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Georgia Enterprise
VOLUME XXV.
DID TO REST.
Funeral of Ex-Presi
dent Davis.
iwt flirnnji 11 r *1 p.i'tl einnte *
is the Ceremonies at New
Orleang.
On Wednesday, the city of New Or
leans was filled with distinguished
visitors and military pageants, Eight
envernors were present to do honor to
the deal chief of the Confederacy—
Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, Kea
tuekv South Carolina, North Carolina,
Florida and Arkansas. The procession
was the largest ever known in the South,
»r!d ike floral design offerings anything surpassed that has in
beauty and
ever before been teen in the South,
kbe prided home of flowers,
Ut an early hour the streets were
[thronged with soldiers and firemen in
uniform; members of various civic organ
imtioojsnd representatives of every pro
fission, avocation and association, in
fa t. the streets were literally packed
vith people from all parts of the coun¬
ts. As toon as the doors of the city
hall wire opemd a stream of citizens be¬
nn ta pour into the death chamber to
ako a farewell view of the remains of
be famous confederate leader.
It was uot until 11:30 o’clock that the
id of the casket closed down for
■ver upon tke features of the dead.
Hie remains were then conveyed building, to the
fr mt portico of the city hull
where the simple but impressive rites of
Ihe Episcopal church were performed.
Obedient to universal request, Mr. Davis
res given a funeral in full accord with
lis superior rank as a military rfficer; in
ddtion to which numerous civic and
ither organizations combined to render
he cortege in all respects the most im
>osing, not only with reference to num
lers hut in the pomp nnd circumstance
if its elaborate ceremonial. There were
larticipating in the obsequies of the
'ather of the confederacy, besides vete
msof the lest rause, many gallant sol
lien whose unflinching valor displayed
bn numerous hotly contested fields, re
Rilted, Ld not unfrequently, in both glory
I victory following to “the stars aud stripes.”
The gentlemen acted as pall
re;s: : General George W. Jones, of
lows; lawjer Hon.Chas. E. Fender, Louisiana;
thomas Hayward, of Mississippi; Hon.
II. Watts, of Alabama, member
pf b if President bearers: Davis’s Governor cabinet. Francis Honorary T. Nicb
bis, Louisiana; Governor Robert Lowry,
Mississippi; Kentucky; Governor S. B. Buckner,
Governor John B. Gordon,
Beorgia; i Governor J. 8. Richardson,
uth Carolina; Governor D. G. Fowlc,
Forth k Carolina; Governor F. P. Flem
I r Arkaus; , of^’lorida; Governor 8. 1‘. Eagle,
[ ;i,
About 12:10 the casket wns conveyeu
km the meminorial room to an impro
B.-ed catafalque in the center of the front
Mien, where the massive pillars were
►twined Im with a profusion of crepe.
the casket was thrown the soft folds
B a silken flag of the lost cause, as also
»e Rluier glittering had sabre with which the dead
carved fame and honor for
■mself and glory nnd victory for his
puntry, on Ihe crimson fields of Chepul
Bpcc and Monteray. Immediately sur
Bounding the coffin were the clergy and
med sentries., they bring the only
rsons admitted to a place on the
fortico i* during th the service. The obse
ICS |' ,' j ch were act 'ording to the
tllal °* die Episcopal church were con
l Ive officiating c ”. 7 yMshop clergymen Gallagher, assisted by
of various de
ominations as follows: Father Hubert,
ev . At. Thompson, Mr. Davis’s rector
Miss -; Rev. Dr. Markham,
if . ' 5Ir - “Skewed , and Rev. Mr. Martin,
.here were altogether fully twenty sur
>i. ministers, besides the attendance
numerous clergy of different denomi-
8 r0l I| '.nnous Southern states. A
l J , ; , .k°
e C !r thirty-six voices,
u ‘Tkr-^f . j ac
!f. ly an or g“ n Sf >ng the anthem,
)wh “ ? ( he > V Uey 0f the Shadow of
..,i„ ’ 8 ter "'Uicii L Bishop . Gallagher
n appropriate and pathetic ad
N iSS,
trvwl''(L° nC Cas ' us k et ' on the by religious
athmr-nt f , dlers , was a de
° 60 t° a handsomely
f a oa,sso - n, which had
Upj.ii wqf-ft )arcd been es
wi ^ or ' Is reception, and
r fie
.? m caisson conveyed to the
if IfJL t! mm sT*'?* “r. arose a cat
of a unique and beau-
1 eet ; , can opy, ^ur measuring eight
“d in width, mid
rithmust ? bronze cannons braced
rnamf'Pt ifidiSd® \ - 3 ’ T 16 ( * ome with the furlcd canopy Unitcd was
be casket rested Upon either side.
M ffie caisson on drawn a slight elc\ at on,
w as by six black
rv i hnmoaa.....caparisoned D< ^ ^ in artil
bv d j ^soldier a cnM* Umes,an< eac fr anima l
in uniform.
_ forming TIIE PROCESSION.
aiiis Wffi j° l0US n9 wfieded n v ilitar y into Precision line the
iriri pre
ent of city police
ui turn by the clergy, pall
tte’mZ < ? n in respective order un
Wt?T , th the Precession !inc of was formed,
■owded ma rch were
»l-i mJ. ' aT V ; „„, n “Pcctntcrs and out on the
Ue cf the direct road to the
«4f , ?
8kl6S ^cd with
bi¬ 0 6evero1 , The entry
dk,., , mt0t \ beautiful
,e “
ld o s h° U ^ T 161 Met; ‘fi'io
nd *=' e tu ' farfrom M thumler !lnd cIalt
nnoil n f the busy, «
<%cit» re,.™”? rusbing.work- with
and e aU the
,Tic Ptocerston tMCe ° f a DlHitar v nnd
-
the^ **« south "M* 10 Prettiest cemetery ln
liMsomeit Within bL of r ; 18 a i * ks grounds in bw >uty of the with world. the
C°nfederat« it ii B f* rema of thousands
’ ns of
Military r, J anB *
anf i * an( the tombs of
fawnean Orleans, u vault! u t er th ^ n . assoc i a tions of New
Chuf C !v hat < :emeter the ?, Southern in sub
test, tain na » i’ own temporarily laid
to
THE R'chmond
terminal.
•to* 1 ln 8 he°»t t
to t an ua ' repf,rt sub
e Mm a g fo ockh ° kh °l m der8 the -
polled s t .,„ 1Car f , gross
by th,. Tpr i° al1 reads con
G000,000, *18,000 and th!^ U, ’ ha ratln '- e becn ovt r
000 cv S cxp-'iises
"Plating of 'll? and aU Warnings
Terminal the vnriou C9 a,ld , likewise
“,£■TV* ’
fcpimt ?60 °, 00 o, Terminal 8 ? 1 *, of give
^market . oTf’’ ove
8 to il8 '
tLe price) f °v Ur per cent
Csm t(i mpanj. stock et0Lk Of f tha Terminal -
KNIGHTS AND FARMERS.
ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT AD PTED A'.
THUS convention.
,
! Union, AlllanV^rFtrr:^ SEES
; and h Knights of Labor, «1 hi
pnlwS'i * jl ll,:lr * e ' ii#a,t st - F (U >
p******** lnt I important .
*> no acreunent. I
! is a formal alliance for joint politics
action along certain lines by the two or
gantzalions. the most In eworthy the agreement, feature’is peihati
i o that
which provides for Ihe joint aelion ol
the legislative committees of the two
organizations for t> act in concert before
congress the J urpose of securing the
enrctment of laws in harmony with the
d.mauds mutually agreed on. The arti
c!es are as follows:
THE ARTICLES OP A OREF.HF.ST.
St. Louis, December 6.—Agreement made this
Say between the undersigned committee repre
lenting the National Farmers’ Alliance and In¬
dustrial Union on the one part and the under¬
signed committee representing the Knights of
Labor on the other part, witnesseth :
The undersigned committee reprefienting the
Knights of Labor having reads the demands of
the Farmers’ Alliance and Industrial Union
which Indorse are the embodied behalf in this agreement hereby j
same on of tiie Knights of
Labor, and for the purpose of giving practical
effect to the demands herein set forth the legis¬
lative committee of both organizations will act
in concert before congress for the purpose of se¬
curing the enactment of laws in harmony with
the demands mutually agreed. And it is fur¬
ther lgreed, in order to carry out these objects,
that we will support for otlice only such men as
can be depended upon to enact these principles
Into statute law uninfluenced by party caucus.
The demands hereinbefore referred to are as
follows:
That we demand the abolition of national
banks and the substitution of legal tender treas¬
ury notes in lieu of national bank notes; issued
in sufficient volume to do the business of the
country on a cash system; regulating the amount
needed cn a per capita basis as the business in¬
terests of the country demands, and that all
money issued by the government shall be legal
tender In payment ol all debts, both public and
private.
ii.
That tvc demand that congress shall pass such
laws as shall effectually prevent the dealing in
futures of all agricultural and mechanical pro¬
ductions, pursuing a stringent system of pro¬
cedure in trials as shall secure the prompt ■ wi¬
viction and imposing such penalties as shall
secure the most perfect compliance with law.
i ii.
That we demand the free and unlimited coin¬
age of silver.
IV.
That we demand the passage of taws prohibit
tng the alien ownership of land, and that con
gre s take early action to devise some plan to
obtain by purchase all lauds now owned liy
aliens and foreign syndicates, and that all lands
now held by railroad and other corporations in
excess of such as is actually used by them le
purchased by the government and held lor ac
tual settlers only.
T.
Believing in the doctrine of equal right* to all
and special favors to none, we demand that tax¬
ation, national or state, shall not lie used to build
up one interest or class at the expense of anoth¬
er. M’c believe that the money of the country
should be kept as much as possible in the hands
of the people, aud hence we demand that all rev¬
enues, national, state or county, shall ta limited
to the necessary expenses of the government,
economically end honestly administered
V*.
That congress issue a sufficient amount of
fractional paper currency to facilitate exchange
through the medium of the United States mail.
VII.
That the means of communication and trans¬
portation shall be controlled by and operated in
the interest of tne people, through the United
States postal system.
For the better protection of the interests of
two organizations it is hereby agreed that
such seals or emblems as the National Farmers’
Alliance and Industrial Union may adopt will be
recognized and protected in transit or otherwise
by the Knights of Labor, and that all seals and
labels of the Knights of Labor will In like man¬
ner be recognized by the Farmers’ Alliance and
industrial Union.
[Signed] S. B. Erwin, Chairman.
N. S. Hall, Secretary
J. D. Hammond F. M. Blunt,
B. H. Clover, M. Page,
J. R. Miles, W. H. Barton,
N. A. Dunning, 8. M. Adams,
J. D. Hatfield, J. B. Alexander,
D. K. Norris, Stuart Ashby,
R. F. Beck, R. O. Belly,
AY. S. Morgan, J. H. Turner,
A. S. Mann,
Committee on Demands of the National Farm¬
ers' Alliance and Industrial Union.
T. V. Fowderly,
A. W. Wright,
Rolpli Beaumont,
Committee Representing tho Knights of Labor.
Tho following officers of the Farmers and
Laborers’ union of America were elected
for the next year:
L. L. Polk, of North Carolina, president.
B. H. Clover, of Kansas, vice-president.
J. H. Turner, of Georgia, secretary.
If. XV. Hickman, of Missouri, treasurer.
Ben Terrell, of Texas, lecturer.
This congress of laborers was one of the
most important public meetings that lias
ever been held ln the world. It repre¬
sented more laboring men than the early
congress of this country represented peo¬
ple. It spoke with tho full voice of 4,000,
000 laborers, and it will doubtless have a
tremendous effect in public affairs.
The farmers convention adjourned to
meet at Jacksonville. Fla., the second Tues¬
day in December, 1890.
ANOTHER DEATH TRAP.
A PANIC IN THE THEATRE BUILDING IN
UNFORTUNATE JOHNSTOWN.
During the performance of “Uncle
Tom’s Cabin” at tho Park opera house at
Johnstown, Pa., Tuesday night the cry
of fire was raised, resulting in a terrible
rush down the narrow stairs. About a
score of persons w ere instantly killed nnd
many terribly injured. People rushed
from the outside up the narrow stairs
and were crushed by the crowd
forcing its way to the street.
-Seventy-five person were injured.
When the crowd was driven away, the
following persons were found dead upon
the stairs: Miss Clara Burns, Mrs. Nes
ter, George Herner, Charles Fiant, John
Carr, Sirs, Lester, John Miller, A. Weiss,
John Wayman, Richard Worthington,
Isiac Tolar, an unknown woman.
Among the seriously injured were Charles
Yaugh, Albert Owens, aud a man named
Wieraer. There are about thirty others
injured, but their names cannot be ascer¬
tained. Tho alarm was false and there
are many threats against the unknown
man who started it.
STRIKING MINERS.
TH^Y CLAIM THAT THEY WERE NOT
TREATED RIGHT.
The miners at the Pratt mines of the
Tennessee Coal. Iron aud Railroad CO m
pally went out on strike Thursday morn
ing. They claim that last year the Ten¬
nessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company
agreed to advance wages whenever
the price of iron went up. The advance
promised was two and one-half cents a
ton. Iron has gone up and the company
has failed to stick up to its agreement,
so the miners claim, aud this, coupled led
with the strike of the railroad men,
them to refuse to go to work, The num
ber of men who are sent out is 1,000 or
2,000, and they say they can hold out as
Jong as the company can.
“MY COUNTRY: MAT SHE EVER RE RIGHT; RIGHT OR WRONG, MT COUNTRY!”— Jeffers.
as.
COVINGTON. GEORGIA; THURSDAY, DECEMBER l 19 1889
. .
Washington, d. c.
MOVEMENTS of the president
A * D UIS ADVI&ERS -
Awdkrwmn* ufcisions, momssATras
01 lntcrest mon tue xitiox.vl capital
v
-
T ln furtllt fifty-first CONRRBss.
‘ r execution of the urrangc
“ cnt as to committees on Thursday, Mr.
W oolcott was excused from service on
“ie committee on Indian affairs. Pet;*
! Ions ^ rom various parishes of Louisiana
ln favor of national election laws were
P’^onted Evarts by Senators Amongthe Ingalls, bills introduced Sherman
-
® Bd , referred, were the following! By
of lieutenant-general Sherman, to revive the grade
of the army.
By Mr. Butler, for the emigration of
persons of color from the southern states,
A joint resolution of the Florida legisla
ture in favor of the national ship canal
across the Florida peninsular, and of the
improvement of St. John’s river was pre
sented by Mr. Call, read in full and re
ferredtothe committee on commerce,
Mr. Gibson offered a resolution, which
was referred to the committee on foreign
relations (instructing that committee to
inquire into the expediency and
practicability of acquiring or setting
apart territory for the occupation of the
negroes or colored citizens of the United
States, and also to inquire how far, and
in what manner, the government of the
United States can and ought equitably
to aid the freedmen of the United States,
their families and descendants to emi
grate thereto, and to settle thereon and
to establish a system of common school
education. Mr. Ingalls offered a concur
rent resolution (which went over with
out action) for a holiday recess of the
two houses from Thursday, December
19th to Monday, January 0th.
The recent defalcation in the ser
geant-at-arms’ office, and the consequent
loss or inconvenience to many congress
men, have been engrossing questions of
interest around the house of represents
tives during the past few days, aud little
business thought has been given to the course of
in the coming week. The com
mittee on rules has not yet held a meet
iug. In former years it was the custom
lo permit the representatives to introduce
bills before the committors were ap
pointed, but this led to such confusion
in the docketing of measures that in the
fiftieth congress the practice was dis
continued, it and it is hardly probably that
will be re-established. Speaker Heed,
on Tuesday, named six house committees,
some of them are important ones.
Wednesday, at the capitol, was devoted
to a programme of [exercises commemor¬
ative of the centennial celebration of
the inauguration of George Washington.
The Senate and House of Representa¬
tives was assembled together in the hall
of the house and had music, prayer by
Rev. J. G. Butler, chaplain of the sen¬
ate, an address by Chief Justice Fuller,,
and benediction by Rev. W. H. Nil burn,
chaplain of the house. These
exercises attended by the president and
his cabinet, the supreme conrt, the dele¬
gates to the Pan American and interna¬
tional maritime conferences, now iu
session in Washington, and alt the prin¬
cipal officers of the government.
IN THE SENATE.
The senate ou Thursday confirmed the
nomination of Green B. Raum to be
commissioner of pensions.
In the Senate on Tuesday Mr. Morrill,
from the finance committee, reported
back, adversely, the bill to provide for
the organization of national banks with
less capital than f i0,OOO, Among the
bills introduced and referred was one by
Mr. Chandler to amend the laws relative
to the elective franchise. A bill for cel¬
ebrating discovery the 400th anniversary holding of the
of America by an in¬
ternational exposition in the city of
New York was introduced by Mr. Ev
«rts, and read for the first and second
times.
CAPITOL NOTES.
lina, Congressman reconsidered Cothran, his of determination South Caro¬
lias
to resign his seat iu congress. He does
this at the solicitation of his democratic
coleagues.
The death of Jeffersen Davis has
aroused curiosity respecting relics asso¬
ciated with his captute at the close of
the war and now deposited in have tho been war
department. Many requests days permission
made in the past few for
to sec them, but all such requests have
beeu denied.
A delegation of twenty-seven gentle¬
men from Boston, were in Washington
Thursday, ou their way to the Georgia mar¬
ble qusrreis. They go to examine the qual¬
ity of the marble, and if satisfactory will
use it in the construction on an addition
to the Masschusetts state ca[itol. They
will also take a lotk at Ihe mineral
sections of north Georgia.
At the adjourned meeting of the gov¬
ernors of the thirteen original states,
held in Washington on Tuesday, a bill
was read by the committee appointed at
the previous meeting recommending the
building of a memorial structure in
Fairmont Park, Philadelphia, which
shall be commemorative of events in the
nation’s history. The bill will be pre¬
sented to congress.
The first session of the ways and means
committee was held Thursday morning,
when an organization was tffected.
Tuesdays and Thursdays were selected
as regular v.ays of meeting. The usual
order.in regard to the distribution of the
president's message was made, and the
present tariff law was ordered printed iu
the shape of a bill to serve as a basis for
the preparation of a new tariff measure.
A BIG SUIT.
THE TENNESSEE COAL AND IRON COMPANY
SUE JOHN H. INMAN.
The Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad
company, of which Thomas C. Piatt is
president, has begun an action in the
United States circuit court against John
H. Inman, of New York, accounting. to recover
$100,000 and for an
In the allegations it is set forth that it
arranged between representatives of
was Coal and Iron company and
the Pratt and others assuming to rep
Mr Inman complainants’ that tbc
resent company,
latter should purchase all the property
nni franchise of the Pratt company
for $ 4 000,000 bonds of the
Tennesso , company, and $1,500,000
nf the capital stock which was
to be increased from $3,000,000 claimed to
410 O00 000. It » fuithcr that
fbl" Mr Inman and others secretly procured
5 notion for a purchase of a majority
the shares of the capital stock of the
Pratt company, at a price not exceeding
ihe par value of ihe etoeje.
PLAN OF RELIEF.
THE CIRCULAR T3 BE SENT TO THE COY
BRXOBS OF SOUTHS :ik STATES.
The following plan has been formu
, nA? ”! ief of i,r Jeffers0B
’'
.... ‘Honorable " Governor /' of the State cl
-—^t Dear Sir:—At the request of
Governor Gordon, of Georgia, c >m
mander of the Unite! Confederate Yet
erans’ association, Governor F. T. Nich
ols, of Louisiana, has appointed the un
dersigned in Louisiana, as a committee to raise funds
anl to receive such funds
as may be raised elsewhere for the pur
pose of appropriate relief to the family of
Jefferson Davis. Our desire is to unify
and direct into a common channel the
J j spontaneous which movements in this direction
have started iu different sections
of the country. It would be an act of sa
preme delicacy on the pait of the south
ern which people, and would avoid scruples,
to our knowledge are not less
strong they in the mind of Mrs. Davis, than
were in that of her distinguished
husband, if these contributions instead of
be assuming the form of a donation, should
of 5,700 appropriated to the purchase of a body
acres of valuable land in Arkan
sas belonging to his estate. This would be
carrying out a project which had been
Davis, promulgated and before the death sanction! of Mr.
had received his
A corporation had been organized by
prominent citizens of Mississippi entitled
the “Davis Land Company,” having no
other purpose than to raise funds by
subscription dollar to the stock, and to pay every
so raised without the reduction
of a dollar for any purpose whatever, to
Mr. Davis at the price of this land. The
capital is fixed at $ 100,000, in shares
of $10 each, but if the subscriptions IV -
ceed that amount, the capital may be
enlarged to the extent necessary. The
people of the south will honor them
selves and testify their respect aud ad
miration for the invincible spirit of in
dependence which characterized their
departed hero and his noble spouse, if
they shall unite iu giving this gracious
an d delicate form to their beauty. NVe
invite all interested to co-operate in this
movement, and request the governor of
.each southern state to appoint a com
mittee to take such other steps as may
He necessary to receive subscriptions
of his people to appropriate them in the
tie manner proposed.” words After future eulogis
remarks and of condolence,
the names of the comrmtte is UDnended.
GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE—ACCIDENTS, STRIKES,
EIRFS, AND HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST.
Robert Browning, poet, is ill nt Ve¬
nice, writh an alarming attack of bron
chitis. .
t-. The „ influenza, . » which , . , , has ,___ been quite
general in St. Petersburg, has appeared
011 on ’
Colonel J. H. Rathbonc, founder of
iho order of Knights of Pythias, died
at Lima, O., Monday.
President Harrison witnessed the ded¬
ication of the auditorium in Chicago
Monday night.
Dr. Parke sends a bulletin from Bagu
the moyo that there is some improvement in
condition of Emin Pasha.
The cotton spinners of Fall River,
Mass., are making another attempt to
form a federation of cotton operators.
Spanish newspapers hoot at the idea
of Spain treating with the United States
with the view of making Cuba a repub
lie.
The new viceroy of Ireland, Law rence
Duudas, the third earl of Zetland, will
enter upon his duties at Dublin on Sat¬
urday next.
“Cooney, the Fox,” one of the men
wanted for the Cronin murder, is in jail
in Dodgcville, Wis. An officer is on the
way from Chicago after him.
Five Montana democratic senators
have announced their determination to
present themselves nt the senate cham¬
ber ‘■heir uot later than next Monday or resign
seats.
the The great sugar swindle, planned Kan¬ by
American Sugar company, of
sas, has entirely collapsed, and town¬
ships which voted bonds to foster the
industry will lose nothin '.
The work of refining sugar was com¬
menced Monday in Claus Spreckle’s new
sugar refinery in Philadelphia. The ca¬
pacity of of the refinery tweuty-four is 2,000,000 hours. pounds
sugar every
Nows from St. Petersburg, Russia,
says: be The epidemic of influenza somewhat. seems to
changing its nature malignant Seiz¬
ures are becoming of a more
type than they were at first, but there
are not no many eases.
The general assignment of James W.
Whitney, Joseph goods B. Whitney commission and James
A. Knapp, dry mer¬
chants at 7(i Worth street, New York,
to David A. Boody, was filed Monday.
Liabilities will aggregatac bout $500,000,
assets expected to make a good showing.
By the premature explosion of a can
dou used in tiring a salute, at Columbia,
S. C., on Wednesday, J. W. Foucho
was badly burned and blown up. He
will probably lose his eyesight. Ii. W.
B anton had a hand shattered, Its arm
lacerated, and was oiherwise injured.
Several others were slightly injured.
The cannon was that used iu firing ihe
Salute when South Carolina seceded from
the Union.
The ex-empress of Brazil, now at Lis¬
bon, has received a telegram from Rio
de Janeiro informing her that all her
jewels laid been stolen, and tbit the po¬
collection lice are investigating the case. In the
of jewels were comprised tho
finest Brazilian diamonds there are in the
world. If the Brazilian republic should
decline to continue Pedro's income, the
loss of these treasures will be severely
felt, as they were looked upon as the
chief immediate resources of the family.
The influenza, or grippe, is extending
widely througout Paris. One hundred
and thirty employes of the Central Tele¬
graph office are now ill with it. There
is a great deal of public alarm about it,
much inquiry aud even some small de¬
gree of panic due to its possibly being
the forerunner of great evil. An official
medical report touches esjieeially the
case of a large number of employes of
the Magasin du Lourve, who have been
taken (about 400) and say that none of
the cases ore severe.
Messrs. Miller k en ilev, of Franklin,
Penn., declined a cash offer of jtiii 000 for the
yearling their eolt stallion Electric Bell, full brother to
noted St. Bel. This is the
fc highest price ever offered for an untried J
o tar.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
ITEMS OE INTEREST FROM VA¬
RIOUS POINTS IN THE SOUTH.
A CONDENSED ACCOCNT OF WHAT IS OOINO OS OF
USPORTASCI IN THE SOUTHERN STATES.
Southern students of John Hopkins
university, resolutions Baltimore, on Monday, passed
on the death of Jefferson
Davis.
One Sdilosky, a gunsmith, who for¬
merly livid iu Fernandina, Fla., wa®
arrested Monday in Bruuswick, Ga., sus¬
pected of counterfeiting.
Richmond, Ya., chamber of commerce
on Thursday, adopted a memorial to be
presented to the legislature urging the
repeal of the compulsory pilot laws of
the state.
Three hundred ’longshoremen struck
A\ cduesday morning at Savannah, Ga.,
and except on one ship, the Natalie, not
a bale of cotton was stored during the
day. Non-union men are being em¬
ployed, but union men are attempting to
get them away. Trouble is feared.
A letter received at Raleigh, N. C.,
Thursday, by the department of agricul¬
ture and mining, states that a North
Carolinian, now in Central America, has
discovered extensive and valuable depos¬
its of mica, and is now looking for an
available market for it.
ihe Judge John R. Dillon, chairman of
Tennessee Republican State cxecu
five committee, died in Nashville, Tues¬
day morning, of heart disease. Judge
Dillon was United States attorney for
the middle Tennessee district, under
President Arthur’s administration.
The final meeting of the committee of
arrangements for the Jefferson Davis
memorial service was held at Charleston,
S. C.. Tuesday. The whole city was
draped iu mourning and there was an
abundant display’ of Confederate flags
which have not sien the light of day in
a quarter of a century.
A considerable stir was created iu
South Curolina financial circles Thurs¬
day by the appearance before the com¬
mittee on ways and means, at Columbia,
c< Russell Wise, of New York, as attor¬
ney in behalf of petitioners for the re¬
cognition and payment of bonds issued
under the act of March 23, 1809.
It is probable that there will be no
extra session of the North Carolina leg¬
islature to take measures for the relief
of the counties in the east, which are
iu a bad condition, by reason of the crop
failure. Acting Governor Iloltr says
tha the counties affected must provide
rcli f, and that the law gave them ample
power to extend it to their distressed
pec Me.
‘he board of public works at Nash
vilTenn., sent a report to the city
Co cil on Thursday, declaring the wires
o: U.hu -Nashville Lightning anil Power
1 C v.U' v y !« to bo extremely
aieV’erjjffimenUm" , t that their ciis.ur
revok ^ ttn( , a ne v charter granted, au
thonz ing them to put up wires acceptable
to the New York underwriters’ associa¬
tion.
At Anniston, Ala., on Thursday, Fred
Willis nnd Curtis Woodman, two paint¬
ers, while employed in painting a build¬
ing, met instantaneous and terrible
deaths. They were at the third story on
a rope platform, when the ropes broke
and they were both thrown to the pave¬
ment below aud they were literally
crushed to jelly. Nearly every bone in
their bodies were broken.
The grand lodge A. F. A. M. of South
Carolina, has elected the following offi¬
cers for the ensuing year: R. F. Divver, Islar,
Anderson, grand master; S. T.
Blacville, deputy grand master; A. W. Doly,
Charleston, senior grand warden; T.
Branch, Abbeville, inner grand warden;
Z. Davis, Charleston, grand treasurer;
C. Inglesby, Charleston, grand secretary;
8. M. Ilitot, Honeapath, grand chaplain.
The boundary dispute between Mary¬
land and Virginia over the Hog Island
oyster beds was settled on Wednesday
at a conference between the governors
and ait iney generals of the two states.
The legal representatives came to the
conclusion that the chances were over¬
whelmingly in favor of the decision by
the courts that Hog Island fiats are in
open waters, and they, therefore, agreed
that it would be unwise in Virginia to
contend for possession.
THE ATTOKNEY-GENERAL,
He Suggests the Establishment of a
Prison Bureau.
The annual report of Attorney-General
Miller has been made public. It says that at
the present time there is uot a single institu¬
tion in the country which will receive United
States penitentiaries prisoners free of cost. The number
of which will receive such
prisoners limited, from outside and in the State at the all transfer is be¬
coming Government convicts some cases penitentiary
of from one
to another becomes necessary in view of the
vascillating enactments of the Legisla¬
tures in tne several States. When all the
States in which suitable penitentiaries are
located enact laws to the above effect, the
Government will be compelled to hire quar¬
ters for its criminals cr to designate institu¬
tions which are in no way proper places for
their confinement. It therefore recom¬
mends that provision be made for a United
reformatory, Htates penitentiary the latter and a being United intended States
for the confinement of the milder class
of criminals. It is also urged
that in the Department a prison of bureau Justice be where established could
be
gathered, collated, and recorded in a per¬
manent form the criminal statistics of the
United States.
The Attorney-General urges the impor¬
tance of some change in the judicial system
of tho United States which will enable
the courts, and especially the Supreme Court,
to accumulated, dispose of the large decide number of cases now
and current cases
as they shall come upon the dockets.
He says that the docket of the
increase Supreme Court at the end of 1887 showed an
of sixty-seven cases during the year,
and for 1888 an increase of 133 cases, and that
the present state of the business indicates
that the proportionate increase of the
business will be still greater in the
current year. He calls special
attention to the recommendations upon
this subject of his predecessor in each one of
his annual reports, and especially to the re¬
port of 1885, where he set out in full what
was known as the Davis bill.
The report contains a number of other
recommendations, For including the following:
an Assistant Attorney-General for
the Department of Agriculture, for an
additional Assistant Attorney-General for
the Department Justice, *
of for an ap¬
propriation tion to l>e used in the collec¬
of old judgments due the United
States, that the United States statutes be
amended so as to recognize more than one i
degree of murder, that authority be given to
a receiver appointed in one district to bring j
suits for assets in the Federal
courts of any other district, that j
United States courts be given ju* j I
risdiction to investigate and punish any
crime perpetrated in and as a part of the
commission of any offence against the laws
of the United States, and that a clear and
definite fee bill be enacted for proceedings
before Ujuted.St&tes Commissioners,
BUDGET OF FUN.
HUMOROUS SKETCHES PROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
Sufficient For Him-Anotber Broken
Friendship—Lived i in a Glass
House—Hardly Satisfactory—
Repartee, Etc Etc.
The hop and Ihe German,
The mad soda! whirl,
»\ 111 SO<v 'll entertain
Thesoci V girl.
Bu ‘fcf Juvenile brother
" ith natural vim,
renounces Sufficient for tile him. snow-ball
—Merchant Traveler .
ANOTHER BROKEN FRIENDSHIP.
Miss Effie Auer 5 U «« emra
“What do you think Kdwin said , lust
night? Th i! if he had to choose either
me or a million dollars, he wouldn't even
look at the million.”
Miss Mav Tour (still waiting)—
“Dear, loyal fellow! I suppose he didn't
like to risk the temptation,” Time.
I IM.D IN A GRASS HOUSE.
Mrs. Badger—“Yon must have a nice
kind of a mother if she lets you tight in
the street like this and get a black eye."
Little Johnny— “I was lighting with
your boy, ma'am, and he's got two black
eye*.”— New Tort Sue.
Hardly satisfactory.
Guest (angrily)—“Confound your
awkwardness! You’ve spilt half that soup
down my back.”
Waiter at restaurant (heartily)—
“Don’t mind it, sir. I'll bring....... ' some
more. Bless you, there's plenty of soup.”
— Chicago Triune.
REPARTEE.
“My!” quaU Mr. Jones. “Paris
when i . full ,, acOTSmodates four millions
people.” of
four “Humph!" tiie ki Mrs. Jones, 1 ‘That’s
million s more accommodating
than you arc) ulicu full,”— Munsey's
Weekly.
A STRONG REfEMBLANC
Milkman—"I u.ffit*omi cream paper.”
Stationer —“litre, sir, is what you
want, I think. ,t looks very much like
the cream you’ve him furnishing me_
very thin and ver/|white ."—Put
IT > i ■ouoii.
“What’s the iiatlfcr Jmjlladv. with the beef
steak?” asked the
boarder; “1 don't “but kuow/j J. replied the new
I 1 ,, horrible suspi
cion that the cow waJaffcctcd with gen
eral ossification.'’
A SURE ?IG3f,
uuk.” fisid 8m 7 as. Im watchei]
a couple strolling nlir, “that is a first
love affair.”
“How do you kn® ”
“I just heard hi make him promise
not to smoke or dri i. — Time,
I
a rROFEssnlAL shiner.
Gazzam(imitatingpasser-byi- . shines . - “That
young man Hood deal in soci- ■
ety.”
Dolly—“Ah! MU is hi'?”
Gazzam—“Don't How his name; but ;
he's a bootblack. '— 'funsey's Weekly.
ItKSTI TED.
Her Husband—“ re you going to
Smith's garden pan . dear?’
Ilis Wife—“No; never accept
tations from people ho don't know
“And you neve receive them
persons who do l.oiv you
Folks.
EX MIGRATION.
“I think Cora Fi fry is awful, She
exaggerates so.”
“That’s so. Ar you going down
town now?”
“No, my head ms as though teu
million knives wer i mining through it,
I’ll stay and finish s novel. ’— Time.
FOUND IT THE PARK.
Landlord—“Wef sir, how did you
find your bed last rhtr
Surly Guest—‘tnd tn’t it! Just like
anybody else that know where the
matches were, shins.! j roped around and
barked my Drat a hotel where
the halls aren’t /ghted!”—.j Burlington
Free Press.
—
SURE TO VKE A .SALE,
Miss Pas see d forty) “I wish to
see a bonnet.”
Milliner ‘F-i mr.-ulve, miss?”
Miss Passer—‘ is.”
Milliner "Mat run down stairs and
get me ze hats zeo ladies between
eighteen and tive -.five years.”— Man- I
sey's Weekly.
the MOfcp m vn.
Crcesus hot t proprietor)—“Can • , .
(to ' * , ,
accommodate ; cashing • • check ,
you , , i >y a
for *10 000 ?”
Hotel ProprietorFen r thousand , dol- , ,
• tars! , Why, I net<aw so much .
money *
m mv life! Hover, my porter is
around *, somewnere nd he will doubt
less • , be glad , 3 to . anmmodatc a . .
& you. —
2 'j me
Mother—“JohnuH \
don t want you
to play with that litfi Brownjones boy
my longer; do jou
•Johnny—‘A esm. let
“Xow, don t m<v>ar of you dis- ■
)beving me. I hgujiiii, \
‘•Ao but may f, t
m, mayn t
if I want tor —Puam. \ i
hkakii him o
Bilks—“Conn up and sir <‘Ur new
minister to-day. /
Nobbs—-“No, thanks: heard him
encc anil have always rcgi#ecl it» .
Bilks—“Why, I guessrou ate mis
taken.”
Nobbs—“Not h bit ot; he is the
minister who married us. Kearney E/t
terprise. I
■rat: final uotk
“There, darling, the Iasi c ,” said he, i
as he started down the stej
He had nearly reached gate when
4 ?hc called' him back.
“I’ve just been count up,” she
“and that lasf kiss weYfc was the
thirteenth, and that know.” is nnV.fuHy UE .
lucky minibcr. } ‘ m t
^ lien be finally got away the score
w; is thirty seven. 7 Haute Express.
A LONG ENGAGEMENT.
She—“I haven’t anytbiug new to sing
to you to nigkt, George.”
II-—“Well, give me something of old
then.”
She broke into a refrain that was “a
song of the day” i iveuteeu years before.
He (at the close )—“That's very, very
old. Clara.”
Sb “ 1 Geori I sang that to you
! the night we b< ime engaged.” Judge.
THE PROPER PERSON.
“Bub, how far U it to the daypo?’
he asked of a lad oa Jefferson avenue
j yesterday.
“I)aypo is French, isn’t it?” queried
the boy in reply.
! “Yes.”
“Thi n you'd better ask some French
®*n. Von couldn't find it in English ”
i —-Detroit Free Press.
!
! THE WORM TURNED.
I Mr. Bully Ragg—“Now, sir, you have
stated under oath, that this man had the
appearance of a gentleman. Will you be
good enough to tell the jury how a gen
Goman looks, in your estimation?”
Down-trodden Witness—“Well, er—a
gentleman looks—er—like—er—”
^ r - Bully Ragg—“I don’t want any of
J ollr <rs > sir i and remember that you I tv
\ on oath. Can you sec anybody in this
court room who looks like a gentle¬
man?”
Witness (with sudden asperity)_“I
can if you'll stand out of the' way.
You're not transparent.”— Puck.
FELT NO FAIN HIMSELF.
l’atieut—“I thought—ouch! I thought
your sign said gee whiz! be careful—
that you ‘extracted teeth without pain. »ii
Dentist—“Certaiuly, Patient—-“But—wowl my friend.”
what do you
call this?”
Dentist—“I am extracting the teeth
and I assure you that I feel no pain
whatever. '— America.
HIS NARROW ESCAPE.
Emma “No, George, it cannot be.
We must part. (Bitterly.) .V v purse
l'fond father will not accept a poor rnau
for his son-in-law.”
George (frantically)—“Say not so. I
cannot give thee up. My heart will
break. I
(Purse proud father enters the room
without observing them. Throws him
If!/ “Bankruptcy! a . cl | air Ruin! Rnd groans Every aloud)— dollar
aw,y /
(»w«P»g . .. '‘.mself
away ut
. 'vords)-“FarewelI,
‘ then Emma,
since you discard me. (But he says to
himself)—Mighty uarrow escape, that.”
-Terns Siftings.
SO Til EKE was*
“Do you mean to say, lie protested to
the young St. Thomas man who had just
ot bi * ck ’ “ that >’ ou were in New York
- whole week nnd
a didn't get
fhat s w hat I say.
“Diuii t get T, confidence!!?”
Kj(
“Didn’t lose your watch?
“No, sir.”
“Didn’t get buncoed?”
“Aud got out all right?”
“I did.”
“Well, there’s something
way hack of it somewhere.”
“Ho there is. I hadn't a watch nor
d cent to be robbed of, and I got
on the last ear of a long freight
.”—New York Sun.
Sound Shadows.
Still more interesting than the experi¬
ments of Colladon were those made in
the Bay of San Francisco in 1874 by Pro
fessor John Le Conte and his son, Mr.
Julian Le Conte. The source of sound
was not such as would give a definite
pitch, like a bell, but the quick, violent,
single impulse due to the explosion cf
dynamite employed iu the blasting of
rocks which obstructed the channels. The
i intensity of the shock thus propagated
was such as to be felt as a blow on the
feet of a person seated in a boat three
hundred feet;or morefrom the detonating
cartridge, and to kill hundreds of fish,
Several vertical posts or piles, each about
a foot in diameter, projected from the
ground out of the water in the neighbor¬
hood . A stout glass bottle was suspended
in the water about a foot in the rear of
one of these piles, within the geometric
shadow determined by lines supposed to
be drawn from tho cartridge forty feet
horizontally away. The borrfe was per¬
fectly protected from the shock of the ex¬
plosion. It was then put in front of the
pile bund reds The first shock shivered it into
of fragments. Other bottles,
some filled with air and some with water,
were similarly exposed iu various direc
tions around the pile, and with the same
result—destruction, except L. when within
the protecting * 4 • C5 shadow. * A The experiments / .
• , , - st glass ,
were variec * immersing °ut t
tubes, incased in thick paper, horizontally
across the direction of thesound-ravs j m •
water, . . between . two . piles which , were
1
aligned r , with the dynamite , .. cartridge,
r rhese r , ” piles were twelve , feet , apart, , f, the
1
nearer one , being . f forty . feet e . £ from the car¬
tridge. Its shadow, therefore, just cov
the second pile, and included the in
termed;ate water, with the middle part
of each tube. After an explosion these
protected parts were found to be un
broken, while the ends which projected
on the two sides beyond the shadow were
completely shattered. The boundary be
tween the regions of shadow and noise
was sharply defined on the tubes, even at
a distance of twelve feet behind the pro¬
tecting pile .—Popular Science Monthly .
A Frol!table Hole.
An old fanner in the Granite State one
Sunday morning started to wind up his
great silver watch, and found that the
key was filled with dirt. Being unable
to dig the latter out with a pin the farmer
drilled a hole in the key, and with a
siugle breath blew all the dust out. Then
he sat down tt> think, and within a month
had patented that hole. To-day in Le¬
banon. N. H., there is a large factory
running by electric power wherein are
in anufactured daily thousands and thou¬
sands of watch-keys of every possible
size, sha[>e and design. Each one of
these keys contains the hole which has
beta patented by the farmer. The latter
has already made a fortune .—New York
Still $
NUMBER 11.
WINTER APPLES.
What cheer is there that is half so g:od,
In the snowy waste of a winter night,
As a dancing fire of hickory wood,
And an easy-chair in its mellow light,
And a pearmain apple, ruddy and sleek
Or »
a jenneting with a freckled cheek ?
A russet apple is fair to view,
With a tawny tint like an autumn leaf,
The warmth of a ripened corn-field's hue.
Or golden hint of a harvest sheaf;
And the wholesome breath of a finished year
Is help in a winesap's blooming sphere.
They bring you a thought of the orchard
trees,
In blossomy April and leafy June,
And the sleepy droning of bumble-bees,
In the lazy light of the afternoon,
And tangled clover and boltolinks,
Tiger-lilies and garden pinks.
If you’ve somewhere left, with its gables
wide,
A farm house set in an orchard old.
You’ll see it all in the winter-tide
At sight of a pippin’s green and gold.
Or a pearmain apple, ruddy and sleek,
Or a jenneting with a freckled cheek
—Hattie Whitney, in St. Nicholas .
PITH AND POINT.
High protection.—A sealskin overcoat.
The man who eats oleomargarine feeds
on the fat of the land.
Arithmetic is the sum of many a small
boys trouble .—Merchant Traveler.
Some men can get along on their indi¬
vidual merits, but the oarsman must al¬
ways be “a man with a pull.”
A man doesn’t look at a salary as he
does at a wheelbarrow. He thinks it
ought to be drawn in advance.
She—“What,do you suppose support*
the vast arch of the heavens? He
A » The moonbeams, I guess .”—Lowell Citi -
ten.
The head that wears a crown is too
frequently mentioned. Was there ever
ahead that didn’t wear a crown?—
Judge.
The sentence “Ten dollars or thirty
days” is another proof of the truth of the
adago that time is money .—Pittiburgh
Chronicle.
Blobson offers to bet $5 that there is
more bark on his dog than on one of the big
redwood tree of California .—Burlington
Free Press.
“You don’t mean to say he is the lion
of the season!” “Yes. Why not? “I
judged from his manners he was more of
a bear.”— Puck.
Mr. Doleful—“O, I feel all used up,
and sick of life. I don’t know where to
go- 11 Mrs. D__“Why not go into the
blue room for awhile, dear?”
Ha, wickwl girl, you broke my heart.
How could you act so liail a |mrt?
But that, alas! is not the worst;
You broke my heart, but broke me first.
— Time.
“What? Is the Widow Brown going
to be led to the altar fer the third time?"
“No. I guess mW She ought to be able
to find her way there herself by this
time. ”—Fliegende Elaetter.
“If I were an oyster,” sighed the crab,
“I wouldn’t know what to do,
For they're most always being embroiled,
Or getting into a stew.”
—New York Herald.
The blacksmith, however much he may
feel disposed at times to become weary
of his arduous and grimy employment,
can always find some consolatiou in the
fact that in it he has a shoer thing.—
Boston Budget.
Floating Gardens.
The floating vegetable gardens of Chiim
are prepared in April on bamboo rafts
ten or twelve feet long by half as wide,
the poles being lashed together with in¬
terstices of an inch. Each raft is covered
with an inch of straw, then with two
inches of adhesive mud, which receives
the seed. The rafts are moored to the
bank in still water, and require no fur¬
ther attention. The straw and soil soon
give way, the roots drawing support from
the water aloue. In about twenty days
the rafts become covered with the creeper
spomoeo reptans, whose stems and roots
are gathered for cooking, and whose
blossoms present a pretty appearance iu
autumn. In some places marshy land is
profitably cultivated iu this manner.
Floating rice fields are similarly con¬
structed, the mud being held by a layer
of weeds. They furnish the ripened crop
in from sixty to seventy instead of the
usual one hundred days, and may be de¬
pended on when the neighboring land
fails either from drought or flood.
Crows Attack an Eagle.
A gray eagle which had its nest in the
Fislikili Mountains, N. Y., has been seen
to alight several times in the asylum
grounds, Fiahkill, presumably in search
of prey. A great flock of crows had
chosen that locality as a feeding ground
and resting place, and they evidently
looked upon the advent of the eagle as
an intrusion. The crows apparently de¬
cided to give the majestic bird to un¬
derstand that it was poaching. At any
rate it is a fact that a dozen or more of
the crows attacked the eagle while it was
soaring over Rogers’s fields aud put it to
flight. hour
The battle lasted half an or more.
The crows which did not participate
kept circling around and around the com¬
batants and cawing incessantly. The
fight was witnessed by several persons who
picked up many blood-stained feathers
from the ground .—New York Herald.
People Judged by Their Looks.
.; Four people out of five,” remarked
a gentleman to the Washington Post
talking-machine, “carry some distin¬
guishing mark of occupation or habit.
Now see. That man is a jeweler. Do
you see the peculiar wrinkles around his
right eye and eyebrow. Those come
from habitually carrying his jeweler's
glass there. Half those passers-by are
desk-worker:. Their shoulders droop.
See that young lady? her When she is at
home she sits with left limb drawn
up under her—sits on it in fact. The
knee is forced out. See where it hits
her skirts? Her walk is one-sided in
consequence. Those young men are
bicyclc-riders. They walk on their toe?
like a mincing school-girl. Now, can
you tell me why dry-goods clerks always
have an affected walk? They do.”
The Rothschilds are worth something
over $500,000,000, and there is a family
compact iu existence by which they are
bound to stand by oue another,