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W. N. BENNS, Editor and Proprietor. “LET THERE BE LIGHT.” VOLUME IX. BE] Subscription, .$L50-in'Advance. BUTLER, GEORGIA, TUESDAY. MAY 12, 1885. NUMBER 28. L ATEST XE W8. YEWS OF THE DAY The Public Debt. It is estimated that the statement of the public debt for the month of April trill show a reduction of about $4,000,000. Forest Fires in Virginia. Fires are consuming the forests and fences along the railroa'd of the mountain counties, including Rockbridge, Highland, Allegheny, Augusta and Rockingham. The loss will be the heaviest for years. Buildings are .endan- gered*in many places, and a desperate fight is being made to save'them. War Resolved Upon. A dispatch to the Independence Beige from St. Petersburg, says: “After the council at which Giers’ proposals to adopt conciliatory measures toward England were rejected, De Giers tendered his resignation as foreign i ister, but the czar refused to accept it at the. present crisis. On the arrival of the news of a. Russian defeat in Afghanistan, the czar sent a counter dispatch to England in the nature of an ultimatum, and signed ari order for the mobilization of the army. The Imperial bank has been ordered to provide the government with 20,000,000roubles.” ROUSING TIIE COMMONS. Gladstone’* (.rent Speech In Pnrlinineut. .Mr. Gladstone, in the House of Commons, bringing up the subject of a vote of credit of £55.000,000 asked for by the government on the army and navy account, said that he hoped that the motion to divide the credit would not be pressed. Ihe government, he said, would not devote any portion of money voted for par ticular purposes for use in the Soudan, but would reserve a discretion to apply the money taken from the Soudan account for the pur pose of preparation. He urged the house to vote the government the entire £55,000,000. The proposal to separate the Soudan credit from “the credit for special preparations” was rejected by a vote of 229 against 186. The house the i entered into a committee of supply and Mr. Gladstone proceeded to explain the object of the vote of credit. His voice was y hoarse, but his speech was one of the most iverful and telling that he ever delivered. iVhen he had concluded, the commons, without discussion, as suggested by Mr. Gladstone, voted entire credit of £55,000,000 asked by the government. Edward Tempely Gomly, radical member for SunderDnd, asked whether the government would end avor to have the dis pute with Russia refernd for arbitrament to the United Stages of America. Mr. Gladstone answered: “ihe government‘are sensible of iheir heavy. responsibility to maintain the lionor and good faith of the country on the one hand, and on the other to'Use every xjieans consistent with that honor to - avoid'war. I can give no more particular replv tnah this.” This utterance was accepted as significant and was received with cries of “hear! hear!” The premier was cheered to the echo both during the delivery and at the close of his speech. He was also most enthusiastically cheered when letving the house of commons after the speech. Love Ends in Tragedy. Information has reached Louisville, Ky., of u probably fatal duel which was fought near there by two young farmers. John Augusta and Abe Taylor were rivals for the hand of Miss June Greathouse. They quarreled aud friends arranged a meeting. Pistols at fifteen paces were the weapons used. Both men fired. Augusta, it is thought, will die from a wound in 1. troin. Taylor received a slight wound in thethigh. A Deliberate and Dastardly Murder. In Marion county, S. C., a young white man named Williams was shot in his store by Daniel Hines, whose father stood by with a pistol in hand ready to tire on Williams should lie offer resistance. The cause of the difficulty was Williams’ defence of a lady whom Daniel Hines had insulted. Hines and his lather escaped. Williams will die. SOUTH AMERICA’S TROUBLES. i’aiiuum In the Humls of the Rebels. All troops have been withdrawn from Pan ama. The consequences cannot be foreseen, but that there will be serious trouble on the arrival of the Colombian troops due there is certain. General Aispuru has proposed to the commander of the United States forces here to withdraw his troops to the station of the Pan ama Railway Company, General Aispuru guar anteeing the security of the city. General Aispuru, however well disposed, will not be able to prevent destruction of property and life. Barricades are being erected in the streets, aud sand-bag ..defenses are being con structed on the balcony of the barracks. This shows that the insurgents are determined to fight. In town, the, native feeling there is very strong. It is considered cruel for the United States forces to occupy the town and then withdraw, leaving the people helpless and the city iu the control of a lawless mob. THE NATIONAL GAMS The New York league club has so far shown great strength. Twenty-two professional baseball men have died within a year. Nearly all the New York league plaj'ers are expert roller skaters. Each of the eight clubs in the National league plays 112 games this season. Five of the duos in the Eastern New Eng- land a ssociation will be very evenly matched. A Canadian base ball league has been or ganized at Hamilton, with ex-Mayor Slee- mau, of Guelph, as president The fourteen men under contract to plav with the Detroit National league team, weigh 2,580 pounds, ail average of 170 pounds each The Inter-State associations of Ohio, Penn- syivairaand Kentucky have applied for qualified admission to the national agree ment. Baseball is beginning to boom all through Canada, and that territory is now being m- \ aAed by several American professional players. Zach Phelps, the president of the Lduis- viile American association club, is a promis ing and popular young lawyer, the son of a rich tobacco merchant. A new idea is to cover base balls with vul canized rubber instead of leather. The rub ber, it is explained, will not slip or knock of. A Philadelphian is the inventor. In describing Sutcliffe, the change catcher of the Chicago team, an Atlanta paper says: “He is nearly seven fert high, has hands that measure seven and three- fourths inches across the palm, size up as pig bams, and deliver the ball like a rifle shot.” The national agreement now embraces the American association, the National league, Eastern lea- e, {Southern league, Western league, X r v. ^ugland league and the Southern New England league. The Inter-State league has also applied for membership. Manager Phelps, of the Louisville club, proposes to run base! all on a high moral plan, and-to that end he issued complimen- taries to the ministers of the several churches of the city. A number have accepted, and manifested a desire to attend the games. A New Jersey State league of amateur base ball players was formed at Newark re cently. Delegates from the Jefferson and perfected organization. No Sunday games will be allowed in the South league, no liquor sol l on the ground > mid no betting permitted in any of the parks under control of the league. Everything has been done to elevate the£ame- add entitle, it to the support it receives from the best peo ple in the Southern cities. •. Eastern and Middle States. Barclay Johnson, twenty-two years old, a recent valedictorian at Yale college and studying law in Columbia college, New York, shot and killed his mother and seventeen-year old sister while out walking with them at Greenwich, Conn.* and then committed sui cide. Insanity prompted the terrible deed. The jury investigating the death of a car penter by the recent fall of ten unfinished buildings in New York rendered a verdict finding Builder Buddensiek, the supposed owner of the buildings, a sub-contractor and two public examiners of building^ responsi ble. Warrants for the arrest of the five men, charging them with manslaughter, were is sued by the coroner. . Fii^e at Philadelphia destroyed the repair shops of the Pullman Palace Car company, including seven palace cars valued at $15,000 each. The total loss is about $140,000. New Jersey’s “arbor day” was celebrated all over the State by the planting of trees. South and West* Martin Mitchell, a hunter’s guide at Black Fish Lake, Ark,, shot and killed three men, with ,two of whom he had quarreled. Mitchell and the three men had been seeking each other, and when they met began tiring with the result stated. A prominent Mississippi editor has for- wnivied to President Cleveland a petition asking for the pardon of Jefferson Davis. erx Domes were recovered among the ruins of the Vicksburg (Miss.) fire, and it was thought that more than twenty lives were lost. Washington. The annual meeting of the American Surgicai as?ociation was held at the Medical museum, representatives from all parts of the country attending. General Lawton, of Georgia, has de clined the Russian mission, to which he had been decided eligible by the attorney-general. General Lawton’s action is based on a desire to relieve the administration .of any embar rassment which might remit from the fighfc which would probably occur over his confir mation by the Senate, many Senators hold ing that liis political disabilities have not been removed, and that he is therefore rot eligible to office under the Federal govern ment. Additional appointments by tlie Presi dent: Christian M. Siebdrt, of New York, be secretary of legation at Chili Post masters—Henry L. Kenyon, at Northtield; Vt.; John L. Lindley, at Ansonia, Conn.; William B. Hall, at vvallingford, Conn.;* Jacob K. Coffroth, at Somerset, Penn.; Delos L. Birge, at Cooperstown, N. Y.Francis M. Householder, at Noblesville, Ind.; Nelson Bructfc, at Jefferson, Wis.; James S. Cather- wood, at Hoopeston, 111.; George M. Houston, at Harrisonville, Mo.; Benjamin R. English, at New Haven, Conn.; Delance Young, at Auburn, Me.: Stephen S. Crittenden, at GreenvilJe.S. C.; W.B. Delo, atKuox, Penn.; Thos. A. Bailey, at Darien, Ga.; A. H. Mor gan, at Norcross, Ga.: Nicholas Best, at Mil- leitori r N. Y.; Norman Fisher, at 'Hunting- burgh, lnjl._ Collectors of internal revenue— Edmund W. Booker, district of Alabama; Eben F. Pillsberry, Third district of Massa chusetts; Alexander Troup, district of Con necticut; Charles H. Chase, district of Maine. President Cleveland’s first public re ception at the White House, which had been deferred two weeks on account of General Grant’s condition, was attended by a largj number of people. The President was as sisted in receiving by his sister, Miss Cleve. lain! and wives and daughters of the cabinet ministers. Incident to the transfer of the office of United States treasurer from Mr. Wyman t<v Mr. Jordan, a co.unt of the money in the treasury is to be made-by a committee of three—two representing the gentL-men named and the third Secretary Manning. The count will take about three weeks. The President has appointed Henry P. Kernochan. of Louisiana, to be naval .officer at New Orleans, and Cornelius S. Schenck, of Oregon, to be appraiser of merchandise in the district of \\illauielte, Ore. Charles Janney lias' been appoin’ed postmaster at amden, N. J. Postmaster-General Vilas the other day appointed sixty fourth-class postmasters. THE MANITOBA REBELLION. DETAILS OF A PITCHED BATTLE. \ .lb Dominion droops Sustain Severe Losses at the Hands of the Rebels. PERSONAL MENTION. Explorer Greely and. .wife will spend the summer in England. Minister Lowell is announced to sail for New York on the 9tli of June. A statue of Garfield has been cast at Nu remberg. It uill be erected at San Francisco. Professor Baird, for so long of the Smithsonian institution.has accepted a scien tific professorship at Yale college. Queen Victoria is editing the speeches of the Duke of Albany. Sir Theodore Martin will append a sketch of the duke’s life. Joaquin Miller proposes to erect a log cabin, similar to that which he built at Washington, upon a site near Lake de Funi- ak, Florida. Lady Dufferin, wife of the viceroy of India, recently laid the foundation-stone of a hotel for the accommodation of female medi cal students in connection with the Calcutta Medical college. Mrs. Whitney, wife of the secretary, can afford to dress well H r father is the mil lionaire Senator Payne, of Ohio, and one of her brothers, it is said, as a trifling Christmas gil t gave her a £10,000 ornament of rubies. Marshal Bazaine, the French general who was at one time under sentence of death for cowardice in surrendering Metz during the Franco-Pmssiati war, is now nenniles3 and in a most destitute condition at Madrid. General Grant, it is stated, raiely smoked prior to the battle of Shilob. The newspapers told of bis smoking during that engagement, and, being afterward deluged with boxes of cigars, he acquired the habit. J ay Gould has twenty-seven telegraph in struments in his offic *. * Sitting at his desk he can be put in communication with any place that is reached by a wire of the Western Union-Telegraph company. Therefore the managers of his properties are always acces sible, no matter where they may be. A TEXAS WHIRLWIND. l*eoi>le Killed and Houkcs Demolished. The Prairie Grove neighborhood, eight miles south of Maxis, Texas,. was visited about 2 o’clock p. M. by a severe cyclone, caus’ng serious damage to life and property. The two-story school-house, in which were about fifty children, was blown down and torn to pieces, killing one child and wound ing several. The casualties were as follows: A fourteen-year-old daughter of J. P. Swing, killed; Estelle Cook, leg broken; two children of E. Herring, leg: and arm broken; two children of Mr. O’Hara, legs broken anl injured internally. The house of S. McKinnon was blown down, seri ously in uring the owner. The storehouse an l postoffice, owned by S. D. Hughes, were demolished and the goods promiscuously scat tered. The residences of M. B. Cox, H. Thompson and’ T. J. Williams were demol ished. Larkin Gentry's house, some distance from the village, was demolished and himself and wife and child killed. Other serious re sults were probable, as the country is thickly settled in the direction of the cyclone. Advices also come from Northern Texas noting a very heavy rainfall, extending over a large section of country. At Gainesville the Pecan and Elm creeks overflowed their bank-, au l beside washing away much prop er! v several lives are reported lost. Women aiul children clung to branches of trees foi hjurs bob re they were rescued, and in some instances whole families were swept away in their houses, but in most instances they were rescued. —The arming of men-of-war at Oronstadt continues. Advices from Samarcand state that Gen. Koiuaroffs viotory 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. Prominent professional and business men of Baltimore have organized a cremation so ciety, and will at once begin the erection of a crematory. George McNair, an eighteen-year-old boy, has been sentenced at Jacksonville, N. C., to be hanged June 5 for assaulting a nine- year-old girl. The following details of the battle between General Middleton’s force and the rebel army in Manitoba from Winipeg have been f*. ceived: When the troops left Clark’s Cross ing on Thursday, there were few in the army who expected the fight would occur. General Middleton, however, warned the scouts to keep a sharp lookout, and the ad vance was made with great caution. The troops camped for the night thirty miles west of Clark’s Crossing. ; A good night’s rest was obtained, and the forward march was commenced at seven o’clock on the following morning. The scouts were well in advance. Before proceeding five miles two of the scouts came galloping back and reported to General Middleton that the rebels were intrenched in the bluffs a mile in advance of the column. The line of march was along a trail, which winds among the bluffs, and afforded a magnificent intrenched position to the rebels. The trail at this point crosses Fish creek, which is swampy on either side, so that the troops had to wade knee deep m water. Middleton at once ar ranged his column and gave the order to ad vance. For the first time the 40) volunteer 8 who had gone o:i the expedition regarding it ns a picnic awaken ‘d to the horrible reality that they were going to face death. Major Boulton’s • scouts led, followed by the Nine tieth battalion of Wiunipeg. The general with his two aides were well tor- the front. As they approached* the rebels, from their ambush in the timbei*on the bluffs, opened fire, and poured a deadly volley into our troops. Ten of our men, principally scouts, toppled from their horses and at least fifteen horsjs rolled over dead. The gen eral ordered a return fire, which was obeyed,' but little effect was taken on ihe rebels. Our scouts then manoeuvred around to a position where stood two haystacks and a couple, of log houses. The general then ordered Captain Wise, his aid, to bring for ward an* advance guard of the Ninetieth, under Captain Clark. Captain Clark's company advanced to the bluff and began skirmishing. The captain was running with his company from one ■bluff to anotner, wheu a bullet struck him in the back and befell severely, if not mortally, wounded. He was carried to the rear. All this tune the rebels, who were standing in their rifle pits or hidden behind trees, were pouring their deadly bullets thick and fast upon our troops, wh > appeared perfectly helpjess and unable to dislodge the insur gents from their position, chosen with so much foresight Two guns of A battery then came up at a gallop under command of Cap tain Peters, the guns being supported by tlie garrison division under Captain Peters and Lieutenant Rivers. After firing a couple of shrapnels at the half breeds the latter re tired into the ravine. While be ng driven across Sergeant Stewart,of Boulton’s cavalry, killed one Indian, who had already shot four horses. The remainder of the Ninetieth were then sent up, Major Buchan commanding the right battalion and Major Boswell the left half. C company of the infantry school, Toronto, being on the extreme right, had sev eral hotly’ contested scrimmages with the rebels for possession of the knoll, 500 yards in advance of the ravine. Our men were finally beaten back and re treated from the knoll, leaving the rebels in possession of it. Seeing matters wore grow ing serious and that defeat stared him in the face, General Middleton s.*nt a courier iu mad haste to the river to summon the left col umn on the opposite side to his assistauce. Pre cautions had been taken to bring a scow up the river to enable the troops to cross in the event of a battla Lord Me’gund was in com mand of the left column, and when he heard firing on the opposite side about nine in the morning, the time at- which the battle com menced, he ordered his column to advance quickly an l be at the river banks ready to cross. In obedience to General_ Middleton’s order a scow was at once got in readiness. No. 2 company of the Tenth, under Captain Mason and Lieutenants Irving and Hay, then crossed. Lord Melgund and Cap tain Young crossed with them, and after a march of about three-quarters of a mile from the river’s bauk, came up with the right column who were engaged with the enemy. The latter were then uuder cover of a deep ravine. Meanwhile A battery (regu lars) and a company of the Ninetieth under Cap'ain Forrest, dashed across the opening and gained the top of the ravine. The rear troops were then worked forward and the artillery constantly shifte l for au advan tageous position for shelling the rebels who were still in the rifle pits and old houses. The shelling began, but through want of practice it was not so effective as was ex pected. During the shelling operations the opposing forces wore within a few yards of each other. Tho insurgents were hah-breeds and Indians, who kept up a constant war- whoop. It was observed that those shot were struck in vital parts, showing that the rebels were excellent marks men. When Company 2 of llie Tenth arrived they were sent over on the right flank and thrown out in skirmishing order so as as to enfilade the ravine ami to relieve some of the troops who had b >en in action all day. About sixty of the rebels were seen to on horseback, the remainder in the ravi| 10 being unable to do so owing to their h u-ses having been either captured or shot. Things remained unchanged up to 5 o’clock, when there could not have been more than ten men in the rifle pits in the ravine, at which time the gen eral had the troops drawn up preparatory to making a charge and capturing the men in the pits, which was expected to close the en gagement, as he had ordered the teams to get ready to move about half a mile nearer the river, in the open, to camp for the night. During the engagement the bullets flew thick as hail. Heavy losses occurred among our troops, but the loss to the insurgents was small. After several hours’ fighting the general, finding it impossible to dislodge the rebels, ordered a withdrawal, and the army finally' fell back on the camping ground of the pre vious night The loss of the Canadian troops was about eight killed and fifty wounded. Of the lat ter a number were expected to die. As far as could be seen the enemy left no dead on the field, though twenty-five of them were shot and a dozen captured. The rebels seem to be composed of about an equal number of half-breeds and Indians, in all not more than two hundred, and are supposed to be under the command of Gabriel Dumont THE EUROPEAN TROUBLES. The French Charge d’Affaires in Egypt has been instructed by his Government to suspend all official relations with Egypt, and to make the declaration to the Egyptian Government that France declines to sanction the Egyptian financial convention, and reserves to herself complete liberty of action. The Charge has delayed his departure from Oairo. It is said that Egypt now offers to compromise the dis pute with France concerning the seizure and suppression of the Bosphore Egyptien by mak ing an apology and by admitting that her offi cials violated the rights of domicile of tlie pub- lisheis, the apology, however, to contain no allusion to the seizure of the Bosphore Egyp tien. Diplomatic relations between Egypt and France have not bten broken. The French Charge, however, has been instructed to go to Alexandria, and if Egypt fails to make a satis factory reply he will leave Alexandria. In the event of a final breaking off of diplomatic re lations between the two conntries the interests of France will be confided to the Russian Con sulate. Three French transports with 4,000 troops on board, which are now in the Suez Canal, have been ordered to remain there for the f present. The opinion is expressed here that France and Russia are concerting against England. The Abbe Gannahufe was executed by guil lotine in Pails for the murder last fall of Mme. Bahericb. Much damage was done to property in Montreal and vicinity by floods. Many streets in Montreal were submerged, and ’ -idges and house* were wrecked. F00TLI6HT FLASHES. Madame Marie Geistinger has been singing in St. Petersburg. Charles H. Hoyt’s “Tin Soldier.*’ recent ly produced in Boston, was pronounced a great hit Patti has appeared forty time3 daring the present season, receiving $4,009 for each ap pearance. Herr Schott has abandoned the idea of giving another season of German opera in New York. “Bald ass are,” a new opera,by Senor Vil- late, has been produced at the Teatro Keale, Madrid, with a perfect success. Augustin Daly has secured A. W. Pin ero’s farce-comedy “The Magistrate” (done at the Court theatre, London) tor America. Mme. Fursch-Madi, the leading vocalist Of the Thomas Concert company, receives $20,000 from Mr. Thomas for forty appear ances. Charles Kelly, the English actor who died the other day, was one of the husbands ot| Ellen Terry. Mr. Kelly had not lived with Miss Terry for several years. “Le Chevalier Jean,” the new opera by Victorin Joncieres, just produced at the Opera Comique, is spoken of in Le Menestra as decidedly the best work its composer ha yet written. During the International exhibition at Antwerp, two oratorios, one by Franz Liszt, the other by Anton Rubinstein, will, it is said, be pertormod, each under the direction of the composer himself. Anton Rubenstein has been in Holland during the last month on a concert tour. He has finished a new oratorio, which is to be brought out under his own conductorship at Antwerp during the exhibition. Signor MozzucATO.in the article on Verdi states that the barrel- organ, as ground in his £ ative village near Buseto, in the Grand uchy of Parma, by itinerant musicians, was the first to awaken his musical susceptibili ties. Miss Bella Cushman Eaton, of Boston, a granduiece of Charlotte Cushman, aim* to follow in the footsteps of that famous actress. She has already received many commenda tions of her talent in reading before the lit* •rati of Beacon Hill. Wilhelm Keller, while playing in Schil ler’s “Bride of Messina,” at Schwerin, in Germany, lately, f$Il down dead at the head of Don Emanuel’s bier. The audience thought it was a fine portrayal of grief, and ap plauded till the truth was known. Judic, the French star who will visit America next autumn, is said by a corre spondent to be “nearly forty years old, with a vigorous form almost bordering on the heavy. She has a purely oval face and a mouth that effectually displays two rows of pure white teeth.” A Glen’s Falls, N. Y., man has invented a musical instrument, the sound being caused by water dropping into a tube of thin, reson ant metal. Ho got tho idea by hearing rain drops patter on a tin roof. Its tones will be as loud as those of a music box. The invent or will exhibit it throughout the country. During last year no fewer than thirty- eight new operas by native composers were brought out in Italy, provided a revised ver sion of Verdi’s “Don Carlos” can be called a new opera. Among the names of the com posers who are responsible for these works only one or two are known outside of Italy. A great number of new operettas are soon to be brought out. Carl Millocker is engaged upon a libretto furnished him by Genee and Zell; Franz von Suppe has just laid the score for a text by Schnitzer; Alions Czibuika, the composer of “Pentecost in Florence,” has ac cepted a text book from Riegen and Genee. Johan Strauss is hard at work on his “Gypsy- Baron,” and Joseph Bayer is soon to finish a now operetta for the Theatre au der Wien. Enthusiastic violinists have related mar velous things of the capricious violin and its feminine coquetries. Ole Bull used to say that he frequently had to coax and wheedle his violin without stint, and to woo it by the gentlest caresses. When it would obstinately refuse to utter accordant notes, he was wont to rub it mildly with good humor with a flannel cloth, or to put it aside until its co quettish mood had passed. THE GREENWICH TRAGEDY* Barclay Johnson’* Shootln* ol his Mother* Mister* and Hlut&elf* The Rev. J. G. Johnson, a Congregational minister of Rutland, Vt., an uncle of Barclay Johnson, the young student who shot his mother and sister and killed himself, testified that there was no hereditary insanity in the family, but that Mrs. Johnson had shown ex cessive grief for the death of some of her chil dren. For the last six weeks the young man had appeared somewhat peculiar. The witness could not account for the yonng man’s in sanity except by his excessive devotion to his office duties, which caused him to write and work at night. When asked as to the truth of the reports that the young man had been mentally dis turbed on the subject of religion,'the witness said that he thought any disturbance of that kind, as evinced by peculiar conversations on the subject, was the result of insanity rather than its cause. The witness produced a letter written in pencil upon note paper which was found in a pocket of Barclay Johnson after his death. Parts of the letter were read, as follows: Greenwich, Conn., April 21, ’85. If I succeed in accomplishing what I think must be done, a word or two of explanation will probably be received with interest. I think I am saving my mother and sister from an uohappier fate. If there is a just and gen erous God, these two will go to the happiness which they deserve. If there is no God, then they will simply find their rest, I am conscious of the enormity of what I have done and intend to do, but at the same time I have a suspicion that I have beoome insane. Why did not some one recognize my weakness, my great need of help, and help me while there was time? But, to be fair, I suppose I should say, “Why did I not help myself?” The intermediate parts of the letter were fillt d with expressions of the writer’s tender affection toward his father, mother, and sister, mingled with self-accusations of all sorts of faults, which his friends say existed only in his imagination. The letter was written in a firm and very legible band. Charles Adams, who witnessed the shooting from across the creek, he being on an island near the point where the crime was committed, testified that he heard a scream and a shot, and then two more shots. Then there was a fourth shot, and he saw a man fall. He and his brother then went over to the point in a boat and found three persons lying on the ground. One, a young lady, was dead, while an old woman and a young man were living. Tlie man breathed weakly for about five minutes before he expired. Other witnesses were Samnel Chard, who saw the Johnsons enter the woods; George Foote, who saw the shooting from a distance; aud William Houghton, who was the first man to arrive on the spot after the shooting oc curred. Having completed the hearing, Coroner Holt returned to Bridgeport, where he filed his report with the County Clerk. Consenting to a Mixed Commission oT Inquiry into tlie Penideli Affair* A St. Petersburg correspondent states tbaf the latest English proposals arrived there by a special courier. The imperial* council met tho next day and decided to reply that the czai favored the maintenance of the Russian de mand in respect to the delimitation of the frontier. The council also resolved to inform England that Russia would consent to the appointment of a special mixed commission to examine into the facts in relation to the reports of General Komaroff and Sir Peter Lumsden and to decide which of the reports is correct. M. De Giers, the Russian foreign minister, ad vised that if England refuses te accept these proposals, Baron de Stg&ipjie Ru sian Am Dassador, be withdraKvn and all negotiations be broken off/ General Kouro patkine urged an! immediate advance upon Herat, and his proposal found many sup porters. It was A sserted in military circles that fresh provocation by the Afghans might still prevent General Komaroff from obeying his orders to avoid a conflict. Th> Moscow Gazette had an extremely peaceful article, duelling upon the beneficial results of harmonious co-operation between England and Russia, which, it said, would better serve the interest^ of both nations than would a recourse to arms. I purged the two governments to cease blandishing swords. The ameer, it remarked, i& alone among the Afghans ip (jewing an alliance with England. NEWSY gLEABISaS. There are 1,500,000 acres of swamps in North Carolina. The English language is taught in 50,000 schools in Japan. There have been | nine wars in Europe within the last thirty years. The total cost of the vescue of Lieutenant Gi*eely and party was $759,265. The population of Atlanta, Ga., is increas ing at the rate of nearly 5,090 a year. Making envelopes out of straw paper is a new and flourishing industry in Ireland. A deposit of zinc ore thirty feet thick and two miles long has been found in Marion coun ty Arkansas. English lovers of cats are introducing a new variety from Russia. They are of. a rich; mouse color. The lumber cut in Maine the past season was 155,000,090 feet, or about 10,990,099 less than that of 1884. In* Virginia peanuts are now ground into what proves a very fair flour for making pie crust and other light pastries. Electrified butter will soon be in the market. A French patent has been obtained for a process of butter-making by electric ity. " TH%San Juan district of Colorado is rap idly developing into a gold-producing coun try and is good for $.->99,909 of the yellow metal this year. What is said to be the largest diamond in tho world is about to be cut in Amsterdam. It was recently found in South Africa and weighs 475 carats. Mr. Lykens, of Mines, a small town near Altoona, Penn., is said to be father of five boys, three of whom came into the world fully equipped with teeth. A long-haired elephant, larger and more perfect than any specimen hitherto se cured, is being extracted from the ice at the mouth of the Lena Delta, Siberia. There are now eight vegetarian restau rants in London, feeding from 590 to 1,590 persons daily. The average cost of dinners m one of the most frequented is seven and one-half pence. The death of a professional sword swal lower in an English hospital, from hem orrhage, has again brought attention to the dangers of the calling, which is pop* ulany supposed to be harmless. That pegged shoes and boots are still quite extensively used might, be inferred from the fact that a peg-manufacturing company at Bartlett, N. H., is turning out the little wooden articles at the rate of 1,890 bushels a day,and has orders on hand that will require several months to fill. The execution of Columbus L, Molfitt, who murdered Wiliiam Wehunfc three years ago, took place at Dallas, Polk county, Ark., the other day. Three thousand people wit nessed the hanging. The doomed man, who was not yet twenty-one years old, met his fate declaring his innocence. The crime he expiated was committed in June, 1882. The culprit was a near neighbor of the man he wantonly killed. Weliunt, a thrifty and prominent farmer of Polk county, was shot from ambush while plowing. The missile crashed through his brain, and he fell over his plow a corpse. The assassin rushed from his concealment, and after rifling Wehunt’s pockets, entered the house, near by, and robbed it of a considerable sum of money. Wehunt’s wife, who was engaged some dis tance away, hearing the gun fired and see ing tho strange man, hastened to the house. At the door she met young Moffitt and-_asked him what he was doing there. He made no reply, but pushing her aside darted across the "fields aud disappeared in the woo is. The murder and robbery created the wildest consternation, and large rewards were offered for the murderer’s capture, but he proved a cunning fugitive and a crafty prisoner. After escaping from the Dallas and Hot Springs jails, he was finally held at Dallas by being chained to tho jail floor. CAPT. JACK’S SUICIDE. In the log book of the late Captain Harris, of Stratford, Conn., is an entry under 'date of January 21, as follows: “On the morning of &S-15th I was di% abled while standing near the-wheel by a broken spar, and lay in the oabirt-fferfi^ days unconscious. The firat mate says Jack is gone, and asserts, as do othe: of the crew, that he committed snicii' through grief.” Captain Harris was an old sailor, whi most faithful and devoted friend throuj many of his voyages was Jack. Cara Harris had first taken Jack on a voyaf when he was hardly big enough to waf He seemed to oare for no one's socle but the captain’s, being extraordinarily affectionate and demonstrative when with him, but very dignified, stern, and silent at all other times. He was a big fellow, with great brown eyes, and the captain had only to express a wish for Jack to attempt to execute it. If it was something that he coaid do he wonld quarrel with any sailor who attempted to do it, and if it was something that he could not do he wonld quarrel if Borne one of the sailors did not do it. On Jan. 13, Captain Harris was home ward bound, and in the midst of a ter rific gale. The broken spar pinned him to the deck, and knocked him senseless. In an instant Jack was at his side. He attempted to pull off the broken spar, and would allow none of the orew to help him until he saw it was impossible for him to do it. Then he urged the crew, by mnte pleading, to do what he had been unable to accomplish. Dar ing the entire three days that Captain Harris lay unconscious in his cabin Jack never left him. He refused even- to eat, bnt kept his place near the cap tain, looking at the mate, who acted as nnrse, with a most piteous and pleading expression. On the third day, the mate patted Jack on the head and said: “Poor Jack. The captain is dead.” Jaok stood up so that he could look into the bunk, and when he saw Cap tain Harris's white nureoognizing face, he moaned. Then he ottered a low cry, and slowly went np the cabin stairs. At the top he turned and looked into the cabin once more. Then he cried again piteously. Then, looking around the deck and seeing some of the crew, he slowly wagged his tail, as though to say good-bye, and then with another cry he sprang into the sea. lord Wolseley’s Eye. Lord Wolseley has been able to con tradict the reports as to bis eye-tronble; he can afford ophthalmia less than most men, as, ever since the Crimea, he has had the sight of bnt ope eye. When he was doing dnty in the trenches be fore Sebastopol, a shell exploded in a gabion fnll of gravel, in moving which he and two sappers were engaged. They were both killed ontright; Wolseley got so severe a peppering with the gravel that he was literally “stack fnll of stones from head to foot.” There was not a square inch of his face that had not a gravel-pellet embedded in it; part of his shin-bone was carried sway, and his eyesight was in so great danger that for weeks he was kept in the gloom of a cave near Balaclava, and 80 missed being present at the fall of Sebastopol SO WAGS THE WORLD. STRANGE, STARTLING AND CURIOUS EVENTS DESCRIBED IN THE COL UMNS OF OUR EXCHANGES. Mabcus Wabneb, of Shnsham, N. Y., has been bothered by chicken thieves lately. A few nights ago he set a large steel trap at the entrance of his chicken coop door. He also loaded a shotgun with powder and fine salt and placed it at the door of the coop, so that when the door was opened the gun would be discharged, and the intruder would receive the contents in his body while held in the jaws of the steel trap. The same day some friends of Warner’s came to visit him. They drank cider all day and until late in the evening. When the visitors were ready to go Warner went to help them harness the horse. They broke a strap. Warper had one in the chicken coop. He forgot abont the trap and the gun, and went after the 3trap. When he opened the door of the hen honse he stepped in the trap. The gnn went off. and bored a large hole in his side, making a fatal wound. The trap broke his leg. The timber rafts of the Bhine are a noticeable characteristic of that river. They consist of timber felled in the mountain forests and bronght down to the Bhine by theNeckar, Main, Moselle, and other rivers. The single logs are first hnrled down from the heights into the mountain torrent, then a few are tied together and as they float down the streamlet grow like a snowball, till in the Bhine itself they are made into hnge floating fabrics, which are carefully nav igated to Dorhecht and sold. A raft has often eight or ten small houses on it, and 400 to 500 people, rowers and pi lots. The vast pile i3 steered by means of immense oars, and iB so constructed as to twist like a huge snake in the narrow :bannels. The sale of a single raft at the end of the voyage often realizes 8150,000. Dubing the retreat of Gen. Bnller, the honors of the day fell to Major Wardrop, who, with thirteen men, stole cautiously round the enemy’s right and found they had only a few hundred rifle men on the hills and no reserve spear men. Major Wardrop aud his men, keeping out of sight, sent volleys at a range of 800 yards on the enemy’s flank. Leaving one man at this point to con tinue the firing he took the twelve others, and, as quickly as possible, pur sued the Bame tactics at three successive hills, giving the Arabs the impression that new bodies of British troops were arriving. The Mahdi’s forces became panic stricken, ceased firing and re treated toward Metemneh, taking their guns and dead and wounded with them. A few remarks on the care of watches are made by a writer in the Popular Science Monthly. A good watoh should be oiled onoe a year and cleaned once in three years. If a jeweler tells yon that there is some very serious trouble or break in your watoh which will cost sev eral dollars to get repaired, ask him to lake the watoh “down” and let you see the trouble. It is better to wind one’j' watch in the morning than in the evi ing, since, if you wind at night and e: pose the watch to the cold, the chilli' of the tightly wound mainspring mj break it. Frequently empty out t dust that accumulates in your wal pocket. It will not injure a oli watoh to turn the hands backward. “Sit down, will yon, plj a moment till mother tlejrirl to twj hi ESKIMO BABT-LIFE. [low the Little One Lives In Its Honse of Snow. When a baby Eskimo’s mother makes the hood for her reindeer suit, she stretches it into a long saok or bag, that hangs down behind and is supported by her shoulders, and this bag of reindeer’s skin is his cradle and home, where he lives until he knows how to walk, when he gets his own first snit of clothing. This, however, is while the baby Es kimo is out-of-doors or his mother is making a social visit. When at his own home, in order not to trouble his mother while she is sewing or cooking or domg snoh other work, tho little baby is al lowed to roll around almost without clothing, among the reindeer skins that make the bed, where it amuses itself with anything it can lay its hands on, from a hatchet to a snow-stick. You doubtless think little Boreas should have a nice time rolling around to his heart’s content on the soft, warm reindeer skins; bnt when I fell you more abont his little home, you may not then ihink so. For his winter home is built of snow. “Bnt won’t the snow melt and the house tumble in ?” you will ask. Of jourse it will, if you get it warmer than just the coldness at which water freezes; bnt during the greater part of the year it is so cold that the snow will not melt, even when the Eskimo bum fires in their stone lamps inside these snow douses; so by closely regulating the amount of fire, they can just keep the snow from melting. In short, it must always be cold enough in their home to freeze. So you can see that the little Eskimo cannot have such a very nice time, and yon can’t see how in the world he can be almost naked nearly all day long when it is so cold. Bat such is the fact. Yet, in spite of all this, the little fel low really enjoys himself. He gets used to the cold, and has great fan frolicking around on the reindeer skins and playing with his toys; and when I have told you some other'stories about the cold these little folks can endure, you can under stand how they can enjoy themselves in the snow huts, or igloos, as they call them, when it is only a little colder than freezing. At times, the fire will get too warm in the snow house, and then the ceiling will commence melting—for you ail per haps have learned at school that u lieu a room becomes warmed it is warmer at the ceiling and cooler near the floor. So with the hut of snow; it commences melting at the top because it is warmer there—and when two or three drops of cold water have fallen on the baby's bare shoulders, his father or mother finds that it is getting too warm, and cats down the fire. When the water commences drop ping, the mother will often take a snow ball from the floor, where it is colder than freezing, and stiok it against the point where the water is, dripping. There it freezes fast and soaks up the water just like a sponge UDtil it becomes full; and then she removes it and puts. [other, as THE JOKER’S BUDGET. HUMOROUS NOTES. FOUND IN THF COLUMNS OF OUR EXCHANGES. Plenty of TIme Vft-A Clear Ciweol Cnrl- osity-And this In l.eiit-Annl Loulnn Found It—Belore and Alter, Etc., Etc. PLENTY OF TIME YET. p a —“What 1 you don’twanttoa" pany ns on onr three-years’ 1 the world? Why, 1 ’’ self proposed it.” Daughter—“I kno. get married.” “Married? whom ?” “To yonnf him, pa ? ’ “Yes; g all that; what he- no emplo “I kno a splend has beeil soon as he “Well, 1 ent rate of i pany us on and get back delphia, Call. CAUSED BY A “Are you troubled asked Yeast of Crimso Church. “Very much,” replied C “How long have yon had questioned Yeast. ‘ : Had it ? Why, I haven’ “Thought yon said you with a cough?" “So I am,” responded man, turning aronnd and parishioner behind him, ing violently, “bnt it’s t behind me.”—Yonkers TOO HUGH The new servant g tress crying and finger. “What is the mat ol the honse. “I rnn one of tho f and if it is that j jaw.” “Don’t be alarmed,’ “all my silver i any plated war" Next morni- gone, and so Siftings. A What is dragging the people away from Home; and the Masonic lodge; and the Base ball match; and the Foot race; and the Begatta; and the Sociable; and the Croquet quarrel; aud the ' Tenuis court; and the Commencement; and the Wind fight; is the Boiler a Hating rink.—Bubdette. 3HE FOUND IT. innt Louisa, an .of ebony The Czar of Bossia is growing qnite gray and bears on his face the wrinkles of premature old age, induced by worry and anxiety.
