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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. ______ 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 ,89 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 ,__ ’ ' 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. _____ j 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_______ You should subscribe for this paper 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