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THE BUTLER 0- T. WATERS, Editor and Proprietor. “LET THERE BE LIGHT.” Subscription, $1-25 in Advance. VOLUME IX. - BUTLER, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 1885. NUMBER 24. NEWS OF THE DAY. Items cf Interest Here, There and Everywhere. rn«irm nnd middle state*. .Attorney-General George Gray has v 6 - 1 ! c “® sen by tho Delaware legislature as ,, d States Senator to succeed Mr. Bayard. Air. George Gray is forty-four years old and is serving bis second term as attorney gen- p. a *. -Delaware. He was born at New J-astle, Dei, and was graduated at Princo- 1859. He is an intimate friend of senator Bayard, whom he nominated for the presidency in the convention of 1884. Joseph Cohen, one of tho recent con testants in the six-day roller-skating race in iNew York, died from the eiFects of the ex ertions made in the match. * _ Charles Briggs, who ended a spree in July, 1883, by killing his wife, expiated his rnmo fBa /i nn n ... crime the other day on tho gallows at Phila delphia. At a cabinet meeting the revolutionary trouble in Central America was considered. Ex-Governor Cornell nnd other promi nent Republicans have been debarred by tho New Y ork Republican county committee from voting at the party's primary elections ^because they refused to say whether they voted the Republican national ticket at the last election. An explosion of gasoline in the cellar of a Pittsburg (Penn.) saloon resulted in fatal burns to James McCullough, the proprietor, serious injuries to nine other persons and the destruction of property valued at §16,000. Gordon W. Burnham, a well known New York millionaire and business man, died in that city a few days since, aged eighty-two 3*ears. Mi*. Burnham was a widower, but at the time of his death was engaged to be mar ried to Miss Kate Sanborn, a grand niece of Daniel Webster and an authoress and lecturer of considerable prominence. Miss Sanborn nursed Mr. Burnham in his last illness. Tiie Rhode Island Democratic and tho Re publican State conventions were held on the same day in Providence, the former nomi nating a full ticket headed by Ziba O. Slocum for governor, nnd the latter putting a ticket in the field with George P. Wetmore for gov- ernor at the head. Inspector TnoRXE, a prominent New York police official, died suddenly the other morning, while on his way to a station- house. Prominent Delaware peach-growers pre dict an average crop if no lato severe frosts come. A bill reported favorably by a committee of the New York legislature prohibits girls' undor fourteen years of age from attending skating rinks after 5 o’clock P. m. without the wi itten consent of their parents or guardians, or l>eing accompanied by them, ami prohibits children from attending during school hours. Mrs. John Mallex's boarding house in Bridgeport, Conn., was destroyed by fire, andv tho proprietress and a boarder named Bowen were burned to death, while George Rutl^rford, an old fireman, was badly in jured. Mrs. Sartoris, General Grant’s only daughter, arrived in New York from her homo in England a few days since. She has come on a visit to her sickfather. The gen eral was reported considerably better. South end West* The Civil Service Reform association of Maryland, at a meeting in Baltimore,adopted resolutions protesting against the recent ap pointment of Eugene Higgins as appointment clerk in tho treasury department, and re questing his removal. Reports from Ix?xington and Waverly, Mo., state that an immense amount of dam age has been done to froperty up and down the river in the vicinity of tho latter place by the overflow cause 1 by an ioe gorge in the river. A family of six near Waverly perished, and it was stated that many other persons had also lost their lives. Alft.be cattle of tho country bor dering on tho river h ive l>cen drowned. Colonel F. E. Whitfield, a prominent Mississippi lawyer, fell dead tho other day on the deck of a steamer in Florida while sing ing to his wife and a party of friends. An epidemic of cholera has carried ofT hogs by hundreds in several Virginia counties. Widespread public interest and excite ment has been created bvthe discovery of the body of Miss Fannie Lillian Madison, a beau tiful and accomplished young lady, in tho reservoir at Richmond, Va. Marks of vio lence on the corp-e led to the belief that she had lx?L*n foully dealt with and then thrown into the water. Miss Madist.n had been employed as a governess nt Millboro. Va., and had gone on a mys terious visit to Richmond, stopping at a hotel, where she was visited by a young man. Officers from Richmond went to King and Queens county and arrested T. J. Cluverius. a young lawyer to whom suspicion had pointed. Mr. Cluverius denied all knowl edge of The young lady’s movements prior to her death. Treasurer Davis, of the Miners’ Union in tho Hocking valley, telegraphs that the long strike of nine months is at an end. Tho miners have concluded that further resistance is useless, and have succumbed to the opera tors. Tnu struggle in the Arkansas legislature fora successor to Attorney-General Garland’s E'-at in the United States Senate culminated in the election of ex-Governor James II. Berry, who lost a leg in the Confederate array and has been prominent in State poli tics the last twenty years. The Ohio legislature has adoptod a joint resolution for the submission of a constitu tional amendment to change the time for the State election from October to November. Washington* Secretary Lamar lias ordered that no tice be published that the Texas Pacific rail road lands have been restored to tho govern ment. and are for sale at §2.50 an acre as provided by tho homestead, preemption and other land laws. Senator Evarts and two other gentle men forming a committee called upon ex- President Arthur and, as the representative# of 250 prominent New York city business men of both political parties, invited him to a banquet to bo given in his honor at Doi- nionico's, in New York. Mr. Arthur ac cepted the invitation. The President nominated Mr. Joseph S- Miller, of West Virginia, to be commissioner of internal revenue in place of Mr. Walter S. Evans, of Kentucky. Representative Thompson, of Kentucky, had been strongly pushed for the place by Speaker Carlisle and the two Senators from Kentucky, while Mr. Miller’s claims had been urged by Con gressman Randall. General Hazen testified before tho court martial trying him that his letters to tho secretary of war were written to clear him self of the imputation of being responsible for the fate of the Greely expedition. The nomination of General John C. Black, of Illinois,to be commissioner of pensions, has been confirmed by the Senate. Further confirmations by the Senate: Ed ward D. Clarke,of Mississippi, to be assistant secretary of the interior; Colonel Nelson H. Davis, inspector-general, with rank of a brigadier-general ; Lieutenant-Colonel Ab salom Bainl to be inspector-general, with ranK of colonel: Sidney D. Jackman, of Texas, to be United States marshal for the western district of Texas. The St. Patrick’s day procession in Wash ington was reviewed from the jortico of the White House by President Cleveland. Secretary Manning, in obedience to an act of Congress has issued a warrant for $3,950.73 to reimburso ex-President Hayes for payments made for tho expenses of the com mission sent to Louisiana in April, 1877. War rants have also been issued in the name of Charles H. Reed lor^ §3,000, and of George Scovilla for -Xor services rendered as ounsel for Charles j. Guneau. Dr John M. Gregory, of the civil service -omniission. left Washington the other morn- g to bold examinations in tho West. The President sent the following nomina tions ii one batch to the Senate on tho 18th: Ex-Congressman Milton J. Durham, of Kentucky, to be first comptroller of the treasury: William Garrard, of Nevada, to bo Buperinteadant of tbe mint of the United States at Carson City, Nevada; Joseph R. Ryan, of Nevada, to be coiner of the mint at Carson City, Nevada; MalcomHay, of Penn sylvania, to be first assistant postmaster-gen eral; Martin V. Montgomery, of Michigan, to bo commissioner of patents; David S. Baker, jr., of Rhode Island, to be attorney of the United States for the district of Rhode Island;Benjamin H. Hill, jr., of Georgia,tobe attorney for tbe United States for the north ern district of Georgia, American vessels having been seized by Central American insurgents, the United States -ship of war Alliance has been ordered to the scene of disturbance with instructions to the commander to use force in recovering the property of American citizens. On the thirteenth day of the Senate special session the following nominations were re ceived from tbe President: John D. C. At kins, of Tennessee, to be commissioner of In dian affairs; James D. Porter, of Tennessee, .to be assistant secretary of State. Mr. / > kins was in Congress several terms and unc. jc Speaker Randall was chairman of the appro priations committee. General Porter was governor of Tennessee from 1875 to 1879, hav ing served two terms. The Senate in executive session on the 20th confirmed the following nominations: Mar tin V. Montgomery, of Michigan, to be com missioner of patents; Alilton J. Durham, of Kentucky, to be first comptroller of the treasury ; Malcom Hay, of Pennsylvania, to be first assistant postmaster-general ; Joseph R. Ryan, of Nevada, to lie coiner of the mint at Carson City, Nev.; William Garrard, of Nevada, to bo superintendent of the mint at Carson City, Nev.; J. D. C. Atkins, of Ten nessee, to be commissioner of Indian affairs ; James D. Porter, of Tennessee, to be an as sistant secretary of state. WORK OF THE FIRE-FIEND. INSTRUCTION OF A CHICAGO HOTEL. Five Lives Lost—A Gallant Rescue and a Marvelous Escape. Foreign. A fire has destroyed the town hall, six mills and several other buildings in Hull, England. One policeman was killed and a number of other persons were injured. Dispatches received from the various ob servatories indicate that successful observa tions of the partial eclipse of the sun were made Russia, it is stated, will not advance any further toward the Afghan border except for some extraordinary reason. By an explosion of fire damp in a coal mine at Camphausen, Prussia, 217 miners were Imprisoned. The explosion occurred at an early hour, and late in the afternoon sev enteen men lmd been rescued and ninety- eight bodies recovered. This left 102 men and boys unaccounted for, and it was con sidered certain that they had all perished, as tho main shaft and nir apparatus were de stroyed by the explosion. Ax army of 15,003 Mexican troops has been ordered to the Guatemalan frontier,to watch (President Barrios and balk him in his scheme of annexing the other states of Cen tral America. J. W. Smith, the confidential clerk at a gold mine in Sonora, Mexico, absconded with gold bar worth §13,000. Fifty-one persons were rescued alive from the coal mine at Camphausen, Prussia, where 217 miners wore at work when the ex plosion of fire damp occurred. The dead numbered 100. The Duke of Richmond, the largest owner of rented property in London, has reduced all his rents ten per cent. A syndicate of Hamburg merchants has acquired a vast territory on the east and north of Lagos, a British colony of West Africa. During a circus performance in Vienna one of tho lions attacked a lion tamer named Seeth and killed and devoured him. The total number of troops iu the British -egular army is now 184.200, while tho volun teer force numbers 208,003. The people of Germany have subscribed tho immense sum of 1,500,000 marks (about $315,- 000), with which to buy Prince Bismarck a birthday present. A Srakim dispatch states that a five hours' battle was fought between General Graham’s troops and tin- forces of Osman Digna, and that Osman Diana’s position was finally cap tured by the British. The Arab loss iii killed and wounded is estimated at 000, and the British loss is forty. The Arabs fought with desperate valor, and tho British -were only saved from defeat by the firm stand made by the Irish lancers. FIGHTING IN TIIE SOUDAN. British Troops Surprised at Arab Bravery At about eight P. M., the other day, flames were discovered issuing from the Langham hotel, Chicago, and in a short time the build* ing was a moss of fire. Tho flames originated in one of the lower rooms from a lamp, which was accidentally overturned. At the time the restaurant of the houso contained 100 guests at supper and as many more were in the rooms. Those in th9 restaurant had no trouble in getting out, but several persons in upper rooms had a very narrow escape. The fire spread with marvelous rapidity, and be. fore a second alarm was turned in, flames were bursting through the roof. Mrs. Belknap, an elderly lady, was killed by jumping from tho fourth story into an alley. Subsequently a cry was raised that the walls wore falling, and that ’Bullwinkle’s fire insurance patrolmen were inside the building. A portion of the south wall was seen to totter and then it came down with a crash. A search in the ruins revealed the dead bodies of John Walsh and Frederick Jones, of the fire patrol, and John Hennessey, a clerk in the hotel William Bean, another hotel employe, was taken out alive, but died in tiie hospital. Captain James Shepherd and James Bovd, of tho fire patrol, were s> riously injured. Soon after the walls fell the wreck took fire and the firemen turned several streams on the blazing mass to save their comrades from being roasted to death, though at the imminent risk of drowning them. The water was ice cold and drenched the poor, impris oned fellows, chilling them to the marrow. Mr. and Mrs. E. Hoole, of Cincinnati, had a most remarkable experience. Both are cripples, Mrs. Hoole having been paralyzed some years ago, while h r husband has lost the use of his lower limbs. He can hobble along with crutches with some difficulty, but she is wholly without tho power of locomo tion. They occupied a room on the fourth floor. Mr. Hoole arrived from Cincinnati recently aui Mr. C. D. Martindale, cashier of his Chicago house called to have a business talk with him. The door leading from the room into the hall was closed. They gradually became oppressed with a sense of suffocation. Open ing tho door, they found the hall filled with smoke. Mrs. Hoole uttered an exclamation of horror as she buried her face in her hands and fell back upon the pillow as if she had calculated her chances an l lost all hope. Mr. Hoole was almost frenzied. “Save my wife! ’ he exclaimed, turning to Martindale, “and let me go. We cannot all escape. Save her; for God’s sake, do!” “Coma along,” said Mr. Martindale; “I’ll save you both. Don’t be frightened.” With this he lifted the invalid woman from tho bed with one arm, and seizing Mr. Hoole with the other started for the elevator. No body responded to the call for the car, but it was almost opposite the floor and the door stoo 1 open. Depositing his charges on the seat, Mr. Martindale seized the rope and started the car toward the ground. In the haste and excitement he had not considered that he was lowering lho party into the midst of the flames. This soon became apparent from the intense heat. Tongues of fire seemed to bo bursting up the sides of the flue. Roversing the lever, Martindale drove the car up to the third floor and sought to escape there. Tho door was closed and fastened on the outside. People above and below were calling for tho elevator. Some one on the second floor had espied it as it went up and had begged him to stop. The door stood hard nnd firm, and no hand appeared on tho outside to turn the latch. Tho flames were roaring below and the elevator was as hot as an oven. It was a perilous moment. Calming those who w^re with him, Martindalo threw him self against the door with ail his might from the other side of the car, and the panel was ™ . ,* t> ... • , . ,, , broken. Only a hole was made in it, and the T1 1C battle between the British troop* led by | dooI . wou[d } not slida He thrust ^ mm _ panions through and followed them. He then seized them as before, and bidding thorn taka courage and be calm, mode his way through the suffocating smoke to the rear stairs. The wa3* seemed clean, and without pausing for breath he proceeded to descend. He was not strong enough to carry the entire burden, but held the two firmly under his arms, drag ging their legs af ter him. In this way they descended the three flights of stairs and es caped into tho pure air. The escape of Mrs. J. A. Murray and her child was so marvelous as to bo almost in credible. The lady, with her husband and child, occupied rooms on the fifth floor. The huslmnd was* out of the city. Mrs. Murray was not aware of the danger to herself and c hild until the halls were filled with smoke. Awakening tho child, she ran with him to a window near the lire escape. Bidding the infant to clasp her tightly about the neck, she began tho descent. At each story there was an iron grating, with a hole in the centre too small to admit of the passage through of herself and child, f-he was therefo e compelled four times during ths descent to seat ilie child uj>on the gratir.g.Iower herself over the edge of it to the rounds to the escape below and reach up for her boy. Slio reached the ground without assistance, and when seen a quarter of an hour later she had wholly recovered from the effects of her terrible experience. General Grafinni r_nd Digna’a forces on Friday, lusted five bourn. Tho marines were first- sent to the front to drive the Arabs from the hills west of Hasheen. As soon as possible they were reinforced by batteries of Gardner and Krupp guns at*d by cavalry. There was a hot engagement for a few* hours, during which the British cavalry charged upon the Aral >s, while the machine guns were worked with deadly effect whenever tluir fire could be inude available. Great bravery was displayed on both sides. At the end of the engagement the Arabs retreated slowly toward Tamai. The Arab loss in killed and wounded is estimated at (500. The loss of the British is 10.” The Arabs displayed desperate bravery. The marines drove tbe Arabs from the lulls and forced them to retire to the plain. Then the Indian troops charged upon the Arab po sition, lut were outflanked and an uu- f nspected bony of Arabs succeeded in getting behind their lines. The Indians found themselves between two fires, and they fl.*d. During this retreat they were closely pressed by the Arabs, who hamstrung the horses ami speared the riders. The Ben galese fell back in coui'usiou upon the English infantry and Guards, wlio had been formed iu a hollow square, and the square lc surely retired while tho Arabs were veiling that they had regained their lost position. At this j tinct ure the artillery came to the rescuo and a brisk tire of t-ma‘1 shot from the machine guns and shells from the Iirnpp field mortars drove the Arabs from their position. Tho marines maintained a steady firing throughout the engagement, but the honors of the da}’ are probably due to the Irish lancers, who changed the tide of bat tle by a desperate charge, and retrieved the fortunes of General Graham’s command when they seemed almost hopeless. The British troops have returned to their former camp near Suakim. General Graham in concluding liis official report says:—“i he fighting was of a noticeably different Character from that of any preceding engagement. The Arabs maintained a steady rifle tire, retiring slowly from each position held by them and avoiding close quarters.” NOMINATIONS AND CONFIRMATIONS. cn whom Hie President tins Named for Important Ollicetf— Confirmations .by the Scnnlc. The Pre.-idcnt sent the following nomina tions to the Senate on Friday: John D. C. Atkins, of Tennessee, to be Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Army—Second Lieutenant Samuel W. Miller, Fifth infantry, to be First Lieutenant; Second Lieutenant William Black, Twenty-fourth infantry, to be First Lieutenant Revenue Marine Service—Henry T. Blake, of New York, to be Captain; Samuel E. Maguire, of Louisiana, to be First Lieu tenant; Orin D. Merrick, of Massachusetts, to bo Second Lieutenant. James D. Porter, of Tennessee, to be Assistant Secretary of State. The Sefiate in executive session confirmed the following nominations: Martin V. Mont gomery, of Michigan, to be Commissioner of Patents; Milton J. Durham, of Kentucky, to be Fifst Comptroller of the Treasury; Malcom Hay, of Pennsylvania, to be First Assistant Postmaster Genet al; Joseph 11 Ityan, of Ne vada, to be Coiner of the Miut at Car son City, Nevada; William Garrard, of Nevada, to be superintendent of the Mint at Carson City, Nev.; J. D. C. Atkins, of Tennes see, to be Commissioner of Indian Affairs; James D. Porter, of Tennessee, to bo an Assist ant Secretary of State. Henry T. Blake, to be captain in Revenue Marine Service; Samuel E. Magnire, to be first lieutenant in Revenue Marine Service; Orin D. My rick to be second lieutenant in Revenue Marine Servioe. —The Secre'ary of flie Treasnry issued a warrant for §332,308 in favor of the Governor of Kansas lor expenses incurred by that State in repelling invasions by hostile Indians. Warrants for the amounts specified were also issued to the Governors of the following States for expanses incurred in suppressing the late rebellion:—Ma-sacliu.-etts, §30,770; Pennsyl vania, §4,378; Ohio, 62,152, and Michigan, 61,642. —James Stephens, the ex-Fenian, is said to be dying at Mons. in Belgium. —Genoral Graham’s troops at Suakim made a recounoisrauce in force. The Arabs encoun tered them at Hasheen and there was some lively skirmishing. —It is semi-officially announced in Paris that Prince Bismarck wjj] arbitrate between England and Russia, The total loss, including the hotel, furniture and guests’ possessions, and on the adjoining buildings and contents is estimated at §350,-' •00: nearly covered by insurance. LATER NEWS A portion of the New Jersey State capi tol has been destroyed by fire. The part de_ stroyed is the facade of the original State house, built in 1790, and altered and ini' proved in 1845. The burned building con tained the quartermaster-general’s office, and the offices of the adjutant-general, con troller, clerk in chancery, clerk of tho su preme court, secretary of state, and State treasurer and the museum. The entire build ing is worth $500,000, on which there is a liberal insurance. Most of the important documents and the war relics in the museum were saved. Fire broke out in the Langham hotel, Chi cago, while the guests, numbering 100, were at supper. Mrs. Belknap, an elderly lady, was killed by jumping from the fourth story. Two firemen and two hotel employes were killed by falling walls and two men injured. The pecuniary loss is about §350,000. At Richmond, Va.. the jury investigating the circumstances connected with the death o 4 Miss Fannie Lillian Madison, whose body was found in one of tho city reservoirs, ren dered a verdict declaring that Thomas J- Cluverius, the young lawyer, had been di rectly or indirectly tho cause of her death A hotel clerk identified Cluverius as the man he saw in the hotel parlor with the youii” lady on the night before her body was dis covered. Chief Joseph’s band of Nez Perces In dians, many members of which have been dying off in Indian Territory, are to bo sent back to Idaho. An all-day snow-storm, the heaviest in ten years, visited parts of Virginia on the 22d. Attorney-General Garland has reduced the force of examiners in tho department justice from seven to four, anil Postmaster General Vilas has made a reduction in th l number of postoffice inspectors. The newly elected represontativ fron Tennessee, J. B. Richardson, has secured th first appointment made by Postmaster-Gen eral Vilas. Upon his solicitation J. N. Tay lor has been appointed postmaster at Lynch, burg, Tenn., to fill a vacancy. An Arab messenger states that Genera] Gordon killed three rebels before he was speared to death, and that El Mahdi appro priated to bis own use what little treasure was found in Khartoum*. MUSICAL Ml) DRAMATIC. LATEST NEWS Mary Anderson is twenty-six years old. Lillian Jerome, a Western society belle, has gone on the stage. Clara Lousie Kellogg has been singing in the small towns of interior York. 43 There will be six opera and burlesque companies running in New York city. “The Skating Rink,” in which N. C. Good win is to tour soon, is a sketch by R. G. Mor ns. The funDy men of the minstrel boards are beginning to burlesque the skating-rink craze. James W. Knox, of Texas Siftings, has written a play, “Shane-na-lawn,” for W. J. Bcanlan. Mr. Mapleson has arranged for a three weeks’ season of Italian opera in New York this spring. Marie van Zandt, the American singer, has reappeared in opera at Paris and was cordially received. The music at the Brussels Grand Opera- house is transmitted by telephone to the royal residence at Ostend. Editor Singerly, of the Philadelphia Hecord, will transform the old Masonic hall, Chestnut street, into a theatre. Mr. William Warren, Boston’s favorite; and eminent comedian, distinctly states that he shall never reappear upon any stage. Mrs. Spooner, wife of the United States Senator from Wisconsin, is said to possess a highly cultivated and much admired so prano voice. The “Black Captain,” an opera by Joseph Mertens, royal inspector of music schools of Belgium, has achieved a striking success at Hamburg. Pauline Lucca achieved a great success as “ Giaconda,” in a German version of Pon- chiella's opera of that title recently produced in Vienna. Mme. Ristori owns a fine house in Paris, one in London, one in Boston, and has been having fine houses throughout her recent dra matic tour in the South. A genuine Chinaman has been engaged in San Francisco by McICea Rankin to play “ Wasliee-Washoe” in ‘ ‘The Danites,” and win return East with the company. M. Gounod, the composer, has received a letter of thanks from the pope for his “ Mors et Vifci,” which is to be performed for the first time at the coming June festival at Bir mingham, England. A German manager says: “ Every opera singer is crazy at least fifty days in the year. "When an opera singer makes a fuss I say to myself: ‘ Make allowances for him; this is one of his fifty crazy days. ’ ” Sarah Bernhardt will not come to this country until the season of 1886-7. She will then open in Rio Janeiro about the middle of May, and after making a tour of South America will go to San Francisco. Thence she will play east to New York. In tho third act of the “Mascotte,” by Carleton’s company, thirteen men are used to introduce one gag and raise*one laugh. When Rocco (Golden) says **I am O’Donovan Rossa!” six men in the wings fire off muskets and six men in the flies throw down bullets. Walter Damrosch, son of the lato Dr. Damrosch, will be tho assistant musical di rector of the Metropolitan opera-house in New, York next season. He will go to Europe to engage artists. Hans Richter, the conductor' of the Hoifstadt theatre, has been secured as director. He superintended and conducted the production of all of Wagner’s operas at Bayreuth. —Mrs. Sartoris, General Grant’s only daugh ter, arrived from England on the steamship Baltic on Friday, and the family for the first time in many years dined together. -Ex-Governor James H. Berry has been elected Senator by tho Arkansas Legislature, to succeed Mr. Garland, the recently appointed Attorney General. —Secretary Manning sees no reason for haste in paying off the Government bonds; the Treasury surplus has reached 6151,000,000. —A railroad is being constructed through Guatemala, and patriotic Central Americans are said to oppose the Nicaragua canaL —At Des Moines, Iowa, Mr. Cat toll, Gov. Sherman’s appointee, took charge of the State Auditor's office, and the militia, which had been on duty, were relieved. —Inspector Thorne, of New York, died sud denly in a store on Broadway of heart disease. —The strike of the employees of the Bankers and Merchants’ Telegraph Company is over, the company having promised to pay in full. —Colored men in Mississippi lyncied a man of their own race for wife murder. —The Secretary of the Treasury has ap pointed Assistant Secretaries Fairchild and Coon and Assistant Treasurer Graves a com mission, with instructions “to make an exam ination of the Treasury Department with spe cial reference to the simplification and im provement of the methods of doinr business and to the reduction and rearrangement of the official and clerical force.” —The President has accepted the invitation of the veterans of the First and other cprps to visit; the battlefield of Gettysburg when/ they majee their historical visit there on May 4 and 5. assured Governor Curtin that he would go unless prevented by some urgent necessity of the public service. —A slave girl, who was in Khtrtonm when the city was taken by the rebels, confirms the report that the women and children who were captured in the city were sold ad slaves. She says that a severe battle took pace between Gen. Gordon’s troops and the Arabs a fort night before the city fell. J —A cable d spateli from London announces the death of the Rev. James White, brother of Henry Kirke White. He was ninety-seven years old. —A dispatch from Suakim says that a five hours’ battle was fought on Triday morning between the British troops am the forces of Osman Digma, and that Osmtn Digma s posi tion was fiaally captured by tie British. The dispatch says that the Arab pisses were very great. • —Oklahoma boomers await/ the withdrawal of General Hatch's troops to yiove into the In dian Territory. j —Chief of Police Drummed captured two Polish Hebrews iu New Yolk on Friday en gaged in counterfeiting pchny pieces, three cent and ten cent pieces by means of very in genious machinery. PROMINENT PEOPLE. THE NATIONAL GAME. The Connecticut league will play undeiHhe National league rules. The merry ball player now dusts off his uniform and picks out his home run bat. The New York, Brooklyn and Metropoli tan teams have arranged twenty games to be played in the vicinity of New York in ApriL The whole population of the eight South ern league cities combined does not reach over a third of the population of Brooklyn. The laigest mah in the Western league this season is Sam Thompson, of the Indianapolis team. He is six feet two inches toll, and weighs 185 pounds. The vote was unanimous in the National league requesting President Y oung to en gage the services of Ferguson as chief of the staff of League umpires for 18S5. The National league and American as sociation clubs this coming season each play 112 games, the scores being sixteen games be tween each of tho eight clubs, eight being played on home grounds. Ninety-ons dollars and a half a week is Gerhardt’s salary for playing second base for the New York club from April 13 to Octobel 15, 1885. Some of the ablest writers on the New York dailies do not get such a high salary as this. The Southern Now England League ciation has adoptod the league playing rules for 1885. The League includes clubs of Waterbury, Hartford. Meriden, New Britain and Bridgeport, Conn., and Holyoke, Spring- field and Pittsfield, Mas3. The Southern league will follow in the footsteps of the National league as far as placing their organization on a high moral piano is concerned. That is, they will play uo Sunday games, or allow betting, liquor or pool-selling on the grounds. TnE Inter-collegiate Baseball association, comprising the six leading colleges of this country, Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Dart mouth, Amherst and Brown, will open its championship SBason April 30 in a game be tween Amherst and Dartmouth at Amherst. The king of Siam is not yet thirty years of age, and has 263 children. Congressman Hewitt’s wife, the late Peter Cooper’s daughter, has a private for- une of §2,000,000. Ex-Governor St. John* Prohibition can didate for President at the last election, is talking to Southern audiences. Florence Nightingale is raising funds to provide assistance for sick and wounded British soldiers in the Soudan. Miss Cleveland, the White House mis tress, is said to look like Ellen Terry, Mrs- Garfield, Mrs. Windom and Anna Dickinson Mr. Gladstone, who has to bear Eng land’s heaviest burden, is in his seventy-sixth year. He has b »on a parliamentary leader for half a century. Congressman Samuel S. Cox is under stood to be at work upon a historical book entitled “Three Decades of Federal Legisla tion” (1855 to 1885). Prince Orloff has resigned his position as Russian ambassador in Paris because of a comnlpi^fc sirrUIar to that from which Gen eral Grant suffers. Senator Gray, of Delaware, Secretary Bayard’s successor, is nearly six feet tall, with black hair and mustache and a bald spot in the top of his head. . Major E. A. Burke, director-general of the New Orleans exposition, said recently thift the great show now is bound to be a success. It will not close until May 8L Leopold von Ranke is universally consid ered in Europe the most astonishing author of his timb, in respect of the preservation of his mental powers. There is not another liv ing example of a man occupied with histori cal work in his ninetieth year. The Cleveland Leader calls attention to the fact that “Cleveland is the only man elected to the presidency since 1S56 who did not wear a full beard. Lincoln, Grant, Hayes, and Garfield all wore full whiskers when elected an l inducted into office, though Lincoln shaved his off afterward.” General E. C. AValthall, Secretary La mar’s successor in the United States Senate, was in command of the Confederates in the .“battle above tho clouds” on Lookout moun tain. He also took prominent part in the battles of Mill Spring, Sliiloh, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Kenesaw mountain, Peachtree creek, Nashville and some others. He ii more than six feet tall, erect, with black eyes and hair of plantation cut. The Forests of Alaska. The National league has instructed Secretary Young to explain to the umpires that, ac cording to the new pitching rules, the pitcher must keep his forward foot stationary on the ground, but may slide his rear foot up to the forward one, provided some part of said foot touches the ground. The National league will be among the last of the leading associations to enter upon its championship campaign, which will begin May 1, as follows: St. Louis vs. Chicago, at St. Louis; Detroit vs. Buffalo, at Detroit; New York vs. Boston, at New York, and Philadelphia vs. Providence, at Philadel phia. The National league, at their recent meet- 1 ing, declined to acquiesce in the American 1 association to limit tho membership of the arbitration committee to the League and American associations. So there will be three members of that committ?e still, viz.: the League, the American and the Eastern league. The Philadelphia Sporting Life says: It will require a man with strong nerves and physical endurance to be a leaguo umpire the coming season. Between watching the pitcher, to see if he keeps his feet on the ground, and the ball, to see if it goes over the plate, the umpire’s attention will be pretty well taken up. The salary lists of the American associa tion ball clubs are said to be as follows : The Pittsburg list amounts ttP$22,U0U inclusive of the $6,0J0 paid for the release of the players to the Columbus club officials ; Louisville, $26,0J0; Baltimore, $2.5,030 • Cincinnati, $28,000; Brooklyn, §27,100; Metropolitan, $25,000; Atnletic, $230,000. The various baseball associations cover nearly all the territory in the United States, and there is hardly a city east of the Rocky mountains with a population of 80,000 inhab itants that is not represented in one or the other of the six associations. They this sea son include in their membership in the neigh borhood of forty leading cities in the United States, employ close to 500 men, and repre sent an investment of several millions of dol lars. A line Park, The San Franciscans are very prond of what they term their Golden Gate Park of over one thousand acres. Of all the great* parks of the world, they assert, that there is none so picturesque and none having so many resources for variety of arboriculture. Nearly all semi-tropical trees will thrive in it. For ten years the work of tree planting has been going on, and the Park is rapidly becoming a most attractive spot.. One of the best features of the place is the ocean view, the Park being located on the shore of the bay, with a driveway along the be$ch* Alaska forests contain enough timber to supply the world. The forests of pine, spruce, fir and hemlock cover every island of the archipelago and a goodly portion of the mainland. The trees are straight and tall and grow close together. The only saw-mill at present in operation is at Douglas Island, and so far there has not been a cord of timber cut for shipment. The trees, as a rule, do not have large dimensions and will not always ent up into good-sized boards. For fuel, how ever, the wood is excellent and much of it is available for building purposes. There is little decorative wood, although the yellow pine is richly colored and might be used to advantage in interior work. Alaska spruce is an excellent variety and often measures five feet in diameter. It is considered the best spruce in the world, and the supply is very abundant. In the interior of the country timber is of much heavier growth than near the coast and on the islands. Regarding the hemlock, there is a large supply and the bark compares favorably with that of the Eastern trees,. used in tanning establishments. None have yet attempted to compute the value of the Alaska forests. It may be they will not be necessary for years to come, but whenever wood grows scarce elsewhere, or whenever civiliza tion fastens itself upon Alaska, the timber of the old region will be found ready at hand and existing in rich pro fusion. Calculating only approximately the value of our pObsessions to-day, the forests must be considered. Practically inexhaustable, they add most materially to the wealth of the Territory. The United States Congress. The Forty-eighth Congress has a total of 325 members, of whom 193 are Dem ocrats, 120 Republicans, 6 Mahoneites, 3 Independents, and 2 Greenbackers. The Democratic majority over the Re publican is now 73, and over all 62. In the next Congress the Democrats will have a majority over the Republicans of 54, and over all 47. There will be 2 Mahoneites in the next Congress. Out of the 325 members of the Forty-eighth Congress only 182 were elected to the Forty-ninth. One hundred and eleven’ of these were Democrats, and 69 Repub licans. The Democrats in the Forty- eighth Congress have a majority of the delegations in twenty-two States. In the Forty-ninth they have a majority in nineteen. THREE LESSONS. There are three lessons I would write, Three words as with a golden pen, In tracings of eternal light Upon the hearts of men. Have Hope ! Though clouds environ round, And gladness hides her face in scorn, Put thou tho shadow from thy brow, No night but hath its morn. Have Faith ! Where’er thy bark is driven, The calm’s disport, the tempest’s mirth, Know this, God rules the hosts of heaven, The inhabitants of earth l Have Love I Not love alone for one, But man as man thy brother call; And scatter, like the circling sun, Thy charities on all. Thns grave these words upon thy soul, Hope, Faith and Love; aud thon slialt find Strength when Itfe’s surges maddest roll, Light, when thon else werfc blind. REST AND LOVE. The gloaming comes, the twilight blessed It drifts upon the cedar boughs Like dusky snowfalls from the skies; It closes on my aching eyes, Like cooling hands on feveiish brows, And I may rest. They only know how good is rest, Who long with toil have been oppressed. So came thy love, my fair home dove, Whose fond arms fold me close and soft; So on my desolate life it fell, A soothing, sanctifying spell; It came so late, though wished so oft, My own true love. He who would know how sweet is love, Long years alone must rove. J. H. Reagan. DAD’S JO. Just noon of a warm, bright day at Block Island. On the broad, shady pi azza of the great hotel there is an un broken silence. The roses clambering over the railing nod lazily in the breeze; the lace curtains of the loDg windows sway gently to and fro; the parlors be yond are silent and deserted. Up at the beach the waves are silently lapping the glistening sand, while the bright- colored suits drying in long lines be hind the bathing-houses are the only reminder of the merriment which ex isted less than half an hour ago. One or two ox-teams are slowly creeping along the road, loaded with trailing sea weed of varigated hues; here and there is a group of bronzed fishermen mend ing their nets. These are the only signs of life. Everybody is down on the pier. The “Block Island” is- overdue more than twenty minutes, aud the rickety boards creak and tremble as the anxious crowd press to the very edge, each one eager to catch the first glimpse of the steamer as she rounds Clay Head. The excitement increases. The fish ing-boats huddle closer together behind the breakwater, the hackmen, growing impatient, vociferate loudly; the Marine band in the pavilion on the hill strikes np; and yet— “Here comes Jo 1” some one shouts. “Depend on’t, the boat’ll be in soon now,” said a grizzled, old fisherman, standing close by. “Jo’s a sure sign. Nigh onto a year since she’s watched that boat come in every day, and I never knew her to round the Head un less Jo was here.” AIL ejes turned toward the road. An antiquated specimen of a carriage is coming down the hill as rapidly as the lean and bony horse in front of it can drag it along. It draws up on the wharf beside tbe more pretentious vebioles, a young girl jumps out, ties the horse, lays her arm lovingly around his neck a moment, then hurriedly pushes her way through the throng to the end of the pier. A tall, angular girl, clad in a home made dress of the coarsest material, scant and patched, yet very clean, with a rough straw hat tied down over her hair which is long, straight and deoided- ly red. A girl with nothing pretty and attractive about her, but there is such a brave, pathetic look in her groat, blue eyes that one involuntarily turns and looks at her again and again. Swiftly and silently she passes along to the further end of the pier and, lift ing one hand to shield her eyes from the sunlight, gazes steadfastly at the distant horizon. “I know he will come to-day,” she says, seemingly unoonsoious that she is speakiDg aloud. “Just a year ago to day he went over there, Dad did. He went to get some fixin’s for me, and he promised to come back soon, but it has been so long. Oh 1 he will surely come to-day, won’t he ?” she asks, turning to a weather-beaten old sailor, who is gaz ing at her with just a suspicion of mois ture in his eyes. “Aye, lass, that be will,” he answers. “I’ve got extras for dinner, to day,” she goes on, brightening np, “ ’cause I.a'II 1-ioTTA o annAfifA offc/vr hpintr he’ll have a mighty appetite after being at them furrin’ plaoes, so long, and I’ve made a cushion for his chair that sets by the window. I brushed np the team, too, and old Bess seemed to know be was coming, for she brought me over in no time.” “Quite like he’ll come to-day,” said the old skipper, “and he’ll bring you so many smart things that I’m afeared yon won’t be Jo any longer.” “Tea, 1 will,” replied the girl, “I’ll Always be Jo to Dad, anyway. Dear old Dad. He’s told me many a time, how he picked me np out of the water that dreadful night; and when no one Beemed to want me, he took me home with him; me, a helpless baby with nothing in the world but a ring on my finger with ‘Jo’ scratched on it. Oh, 1 wish I could do something big for him, so he would know.” “Well, cheer up, lass; he’s waiting for some good reason. P’raps he can’t find what he wants for you just yet.” “Oh, I know now; that’s it. He was going to get me a blue gown with a big collar on it and a great, gold star in each coiner, hut I begged him to try and get a white one; white is so pretty like, and I never had a white dress in all my life,” glancing ruefully down at tho homespun cotton. “May like he had to go and go, ’fore he could get it.” For a Tew moments she gazed ear nestly over the water. Is it smoke—that long, thin line of gray ? Yes ! Just around the headland something white is com ng into view. A few more minutes and the great steamer, gaily bedecked with flags and pennants, bursts into sight. Slowly, too slowly for Jo, the boat plows along through the blue water, nntil, dripping with foam and sparkling in the snnshine, the huge wheels cease revolving, and the “Block Island” is in at last. The ropes are fas tened, the plank is thrown out, and the passengers come ashore. Into every face Jo peers eagerly. He might have changed in a year so very much, that she must watch closely. TTno by obe they come; friends are greeting friends; they are all off now, and— where fo Dad ? With obe despairing cry she bounds down the plonk and searches for him in the cabins. “Come, come, move along, my girl,” says the captain, roughly. “What do you want here ?" “Oh, I want Dad,” she sobs; “he was cornin’ to-day, I know. Tell me, haven’t you seen him ?” “How should I know lam ?” he an swers, gruffly. “Move along! we are late to-day and can’t be bothered,” Jo turns slowly away and mechanical ly passes up over the gangway. What does it matter to her that the sun is shining, that the hand is playing its sweetest music ? All the brightness of the day has gone for her. Calmly she walks along, slowly unfastens Bess, and climbing in the wagon, silently drives away. But her face is very pale, and there is such a strange, strange look in her great blue eyes that more than one honest- hearted sailor draws his brown hand across his eyes and murmurs : “Poor little gal!” It is evening. A sudden and fearful storm is raging. The sea has arisen, and with a roaring sound rushes inland to dash itself against the rock . Up nt the great hotel the huge drops of rain dash against the windows, and the guests gathered together in the splendid par lor, shudder and tremble at every return ing flash and deafening peal. Down on the beach the angry snrf is rolling in, mountains high, and the fishermen are anxiously gazing out upon the dark wa ters as if fearful of what such a storm might accomplish. Suddenly there comes a vivid flash, a terrible reverberating roll, and in the awful silence that follows the group of waiting men gaze with horror in each other’s faces. Then comes another flash olose by and on the outer edge of the breakwater—they see a ship is going to pieces. There oornes the sound of a signal gun, onoe, twice. All is confu sion now. Tho lifeboat is manned, pushed out and beaten hack. Above the angry shrieking of the wind can he heard the shouts of those on the beach, the faint, despairing cries of those on the doomed vessel, and the sobs of the women who are endeavoring to keep hack their loved ones from seeking death in those terrible waters. And it is death. Six stalwart forms, so full of life only a few moments be fore, are stiffening on the damp sand. It is no use; no boat can live in such a storm, and hundreds of lives must perish while they stand there unable and powerless to help. The storm redoubles its fury. One sharp shaft of lightning and a cry goes np from the terrified women. One figure can he seen near one of the dismantled masts; a figure with gray hair and beard flowing in the wind. It is Jo’s Dad. They must try again. They cannot let him die when she expects to see him so soon. Five pairs of hands aro ready. Can they have one more ? In another instant it will be too late. But, see ! Somebody is hurriedly ad vancing toward them through the dark neBs and mist; a slender figure, wrapped in a shawl, with pale face, and eyes that burn like coals in the blackness. It is Jo. She springs into the life-boat beside them. Her presence nerves them on, and they posh off into the seething waters. '* . They have oome back, and have laid her unconscious on the damp Some beam had struck her, and she had not spoken sinoe. The blue eyes are closed, but there is a smile on the still, white face, and the small hand is firmly clasped in the grasp of a trembling old man, who is stooping over her, and smoothing back the thick masses of hair from her pale forehead. A hush falls upon them all. Tenderly they take her np and, with her hand still clasped in his, sadly wind their way to the little cottage where she had waited for him so long. It all happened only last night. The storm had gone down soon after they had carried her home, and the sun is shining brightly, lovingly, as though there was no sorrow, and never a storm or wreck. They had laid her on the little white bed in her chamber, from which the harbor could be plainly seen, and, save for one or two kind neighbors, had gone away and left them together; she, lying so still, with closed eye3—he, bending over her, silent and unmindful of the presence of others. Just before noon she slowly opened her eyes and gazes at him in silence. Then, with a little sigh, she says feebly: “I knew you’d come, dad; I knew you’d come. ’Twas a hard voyage you had, dad, and a pretty rough landing; but you didn’t mind it, ’cause your little gal was there.” She is silent for a few moments, and then raising her head she asks: “Ti e white dress ? You didn’t forget it ? The white dress with the gold stars on the corners that you were going to get for your little gal ?” “Oh,” Jo I” The tears are streaming down the old man’s cheeks. “I bought the purtiest one forye; all soft and white, with stars on’t, and a great, long sash; bnt I—lost—it—in the wreck—Jo 1” “And a great, long sash.” This is said very slowly. “Oh, Dad, if I only could see it; but don’t cry; I guess I won’t want it; I’m going to leave yon a little while—just a little while. I’m going np there where they have lots and lots of white dresses, all shining and pretty; and soon you’ll come, too, won’t you, dad ? I’ll watch for you just as I did here, and there won’t be—any storms—dad—the vessel will sail—right in on the blue water—an’ Fll be looking for you. Til have ’em give me—a dress—with a big, shining star on it—an’ you’ll know me sure—I knew you’d come l’ One last feeble pressur<^f his hand, one little smile and Jo waits and watches no more on earth. A strange calm falls upon the old man. They cannot persuade him to leave for an instant. He is nearly deaf to their entreaties, and, kneeling by the bed, he presses from time to time her ice-cold hand to his lips. All through the long night he keeps his silent watch, and when another morning breaks they find him still there. Mechanically he watches them robe her for the lait resting place in pure white garments that a kind-hearted neighbor had brought; unmoved he sees them place a few snowy buds in her hands. Presently the door opens softly, a rough-looking fisherman comes in and, bending over the coffin, his tears fall likd rain upon the face within. “The little gal was so happy yester day,” he says, turning to the old man, who, even now, will not remove his gaze from her. “I’ll never forget her stand- in’ there an’ Bayin’ as how she wished she could do something big for dad; an’ she has, she has, poor little girl 1” Covering his face with his horny hand3 ho breaks into bitter weeping, and, turning, leaves the room. The olu man leaves tho room. His whole face changep. The terrible calm has broken np, hut no tears come. Only a look of unutterable gladness and joy. “I know’d it, Jo; I know’d it. Some thin’ big for dad! Dear little girl! Wait just a minute, Jo ! ITn cornin’ 1” His head falls forward upon the coffin. Some one comes in presently and finds him there. He is quite dead.' They bury them side by side in one grave, close by tho murmuring sea; and at the head they place a simple, white wooden Bhaft, with just these two words roughly inscribed npon it—“Dad’s Jo.” —Chicago Current. How Farmers arc Swindled. IHB NEAT UTTLE GAME WHICH A NEW YOBK SHAT.PEE IS rLATLSO. The particulars of an enticing and plausible swindle has been discovered. The new dodge is planned to suit the present more or less hard times, and the way it is “worked” is as ingenious as it is new. Letters, not lithograph copies or imitation type-writer epistles, are used, and all emanate from one source in New York city, tho only address given being a box at the General Post Office. All the letters sent out are written in one man’s handwriting, who claims to be a lawyer representing people desirous of investing money in real estate, especially so in small fruit farms and other country property. The New York swindler ap parently has scanned the country direc tories carefully, for in nearly every in stance he says this or that gentleman, naming some well-known maD, has in formed him that the name of the recipi ent of the missive was mentioned to him, and he knows that money so “put out” will be perfectly safe. He then goes on to say that he, as the represen tative of Russell Sage, Cyrus TV. Field and a number of other brokers and mon eyed Wall street men, offers to loan a sum not exceeding $500 at four per cent. The “representative” states that he has made thorough inquiries as to the stand ing and responsibility of the party to whom the money is offered, and all the latter has to do i3 to send his note and the interest on the amount desired to be borrowed. The swindler naively adds that the interest asked is so low that it must be paid in advance. It is pointed out that of a necessity everything is square and above board when such men as Messrs. Sage and Field back an enter prise of this kind. Moreover, the tempt ing offer goes on to state, the risk is all /vartitalv^fp’ niflp hnt. lunHTiinnh ftSt on the capitalists’ side, but inasmuch as they have taken pains to guard against loss from wicked people—for, the letter states, there appears to be such in the rural districts as well as in the metropolis —they freely and unreservedly offer the party” addressed, always through the “representative,” $500 or less, on the conditions already stated. , Farmers and others, to the number of a score or more, have seized this, which seems to them at first sight to he a golden opportunity of borrowing $500 for $20 cash down for a long term of years, and at a low rate of interest. Serious Effects of a Cat-Bite. Last summer several Boston ladies spent three months in the. mountains east of Arlington,-TFt.' One of them, a Miss Sprague, was one day bitten, through the thumb by a pet kitten be longing to the family with which she boarded. The thumb was painful for a long time, but the wound finally healed and was forgotten by everyone who knew of it until Thursday night. Miss Sprague and Eome Boston friends came to Vermont, on Thursday, to attend a “lmsking-bee,” gotten up in honor of Miss Sprague’s birthday, and in a dance which was to wind up the evening’s en tertainment, Miss Sprague accidentally struck the injured thumb against a case ment She screamed and fell fainting to the floor, but soon recovered and im mediately went into spasms.^In the lu cid intervals between the spasms, which con tinned for several hours, Bhe said that that portion of her thumb through which the cat had bitten her was throb bing like a pulse with intense pain. Medical aid failed to relieve her and she is now sick in bed, with what seems to be brain-fever, and all hope of her re- oovery has been abandoned. Physicians say that the poison from the cat-bite iu the summer must have gathered into a pus-sao and grown fast to a nerve, caus ing a nervous overthrow and derange ment of the brain.” A Cure for Nervous Headache. The Physicians’ and Surgeons’ In spector says a solution of the bi-eulphite of carbon is a specific for certain kinds of headache, particularly those of a nerv ous nature. A wide-moutbed, glass- stoppered bottle is half filled with cot ton or a fine sponge, and npon this two or three drams olf the solution are poured. When occasion for its use curs the mouth of the bottle is to be a plied to the temple, or as sear as _ aibfe to the seat of the pain, so closely that none of the volatile vapor may es cape, and retained there four or five minutes or longer. For a minute or so nothing is felt, then comes a sense of tingling, which in a few minutes—thietf or four usually—becomes rather severe,, but which subsides almost immediately if the bottle be removed, and any red ness of the skin that may occur will also subside. It may be reapplied, if »S INDISTINCT PRINT
