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The Georgia - 3 VOLUME A AVIS DEAD r .w-Dwicrs Shin yltr rs IflllN 13 is no 1U UUUL. sore He-tHs of the Pc *pl«t Whose 'mse Ho f.-prfuicd. Crushed irf the Sad Non#—A Long and Ihtttrdl Life. u J! i :»} T:- m Wi Hi f L ;/ wc m mm. [> I / / 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 - 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. -tv' r m 4t - • i j||p§f 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. Eg 'NWZ m A: , m ;S3> ii w J Ate MRS. VARINA DAVIS. The circumstances of Mr. Davis’ Cap¬ ture and impre incut for two years in . 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. Va IS Wmt X | MM A. m •Z3 isi m V3 MISS WINNIE DAVIS, “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 . lv 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. "'TCfr" 1 ’' 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.” Subscribe for this paper. 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, ---------^