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the r I 1 Georgia Enterprise. r XX\. 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. -- -- 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. ‘ ' ''