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The Ge( >rgia Enterprise. XXV. -T^nia farmer wants day, the when Gov ' Resale ., set apart a-sparrow made onslaught maybe on (feaniio 118 birds. Hartford Ti.nt* reports a great graphic feat: Mrs. Isabella B. ;«s. of Boston, wrote a verbatim ,tof a s P e< eh made in German by fichurz, which she turned iiuo Kng shile her pen was flying across the in stenographic characters." ^-gacies to the amount of 19000, left Benjamin Franklin aud John Scott tc expended upon public improvements, mounted by investment for nearly .. to about #110,000. Of this. atury devoted to the erection n no!) will be [ large public bath in Philadelphia, tte remaining $10,000 will be laid e for another hundred years. L ;lie p 0 or inmates of insane asylums L capable of gratitude, the New York [ thinks they would undoubtedly Chase. L the name of I)r. A. G. [ humane practitioner has invented a L of complex mirrors and shafts ling to the attic or top story of the Lm Lector of Norristown, Penn., by which stationed there is enabled to live minutely every act aud motion Ihe patients and attendants in the L 0 f the iii'-t and second floors, so i prevent the abuse of patients. The lees have adopted this sort of mute ctives and expect from their use a Dpt cessation of the brutalities which l hitherto been practised with impu in the asylum. paper published in India tells about ngenuitv of the thieves of that coun¬ in secreting stolen valuables. The [ of the epiglottis is one of their bus hiding places. A leaden bullet *-<|tiarters of an inch in diameter, kid to a string, is allowed to slip B the throat to a certain depth, lc it remains for half an hour or f. This operation is repeated until pit is formed in the throat in which thieves secrets small articles of fry, money, etc. Twenty prisoners [Calcutta jail recently were found to prided [stolen with this singular receptacle goods. The detectives of k must be uncommonly alert to have loped a ruse of this kind. f. lames M. Swank, in his ‘‘Report be Mineral Resources of the United j? for 1888, states that throughput lovld there are mined every year more, BO,000,000 tons of iron ore and more [450,000,000 tons of coal. Of the ore Great Britain contributes about ry per cent., the United States fy-four per cent, and Germany ly-onc per cent., these three coun¬ thus famishing about seventy-four ent. of the total amount produced. Same three countries furnish together rigkj-tvo per cent, of all the coal 1 Great Britain having produced icarabout 169,000,000 tons, America F '29,000,000 tons and Germany f "0,000,000 tons. Ming to a foreign publication, f likel J 'hat we may witness t«t the unusual though not unpre bted spectacle of an export of pota froin Europe, and even from the Ed Klo S dom 'o America. The chief , :es of su PP'y for the United States “e New England States, and in all 1 Maine the crop is undoubt s failure. Even in Maine it is be “ tilat the yield will be !" gh tlM very poor, aec °unts are not. yet quite US1Te ' Tlle production of that StaU Fever larger than that of any other I ” 0D an( ^ if the adverse esti ’ MF Current should be confirmed, : ■ be no doubt that imports from f the Alaati c will be required.” J ': U ' '’ down ents have got the science pretty fine it, Cali ' ■ ' dlmate ^' ?reat specialty l of Califor L f sn( the healthfulness L," ll'J * Sn or,Jer Francisco to advertise San sents papers con¬ 8 to of an undertaker who sell out. He says that he has fete °wat for undertaking a .ineh* ' aa busi- 1 <i<w hear8e , ’ coffins of the ve, '-V a C th,.' a * "°° hat d have ne and ™- b <*n 'f as ncw > alt the m “ ^ ghastly announces paraphernalia his of the i'diaTe i bel willingn i« ° WWh0leSale price3 of crt >'’ because really the i if T Vtw 0 is 80 frightfully : ker. ^«'jtherct Bo eVerdlCSthCreaDd room for an un !’ °gle > au English statistician, c ®dmittin th V uU al Ensllw ‘ 1 and tow-nd the towns atteaded b vade - ^ d - ld the ' Stricts - ^ di< W <W P°P ul ation in Eng ^thiu one per cent., a th '! ° f adowaQ The au 1, ce *«!, the I?? ;;;r Stat . ionar y,audi for me im i' r ° v(, ... ..... . w »*; but the surplus i °t th, continuous ? most ' igorous and e toortaiitv maunfa riuri; g district,, ra GEKEHAL XE rrj CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS, AM) EXCITING EVENTS. The rep- i t of the murder of the mis¬ sionary, tN.vagc, in New Guinea, is de¬ clared to lie untiue. ( ap tal Hotel, at Dallas, Texas, w s destroyed by fi e Thursday. Loss $50, 000; insurance $30,000. The Standard Oil company has ab¬ sorbed the Globe refinery at Pittsburg, Pa., and alto the Freedom, Pa., refinery. The schooner Southwest, iron laden, is missing, is supposed nr d, with her ctew of nine men, to have gone down in Lake Erie. Mnste.' Workman Powdcrly says the Knights <f Labor arc in bette r slnpe than a year ago, the future brighter than evir belorc. A convmti in of the American Associ¬ ation of Agricultural colleges and ex¬ periment stations began its session at Washington, I). C., Tue-day. The Volcano of Colina, Mexico, is re¬ ported to be in a state of active eruption. Many houses have been destroyed, and the woods for many miles around are on fire. News comes from Talequah, that the Cherokee council w ill employ attorneys to contest the government’s claim to ju¬ risdiction over their lands known as the Cherokee strip. The New York Herald says that it is understood that the oil producers associ¬ ation is to lay a pipe line from Pittsburg lo the seaboard, in opposition to the Standard O.l company. Fire on the river in Bedford, just be¬ yond the city limits of Manchester, N.H., of Saturday, destroyed the farm buildings Samuel N. Dunbar. Two children were burned to death. Coal miners of four pool* in the Mo norigahel.i Valley met at Monongahela City, Thursday,and decided to strike for in advance of one-half a cent perbusbc’ ior the price of mining. The first regular shipment of the new crop of California oranges passed through the poit ot Nongales Thursday. The quality this season is fine, and the crop is an unusually large one. A live wire fell on the roof of n Third avenue car, in New York city the other day, and stopped its progress. It is be¬ lieve i that it would have killed any one who have been touched by it. The Lager Beer Brewer’s association of New Yotk, voted $410,000 to the wot Id’s fair guarantee fund. Total re¬ ceived Wednesday was $522 000, mak¬ ing the grand total now $3,554,110. Advices from the Pan Handle coun¬ try and regions further north says that heavy snow now covtrs the earth aud there is every indication that the begin¬ ning of a most severe winter is at hand. A special to the Tribune from Albany, N.Y. says that the firm of B. Lodge & Co., knit goods jobbers, of that city, has been forced into an assignment by a depres¬ sion in business, with $70,000 liabilities. The official gazette at the city of Mexico publishes a contract entered into between that government and Francisco Alfaro for the construction by the latter of a railroad from tho Rio Grande to the Pacific coast. The supreme court of Indiana has de¬ cided that natural gas is a commercial commodity, and, consequently, the legis¬ lative act of last winter prohibiting the piping of gas out of the state unconsti¬ tutional. The woo! growers of Western Texas have concluded to send a delegate to Washington to look after and protect the intere.-t of the wool growers generally before the committee of ways and means of the coming Congress. Daniel V. Carmichael, one of the best known business men of Amsterdam, N. Y., was arrested Tuesday night by De¬ tective Sweeney, of Albany, on the charge of forgery. The forgeries extend over a period of two years. Tire proposition to remove the remains of General Grant from Riverside Park, New York, to Arlington, near Washing¬ ton city, seems to bo meeting favorable consideration. It is indorsed by two or three- posts of the G. A. R. 1 lie new state of North Dakota begins business with a bonded indebtedne.-s of $509,000 and a floating indebtedness ol about $80,000. With the strictest econ¬ omy there will he a further d.fficiencj during the first j ear of at least $..0,000. A call lias betn issued by the temper anee societies of Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, North and South Dakota, fora conven tion to be held in Omaha on the 18'h of December, for the purpose of organizing the states named in a central prohibition organization. Exports of specie from the port ol New York for week ending Saturday, November 9, amounted to $342,841, of which $10,420 was in gold and 332,035 in silver. Imports of specie last $177,331 week nmounted to $279,180, of which was in gold, and $101 830 in silver. mi The M Middlosborough i., , ii-ii- .England, and iron market is excited. No. 3 Cleve pig is quoted at 60s. It is reported that the syndicate has bought up all Cleveland warrants, thus cornering the market. Mtddlcsborough No. 3 warrants are quoted at 68s cash. E Vanhosen, a prominent church number and cashier of the Toledo, O., National bank, has been arrested, charged with embezzling about $80,000 of the bank’s funds. J. M. Keller, tel ler of the bank, is also under arrest ns an accomplice. Bishop O’Dwyer, at Limerick, Ireland, has issued a pastoral letter forbidding the clergy of the diocese to grant abso¬ lution to any person guilty of boycotting or pursuing the plan of campaign. The bishop retains to himself alone the right lo absolve such persons. In keeping with the tise in the matkef, the wattes of employes of furnaces of the Brooks Iron company, at Biisboro, Pa., have been advanced percent. 'I he Warwick Iron company, of Pottstown, Pa., will incrcise its nace Mondiiy. employes’ wages ten per cent, Mayor Creiger, of Chicago, on Tuesday nppoin ed a committee of leading wns to coafer with the Soldiers Association relative to the option don. to be tendered to Governor of Georgia,during his visit her 30th. The occasion promises to 1 notable one. sa^Tf* a j- A , 0n . ° fr , £ hl m e u hwa Roscbar vm!lu i ^ h ® ?, ld reg0D U P 1 Con. Coos Bay U stage Thursday, - broke “Mr COUNTRY: MAY SHE EVER ME RIGHT; RIGHT OR WRONG, MY COUNTRY !” —Jeffers* s. COVINGTON. GEORGIA. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER *21, 18811. < iters and registered pcnncVs and rifl d them i f their contents, then htnd; <1 I ‘hem hack to the driver, thanked him j politely It is reported aud Lade from him “God Chicago speed." that Or. Cronin’s clothes were found on Evans ! hin the catch avenue, about one hundred feet from basic in which the body was found, Saturday afternoon. In them was on account book containing Cronin's name. Sirs. Conklin, with whom he lived, identified them as his. . °h>gist ..... of Oh-.o, offi S c says ctally ■ ,, that the Garun! t-as supply in the now famous field in the northwestern part of that state will not last for ten years. In the eastern part of the state the supply has been so nearly exhausted that the manufactories have been com¬ pelled to return to the use of coal. The committee appointed at the meet¬ ing of the govomors of the tint teen orig¬ inal states, held in Philadelphia in April, 1888, and of which Governor Green, o( New Jersey, was chairman, his issued an invitation to the governors of all the states »i:d territories to meet in person, or by representation., < n the second Tues¬ day in December, 1889, at the Ebbilt house, Washington, D. O. A COURT ROOM FIGHT 15 WHICH TnnEE PERSONS ARE KILLEE AND SEVERAL SERIOUSLY WOUNDED. A dispatch from Lexington, Va., says-. “Reports received here fr< m Browns burg, a small -village of about 300 peo pie, in Rockbridge couniy, fotiite n mi es noith of Lexington, state that that village is in a high state of excitement over leading a terrible and bloody fight between men of the vicinity. Three persons are dead or fatally wounded, while a number of ethers are severely injured. It seems that Dr. P. J. W aiker, one of the most prominent phy¬ sicians and surgeons of the state, hud threatened the tife of Henry Miller, a prominent and wealthy citizen of Rock¬ bridge county, for an rtisuit offered the former’s wife. Miller had Walker ar¬ rested to keep the peace. Friday even ing the case came up in a rn gistrate’s court, and the trouble soon started, which ended in both sides drawing their weapons. Miller was kidtd, Dr. Walker fat dly wounded ar d Mrs. Walk¬ er, who was in court ns a witness, was killed. Dan and William Miller, sons of the accused, were shot and dangerously wounded. Sitnuel Beaver and others whose names are unknown, are also in¬ jured.” Walker, A later dispatch ssys: “Dr. P. J. who was wounded in the Brownburg Lexington, affair Fr.day evening, neat Va., has died from his wounds. Dave Miller is mortaily wounded, and his brothers George, Janus and William implicated in iho shooting of Dr. Walker and lrs wife, are in jail. Lyncning is feared." THE TERRIBLE BLIZZARD. FURTHER PARTICULARS OF TIIE DISAS¬ TROUS STORM IN Tllli SOUTHWEST. Various parties who spent ten days in the snosv blockade between Emory Gap iml Folsom, N. M., arrived it) Trinidad, Col., Tutsday. They report suffering to nan and animal fully as great as shown in former reports. Patrick Casey, an ngiueer, spent eleven days in making the run from Trinidad to Texline anti return. food. For two days and nights he was viihout Seventy five men shovel¬ ling from show for at Mount D ra and were cut off food two days nights. A delayed passenger train was cut off from ating stations three days. They drew on the express cirs for food supplies. Reports says a sick man, traveling with two children, lay on his hack two days ti lplers. lie had o ly crackers foi nourishment. A sheep grower, near Ute reck, is reported to bare lost 5,000 beep from a flock of 8,000. An engi¬ neer, running between Trinidad and I'exline, said that he saw more real des itutiou duiiug the ten days in this snow ulockade than in all bis life before. The r ad was opened with rotory enow r plows, but remained open only a tew hours. Tuesday morning’s snow and wind block¬ ed the tuts agam. Altogether the bliz¬ zard has been a terrible one. None of the residents of that part of the country ever heard of such a one in south Colo¬ rado or New Mexico. TRAIN WRECKER CAUGHT WHILE IN TIIE ACT OF PLACING A DAN¬ GEROUS OBSTRUCTION ON THE TRACK. The c , J, f r train which , cft Atlantlli Ga . ; b und or M,. K . on , W ednes day evening, narrowly escaped a feirfut wreck. By the time the train reached Wcstvicw, near McPherson bniracks, the engine was under good headway. The watchman who looks after the tracks near Oakland was walking the track when suddenly he discovered a man bending over the tiack just ahead of him. He s'epptd forwaid and a-ked the man what he was doing, when the latter raised up and he recognized him as Dick Latham, a negro well known in Atlanta, Glancing at the track the watchman f»w a piece of railroad iron, curiously bent, ’ lying on the rail. The headlight cf th e train flashe 1 full upon it. and be that it had been tied to the track - h wJ ’ and be tugged away at it, _. ettiu „ u clear of ,be rail just as the the locomotive passed over the wires t]ia t he did not have time to die n tangle. By that time the negr . had es ^ped, but was captured later in the niglit! The spot is within where fifty the yards iron was of lied Un¬ to the track wrecked pf ,ce where the fame train was a cro ss-tie placed on the track some m , e p 9 lives’ a „ 0> w hen three railroad men lost t heir CRERARS WILL. HIS LIBERAL EEQTF8T8 TO CHURCKE* AND LITERARY societies. John (.rernr, ot , The will of the late Chicago, was admi.ted to mo ate iurs day in the rounty cour, Eohedu i i poses of persorul 11- C( and , . at $3,500,000, na c “ ^ $50,000. Cn'.u w i- a > the last member •• ^ ‘ family in the ma.e rce num . ■ SAaailWwSSXw benues's of the flrst , aecond and third . , ,i,p r -nms are eiven to 1,'t- charities, historical, fie, ra? ,1 tarv societbs arid to 8 " whole aggregating f’Xn ca ds V the Tho '‘ s d a arter dollars. ,c ]c(ft ’ ,. 0 rotate, estimated to be °ith R abou • A" "50 000, is set apart for w wtamtensnce ~ of 0 f ,, p DU ij. b ’ the erection and lie library in th- city of Chic OT, l “John Crerar Library. t) known as the \Y ** *il \ Cl 1I IT Y O TfW 1Y ' (\ v. • i ' MO CEMENTS OF THE PRES WEN I AND HIS ADVISERS. APPOINTMENTS, DECISIONS, AND OTHER MATTERS OP INTEREST FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. The statement is out that congress will j investigate and the civil service commission, preparations for the investigation j htc now being made, j The secret iry of the treasury has ap¬ j pointed L. G. Jeffers superintendent ol j constroctii n ef the federal buildings at j Birmingham, moved. Ala., vice Shepherd, re¬ I)r. Gricn, president of the Western Union Telegraph company, is preparing a reply to Postmaster-General Wana maker’s schedule of rates in accordance with the directions of the executive com¬ mittee. The president on Tuesday appointed the following fmirth-class postmasters: Miss Laura A. Cobb, Blairsville; Jamei K. Goethe, Dale’s Mill; P. Howell, Lax, Ga., and James 11. Ozinent, Battle Ground, N. C. The new Catholic University of Amer¬ ica was on Wednesday formally opened with impres-ive ceremonies in file pres¬ ence f a large number of prelates of the church and distinguished laymen from 11,1 ‘ ,:irts of ,he C0U,lt T' A letter received at Washington from Caracas, dated November 5‘.h, states < n October 26tb, the ttatties of Blanco ’ in that city, were pulled ttn<i dragged through the streets I 'ccts. Similar statues in other luct a like fate, Monday afternoon the president his proclamation declaring that the ditions imposed by congress on the of Washington to entitle that state admission to the Union have been fil'd and accepted, aud that the admis sion of snid state into the Union is complete. Fourth Auditor Lynch, in his report to the secretary of the treasury, says that there is a deficiency of in the appropriation for the pony of navy and marine corps for the last year, caused partly by the payment of the fund of claims for longevity, lor service on board receiving ships the recent decisions of the Court. Tho Auditor makes an tec unmendation for an increase in cleric el force of his office. November cotton returns of the partment of agriculture show a abie variation in the condition in ent localities. In North Carolina Virginia ihe season has been very aud excessively wot, and the crop ously injured by long continued rains the season of blossoming. T nru rep wiather, its injury lack to the crop l>v of tuliivation, aiv» ...Uj frosts during the past month. In states the crop is much worse than of last year. Elsewhere the crop comparatively Car Aina Alabama, late, especially with from to a large of weed. In tho lowlands early frosts have injured crops cast of Mississippi, while the uplands in the southern belt still green. West of Mississippi, in large been portion of thecottonarea, no frost. The weather for has been remarkably favorable, the gathering without waste of all that opened in excellent condition. tions of the yield per acre, by county respondents, are about three higher than last year. So much still pends on future killing frosts and weather f<«- opening and gathering the result cannot be known very closely until after Christmas. There has been severe general loss by and bollworm, localities has though the damage in some been serious. A Jackson, Miss., special says: A spe cial train o:i the Illinois Central branch from Aberdeen, Mi-s., collided north Canton with a switch engine Thursday, resulting in the death of Patrick mond, engineer of the switch Tom Loftin, fireman of the switch cine. Jim Smith, D. Halsey and V. Thomas, and several other persons injured. The royal chapter of King’s Daughters, wbieh is composed of deli gates lrom various circles in the state, met Charleston, S. 0., Sunday, and was very slin.lv a:tended. The slim was attributed to the publication in a newspaper of a card, which waa supposed to lave been written by a prominent King’s Daughter and inwhic' the w urged the Ivtngs Daughters to get up a petdionto Queen Victoria for the pardon cf Mrs. May brick. News comes from Raleigh, N. C., that the reports of very valuable finds of gold in Montgomery county are true, and that there is already much excitement in that section, which may develop iuto a rush if the discoveries contiuuo. Ihe char¬ acter of gold found shows that it has been beaten from veins. The find will grtally stimulate mining in that county, which*is ihe richest in the state in aurif¬ erous deposits. OUT OF PRISON. GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN WILL EXPOSE THE WICKEDNESS OF BOSTON. George Francis Train was brought be fore Judge McKim in the probate court at Boston, Mass., on Monday morning, where testimony was given by several witnesses as to his mental condition, After hearing the evidence and argu ments of counsel, Judge McKim gave his decision that Train was not insane enough to be confined in an asylum, but evidently of unbalanced mind, and therefore not properly held in durance for debt, He was therefore discharged. Mr. Train says he wilt not go back to i New York until he has laid hare the wickedness of Boston. . EXCITEMENT AT PIERRE. SETTLERS AND SQUAW MEN PREPARING FOR A REGULAR FIG n r. A s peek'd from Pierre, S. D, says: The Fort Pierre Ilcrabl containsastart I 'ing ••*««•'.....tU but earnest appeal for help. Itsavs: condition, soil to state that a company of soldiers, with bayonets m hand to¬ gethcr wd with a number of squaw men a buid of redskms are on tae « ro un d ; Frouble has been expected at the f fort , for some weeks, ow.ng to the conflicting cl«m* of intending settlers and squaw men for lands, and the people of Pierre are now awaiting, with intense excitement and f<nxiet news from the . other gi , lc A GENERAL FIGHT- r SEVERAL MEN KILLED IS HIE FRENCH EVERSOLE FEED IN KENTUCKY. A Courier-Journal special from Hazard. Ky.. savs: The circuit court convened | here last judge, Monday. I Judge Li!by, I ! the regu'ar not icing present, the i bai elected Captain W. L. Iluelst, of Wolf eountv, to preside. Everything ( i started off serenely with apparently i no to town Monday evening Indore j Ire, v™ \ ,10th ' n \ wa * thought of f ir it. Th The Evcr.oie party kept , increasing m numbers un tl it reached thut, well-armed men. There were only a few of the French party in town. It soon became apparent, that there would be trouble. French was aware of the war-like preparations and placed himsc'f with a strong force in easy r. ach of the town so as to be able to relieve bis frimds in the event of trouble. Tliurs da;, evening Wesley Whittaker, of the Eversole faction, fired upon Henry Dav ids a, one of the Fiench party. Wliit take. Jiad barricaded himself in a small log in-use on the opposite side of the street. Davidson was soon joined by others. Whittaker, in the meantime, had also Y„-n joined fight by several place of Ids friends, ami r lively took between torn men of the French party and the Ev",-soles. The court which was in ses¬ sion, (.impeded. The fight lasted about I fifteminutes. When the smoke cle > 1 away, it was found that Cam p • beii, of the Eversole party, had been kill* d. This fight took place about lour o’clock in the aftcr noon. TUe parties rested on their arms till daik, when the fight was re¬ new. d with increased fierceness. The Fre h party had been reinforced by the i Da' 'dson boys. Jessie Morgan, brother of : . O. Morgan, who was killed by the Evi rsoles, ami others. B. F. French hin -elf came into town about 12 o’clock wit,i reinforcements to the relief rf his bcl- iguercd friends. At daybreak the figh raged with new fury. The Ever «oi jiarty was stationed in the courl ho -e and J. C. Eversole’s old fort. Tl 1 battle lasted about an hour and when tin Eversole party retreated, leaving their de 1, Ed Campbell and John Mc-Knight, kit -d. Several were wounded on the E, rsolo side. The court broke up with oi ceremony, the judge leaving for h ne as quickly as possible. 10VEMENT8 OF COTTON. 1 *v oRT or new Orleans cotton ex tes us CHANGE FOR FAST WEEK. *P er ew Orleans Cotton Exchange | {own. jt OMo n ’ a ' tc and * 'he Miasusippi cotton and movement - Poto mac rivers to Northern American and Canadian mills, for the week ending No vember 9th, 48,837 bales, against 48,779 last year, and the total, since September 1st, 1,188,070, against 239,741 last year; the total American mill takings, North and South, for the first ten weeks of the season, 517,883, against 674,852. of winch by Northern, 431,486, agains’ 587.152; the amount of the American cotton crop in sight, 2,670,580. The statement shows a partial halt in heavy foreign exports, and the excess, which last week was 410,575 bales, is now 869,- 573 over the total to this time last year, It also indicates that the Northern mills are still pursuing ahand-to-tnouth policy, the deficiency in their takings for tne ten weeks compared with last year hav ing been increased to 125,716 bales, The stocks af the seaports and leading interior towns have increased 189,874 bales during the week, reducing the de ficitncy, compared with the clcse of the corresponding bales. week last year, to SO ,542 : TRIED FIVE TIMES. AN EDGEFIED, S. C., MURDERER ESCAPES THE GALLOWS FOR THE FIFTH TIME. ! News comes from Charleston, S. C., that the fifth trial of R. T. Jones, the J model nt Edgefield ,lie Edgefield murderer,is courthou now in Some pro ? n 8S e. . Jones, who married u ^.. or t! x Nears ago I 8 “ J ? s Pr f sb '?t K ot “ ad w],h bw wife’s relatives, took his shot gun and three or • butcher knives, and went out into l0 ! d where li,s father-in-law, aged sex¬ ! and ,brce brothers-m-law. " ere at v '°' 1 5- J T '; ma established a hu . falher . in . law and butchered his three broth) rs-in-law. lie then went in the courthouse village and surrendered him s,]f. The murder occurred during the sission of the court nt which the Cul breath lynchers were being tried for the murder of au innocent man. Jones has ; been a hero ever since, Five times he has been brought to trial, and cueh time he has escaped by a mistrial. A BOLD ROBBERY BY TWO MEN, SUPPOSED TO BE RUBE BURROW AND I1IS PAL. A special to the Birmingham Age-IIer ald, from Sulligent, Ala., the the nearest telegraph office to Vernon, tells of county seat of Lamar couuty, a bold j heavily robbety cariy Wednesday night. Two resi armed men rode up to the dence of Mr. Summers, a merchant in Vernon, and asked him to go to his store and let them have some burial material : for a person who had just died out in the country. Summers went and let them into the store, struck a light, nnd was surprised to find himself looking j down the barrel of a big revolver, In obedience to instructions he opened his safe aud gave the robbers four hundred dollars, ail he had. The robbers are sup posed to be Rufie Burrow and his part ner. Burrow’s home is only seven miles from Vernon. POISONED HASH. OVER A HUNDRED WEST TOINT CADETS SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN POISONED. A rcp.ort reached Newburg, N. Y., Thursday, that half tho corps of cadets at West Point, upwards of 150, had re ported at hospital ill from poisoning. It turns out that the illness occurred a few days ago; that it was not poisoning, but trouble of tho bowels, and the attack was general with all connected with the mi sc hall—drivers, gardeners, waiters, etc., these faring as badly as the cadets. Eveu who had not ta-ted food at the mess were as badly afflicted as the others, The surgeon had his hands full of bu-i ness for a time, but all recovered. The superintendent sion has appointed a commis to investigate the cause. SOUTHERN SEWS. ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA¬ RIOUS POINTS IN TllE SOUTH. A CONDENSED ACCOUNT Of WHYI IS OOINOt ON OS IMPORTANCE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES. A Confederate monument was unveiled in Suffolk, Va., Thursday. chief Justjcc w - » P - 1Iuat daughter of the . s, ( ‘ eLry Jh »'*■ •-*" , Ti' ?*• reT" M- rton. P " ¥ The assessm; at of property for tnxa tom m bmimca has just lieeo com P' e,cd - The ' »tal amount is $223,304,- 758, which is an men aso of about 9 per cent, over the assessment of 1883. It is now said that the last reported fight between the Hatfields and McCovs in West Virginia never occurred ail'd that the accounts of previous conflicts between these factious were much l x aggerated. Sanfor Joseph Plummer, aged 88. died near he I, Ky., Thurso iy. Two months ago had a stroke of paralysis, and it is said went without food for forty days, his weight declining from 285 to 125 pounds. A dispatch from Sacramento, Cal., on Monday says: Frank J. Leo, who ac¬ companied this Sam Jones, the revivalist, to city last winter as his private stcre tary, is now locked up in the city prison on a charge of burglary. Hon. Jefferson Davis, who had accepted an invitation to attend the approach¬ ing centennial at Fayetteville, N. C\, has w ritten a letter to the committee of ar¬ rangements, in which lie- states that his health will not permit him to be present. Ten men have been arrested at Cleve¬ land, Tcun., for passing counterfeit money. The operations of the counter¬ feiters have been very extensive through¬ out that sec'ion for several months past, silver dollars being the principal coins made. A special of Tuesday t> the Courier Journal from Loudon,Ky., says: Reports freirn the fight of tlm French.Eversole factious in Perry county contineic to be meager and conflicting, but there is no doubt that n desperate encounter com* mcnced at Hazard Thursday, and is yet perhaps in progress. Among the cases of importance which w ill I e tried at Sylvania, Ga.. next week will be that of Thomas Beard, chnrgcel with killing L. M. Conner a short time ago. The .Alliance-men are taking an active part in the proceedings, owing to Ihe faet that Beard belonged to the or¬ der, and intense interest is manifested in the case. Dispatches of Thursday from Vernon, Alu., say that Summers, tho merchant who was robbed there Tuesday night, declares that the robber was not Burrow, Summers has known Rube all bis life, aud although the men wore masks, he could tell his visitors were not the fa rnous outlaw and his pal. At ,. a meeting in hew .. Orleans, „ , of . the , chamber of commerce am industry of Louisiana, llutrsday night, t.icrc was of a spirited contest over the question preference as between New York and Chicago for the site of the world’s expo ntton of 1802. A resolution was finally adopted favoring Chicago. News was received from Rcidsville, N. C., Thursday, that the grand jury had returned a true bill against Mrs. Cora May Harris, for the murder of her bus band, a merchant of that place, by poi soiling him. The woman is of one of the best families in the state, a relative of ex-Governor 8 ales, and thr case promises to be a celebrated one. News of a horrible double murder comes from Johnston county, N. C. An aged and respectable lady named Mrs. Celia Brown resided in the country, about four miles from Selma, with her little grands,n eight years of age. Sat urday morning both were found mur dered. They had been killed with a cun. No clew lias been obtained to the murderer and no cause for it can he as sit;ned ”, The well ,, , known case of , Charles „, , E. c Cross and Samuel (. White .defaulting president and cashier, r ^ s F c 1V< y» the State National bank of Raleigh, N. C., was finally disposed of Monday by an opinion rendered by Justice Harlan in the United States supreme court Inc effect of the decision will be to compel Cross and White to serve out the term for which the; were sentenced. The thiid biennial session of the Uni¬ ted Syodof the Evangelist Lutheran church, South, convened in Wilmington, N. C., Thuisday. This body embraces eight district synods, and has a commu¬ nicant membciship of about forty thou sand. One of the important matters to be considered by tie synod is the estab¬ lishment of a Southern theological sem¬ inary. fatal EXPLOSION. BIX MEN KILLED AND TWO -'TIIE HS BLINDED IIY OUST POWDER. A Pioneer Press sjk cial on Thursday 1 ^ ' occur red on t h e cw strut: on branch of the Northern Pacific, fifteen miles west of here, in Jefferson county, un Tuesday night. The men were at work in a cut blasting IO ck. A blast of giant powder was fired but failed to have the desired tffict. Whereupon, it being close to quitting time, aud the men being anx¬ ious to complete the blast before they quit, they pourcl a quantity of black powder into the drill hole. Some sparks from the giant powder blast must have remained in the hole, for instantly an ex¬ plosion followed, before the men could retire to a place of safety, bix men were killed and tvo others had their eves blown out. A GENEROUS GIFT. A BALTIMORE LADY OIVE8 J””-'’ HOPKINS university a CHECK FOR $100,000. jj r9 Caroline Donovan, of Baltimore, the widow . of a Ke' T Yo f k Merchant, on Saturday presented to the John Hop kins university a check for $100,000. Mr 9 Donovan expresses the preference Eng that . it be used to found a chair of dsb literature, though if the trustees fee 6t , 0 „ iake other use of the money, they may act according to their best judg mi nt. Mrs. Donovan made this money beiaelf l)v fortunate investments. She hud a i rc a*dy provided for all of her blood relative) and thu 1 made her generoui gift without causing family jealousies. ! THE CRONIN TRIAL BAD BLOOD BETWEEN COUNSEL —A WO¬ MAN’S STARTLING TESTIMONY. There is mush bad blood between counsel for the i rosecution and those for the defen. e in the Cronin case, which is not ronfi icd to the principal counsel, but is shared also by the juniors. There was a wrangle 'luesdav night in the | cl, rk's office after adjournment, in which ispxzrJssrs.’s:& thJ-Tust’odjTf ^xhTbtolS^Yc a“u£ prosecuting attorney and placed in the Lands of the clerk. This wrangle broke out afresh in the court Wedm sd rv m ruing without any apparent reason, Hynci except that Attorneys Forrcit and wished to nnphasize the distrust and dislike of Prosecutor Longeneckt-T. The matter was finally dropped, an I the testimony proceeded with. The most important testimony, so far, outside of the identification of Burke ns the man who rented the Carlson cottage, where tl e murder was committed, is that of a washerwom -u named Pauline Hocr tel. She testified that she pawed the Carlson cottage between 8 and 9 on the night of the murder. She saw a white norse, drawing driven a buggy in which there were two men, up to the cottage. The larger man, who appeared like a gen¬ tleman, got out of the buggy and taking a satchel or box out of the buggy went up the steps and entered the cottage. Tho driver of the white horse at onre turned around and drove back toward Chicago. The man knocked and was at once admitted iuto the cottage. As quick as the door was closed Mrs. Hoertel heard sounds as of blows and the fall "f a heavy body and what sounded to her like some one calling, “Ob, God.” In the confusion of sounds she also heard the word “Jesus.” Then in a very short time everything became still. She said: “It was as if somebody was fighting and then as if somebody fell.” Witness said this occurred soon after eight o'clock at night. “The man who went into the !’■ t ttage,” she continued, “went into the house if unhesitatingly, tho door and it seemed to ms ns it was him opened or ns if some one opened for as he came up the steps. When I turned from Ash¬ land avenue and started east I saw a man standing between the Carlson house and the cottage. Ho was inside in the fence. There was a light in front of the cottage and the night was bright starlight.” A POWERFUL ORDER, THE PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY GOING TO HAVE THINGS THEIR OWN WAT. A dispatch from Port Huron, Mich., says that not less than 75,000 Michigan Daadry f" rn ! er8 since ljavu i last oi “ ed May, the asd Patrons the number of IIus increasing ^ery week. 1 hey threaten to jecomo a controlling power in ilia of ,he 8late . 8t ‘ d tlu "> to ( T> rt ' ad °. T< : r t ie entlr f c °9 ntr y- The patrons clmm to , h “ ye ^ 8n forced ln ‘° bem « monopolies ,. and trusts, and they propose to organize a combination that will , trjke terror to the hearts of their ene mio ,_ At prcgent , h(j patronf ar6 deT0 . ting themselves exclusively to merchants, snd in every town where they have a foothold they '' enter int0 on lron . c l ad contract wlth one dcak . r in cacll Une o{ trade to purchase only from him, exact ing a pledge that they shall not be charged to exceed twelve per cent ad vance on wholesale prices. The patrons have lodges in forty seven counties, with | , membership of more than 5,000. —-- IN HOT WATER. THE SOUTn CAROLINA RAILROAD SWAMPED WITH LITIGATION. Another suit for foreclosure was filed Thursday in the United States court at Charleston against the South Carolina railroad. The complainants in this suit » ro H ; P. Walker and other holders of original first mortgage bonds of the <,ld ro “ d . '" ljosc securities were not con v erted m the ! reorganization. There arc 11 three suits for foreclosure pending nt the couits against the road. The first being the suit of the first morlg.ige con H . lidatcd bou ,, g knr , wn as the Bound Mlit) and UBder which ex . G oveiuor Chamberlain was appointe d receiver, and t ] lc second m bt half of the second inert (new) bendholdcrs, and the third Jn bchllU l)f ^e first mortgage (o’d> bondholders, THROUGH THE SHOALS. A MISSISSIPPI RIVER STEAMBOAT LAND8 at Chattanooga's wharf. The steamboat, A. C. Ci nu, a Missis tippi river craft, passed through Muscle Shoals canal and arrived at the wharf in Chattanooga, Tcnn., Thursday morning. This is the first vessel which ha’ passed through the great canals now about completed. The construction in the of Tennes¬ canals to overcome obstructions see river at Muscle Shoals was com mene d by the government in 1873, and nearly four million dollars have thus far been expended on the work. The open¬ ing of the canals, which will formally take place in a few weeks, will give wa¬ ter transportation nine months in the j jear river. from Chattanooga to the Mississippi ( CAGED AT LAST. AFTER A YEAR’S FREEDOM NINETEEN MURDERERS ARRESTED. John Jackson was ai rested in Wichita, Kansa«, Wednesday morning, on a charge of murder, aud. brought to Topeka. He was one of twenty-nine who, in July, 1888, murdered Sheriff Cross and posse of Stevens county in the neutral strip. The murderers were not arrested at the i time because of a legal technicality, no court, it was claimed, having jurisdiction over the neutral strin. Advices from Wichita Thursday night were that eigh¬ teen others were placed under arrest. SWINDLED THE EMIGRANTS GALICIAN PEASANTS INDUCED TO COME TO AMERICA UNDER FALSE STATEMENTS. News comes from Vienna that at Wu dotce, Ihursday, the trial opened of j sixty-five persons who are charged with swindling inducing large number of Galician pc isants by them to emigrate to America by la’se statements, and then obtaining Among commission the on their implicated passage money. persons are a commissary of p lice, comptroller of customs, Hungarian judge and a num her of customs guards, beveral Austrian j and Piu-stan gens-de of arm swindle. were bribed to ; assist organizers the NUMBER 7 FROM THE CAR WINDOW, f Like a great serpent our train sped along O'er hill and through sweet smelling glen. Through the deep tangled thicket and foreeC of pine. By low hanging orchard and rich clustering vine, Through many a flowery fen. With meteor swiftness we trundled away, O'er ec hoing trestle and bridge, ’Neath where rippling waters in tumult is stirred, Whose sparkle is seen but whose song is am heard. As we hurl through a hole in the ridge. In mail eager haste we scampered along. Through picturesque village and town, Past bright, golden fields, with the grain waving high, And rich verdant meadows with broek run* ningby, Aud cows lying lazily down. With arrow like speed we darted along, Where visions of green beauty gleam, Past children in doorways all eager to see, With tiny hands waving and faces aglee— By farmer boy guiding his team. We gamboled along this frolicsome way, Past vine covered farm house and cot. By mansions of splendor in foliaged grounds, Where fountains and flowers and velvety mounds. Embellished a fairy like spot. ENVOY. While rattling along in this rollicking way, From thatched <*overed cabin to dome, I thought myself as these views glided by. And quick, shifting contrasts came oft to my eye, That each one was somebody's home. — Eduard A. Oldham . 4n Boston CHoht. PITH AND POINT. A rising man—Tfcc balloonist. IVlien a horse begins to rear, let him make his will. He is on his last legs. When a man “gives himself away” he naturally loses his self-possession.— Lift. It Tooks very much as if the fruit of murder in New York would be electric current. The time that waiters dislike most isn’t meal time. It’s a ouarter to four. — Time. Many who teach the young idea how to shoot, appmrently don't know that it’s loaded.— Fuel. Irate papa to wasteful sou—“Do you ever think of anybody except yourself?” Wasteful Son—“Yes, sir, l very often think of my creditors.” Turn about is fair play. Mail bags in a Texan coach wore recently rifled by road agents. The next day the road agents were rifled by deputy sheriffs. V’li'l many a man IV .--I lit batching cannon face. Wbo’dgive Any a hornet amount of space. —Vansville H cent. The average bachelor likes to think ha is better off than the fellow who gets married, but he does not really believe what he likes to think. —Baltimore Amer¬ ican . “You're not working,” said the coach¬ man to the cook. “What's the matter; were you discharged?” “Yes; I went from the frying pan to the tire.”— Wath inqton. Capital. Now across the back yard gate Hound the old domestic yell, As Ophelia calls to Kate: “Can't you make your jelly jell!''’ —Springfield Homestead. A woman out west was badly injured by the bite of a bat. Bats are danger¬ ous. We know of another instance in which an umpire was terribly mutilated by a bat. The crowd didn't think the player was really out. THE BRAVE DRUMMER BOY. His bag went down on the foundered ship, But the drummer still was bold. “What though,’’ he cried, “I’ve lost my I . , haven’t erip; lost my hold.” —Bazar, A Boiling Oil Ordeal. According to the London Times, the District Judge at Kalutara, Ceylon, re cently liad before him three persons, in¬ cluding a village headman, charged with causing grievous hurt to four others by requiring them to plunge their right hands into a caldron of boiling oil. The medical evidence described thp hands a* being in a “sodden, suppurating condi¬ tion,” the fingers being in some cases de¬ formed. In all cases the injured persons were unable to follow their ordinary avo¬ cations for about a month. The facts of the ease, ns stated in the judgment, were these: A woman in the village had some plum¬ bago and rice stolen from her; a head¬ man made inquiry, and, failing to obtain a clue to the theft, announced that it would be necessary on the third day to hold an ordeal by boiling oil. This ap¬ pears to be a not uncommon custom in remote parts of the country, and the for¬ malities arc as follows: Some oil from newly-gathered king-cccoanuts is manu¬ factured by one of the friends of the complainant; this is poured into a cal¬ dron and heated to boiling point. Each of the suspected parties is supposed to dip his hand into the vessel of boiling oil, and is at liberty to sprinkle as much of the hot oil as he brings up with his fingers on the person of the complainant, who stands close at hand. Any excla¬ mation of pain on the part of the sus¬ pected person is construed into au ad¬ mission of guilt. If no such exclamation is made the innocence of the party is supposed to be established. In the present case the evidence es¬ tablished that the pressure on the accused was not merely moral; they were forced to dip their hands into the burning oil. No force appears to have been used in bringing them to the scene of the ordeal; they collected there in response to the orders of the headman, who, seated on a platform opposite the vessel of oil, ap. pears to have acted as the presiding judge. Each of the complainants de¬ posed to the fact that they were reluctant to submit to the ordeal, butwere forcibly dragged up to the caldron by the other two accused and their hands plunged into the boiling oil. They had sufficient self control to abstain from calling out, ex¬ cept a boy of seventeen, who cried out lustily, and was thereupon pronounced the guilty one. The judge took the fact that it was a custom into account, hut re¬ fused to dismiss the prisoners with a warn¬ ing as suggested by their counsel. He fined them 100 rupees each, with the al¬ ternative of rigorous imprisonment tot ten month*.