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JEFFERSON DAVIS.
t 12:43 o'clock Friday morning a
it heart ceas.d to beat—a stainless
was closed, and Jeff Davis, first and
President of the Southern Confed?
v, was deml. With him has passed
y the la t of the great leaders
the lost cause. Cobh,
,ens, Toom’s, Hill and Yancey,
rson Duvis will he mourned in mil¬
ls of hearts. Government will not
par to him the pomp and circumstance
kgreat death, but his people will give
him a tribute of love and tears sur
Bug all that government could do,
■ L-moiiag his memory as earthly pa
Kcouldoot do! From Maryland to
las, Ir wherever in other states or in
lands, his people may have wan
fcd—wherever dauntless courage is or
bless honor made fricuds—wlierever
f who have suffered are loved and
fe:b fortitude may touch the heart
dim the eye—there Jefferson
j.s will uc honored and mourned.
; THE DEATH SCENE.
Ir JefFr-on Davis died suddenly at
G Friday morning. lie lmd been
i lily improving for the past four days
! bis phytit inns announced that they
I e entirely satisfied with his condition.
appetite had improved somewhat,
he was free from fever ami
P e had access to the sick
p Iristtd rejoiced over the tavorable change.
jie afternoon quietly throughout the day.and
the bulletin was to the
lit tint liig coiulitioh continued lavor
biiortiy before midnight he had a
llittle seemed to exhaust
remaining streDgthjftnd at 12:45
Uct, that quietly away-so qo.iellv,
the watchers scarcely kn-’w
t-n death came.
mavis's life.
Wfcison Davis wns born in Christian
r T' k )'-> 011 ‘he 31 Uav of June, 1808.
f’fgta may claim a kinship with the
Vtstved a S a shat e of his glory,
s father Samuel Davis, was a Georgia
1" n* n tiie rev oIutionary war he
h t : avalr J regiment, and
1 ‘sanction. Later he moved
■j- ,‘ . ? , y hU,l 60nie afterward
l - n M| |n. '‘ Jhe . T cai 3
• j Georgia branch of
B f s ls “0"'extinct, I, ut it lives
r r d.lumas , a high.spmted honorable
J. assing | jls boyhood on the
ent'r’i. tliu wllites "' cro He
Lw- J 1,1 confl,ct "ith savage
'i l " SOn ’ 8 earliest thoughts
n- 1 ere< l
I the U P m guns, sabres, and
e panoply 0I - war. By thq. time he
ladenirr-'" ‘ 10 anJ niiu nnivers '* , ' : ti!e ty most advan- of his
an d ? m y entered West the Point, mili
°rfelW at
» , he had such
dc n tl*", 1 Lee E- tom
I> ' > Johnson, L-- _
heis v I i 0,, Uto fi Mngruder, and
' lathis
ehiskf K ‘mc. cir
and
ghc«rc rd° all’. commanded the
?l f When ha gradu
thVlf ? st Point, and plunged into
ie «■' l lC * n,|
mhw fr0ntkr ' an warfare on the
t ildier 7 y tic0 S^A ’ the him old army offi
T, as a horn
■r «r'i ®"<le ,' ns such a PPO'uted brilliant a staff offi
l! ‘o a short a record
> ti nc, he was promoted to
.... ?7 -ieutenant and adjutant
WW C ;! T regiment,
it Mi tio ° ° BeI lv ' s returned from
HIM-, an War at ‘be head of the gal
«4' > - ’
h Ppi Uif H the whole n at,on
Sets."”'’ / Wh heroic and his V, ‘ men
valor. Braving a fu
f PP'ansmado C “PP er S 1 ’ 1 !*, the Missis
ne a La t ‘j f ‘‘“'cations. « a desperate charge on the
ed m7v , Tiie Mexicans
fc?, [ '®«skeby fr 0 hlC Vr ^rilter in a strong l h build
f Cy poure( a 7 av y fire
r ,i ''iet<mo ’’ llus i heavy fire from the
Davi? a *j ,7 !? as ™ en “'adly penetrated aid terrorizing. street
,'rt'et qe, after
lf '^ ‘tr Luj; D ?’ ■8 ln g ‘he within foe from building
e er-im) P a square of
iotttercy “‘Dmnl n Za ' I lle capitulation of
L Ptisan) OU u?w‘ 71’ h tUc Praises and ‘he of Colonel <n‘ire
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taa Th '‘B''enaVi' sta S ; 1SSlpl exgluit ’ iI!iti classed ^’ the
'e of I)... n*
'“iiit.rv a ™ on S ‘he m> st renowned
against tcrrible°ia!? 0 7 nl timea Here
idp
; aat »gallop° wi 7r sounding n f‘ ttr0n bugles P‘ came and
’as men into the P ,vls ‘hrew
f ?* 6 lD °a S the on ravine! t ? A f °w a A v ' MS bot!l h inks
iaterveni a ' !luc
the enemy . / ? P‘ n< 08s ig'‘,thusexpo- 'fl‘o. When
v XeT hrjle W3 of the 7 M ,e * he
erwas a “ * can column f, 1
n , <U 'T( ly .
battle field he Mexieacs xl’ 6 - witnCBSe:1
," ffi pl( telj- shatter weie
i Af'er Ut
, ba!tle
tea c;Oor soldi rs, wete cnthu-j.s
lie over Davis, and m tbc old fountn
the duke of Wtl ington, tin- riel, r of
Waterloo, expressed h s avlmir tion in
S£r 1 h Ftsir&Sst,
Ifcxira. " v ar
he H„uid .till 1 ,v« ' i n i =lory I enough lot
>nc mau
HIS PUBI IC I.IFB BEFORE THE WAR.
Before the Mexican »t.r Mr. Davis had
ret veil putt ol a term in Congress, rt sign
,ng to accept the eotumai.d i f the Alts
SOS ppi Ve> uiiteeis. Upon teturu
from the- land of the Montezumss he » i.
appointed to lilt h vacancy in the United
Slates senate. In the senate Mr. Davit
nt once stepped into the front rank. He
wns a s'.udcut as well as a man of affairs.
He was not only well versed in political
science, but thoroughly well equipped
f r debate. Contrary to the opinion en¬
tertained by many of the present genera¬
tion, the senator front Mississippi was nc
extremist. He was fully committed to the
doctrines of 6tatcsrights. The election o'
President P Crce brought Senator Davit
into the cabinet as secretary of war.
1 he secretary gave much o'
h.s time to testing new improvement!
in aims and tquipments. lie had tlx
tenitorics explored. W hen the Crimea!
war came on he sent a number of officer
to the scene of the trouble to study tin
discipline and methods of the Eur. pe au
rndcs. The ledcral government uev, i
hud a n.oi e able or efficient war secretary.
Returned by his state to the icuat: with
the beginning of President Buchanan's
admiuts.ration, the Mr. Davis piutigcd into
extit ng debates leafing up to the
trimend us c.tnpagns of 180). This
biings us to a part of history almost us
lammur to our rcaters as the current
matters of the day, and it :s untuce ..-ary
to reproduce it here. Ad the world
knows lhat Mr. Davis was ready to fol
low his doctrine of state sov< reig ity to
its logical consequences. He tnsisteo
upon the right ol secession,but he fough
wi ll all his eucrgy against such a stale
of alldrs as would, in his judgment, ren
der the exercise of the right necessary.
'V lien, however, the crisis came, after
the election of Lincoln, nnd Mississippi
had passed her ordinance of s cession, Mr.
Davis embraced the occasion of resigning
lt;s seat in the federal senate to explain
and justify the course of his people.
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BEAUVOIR—DAVts’s MISSISSIPPI HOME.
From the Senate Mr. Davis went to his
plantation in Mississippi. IIe hoped
that secession would be pencefu'ly ac¬
complished, but lie could not disguise
the fact that the outlook was anything
but pacifi ■. Following the bent of tastea
and inclinations, lie looked forward in
the event of a conflict to an appointment
in the aimy. In such au emergency he
knew that the south would require the
services of veteran officials, and he had
every reason to believe that he would be
called up m to serve the new republic
with liis sword. That this anticipation
was disappointed, confederacy we all know. thrust The
presidency him unsought. of the unexpected, was
upon It was
but in thi 3 , as in other things, Jefferson
Davis heeded the voice of his people and
accepted the burdens and responsibilities
thrust upon his shoulders.
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MRS. VARINA DAVIS.
The circumstances of Mr. Davis’ Cap¬
ture and impre incut for two years in
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Fortress Monroe is a matter of history,
nnd is familiar to our readers. Upon
leaving prison, Mr. Davis returned tc
his home in Mis-i-sippi, where he lived
in obscurity and, it is greatly to yield¬ be
feared, in poverty, his plantation
ing but little income. Steps were once
taken to raise a fund for him, but he
kindly, but firmly, averted the hands of
those engaged in it as soon as he became
aware of whit was being done. He
held that as long as the widows and
orphans of the confederate soldiers were
in want, he had neither the right nor
the wish to take one dollar of the bnun
dry that ought to find its way to them.
Mr. Davis preferred to live in retiie
ment. In nothing that he said or did,
did he lower in th: slightest degree the
dignity of his high position. Accepting
the reverses of life with uncomplaining
fortitude he held bis convictions un¬
changed nnd unmodified. In defeat as
in victory his great nature was equal
to all demands. In peace or in
war he stood the unchallenged
and beloved chief among his 1 cople.
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“MT COUNTRY: MAT SITE EVER RE RIGHT; RIGHT OR WRONG, MT COUNTRY MrramoN.
COVINGTON. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER !2. 188H.
■LYING 1.V SYATE.
u h Davl .. ! s rtmains are lymg in state
5 'council chamber of tha city hall,
b Ull ‘ lln "' nnd il « e-dmated Ev durian
, l>e d 1 at lc at thirty thiu-aud neonfe
.
j,ad passed in idc lo the casket gazing
ipon the ft crrf the dead ex-prcridvnt of
the confe ler .ey. Negroes as well as the
whites, and grind ’veterans, army ra n, as well as
infederatu lingired over the
asket with the raidc manifestation of
respect. incident During the day; many touch
tig duty were ptcSented president. to those
on around the dfead 'I he
i'y i a 1 building is OUC of the largest
in the city, and tbc council chaml fer is
me he ot the most spacious in the building.
■ casket in the centre of the chamber,
ri sting upon a rai-cd platform. Four
soldiers have b.inon duty since the body
wns taken into the handsome building. The casket
s an (Xtremc'y one, a marvel
jf rich simp icity. It has no extrava
gant decoraiiar.3, and its s< m'ne co'or
is almost severe. It la covered with deep
black, heavy velvet, and lias a few’ dec
orations. Over the casket Is thrown the
battle flag of the 14th Louisiana regiment,
a flag tattooed and torn. In the cham¬
ber arc small arms, fl Id artillery, United
States tl igs, confederate flags, flowers,
evergreens and ferns. The city as well
•is the city hull is draped in mourning.
Every flag at New Orleans is at half-mast.
AU the public institutions are heavily
dtaped. Many pritatc ftsidet of the ces dif¬ dis¬
play ti kens of sorrow. All
ferent m lit ary organ!znt ons, ns well as
a number ot civic bodies, have their
hcadquaiters in mourning.
REMOVAL OF THE REMAINS.
Three weeks ago, in the midst of a col l
tain storm, on or" of the dreariest morn¬
ings of the year, Jefferson Davis was
carded from the steamer Leather, to the
Payne mansion. Saturday night all that
was mortal of Jefferson Dav’s was carried
from the Payne mansion to Ihe city hall,
where the remains will He in state until
Wednesday. reached the
By the time the hearse
city hall the council chamber and lob¬
bies and corridors of the building were
crowded with citizens. The council
chamber was quickly cleared and a
way opened for the admission
of the body. The hall was
heavily lieved with draped the red, in black, white which and was b'ue re¬ of
the stars and stripes. There were also
rich floral decorations everywhere, be¬
sides etossed swords and other military
devices. At the head of the hall hung
a portrait of the dead chte/tain, richly
festooned with crape. Mrs. Davis has
not y et determined
WHERE THE BODY SHALL HE LAID
Anally. Richmond wants it; Atlanta,
Ga., has made its offer; Lexington, Lee Va.,
lias put in a request, because and
Jackson ore there; Montgomery. Al i., will
send a delegation to sue for the body;
Vicksburg wants it, and so docs Macon,
Ga. In speaking of the final resting place
NIis. Davis has said to her friends: * ‘Mi -
sissippi claims the body, and that is Us
home. Georgia has asked fur it, anil
the great love the Georgia people
have always si o vn him always had a
wnrin place iu our hearts. Governor
Lee is very urgent because Richmond
was the capital of the Confederacy. Our
boy is btuied there, and we both love
that place. Then it has the largest cem¬
etery of confederate deal in the south.
Montgomery has#its claim upon the fact
that that was the first capital.” The
question will not he settled until M s*
Winnie Davis returns from Europe. On
Saturday, when Mrs. Davis received a
message' would from Miss home, Winnie, cablegram saying that
she start a was
sent back, urging her not to come. It is
now thought that Miss Davis will remain
in Paris until her health is better.
ALL TimoCGH THE SOUTH.
Meetings have been held in all south
ern cities, and resolutions dei adopted ex¬
pressing sorrow at the th of Mr.
Davis, and the governors of the settth
issued proclamations recommending announcing the sad
intelligence, and memo¬
rial services on the day of the functal.
All the New Yoik papers gave great
space, botli editorially and in hi. graph
ical sketches of Mr. Davis. The tone of
the majority of the editorials, is conser¬
vative, and generous acknowledgment of
his unswerving personal integrity principles and
conscientious devotion to the
he conceived to be right, is freely made.
The Southerners in New Yoik are sin
ci rely grieved at the death of the illus
tiious hero of the lost cause, and will do
all iu their power to manifest their devo¬
tion. to his memory ami their reverence
for his heroic self-sacrifice to the unal¬
terable faith that was in him.
THE OWNERS BLAMED.
TIIF. CASE OF TUF, TRIBUNE DEATH TRAP
DECIDED.
At Minneapolis, Minn., the coroner's
jury in the inquest < n the bodies cf the
victims of the Tribune building tire ren¬
dered their verdict Thursday, which de¬
clares that the owners of the Tribune
building, if not legally responsible, arc
morally culpable, tor ihe loss of life.
EMIN PASHA INJURED.
A dispatch from Zinzibar nnn>un"es
that Emin I’usba has met ] robably a f;
tal accident, Beirg nearsighted he
walked out of a window by mistake, f.-ll
ou his head, fracturing his scull. He
now lies at llagamovo in a critical condi¬
tion. All the doctors, except Stanley’s
physician, declare that Emin l’asha’s
injuries will prove fatal.
The b’o r taw of Agri nVi re, in his
an nul lepnt, want- miill ns »)i re
with t > r* n I ncl - -8 m - f i*na. t»i eat
I’v tain ai p op iate.: fo? ag ic ; t in- tl,
roo ooo,” Mi - i : “ sk “ (:e mi y
a >pr pr ates $2.8- 0,003. Bimz 1 ■?-(),
003 003 for agrieilne ad rare,
F au o f8,'03,030 ami A: si i ’ more
than $4 0 0,000.*’ I is ie-cmine d d
tha 500 a tes of flic .‘ring oi e -ta e bo
pe an r f- r ‘he ti e of the de. ar n ep
for the eu g of new v. rushes o tv i s
d o’her imp r ante per me i al work.
m de >?or the fa r t a the
T e Fe -te a?.’ s
a-,frit: ws-1 was redneid iu 18S T)
f. M .) h- a Irib it< s lie inr i se of
wo ol initio -ts from 78,3.0,t> )1 P<> '"d in
18S4 to 126,487,729 pom s th ■ pa
vea‘.
lived in a olass house.
Mrs Badg 1 -Yen must have a nice
kind ”<>f a mother if !<•'*» Vl " ‘‘“ ht in
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the s reet like this ami get :t h a eye.
Little ‘olnmy-I hghtmg with
your w. lnn’ain, an 1 he s got two b-ft n
eyes.
WASHINGTON, D. C.
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f T niiiT^vo,, " T trtM,|tL i>* s
Senator Spooner On Thursday intro,
Auced a bill declaring a* chief tupervi
surs of elections officers of the eiieu't
courts of the United 8tates,and charging
1 them election with and the enforcement of national bath
natural zation laws, in
supervisors parson and through their subordinates,
of election.
On Wednesday and tie credentials of
Messrs. Pierce Casey as Senators
from the new State of North Dakota
were and presented, read Senators and p’aced escorted on file,
them the two' Were
to the desk and took the oath of < fttce.
Various executive rep orts and communi¬
cations appropriate were presented and referred to
committees. The total num¬
ber of bills introduced on Wednesday
was 505, against 533 on the first day of
the last Congress two years ago. Most of
the bills offered were of those that failed
to become laws during the last Congress.
$75,000 The flight of Cashier Silcolt, with
of the salaries of tbc members of
the house of npresentatives, has created
a lively sensation. Win n the house met
on lowing Thursday, Speaker Ileed laid the Lee- fol¬
communication from J. I'.
dem, late sergcant-at-arms of the house,
before the body: “I regret to report
that C, E. Silcott, late cashier of the
office of scigeaut-at-arms, has departed
from this city without settling his ac¬
counts, and l have been unable to ascer¬
tain his whereabouts, and there is a defi¬
ciency in the cash of the i fiice. In view
of these circumstances imimdintc invistigition I respectfully of
request an under action the
my accounts, such as
house of representatives may take in the
premises.” ployes in During sergeant-at-arm’s the afternoon, busy em¬
the were
going over Silcott’s bo >ks and accounts.
The exact balance missing, according to
the books, is $71,859.
CAP1TOL NOTES.
The navy department is informed that
the South Atlantic 3quadron has arrived
at Rio de Janiero.
The president hundred on Thursday nominations sent to of
congress several
persons appoin’ed to offi.e during the
recess of congress.
Tho president on Wednesday ap¬
pointed David J. Brewer, of Kansas, to
oe associate justice of the supreme court
of the United States.
The attorney-general at Washington is
informed that ihe trial of the cases of
alleged frauds 'n Florida, at the hist
presidential election,has already resulted
in three convictions.
The e'er 1*9 of the commiltees on ap¬
propriations of llie icnatc and house
have prepared a comparative statement expend¬
of estimates, appropriations and
itures for the maintenance of (he gov¬
ernment for the fiscal years 1890 and
1891, from which it appeals that the net
iuciease of cstimatrs tot 1891 over those
for the current year is $20,807,168, and
the r.et increase of estimates for next
year is $38,092,112. over the appropriations for this year
The first bill introduced info the sen¬
ate iu the first session of tho fifty-first
congress came from Senator Sherman
and was aimed at trusts. It is identical
with the anti trust hill reported by him
last year Irom the committee on finance.
It declares all trusts unlawful, gives per¬
sons power to ri cover in courts when¬
ever articles arc advanced in value by
combinations, and dtclarcs officers of
trusts guilty of misdemeanor. Other
measures on the same subject were intro¬
duced.
The total ccdlections of internal rev¬
enue for the first four months of the
present fiscal year were $40,783,350, an
increase of $4,039,364 as compare 1 with
collections during the cotresponding pe¬
riod of last year. The increase has av¬
eraged over one million dollars a mouth,
and was principally due to the increased
consumption of spirits, tobacco and fer¬
mented liquors. The increase on the
spirits alone was $2,398,100. The re¬
ceipts for October, 1839, were $508,558
greater than for October, 1888.
The aunml report of the director of
the mint thaws 1 la at tho pr du t on of
gold in t o Unite 1 State; during the
fiscal year 1888-1) w is $33,175,000, not
far fnm the c ns!a t average. Our
balatu e ( f exported gol l that in the Same lav
year was 840,0(51,101: so w; gol 1
now ir th > i o miry $10,480,101 lew
than in the i re io. s a ear, an I the stock
a ailable for firavial purports is sill
fti tlc di niniohed by the o< i na ed
$16,000/0) of gold ecu ti red in the
a -ts. Tho s 1 vor pr du ‘ti< n of the year
war $43,000,000, cent l oreial valu •, of
wiii h, on the ante 1 a is of vnl ,: bo it
$24,000,300 aas t ik n forcoina e, wiii e
a la an e o.' $12,034,403 was e pored, tho
ai d $8,tv My 0) con! win d in
at;. Cur stock of s 1 or, tln- e
ior;, It s in.roused re ri/ 823,00.),
0 if. So f r as t e < oi :: ge ‘a’
re is eon e md, < «• mo e/ in p’y nailer i»
i v d ‘litly n o e than $15,000,000 s bee
t an a yi a" ag «. Yet tl e yea • has l
far more p:ov erou. thru lie o e pre
ctdi g -d.
Peruvian Girls.
Miss Elizabeth L. Banks, the priva'e
secretary of John Hicks, Uhri’cl States
min's el- to Peru, wri’es hone from
Lima: “There are some very pretty
Peruvian girls to be n e‘: on the stie >ts
or saying their beads in some of the
many churches. Their dark ev< s are the
kind that w< u’d make a man jump ofl
Piz. arVs bridge into the river Birinie il
h:s :uit happened to go wrong. The
Peruvian men pay a great deal of atten
tion to their ]> rs n a’ appearance, and
pass away much of their time in dress
suits and toothpick alias. half They nice ;.r
very gal’a it, but are not lint s of > as
Amerieaa men from any p view.
The Indian Gover m mt are ab ut to
be < all d noon to repo, a suu of $50,
0 10 whi :h they have h d iu th ’ir pos¬
se: s : n for s ‘v< ral y ar.s, the pro ;eeds
of n legacy left by the wife of one of the
Bn’i e princes who di«d upward <f
thirty tl! lea s ago. The <’e eased l.dy,
fays - Freeman’s Joun al, wa: an
Ir.sh wcman, who went to Ind a so mo
sixty years sine: as the hy English traveling hdieu . oin
paDio i of two w al 1
During he • stay iu India she attra -ic
(he notice of . lie of the native pritces, lived
and he nurriel her. The jar
happily tugethe - f< r up - ar.l of tbi-tv
y.tti’S, t’ tt wife having a srparat' e: t to
setth d £ pan her by the Maba ajah.
:She died oiiildjets ami left n j will.
RETURNED THEIR CHARTER
DISSATISFIED WITH THE ACTIOft OF THE
ATLANTA, OA., KNIGHTS CONVENTION.
gskias«s2g j^atovastt
£
5™ {J"*-, ( aD ‘"“ I cal ‘ S8em ^ ® f
D - A. 83, wluch . O Malley repnsents, has
withdrawn from the order, and returned
i ita charter to District Secretary Lewis,
j to be forwarded to general headquarters,
j | Delegate O'Malley sard that this was the
first assembly of seven organized in
Canton, and it is the last one to go. It
leaves that city without a Knight of La¬
bor organization.
GENERAL NEWS.
COXDKXSATIoy OF CURIOUS,
AM) EXCITING EVENTS.
NEWS 1 . . VEKTlfHEP*—AlimPLN'TS,
JIBES, AND i:APPESlSO»OF lHtERE«t.
American Dorn Pedro is opposed to the proposed
zolvereigu.
It is officially denied that France has
any intention to withdraw from the Latin
union.
The Pullman Car works, »t Pullman,
III., suffered a loss of $109,000 from tiro
on Wednesday Light,
A heavy northeast gale, accompanied
by a blinding snow storm, has prevailed
on Lake Ontario for two days.
The total amount of insurance involved
in the Thanksgiving Are in Boston offi¬
cially reported to date $2,3-10,000.
Mr. Gladstone made a sneech at Man¬
chester, England, Tuesday, in which he
ptedicted success for the Liberals in the
next election.
The Turkish government has in¬
structed its delegates in the African
conference to oppose any intervention in
tho trade in Circassian women.
On Tuesday, in the menagerie attached
to Barnum’s ciicus, in London, the larg¬
est elephant belonging to the show be¬
came enraged and killed his keeper.
The general executive committee ol
the world’s fair at New York, held a
meeting Thursday and adopted a bill
which is to be presented to congress.
The benefit tendered to Mrs. Parnell
hv Comedian W. J. Scnnlan, took theatro, place
Thursday afternoon at the Star
New York. Eight hundfed and soventy
st-ven dollars was realized.
The national wool growers’ meeting
organized Tuesday, electing Columbus
Delano, of Ohio, president; G. 11. Wal¬
lace, president ot Missouri Wool Grow¬
ers’ association, secretary.
Yicnna is snowed up. Provisions are
from fifteen to twenty-five impeded per cotnmuni- cent,
dearer on account of
cations. Postal service is done on
sleighs. Robbers are active in the coun¬
try distracts.
A dispatch from rittsburg, Pa., says:
Homer L. McQaw has made a statement
regarding his expulsion from the
Knights of Labor, in which he charges
Litehman and l’owderly with crookcd
ness.
Ihe editor of the Waterford, Ireland
News has been sentenced to two months
imprisonment for printing in his paper
opinions contrary to the views of the
government, which is called intimida¬
tion.
On account of an open switch an ex¬
press train on tho Pennsylvania railroad
was wrecked near Greensburg, Pa.,
Wednesday. The express run into a
freight train. Both engines were wrecked
and a dozen passengers were injured.
Three dead bodies, two of them men,
floating on n life raft, the other that of a
woman floating near the raft with a life
preserver around her, were found near
Delaware Breakwater Tuesday, The
general opinion is that they came from
the Old Dominion steamship Manhattan,
Bunk in collision recently.
The Chicago Times says that Maggie
Schrtintr, who poured kerosene 1888, and oil thee on
her husband on June 25,
set fire to it, burning him fatally, is
suing the order of Foresters for $2,000
interest and principle, on a death benefit
of $1,000, which she claims as ben
t ficiary of the dead man’s estate.
Mongolian Barbers.
The Chines ■ pig-b.il is a bilge of
servitude. A little mere tlnn three
l.U'.idtel yoais ago the Chiuise Hickhiir, pride]
themselves <n th/r long,
which covered the vho’o of their heads.
When they w e o conq u red by the 31 in
elms, who rushed in Upon them fio:n
the N rib, their conqmr rsm -dr them
shave their head; as a s’g i o' .ubnis
sion. Shaved lie k’s became the fash¬
ion, and, ll >w, e en tho Manchns lhem
s dves w< ar 1 proud nhl scalps. It The p’g-tail. Chinaman He
has become o: 's
1 raids false lmir into it to m ike it longer,
and pieces it out wi h black si k tlirt ad.
He oils it until it shims like polish Ji d
e‘, a id It ■ lo s th s greasy, Id; ck ; n ¬
ll u g down upon and soil the most deli¬
cate 1 1 y< 11 >vv and shy-blue silk gowns. tho
Ho lias Ills hair restorer jus as In s
American Pnd i.n Ii: may I e < i adv n
a;et) f o no ' f < ur 1 ald-h< ad d mi u t >
know that a let diet is suppos id, in
China, to be conducive to hair growing.
I aski d my Chill sc servant, while tia
e'iug thr< ugh to Pi kin, says a cane .
prudent ihe of the Courier-Journal, :.s th to
prices of shaving. He told me it
in the interior yo i o mhl ge t a shave for
a cent, and th it tilt- p icis ro e accord¬
ing t i th • w n'-li ot the s ojner.
“Mandarins,” s id lie, “oft n l ave be.r
hers . o uec ed wi.h their ya i en", and
the swell Chin: man is shaved in his own
residence. Ninety l ino hvndrrdihs ( f
the shaving is, liowo e-, done en the
street, ai d tl e bar’, era whale outfit
costs less than S3. His razor, which is
in the shape of atri ng’.e, ia:i Ihs be bought
for from five t> en c nts. strop,
mad • ef c »tt< n or leather, css : bout
a nickel, and his bra s basin is less than
a d l'ar. He lm< arks, two little stools which paint¬ his
ed red, without ) upon
customers sit bolt upright while they
rre being shaved. The e s oals have
ch-awars below the ii in which his shav¬
ing utensils are canto l, a id ho goer
with them hanging to the end of a p)a po’e,
1 al nved ovt r his shoulder, from e
to place, announcing his pit sen -e inches by an
immen o tuning folk, aboit t v
from long, which he p >un Is He agains’ the tixds
time to tune. eses no soap,
in 1 oft< n shaves with cold vvat- r.
C hinese women usually dre s tilt ir own
hair. They j aint t-heir faces i:n l Ida ken
their order eyeb-ows. make tho pulling arch out like the that hails of in
to a
:a a bow.”
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SOUTHERN NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA¬
RIOUS POINTS IN THE SOUTH.
A CONDENSED A CCOftJ or WHIT is OOINO ON OF
ntrOSTANCE IN THE SOUTHL&S STATES.
Governor Lee, of Virginia, delivered
an address to n Confederate soldiers at
Clinton, N. C., Tbuisday.
The First National bank of Rockwood,
Team, has been authorized to begin bus¬
iness with a capita! o; $50,000.
The farmers' convention in session in
St. Ixju’.s has appointed a committee to
bring about a union of all the farmers'
organizations.
In the United States circuit court in
Columbia, 8. C., Daniel 11. Chamberlain
whs made permanent receiver of the
South Carolina ltadway company.
The North Carolina Steel and Iron
company has been organized at Salisbury,
with a capita! slock of *1.000.000, to
build a Bessemer iron furnace of 130 toDS
daily capacity.
The 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.
The board of surrey on the United
States steamer Brooklyn, now at Norfolk,
Va., has reported that she cannot be
repaired within the SO per cent, limit, and
and she will therefore be condemned
appraised for sale.
A large hardwire company from {Con¬
necticut has finally signed contracts willl
the Fort Payne, Alt., Coal and Iron
company, to remove their works to Fort
Payne at once. This company employs
500 skilled mechanics.
The suit of Ilr. Nathan It. Gortcr
against Robert Garrett for $25,000 foi
professional services, which has been
pending in the Baltimore court, offered was set¬
tled Thursday. Dr. Uorter to
compromise for $18,000, and the prop¬
osition wns accepted and the money paid.
A special from Florence, Ala., say’si
Fire broke out Thuriday morning in
Peyton’s livery stable and burned the
building and twenty-one horses. Loss
$6,000. No insurance. The fire com
municuted to an adjoining store, burning
down the stcio building and Btock.
Los3 $12,000.
The genetal assembly of Virginia Wednesday. con
veDed at Richmond, on
Both branch, a re-elected their old offi¬
cers. Governor Lee scut his message to
the legislature. It really is a re-affit ma
tion of the provisions of the lliddleber
gel debt bill, and contaius a mass ot
figures on that inexhaustible topic.
The Central Elevator company, of
Chattanooga, Term., tiled a bill of as¬
signment in the chancery court Tuesday.
Tneir schedule shows $1G9,293 liabili¬
ties, and about an equal amount of assets,
consisting of grain in elevator, teal es¬
tate, etc. 'The failure is the largest that
has ever occurred there, and was precip¬
itated by the depreciation of grain in tha
elevator, and by the inability of tin
company to meet drafts on them.
At a large meeting of the New Eng¬
land capitalists tit Denison, Texas, on
Thursday, nearly $200,006 was sttb
tcribed to the stock of the 1 cnison Cot¬
ton Manufscturing company to complete
the capital of $5o0,000, which was re¬
quired to build and complete the mill,
the mill will linvc 25,000 spindles; will ad¬
employ 800 hands and will cause au
dition of at least 3,000 persons to the
population.
A Carious Life History.
There is ti hard sands’one in Prov¬
ence, interspe sed * ith ir ah e s’rata, in
which b .rrowing a see s e us ru t their
chambe s. A kind o! bee, tho An*ho
niton s, ii ak*‘S nes s Jr re anR nilslliern
with lione 7 on which i 1* s- cs is < gg
, ly, p’nste its
to flea 1 ; then, fina s up
chamber. Ins ead o An'hophores, en
tirely different insec's com * ou ir na
these ness—Si;rs, b-longing to »
group very i emo e Irom tho I ees. Le
ns see how they manage fo subs i u e
them^l es fo * the 1 giti« a <• lh© pvopne fciii&ie or
of tlie ncs In Ihe uutiiiiiii
. in fron
cf tho Sit iris deposits her egg
of the sealed gaberics oi he An lioplm
ri e. The young are hatched from these*
Great Britain, Fir Lowtliian T o’l
says, saves a,000,010 tons of cool a ye
by utilizing the gi srs which once < *
caped from furnaces. As the pig iron
made in this country for 1889 wilt l o
within ton percent, ns much as that made
iu Great Bri a n, the siring here must
lib 3,600,000 to s or t m per cent of tho
anthracite output. Yet this is a mere
trifle t > the saving which will lo made
when the slag is ’ s A as a fertilizer, tlw
waste products of o »kmg sued, end all
the oombu.-t o:i of coal cam ,1 on so as
t» utilize the waft ■ produ.-t; of our
wi Bt ful way of us i g coal to make heat
and steam.
The Naval B ar 1 which 1 as 1 re i
considering the 1 e gue Island Navy
Yard at Phil delp'in has icportc 1 in
favor of it, permanent improve ment as
a ship-building pk ce, w.th dry docks
and basins, anil piant tox bi-j and iitllo
guns, and all o.h r ne»s,ry work-.
Tb© co t, who i completed, d wiL be mmends ov< r
$14,000,000, and tin- bon reco
about $1,500,100 to b -gin on.
As MANY as 717,748,854 gallons - ol
liquor consumed in . the tt Uni •: e 1 l
malt were Nearly ali of it was
States las y a . Rcpublit, only 2,300,
produced iu the The
003 ea’loi.s being import el, per
capita now re: c .es 11.98 g dlons -nearly
eight times what it was .« 1860. Of
distilled spirits 71,064,733 ga Ions were
used iu 1887-a 1 »a quantity t iau w, s
used in 1860, wlnn the population was
only half as large
rr.rE foliteness.
“What do vo' mean, sir, by swe ring
before my wife ! Yen must upologize !”
“Pardon, monsieur! Pardon ! Ido
m ike ze a, o’ogv. I did not know ?e
)ady wish to In ar ze liis , [Courier
des Elats-Un s.
__
GETTING AT HIS VIE"WB.
Jack— How ‘s it, Algy—do you l k:
mnrrud life as well as you did c’.ub
life ? about the
Al'.y—Yt As s; 1 lemexb r san it, e. Algy, you
Ja.-k— oh for club life.
never care! m cared about it.—
[J Algy—No ; never
udge.
frev L sudd. nl v fell in- « w «ro buried
persons While four others were struck
nnd Dftdlv hurt.
BUDGET OF FUN.
llt-ROROl'S .SKETCHES FBOSI
VARIOUS SOURCES.
A Midnight Tragedy—The Covered
Dan—For Time to Settle—A
Horrid Old Thing,
Etc., Etc.
There's a big blunderbuss at the window;
There's a cat on the bark-yard fence;
There's a shot; there's a squab,
A long caterwaul,
And then—there is silence intense.
— Washington. Capital .
THE COVERED DUN.
mum.” Servant—“Boy wants to see you,
Mistress—“Has he got a bill iu .,his
hand?”
Servants— “No, mum.”
Mistress “Well, then he's got one in
his pocket. Send him away. ”— Time.
KOI? TIME TO SETTLE.
Edith Downos—“No, papa, I can
never accept Mr. Scads. He is nearly
twice my age."
Old Mark Downes—“-Humph! But
he won’t be, twenty years from now!”
Edith Downes—‘■‘Then, papa, let him
wait the twenty years.”— Pud.
A HOB RID OLD THING.
She (during the honeymoon)—“And
what would you do, deares t, if I should
be torn from you by the cruel hand of
death?”
He (naturally uuromantic, anil after a
pause, during which he puts in some hard
thinking)—“Why, bury you.”— Judge.
SOMETHING NEW.
Waiter—“What’s your order, sir?”
Gentleman—“ One patent leather
lunch.”
Waiter (calling)—“Piece of apple-j^e
and two lemon cookies.”— Judge,
A SHORT ANSWER. **. •-’T
“Why should I be compelled to pay
extra for bringing things over from Eu¬
rope in my trunk?” said a traveler.
“Simply as a matter of duty,” was the
reply of the customs officer -—Merchant
Traveler.
A RARE BARGAIN.
Smith—“I struck a splendid bargain
this morning, Harry."
Hurry—“In what?”
“Fine, big Newfoundland dog.”
“Been baying a dog, eh!”
“No; sold the one 1 lmd for a dollar.’’
— Time.
AT WORK BY THE DAY.
She—“Oh, see that scarecrow out there
in the field.”
He—“That isn’t a scarecrow.”
She—“It must be; see how motionless
it is.”
He—“That’s the hired man at work.”
— Yankee Blade.
HE WAS UNFORTUNATE.
Woman (to tramp who has eaten a
whole mince pie)—“You seem to have a
good appetite.”
Tramp (with tears in his eyes)—“Yes,
madam, that is all I have left iu the world
which I can rightly call my own.”— ,Bur¬
lington Free Press. . J , ~ „
- "T n
AGAINST THEIR NATUBtt. ' T
“Ferment means to work,” said the
teacher to the language class. “Now
each of you writ sentence containing
the avord.”
This is what Tommy Cumso, who
reads the papers, wrote: “Tramps ; do
not like to ferment.”— Time. U 1 <■
■
nE WAS NOT AFRAID. > »■
Farmer’s Wife—“Aren’t you afraid,
my good man, that some day you will be
killed by the cars, walking as much as
you do on the track?”
Tramp—“No, mum; I’ve been ondhe
great steel highways for fifteen years,and
I’ve never teen killed yet.”— Judge.
TOO FAR-FETOnED. good-natured’trav¬ fl
A few days ago a
eler on a train fell asleep and was carried
beyond his destination, whereupon die re¬
marked to a fellow passenger:
“Pretty good joke on me, isn’t it?*’
11 Well, yes,” said the guntleman, “but
rather too far-fetched .”—Rochester Bud
jet.
* i
SHOCKING TASTE.
Ethel—“Don’t you think Charley Des¬
mond a tremendously nice young man?”
Clara—“Yes, if he didn't dress with
such awfully poor taste.”
“I hadn’t noticed it.”
“Why ho carries the same cane in the
afternoon that he does in the morning.”
— Time.
A RISE IN VALUE.
Friend—“At what price did you value
;our horse?”
Horse Owner—“When?”
“Before he was killed, of course.”
“Well, I’d a-taken forty dollars cash
'or him a week ago; but now the feller
hat drove him to death has got to fork
>ver a hundred, or stand a lawsuit.”—
Yankee Blade.
A I.AP DOG.
Conductor of llorse-car (to man with
dog)— 11 You can’t take that dog on board
the car.”
Man With Dog—“Why not?”
“It’s against the rules. None but lap
dogs allowed to ride with their owners.”
“Well, ain’t this a lap dog? How do
yer s’pose he drinks water if he don’t lap
it up ?”—Yankee Blade.
A MERE MATTER OF FORM.
Mr. Ilardcash—“Well, sir, what in¬
duced you to imagine that I would give
my consent to my daughter’s marrying
you?” Gall—“Pardon dear sir, I
De me, my
wasn’t so foolish as to imagine anything
of the kind. I merely asked for it as a
matter of form. If you refuse we shall
marry without it, that’s all.”— Grip,
A TIP.
“Do you study political economy?”
asked one traveling man of another.
“Yes, I’ve spent considerable time at
it.”
“And what is the result of your in¬
vestigations?” political
“Well, the best economy is to
out of politics. That’s a tip that
NUMBER 10.
may save you money.”— Merchant Trat¬
tler.
COES DOWN mu.
Little Bobby— ‘Don’t you want to
take me up to the toboggan slide with
you some day, Mr. Jinks?”
Mr. Jinks—“I never go to any to¬
boggan slide, Bobby; never even saw a
toboggan.”
Bobby (a trifle nonpulsed)—‘‘That's
funny; I heard pa say something about
your going down hill at a furious rate.”
—Chicago Ledger.
A STRIKING RESEMBLANCE.
A more than middle-aged bachelor
married a young girl.
When a son and heir was added to the
family the nurse was wont to show the
new-comer to visitors with the tradi¬
tional remark:
“Looks like his pa, doesn’t he?"
One day a grouty old gentlemen who
couldn't see the resemblance replied
with a grunt:
“Just so; he s quite laid and has no
teeth.”— Judge. —
AFRAID OF ARRIVALS.
First Small Boy—“There comes the
preacher to our house, and I’m going to
tell him none o’ the folks ain’t home.”
Second Small Boy—“What fer?”
“Cause every time he comes he starts
a revival o’ religion at our house, and
that sets pop to prayin’ a dozen times a
day.” I
“His prayin’ don’t hurt you.”
“Yes, of it does, too. He wears the
knees his pants so thin that when they
is made over fer me they don’t last a
week .”—New Tort Weekly.
A READY-MADE VICTIM.
“What’s the matter with your voice,
doctor?”
“I’ve got a very bad cold.”
“Ah, gone into another line of busi¬
ness?”
“What do you mean?”
“While with such a cold as that every¬
body will take you to be a veterinary
surgeon.”
“A veterinary surgeon?”
“Yes; a hoarse doctor,you know. 8ee?
Ha! ha! he! he!"
How easy it is to be funny.— Boston
Courier.
A RELATIONSHIP ENDED.
“Now then, Jennie,” said the bride¬
groom to the bride, after they had re¬
turned from church where the knot had
just been tied, “how many brothers have
yon?”
“Brothers,” exclaimed the bride in
astonishment, “you know I haven’t any
brothers. I’m the only child of my
parents.”
“Oh! I knew that, but how many
young sister men did you promise to be a
to before you accepted me? Those
are the brothers I want to know about.”
“"Well," replied the bride, smiling, “I
think I must have about a dozen of
brothers. ”
“All right. You drop a note to eaoh
of them and tell them the brother and
sister business is all off now, as you
have got a husband. If you want sisters
tell them to look around among the girls
that are single. I’m all the brother you
need now .”—Boston Courier.
Not “Stnrk Up.”
Among the officers in the Northern
army of the Civil War no one was gruffer,
braver or more beloved by his men than
General Stannard, who commanded a
Vermont Brigade. He was always en¬
raged by any attempt of the men whom
he commanded to steal, or “forage,” as
as they called it, on private property.
A private named Hicks, on the anarch
to Gettysburg, remarked, chuckling, to
a companion, that there was “nothing
‘stuck up’ about old Stannard. He was
not ashamed to converse sociably with a
private!”
“Has he been talking to you? What
did he say?”
“Told me if I didn't get out of them
cherry trees, he’d kill me!”
Another instance of Stannard's keen
watchfulness is given by one of his sol¬
diers. On the march to Frederick, the
General knew that an attack was to be
made on the regiment in a few minutes.
The men were famishing with thirst, and
coming to a well wished to stop and fill
their canteens. Stannard set a guard
over it and forbade them to break ranks.
A certain Lieutenant Brown, who had
a wounded comrade, disobeyed the order,
and going to the well, at the risk of his
life, brought his friend some water.
General Stannard put him under arrest
and took his sword from him.
When the regiment reached Gettys¬
burg, Brown forseeing a fierce conflict,
asked the General to suffer him to carry
his sword for the day, to be returned at
night. It had, however, been sent with
the baggage to the rear. Brown pro¬
cured a tomahawk and carried it into
the battle, and did such good service
that General Stannard at night, though
badly wounded, sent for him, gave him
his own sword, and told him he richly
deserved to carry it.— Youth's Compan
ion.
Heredity of Myopia.
The question of the heredity of short¬
sightedness has been carefully sudied by
D. Motais in 330 cases occurring in tha
young. He concludes that the hereditary
influence is manifest, the families in 219
out of the 330 cases being afflicted with
the same disease. Hereditary myopia is
far more serious than the acquired form,
from which it is distinguished by its
earlier appearance, more rapid develop¬
ments, greater severity and by being
more frequently followed by other com¬
plications. Myopia is usually transmitted
from the father to the daughter, and
from the mother to the son. Bad hy¬
surroundings are among the causes
favor its transmission, and if care is
taken by those in charge of the edu¬
of the young, acquired myopia
be transmitted to the children.
Curious Foundry Work.
A curious aad noteworthy instance of
work is reported. It consisted
three plates of cast iron about one
of an inch, and seven by five
in surface,covering with writing in¬
in the iron. The impression on
iron is made by writing on thin
pining the paper iron. in a mold and
pouring on the The writing
transferred to the plates when the
is cooled is wonderfully clear and
and is so deeply imprinted as t#
any attempt at erasure, ---------^