C., on
Saturday, charged with robberies extend¬
ing over several months. Over 100 res¬
idences and business houses in that city
have been raided by these thieves. In
one instance $500 worth of jewelry was
taken fr m a store, and losses traceable
to the gang aggtegate nearly $100,000
The whole gang will probably be hung,
as burglary in tho state of North Caro
lj Da j 3 a capital offence,
The supreme court of Georgia, now in
session ett Atlanta, has already com¬
menced passing upon the acts of the
present legislature. Sometime ago a bill
was pns-ed which provided for the pay¬
ment to Hon.Tom Glenn and Capt. Ellis,
former solicitors of the city court of At¬
lanta, certain insolvent costs, said to be
due them by the State. The supreme
court had the matter up before it on
Monday and declared the act unconsti¬
tutional.
D anv iM Cj Va.,on Tuesday, voted $150,
0Q0 tpward3 thc W( , gU . rn extension of the
AU intic , ui(| Dmville la ii rom i, from
[)tinV)lu . to the coal fiel(Jg <l{ SllUthwcst
Virginia. The city lias alrea- y voted a
)iky amount t0 t j, e cas t C rn end of the
■ i tle , Danville to Norfolk, and that end
of the road, two hundred miles long,will Bristol,
soon be op ned for business.
Tent,., the probable western terminus of
the road .
ADDITIONAL EVIDENCE
against the jury rribers IN THE cso
nix murder case.
The Chicago Journal, of I riday, says
that additional evidence has been se
cured against F. W. Smith, one of the
tuen under indictment for conspiracy to
bribe the jurors in the Cronin case. The
story is to the effect that two men vol
ur.tarily sought an interview with State’s
Attorney Longenecker Thursday night,
and revealed to him the fact that Smith
had approached them with the sugges
tion they could make moi.ey by acting as
jurors iu the Cronin case, They
replied that they had not even been
summoned as veniremen. To this they
said Smith replied tint he would so fix it
that they would be summoned; that if
they would so frame their answers as to
be acceptad on the jury, and would theu
hold" out for acquittal, they would be
paid $1,000 each. The men referred to
are Francis & Wolf, dry goods merchants
0 f Engle wood.
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SIXTY MINERS KILLED.
TERRIBLE EXPLOSION II. A COAL MINK IN
ENGLAND.
A ... dispatch . from , L - ’ ’
^tTngTonT uunty “A
• t an early hour Wednesday morning,
Seventy miners were in the pit at the
time of tho accident, only eleven of
whom are alive. The pit was comp'etely
wrecked and the task of getting out diffi the
bur } e d miners will be one of great
, ubv The men enga-ed in tho search
for lbe victims have so far found fifty
bodits 0 f dead miners. The bodies re
covt . re d show that the victims died of
oas poisoning. The latest advices from
tbe SCC nc state that fire is raging, and
that another explosion is feared. The
rc{;( rd c f lbe m en in the mines has been
j osf . bence it is impossible to verify the
! number,
NUMBER 3.
.the amount needed
TO DCPBOVE THE RIVERS AJTD HARBORS
OF THE SOUTH.
General Caaev, chief of engineer* at
II ashington, D. C., in his annual esti¬
mates submitted to the secretary of war,
makes the following recommendations
for appropriations for continuing work
on the principal improvements under his
charge during the year ending June 30,
1891. Potomac river flats, Washington,
I). C., $1,0t)0.000; James river, below
Richmond, $400,000; Great Kanawha
river, $i00,0t)0; Cape Fear river, North
Carolina, $310,000; Coosa river, Georgia
and Alabama, $225,000; St. Johns river,
Mow Jacksonville, $300,000; Black
Warrior river, Alabama, $300,000; Cum¬
berland river,above and hilow Nashvilie,
$500,000; Tennessee liver, above and
below Chattanooga, $1,030,000; Missis¬
sippi river, Minneapolis to Des Moines
rapids. $1,000,000; Mississippi rivet
from De9 Moines to Illinois river, $300,
000; Mississippi river, from Illinois to
Ohio river,$600,000; Norfolk harbor and
harbor, approaches, $100,000; Charleston, 8. C.,
$750,000; Winyaw bay, 8. C.,
1 1.00,000; Cumberland sound, Georgia
and Florida, $500,000; Savannah barbor,
$5i 0.000; entrance to Key West harbor,
$100,000; Mobile harbor, $500,000. The
total amount recommended by General
Casey for river and harbor improvements
is $30,186,300.Total amount appropriated
by the river and harbor bill for the yeat
ending June 30, 1890, was $22,897,617.
The Mississippi river commission rec¬
ommends appropriations for the fiscal
year 1890 91 ns iollows: Continuing
surveys, $150,000; from mouth to the
Ohio river, $4,000,000; improvements at
Ilickmaif, Ky., Greenville, Vicksburg,
and Natchez, Miss., and New Orleans,
I-a., $1,086,250; rectification of Red and
Atclmfalya rivers, $50,000. Total, $5,-
586,250. The Missouri liver commission
ask the following appropriations: Sala¬
ries, surveys, etc., $150,000; general im¬
provements, $1,000,000; special work at
Sioux City, Omaha, Plattamoutb, Ne¬
braska City, St. Joseph, Atchison, Mia¬
mi and Arrow Rock, $1,375,000; river
above and below Sioux City, $60,009.
Total, $2,760,000.
THE LEGISLATURE.
■ILLS FUSED BT THE SKNATB AND XOCU
W REPRESENT ATI TBS.
A joint resolution directing the treasu
rer to pay to the widow of Hon. Louii *
Arnheim the remainder of his salary to
the end of the session. A bill to repeal is
the act rupiiriug the Altamaha river to
be worked out; ti authorize the sale of
the arsemil lot in Savannah; to incorpo¬
rate the town of Hilton; to extend the
limits of Fairburn; to incorporate the
South vest Georgia Railroad company;
also a bill to amend the act creating the
county court of Early. A bill to incor¬
porate the Georgia Northern Railroad
company. A registration bill for Tallia
ferro county. A bill to amend the law
creating the board of county commission¬
ers fyr Fayette; to amend a law apply¬
ing to the commissioners in Campbell
county. To provide for the establish¬
ment of at least six voting of Savannah,when places at the
courthouse in the city
elections for mayor and xldermen shall
take place; to prohibit the sale of liquot
near Pleasant Valley Baptist provide church, at
Bostick, Talbot county; to for
(he removal of .he portraits from the old
japitol to the new. When this resolu¬
tion came up, it was moved to amend by
tho addition of au appropriation of $500
to secure a handsome prohibit portrait the of General placing
Robert Toombs. To
of obstructions in the waters of Randolph j§|
county; to authorize the annexation of
South Rome by the city of Rome. The
senate concurred in house amendments
to a bill to incorporate the Fulton Loan
and Banking company. To establish
public schools in Madison; to prohibit
tho sale of liquor in five miles
of about forty churches in
Laurens county. Amended so ns not
to include incorporated council towns;
to authorize the mayor and of
Dublin to permit the Empire and Dublin
or any other railroad to use Madison
us its right of way.
ALLIANCE DAY.
PRESIDENT i.ivingston’s address to
TTIB ALLIANCEMEN.
President L. F. Livingstone, of the
Georgia State Farmers’ Alliance, has is¬
sued the following address to alliance
men , dated at Atlunta, Ga., Thursday,
October 17, 1889. To Allianoemen of
Georgia; The managers of the Piedmont
exposition have very kindly fixed Thurs¬
day, the 24th of October, as “allianee
day” on the fair grounds. They have
and will incur a heavy expense in getting the
Hon. Evans Jonet, presideut of
Farmers’ and Laborers’ union of America,
from Texas, also Hon. L. S. Polk, secre¬
tary of the State Alliance of North
Carolina, as speakers for the occasion.
There will be a double wedding, Gov.
Gordon officiating, assisted by two noted
divines, the parties to be dressed in cot¬
ton bagging, with many useful gifts
to the parties by the well management from ^nd
citizens of Atlanta, as as many union.
all sections of the state and the
Let us all meet on that day at and around
the grand stand and do honor to our elo¬
quent speakers named above,and witness
not only the double “cotton wedding,”
but the magnificent agricultural, mineral
atd other worthy and interesting dis¬
plays on the grounds with hearty good
reunion, and thus have our renewed hopes and for
our faith strengthened and
the great contest that awaits us in the
future. Coaie one, come all.
L. Livingston,
President Georgia State Fair Association.
How a Child Described It.
What could be happier than this child¬
ish account of a dog’s mode of soothing
his mortified vanity when he has had an
unsuccessful encounter with a cat? “I i
there's no trees just 'round, the dog gets
the cat in the corner of a door or two
brick walls. Then the cat makes her
body twice as big as what is flesh and
bone by standing her hair up strate, and
she spits and sueezes all over the dog, so
he can't see what he'3 doing of. Then
while he's clearin' his eyes a bit she
scratches him in the nose, which you
know, of all parts of the dog’s flesh, its
Q0Se bas the littlest skin over it. You
might say there is no skin, only a -ir ot
meet fhe dog feels just as if he was
coul j b t with a fishing-hook, and he runs
d „ b t aW ay a thinking to hisself as he
thought the cat was a little one when he
it in the yard.” wsm,
.. .