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The Georgia Enterprise.
volume xxv.
pj he Nicaragua Canal has been
ruction of
jed by arbitration, anti work on the
4 1 is making rapid progress.
The Secretary ot the National Prison
Lriation estimates that the census of
L will show a prison population ol
[ j00.000, an increase of about 30,
in ten years.
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by. volume of trade on the Great
L is increasing enormously, There
li built this winter thirty-five new
vsith a tonnage of 66,000 tons
i at a e ost of *4,600,000, for next sea
is business
The discussion of the advisability o:
onizing Vermont and New Hampshire
to Scandinavian immigrants hat
tected attention to the fact that Maine
Lie a sue cessful venture of this kind
L n ty years ag<
rhe horror which Editor Stead, of the
r {fail Gazette. expresses at the idea of
■ones going into journalism for the
nose of making money, is justified by
opinion of the Washington Star by
experince of a great many persons
o try it.
\melic Rives Chanler, the novelist, is
isionately fond of the violin. It is
j that --she will jump up in bed in
i middle of the night, seize her violin,
revs at the head of the bed, and fiddle
ay with surprising energy.” The
ler day it was announced that Mr.
ianler had gone to Central Africa.
fhe popular belief thet ironclad men
■ar are an invention of the last half
the nineteenth century is evidently not
mded upon fact. Divers have re
Itly lie-ii' at work in the harbor of
teste, Austria’s seaport, and have
| |ught up portions of the French
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pte which was wrecked seventy-eight
i rs ago. The wreck had sunk so
i iplj in the sand as to be well preserved,
i I it has been found that the hull was
wood and was heavily plated with
Rice planters in the South are accus
led to lmm their rice straw to get il
: of the way. We understand, sayf
Manufacturers' Record, that recent
deal tests have demonstrated that
t straw makes excellent paper raate
I. One paper company has gone sc
as to order some 3000 or 4000 tons ol
p straw to further experiment. Hict
iw may yet prove to be a cotton seed
muniature. At any rate, the results of
jse experiments will be watched witt
■test.
»ht ■ I ankees of Asia, as the Japs are
betimes called, have been more tor
bted with the disastrous autics of the
meats this year than even the Ameri
I r Japan has had a series of earth
bkes and floods and a tidal wave has
M hundreds more to the thousands
psd;' |ers pushed killed by falling mountains and
out of the place. The his
p * this year is one of disaster all
r globe. Almost no nation has
1 Ll'ed, but Japan has suffered perhaps
,re tllau uny other when her area is
Bridcred. There is a feeling of warm
endship for Japan in the United States,
uch makes Americans regret the cal
pities that have overtaken this inter
;i »g people.
V McNair, fatuous for his daring
[P, N “ns, died recently in India. His
w >ts caused by overtaxing his
rivers by mountain , climbing, exposure
01 d lack of food while prosecuting
during sur
I p tanistan. the last two years in Af
By shaving his head and
pa? [use his body, McNair. in the dis
of at > Indian doctor, spent two
tenths e!t ploring the sweet valley of
jafinsUu. M Vo European had ever man
M before to set foot there, on ae
pit f ° Un<i Of hostility t)lat to the native tribes.
a L tke people there num
F. te ab °«t 200,000, and were nearly
P kantifm. ‘S color, Die women were very
"
His disguise was penetrated
n. I. Pore he completed his investigations,
I ie. 4 ^ vras compelled to flee for his
With only two native assistants
i F also fall «plored evs. the Asphau and His
'L_
0 * IS a " Austra,ian colony with
e sift 6 and the population
; 8o of Kansas in
an atea of 87,000 square miles
NS L™,, ulattonof1 ettln!f corporations ’ 000 ’ 000 ’ build But in -
to* the
T' 1 "' Vm " iau<1 awa to (fe)
Pent y
Victoria has kept its
Knit is tV ,,wn railroads. The
,
^!®come h6 of ! ' hw ’ hacl last )’ ear an
' 5 00,000 was .....*£ in the’ S L' °* ir::: *"■"
u &nd for IT
P the vear iusr Tf has
a U P to CCl U
•area neailv ft double the
Cfc'bu ve ars _ ’ income of
!T aDd ’ aS 110 0ne can buiid
t th 4 Stlte an d the
(tw,- n»wing bu i lder > State is
tt -profits and 8 ^ " er
P 4 all on the railrc roads ri will time ’
! the x Pcnses ]n
iaaddit of the Government
° n ’ Victoria
Posted owns T, not “ nnl only the
« tire peoDle * here, but
**press &n3 t i ' all
t| «i
h*tt» , Sttte ° r th" wise, thrifty
**t year was $2 ,__
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GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
NIW8 FROM EVERYWHERE— ACCU'ESTS, STRIKES,
FIRES, ASD HAP Ft SINGS OF INTEREST.
The national silver convention met in
SL Louis Tuesday.
The goveinment of Brazil has re
ado P te ‘ J *‘ he 01,1 fla e
Martin Farquhar Topper, the author,
is dead; aged 79 years.
j Thanksgiving j day was gmerallyob
- erve( throughout the country.
A heavy snow storm prevails in the
midland counties of England.
There was a severe -'all ia the pric s of
pig irou in Glasgow, Scotland, < n Tues¬
day.
\ Vhiu p g drapery es t„Ui hrneat at Al¬
| ' der ghot, Eng., was burnetl Thursday.
Loss is £100,000.
Five hundred men employed by the
Western railroad company, Paris, h ive
s ruck for higher wages.
There are 7,500 dockmen and light tr
men on a strike at Bristol, Eug. Tiie
trade of the port is paralyzed.
One of the b i Id mgs of ihe Hartford,
Conn., caipet works was burned Friday
Loss $180,000; insurance $175,000.
The Banco National , of Bio Janeiro,
telegraphs on Tuesday i.s follows:
‘ Everythingsatisfactory. Internal stocks
firm.”
Frederick Douglas his arrived at
Ilayti, presented his credentials, and has
been tendered a reception by the presi¬
dent.
A rumor has been curr nt in Boston
for several days that several print works
will consolidate, to be controlled by
British capital.
An explosi- n took place in a colliery
at Bochum, Prussia, Thursday, in which
fourteen persons were killed and four in¬
jured.
The Truth building, owned by Frank
Wilson, proprietor of Truth, at Toronto,
Canada, was gutted by fire Friday, Loss
estimated at $90,000.
King Leopold, of Belgium, has sent a
telegram to Henry M. Stanley, congrat¬
ulating him upon the completion of his
task, and inviting him to visit Brussels.
An official statement by the assessors, of
places the assessed valuation this year
burned property at Lynn, Mass., at
$1,009,500, and the number of buildings
burned 830.
The Andrew Jackson league, of Chi
capo, have taken measures to aid the
ladies of Nashville Hermitage associa¬
tion in preserving the home of Andrew
Jackson.
Mrs. Lucy Parsons, widow of the
hanged anarchist, has decided to She remove and
from Chicago to New York.
Herr Most can keep things lively there,
in a wordy way.
Abram J. Lichty. of Mount Carroll,
Ill., is missing, together with from $20,
000 to $30,000. He was administrator
of several large estates, besides being
guardian for a number of heirs.
Mrs. Martha B. Pollard and Charles
Moss composing the firm of Pollard &
Moss, book publishers, of New York,
assigned on Wednesday t) Robert Avery,
giving preferences aggregating $14,425.
A German bark, loaded with empty
oil barrels and rags, was wrecked at Long
Branch Wednesday. Eleven of the tr. w
were drowned. Four were saved. The
name of the bark has not yet been
learned.
Dr. Rudolph Tanzky, the noted expert
on insanity, who became insane and at¬
tempted to kill bis wife and himself, in
January, 1885, has died of pariesis in of
Bloomingdale Asylum, lie was one
the expeits in the Guileau case.
The boiler at Alleghany Bessemer Steel
works, at DuQuesne, Pa., exploded
Tuesday, wrecking the boiler house.
William Marshall, night foreman of the
rail mill, was killed outright, and George
Cooper, fireman, died from his injuries.
A Leechburg, Pa., dispatch says that
estimates of conservative citizens place
the loss by Wednesday night’s lire at
$150,000 to $175,000, with about $75,000
insurance. The fire is supposed to have
originated from natural gas The popu¬
lation of Leechburg is about 3,500.
Fire started in Keyport, N. J., Fri¬
day morning in Leyrer’s bakery, which
destroyed five buildings and caused a
loss of over $65,000. Jacob Leyrer was
burned to death, and Mrs. Leyrer and
Jacob Leyrer, Jr., were terribly burned,
and may die.
The Chicago Times says that Maggie
Schreiner, who poured kerosene oil on
her husband ou June 25, 1888, and then
set lire to it, burning him fatally, is
suing the order of Foresters for $2,000
interest and principle, on a death benefit
Df $1,000, which she claims as b,n
efleiary of the dead man’s estate.
The New York produce exchange
statements of the visible supply Sun¬
day, November 23, 1889, is as fol¬
lows. Wheat, 30,124,056; increase, 1,
722,278. Corn, 6,100,154; increase, 9,
089. Oats, 5,904,713; decrease, 330,-
504, Rye, 1,184,346; decrease, 11,800.
Barley, 3,141,421; increase, 392,862,
President W. W. Young, who, with
Cashier John Hoerr, both of the Law¬
rence, Mass., bank, were charged with
embezzlement and accepting money Irom
depositors after th e-bank was insolvent,
surrendered himself Thursday night and
gave bail in the sum of $2,500 for hear¬
ing next Wednesday.
The Pittsburg, Pa., Southern Coal
company, composed of nineof the largest
coal firms in that city, ou Tuesday cut
the prices of coal delivered at New Or -
leans four cent9 per bariel. This is an
unprecedented reduction, and was made,
it is said, to prevent the formation bv
smaller operators of a competing com¬
pany. the cartridge
Corvillain, proprietor of
sssa m'sjk
™ sentenced to four years and «
months, and the engineer to one year and
one mouth’s imprisonment, and to pay a
flne of 3 ’ 500 francs each ’
The day after Dom Pedro , sailed .. , from from
Rio Janeiro, telegraphed the provisional _ to the Brazilma
of Brazil him
minister, at Lnsbon, directing him
'he ex-emperor’s arrival to tender
general reception. The Brazilian
here regarded this actio,, as dictated
delicate consideration on the part of the
>»««"»*' a— —*> D
ro '
Thursday forenoon John Chana,
hopeless dead ihe paralytic, fl'oor aged his 35, was
on of hovel at
“IfT COUNTRY: MAY SHE EVER RE RIGHT; RIGHT OR WRONG, MY COUNTRY I” —Jbffkbson
COVINGTON, GEORGIA. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5.1889.
of physical manhood. It is rented that
I ®“ e di *y i»e cursed his creator ini a terri- ‘
hie manner when he fell over, stmt*
jli.m!, r emained and paralyzed in this condition from head until to foot. his
i death. , l
THE SILVER QUESTION.
j j SOME OF THE RESOLUTIONS PR ESENTKL
BY THE CONVENTION.
■ The National Silver convention was
j day < ail ® morning d to order by the chairman Wednes
at st. Louis. Delegate
Morse, of Colorado, introduced the fol¬
lowing Senators resolution: Itesolved, Thai
and Representatives in
the Congress of the United Statei
be and are hereby requested to es¬
tablish a unit for the coinage of silvei
with the South American States tha(
shall make silver coin pass current on pai
with gold in all the Americas of the
be western hemisphere, and that they alst
the requested to open all negotiations with
Congiess of Americas now in ses¬
sion in Washington for the building of e
railroad from the Uuited States to aud
through the States of South America.
After a lively di -mission the resolution wat
referred to the committee "on resolutions.
The following resolution offered by Mr.
Jaoks, of California, was received witt
cheers and referred under the rules
Whereas, Wall street and easterr
bondholders are now actually at work
striving to elect a speaker for the ap¬
proaching congress, whose record is en
tirely opposed Representatives to silver interests; and,
Whereas, in congresi
should be the servants of the people; and
Whereas, This great convention shows
the unanimity of public opinion in south¬
ern and western states and territories in
favor of more coinage of silver; therefore,
be it resoived, That western and southern
representatives in congress be requested
to support so lie friend of silver for the
speakership of the present house of rep¬
resentative and that their failure to do
so will be the betrayal of the people,
warranting their political death.
POWDERLY'S VIEWS
ON THE PROPOSED AMALGAMATION OF
KNIGHTS AND ALLIANCEMEN.
General Master Workman T. Y. Pow
derly, in an of interview the Philadelphia on Monday Record, with
a expressed reporter his views the proposed
on
amalgamation of the Knights of Laboi
and Farmers’ Alliance. Mr. Powderly
stated that, in his opinion, some form of
consolidation between the two great
bodies would be accomplished at an
early date. “We are for amalgamation,
body and soul,” said the knights’ execu¬
tive, “and I have good reasons to think
that the alliance is very favorably dis¬
posed toward the scheme. On Decem¬
ber 3 General Secretary J. W. Hayes and
A. W. Wright of the executive board,
will meet a committee from the Farmers’
Alliance at St. Louii, where they will
thoroughly discuss the feasibility of the
problem. By an amalgamation or feder¬
ation the knights and the Formers’ A li
auce will have about three million
votes, an army so vast that
politicians will not dare spurn it.
There are in round numbers 500,000 men
in the ranks of the Knights of Labor,
while the Farmers’ Alliance, which is
merely in its infancy, has over if 3,000,000
members. I think that an amalga¬
mation is brought about, the American
Federation, with its half million follow¬
ers, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi¬
neers, with its many thousands, and
other great labor bodies, will want to b«
merged. It will probably mean the birth
of a new political party, which will have
sufficient strength to control the tariff
and other legislation.”
TRAIN ROBBERS
ARMED TO THE TEETII, CAPTURE AN EN¬
GINE, MAIL AND EXPRESS CAR.
A dispatch from Fort Worth, Texa9,
says: Sixteen mounted and heavily armed
men boarded the south bound Santa Fe
passenger train Tuesday night, at Ber¬
wyn, a small station in the Chickasaw
nation, Indian territory, and cut the en¬
gine and mail and express loose from the
coaches, They then ran the train
two miles and threw the fireman
off the locomotive. Two miles
further on ihe engineer was
thrown off, and after running four miles
further, steam was turned off and the
engine killed. Then the robbers began
ati attack on the express car. The guard
and the messenger fired twenty shots,
but finally gave in after the robbers had
literally riddled the car. The money
stolen is between twenty and thirty
thousand dollars, The passengers and
mail were not molested, United States
marshals are in pursuit of the robbers.
ALDERMEN SENT UP. *
SEVERAL PROMINENT CITIZENS OF PITTS¬
BURG, PA., WILL GO TO JAIL.
Aldermen Caliau, Dougherty and
Maneese, and Detectives Bander,
Doyle, Nagle and Bender, convicted
of conspiracy to defraud in accepting
bribes to settle illegal liquor selling
cases, were sentenced Friday morning by
Judge White, of the criminal court of
Pittsburg, Pa. Callan got three
years in the workhouse, and
Doughty one year and Maneese
six months in jail. Bolder and his chief
detective each got three years in the
workhouse, Nagle one year and Bender
six months in jail. The aldermen are all
quite prominent anil wealthy, and always
stood high in the community. Their
method was to have the detectives enter
suit against unlicensed liquor dealers and
then settle the case for a consideration
without reporting the matter to the
court.
ALABAMA JUTE.
A NEW AND VALUABLE WEED DISCOVERED
j THAT DISCOUNTS JUTE.
»«*%*
county, Ala., or ntotr a P
calls \ J , an<1
for it He ^ vering
he exhibi 1 ^ or
J? f ind ^ stron(J , er by far
* ute finer. Mr. Fuller said that
al ’ ’ a | easily stripped from
k coui je passed through
‘^: ^ nd w fc en an
ordinary ’ cl[ie mill, would come out al
j n rv thought that the weed,
j most ole ■ He thousand
growing wou)d v ; e id
- and this could
pounds of fibre e per acre, ^ He
be large.y . t ^ had discovered a
and one which would <a «R“ add n
Hawwimr southern farm and
n P to every cotton planters,
j prov. a great saving 6 to
SOUTHERN NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA¬
RIOUS POINTS IN THE SOUTH.
a condensed account or what is ooino on or
‘WaUTANCE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES.
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Granville Young, postmaster at Bugby,
Teun., of has been arrested on the charge
rifling letters.
The Debardaleben Coal and Iron com
i ftuy of Birmingham, Ala., has increased
tbe pay of miners, at Blue creek mines,
frow 40 to 4-24 cents per ton, commenc
ing L- December 1st
S.x cars loaded , with 275 negroes passed ,
tl aclhc * railroad, ■^ nnlaton on > Sunday A* a -> on night. 'It® Georgia 1 he
negroes were from North Carolina, on
ihelr way to Mississippi.
Ihe will of the late Mrs. Charles
Crocker, of San Francisco, was filed for
probate Tuesday. She bequeathed her
entire estate, valued at about $11,000,
000, to her four children.
A furnace company with a capiial
clock of $80,000, all held by local capi
taliste, was organized at Birmingham on
Friday. hundred The furnace company will build a one
ton at once.
Peter McLaren, of Canada, purchased
on Friday the Doutha survey, contain¬
ing 64,000 acres, lying in Allengheny
county, Virginia, from Philadelphia
parties for $300,000. Tlie property lias
on It fine timber and valuable minerals.
A Charleston, IV. Va., special says:
Information reached here Tuesday even¬
ing that there was a big riot in Flat Top
day mining district, in Mercer county, Mon¬
night,in which seven men were shot,
two being killed instantly. All parties
to the affair were negroes.
McLeod & Anderson, tobacco ware¬
housemen, of Louisville, Ky.,
failed Wednesday, The firm con
sists of Dr. George W. McLeod and
James A. Anderson, both of Versailles.
They assigned all property belonging to
them, not subject J to homestead exemp- 1
t ; on
A number of gentlemen arrived at
Denver, Col., on Saturday from Reno
county, In Kan., to locate government lands
8outh Santa Fe for a colony of 200
Mennonites, who propose settling on the
line of the Atchison, I opeka and Santa
Fee road. It is the first colony of the
kind to locate in the territory.
Captain Gill, under date of November
23, the announces loss of the from Apalachicola, Carl 1). Lathrop, Fla.,
schooner
with lumber, for Cardenas, Cuba. Thu
vessel capsized at midnight November
21st. All hunds had, however, tRkento
the boats five hours previously, and they
escaped to land and nothing was saved.
It was announced Tuesday that the
Afro-American league’s convention,called
to meet at Nashville January 15th, next,
will meet instead at Chicago, the date re¬
maining the same. The reason assigned
for the change is that Chicago offers bet
ter accommodations, and is believed to be
more favorably disposed to the Afro
American citizens.
Sheffield, Ala., celebrated Thanks¬
giving Day three by sending, by river route to
St. Louis, hundred tons of pig
iron. The shipment was the first irou
ever sent by river. It was the virtual
opening of the new route, and a matter
of great consequence to Sheffield, and
proportionately Alabama. to the entire mineral
district of
Near Huntingdon, W. Va, on
Wednesday, the Chesapeake and Ohio
railroad bridge crossing Guyandotte
river, fell while a freight train was
crossing it, precipitating the entire train
into the river. Engineer R. V. Free¬
man was killed. The rest of the crew
had a miraculous escape, sustaining only
slight bridge bruises. has The wreck condemned was complete.
The been for some
time.
A dispatch from Aspen, Col., on
Wednesday says: The heaviest snow in
years has fallen during the past three
days. Many snowslides have occurred.
No loss of humau life is reported yet,
though several parties are known to have
been in the neighborhood of slides. Two
men were caught in Lincoln gulch and
buried, together with their team and
wagon. The men were slightly injured,
aud the horses were killed.
A Tallahassee, Fla., special to the
Times- Union says Governor Fleming on
Tuesday received an official acknowledg¬
ment by Secretary Blaine of the receipt
of his letter inclosing the Key West pro
test, with reference to the action of the
Spanish consul in connection with th
cigar-mulfer’s strike. The Secretary says
the whole matter has been referred to the
department of justice*and it is under¬
stood the attorney general has turned it
over to the United States district attor¬
ney for the southern district of Florida
for investigation. The latest advices
from Key West indicate much excite¬
ment among the Cuoans there with ref¬
erence to the recent outbreaks at Mut
Ziuas.
THE ARMY ENJOINED.
A DECISION THAT WILL SQUELCH RAM¬
PANT SALVATIONISTS.
The appellate court, at Springfield,
Ill., ha* rendered a decision in favor of
the city of Bloomington in its ca^e
against Mrs. Washburne, of the Salva¬
tion Army. The decision establishes the
right of cities and towns to protect them
telve against the alleged objectionable
practices of Salvationists. The aimy
made a practice of parading the
business streets nightly, blowing
horns and pounding on an immense bass
drum. The mayor ordered that the
drum-beating cease, and when Mrs.
W’Sshburne appeared on the streets and
violated the mandate, she was arrested
and fined. The case was taken to t He
circuit court, where the decision was af¬
firmed. It then went to the appellate
court, and was again affirmed.
WON’T HAVE THEM
CITIZENS OF CLEVF.LAND, OHIO, CUTTING
DOWN DANGEROUS ELECTRIC WIRES.
Cleveland’s citizens are up in arms
igainst the electric street car motor wires
in the streets. From 7 o’clock Monday
until sundown a big force of linemeu,
under Fire Department Chief Dickinson,
were at work cutting aud slashing down
the wires. Scores of live telephone
wires were sacrificed in the interests of
popular safety. The people are intensely
excited, and great crowds congregated
on the streets and oheered the linemen as
wire after wire was chopped down and
destroyed.
BOSTONS BLAZE.
r| HURRICANE OF FLAME DEVASTATING
BLOCKS OF HANDSOME BUILDINGS.
Fire started shortly before 8 o’clock
hur-day morning on the upper floor ol
ic six story granite block. Nos. 69 to j
Bedford street, Boston, Mass., owned
by Jordon, Marsh & Co., and occupied
by the Shoe and Leather exchange,
Brown Darrell & Co., Woonsocket
5“ b £ r company Solomon, Hebert
^ Juhu & J
ind the b £“ ch °® ~ c « of the w X «‘
Vn , K i n Telegraph Company , n the
round t floor, and about fifty offices of
ut-of-town boot and shoe and leather
janufacturers on the upper floor. The
;;re evidently had complete possession < f
-o e upper floors before it w is discovered,
J; „ short time the flame- had leaped
^ Bedford, Kingston and Columbus
rests, and by 9:15 the hand-i me brown
i tone Ames building, on the opposite
> ornerof Bedford and Kingston street i,
vas amass of fire. An half hour later
ihe rear of all the buildings on Chauncey
street, on either side of Bedford street,
were on fire, and the- lire department was
apparently of-town unable to cope with it. Out
fire apparatus were sent for and
there were probably seventy-five steam
er* surrounding the fire by noou, aud by
the combined efforts of the vast
army of firemen and engines,
the fire was finally subdued.
Ri a three o’clock extra the Globe gives
the following estimate of the loss: Less
on valuation, buildings destroyed, as per assessor’s
about $600,000; estimated
damages to other buildings, not destroyed
$200,000. A careful estimate of the loss
on merchandise, $1,700,001). Total loss,
Cartful estimate of an old assessor,
$2,550,000.
THE BURNED DISTRICT
begins extends at Columbia street on the east and
two blocks westward, along Bed¬
ford street to Chauncey street on the east.
On the Bouth side -of Bedford street
‘ he consumed the entire block
bounded >? Ledford, Kingston Es
sex and Columbia streets. Westward
of this, the entire block bounded by
Bedford, and Kingston and Chauncey sheets
the Rowe place, and westward of
these buildings, on Chauncey street,from
Bedford to Exeter place. There are
about 200 firms burned out and 100
agents of New York and western firms
have their headquarters destroyed. The
seventy-nine be insurance companies known
to interested, carry an aggregate in¬
surance of $2,600,000 on the burned
property. The total loss, according to
the latest conservative estimates, will
reach $4,000,000. Two firemen—Daniel
Buckley, unmarried, and Frank P.
Loker, who has a wife and child, aro
missing and are supposed to have per¬
ished in the flames. A good many peo¬
ple riously. were injured, several of them se¬
A CITY IN RUIN8.
LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS, VISITED BY A
DISASTROUS CONFLAGRATION.
Lynn, Mass., tbe city of shoes, was on
Tuesday afternoon vi-ited by the greatest
fire in its history, and, with two excep¬
tions, the conflagration was the m- st
disastrous which ever visited New Eng
land. These exceptions are the great
Boston fire of 1872, which destroyed be¬
tween three and four hundred million!
of dollars’ worth of property, and
the Portland fire of 1866, which caused
a loss of between ten and twelve millions.
Tuesday’s fire raged over eight hours,
devastated a square mile of the. business
section of the city, and caused a loss es¬
timated at ten millions. In fact, agreatei
part of ward four is wiped out, as re¬
gards important shoe manufacturing
blocks and prominent had places of business.
After the fire been m progress
two hours, everybody declared it would
not stop until it reached the ocean.
And so it proved to be. The four daily
newspapers were burned out—the Item,
Bee, Press and News—three afternoon
and one morning paper. Three nation¬
al banks, the Central Security and Frst
National, together with the Lynn In¬
stitute for Savings, located m the First
National block, are all wiped out.
Twelve of the finest shoe blocks are:
in ruins, and about twenty-five stores.
Among the prominent blocks burned are
Aimont street, Mower’s block, and the
block occupied by the Consolidated Ad¬
justable and Shoe company; Central square
Centra! avenue, Bennett & Barnard’s
block, Fuller’s block, a wooden block
in which was located the Daily
Bee, E. Gengrcen’s block; brick
block owned by the Daily Item-,
on Union street, B. \V. Currier’s new
building. W, N. Breed in & Co., the lar¬
gest lumber dealers Essex county,lose
everything, including their handsome
brick structure on the corner of Beach
and Broad streets. They estimate their
loss at $200,000. Mount Vernon street
was wiped out entirely, and on this street
were located the large brick factories oc¬
cupied by Francis W. Breed, Heath
Bros., and William Porter & Son.
AN APPEAL FOR AID.
Mayor Newhall, in an interview, said.
“Lynn has suffered the greatest calam¬
ity in its history. The business portion
of the city is almost a wreck. Over six
thousand persons are thrown out of em¬
ployment, and two hundred families are
homeless. The city of Lynn will be
forced to issue an appeal for assistance.
I am loth to do so, but am obliged under
the circumstances to make such an appeal.
It is impossible to compute the loss, but
it must reach somewhere in the vicinity
of teu millions of dollars.”
HOMEWARD BOUND
STANLEY, THE GREAT LXPL 1 *RER, WILL
BEACH HOME IN JANUARY.
cal Stanley, in s letter to the Geographi¬
esting society, of London, gives more inter¬
details concerning the country
traversed by him. The Times says.it k
assured by high i-uthority tha’ Stanley
is not likely to reach home until the en I
of January, and that he will probably
Stay gome time at Mombassi to give the
benefit of his experieueo to Mackenzie,
who is Organizing a government in Brit¬
ish East Atrica. “It is hoped,” says the
induced Times, “that Stanley, after red, may be
to undertake the administration
of the East African government. We
believe he might be quite willing to be¬
come a British subject."
CONTRACTORS ASSIGN.
N. Caldwell, Y., Wilcox & Co., of Newberg,
iron manufacturers and contrac¬
tors, with extensive works on the river
front, made a general assignment on Mon¬
day Liabilities for the benefit of their creditors,
and assets are unknown, bu<
It is stated that they will be heavy.
WASHINGTON, 1). C
MOVEMENTS OF WE PRESIDENT
AND Ill,' ADVISERS.
AMOwnomrs. decisions, and other mattebs
oi interest from the national capital.
The commission of Virgil P. Clayton
as forwarded postmaster him at Tuesday. Columbia, S. C., was
to
The president has appointed Otis H.
Russel postmaster at Richmond, Va.,
vice Wllu*mH. Collingsworth, removed.
The attorney-general at Washington is
informed ihat the trial of tbe cases of
alleged frauds in Florida, at t! e last
presidential elution,has alreadv resulted
In thiue convictions.
The Ligbth. iuse board has given in¬
structions f. r the repair of beacon N o.
9, North Landing river. North Carolina,
recently damaged by being run into by
the steamer Defiance.
Secretary Tracy has made arrange
! meats by which the navy is to be furu
ished brown prismatic powder for largt
guns and the new smikclcs powder)
smaller arms.
Attorney General Miller appointed
Leo Brook assistant United States attor
ney for the middle district of Temiesst e,
vice A. N. Miller resigned; and (. tiaries
Parlange special assistant United States
attorney for tin eastern district of Lou¬
isiana.
The Secretary of State is engage 1 i i
negotiations for an international copy¬
right treaty with France. Count De
Keratry has been at Washington some the
time as a special representative of
French republic, and voices the views of
literary men of that nation.
A letter was read in the international
American conference on Wednesday
from LaFayette Rodrigues announcing, Pereira, one
of the delegates from Brazil,
with regret, that he felt unable to con¬
tinue to act as delegate, owing to the
changed condition day of devoted alTaiis in discussing bis coun¬
try. The was to
the proposed rules of procedure.
The first thanksgiving day of the now
administration was generally celebrated
in Washington. The president carried
out the letter of his thanksgiving proc¬
lamation by attending services at the
Church of the Covenant in the morning.
In the evening he ate an old-fuslii sued
Thanksgiving dinner at the white house,
surrounded by members of his family.
Colonel Erns . ot th atmy, the new
commissioner of public buildings and
ground*. was the only guest.
JEFFERSON DAVIS DYING.
THE CONFEDKRACY'8 CHKIFTAIN SLOWLY
PASSING AWAY.
A special dispatch from New Orleans
under date of Friday, says: Mr. Jeffer¬
son Davis’ condition has again become been
critical—more critical than it lias at
any time since his present attack, and
even the members of his family admit,
lor the first time, that the situa¬
tion is very discouraging, hut sti 1
cling to the hope that Mr.
Davis’s wonderful vitality through. and recuper¬ He
ative powers will pull him
shows, however, no disposition far to recup¬
erate, and this is regarded as more
serious th m the bronchitis and feverfion
which he has suffered. Mr. Davis has
taken no food except beef tea, for
two weeks, and that in such
small quantities as barely to keep the
patient alive, lie has felt no desire for
food, and has taken what was offered
him under protest. And thus, while ho
has been better one day than another,
and then worse again, he has been grow¬
ing weaker all the time, aud 1m de¬
pended largely on stimulants for
strength. The bronchitis is now regarded
ffs simply a local complaint, from whit.,
there is little to fear, but the dread is
that the long sickness from which Mi.
Davi 9 i.ai been suffering, tlie_ lack of
nourishment ami the fevers which have
visiued him tiom tim' to tim , may
produce meningitis or paralysis.
Mr. Davis is at the residence of Justice
Fenner, of the State Supreme Court at
New Orleans, and is attended by that
gentleman’s family, Mrs, IJavis and lov¬
ing relatives and friends and I)ts.
Chaille and Zickham, two of New Or¬
leans’ leading physicians. His daughter,
Miss Winnie Davis, left two months ago
on a trip through Europe for her health,
accompanied by a patty of friends. She
is believed to be now at Paris. The res
idence of Mr. Davis is at Beauvoir, lie
tween Biloxi and Ocean Springs, Miss.,
a beautiful place on the gulf coast. While
in New Orleans Mr. Davis was taken sick,
first with bronchitis, then with pneu
moniaand fever added, which, with loss
of sleep, his eighty-one yeais and natur¬
ally feeble constitution threatened to
terminate his life, 115 h> s little remaining
strength was rapidly departing. A fav¬
orable change then came for a few days
with better strength nights rest returned and absence very slow¬ ofj
fever. But hail relapse
ly Two days aero he a
accompanied by fever and the old sym
toms of sickness and loss of sleep.
This is bis condition at present. ,
A celebrated case.
THE QUESTION I'F THE VALIDITY OF AN
ASSIGNMENT SETTLED.
The court of valid appeals at celebrated New York ha<
decided to be the us
ligament of Reinsdopf & Co., clothing
merchants, who aligned in September,
1884. to J. IV. M i k, with liabilities ol
$1,288,000 and preferences behalf about $600,
000. Eleven suits ou of one
hundred creditor* were brought to set
aside the assignment. The court de¬
cided that the preferences fide and which were in
attached were bona correct
every particular, f e decision affects
tnauy litigations in various states where
attaching creditors have attached large
sum* of money owing to debtors, and a
large amount of mouey locked up for
five years past, will now be distributed
among the preferred creditors.
AN ASYLUM BURNED
AND EIGHT OF THE INMATE* PERISH IN
THE FLAMES.
The territori.ii asylum at Blackfoot,
Idaho momi’i wa* destroyed by fire Monday
g. Fifty-ven out of th sixt.
five inmates were rescued, while two
women and two men are known to have
perished and four are yet missing and
are supposed to have been burned. I he
building destroyed, was partially ltie and loss is its estimated contents
wholly
st *300,00(1_______
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by all means.
WORDS Of WISDOM.
Hypocrisy is the necessary burden ot
villainy.
When a man’s temper gets the best of
him it reveals the worst of him.
It is a curiooA fact in the run of things
that it is easier to be thoroughly ortho
dox than to be thoroughly good.
A bad habit is like a cat in that it has
many lives, and like a cat you will have
to kill it nine times before you are sure it
is dead.
Equity had been gradually shaping it¬
self into a refined science which no hu¬
man faculties could master without long
and intense application.
The chief ingredients in the composi¬
tion of those qualities that gain esteem
and praise are good nature, truth, good
sense and good breeding.
A more glorious victory cannot be
gained over another man than this, that
when the injury began on his part the
kindness should begiu on ours.
Libraries are the wardrobes of litera
fcure, whence men, properly informed,
might much bring forth something for orna¬
ment, for curiosity, and more for
use.
If a man does not make new acquaint¬
ances as he passes through life he will
soon find himself left alone. A man
should keep his friendship in constant re¬
pair.
It is hard to personate and act a part
long; for where truth is not at the bot¬
tom, nature will always be endeavoring
to return, and will pass out and betray
herself one time or another.
There is nothing that makes a man sus¬
pect much, than to know little; and
therefore men should remedy suspicion
by striving to know- more, and not to
keep their suspicions in smother.
A man that hath no virtue in himself
ever euvieth virtue in others; for men’s
minds will either feed upon their own
good, or upon others' evil; and who
waneth one will prey upon the other.
They that govern most make least
noise. You see when they row- i i a
barge they that do drudgery work slash
and puff and sweat, but he that governs
sits quietly at the stern and scarce is seen
to stir.
Such is the force of envy and ill-nature
that the failings of world good men are more
published to the than their good
deeds, and that one fault of a deserving
man shall meet with more reproaches
than all his virtues will with praise.
Under Ice and Snow.
At the recent meeting of the British
Association for the Advancement ol
Science Dr. Frightof Nansen, the. young
Norweigian explorer who was the first
person known to have crossed Greenland
from shore to shore, gave an account in
brief of the journey from which he has
just returned and its results.
Scientists had differed ns to the proba¬
ble condition of interior Greenland, some
maintaining that it was ice aud snoivelad
and others disputing it. Dr. Greenland, Nansen if
able to speak for Southern al
least.
His expedition lias apparently settled
the fact that that part was not only ice
clad and snoivelad, but had a mighty
shell-shaped covering of snow and icc
underwhieli mountains, as well asvatleys,
had quite disappeared and where they
could not even trace the configuration of
the land and mountains. The ice cover¬
ing had the shape of a shield. It rose
rapidly, but irregularly from the east
roast, reached a height of 9000 feet to
10,000 feet, was rather flat and even in
the middle and fell again regularly to¬
ward the west coast.. It had a striking
resemblance to the undisturbed surface
of a frozen ocean, the long, but not high,
billows of which, rolling from east to
west, were not easily distinguishable to
the eye. Beneath this apparent level,
Dr. Nansen believed, are mountains and
valleys.
The study of the glacial period can be
carried on with unusual facilities in
Greenland, which has not yet emerged
from it. Dr. Nansen said that when its
present glacial period commenced the
snow grew annually, the valleys were
filled uj), the mountains disappeared and
the snow field was produced which they
now sawu It seemed as if the ice varied
a little from one year x to another, but
that upon the whole its quantity kept very
nearly on the same level. The considered principal
factor in keeping the level lie
to be the pressure which was produced
within that immense layer of ice and
snow.
At one eud of this pressure forced the
ice downward along the sloping sides ol
the mountains through the valleys and to¬
ward the sea, into which it fell in the
form of ice streams and glaciers, and was
carried away in the form of icebergs ot
was melted, but the pressure brought the
ice to the sea, not only in the form of ice,
but also, and certainly in larger quanti¬
ties, in the form of water. The most im¬
portant factor in converting the snow and
ice into water was the warmth produced
by the pressure and friction. The more
Greenland is studied the more certaiu it
becomes that ice has the ability to form
fiords and valleys like those scooped out
in the coasts of Norw ay and other parts
of Northern Europe.
Our Indian Population.
» «• "*■■* Sff. - ff“
ire claimed from this fruitful source.
The contrary is nearer the truth, says
■
Wide , Awake. , , As , soon as they catch
the white man s regularity of supply, ol
preparation and eating, taking as we do
two or three meals every day, they are
healthier than when they went days
without food, and then, like gourmands,
gorged themselves; healthier than when
they had seized upon animals that had
died, and to satisfy the cravings of false
appetites, consumed the poisonous flesh.
Making a careful computation from
the latest reports, which , . , embrace , all „
the States and Territories, excepting
Alaska, we count 262,620. The accom
panving table shows us how they are dis
tributed:
Arizona...... 21,168 Oregon...... 5,055
California . 11,409 Texas 381
Dakota...... 31,409 Utah . . 2,69!)
Idaho 4,276 Washington.. 10,990
Indian Ter. . 83,234 Wisconsin. 6,838
Iowa...... 354 W yoming 1,855
Kansas ... 976 Florida (Sem
Michigan..... 9,577 inoles and
Minnesota . 5,287 others)..... 892
Montana..... 14,775 Maine (Old
Nebraska.. .. 3,602 Town Ind’s) 410
New Mexico. 30,003 Nevada...... 8,316
New York.. 5,007
N. Carolina . 3,100 Total....... 262,620
NUMBER 9.
YE COLLEOE GRADUATE.
Ha can give the laws of Solon,
He draw the flag of Colon,
He can write a Babylonian I O TT;
He can make a writ in German,
He caw draft a Turkish firman;
But the English common law he sever knew.
He can write his thoughts in Spanish,
He can make a speech in Danish,
And 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 kings—
more or less;
He can mark the Roman bound’ries.
And describe the Aztec foundries;
But has never seen the “Statutes of U. 8."
He can trace the radiant vector,
With a geometric sector.
And can give the moon’s diameter in feet;
He can analyze the arum,
Classify the Coptic canirn;
But he cannot tell a cabbage from a beet.
— W. A. Buxton.
PITH AND POINT.
Pressing bussiness—Ironing.
A man with a pull—The dentist.
A story of high life—The attic floor.
Can a dude be called a ground sweUt
A poultry trust has been organized and
thus the fowl business goes on.
First Fish—“How are you getting
on?” Second Fish—“Swimmingly."
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 .—Boston
Courier.
Not every man who lays a wager is
inclined to cackle over it .—Richmond
Dispatch.
A man is not necessarily of heavy cali¬
bre because he has a large mouth.— Bos¬
ton Transcript.
We presume the fashion of earrings
came from the corn wearing tassels on
its ears.— Statesman.
First Butterfly—“What’s the trouble?”
Second Butterfly—“Oh, I’m all in a flut¬
ter .”—New York Sun.
Occasionally you see a very rich man
who is so economical that he would en¬
joy being poor .—Atchison Globe.
“This is a grate experience,” said the
nutmeg as it went through the pulveriz¬
ing process .—Merchant Traveller.
Being asked the name of the world’s
greatest composer, a smart university
young man said: “Chloroform.”— Phila¬
delphia Record.
“Won't you come Into my parlor?"
Was the spider’s cordial cry.
“No, I thank you,” said his hearer,
“Don’t you see I, too, am fly."
—New York Herald.
“Come, Johnny, 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
Uninn.
“That couple walking across the street
are married.” “How did you discover
that?” “Easy enough; the man holds
the umbrella over himself.” — Boston
Gazette.
Boy —“Papa, what does ‘M. D.’ mean
after a doctor’s name?” Papa (who has
just received a bill from his family phy¬
sician)—“It means ‘many dollars,’ my
son .”—New York Journal.
“Nurse—“It’s a boy and he’s got your
eyes and nose and chin.” Newly-Made y
Father—“Got my chin, eh? That’*
good! I’m thankful he hasn’t got his
mother’s.”— Munsey’s Weekly
There Who thought was a young he would man smoke named in -Maguire, the choir.
The sexton, no doubt,
As he fired him out,
Remarked. “There is no smoke without fire I”
—Puck.
Towne—“That's too bad about Ding
ley, isn’t it?” Browne—“How! What’s
that?” Towne—“Joined the silent ma
jority.” Browne — “What! Dead?”
Towne—“No, married .”—Lincoln Jour¬
nal.
There is such a thing as being too
funny, and a man realizes it when he
kicks another man’s silk hat, just for fun,
and finds that the other man has changed
i hats with him temporarily, just for fun,
too .—Somerville Journal.
IN AUTUMN WEATHER.
Now to the woods the maid doth go,
The tinted autumn leaves to g&tber,
Of course accompanied by her beau—
j Oh! love is sweet in autumn weather.
| —Evansville (Ind.) Courier.
A lady physician of Philadelphia has
decided 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 .—Dansvillc Breeze.
Jones was reading aloud to the fam¬
ily circle a mediaeval romance: “Ju9t
then, five minutes past twelve sounded
from the belfry of the castle.” “But,”
criticised Mrs. Jones, “no clock could
strike five minutes past twelve.” “Oh,
! yes, it could,” replied the ingenious
»“£.“«* h wa3 flve minuteS to ° sloW "”
u sStSKsrSiJK v * Ktf
0 P*°!°” ® 0 t ' er ^ in S P ' • .
studied babies from philosophical .
£ a
. that u their capacity for mis
nd t
^ equal ^ to their ferocitv, they
sQon terminate tbe ad ults of the
hutaaa Samily .—New York Ledger.
Steel vs Wood.
Steel seems to a great degree to be
taking to a constantly increasing extent
the place of wood in the construction of
railway rolling stock. Truck frames,
made o{ hydraulically pressed steel plate,
are now pro duced, aud it is which proposed, it by
mean s of special shapes in may
be presge d, to use it in place of wood ja
building locomotive cabs, and eventually
in cars.— Dixie.
THE REASON WAS PLAIN.
Traveler—Tills umbrella once belong¬
ed to Lord Tennyson.
Goggle-eyes —Yo’ don’t say so! How
:lid you come to get it ?
“I was having a lunch at the Adel
phia one day, and he dropped in to
get a bite, too. I left before he did.
iGrin