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the r I 1 Georgia Enterprise.
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r^TttatEnglish in buying syndicates up
Bt *50 000,030
American properties. |
of Pa rre a* the capital of |
ife the town a j
kskota ha* given I
Men bought lots for
Imoni. for j
week later sold them
i
J ability of torming a company
vessels at Charleston, S. C., to
the coasting trade, is being
a "here il is
I in that city,
that all of the materials - , of . con¬
are do* to hand as they are
)f the statement from Cape May
Lett potato three feet six inches
L grown there, n ST
f surprising if some Boston, day ve during £
by the foot, In
months, cabbage arc sold by
often been reported that th»
army is largely composed ol
:ed boys instead of stalwart men,
returns do not bear out these
nts. Of 202.761 men only 11,596
nineteen years of age, while'
er
our per cent, are over live feet
iches iu height.
managing director of a big tea
- firm in Loudon stated that lie
w a leading broker in that city
s:v teas, ranging within one pen
nouud iu value, weighed up in
tte the 120 pots numbered and
Up, he then picking out the sixty
ites without a single mistake.
L Bryce, author of “The American
bnwealth,” has been sued for libel
jOakey Hall, once Mayor of New
Ijur I connecting him with the Tweed
Both live in England. The com
It includes about twenty pages ol
Ick. that being the space devoted
■ttide containing the alleged libel.
ined dogs for military purpose?
answered so well in Germany that
t experiments have been made in
pstrian army. Pointers,sheep dogs
podles are the best breeds, and the
Will carry messages and aminttni
euard depots and perform outpost
One dog recently took a message
f distance of eight miles in an bout
ye minutes.
I governors af the Bank of France
Eying to discover the author of s
K tobbety of $52,000, which sum
leposited early in the year by a per
Rife dead. A receipt was given in
ordinary course, and lately a man
pted a forged receipt, and withdrew
p°nev. Afterward the depositor's
Furs applied with the authentic re
L to withdraw the funds; and the
had to order the payment of the
to its rightful owners.
Inday labor in Prance is by no mean
petal as a few years ago. Visitors
Bris cannot fail to notice how many
e ships are shut on Sunday after the
F morning and now the first step has
r ,a ^ en toward Sunday rest on the
j 1 ho Paris-Lyons Railway Com
F nwnth* decided unanimously to
I their employes in the goods stations
Nay. and intend to gradually intro
(atmilar reforms into other branches
phe service. In all probability the
F linps wi >l be obliged to follow suit.
N. some of the Northern Railway
[ ftn,N ' ,ar e already pronounced in
P r of Sunday rest.
fbe recent reports telegraphed from
’ib in which the assertion was mad)
t the oil "dls of the Caspian district
™ vapidly drying is
fl up, now pro
' a stock jobbing canard. The
Nent rj S made with great positive-
11 that the supply of oil Aiminish
was
■ rapidly that the Russian Govern
^ ' “h'mplsted
* prohibiting its ex
I ’ , lat the steamers which arc
Ld C ' Uie W ' ' 5e ^ a bl °*' to delusively do for fuel
f p so much longer,
!i 1 r to ftp threatened high price. De
P^Mtoha L I**ifi''eness of the statements
“Prices, re no effect on Ameri
i p 'ri | lently because the Standard
Cots P®y keeps thoroughly posted
e rea! on
situation.
on of the fores)
'■SL.T two months have beeu
M,h< ' ■“
le Neif mtone * cou ld be written.
y ''" , HcrciH declares it
ate would
eclips“p >« S interest ° , thriUiDg and and fascination siting thc ai
ires (,av rolnance - The forest
e v' 1 s0 ^tensive,
Ndeat so terrible
pioneer lnni!^ * lty ° U tlle Wltil best b,an infor med
k amaze
figures the jj" U r< ° ‘‘ luest tllC t ,lira tnl;,ei to destroyed place iu
° rt °givev * '
Eteris, ^ at mateof " a “ 1S the koowu loss ‘the
s that in
r * “trough Montana
at, arM 1
(i % in width “ length and
have be' ami ^ f ° r Wecks the
different Points ea doing similar work at
!ro i a , country
® the eastern
fountain s to slopes of the Roekv
•onie the water* of the
destructi indeQnit. e ido* 01 ft, tU ® ! ’
°b of ’
timk.. r ®ud i other
i* g d w here
,ta °d tall & hd ’ but
'tod «. “arstod stately pines now ki
**ia fro bald ashen
ct*, * Tm the disappointed
«, e .
GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
NEWS FROM EVERTWHERE— ACCIDENTS, STRIKE!,
f IRES, AND HAEPENTNOS OF INTEREST.
The governor-general of Cuba dis¬
claims that he in anyway a ded the strik¬
ing cigarmakcrs of Key West.
Mexican newspapers state that negro
colonists will only be permitted to settle
in fever districts on the coast.
The government has contracted with
General Joseph Ceballos for the con¬
struction of wharves at Gray mas.
The papal nuncio at Paris has been
instructed by the Vatican to favor the
adhesion of ihe Catholics to the conser¬
vative republican party.
Election was held in the third division
of Berlin, Tuesday, L r members of t l e
municipal council. Six liberals and six
socialists were elected,
J. II. Rathbone. of Wa hington, foun¬
der of the order of Knights of Pythias,
is prostrated at a hotel in L mi, Ohi >,
and is not expected to live.
The strike iu the Vienna mother-of
pearl button factories is sj reading.
There arc now 4,00 i hands out. Motlier
of-pearl lias risen fifteen florins per hun¬
dred weight.
Not including Alaska, Brazil is larger
in extent than the United States. It
possesses within its limits an area ot
3,287,964 square milts, with a population
of 12,383,375.
The National Grange, in session at
Sacramento, Cal., on Wednesday passed of
a resolution favoring the election
United States senatois direct by a vote
of the people. The Grange will meet
next year at Atlanta, Qa.
The British East African company has
conveyed to the German government,
through Lord Salisbury, its regrets for
the disaster to the Peter’s expedition, possible
and offers to do everything muiderers. to
discover and punish the
Judge Foster, of the United Slates
district eourt at Topeka, Kansas, ren¬
dered a decision in a criminal c i-e Thurs¬
day, holding that “No Man’s Land” \vt
tndiau o untry, and as such wa- part > f
northern Texas, when tile offense was
committed.
A new combine of all the barb w ire
mills of Illinois will be known ns the
Federal Steel Company, with a capital of barb o
$12,01)0,090. The present pries
wire, painted, is $3.10 in car load lots,
but after Januarv 1 the price will pioba
bly go up to $3.50.
The United States consul at Co'on re¬
ports that sii ce work on the Panama ca¬
nal ceased, busine-9 at Colon lias been
almost entirely prostrated, It some- ngle
times happens, he say-, that not a s
vessel is to be found in the harbor, a
ihing heretofore unknown since 1860.
The Isamus railroad, which, iu 1883,
Wn.
this year pay only 9 |>cr cent.
In an open letter to Charles Steward
Parnell, Miss Anna Carslake, of Trenton,
N. J., has taken direct issue with the
great Irish leader about h s mother's con¬
dition. She tel's him p.ainly that .Mrs.
Parnell is penniless and in ab-olute want.
If bethinks otherwise lie is iu error.
Mrs. Carslake has been Mrs. Parnell’s
fubhfiil friend, aud was Fannie Parnell’s
schoolmate.
A revolt has occurred among the con¬
victs in Lavolute prison at Tunis. The
prisoners succ eded iu freeing them
s,rives from their chainsand in procuring then
firearms and other weapons. They
made a fierce attack up >n the revolt, jailers
who were unable to quell the
and troops were summoned. When they
arrived at the jail a desperate fight and took sol¬
place and many of the prisoners
diers were killed.
ORANGE INTERESTS.
ORANGE GROWERS’ UNION AND FLORIDA
FRUIT EXCHANGE CONSOLIDATED.
The board of directors of the Florida
Orange Growers’ union have been in ses
lion for two days at Ocala, and the re¬
sult is the consolidation of the Orange
Growers’ union and the Florida Fmit ex¬
change. The outcome of the consolida¬
tion will bo to place nearly all
of the orange crop in the hands
of the exchange which has already han¬
dled 6,00U boxes of oranges this season,
an inciease of 500 per cent, oyer the pro
vious year. The total orange crop of
Florida this year is estimated at from
1,800,000 to 2,100,000 b .xes. The ex¬
change, through its agenc es in various
sections of the state, probably contto: at
least 1,500,Ot 0 boxes of this crop. This
consolidation m irks a new era iu market¬
ing Florida oranges aud it is expected $lu0,
that it will save growers at least
000 this year.
DAMAGE CLAIMS.
BORDER COUNTIES OF P .NNSYLYANIA DE¬
MAND PAY FOR CONFEDERATE INVASION.
Governor B'-aver, Audi’or General
McCaman, Attorney General K rkpa rick
and several members of the Pennsylvania commission
legislature, who constitute a
to lay beiore congress the c aims of the
border counties of the state for extraor¬
dinary losses incurred by confederate in¬
vasion during the late war, and to de¬
mand their payment by the Wednesday government,
met at Chanuarsburg on to
organize and to consult with representa¬
tives of the border c unties. Trie claims
for the burning of C ambersburg and tor
losses in tne other counties aggregate Pennsyl¬
about $3,01)0,01)0. The state of
vania has m ido three separate appro¬
priations, amounting to $ > 00 , 000 , to¬
wards tho relief of the suiferirs. It is
the intern ion of the c mmission, backed
by tho united Pennsylvania delegation
in congress, to ask that the state be re¬
imbursed lor its outlay, and that the
balance of tne claims be paid.
TO SAIL SUNDAY.
A SqUADnON OF FOUR AMERICAN SHIPS
THAT WILL SAIL FOR EUROPE.
1 Amid the booming of cannon, dipping and
of flags, waving of hundreds of hats
.
handkerchiefs, and cheers from as many
throats, Admiral John G. Walker and
his squadron, comprising the ships Chi
ca go> Boston, Atlanta and Yorktown,
with bunting flying and in all the gay
panoply of war, sailed majestically down
North river, New York, shortly before
noon Monday. Admiral Walker s orders
direct him to remain in Boston not latei
tjjau the end of the week, and it is ex¬
pected that next Sunday morning the
! fleet will sail for Europe.
“MY COUNTRY: MAY SITS EVER RE RIGHT; RIGHT OR WRO&G, MY COUHTRT /"— JmrrMMaox.
COVINGTON. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER k >8. 1889.
THE BRAZILIAN REPUBLIC.
WHAT THE NEW O 'VEKXMF.NT WILL DO—
OHDEK TO BE MAINTAINED.
The new government has announced
that it will fi m!y maintain order. It is
preparing a circular to foreign govern¬
ments relative to the overthrow of the
empire, which will be telegraphed to
them through Brazilian representatives
abroad. The province of Bahia has sig¬
nified its adherence to the republic.
News from other provinces show thit
they are also in favor of a republican form
of government. The governors named
by the provincial government are all
military men. The newly made repub¬
lic will allow the depisei emperor S0C
contos dereis per annum during his life.
The five articles of the government de
cree are: First. A republic is pro
claimed. S-cond. The provinces of
Brazil, united ny federation, com¬
pose the United States of Brazil,
third. Each State wiri form its own lo¬
cal goverum nt. Fourth. Each State
will send a representative to a Congress,
which will convene shorily, and the final
decision of which the Pr'visional Gov¬
ernment will await. Fifth. Meantime
Governors of States will adopt more
means to maintain order and protect citi¬
zens’ rights. The nation’s internal and ex¬
ternal relations will be represented mean¬
while by the Provisional Government.
HOW IT WAS ACCOMPLISHED.
The city awoke on Friday to hear the
Republic proclaimed. Gen. DuFons- ca,
Senor Coo-tant and others proceeded to
Petroli9 in the morning and informed
the Empeior that he had been dethroned.
Dom Pedro received the deputation with
ubsolute compisuie Gen. DaFonseca
said that Brazil had advanced lar enough
in the path of civil.zation to dispense
wiih monarchy. The country,
while grateful to the Emp. ror
or his patriotic services, was firmly
resolved t. recogn ze only a R-public.
Dum Pedro made a dignified reply. He
declined to abdicate, but said he would
yield to force. The Imperial family
vere allowed one hour to prepare for
their departure. Carriages, escorted by
soldiers, were harbor, waiting to take man-of-war them to
the outer where a
was lying under steam. The captain
had beeu □ tnicted t<> sail as soon as th -
Imperial family had embarked. He had
leceived sealed orders instiucting him
what route t" take. It is supposed that
Lisbon is the destination of the vessel.
TOE NEWS IS WASHINGTON.
The Brazilian minister received two
telegrams from Brazil, one from the
minister of foreign affairs and the other
ftom the minister of finance. They
were simply confirmatory of pres* re¬
ports of the e-ta'ili-hment of a republi¬
can form of government, the departure
of Dom Pero and that everything was
quiet and tranquil in the Republic. It
is understood to bo the intention of
Brazilians in official capacity at Vi asu
ington 10 await the pleasure of the newly
organized frovemment.
A TERRIFIC STORM
IN MONTANA—SERIOUS RAILROAD
WRECKS REPORTED.
A special ftom Missou'a, Mont, says:
A terrific snow storm struck here about
o’clock Friday moruing, and is still
raging in all its fury. All trains
° the Northern Pacific road have
"a
been blocked and two serious wrecks
reported near Bonner, a town about
seven miles east of here, on the banks of
Hell Gate river. Several trainmen were
and a special train containing
physicians and local railroad officials
have gone to the scene of the wreck.
This is the third wreck that has occurred
at that place during the past three weeks.
A later dispatch says: “Two more se¬
rious wrecks, in all probability mentioned, occurred more sc
vious than the first
west of here. It is impossible hour.” to ascer¬
tain full particulars at this
WILL CONSOLIDATE.
ONE OF THE LARGEST AND STRONGER!!
CORPORATIONS IN AMERICA.
It is reported at Birmingham, Ala., on
good authority that the Tennessee Co l,
Iron and Riiiroad company and the De
bardeleben Coal an 1 iron company of
Alabama, will soon consolidate, The
consolidated company would be probably
the richist coal and iron corporation of the in
America. The combined property
two companies will consist of fifteen
blast furnaces in Tennessee and Alabama;
about one hundred miles of railroad;
coal mines with a total daily output of
eloht thousand tons; coke ovens and ore
mines enough to supply nil tho furnaces;
and about one hundred thousand acre*of
the best mineral lands in the south.
ALIVE AND SAFE.
STANLEY, EMIN AND TETERS SHOW UP AM
RIGHT.
After having been repeatedly reported
hopelessly beleaguered by hostile natives,
and once or tw.ee rumored dead, both
Stanltv and Emin are a-certaincd upon
most reliable auth rity to be a tve, well,
and within the limits of civilization;
while Dr. Peters, wuose massacre was
graphically described only a few days
ago is able to bear testimony to the fal¬
sity’ of the reports. Everybody who has
taken the slightest interest m Stanley «
trip Emin’s researches, or Dr. Peters
unfortunately fruitless attempt on Emin (
relief, arise a happy frame of mind in
anticipation of forthcoming revelations.
A CLEVER FORGERY.
A DRAFT FOR FOUR DOLLARS RAISED TO
FOUR THOUSAND.
A remarkably dever swindle has just
come to light at Chattanooga, Tenn.
T ast Tulv a well dressed stranger entered
the First National bank in that city and
purchased one draft for $4 and two for
«2earb paving for the same. The bank
is now no ified that the $4 draft hs,
turned up inNew York as a $4,000 draft.
It seems that the swindler went from
there to Philadelphia, and purchased for the a
soda fountain for $1,100 paying and
same with the raised draft, receiving well
*2 900 In exchan ge. The work is so
done that it can hardly be detected by
au expert.
A STRANGE REQUE9Ti
In his will, Millard P. Fillmore, son of
President Fillmore, particularly requests
estate valued at $200,000 to relative* and
i friends.
'
SOUTHERN SEWS, i
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA
RWUS POINTS IN THE SOUTH.
1 CONDENSED ACCOUNT Or WBAT IS OOISO ON OF
importance is ise SGCTHERN STATES.
Columbia, 8. C., on Tuesday, bales, re¬
ported cotton receipts at 639,998
as against 538,642 bales last year
A Lout three hundred negroes left
Kinston, N. C., Tuesday for Arkansas
and Mississippi. A large number were j
left behind who will leave later on.
The immigrants came from Jones, Letoir
Pitts and Green counties.
A tire at Baldwinsville, N. Y., on
Wednesday night raused a loss of $250,
000. The flumes originated in the Seneca
hotel, and the entire hotel block, with
destroyed. two large warehouses adjoining, were
Arrangements were made at Rich¬
mond, Va., Thursday to restore service
from Richmond to Lynchburg and the
southwest, over the Richmond aud Dan¬
ville and Norfolk and Western, via Buu
kerville. The schedule goes into effect
at once.
The Randolph county. West Virginia
capitalists purchased one hundred occupied thous¬ by
and acres of land, which is
squ liters, who have armed themselves to
resist eviction. One surveyor has al¬
ready been killed, and serious trouble is
anticipated, as the settlers will fight.
A dispatch says that on Thursday a
fearful storm struck the plate and pulp
factory of 8. 11. Gray, at Xewberne, N
C., in which there Were sixty hands,and
leveled it to the ground. One employe
was instantly killed, another mortally
wounded, and eight others injured.
A number of gentlemen arrived at
Denver, ( ol., on t aturdav from Reno
eoUDty, Kan., to locate government lands
in South Santa Fe for ft colony of 200
Mennonites, who propose settling on the
liue of the Atchison, opeka and Santa
Fee road. It is the first colony of the
kind to locate in the territory.
William Carpenter and Whitfield Mur¬
rell were convicted at Edgefield, S. C.,
Thursday, of the murder of Preston
Younce in June last. The mur ler was
most brutal and unprovoked. The pris¬
oners were sentenced to tie hanged on
the third of next January. These are
the first white murderers convicted in
Edgefield county for forty years.
Governor Taylor, of Tennessee, on
Friday, acted upon the case of the five
Baiiiards, sentenced to haDg for murder
iu Hancock county. The governor par¬
doned ab olutely John, Jr., an 1 Elijah
Barnard, commuted to five years in the
penitentiary the sentences of Clint and
Anderson Barnard, and to ten years that
of old man John Barnard.
A special from Eutaw, Ala., says that
Tuesday night burglars broke into the
store of Brow & Ilargeman, at Clinton,
Greene county, blew open the safe and
secured over two thousand dollars in
cash. 1 tie scene or the
only about thirty miles from the home of
Rube Burrow,the country people believe
the burglary was committed by the great
outlaw.
A meeting of stockholders of the
Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac
Railroad company was held at Rich¬
mond, Va., on Wednesday. Tne road report for
showed the operations of the
nine months ended June 30, 1889. In¬
come was $502,434; expenses of Irans
p rtation $307,068; interest on bonds for
nine months $31,271. Dividends on
general stock for nine months $26,271;
net profit $137,823.
Governor Taylor has received petitions East
from 3,000 prominent citizeus in
Tennessee and letters from a majority of
the supreme judges, requesting him to
pnrdon or commute the sentence of death
passed on the five Barnard brothers who
killed Henley Sutton, in Hancock coun¬
ty lust January. After a careful exami¬
nation of the record, the governor has
decided to commute the sentence of all,
and he may pardon some of the five.
GREAT PRAIRIE FIRE.
DESTRUCTION OF CROPS, FENCES AND
TREES—HEAVY LOSSES.
Passengers who arrived at Fort Worth,
Tex., on the south-bound Fort Worth
and Denver train, Wednesday night, re¬
ported that a terrible prairie and forest
fire was raging for over ten miles along
the road, and back from the road for
tin ire than a mile. The fire caugut from
a locomotive, and a h’gh wind from the
west b owing the flames, ihey soon licked
up ha», corn, oits, fences, barns and
larin houses. Railroad men, farmers hu 1
stockmeu worked diligently, but were
unable to arrest tne spread of the flames.
Great trees are on fire, and the situation
is critical. The fire begins south ol
Rhone, in Wise county, and ends neat
Hcimnn, ten miles distant. Tho loss will
reach ihousands of doll irs.
AN INSANE WOMAN
COMPELS HER daughter to join her
IN DRINKING POISON.
A ghnstly affair occurred at Moshcr
ville, Mich., Thmsday night. During
the absence of her husband, Mrs. Nathan
Strong filled two tumblers’with a solu¬
tion of paris green aud handing girl one of to
her daughter, Maude, a handsome
eighteen, and taking the other herself,
she diank her own dose and forced
the girl, at the muzzle of a revolver,
,o swallow the fatal draught.
All efforts to save the woman and her
daughter were unsuccessful, and Mrs.
Strong die! ai iniinight in horrible
agony and Maude an hour later. Maude
insisted to the last that her mother
forced her to drink the poison and siud
she did not want to die. She begged
piteously of her friends and doctor to
save her life. The insanity which led
to the awful act has been clearly marked
for about two weeks.
NEW OFFICERS
OF THE EAST TENNESSEE. VIRGINIA AND
GEORGIA RAILROAD.
At the annual meeting of the East
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia railroad
held at Knoxville,Tenn., on Wednesday,
the following directors were elected:
John H. Inman, Samuel Thomas, Charles
M. McGhee, Ca viu S. Brice, John G.
Moore, Thomas N. Logan, Edward J.
Sanford, W. 8. Chisholm, John Green
ougb, Win. L. Bull, George Coppell,
John H. Hall, Evan P. Howell, Georg*
8. Scott tad George J. Gould.
1). C.
OF THE PRESIDENT
AND HIS ADVISERS.
.EPOUNMINTS, DECISIONS, AND OTHER MATTERS
OF INTEREST FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Corporal Tanner and Colonel W. W.
Dudley, both ex-commissioners of pen¬
in sion, the have pensiou formed and a claim copartnership business. here
A commission of engineers has been
app inted by the secretary of w ar to re¬
port on the site of the proposed bridge
Rcross the Mississippi river at New Or¬
leans.
The attorney-general at Washington of is
inform) d that the trial of the cases
alleged frauds in Florida, at the lsst
presidential elec tion,has already resulted
in three convictions.
Major Isaac Arnold Ins been ordered
from command of Fort Monroe arsenal,
Va., to command of Columbia arsenal,
Tenn.; Major J. R. McGinnis, from duty
at Rock Island arsenal to command Fort
Monroe arsenal.
Mi-s Ada Tanner, of New York, con¬
fidential clerk to commissioner of pen¬
sions, lias resigned. Miss Tanner is a
daughter of ex-Coinmissioner Tanner.
She has been appointed private secretary
to United States Treasurer Hustin.
Subpoenas have been issued for Mr.
Armour, Secretary Williams and other
persons connected with the Union stock
yards at Chicago to appear at Washing¬
ton before the United State’s senate’s
committee investigating the dressed beef
monopoly.
J. Edgar Engle, as-istant chief of the
record division, G.orge A. Bond, clerk,
Samuel B. Ileasev, assistant chief of the
western division, and Win. P. Davis,
assistant chief of the middle division,all
of the pen-ion office, have been asked to
resign. They were among those w ho
had their pensions re-rated.
The civil service commission, it is un¬
derstood, has laid before the president in the
its findings and recommendations the “Old Do¬
case of the offenders of
minion Republican league,’’of Virginia,
just prior to the lute diction, and in vi
olati n of the cival service law, circular
letters soliciting contr.buti ins for cam¬
paign purposts.
The president, t_ ftursday,appointed col¬
John H. Devaux, of Georgia, to lie
lector of customs for the district of
Brunswick, Ga„; William G. Reposs,
postmaster at Wytheville.Va., vice A ex.
S. Heller, removed; Thomas Clay Me
Dowell, of Kentucky, collect c of inter¬
nal revenue for the seventh district of
Kentucky,vice William Cassius Goodloc,
deceased.
Secretary Windom has sustained Treas¬
urer Huston in his controversy with the
United States Expre-s company in regard
to the transportation of government mon
e,s issued to meet business wants, by
decision made Tuesday ufternoon, that
■A der its contract with the
the expieoo company !; ' "vpodc-d '*> re¬
ceive and transmit, at contract rates, any
and all money tendered by the United
States treasurer in his official capacity.
Dr. Valentc, minister from Brazil,
called at the state department Thursday,
andinformed the secretary that his latest
advices from Biazil weic to the effect
that peace and tranquility reigned receiving and
that the new government was
the support of the people. Dr. Va'ente
also received authority from the provis¬
ional government to instruct representa¬
tives of Brazil to the international Amer¬
ican congrei-s to continue to act for their
country in sessions of the congress.
THE NEW PLANT
WHICH PRODUCES COTTON SEED WITHOUT
THE LINT.
The new lint'.ess cotton plant time aien
tioned in these columns some ago,
is attracting considerable attention.
There seems to he no doubt about the
existence of such a plant, as proof of it
is exhibited in Charleston. There were
received there Tueaday a box of bolls
railed in Sumter county all containing
cotton seed without a fibre of lint.
This new plant which waa
tried in claimed", Spartanburg produce from county, 8u0
will, it is to
401) bushels of cotton seed, without lint,
to the acre, The bolls are filled wiih seed
which are perfectly clean and show no
signs of lint. Every boll contains as
ma ny seed as it can bold, the bolls being
the size of the average cotton boll, and ev¬
ery individual seed is as clean a* a Boston
bean. The importance of this matter may
be understood when it is remembered
that there are Ihousands of cotton oil
miils throughout the south, and when it
is added that the propi gntors of this new
cotton plant claim that at the pr sent
price of cotton seed, an acre of the new
plant will yield from 300 to 100 percent
more than an acre of cotton.
A SHIP GOES DOWN
IN A COLLISION—FIFTEEN LIVES SUP
POSED TO n.AVE BEEN LOST.
The Old Dominion steamship Manhat¬
tan, which left New York for West
Point, Va., last Tuesday afternoon, with
thirty-five passengers, collided with the
schooner Agnes Mauning, from Balti¬
more for New York, and went to the
bottom. At least fifteen lives are sup
posed to have been lost, Tfie
first information of the disaster was
given in an Associated the Press dispatch of¬
from New London, at company’s
fice on Friday. The information received
pointed to the fact that probably over
twenty people have been lost. The
vessel’s crew numbered twenty-seven.
The names of only a few of the crew are
known to the Old Dominion people.
The Manhattan was valued at $150,000,
and carried no insurance.
TIIE MILKMAID.
“Where are you going, my pretty
maid l" he inquired.
“Should the weather indications con¬
tinue of an auspicious character, mv in¬
tended destination is yonder in Insure,
where my uusuenable determination is
to extract such an amount of lacteal
fluid from the distended udder of the
gently deemed artieula mg Line advisab’e, as may ’ calm¬ be
necessary and
ly replied the rustic girl, who has
worked for two weeks in a P.os on
family. leaving And she passed upon her wry,
a gibbering where idiot ely had grove ring
upon dandy the drummer.—[Grocery ground a World. stood
ft
THE BCBYBODT.
He need so sharp a knife to cut a tart
He sliced his flDger off, with bitter cry
His friends remarked, and thus they broke
his heart—
"Again he's got bis finger in tht pis*”
BUDGET OF FUN.
8KKT( hks FROM 1 J
VARIOUS SOURCES*
j
Eruiu Major-How She Pnt* It
Completely Exhausted— .4 I i
Transformation — Went to
Gft It, Etc., Etc.
■». t
martial tread and haughty mien he
loads the big brasabonil.
ruler half so proud as he, no |»>tentate *i
shopgirls grand. in
gaze wild amaze upon his j
stalwart charm
And his fierce glance mis the sm ail boy s soul
with wild an<l vajnie alarms.
When the big parade i, over, and silenced
each blaring horn.
He cornea down town in a *10 suit, which is
somewhat fade! and worn,
-And a meeker, unlder.mannered man it
would he had to meet
For fifteen blocks in either direction upon the
crowded street j
—Terre Haute Express.
HOW SHE PFTS IT ON.
He-“I wonder Miss Ann Tedc
doesn't crack all her enamel off with that
perpetual smirk.”
She—“Perhaps she puts it on smil¬ l
ing.”— Sifting*. /
COMPLETELY EXHAUSTED.
:
“Been sawing 6 wood; ’ inquired the j
caller
“Worse than that,” panted the bank
president, wiping the prespiration from
his brow and throwing himself exhausted
into a chair. “I have been talking to a
lady depositor. Whew !”—Chicago
Herald. *
it**
A TRANSFORMATION.
Wife—“Don't you think I have kept
my looks pretty well after our thirty
years of married life.
, **°S
re U y
n one^ slight change perceptible m At the ;
start you had white teeth and black hair,
and now youhave black teeth and white
hair. - VoUMatt.
-a*
WENT TO GET IT.
He—“You pretend you’re drowning,
love, and I’ll jumpin and rescue you.”
She—“Not much! I tried that last
year, and the only thing the gentleman
did was to run a mile up the beach for
assistance.’ ’— Rasa r. *
WHAT HE WASTED.
“Is there anything you want!” asked
the ship steward of the seasick man.
“Yes,” moaned the man. ,
“What is it!”
“The earth.”— Chicago Glohe. ’
EATHEH AMBIGUOUS.
You Young Author (meeting friend)— “ Ah!
are just the man I want. You can
help me.”
Friend—-“Help you in whatt”
l>een for
villain for my newstorv all day .”—New
York Sun.
WIFE'S .ADVICE.
Poet’s Wife—“What are you thinking
so deeply about, Algernon ?”
Poet—“I am trying to get a head for
this little poem of mine.”
Poet’s Wife—“Let the editor put
head on it. You attend to its
Boston Courier.
A PRECIOUS RELIC.
“That's a very funny old cane you have
got there. I’d like to buy it from you."
“Can’t sell it. It is an old family
heirloom. I wouldn’t sell it for any
thing in the world. My great-grand
father used to maul my great-grand
mother with it ."—Chicago Herald.
NOTHING MORE OBVIOUS.
Attorney (to juror)—“Have you not
within the last six month* paid off $2000
of the old debts that was outlawed years
ago!”
Juror—“I have,”
Attorney (triumphantly)—“I challenge
him for cause. He is insane .”—Chicago
1'ribune.
ACCORDING TO MATHEMATICS.
“Willie,” said the father, as he opened
the arithmetic the little fellow brought
home and proceeded to examine him
on his lesson, “what will two apple*
apples make ! them
“If they arc where I can get at,
they will make a stomach ache.' replied
the truthful boy .—Chicago Ledger.
WOMAN S SWEETNESS.
Miss Garlinghouse (dining with
friend sweetly)—“What perfectly
coffee you make, Laura’ I don t
I ever tasted any that was just—just
actly like it, vou know.
Miss Kajones (still more So glad
always use genuine coffee.
like it, Irene, dear’”— Chicago
JUST his LUCK.
Urchin—“Well, _ , now, that’s just
luck v
Old Gentleman (kindly)— „ anything. . What s
matter, little boy; lost
Urchin “No: but I ve been
here over an hour to see that man
ESs
— Yankee BM<.
JUST A private's DUTY.
Carrie—“Yes, niy brother is iu
militia. He’s a high officer; I ve
ten just what but it s cither a colonel
a corporal ”
Charles—“A colonel or a
Does he musket? ’
carry a
Carrie—“i)f course! Somebody s
to carry them, you know, and
isn’t the man to shirk his share of
burden.”— Riston Transcript.
ONLY ONE WORD.
p ae t_.qt often happ:us that the
dition of only one word will spoil an
cle or s poem.” Critic—“That is
Unfriendly _i.fgke for example v»jy this
p oe ( word
poem of mine. One more
spoil it past reparation. word would
Q r ;y c _“If only one
it whv have tou used so many to
pl’ish * that purpose 1"— Yankee Blade.
__
THE WRONG PATIENT.
All* Briske_“Joknav, did the
He felt my pulse an’ looked at !
tongue and shook his head and said I
was a serious case, and he left this pro
and said he’d call again before
Mrs. Briske—“Gracious me! It wasn't
T0U I ..* fnt f ° T Wm f0 SW: if WS “
” j
-
SOT A HEREDITARY FACT.
“Mamma, what's hereditary?” asked
Bobbie, laboriously tripping over the
syllables of the long word.
‘ Why, it is—it is anything you get
from your father or me,” replied the
mother, a little puzzled for a definition
suited to his years. Silence of two min¬
utes.
“Then, ma,” he asked, “is spanking
hereditary I ”—Health Monthly.
A FIENDISH PLOT.
Policeman—“What are you waiting
around here for?’’
Sad Young Man—“I am waiting to see
a fellow get thrown down the steps. It's
the fellow who beat me out ot my girl.
*£* " v,,meDt ,w "• 1 kne J*** f
n he was coming, and have sent / four ped
lers and a book agent in there within the
la«t half hour .”—Terre I lout e Express.
TIT FOR TAT.
a W«)-“Why, you
robber! I shall have you arrested for
larceny from the persou.”
He (kissing her once more)—“Very
well; lhave given it back. If you make
that complaint against me I shall charge
you with receiving stolen property,know
ing it to be such.”
Both indictments were qtushed by the
consent of each party .—Lawrence Ameri¬
can.
rxfFLD RECOMMEND it. J
Jobson (to his druggist)—“We have
finished the first bottle of Dr.
wonllerflI , rpH ef. "
TWwriiit_“ ,3_ Well ?”
llR bas deprivPd 1 ' mJ - wifc of
^ power of speech „
Druggist (alarmed)—“Great heavens!
You won’t sue us I hope."
Johnson—“No, sir. I want a bottle
for my mother-in-law.”— Drake's Mag¬
azine.
y SOLICITUDE.
“Madam,” said the conductor, “that
dog will have to go into the baggage car,
anil that boy can’t ride for half fare.”
“But, sir.”
“Sorry, madam, but the company's
rules are strict.”
“Perhaps we can arrange it. Can’t 1
pay full faro for Fido while Willie goes
and sits in the baggage car. Fido’a
health is so delicate that I am afraid to
have him out of my cave .”—Merchant
Traveler.
rLEASANT COMPLIMENTS.
A young woman of this city is married
to a gentleman who is many years her
senior. They have become well enough
acquainted to say unpleasant things to
each other. The other morning at break¬
fast he suggested a foreign tour.
“But we mustn't visit Egypt.”
“Why not?”
“I’m af aid you'd gotosleep in public
souk ume.” "1
' M ell, „ suppoae I did.
t —Washington 'J »»; d be Captal. f « r a 8ure ’
*Sr
THE PRICE OF A KISS.
Aristocratic but Vinegar-Faced Caller
—“He’s a charming little fellow, Mrs.
Grindstone. Only five years old, you
say. You'll give me a kiss, wont you,
: Willie?”
I Willie—“Yes'm.” (Kisses her).
1 Caller—“That’s a good boy, Willie,
j But what are you holding iu your hand
i so tight!”
j j wjf s a half dollar mamma gave me.
sf]fi ^ ghe - spected ym p d Wiint to kiss
mr and j to , d her j; woul( ) n ' t f ( 0 it f 0[
le««?"— Former's Voice.
ECHOES OF THE PAST.
D. A. (meeting his college friend after
a long absence)—“Do you remember Miss
i Kora, with whom we danced so often,
I when we were students together at
; , Boon
B (after reflection)—“Ha, ha! you
mean that good looking but dreadfully
frivolous young lady of w r hon\ you used
S f 0 sav y 0U pitied the man w ho might
cll#|lce to marry her. Well, what about
j ,n her?
j-, r _“Ahem! what about
Why she is now my wife.”— Die. Wesjien.
A Boy With Giant Feet.
Mr. Arnold, of Thompson, Peun., is
only sixteen years old, but he is now
over six feet tall and his feet are famous.
Young Arnold stepped into Eli Tracy's
shoe shop at Central Village the other
day and said he would like to hav8 the
: shoeman make him a pair of boots.
“All right,” said Eli, “just put your
' foot this and I’ll get your
^ on measure,
„
Arnold tried to do as he had been bid
^ ))ut found jt j mp>8s ible to comply
the request ,‘ . Although ? Tracy
/U the m rker out t0 th( jumpill g
0 a( . e on thc measure- the re was not
- -
“Weil,” said, he, looking up aghast,
“I never! You beat the record. What
size boot do you usually wear!”
“Oh, generally I can get on sixteeus,”
replied the youth with ingenuous com
pl aC ency, “but latterly they’ve pinched
mv f ec t some, and I guess I’ll take a size
or"two larger this time.”
j Tracy then made an approximate esti
; mate of the big foot, and found that it
rH il e G for a boot one inch and a half
[ 0Q g er than his measure. “I can't fill
| bill said he, “for take
t jj e f 0 r you," last you that is
a boot that is bigger than any
made.”
! So young Arnold had to go away witli
out hope, aud he is in a dilemma. The
I prospect is that he will have to go un¬
shod during the remainder of his life,
unless he can persuade some last especial- liberal -
j souled contractor to make a
! lv for his use, which will be expensive. and
' Arnold is not the only six-footer
big-footer in . his . family. .. He has a sister
! who is six feet tall, but it wouldn t do
j for auy one to draw further conclusions.
_ Pittsburg Dispatch.
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j In the absence of a Bible in the Bead-
NUMBER 8.
YE COLLEGE GRADUATE.
He can give the laws of ftolon,
He can draw the flag of Colon.
He can write a Babylonian IOC;
He can make a writ in German.
He can draft a Turkish firman;
But the English common law he never knew.
He can write his thoughts in Spanish.
He can make a speech in Danish.
Aud recite such Sanscrit as would turn your
brain;
The Muallakat Arabic
He can scan in feet syllabic;
But he couldn't tell old Shakespeare from
Mark Twain.
He can fathom all the mystery
Of old Ethiopic history;
He can name one thousand Norse king*
more or less;
He can mark the Homan bound* lies.
And describe the Aztec foundries;
Bn^has never seen the *‘Statutes of V. S. '*
He ca#nace the radiant vector,
With a geometric sector.
And can give the moon's diameter in feet;
He can analyze the arum.
Classify the Coptic carum;
But he cannot tell a cabbage from a beet.
w — IV. A. fiuxton.
PITH AND POINT.
Pressing bussincss—Ironing.
A man with a pull—The dentist.
The night air is not necessarily bad
unless sung by a cat and prevents sleep.
When a man is self-made few people
are left in ignorance of the fact .—Ronton
Courier. •
Not every man who lays a wager i*
inclined to cackle over it .—Richmonn
DitpaMi.
A man is not necessarily of heavy cali¬
bre because he lias a large mouth.— Roe
ton Transcript.
We presume the fashion of carring*
came from the corn wearing tassels on
its ears.— Statesman.
First Butterfly—“What'sthe trouble!’
Second Butterfly—“Oh, I’m all in a flut¬
ter .”—New York Sun.
Being asked the name of the world's
greatest composer, a smart, university
young man said: “Chloroform.”— Phila¬
delphia Record.
“Won’t you eome into my parlor'*"
“No, Was I the thank spider’s you,” cordial said hiw cry. hearer, /
“Don’tyou seel —Sew too, am York tty " Herald.
“Come, Joliuny, it’s past time to get
up.” “Then I’ll lie abed, mother; you
told me that life was too serious to spend
in mere pastimes.” — Florida Times ■
Union.
“That couple walking across the street
are married.” “How did you discover
that!” “Easy enough; the man holds
the umbrella over himself.” — Riston
Gazette.
Who thought, he would srni ke iu the choir.
The sexton, no doubt,
As he fired him out.
Remarked, * There is no smoke without fire f
— Puck.
Towne—“That's too bad about Ding
ley, isn’t, it J” Browne—“Howl What’s
that!” Towne—“Joined the silent ma¬
jority.” Browne — “What! Dead?”
Towne—“No, married .”—Lincoln Jour
nal.
IN AUTUMN WEATHER.
Now to the woods the maid doth go.
The tinted autumn leaves to gather.
Of course accompanied by her beau—
Oh! love is sweet in autumn weather.
—Ecanmille (/rid.) Courier.
A lady physician of Philadelphia has
derided that spanking children is injuri
ous to the spine. Children will do well
to freeze on to this item and produce it
whenever they are threatened with that
disgracefully horizontal mode of punish¬
ment .—DanwiUe Breeze.
The Seven Bibles.
The seven Bibles of the world are the
Koran of the Mahomedans, the Tri Pit
ikes of the Buddhists, the Five Kings ol
tho Chinese, the Three Vedas of the
Hindoos, the Zendavesta, and the Scrip¬
tures of the Christians.
The Koran is the most recent of the
five, dating from about the seventh cen¬
tury after Christ. It is a compound of
quotations from both the Old and New
Testaments, and from the Talmud. The
Tri Pitikes contain sublime morals and
pure aspirations. Their author lived
and died in the sixth century before
Christ.
The sacred writings of the Chinese
arc called the Five Kings, the word
“kings” meaning web of cloth. From
this it is presumed that they were origin¬
ally written on five rolls of doth. They
contain wise sayings from the sages on
the duties of life, but they cannot be
traced further back than the eleventh
century before our era. The Vedas are
the most ancient books in the language
of the Hindoos, but they do not, accord¬
ing to late commentators, antedate the
twelfth before the Christian era.
The Zendavesta of the Persians, next
to our Bible, is reckoned among schol
ars as being the greatest and most
learned of thc sacred writings. Zoroas¬
ter, whose sayings it contains, lived aud
worked iu thc twelfth century before
Christ. Moses lived aud wrote the Pen¬
tateuch 1500 years before the birth of
the meek and lowly Jesus; therefore, that
portion of our Bible is at least 8000
years older than the most ancient of oth¬
er sacred writings. of the
The Eddas, a semi-sacred work
Scandinavians, was first given to the
world in the fourteenth ecutury, A. I>.
Peculiar Blunder. (
A
A remarkable mistake was made at tht
opening of the Industrial Fair at Torou
to sir John Macdonald had made his
opening speech of congratulation, and
before calling on him to press an electric
button starting the machinery, President
Withrow invited one or two other speak
ers to deliver addresses. One of them
was John Leys, M. P. for Toronto. He
advanced to the front and laid his heavy
white hat right on top of the electric but¬
ton. Instantly there was a shrieking ol
■whistles, and the machinery in the build
iug began to run. The crowd roared
with laughter, and after much gesticula¬
tion and running about the manager;
stopped the proceeding, and the urn
chinerv was re-started by Sir John and
Lady jfaedonaid.
Professor Newton estimates that 401),
090,000 meteors fall to the earth annu
I any.
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