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The Georgia Enterprise. >*. £ - VOLUME xxv. Australia is a g"* 1 rountrT ' Two newspaper men are chief justices ou* there. Gladstone attributes his long life and wonderful health in a great measure to ai« r.lrtte rest on the Sabbath. jiftof *2000 to i;r i ions bit of co mposition, and greatly pleased the French. rtion. | it .observed that the ladiion in colors [for nar siii|>3 isr hangiug. lu the Brook Byn rani at present the Chicago and the 'Bostonsre Iroth white, instead of the time honored black. Thc war ships seem. to have followed the yachts m this mat ter. Owing to the wonderful growth during the last decade of the electrical industry, the Superintendent of Census has decided L have a special investigation of thesub Lft for the report of the census of 189(1. fliie inquiry will be intrusted to A. IS. iFoote, of Cincinnati. bbSrts A writer in the New York Ecnngelist to mustaches in the pulpit. 1 He mustache spoils elocution, . and t-iys that a haulers a s|(eaker‘s words unintelligible hi the back part of the church. A roan's mice, savs the critic, should not paxs through a thick lock of hair before it reaches the audience. Ludwig Pietsch, the celebrated Gcr Sitm critic and author, has written long nticlcs to the periodicals of his native ud in praise of the exhibition of Ameri fan artists in thc Paris Exposition. Herr Bietseh is surprised at the general ex¬ cellence of the paintings and considers ■lffli equal to any in the Exhibition. ! A Christian tribe, surrounded by lawn*, has just been discovered in the eurt of Africa. They laid never before ii u a white man. While their religious Seas are crude, still they have a priest pod, hiristianity. the cross, and other emblems of They are believed to have pen exiled from Abyssinia about eight kindred years ago. 1 wo German athletes have arrived iu ji'w [' York city, whose feats of strength, s sal< li *ifl be a revelation to the rong men of this country. One can It 545 pounds with his middle finger, Id can pass a weight of 200 pounds low !v over his head with one hand The | 11 lllc “ aaii with his bare hand through pwo-inch plank. The Agricultural Department has re iveil ......................... 1‘0‘ky Mountains at a height of j ■ 500 feet. The specimen will be planted Ci:::”'* grasses 1 thc depart- ■ i,h lent is iio^- experimenting with, with |e view of obtaining some grass that “ be successfully grown in the arid re °ns for fodder. AUhough people talk gibly about a 11011 Pushes of wheat, but few of very '■Hi, i S<1 }$ Irony realize what vast a nouut that represents. If million shels «i were loaded on American freight In 500 bushels to it would fill a car, a 11cr fifteen miles long; if transported ' "' a " oa forty-four bushels ‘ l>er wagon, n,&ke , a Hoe of teams 142 miles 1.2. If made into bread, reckoning 18he l to a sixty pounds of flour, it would ve each : man, woman and aitecl States child in thc a two-pound loaf of bread. Some tim e Si “ Ce L rd SHlisbury, the Hi ° sh p letaier . issued circular me Pjvutatives i a to tlie of her Majesty’s Govern “ ,:i!> principal gfor cities of Europe r force (“formation as to what laws F ln as to the I Private carrying of firearms persons in populous centers. ' ’'Pwts received etwc go to show that of «y-fo u r States comprised in the otinent Europe there ws S “7 the are stringent I a S carrying of weapons ontenegroT’ Uciiy 0 f !, m save D Denmark, the x* " Chy ° f C ° burg ’ «1 Swede’ s “ e -Netherlands, Norway . ltrk ’ trvia an d Switzerland. In tv ('gelations u ,he on the subject exist, _ e selq Provisions are very elastic and 0 m “'“fried out, The writer of Point that ,t Chicago makes * S " ou *d be conducted Drin “ principle ■ of furuishj ng money 'eonfl laP SSibletobo as ° “rowers, “inducted and not “stors. as a source of profit He points to in h:, out that in Philadel lished ioas bv rat'!f^? ti° mUCh nCy has f beea necom ‘the ° these in stit« and the ‘“ terest kas always been t P mp f * borrow lon to M»e subscrib , ef ° rebeeagr -ter l u '“ec r ' it r and as a „ j - - a eonse [ tr * naight, ir us “ of People t thea tb , ta n ° tbeenflidetl lr -ociatio as .’ 0 r money. Th squandered ‘“ancisco light hew. ’chronicle ” a ™ sound t0 the Sau <!<1 one and ‘ a 're " " lth Profit in that city Wv. opposite GENERAL NEWS. CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS , sews aaoa KvtarwaEBii-AcciDst.Ts, steicss Ease. and - -----1 ifestcr & Kibeo wool deader- Phils- j I wtH open ti., com ng session ol j arlia ment in peisoa. The cotton i» T.’ 1 . run . . 2 * 23 dence of the severity of the recent j Ths . ral ,d total o' receipts, up to Thursday night, of New York’s guaran $L t< e^frind of $.5,000,000, amounted lo j 1 I Fiva thousand coal miner: ere on a i strike in the Gi ringe district of Belgium, | ! tinue and it to is spread. feared that the move will eou l he r.‘ports of de Glutton in North Dakota tire said to be grei tly exaggera ted. Tuere is noflii tg in the situation to justify th“ reports that a famine ex i-ts in Dakota. Cholera is still raging in the valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates. During the ligit time mon hs lic-rC have been 7,000 deaths from the disease. Advices from Brisbone, state that the natives of Southwest New Guinea, have B,a f” ed IteT - -' !r 3*vsge, who was sent out I by the London Missionary' so ciely. In uceoidanee with the convention be¬ tween Russia and the Vatican, the bishop of Viln-i will be pensioned and will re¬ side iu Rome, and the present vicar-gen¬ eral of Viinu will become a bishop. Levin B. Hall and his sister, pronti nent society piopte of Princess, Md., were convicted Tuesday of incendiarism iu burning C’oxe A Mills’ watchouse at Fairmouut, a month ago. Mrs. Annie Price, for years past known as the “only original fat woman,” lias just died at her home in New York, of obesity. fatty degeui ration of the heart und Mrs. Price weighed 550 pounds. The big Washburne and Pillsbury mills, among the largest in the wor d, has parsed into the hands of a synd caie. The option of the Pil sbury system of ntiils and elevators, it is said, calls for $5,200,010. The emigration comm ssioucrs at New York, on Friday, notified all steamship companies that a head tax of fifty cents each will be collected from them for every alien that they will bring heie. This will include children. A company of manufacturers and bankers, of Lynn, Mass., has purchased 2,000 acres of land near Chattanooga, for $750,000. Two shoe factories, a tan¬ nery, two fur^ces, tool works and oth ct plants, will at once be erected. This Paris Figaro says that the mar¬ riage which had been arranged between Prince Murrat aud Miss Gwendoline Caldwell, has been abandoned. Prince 2&PK New York Saturday, A fast freight train on the Pennsyl¬ vania road jumped the track at Rahway, K J '> Tut ‘ s,lll -V "ight. Several persons ^"prisfSjuSi’irijS & bris, three of them mortally. One car rau down the street aud into a residence, ttassf" Thc guns and earring 9 of the United States men of war, Trenton and Vandaiia, which vessels were wrecked in the great storm at Samoa in March last, were landed at Sin F’raticisco Tuesday by tlia United States steamship Monongahela. She alsu brought the remains of Captain Sehoomakcr, of the Vandaiia, who was drowned during the same storm. Members of the cotton exchange, of New York-city, met and passed a resolu¬ tion calling on the board of managers to submit a law, to be vottd on by the ex¬ change, which would repeal the system of inspecting and classing cotton, aud re¬ enact the former system with such amendments and modifications as expe¬ rience has shown to be dtsiralile. The gable wall of a building that was being erected alongside of Scotland, Templeton’s carpet factory at Glasgow, was blown down Friday. tile An immense the ma s of debris fell on roof of weav¬ ing department of the factory, crashing it in, and burying fifty girls and women employed in the weaving rooms. It is probable that forty of those buried are dead. A dispatch from Cape Henry says: “Passed in at nine o’clock Thursday morning, brig Alice, Captain Bowling, from Navassa, for Baltimore, with sixty four of thc rioteis in the massacre at Nava sa, October 14. The brig also lias the crew, except tho male, who wss lost overboard, of the schooner Tmn Wil¬ liams, from Fcrnandina for New York, which was wrecked duriug the late storm. The crew was four days in open boats without food.” Mrs. Greening, of New Windsor, N. Y'., presented herself at an Episcopal lhe church and partook of communion, rector being told that she wns a Mcth odist, but partook of communion at an Episcopal church, owing to thc distance of i_er home from the Methodist church, informed her that by church rales she could not have communion there again. This so worked upon her nervous system that it resulted in a paralytic stroke. She is now iu-a helpless condition. A dispatch from Denver, Col., says that one of the most important meetings of labor organizations held in this coun try for some time, was held in that city Wednesday. Nearly one hundred and thir¬ ty delegates of thc International Brother¬ hood of Locomotive Firemen, represent ing every section of the United States, met in secret session to consider the question of the proposed the Brotheihood federation oi of labor now agitating Locomotive Engiueers. At Otisville, N.Y., on Wednesday, thir ty-five ears broke away from a switching engine and ran back down grade speed to a point a mile cist of OtisvTe, at a of forty miles au hour. Crashing into a west bound freight train, they wrecked thc engine completely and twenty-four and cars. Samuel J. Sloalt, flagman, Levi Breird, were killed. Engineer J. 1). Fosdick was badly scalded, and Fire man Garrett John C. Briefly*and and bruised. Brakeman Lee were burned “MY COUNTRY: MAY SIIK EVER MR RIGHT; RIGHT OR WRONG, MY CO UN TR Y !"■—J kffkroon. COVINGTON. GEORGIA, THURSDAY. NOVEMBER t. mx •tory brick dwelling which thev were lmii<iin « on Monroe street. Pas-aic City, X. J. Every one employed about the p'acc was niord or less injured. Hun dreda of volunteers were speedily at 'P >rk digging away the debris to effect as it was a “Buddenseiek” affair, and seemed i.rI Js to have been constructed constructed for lor an ap nnlv n(ltional thanksgiving was issued by rssjjTs. . B mindful of theirdepeudeneeou thebouti ty of Divine Providence, should sock fitting occasion to testify gratitude and ascribe praise to Him who is the of tinir many blessings It behoove, us, then, to look back with thankful hearts ovnr lie past year am bless God for lcliuite meicy in vouchsafing to our land enduring peace; to our people freedom from pestilence and famine; to £s«a 1 resident of the t-Jttr united States of Amen i’ d 1 ! ’ t l y Trrr d 1 huri * d V the !n tw Sh h i' J h,! • PreS ' nh r»im- Z t ia'i \ " it tha " ks o 8et S ,vm .*P d ar an “'® '* Jl i J; ,0 ,1 l ' ,1L ‘ C ° Un v' .-. S r r IU 1<J cu K ' 8 an<1 Libors tw’ir ti.l Ulu VV r i | i*’ ", , , aKst ; nible "! n .vn,b,:ws' 1 ' ''I 0 *. worshl P au ‘ us on our wav rSnaele r 0 !^r mlhTthe liaths of peace ir« Leeching liim to l. »vto it* m i 'ihanks^VvirfgTor d f t ,rc o making truly ontMjf each reunited home Se. circ’c tulel as well wh“r,o the nation at In 1 have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be. «f fixed. Done at the city of Washington, this first day of November, in the yen of our 1 ortl eighteen hundred and eighty nine, and of the independence hindred of the United States the one and four teeuth. ” STOCKS TUMBLE. TIIE COTTON SEED OIL COMBINE CONSIDERABLE TROUBLE. Calamity see ned lo ranch its climax Thursday, for the bulls in the stocks, ou the stock exchange at New York. The grief was concentrated in cotton oil crowd. Everybody was pre¬ dicting an immediate advance of points in cotton oil certificates, based the rosy programme of converting trust into a corporation, aud reducing capital from $42,00(1,000 to §30,000,000. doubt of the success. But alas for frailty of promises and prospects in Wall street, the popular expectation failed sadly of renlizition. Immediately < n opening of the market there was on over¬ whelming pie sure to sell. The Hot sale was 41$, and from that a decline instantly set itt, which had no check until the price was hammered down to 30$. This tumble of five full points meant a shrinkage of over $2,000,000 in the mar¬ ket value of the total capital of tho trust. The scene on the stock exchange baffles description. The real reason for the most of the de¬ cline was probably because of the serious disappointment which some prominent insiders felt at tho annual report. The showing of earnings for the last year is by no means flattering. For the first six mouths the net profits were entirely sat¬ isfactory, but the last sij months were bad. The total net earnings for the year amount to a little over $1,000,000 which is at least $1,000,1800 less than officially predicted, Several of the mills btlongirg to tho trust have been shut down ou account of said proving several piofitable, and it is that moie will probably have to be closed for the same reason. The corporation will into be which the trust is to be resolved known as the Cotton Oil Company of New Jersey. THIRTY MEN ARRESTED FOn COMPLICITY IN THE LYNCHING OF YOUNG BERItlEU, lil NORTH CAROLINA. A special from Lexington, N. C., on Monday, says: This section has just been thrown into intense excitement on account of the arrest of thirty men c.mrged with being implicated in the re¬ cent lyuchiug of young Robert Berrier, white, who so brutally "murdered his mother-in-law near here. Following the special instructions of Governor P’owlc, Sheriff R. I). Leonatd, with a posse of thirty men, stlrted out with warrants for the arrest of many men, charging them with being in thc lynching party. Up to Monday night the following had been arrested: John Wood, John Craven, D. R. Myers, J. A. Myers, J. N. Myers, W. A. Liviugood, C. F. Switegood, J. M. Farabee, John Farabee, B. U. Gibble, W. B. Hunt, W. W. Myers, A. C. Hood, C. A. Hams. J L. Wilson, II. C. Fritts, Henderson Shoaff, Ham Sink, Plunk Daniels, David Mack, Alfred Green, Jos eph Sowers, Robert Juiien Nifong,Uoy.il Shoaff, Jefferson Craver, Henry Michael, Jr. All these men were guarded at the c urtliouse by twelve special officers, the jail being unable to accommodate such a uumber. It is thought that the entire week will be consumed in the exaratna tion of the'prisoners, as a great number of witne ses will be introduced on both sides. Thc greatest interest is manifested in the investigation, and public sent!- the ment is strongly in favor of allowing lynchers to go unpunished.___ the bank closed m CONSEQUENCE OK ITS DEFAULTING CASHIER. 0n tbe door of the Tradesmen’s Na , . k 0 f Conshcckcn, ra., ~~ on rjk urg( j av wa9 posted thc following This ^ no " it txes ‘‘To whom may concern: bank 'j clo e d in consequence of the g cashier. 1 lie deposit defalcate of the suffer no loss.” The cooler feired to is William Henry Cresaon, re of his defalcation is uo an( j t ^ e amount and exceed i ess than $50.000, lived may m Cons k c ta Oesson !»»■> him >ix 9 V en years, and had made or o ainent in the phroe, enl sp!f j,j quite b nl pro become identified wi i g nl>me enterpnats. jj* leading T | WASHINGTON, 7 D. C. , ! MOVEMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT | AND HIM ADVISERS. _ ; SMODtutESTS, decisions, and other matter* ' 1 re-ldcnt •, . has , appointed . , John , . ! y ie i a 1Klttrt ,. atcr „t Philadelphia, me as?*• **— portion of the reward offered by ssr* ,or "* '"“ r * oi •" ■ »*■.., notice fr’m upon cattlemen who have leased lands India** within Cherokee let that they must vacate these with their property on or before the first } of Dr. July It. next. P. Daniel, president of the state board of health of Florida, tele graphed that to the marine hospital service the quarantine reatrictions imposed on Key West on account of suspicious «f the 2 onn. ton opened o.nlsira ti„. ,JL.|, Ur ^■<* on last Saturday, 1,1 ,Ue Columbian Iron Works and Dry Deck company, of lliltimore, for the sum of $1,225,000. The contract f<«- the third oae will be awarded to either liar rison Loring, of Boston, or N. F. Pal mcr & Co., of New York, each of whom bid $674,000. Tl e collector of customs at Norfolk, Va -has asked the treasury department for instructions in regard to the It practice ? f Li ;“'P~' “««» rnmhanta send mg m*n under contract from that city to Xor f :' lk fr>r ,h<! '""’T W** n | ld ft’* 41 , !"* cot,m , > mr .he English trade. ' lle J m migisnt mspecior for the state of Virginia reported the matter to the cob cct ° r “ 9 a violation of alien contract la ^ ^, and h e can thc « , ° co about ‘ lcc or it. , wa " 1 ts reasury to kn olh- '^ “ ,U " r ? <l ’ vu If ln oprmon ,n the mat IhJ S-iUSr . ttSn? rtftrre ’ 1 ,C The government directors of the Union Pacific railroad have reported to the retary of the interior that in their ment the interests of the United demand early action by congress to cure payment by the company of its debtedness to the government. Tlic eral plan of settlement railroads, first suggested by the commissioners of they sert, has never been successfully They express their firm conviction that the interests of t ie United States de¬ mand the passage of a bill substantially like that pending when the last adjourned. The report is signed George E. Leighton, John T. Plummer, Jesse Spalding, Rufus B. Bullock and James W. Savage. The Washington tytar Wednesday that the civil service commission decided to ask the district attorney prosecute all persous concerned in the ical preparation atrd distribution of the polit¬ assessment circular recently sent by the old domiuion republican league to Virginians in the government service. Those persons not < mployrs of the gov¬ ernment will be prosecuted under section 12 of the service, which provides that person shall in any government solicit or receive contributions for any political purpose. The commission holds that a person not connected with the government may ask for and reciive money from government employes for political purpose building, anywhete but that except in tlie government where occurence takes place on property, or where letters me sent to a government building, those concerned aie liable to prosecution. The order of Postmaotcr-Gencrd Wananuker, d.ted Wednesday, war. promulgated Thursday, fixing the r ites for the government telegraphic service during the day current fiscal year. The basis lor service is ten cents for ten words, and a half cent for each addi¬ tional woid for distances under 400 miles, with a sliding scale of increase for distances greater thin 400 miles. For night messages not exceeding all dis twenty words, fifteen cents for ances, and one-half cent for each additional w'ord. The date, address and signature are ex¬ cluded from count both day and night. Signal service cypher messages are to be charged at two and a half cents per word With reference to the above or der, President Green, of the Western Lmon telegraph, says: lhe rate fixed by below the postmnster-generni but I piepared is undoubtedly cost, am not to say what the attitude of the company will be till after the matter has had the consid¬ eration of the executive committee. Tho reduction averages about thiriy-tlirce per cent, from the old rate, which was not a rcinuuarative one.” : A GREAT NEWSPAPER. the i-ioneer press, of st. i-aul, minn., celebrates its 40tu anniversary. -- The Pioneer Press, of St. Paul, Minn., celebrates its fortieth anniversary by is i ub) g Thursday, morning an edition of thirty pages, from its new thirteen story building. historical The edition is chiefly devoted to a review of the extraordi nary developme n t of the northwest for the past forty years. The building, 110 ; f ee t square, represents an outlay of $780,000, and is pronounced the finest daily newpaper building-in the world, j n Thursday's is-ue will be about 400 personal congratulations from editors throughout the United States and Canada. SUEING A NEWSPAPER. MRS. MACKAY, OF CALIFORNIA, SUES AN ENGLISH PAPER FOR LIBEL. The action for libel brought by Mrs. T„l,„ W XI , ,1 \ r i „ - in the court of queens bench, Thursday. The libel complained of alleged that the n washerwoman by Nevada miners when Macksy was ttrrt* attracted toward her and fell in love with her and married her. The plaintiff contends that the words of the article suggested that she was not ft lady of birth or education, and that she pe g po , 1 SOUTHERN NEWS. --- ITEitS . OF INTEREST FROM VA \ RIOUS POINTS IN THE SOUTH. __ i * condensed account ok what is soiso os or - The anniversarian was Mr. G. D. Dor ou " , h ’ of , yv'etumnka Wetumpka, Ala. Ala ;».s. “ f, '“ - o* cured in L...A 30 t0 |1 “ 3 s.-«, Hh-jj s.>ubyiw,k. * J, 0- ’ T ' ‘""ton ,—nnW '««*?’ *f ^ * I j Liabilities arc about $.0,000, and assets j nomm ally large. A passenger train bound cast and a ***$* ‘™«> going west on tha Norfolk , r »ilro«G,collided Wednesday between Liberty and Thaxtons, ' , ^ P n veterans »• -r of Alabama was - perfected rfr. ut BirminghamonWednesday.Gcueral E.W. | Puttus, vtce-prcsuW of Selma was elected president, with a from each congres ! d )8 ‘ rlc : D“ e ob 3 ect of ,be elation i» . to build . a confederate home In Alabama. L. M. Conner, a young merchant do U™* ing business at Buck Creek, Ga., was over the head and killed Tuesday, by Thomas Beurd, a young man living near the same place. Borne cottea ‘XdTenn^rtfu^ing'tm banner ior using jute WgingIt' nagging at inatfd’ “ ° troubieong lruiU ' 1 - Thomas G. Buelmnan, a merchant of Huntsville, Ala., was closed Fechheimcr Wednesday by attachment, as follows: A Co., of Cincinnati, $2,500; Phil J. C. ('udder, of Shelbyville. Tenn., $8,054; Nashionnl Bank of Shelbyville, $14,250, and Miss Jennie While, of Huntsville f<-r $S,500. It is said other attachments will foliovv. The Soque Woolen mills st Clarksville, Ga., which are in thc hands of a receiver, and which will eventually be sold, begat) operation Wednesday, to be run by one of the creditors,for one month, under a grant from the judge of thc superior court. The object is to get the property cleaned up and the machinery clean, so that the bidders may see just what they have. The superior court of Richmond county, Ga., has decided against a num¬ ber of promincut citizens who, twonty years ago, subscribed to the capital stock of the National Expressnnil t*se Transporta¬ tion company. A test was made on Wednesday in ease ofWilfiam H. Howard, a piominent and wealthy cotton factor, and a verdict rendered against him. This virtually carries the other cases with it. The verdict is regarded accordance as a greut with hardship, although in court decisions iu these cases in all states from Maine to Texas. One of the largest transactions in laud ever consumated in the South, has re¬ cently been perfected at Jacksonville, Fla., and made public Fri 'ay. AJ1 unsold lands in Florida of the Plant system of railroads aud steamships, of the Florida Southern railroad, of the Jacksonville, Tampa & Key West system, including the Florida Southern railway, and Florida Commercial company, have been consolidated under thc name of the As sociated Railway Land Department Florida. Over six million acres of land are consolidated under one management by the formation of this syndicate. COTTON IN TENNESSEE. TH3 YIKI.D WILL NOT COME UP TO THE EX¬ PECTATIONS OF TENNESSEE PLANTERS. The regular monthly crop report for the Memphis, Tenn., district, savs: The outlook is anything but encouraging. While the weather has been most favor¬ able for gathering open cotton in the field, the anticipated yield has fallen far i-ho:t of what was cxpec ed. The terri¬ tory tributary to Memphis and included in the report, includes an average of 1,400,000 bales of cotton, one fifth of tho entire trop of the south. The damage ; 8ustaine d from worms, frosts, and other causes uken (ogether witU the lateness of the throughout thc distric', ,s greater than at first reported. F’rom every section of the district injury to the crop becomes more apparent and the prospective yield, a9 compared with last, ye ir, will fall far short of what was re polled i ne month ago. A BIG KICK. THE KOCK I8LAND,BURLINGTON & ST. PAOI ROADS WITHDRAW FROM ASSOCIATION. The Inter-State Commerce Railway association, at Chicago, is practically dead. The Rock Island, Burlington and St. Paul roads take thc ground that the agreement has been violated by the traf fie arrangements of the Union Pacific aud Northwestern, and that they will considei the agreement annulled. No formal uo tice is to be given of their intention to withdraw, but they will no longer be bound by the rules of the association. A spccialmeetingofthewestcrnandnorth- Freight w estern divisions of the Western association was h Id Tuesday to consider ’ proposition for the restoration of rates i between the seaboard and St. Paul. Au ! agreement could not be reached at i t.u: j whole matter waq tabled for lurthcr con - I sideration at the regular meeting iu No ' vember. THE SUPREME COURT OF new YORK SUSTAINS THE ELECTRIC T Snpiwne e Court ,, . of . - New T .. York, , on " ? amS le cl v in which it ra the temporary injunctmus, . .- . with . . ; a £**““ modifications, fhe dectsion until says the cases hit can the ! ™“? au v sh ' u ' d have reasonable opper - i “J ‘°P ( ut lts w .' rea »»“ r ° ^nd.tion ( jj c workg as oi^truetions, or the matter •hoqld be laid before the grand jury. the deadly ax. I M n ‘ . M AND HI8 AQED WIFB snockku cncohsciocr. A diapatcb A^h Vrll fr L? m H.-v “‘® km,Tiile <n Ga !>«■ . . Sunda? nioht eiever^muL'f* 8 co “ ral . “ e< ‘ T.*,' ting v by . the fire , reading * ?? e ' and They each were had sit lamp. Mrs. a 1 Miller heard h-r htra ssris.fvs;i ™tSKya- sj'ssS’jatysJrfi were blows and been“Jmoved the mrable ton Lm of i hnr/m nlZ which had [ to^Z theofe its (0 h e umrde ers ers in Opposed search tohavTLIhe of monev w hich Miller ^ house ' X 8 ; , u ‘ ‘ that Mr Mi|ler flavf the tie s M t M ^ ; d Mk n()t to ttlikc Mrs M ller ai .j I10t Ece them. She was nearest the door, and was struck first with them. She was Hu was .truck fin.. i,i„« l ~;n, , h „ _ . , .. , kuU wai batUv mMhed> wiien found | he his was head still and sitting hanging in hi. arm chair, with arm over the s.dc Tho blood had run from rris wounds and< made a pool ou lhe fljor Hiadea.h must have been instantariecus. Mr.Mil ler was one of the most respected ci i ze n. of Houslon; a well-to-do farmer, upwards of sixty year. old. EJ. John son aud Sam Chunkey, two negroes, are ,-uspected of the murder, as they have —^ J from neighborhood, A PHILANTHROPIST. THE WILL OK HENRY STEERS, AND THE ItEqt KSTS IT CONTAINS. The will of Henry J. Stecre, one ol the wealthiest men in Providence, It. I., who died recently gives away directly and in trust the sum total of $1,139,000. Mr. Steere his was a siuglc gentleman, and was a 1 life distinguished fer philsnthrop ical impulses, lie gives $054,500 to in¬ dividuals directly, iu sums ranging from $100,000 to $1,000. The amount given to charitable organizations etc., is $340, 000. The home for the freedmen of Prov¬ idence received $150,000; Home for Aged Women, of Providence, $25,000; Benefi¬ cent Congregational church end St. Stephen’s Episcopal church, Providence, get $50,000 and $5,000 respectively; the Charitable Fuel society, of Provi idenoe, $5,000, sod to tho Rhode Island Historical soewty is bequeathed $10, 000; The Tabor college, in Iowa, fc given 50,000, and the Roanoke The college, at Salem, Va., $25,000. executor of the vast property is Alfred Metcalf, of Providence, who is only required to give uersonni bond to pay the le;; ( ids, etc. A POWERFUL ORDER. THE PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY GOING TO HAVE THINGS T11P.1R OWN WAY. A dispatch from PSrt Huron, Mich., says that not less than 75.000 Michigan farmers have joined the and Patrons the of number Hus¬ bandry since last May, is increasing every week. They threaten to become a controlling power iu the politics of the state, and then to spread over tho entire country. The patrocs claim to have been forced into being by monopolies and trusts, and they propose to organize a combination that will strike terror to the hearts of their ene¬ mies. At present the patrons are devo ting themselves exclusively to merchants, and in every town where they have a foothold they enter into an iron clad contract with one dealer in each line of trade to purchase only from him, exact ing a pledge that they shall not be charged to exceed twelvb per cent ad¬ vance on wholesale prices. 1 he patrons have lodges in forty seven counties, with a membership of more than 5,000. • • • A REPORTED BATTLE IN KENTUCKY IN WHICH SIX MEN ARE KILLED. A special to the Louisville Courier Journal. from Pincville, Ky., says: News reached here that Judge Lewis came up with Howard and his gang I hursduy on Martin’s Fork and killed six of the How ard gang without losing ft man. three of the men killed were named Ha!l, one named Whitlock, the other two names not learned. Friends of thc judge say that he is determined, and will never quit his chase until Howard and his gang are all killed or driven from the country. Both parties are being reinforced daily, und more bloodshed is expected. l?__ \ ir- ls thought that Howard hti9 gone to graia, but is expected to return. Thc best citizens of Harlan county, Ky., are joining Judge Lewis, and with sttglt a determined leader there is no doubt but that the law and order party will come out victorious, and break up tho gang that has been a terror to all eastern Ken¬ tucky for the last twenty-five years. MUST BE PAID The Indiana legislature last winter passed a law raising the maximum li* cense which lhe city of Indianapolis may impose for the sale of liquor from $100 to $250. The supreme court Wednesday affirmed the constitutionality of the law. In another case it dr dared that ft license is not a contract. Indianapolis raised who the license to $250. Liquor sellers had taken out license at $100 ptevious should to the increase, contend that they not be compelled to pay the increase of $153 until the expiration of the $100 license. The court says their position additional is wrong, and they must pay the $150. THE P. PERS MISSING. DOCUMENTS NEEDED TO COMBAT BOODLE CLAIMS DISAPPEAR. it was announced at Chicago Friday jVentu 1 ' that important attorney’s papers office,upon were miss gig from thc state’s depended which the county had largely claims, to combat the old "boodle” ag¬ gregatin'’ $250,000. They are needed chiefly to tight the bills of Contractoi Kellogg, et-Warden Yarnell, ox-Corn aiissioner Fray and the American btope aud Brick Preserving company. It is said that unless the missing documents are recovered it may result iu the 1< >ss of many thousand dollar* to the coue#m. BUDGET OF FUN. HUMOROUS SKKTCHKS FROM VARIOUS SOUUCKS. With Aunt Mari's Consent—And Generally Incurable—Another Room—A Double-Jointed Rule, Ktc., JBtc. ‘o Ln. just home from Rmiday-sebool, guardian Aunt Man'. She scanned and slowly turned a page; Yes, “May I skip, auntie, please?'’ ‘ dear.” A flash, a vacant chair, Loae woman—only thes* | And blank surprise, for skipped had Lu Among the birds and bees. | —Lippi ncott. | ASD GEXBRALLY 1XCURABLE. “There goes a man whom I should say v labors under some peculiar trouble. ” “You are right, my bov. He is a man whose wife is better known than him self.”— Purl. I ANOTHER BOOM. I Eastern Man-“How is Cosmopolo 7 I City, the ‘Occidental AVqpder of he j | Western World,’ and -Reiie of the Plains,’ prospering?’’ Western Man—“Finely! y . , We’ve got two stores and a blacksmith Shop in full blast now ."-New York ' Weekly. a not ble jointed RI LE. i Laura “1 tell you, Emily, I will . ttever marry a man who doesn t love ! me ; Emily “And l will _ never love a man j nho doesn t marry me. — Pick-Me-Up. ALL IN VSK. i “Waiter, Customer bring (in cheap restaurant)—j me a napkin, please.” 1 Waiter—“All in use at present, Cap; but that chap with thff heavy mustache I eating Roup over there w ill be through with his soon.”— Hotel Mail. NOT PEKIOI S. Physician—“You must have made some big blunder in cleaning my watch. It won’t run at all now. - ’ Watchmaker (taking the watch)—“I will put it in good order. A jeweler's blundets nre easily repaired.”— Puck. IT FRIGHTENED HBlt. Society . Rosebud “ I hen think _ you that Jack cares for me? Old Stager “1 m sure of it. His eves followed your every movement last night.” think (Alarmed)—“Gracious! he all I Do you really saw ate at the supper?”— Time. SIMI’LY BRUTAL. Mabel—“So you refused him. What diil the poor fellow say ?” Laura—“He said he knew a girl who would marry him and be glad to.” Mabel—“I wonder whom he meant?” Laura—“I wondered, too, so I asked him.” Mabel—“Who was it?” 1 .aura—‘ ‘ You.”— Life. ONE MORE Horn. He—“You are the only daughter?” She—“Yes.” He—“I should think your father would be willing to set the fellow who marries you up in business!” She—“Well, I don't know. Pa has maite that offer six times now, and noth ing ever came of it any time; but, George, if you want me, it might do to see the oid man about it.”— Epoch. ___ A GASTRONOMICAL CRITICISM. “Here's a pointer for ye, Bill," Said a tramp to one of his companions. “Don't never go to that house on the hill yon¬ der.” “Why not?” “ ’Cause whenever they've got pie they haven , . t any cheese , and , when , they , ve got cheese the, haven t any pie. I wouldn’t cat at no such place as that. -Merchant FOOD IN HARMONY with dress. “Waiter,” she inquired at the restau rant, “have you any ble :k bread?’’ “Yes, miss.’’ “Well, you may bring me some with a little black coffee. ’ “Why,” exclaimed her astonished es cort, “is that all you are going to eat?” “You must remember,’’ she replied, “that I am ip mourning now.”— Waihing ton Capital. THE BEST FLAN. Ycllowly--“You say your life is made A burden by bill collectors?” Browulv--“It is.” “Why don't you nuopt my plan of get ting rid of ’em? (Eagerly)---‘‘Ha! What is your pi/JP?” “My plan works to a charm. After putting it in operation they never trouble me again. - ’ “Good, my boy. What is your plan?” “I pay ’em .’—Ronton Courier. HE TOOK IUS OWN MEDICINE. Durnley—“What’s the matter, Top knot? You look bad.’’ Topknot—“Y'es; all doubled up with rheumatism again. ” Dumley—“Have you ever tried Dr. Wragley?” Topknot—“No. Is he familiar with rheumatism?” Dumley—“He ought, to bo by this time. He has had it himself for over forty years .”—London Rare Bit*. SHE REMEMBERED mM. He—“So you remember me?” She—“I knew you as soon as I saw you.” that “It is very flattering to me you should recognize me when you have not seen me since we met at the seashore three years ago. Would you mind tcll ing me what it is that lias kept my image fresh in your memory all this time?” “Why, you have got on thc same shabby coat and old-fashioned stovepipe hat you wore three years ngo.”— Sifting*. why it was there. “Can you tell me, my friend,” said j the elderly gentleman to the keeper of the camel, “what tho hump on that au final's back is for !" “What's it fori” NUMBER 5. “Yes; of what value is it!” “Well, it’s lots of value. De camel be no good widotA it.” “Why not?” “Why not? Yer don tsuppose people 'ud pay twenty-five cents to see a came widout any hump on him, <*> yer!”— ir.7»/r inrjton Capitol. AS NEAR ALIKE AS DAT AKD SIGHT. Young Man (somewhat agitated)—“1 have railed, Mr. Means, to ask permis¬ sion to pay my addresses to your daugh¬ Miss Ruth.” Banker Means—My daughter Ruth, Mr. Peduncle! Why, she is engaged to Mr. Swackhammer.” Y'oung Man < still agitated, but reflect¬ ing *Hal all is not yet loaf)—“Did you think I said Miss Ruth, Mr. Means! 1 said Miss Gwendolen. The—er—simi larity of the names probably caused you to misunderstand me.”— Chicago Tribune. SCDDEN CHANGE OE SUBJECT. Mr. Smallpurse (who h«# carefully fig ured "P thc <ost of two theatre tickets and the 8treet oar fare)—“Do you enjoy the drama, Miss Gehall?” Miss Gehall—“Oh, very much; but I become entirely worn out every time I f fore Ju" half past ten, !> and ‘^ then it takes Ver fp , ‘if ly «« hour to get supper at‘Del s, and after that comes thc long ndc home, Hnd the harkmen do poke so. you know.” Vr. 1hnaRpursc-^“Um-er-What do h,nk of Browning! -New York Weekly. , The Indian Ghost Feast. g CV eral hundred Blackfeet Sioux ar rived at Lincoln, Dakota, recently, and R t night held a grand ghost feast. Among the curious ceremonies of the Sioux tho ghost feast is held in great reverence. It will soon be abolished by order of the Indian agent, and, like the sun dance, will be buried with the traditions of the past. The feast is given by the relatives of those who have died or been killed in battle. At the feast held at Lincoln there were six ghosts, represented by six stakes about four feet in length,set up in thc ground within the medicine lodge. A piece of buckskin was sewed over the top of the stakes, upon which eyes, nose, mouth, etc., were marked to represent the head. Fifteen Iudians, with the big medi¬ cine man of the village, were seated in a teepee smoking, but rarely speaking to each other. Some live coals were brought and placed before the medicine man, who threw upon them wild sage brush, and holding some pemmiean in the smoke chanted a song. Little children were brought in, and received this meat to eat, an( j somc had their ears pierced. The pemmiean was also given te the otlsrrs iu the lodge, and somc was placed at the feet of the ghost. Outside the lodge hundreds of Indians were gathered, forming groups of a doz¬ en or so, bucks, squaws und children in their respective places. All were feasted with a menu known Dniy to Indians, Around the outside of the medicine lodge horizontal poles were placed, and to these thc presents which the ghosts were to distribute were suspended, consisting of blankets, leggings, beaded moccasins, tobacco bags, eagle feathers, etc. After remaining for somc time in view, they were removed and placed about the ghosts in the lodge. The relatives now entered the lodge to commune with the departed spirits, and the presents were 1 distributed to the favored ones, The squaws sang and cried and made great exhibition of their grief. They, cut their flesh with knives, suffering ex j cruciating the wrath pains of without the evil a murmur spirits, so to that ap ; pease i their loved ones may be joyful in the happy hunting grounds. Upon the con¬ ! elusion of the feast the lodge? was taken down ami the ghosts Were left standing. An Albanian Blood Fend. Being iu confidential mood, my host tells me about his family and his chil , dren, and that he has a blood feud with one of the most powerful families of the neighboring * Hotti tribe, and so never j * out of thc villa c alone for fear he houM be sUot for thc bIood he owe8 hia enen)ies Hig siater , he elplains , mar . ried a man of Hotti, and it was consid : cred a splendid match, as that tribe is the , most powerfui in the great mountains, an ,i takes the post of honor in time of 1 war. About a year after the marriage, the husband repudiated his bride, aud sent her home, giving no reason for the outrage, but merely saying he was not going to keep the woman any longer, ! g uc h an insult was not to be tolerated; so my host and his brother, seeing that there was no chance of obtaining for their sister the restitution of her rights, ■ looked out for an opportunity of killing their brother-in-law. “He was very j cunning,” said my host reflectively, j playing with his pistol; “but I waited for him every day, and at last I caught him alone, and then I shot him for the slight he had dared to put on our fam¬ ily.” “And so you owe them blood!” lie-grins, and arranges his pistols in 1(h) leather tila. “His fatherffand brothers, ’ he replies, “often come into our country, to loots for me, and wait for me outside the bazaar or on the roa<l to Scodra, but I never go into the city without my brother and my relations, so they cannot exact the penalty without fighting a bat¬ tle.” “But surely that must be a great nuisance for you?” He shrugs his shoulders: “Some day they will catch me alone, as I caught him, and then they will shoot me if they can.” “And your sister?” “She is in the city.” “Has she married again?” “Married? Oh no! She begs; she has her child.” Then seeing my look of astonishment he adds: ‘ ‘ What is she to do ? We cannot support her; she does not belong to us now, and the Hotti will not keep her. But I have avenged the insult; I have shot her hus¬ band.”— ChamberJournal. - Horseshoes That Fell From Heav.ni. Frank Morris, of Worthington, Wood County, W. Va., is the owner of a horse whose shoes literally dropped from the heavens. Some years ago a meteoric stone fell on the banks of Jenny’s Creek, in Wayne County, and was divided up among the people of the neighborhood as soon as it was discovered. The aerolite contained a laxgc percentage of iron, ami some of the fragments were procured by .Morris, who had a blacksmith friend work them up into a set of ho.seshoes. The iron is very hard, and the shoes have already outlasted two or three ordinary sets.