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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. C/ V/L lf lTl -*■*->H I- PV Jl \ T I,'IVC j -i.» » J i? _ JTSUS °F INTEREST FROM VA 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. ____ 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, .. .