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THE W. N. BENNS, Editor and Proprietor. ««LET thebe BE LIGHT/’ Subscription, $1.50 in Advance. VOLUME IX. BUTLER, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, MAY 5, 1885. NUMBER ‘37. THE ISM TROUBLES. fHE UNITED STATES TROOPS STILL NEEDED. Work of the Insurgents and Condition of Things At the Isthmus Commodore Walker, chief of the bureau dl navigation at Washington, has received the following telegram from Commander McCalla r.t Panama: “The force from the Atlantic sta tion was received yesterday. I have just passed over the lines of the railroad. The politi cal condition of the isthmus is chaotic. If the transit is to be kept open a short stay must not be contemplated. The entire naval force now at Aspinwall and Panama should remain for the present. The situation at Panama is unsettled. The example set at Aspinwall will be a precedent for the disaf fected for some time to come.” Commander Kane, of the United States steamer Galena, has made a report to Secre tary 1\ hitney, relative to the burning of Aspinwad by insurgents on the afternoon of March •»1, ami the part taken by his command for the protection of American citizens and their property. The commander says: “About 12:30 p. m. on March 30 it was re- jiorted to me that the American steamer Co lon had a small American flag at the fore, union down, and that they were signaling from her that the steamer was lieing seized by the insurgent troops. I immediately sent a boat to the Colon in charge of Lieutenant Judd to see what the trouble was. This ship was at the time lying at anchor about three hundred yards from and abreast of this northern wharf of the island, and the steamer Colon was moored at the Pacific Mail Steamship company's wharf, having arrived that morning, from New \ork. Lieutenant Judd returned in about half an hour, bringing with him the United States consul, Mr. Wriglit, and informed me that there were arms and ammunition on board the Colon, and that Senor P. Preston, the chief of the insurgent forces here, bad demanded the delivery of the arms; that Mr. Connor, the Aspinwall agent of the Pa cific Mail Steamship company, was under ar rest, and that Preston ha 1 "promised not to interfere with the steamer before 3 i\ m. when the general agent of the Pacific Mail Steamship company, Captain Dow, would arrivo from Panama, provided the Galena put no force on board the steamer in the meantime. At 2:45 I sent Lieu tenant Judd, who was accompanied by the United States consul and Naval Cadet Rich ardson, to meet Captain Dow and direct him not to deliver any arms without my order, and also to communicate with Preston and s:iy I desired an interview with him. Lieu tenant Judd met Captain Dow at the steam ship office at the head of the dock, where were also Preston and some of his aides. Lieuten ant Judd communicated my instructions, and Preston at once called in some of his guards and arrested Lieutenant Judd, the United States consul and Captain Dow, and ordered them taken to prison. ” Commander Kane then gives the particu lars, of tbo subsequent release of the prison ers upon the consul, under a threat of death, giving Preston an order for the arms; of his prompt measures for the safety of the Colon; t he subsequent rearrest and escape of the two Pacific mail local officers, and the burning of the town by the insurgents. “The crew of her British majesty's gun vessel Lily ren dered gloat assistance,” he says, “in saving the slopping of the wharves, none of which was destroyed. The fire did not ex tend to the Panama Canal company’s property at Christoph Colon. All that has been saved of the town of Aspinwall is duo to the pro tection afforded by this ship and the efficiency and hard work of the officers and men in fighting the fire. * * * I now hold pos session of ull American property on the island that has been saved. The Colombian troops to the number of about 100 men are here and their duty consists in holding prisoners; they give but little assistance in guarding the town. “The complications of the afternoon of March 30 could have been avoided had I been informed in time regarding the arms on tho Colon. Everything had Ih*oh quiet since the 14th ult., (the date of my last dispatch to the department;) negotiations for peace were be ing considered, and it was lxilieved that the government forces at Panama were too weak to a’tack this place. The town has quieted down. Thousands of people have left for Jamaica and Panama and other points on the railroad. There is no govern ment here now. The small Ixxly of Colom bian government trooi>s occupy a few of tho old houses that have been saved, and are being fed by the Panama railroad company, and this ship and their prisoners have b »en removed to a steam or at anchor in the har bor and are well guarded. The Pan una railroad company is getting its road in ,.»• kv. and occasionally trains are dispatched «;ver the line. The Alliance has just arrived an l will land her force in the morning.'* TEE NATIONAL GAME. No rest for the professional ball playei j antilnext October. The catchers' chest protector is greeted with amazement in the South. Chattanooga (Tenn.) lias a “phenomenal* I* ft handed pitcher named R/jnsey. »* tVKiiNoR Bate, of Tennessee, lias aj> veil the bill prohibiting Sunday baseball l* tying. Boston now has fourteen men under con tract, including three pitchers and foul catchers. The territories of Utah, Idaho and Mon tana are making an effort to organize a terri torial league. The governor of California is a regular at* tendant at the California league games, and on Sundays, too. A State league of amateur clubs has been formed in New Jersey, with David Pierson of Newark, as president. The Providence league champions wera defeated in a thirteen inning game at Wash tigton by the Nationals. Score, 3 to 2. Justice W. H. Kelly, of New York, hai offered a very pretty silver trophy for thf amateur championship at baseball, to be com peted for by the clubs in the recently formoj National Association of Amateur Baseball Players. The injury received at football by Phillips captain of the Harvard baseball nine, wit prevent his playing l>all this season or frou resuming his studies. He has returned front the South and is now in Cambridge. Phil lips' affliction is concussion of the brain. The Eastern league has eight very goo* teams this year. The New York 1 elf gran says: It looks as though the National! would carry off the flag, with Norfolk, Rich mond, Trenton, Newark and Jersey City running a close race for second place. On the question of who will win the Leagut championship this year the Sporting Lift eays: That the Chicagoes ought to take thi pennant is conceded by the best judges whi look on and base their opinions unprejudiced If they settle down to work this year they cai take that pennant. There were never so many associations ii New England, amateur and professional, ai have been formed this season. There are thi Southern New England, Eastern New Eng land. Maine College, two high school leagues, Cape Anne league. Southeastern Massachu setts league ' .amerdal Baseball associa tion, with : . o to be heard from. IMPRISONED IN A MINE. The Shaft find Landing Destroyed by Fire jf'buncc of Escape by a Distant Exit. The Coal Company’s shaft and landing at Lincoln, ILL, caught fire, and was soon a mass of flames. From ten to twenty miners are at the bottom. Loss about $100,000, and no in stance. The fire was caused by the explosion of a toi h iu the oil room. Cages were kept running mtil a few minutes before the wire cable snapped in twa It is thought the re maining men-rill be saved. The escape-shaft, three-quarters >f & mile away, connects with the one destroy^, and it is by this avenue that they will be mostlihely to escape. The fire is under control am several streams of water are playing on the ru nB . The wives and children of the imprison^ miners are in dreadful sus pense. No word h-s yet been received that the men have reachec the eecape, though the chances are to thfir *%vor. NEWS OF THE DAY. I fiRfern and Middle State*. Buddensiek, the contractor building the eight tenement houses in New York which tumbled suddenly to the ground, was ar rested and held in $2 ),000 bail. Louis Wal ters, a workman buried in the mins, died from his injuries. Ten firemen were at work on the second floor of a New York piano factory that had been on fire, when the floor suddenly gave way precipitating the firemen to the cellar. All ten were injured, but none fv-ally. The Democrats were successful in the mu nicipal election at Albany, N. Y. George Humpf, a railroad employe living at Danube, N. Y., in a fit of insanity mur dered his wife and fivo-day-old child in bed, and then cut his own throat, dying soon after. 11 Both branches of Hie New York legislature passed the bill providing for a State reserva tion and free park at Niagara Falls. Mrs. A. T. Stewart’s splendid gift of the cathedral, see ✓ house and schools at Garden City' has been formally accepted by tin con vention of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Long Island. A fire at Buffalo, N.Y.,destroyed the daily Express building and other property, causing an estimated loss of $250,000. The newspa per reporters did some lively climbing to es cape the flames. Arbor Day was celebrated at Philadel phia, Lancaster, and other points in Pennsyl vania by the planting of trees. Governor Pat- tison participated in tho exercises at Lancas ter. The day was observed for the first time this year in accordance with the provisions of a legislative bill decreeing that some April date should be designated as “Arbor Day. * South and Went* While seven men were clearing the brick out of the smokestack of John Gram’s mill nt Ascoda, Mich., the bottom tier gave wav. The seven men were buried under 50,000 brick. Five were instantly killed and one badly hurt, the seventh man marvelously escaping. The District Grand Jury has indicted But ler Mahone, a son of Senator Mahone, of Virginia, for assault with intent to kill John Wills, a colored waiter at Welcker’s hotel, a fashionable resort. The discovery of a man’s mutilated body in a trunk at the woll-known Southern hotel, St. Louis, aroused great excitement. The corpse was C. A. Preller, a young English man traveling for an English house. He had been rooming with another young Eng lishman, registered at the hotel as Walter H. Lennox Maxwell, M. D., from London, who had disappeared. The police theory' is that Maxwell murdered Preller for his money*. Inside the trunk was a paper with the words written on it: “So perish all traitors to the groat cause.” This was re garded by the police as an attempt on Max well's part to mislead them into believing the murder was a political assassination. Mary Moore died at La Crescent, Minn., after going without food sixty-four days. She was suffering from a cancer of the stomach. A mob at Union City, Tenn., secured tho persons of Bud Farris (white) and Freeman Ward (colored) who had been arrested for burglary*, and hanged them to a tree in the fair grounds. Last month three negroes charged with burglary were hanged on the same tree. Four Chinamen were instantly killed and another was fatally injured by the blowing UP of a Chinese wash bouse at Anaconda, Mon tun a. Some men who had born arrested for molesting the Chinamen are supposed to nave caused the explosion oat of reveuge. James H. Bell, charged with the murder of Forrest G. Small, was hanged at Pierre, Dakota, by' a bund of lynchers. The remains found in a trunk at the Southern hotel in St. Louis were fully iden tified as those of (’. A. Preller, the young English commercial traveler. Strong proof was shown that he had been murdered by his English friend. Dr. Maxwell The latter was traced to San Francisco, whence ho took passage on a steamer bound for Hono lulu aiul New Zealand. Dispatches were sent to both places to intercept him, if possible. Preller and Maxwell became acquainted on a steamer from Europe. The case has ex cited great interest all over the country. Robbery was evidently the motive for tha crime. “ Mose Keaton and Pete Johnson (botk colored), were hanged at Camilla, Ga., foi the murder of Stephen Goodwin, a bacheloi and Miss Gregory and li?r eighteen-year-old son, the only other inmates of Goodwin’s, house. The murderers were Goodwin’s sei» vauts, and their motive was robbery. YTasliIng'ton* Captain Couch, the leader of the Okla homa boomers, has had an interview with Secretary* Lamar. The secretary informed him that the Oklahoma lands were part of the Indian Territory and reserved for the Indians, and that their occupation by either intending settlers or cattle men would not be allowed. Further appointments of postmasters by the President: John L. Lindley, at Ansoniu, Conn.; Christian T. Georgia, at Unionville, < Yarn.; William B. Hall, at Wallingford, Conn.; Daniel B. Kirkley, at Cannlen, S. C.; HcuIh'ii A. Mitchell, at Opelika. Ala.; F. M. Householder, at Noblesville, Ind.; J. S. i atnerwood. atHoopestown, 111; Alexander McKenna.atCrookston, Minn.; E. R. Debray, at Clyde, Kan.; George H. Tracy*, at Wilbur, Neb. Admiral Jouett has telegraphed to Sec retary Whitney* from Aspinwall that trains arc again running across Panama, and that each passenger tram s accompanied as a guard by* fifty* United States marines, with rifles and howitzers. Colonel Hey*wood and was in command of the army* of that republic at the battle of Chalchuapa, which proved so disastrous to the late General Barrios, presi dent of Guatemala: “Peace with Central America signed—a new triumph doing great honor to Salvador.'* Secretary Bayard has written a letter to a New York colored man denying the pub lished charges that he was unfriendly to th colored people. A Wash in gto n dispatch says: It is under stood that the policy of President Cleveland's administrat.on with regard to appointments to places in the Southern States that are now held by colored Republicans will bo not to substitute white men for col ored men, but to replace incom petent or dishonest colored Republicans by colored Democrats, who are worthy and capable. In accordance, it is sai l with thi* policy, the postmaster-general has just a - pointed ex-Representative Tom Hamilton, i. colored Democrat, of Beaufort, route agen from Beaufort to Jacksonboro, S. C. PERSONAL MENTION. Attorney-General Garland is dec'.nr ■ 1 to bo a teetotaller. Governor Abbett. of New Jersey, lives almost entirely on milk. The late General Barrios.president of Gua temala, Central America, left a fortune of *io,ojo,ooo. On the twentieth anniversary of Abra ham Lincoln’s death (April 15), an address was delivered by General John A. Logan at the memorial services held in Springdeld, 111. Henry Lloyd, president of the Maryland State senate and suo-essor to Governor Mc- Lane, appointed minister to France, as gov ernor of Maryland, is only twenty-six years o.d Stephen B. Elkins, one of Mr. Blaine's managers in tho last presidential canvass, has accepted an invitation to deliver the an nual address before the Alumni association of the University of Missouri at Columbia, J une 4. Palisa, the Viennese astronomer, offers ta name an asteroid after anyone who will pay him $£35 in cash. His first customer was a Hungarian shopkeeper who pro|>oses to bap tize au asteroid “Paprika-Behlesinger,'’ the name of his firm. Baron Nordesskjold, the Swedish ex plorer, is now rei>orted to be preparing for another voyage in an attempt to reach the North pole bv way of the islands north of Siberia. He intends to be gone three years, and liiF expenses will be borne by the Russian government. Colonel Couch, since the death of Payne the leader of the Oklahoma 4 ‘boomers,’ is a native of New York State and a “Forty' niner.” He is medium-sized, mild-mannered, dresses in conventional garb, and presents no suggestion of the wild borderman. He was colonel of on Illinois regiment in the civii war. GENERAL GRANT. Astonishing His Family—The Medi cal View of llis Case. While the Grant family were at lunch on the I6th the dining-room door opened and in walked the geueraL To the astonished greetings of the* family he made no direct response, but, turning to the waiter, he said: “Inform Dr. Douglas that we are waiting lunch for him.” A moment later the doctor joined the fam ily. The general was seated in his old place at the head of the table. The meal passed in merry fashion. The doctor’s face, which was reddened by the welcome he received, was not allowed to become serious all the time tho meal lasted. Mrs. Sar toris was radiant with bright chat and infectious laughter, while the general, with assumed gravity, helped himself to some macaroni and a slice of cold mutton, which he-cutinfino pieces, poured gravy over it. pnd eat it as naturally as though he had never got out of the way of eating solid food After lunch he went upstairs on the elevator. This was tho event of the day at the sick man’s house. He had risen early after a good flight’s rest, under a reduced injection of mor phine, and with the exception of a short nap at noon, sat up all day, moving about on the second floor with little apparent effort. The improvement of the past three day* led Senator Chaffee to venture the opinion that the general's ailment might not be can cer, but ulcerated or malignant sore throat,in which case there might be hope for complete recovery. The Senator so expressed himself more than once during the day, intimating that the doctors had diagnosed and treated the case without understanding it. Inquiry was made of the doctors in the afternoon about this matter. “There can bo no mistake about the dis ease,” one of them said. “ It is epithelioma (epithelial cancer,) and has been so proved both by microscopical examination and by its clinical features. What is the use of fly ing in the face of victory? The case has been one of ups and downs. No one can foretell what the next few days may bring. It is certain only that ho is much im proved and that we hope for continued im provement The rule in cancer is death. There are recorded exceptions in which the disease has been eradicated by an operation or by caus tic appliances. How this may turn out is by no means settled. No intimation has come from any of the family that the disease is not can cer, and the staff of physicians know that it is. All to be said now is that we are much encouraged by this week’s improvement.” Dr. Shrady said at dusk: “lam surprised that there should be any question as to the diagnosis in General Grant’s case. The phy sicians have determined that the disease is epithelioma, and there lias been as yet no reason to change that belief.” When General Grant awoke on the morn ing of the 17th he expressed himself as feel ing better than he had at any time for three or four weeks. He dressed himself fully, and after partaking of the breakfast of liquid food prepared for him and two cups of coffee walked about the room ou the second floor for some time. LATEST NEWS. There was still a great improvement appar ent in General Grant's condition on the 18th, and he wanted to go out riding, but the physi cians refused their assent. Senator Chaifea said that he saw the general's throat during the day,and that it had materially changed its ap pearance since he last looked into it. All the jagged edges had disappeared and tbs stuff that gathered in his throat and chu’ve.l him. General Grant agreed with Senator Chaffee in thinking that his disease might b« only an ulcerated sore throat. In answer to a reporter’s inquiries Dr. For- dyce Barker said that General Grant’s trouble was epithelioma. “Just what epi- helioma is,” continued he, “I can’t explain t< you, for it would be a long matter and no: easy to understand. It is a variety* of cancer, but is only local in its effects. All"the doctor! are unanimous upon this point, and we an treating tho general for this disease. Thi questions which have been raised about thi nature of the trouble have come from outsider! a id not from the physicians. There have beei cases of recovery from this disease, but thej are few*. About fifteen are on record.” F00TLIGHT FLASHES. The sultan of Turkey is said to be a very good amateur pianist. William Donahue is forming an opera company for a Southern tour. A British drama association has started in England. Capital, $500,000. “The Banker's Daughter” earned for the Union Square theatre management $150,000. Miss Maud Banks, daughter of Major General N. P. Banks, is playing at thenewly- op?ned Lyceum theatre, New York. A new Moscovite opera, with the simple title, “Nishegorodsy,” with the Russian com poser, Neprawnik, was lately produced with complete success at Moscow. A two-year-old child in Macon, Ga., if exciting no little interest as a musical prodigy by her singing, and also the playing of her own accompaniment on the piano. A large and brilliant audience attended the opening of the first Chicago opera festi val. The accoustic properties of tho large hali in the exposition building proved ama zingly good. A. C. Mackenzie's dramatic oratorio “The Rose of Sharon,” was performed for the first time in America at Steinway hall, New York, recently, under the direction of Mr. Theodore Thomas. Richard Wagner's grave in his villa of Wahnfried, was decorated w*ith three wreaths on tho recent anniversary of his death. Two were from Wagner societies, and the other was sent by the municipality of Baireuth. Sarah Bernhardt lias signed with J.tr rett for a European tour in the autumn. ‘•Theodora” and another new piece will be given, and the impressario has guaranteed his star $200,000 as her share of the venture. In the village of Dinker, Germany, there recently died the organist and teacher, Dahl- hoff,the last of a long line of predecessors in the office, which had gone uninterruptedly from father to sou in the same family for the past 210 years. Jefferson and Shewell’s effective drama, “The Shadows of a Great City,” will be produced iu London and Australia next season. During the thirty weeks the play has been before the public the gross receipt? have been $257,000. Lately, during a performance of “Im pulse*’ at the Grand theatre, Lee<ls, England, Mr. Beverly, who was playing the Colonel, threw a book from the stage at a local critic in a box, who had spoken adversely of hit acting. The performance was suspended and the actor apologized by attributing his book throwing propensity to impulse. William J. Henderson, Jr., the son ot the theatrical manager who brought out the opera, says that “Patience” was the greatest success of Gilbert and Sullivan’s operas. It ran six months at the Standard, and its re ceipts the last week were $6,300. “Pinafore’ only ran five months. The profit on the lat ter was $50,DOG, while “Patience” cleared $90,000. The biggest business ever done in the Standard theatre was done with the ad vanced prices in the first week of “Iolantho,’ when $10,300 was taken in. ONE HUNDRED REBELS KILLED. When the troops of the Colombian Govern ment finally entered Colon, after it had been burned by the rebels, under the leadership of Prestan, they captured several sqnads of rebels. The number of the-e prisoners has been con siderably augmented by the receipt of strangl ing rebels captured in surrounding districts. It is not known just now how many rebels were held prisoners at Colon, but good au- thoritiee place the number at about 400. Authentic information reached Mexico that ou Wednesday the officers of the Columbian Gov ernment selected 100 of the worst rebels im prisoned at Colon, and placing them on board a steamer, carried them out into the bay, where the entire 100 were thrown overboard and drowned. —At Newburg, N. Y.. Joseph Myers cut the throats of his wife and James Barclay, who is alleged to have eloped, with the -tfoman, and then cut his own throat. —Philadelphia weavers, who have been on strike, are to resume work. —The striking coal miners of the Primrcse, Briar Hill, Jumbo and Willow Grove pits, cn the Pan Handle Railroad, have returned to work at two and a half cents a bushel, the price offered by the operators. —Extensive preparations arc being made at Baltimore.for the annual reunion of the Army of the Potomac, which is to be held in that city May 6 and 7. Ac iminittee of citizens has been at work for several weeks raising the necessary funds and making arrangements for the large number of visitors that are expected, and they are confident that the reunion will be the most successful the society has ever held. —Private telegrams say the people of Pan ama are apprehensive of the destruction of that city by the rebels. —In consequence of the depression in the cotton trade, the Wilmington cotton mills will shut down for sixty days unless business im proves in the meantime. The mills manufac ture print cloth exclusively. About 125 hands will be thrown out of employment. —The fact has just been made public that William H. McCleary lias tendered his resigna tion as postmaster of Pittsburg, Fa. Nine months of the term of his commission are un expired. —At the coroner’s inquest in the Preller case in St. Louis, Charles Beiger said: “I first saw Maxw. .1 on April 6. He brought two trunks to my store. I asked his name so that I could deliver the valise he bought, but he carried it with him. Ou Tuesday I was called to tho hotel to open a trunk. 1 noticed blood where the trunk lay. I could not untie the rop; as it had been sealed in different places. Some one shouted ‘cut the rope.’ I cut it and when i’ I lifted the lid the dead man’s leg fell outward over the edge of the trunk. When the man bought the trunk he said that he wanted nG tray with it.” —A wave eight feet high came rushing down the Rio Grande with terrific force, carrying away a portion of the Mexican National Rail road bridge. In a few horn s the water in the river rose twelve feet and then rapidly sub sided. The high water resulted from a great waterspout which fell some miles above Laredo. —Calvin Porter, a traveling agent, was burned to a crisp in a hotel fire at Lyons, New York. —Frank Watson and Francis Copeland settled a horse race dispute in the Indian Ter • ritory with Winchester rifles. Both men were killed. —The suit of Kennard Fhilp against the New York Tribune Association to recovei $50,000 damages for alleged libel in charging him with forging President Garfield's name to the Morev letter, was tried in Biooklyn and the jury found a verdict of $5,000 for Philp. —Judge Durham, First Comptroller of tlifc Treasury, in an opiuiun on the refunding of interest collected ou direct taxes, holds that under the decision of the Court of Claims all interest collected for the period prior to the expiration of the sixty days immediately fol lowing the fixing of "the taxes shall lie re funded. —A delegation of Georgians invited the President to v.sifc Atlanta, Ga., during the commercial convention to bo hek^ there in May. The President ag-eed to accept the in vitation provided his duties would permit his absence from the capital at that time. —Jacob Bernstein, banker of Konicsberg, has failed. His liabilities are placed at $1,000,000. His assets are small. Bernstein’s Berlin correspondents and customers, are heavy losers. —Natives say the Italians have advanced from Massowah in the direction of Kassala. The Arabs along the White Nile above Khar toum, tlic natives also report, are deserting El Mahdi, and the latter is plundering all vil lages and towns that are worth robbing. —Latest dispatches from Brussel-*, London md other capitals show that the Anglo-Russian dispu'e is far from being settled. —Alvah Strong, of Rochester, for thirty years publisher of the Rochester Democrat, ilied, aged 76 years. —Four hundred Polish laborers who had been employed on a sewer at East Buffalo, struck for an increase of pay, which was re fused, and their places filled with Irish and German laborers. The Poles attacked the Irish and German workmen with sfcieks and stones. The police were called on to quell the disturbance, which was accomplished after some trouble. Two men had their heads cut open and several others were more or less severely hurt. —Dan Mace, trainer, driver an d owner of trotting horses, died at his residence in New York city, of Bright's disease. He had been a sufferer for many months, but he lmd only been confined to the house a little over two weeks. —The two-story frame summer house on the track farm of Augustus L. Wentzel, two miles below Reading, Pa., burned and four persons lost their lives—two children and two gar deners. —A fire broke out in the Colored Orphan Asj’lum in Brooklyn, N. Y., in one of the rooms on the third floor. The children were removed m squads in an orderly manner. They were marched off from the grounds and distributed in other asylums in the vicinity, and no lives were lost. —A Milwaukee street car was stopped "by two men late at night, who, at the muzzle of a revolver, compelled the driver, Sam Zafca- bern to surrender his cash box, containing $20 in change. THE BATTLE OF CHALCHUAPA. La. Libertad, April 20, 1885.—Published re ports of the battle of Chalchuapa on March 31 say that the Guatemalans left 1,600 on tho battlefield. The Guatemalans admit a total loss of 1.800 men. Salvador had 50 killed and 150 wounded, including many officers. The Salvadorians entrenched their artillery and Gatling guns; also their mitrailleuse. Their fire was directed by a French officer named Tourlet, who was killed iu the action. The guns did great execution. The Guatemalans attacked with their battalions in close forma tion. The Guatemalans say that to obtain the body of General Barrios cost upward of twenty lives. The body w.is conveyed to Gua temala city and interred there with military honors. Since peace was signed by Salvador and Guatemala, general confidence in commercial circles is returning. All the reports that of ficial messages to and from Minister Hall at Guatemala and the Department of State at Washington were delayed in Salvador are un true. The Guatemalan lines were at times in terrupted, but transmission over the lines of Salvador has at all times been prompt and sat isfactory. Ho* f'hnlera* Pittsfield, Mass., April 20, 1885.—The alarm about the prevalence of hog cholera is growing. Since the visit of President Stock- bridge, of the Agricultural College, other herds of swine in this town have been reported affected. There are three farms where the disease prevails and about thirty hogs have died. President Stockbridge confirms the opinion of the local veterinary surgeon, and pronounces the disease genuine hog cholera, for which there is no known cure. Occasion ally a case recovers, but not from treatment. All herds where the disease app« ars are to be slaughteied and buried. The symptoms aro loss of appetite, weakness, breaking out in purple blotches and then speedy ueath. The farmers are selling off their pigs as fast as possible to butchet s, fearing au attack of the disease and consequent loss. Dr. Bracken, veterinarian, says there are fully three hun dred cases on farms between Pittsfield and North Adams, a distance of twenty miles. —The arming of men-of-war at Crons tad t continues. Advices from Samareand state that Gen. Komaroffs victory over the Afghans has favorably impressed the inhabitants of Bokhara. Eleven fast steamers have been bought, ready equipped, at various ports, for use as Russian privateers. New Ministers Appointed. The President has made the following ap- ^°To "be 0 Ministers Resident and Consuls Gen- 67 william D. Bloxham, of Florida, to Bolivia. Bayliss W. Hanna, of Indiaua, to Persia. Walker Ft-arn, of Louisiana, to Roumania, Servia and Greece. To be Consuls of the United States: Janus Murray, of New York, at St John, N B * Boyd Winchester, of Kentucky, at Nice, Fl Chaiies P. Kimball, of Illinois, at Stuttgart. Germany. iii£ Ftiii seal , “it is rather A monotonous pursuit, the killing of seals," says it seal hunter, “the only excitement being the Chase in the water of some fierce old he hooder, who is apt to give you a long and lively chase before his vulnerable part is brought to sight. There is something pathetic in the hunting of the female hood with her young, for she will make every effort to get it ont of harm’s way, and then seeing that escape is impossi ble, will protect it with her body from the blows of the hunter, uttering her low, appealing murmur, until she her- self is killed and can protect her whelp no longer. It is believed by ail seal hunters that a mother seal can distin guish the cry of its young among a thousand others. It is a curious sight during April to watch the seals. They como out on the ice, yearlings, 2-year- olds, and old seals, about the middle of that month for the purpose of scrubbing themselves. If the sun is shining their skin will be snre to burn so that some times it may be pulled oil with the fin gers. At such times to return to the water will subject the seal to intense pain, and so well do they know when they are in this condition that they will remain on the ice and be killed rather than enter the water and submit to tho pain. If the sun burned seal is forced into the water it will ntter sharp cries of agony and try to climb back ou the ice in spite of the men threatening them with the gaff and guns. Seals have relent less enemies in sharks and swordfish, and they will rush from the water to the ice when pursued by these monsters, and place themselves behind a hunter, or ran between his legs, for safety, shaking with fear, like a frightened human be- ing. These sharks are sometimes so ravenous that I have known them to leap upon the ice when in pursuit of a seal, and more than once I have shot them while thus ont of their element. I once saw a swordfish chase a seal, and it reached the ice in safety, and the fish thurst its sword against the ioy with snch force that a piece weighing hun dreds of pounds was split from the floe. The cries of the seal that escaped from the swordfish were pitiful, so full of agony were they, and after her fright was over she submitted to death at the hands of the hunter without a murmur. “The skins of all seals are weighed with the fat, and are calculated at 15 per cent, of the whole. A barrel of young harp seal’s fat will weigh 225 pounds and produce 22 gallons of oil, there being only 52 pounds of residue. A young hood seal will yield only 21 gallons of oil to the barrel, although it weighs five pounds more. Old harp fat will yield 22} gallons of oil to the barrel. The fat is now reduced by steam, but formerly it was reduced by exposure to the sun in wooden vats. Miners prefer the snn-drawn youDg seal oil as it smokes less. It has a bad odor, however, while the steam-rendered has not. It is a curious fact that when seal oil is drawn from the vats the oil of the yonng seal will come first, and it is readily known whGn that is all out, for it is of a pale yellow, and the old oil runs a deep straw color. Seal’s milk is a enrions feature about this useful animal, for it is as thick almost as white lead. Fishermen have in an emergency stopped leaks in their boats with seal’s milk. Not less than 25,000,000 seals have been taken from the Newfoundland ice fields by the seal fleets alone since bunting com menced there, more than one hundred years ago, 22,000,000 of them having been taken since 1830.” Some Wealthy Colored Men. There are 103 colored men in Wash ington who are worth over 826,000 each, 52 worth $10,000 each. George W. Williams, ex-member of the Ohio Assembly and author of a history of (be colored race, is worth $40,000. Frederick Douglas has $300,000 and ni6w lives in and owns the house in Washing ton formerly owned by a man who so hated the blacks that he refused to sell^ anything to one of them. John Cooke, the Collector of the Distriot o: Columbia, himself pays taxes or $350,000. John M. Langston, Unit* States Minister to Hayti, has $75,0C John Lynch, of Mississippi, who pi sided so ably at the Chicago Conventic last summer, is very wealthy. So Congressman Small. Dr. Gloster left $1,000,000 when he died, and has a son- in-law worth 8150,000, besides a four- story drug store in New York. John X. Lewis, of Boston, makes the clothes of the Beacon Hill dudes and did a busi ness last year of $1,600,000. He was once a slave, and ragged and barefooted, followed Sherman and his troops in their march to the sea. Cincinnati has a colored furniture dealer whose cheek is good any day for $100,000, although twenty-five years ago he was a Ken tucky slave. The late Robert Gordon, of Cincinnati, owned thirty four-story residences at the time of his death. One day he entered a Queen City bank and asked for government bonds. The cashier did not know him, and, when he handed ont his check for $150,000, the cashier appealed in astonishment to the president of the bank. “Give him the bonds,” said the lat ter, “his check is good for three tisres that” San Francisco has fifteen colored men assessed above $75,000 each. Detroit has a colored druggist with a big store ou Woodward avenue. Jones, of Chica go, is worth half a million, and Buffalo has several negroes who pay taxes on $30,000 each. Robertson, of St Louis, who lately died, owned a barber shop whose fittings cost $25,000, and was acknowledged to be the finest shop in the world. ' COL CUSTIS’S DAUGHTER. ’the tild Ootorfd Woman who t:n- fld. reived Tltio cd it Corner ot the Arling ton Estate. A private bill passed the United States Senate which has quite a little l i-story behind it. It was to give a bed ridden negfo woman, eighty-two years old, title to fifteen acres off of the uorthwestern corner of the Arlington estate. The spot has been her home for half a century. Before the war her white cottage was surrounded by tall trees and pleasant stretches of grass land, and the place was beautiful as well as homelike. But five years of camps and soldier lawlessness stripped it of trees and fences and left it a barren, poor place at best. The land now hardly feeds her little family. When the United States bought Ar lington at tax sale the old negro woman’s land went with it, and she had nothing to prove it was hers. But it seems she had a moral right that is stronger than the lower law of courts and statute, books. She was the daughter of G. W P. Custis and the granddaughter of Martha Washington. Col. Custis rec ognized her as his child, and in 1826 gave her her freedom, and later gave her the land on which she is dying, for a home for herself and her children. At the time she was freed she had a daugh ter six years old and a baby boy. Soon after the laying of the comer stone of the Washington Monument, when the latter was a man grown, he wanted to go to Boston with the Hon. Robert 0. Winthrop. He went to Alexandria to get his papers, for no man of color could in those days travel about unless he had a master to answer for him or papers to show that he owned himself. The young negro found in the archives at Alexandria the paper which Col. Ous- tis had signed giving his mother her freedom and that of “her daughter Ber tha, six years old, and one male infant.” An octogenarian Quaker affirmed that the male child was the young negro, and he received his credentials. Bnt the most interesting fact in this family history is that this old lady,who, by act of Congress, is to bo allowed to end her days on her own bit of earth, was doubly descended from the Cnstises. Her mother was Martha Washington’s maid. The family of Robert E. Lee inherited the respect for the blood of the former Blave woman, and they con firmed the legacy of Col. Custis by say ing that the bit of land was hers, al though there was no deed to show the fact. When Mrs. Robert E. Lee left Arlington, the last farewell was spoken aB she passed the old woman’s cottage. When, after the war, Mrs. Lee visited Arlington, she fonnd it n waste. When nearly bedridden by rheumatism she rode np from Alexandria to look over the place. As the carriage drove away from it she took one look at her old home and said: “I never want to see Arlington again.” Chewing Gum of Coal Tar. The Pittsburg Dispatch says: “There’s a car-load of solid comfort for the young ladies,” said a gentleman in Lawrenceville recently to a reporter, pointing to a car standing on the Alle gheny Valley Railroad. “Now there’s twenty-five barrels of chewing gum there,” he continued. “You may not know it, but it is a fact that nearly all of the chewing gum. consnmed in the United States and Vassar College ooines from Pittsburg.” “Of what i3 this maidenly solai composed?” asked the newspaper m: “Why, it’s made from tar, and worst of tar. The Standard Oil C pany is a big thing on wheels when get to talking about oil, but it is jus big relatively speaking when -you into the province of chewing gu: ' * see, they control nearly all of eries, and it is trom them 1 is evolved, so to speak, tike the residui after the reli OUB DAIRY INTEREST. Growth of tho Industry— Import* and Ex* ports—Last Year’s Sale* “The growth of the dairy interests of this cochtty is something remarkable,” said a commiSsiob merchant to a re porter for the New York Express re cently. “Before the present facilities for the rapid transportation of dairy products had been provided, shippers were obliged to run great risks when forwarding their goods to market. Owing to the risks incurred and the length of time consnmed in transporta tion, the business had few attractions for wide-awake, pushing men. Now that these diificnlties have been removed, there has been a wonderful improve ment. Last year the sales of butter, cheese, eggs and ponltry iu the United States amounted to $600,000,000. This amount of business was transacted at a smaller per cent, of cost than ever be fore in the history of the country.” “In what States is the bnlk of the batter and cheese produced ?" asked the reporter. “There is a strip of conDtry extend ing from the Atlantic ocean to the Rocky Mountains within which is made nearly all of what wo know as dairy products. It takes in the States of Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Ne braska and New York. In the first four of these States there were 1,700 cream eries last year. Nebraska is rapidly coming to the front. Outside of this strip of territory it seems to be impossi ble to produce either butter or cheese at a profit” “But don’t you get considerable but ter, cheese and eggs from New Eng land ?” “On the contrary, we get bnt vory little, and that comes almost exclusively from Vermont. The fact is, the farmers down East are traveling in the ruts oi their fathers. They do not seem to be blessed with the same amount of enter prise as our Western farmers. Little effort is made to increase their facilities of production. At present New Eng land consumes nearly all of the batter and cheese whioh she produces. “By the way,” said the merchant, "did you know that the consumption of eggs, especially in snoh markets as New York and Philadelphia, has been simply enormous ? The reason of this is that eggs are one of the most valuable as well as one of the cheapest foods known to man. Of late the demand has be come so great that eggs in large quanti ties are imported from Denmark, Ger many and Belgium. They can be de livered in New York at a cost of 16 to 20 cents a dozen. The improved methods for packing and transporting eggs have redneed almost to a minimum the loss formerly incurred through breakage and over-heating. Eggs can’t be adulter ated, and I suppose that is the reason why they have become so popular. People are as particular now to get the best breeds of fowl as dairymen are to get the best breeds of cattle. We get most of our eggs from the South during the winter, and during the summer and fall from Iowa and Kansas.” “Is there not 60me danger that the dairy business will be overdone in this oountry ?” “No, I think not. There is always an outlet for butter and cheese in exporta tion to Europe. As long as butter be delivered on the other sir' not exceed’^ ODDS AND ENDS. England built her first steamer in 1815. The rooms in Danish hotels have no locks. A Cincinnati girl drowned herseli rather than marry. Mr. James Kusseli. Lgwelu was born February 22. 1819. The water supply of London is about 145,0(10,000 gallons daily. A Philadelphia paper calls John L Sullivan “that eminent brute.” Cigars were never known until 1815. Before that time pipe3 were nsei^nir. There are probably 90.000 an alight every night iu the Ug'*~^ The best toboggans aq and velvet cushioned, i 850. A GENTLEMAN Of R' has a pair of elks th buggy. A Charlton t pays $1.29 in taxe on his dogs. The severity a great loss of and beyond. A New Ha broken a lamp] thirty years. The avalancl whelmed the thirty persons. Henry G"or standi:: shire, Scot! Soudan mead the Blacks in the . led-es-Sondan.” Physicians say that ab per cent, of all school ehiiij from headaches. The most extensive linsi in this country is said to Amsterdam, N. Y. The Board of Healt' Tenn., have determintj the mulberry trees. Mns. Apphia Fisj Hampshire, readsj ninety-seventh It is a renj singe Chinese J in the United This yeal days. It t:f the world g] The Uni{ appliances languages a I Sarah Br for acting. $180, leaving^ A water Altoona, Pa., tront eight inciB^ TnE first steanl age up the Thames! gow by Mr. Dodd inN No man can smoke aM as black pipes as a woma»M has once acqnired the habit. The late Mrs. James Russell was a relative of the distinguished^ ator, William Pitt Fessenden. The greater part, of Jj Governor Coburn, of < He had His Own Idea about It When yonng John M’Lean came ht me from college his father gave him a li itle stock i i the Cincinnati Enquirer office, and set him to work to master the news paper business in every detail. The boy learned faster than his father thought, and one night at a meeting of the stockholders of the Enquirer he took occasion to make a speech in direct op position to his father and objected to bis policy. The old gentleman was both snrprised and piqued, and, rising, he remonstrated with John in the meeting, telling him be did not think he owned enongh stock in the paper to advocate such radical ohanges. John replied, so the story goes: “My father may be mistaken about that. I think I own more of the Enquirer stock than he does. ” On investigaton this proved to be so. Young John had quietly slipped about among the minor stockholders and had bought np their stock unknown to his father. He then outlined a new policy for the Enquirer, spent a great deal more money and eventually made it one of the greatest newspapers in the oountrv. “How German, mornini with face. myBe P’g I, a liti onlyi a pi Bhim: didn’t before he got right he yelled like fun f of dat, mine friend] dot whole pail of sw little pig and put hil where der swill vi pig inside dat pat half filled. Dat’s me. t>at vas o: of physics vat I stand.” Then he serai meditation and could give hi; departed no wi: Atlanta Const. l'he stateme that about fifty Astor was the oi States worth $, have been true o York, but not of t cities. Stephen when he died in close of 1831, left to $9,000,000. What L, the Girard property is be worth more tha Girard, after he got his life, always counted hii instance thereof was tha! his vessels were near the century, in one of the Domingo, the negro' the French ocourr planters on the isl treasures on board fo; sacred with their fi $100,000, to whioh remained in Girard at the time the
